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Prisons are uniquely closed and inaccessible parts of our government. When you combine that secrecy, lack of oversight and lack of transparency with an unpopular, politically powerless and literally captive population, it’s a recipe for bad outcomes
Indeed, power is not vested in them (all powerful men) but in the individuals and institutions all around them. This makes it essential to look past individual perpetrators to the systems that allow them to commit crimes with impunity.
Even with Acosta gone, Epstein remains a living reminder of the depraved milieu from which the president sprang, and of the corruption and misogyny that continue to swirl around him.
Epstein's hedge fund was missing a key element of a typical thriving hedge fund: investors. If he wasn't really a multi-billion-dollar manager, there may have been something much more unsavory at the heart of his business model.
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