I’ll bring the pita bread my brother in God.

Real glad I'm not in the Epstein files right now. I don't think I could handle missing out on homemade baba ganoush. I'll pick up some shawarma and be right over

And next up is Jimmy Babaganoosh!

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article283847883.html

When you're very rich and influential it is easy to get access to all the top scientists to discuss your quack ideas. Who knows what happened beyond that, the thing is that they're involved anyway.

Epstein's behavior was publicly well-known long before his initial arrest. I remember my first thought was "Finally, what took them so long?"

Anyone who had ANY contact with him after his 2008 conviction, who pursued any kind of relationship with him - personal, business, friendship, networking, sex client, etc. - is burned. They knew who he was, and any reasonable, moral person, especially one with public responsibilities, should have know to avoid any contact, of any kind.

There was no valid reason for having a personal relationship with Epstein after 2008, and anyone who did, deserves all the public derision and contempt they receive.

This is specifically in regards to those who continued to have correspondence and business dealings with Epstein after his first conviction for raping and rape trafficking literal children. This is not legal punishment, this is an organization drawing a line and choosing to not let these people be involved with them.

You can be very shitty and dangerous person and still be well within the law, these folks are simply protecting themselves and everyone involved with them from people that knowingly interacted and did business with a child rape cabal.

I mean, yes, but also, in the OP statement "after his conviction."

As in, after we knew what he was doing, why would peoppe ever associate with him again.

Its not even some weird ass "gray area" thing where you are an 18 year old in HS dating a 16 year old at your HS. Its literally sex trafficking of very minor minors.

This is a fair take, and I greatly prefer an "innocent before proven guilty" justice system. I think it's also fair for you to read the article before commenting.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology released a notice to members last week, cautioning that inclusion in the Epstein files does not alone imply misconduct.

innocent before proven guilty is only a thing where the crime is actually being investigated. because it’s not, nearly any actions and considerations by individuals is fair game. technically it always was.

Okay I'm changing my answer to Hammond. That whole flea circus monologue from the movie was what convinced me he's someone who gets off on fleecing people and feeling better and smarter than the people he fleeced. He and Epstein would find a lot of similarity in that, I think.