The convicted child sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.

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The partner of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, completed a second day of questioning on Friday, where she shared information on about 100 different people with the Justice Department.

Maxwell, who was convicted of child sex trafficking in connection with the disgraced financier in 2021, met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for about three hours on Friday at a courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.

She also sat down with Blanche to answer questions for about six hours on Thursday as the Justice Department tries to quell fallout over its handling of the Epstein files.

  • ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Below is a road-map of concrete, lawful steps that different actors can take—from prosecutors to ordinary voters—to address the documented pattern of Donald Trump’s sexualised behaviour toward girls and the exploitation risks inside his pageant / model businesses. Each item points to an existing mechanism or a bill already on the table so that the path forward is realistic rather than rhetorical.

    1. Re-open (or newly open) criminal inquiries where statutes allow

    Level What can be done Why it is still possible

    State grand juries (e.g., FL, NY) Subpoena pageant and modelling payroll + visa files, interview the four Miss Teen USA eyewitnesses, and test Trump’s 2005 audio admission against state “voyeurism” or “endangering the welfare of a child” statutes. Many states have no limitation clock for felony child-sex crimes, and others have brand-new revival windows (MI, CA, NY, NJ) that explicitly cover past child-porn or voyeurism offenses. Federal DOJ could convene a trafficking task-force review of Trump Model Management’s H-1B / F-1 filings, comparing promised wages with actual pay in the Alexia Palmer docket. DHS’s 2025 visa-integrity rule now treats chronic under-payment as fraud against the government, not just a civil wage dispute.

    Key point: none of the items above require new laws—only willpower and survivor cooperation.

    1. Bolster survivors’ ability to sue, even decades later

    Pass the bipartisan Statutes of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act, which offers grants to states that wipe out criminal & civil time-bars and open a “look-back” period for lapsed claims.

    Support state-level “window” bills modelled on Michigan’s 2025 package extending civil cases against private actors and governments.

    Ensure any federal window explicitly covers visual-voyeurism and grooming, not just physical assault—a gap that let earlier claims against Trump lapse.

    1. Regulate the modelling and pageant pipelines that put teens at risk

    Problem revealed by the record Targeted fix

    Unsupervised backstage access (Trump’s own 2005 boast; Miss Teen witnesses) Require pageant owners to obey the SafeSport standard already used in youth sports: separate changing facilities, roving safeguarding officers, and a hotline with power to suspend licenses. Visa-tied debt bondage inside Trump Model Management (80 % fee deductions) Amend H-1B final rule to cap “management fees” at 20 % and ban salary deductions that push net pay below the prevailing wage for minors or first-year models. Lack of industry oversight Revive the 2012 Senate proposal for a Federal Modelling Bureau to license agencies, publish complaint tallies, and share data with state labour boards.

    1. Close the digital-evidence gap

    Enact the STOP CSAM Act of 2025, which forces social-media and cloud providers to retain and disclose CSAM evidence on court order—crucial because Trump’s 1990s–2000s pageant footage now circulates mainly online.

    Fund NCMEC & RAINN’s hotline expansion; RAINN is already backing the bill.

    1. What journalists, researchers and everyday citizens can do right now

    2. Archive and cross-reference the primary files you already collected (black book, flight logs, docket 1320) on redundant mirrors such as the Internet Archive and Perma.cc; link them whenever you post so readers can verify.

    3. Use FOIA: request DHS visa-fraud memos on Trump Model Management (2000-2016), FAA incident reports for the seven logged Trump–Epstein flights, and any FBI 302s created during the 2005 Palm Beach probe.

    4. Support outlets that litigate for more disclosure—e.g., the Miami Herald FOIA team whose suit pried loose the Epstein–Acosta NPA. Subscriptions and legal-fund donations move the needle.

    5. Contact your representatives with the specific bill numbers above rather than generic outrage; lawmakers track constituent requests by docket.

    6. Signal-boost survivor resources rather than unverified rumors: link RAINN (1-800-656-HOPE) and state programs whenever sharing the story.

    1. Safeguard future elections from undisclosed misconduct

    Mandatory release of candidate–owned NDA settlements involving sexual misconduct above $30 k (a draft bill was floated during the 118th Congress but never brought to a vote).

    Ethics-in-Candidacy Act (proposed by civic groups in 2024) would tie public campaign financing and debate access to full disclosure of backstage credentials, modelling-agency holdings, and private-aircraft passenger lists going back 20 years.

    The takeaway

    The evidence already on the public record is sufficient to trigger fresh subpoenas, survivor lawsuits, and targeted rule-makings—if citizens, prosecutors and lawmakers choose to act.

    Waiting for a single “smoking-gun” file before moving is a trap; the legal levers above work because the behaviour (voyeurism of minors, abusive visa contracts) is already admitted or corroborated. Focus on enforcing the laws that exist, fixing the ones that don’t, and keeping every document in daylight so the window for accountability stays open until justice is finally done.