My reading of the arrest of former prince Andrew

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is that he got arrested for basic financial espionage and not any of the sexual assaults. He passed trade secrets to Epstein and that is what lead to his arrest. While like the tax evasion they used to get Capone it is convenient but a bit unsatisfying.

[wcmagumba]

1. Sex crimes among the rich and famous seem to get a pass...hmmm...

[The Conductor]

11. Pressure is being applied...

Think of this: The jerk who would scream at servants if his teddy bears were not kept in the correct order was thrown in a cop car and chucked into the tank with all the drunks, thieves and murderers. That is sending a message. Cough up, and maybe this won't be every day of the rest of your life and you could see daylight in 25 years or so. Otherwise, you clean your own toilet forevermore and die alone in striped sunlight.

[RockRaven]

2. The arrest for money stuff will be used to distract from not doing anything about the pedo stuff.

It is very clear: the royals knew about the pedo stuff, the security apparatuses knew about the pedo stuff, the administrators knew about the pedo stuff. And they coddled, enabled, covered up, ignored.

Now that will all be obscured by making a show about doing!!! something!!! about the money stuff. OH MY CAN YOU BELIEVE IT UNPRECEDENTED DISGRACE BLAH BLAH BLAH now stop talking about the pedo stuff and watch the bouncing ball.

[Ilikepurple]

7. I'm afraid that might be all we get from foreign investigations

Basically heading off any deeper look into complicity by their leaders, political and economical. At the same time, I’m also hopeful that these investigations into political corruption lead to evidence that will lead to a clearer picture of the nature and scope of Epstein and friends’ illegal activities. This is not just an opportunity for justice for those trafficked and abused but for the world to take a harder look at human trafficking as an issue. It would be a bonus if ultimately this lays bare more networks involved in this stuff. Like with #metoo and BLM, I think it’s important that justice gets served and stories get told, but perhaps more important that we cultivate a system that is less tolerant of those behaviors and those that cover up or excuse them.

[SheltieLover]

3. Think discovery...

[Wednesdays]

4. It's still early.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. He probably provided the information to secure

Epstein’s silence.

[mitch96]

12. Yup. With my tinfoil hat on, I think Epstein was getting leverage on many many important people. For what reasons?

ruzzia? Other important people? Who knows... To me this stinks of a BIG ruzzian op. The KGB/FSB use human intelligence and leverage is right up their alley. Find a persons weakness and use it against them to get what you want/need...Da?
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[Baitball Blogger]

13. The emails show that Israel was also involved with installing security cameras in one of his

New York residences.

[Emrys]

6. That's correct about the current arrest

He's now been released while investigations continue. People should note that he hasn't been charged with anything yet.

But other investigations into Andrew and Epstein's activities have been under way for some time, and may yet pan out.

From February 3:

Police assess allegation Epstein sent second woman to UK for sex with Andrew

Thames Valley Police says it is assessing allegations, reported by the BBC, that a second woman was sent to the UK by Jeffrey Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

The encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince's residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010. The woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time.

Her lawyer, Brad Edwards, has previously told BBC News: "We're talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew."

The BBC asked Mountbatten-Windsor for comment about the allegations when it was first reported, but he is yet to respond, and has previously strongly denied any wrongdoing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3zg9g3v4lo

At the time that report was being written, no formal allegations had been made directly to the police. The same day, the anti-royalist campaign group Republic made an official complaint, which spurred investigations:

Andrew reported to police over Epstein sex trafficking allegations

ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor has been reported to the police following allegations he was involved in trafficking a woman to the UK for sex.

It is alleged that Andrew was involved in bringing the woman to the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation in 2010.

After the latest release of the Epstein files, a second woman came forward alleging that she was sent to the UK by the convicted sex offender and financier.

The woman's lawyer, Brad Edwards from the US firm Edwards Henderson, claimed the encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince's residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010, according to The BBC.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25821513.andrew-reported-police-epstein-sex-trafficking-allegations/

Developments have been going on behind the scenes since then, until (this is from the Sun, but this sordid stuff is its home turf, after all):

ANDY SEX CLAIMS: Seven police forces assess Epstein files & 90 ‘Lolita Express’ flights to UK as Andy faces ‘sex trafficking’ probe

SEVEN forces are now assessing evidence in the Epstein files as part of a nationwide probe co-ordinated by a team of British police chiefs.

Their checks include up to 90 flights into Stansted’s private terminal by the jet owned by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein.

Of those, 15 were after the US financier was jailed in 2008 for soliciting underage sex.

Essex Police are now examining flight logs and emails.

Ex-PM Gordon Brown said messages contained in the Epstein files linked Andrew, 65, to at least one victim who was flown into Stansted on the “Lolita Express” before being sneaked into Buckingham Palace.

Late on Tuesday, Essex Police said: “We are assessing the information that has emerged in relation to private flights into and out of Stansted Airport following the publication of the US DoJ Epstein files.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/38246985/andrew-sex-trafficking-probe-epstein-lolita-express/

An additional line of inquiry has also been opened:

Met making 'initial inquiries' into claims about Andrew protection officers
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It comes after an unnamed former senior Met protection officer told LBC that members of the Royalty and Specialist Protection (RaSP) may have "wilfully turned a blind eye" during visits to a private island owned by Jeffery Epstein.

Multiple survivors have alleged they were trafficked to and abused on the island, known as Little St James, which Epstein purchased in 1998.

In a statement, the Met said it had "not identified any wrongdoing" but "initial enquiries into these specific allegations have begun so we can establish the facts".

Speaking to LBC on Tuesday, external, the former Met protection officer claimed Andrew's protection team travelled with him to the private island on at least two occasions, including travelling on Epstein's private jet on one of those occasions.

The unnamed former officer said there were "real concerns" in the late 1990s and early 2000s that the "royal protection team became too close to their principals", and staff were "terrified" of being demoted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy57ry1vne0o

There have also been allegations that Andrew instructed his security detail to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre in response to her lawsuit against him.

[niyad]

8. That was what ALL the reports made very clear, but apparently some people

only read the headlines that andrew was arrested, and jumped to conclusions. From the readings, there are two separate investigations going on, one for the financials, and ine for the sex crimes.

[pnwmom]

9. They can't arrest him for crimes committed on US soil. Maybe their investigation

will show a sex crime in England they can charge him with, but the investigation had to start somewhere.

[Probatim]

10. My take is that child sex abuse (and likely adult sex abuse) was just the lever

to get financial information from the world's richest and most powerful people - they probably got kickbacks from this, but it's going to come down to blackmailing these shitbags into passing financial data to game the world's markets.

You can see FF45/47 and his codefendants gaming the market over the last year. Epstein probably started this with some help.