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Uncovering The Epstein Files & A Life Full Of Exploitation / Julie K. Brown

Feb 17
Episode 1886: Uncovering The Epstein Files & A Life Full Of Exploitation / Julie K. Brown
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Well, I think to charge someone… arrest someone… Yes, you have to have some evidence. I mean… You wanna have something to back up while you're charging them with a crime, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about a lot of different information here. Including by the way, financial crimes that are part of these files. If they couldn't get some of these people on the sex trafficking, one would think that they would try other avenues. Another example, by the way, is Epstein used a lot of doctors, dentists, people like that who are supposed to report if they suspect that someone is being sexually abused. None of those people, to my knowledge, have ever reported that they took Epstein's money and they whitened these little girls' teeth and did things like that. They never did that. They could be prosecuted. The people that helped him get these visas to bring all these women and girls from overseas. There are people that did that paperwork for him. So there's evidence that's all out there that I think that they could have explored that I don't see any inclination that they did that.

Journalist and author Julie K. Brown from the Miami Herald’s Investigative Team, joins This Is Hell! to talk about her work uncovering and investigating the Epstein Files, which can be found on her Substack, where she is still breaking new stories on the case.

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Julie K. Brown

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Julie K. Brown is the author of the 2021 New York Times bestselling book, “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story". Her investigative writing can be found in the Miami Herald along with her very own Substack, where she is still breaking new stories on the case.

Julie’s 2017 probe into Palm Beach sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein won multiple journalism awards, including a George Polk Award in 2018 for “Perversion of Justice,” a series that examined how a rich and powerful sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, managed to arrange a secret plea deal and escape life in prison -- even though he was suspected of sexually abusing more than 100 underage girls and young women. The series, and her subsequent dogged coverage of the case in 2019, led to the resignation of President Trump’s labor secretary Alex Acosta along with Epstein’s arrest on new federal charges in New York and reforms in the way that prosecutors treat victims of sex crimes.
Julie convinced the lead detective and police chief in Palm Beach to talk publicly about the case for the first time.

She was also a member of the Miami Herald’s 2022 Pulitzer-Prize-winning team recognized for its coverage of the Surfside condo collapse. Julie previously won acclaim for a series of stories about abuses and corruption in Florida prisons. The stories led to the resignations of top agency officials, firings of corrupt corrections officers, and an overhaul in the treatment of inmates with mental and physical disabilities along with the mistreatment of women in Florida prisons. That series also won a Polk Award.