From BBC News:
Millions of new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the largest number of documents shared by the government since a law mandated their release last year.
Among other things, the tranche reveals how Epstein’s 2008 conviction and prison sentence did not result in his social ostracism from various elite circles, and this is the primary media angle: “takeaways” highlighted by the BBC include “Epstein invited ‘The Duke’ to meet Russian woman”; “Epstein sent money to Mandelson’s husband”; and “Elon Musk asked Epstein when ‘wildest party’ on his island will be”. On parts of social media, however, there is more interest in a small number of documents recording allegations received by law enforcement pertaining to torture, murder and the sort of grand guigol transgressions associated with Satanic Ritual Abuse.
To deal with the most lurid first: in 2019 someone came to the police to allege having seen “babies being dismembered, their intestines removed, and individuals eating the feces from these intestines”. This person also claimed to have been raped by former US Presidents in Epstein’s presence, and to have seen Donald and Melania Trump in 2000, despite this being five years before their marriage. However, in contrast to how the London Metropolitan Police handled the false accuser Carl Beech, the New York Police Department did not find any of this to be credible and true: the police write-up notes these are “recovered repressed memories”, and the lack of any “supporting or corroborating evidence or witnesses”. It also records that the accuser was brought to the police by Michael T. Moore, a conspiracist known online as “True Pundit“.
A second document, dating from 2020, is an email sent by one Bryan Miller in which he alleges that “back in 90s” he and a girl had been “tortured” by Prince Andrew and that the prince had done so “to force her murder”. Despite the lack of any details, the right-wing commentator Carl Benjamin complains that this ought to have been a Daily Telegraph headline rather than the story about Epstein promising to introduce then Prince Andrew to a 26-year-old Russian woman.
The third document was released by the DOJ but then withdrawn, although screenshots were saved and have been publicised in particular by Jake Tapper. The item is a spreadsheet of tip-offs to the police, including one alleging that girls who “went missing” are “rumored to have been murdered and buried” at the Trump Golf Course in California. However, the complainant gave dates of 1995-1996, several years before Trump bought the site, and the police noted a history of “3 separate incidents involving police” that led to “mandatory psychiatric evaluations”. The same complainant claimed to witnessed the late television host Robin Leach “strangle a young girl to death at a party” – a detail that has now been added to Leach’s Wikipedia page.
In one form or another, QAnon continues.
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I agree. Unfortunately real scandals, can also trigger the bizarre. The focus must be on evidence that can be verified or at least have some sort of checkable corroboration reality. Anyone eating faeces, might land up in hospital, that might generate possible corroboration. But some claims, are well, just bizarre, which cloud the real.