{"id":23822,"date":"2019-07-19T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=23822"},"modified":"2019-07-18T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:21:56","slug":"why-didnt-jeffrey-epstein-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/why-didnt-jeffrey-epstein-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t Jeffrey Epstein move?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Facebook feed is lit up with posts regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My current guess: Trump&#8217;s tweet was his standard distraction from something awful by starting something even more awful. He may not even have meant to do it by being an obvious racist: just to whip up some boilerplate outrage that his base would love and that journalists would eat up. The question: distraction from what? My guess: Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>One practical question: Why did Mr. Epstein spend any time in New York, Florida, or the U.S. after his 2005-2008 encounters with the criminal justice system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States\">Wikipedia<\/a> shows that the age of consent in New York is 17 and in Florida is 18. What is illegal &#8220;sex with a child&#8221; in these states, however, might be legal (albeit sleazy) in adjacent states such as New Jersey (16) and Georgia (16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once he read the news about prominent men (e.g., Bill Cosby) prosecuted and\/or convicted for decades-old offenses, why didn&#8217;t Epstein get in his Gulfstream and buy into citizenship in a European country that won&#8217;t extradite its citizens? France (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe\">age of consent: 15<\/a>) or Germany (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe\">age of consent: 14<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prostitution_in_Germany\">legal prostitution<\/a>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florian_Homm\">Florian Homm<\/a>: &#8220;Germany does not extradite German citizens.&#8221;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Polanski\">Roman Polanski<\/a>: &#8220;As a French citizen, he has been protected from extradition and has lived mostly in France since then.&#8221;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/where-can-harvey-weinstein-go-for-a-peaceful-retirement\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/where-can-harvey-weinstein-go-for-a-peaceful-retirement\/<\/a> &#8220;If he stays in the U.S. he risks prosecution for whatever happened during meetings with actresses in California, Connecticut, New York, and perhaps some other states.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Facebook feed is lit up with posts regarding Jeffrey Epstein. 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