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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 15 hours ago

Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney who secured plea deal found dead

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 15 hours ago
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Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney who secured plea deal dead at 80
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Roy Black helped Jeffrey Epstein secure a plea deal in 2008 allowing him to avoid federal charges.
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    Funny how these assassinations only happen when trump is president

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    Donald Trump is a child rapist

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      Stone cold take. Let’s face it if he weren’t in those files he would have released them. He has no loyalty to anyone else so he wouldn’t care about protecting them.

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    Stop posting sensationalist shit. The dude died at 80, this wasn’t an assassination. He wasn’t ‘found’

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    Even though this dude was 80y old, that won’t stop far-right conspiracy theorists from running with this. I think most will be sane enough to point out his age, but you know there will be those on the fringe of the fringe who see something suspicious about it. Personally, I look forward to seeing the melted explanations they come up with.

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      Lol, lemmy theorists will not be far behind. Lucky he didn’t work for Boeing, too.

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        No but I bet he flew on one at some point, so it’s all linked.

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    always supported and fought for the underdog

    I have a hard time imagining a world where Epstein, Bieber, the Kennedys, or any of their ilk could be considered underdogs. Good riddance.

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    That’s not what the headline says, OP unless it’s changed since you posted it.

    He was sick and 80. He died. Not “found dead”.

    Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said.

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      Honestly. I’m glad he made the title what it is. Makes it obvious when people comment without even bother to open the article.

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    Had JD Vance visited him recently?

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      He wasn’t a couch.

      • Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Or a Pope.

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          He’s applying for the prince of darkness position.

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            Well, one did just open up…

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            Ralsei (The prince of darkness) from deltarune smoking a fat blunt pixel art

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          He didn’t meet with the pope. The pope sent someone to meet with him.

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    Reading his history he was famous for defending assholes getting scot free or getting much less than they deserved. Was one of those “if you have the money he’ll fix it”

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      “When the going gets tough, you don’t want a criminal lawyer. You want a criminal lawyer.”

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      Your daily reminder that ~1% of the population are high-functioning (not actual murderer) psychopaths.

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      That’s kind of the job of a defense attorney. By definition, most of his clients are going to be scumbags. He’s no different than any other defense attorney, except some of his clients tend to be celebrities.

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    “at the age of 80 after an illness”… Not that anyone is going to read that far.

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      No one believes that.

      Clearly it was Beiber that popped him.

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      The world’s elite rulers are credibly accused of molesting children for decades and doing everything possible to deny it, including seemingly the murder of the alleged Israeli spy that has evidence of their crimes. His lawyer who potentially knows way too much conveniently dies when he’s granted legal protection to speak up, and we should just accept that 80 year old sick man died?

      Maybe, but you’d be very naive to dismiss foul play.

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        You’d be naive to jump right to that conclusion.

        The worldwide pedophile ring of rich people definitely does exist. That doesn’t mean we throw out rational skepticism in other ways.

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          “Not dismiss” <> “jump to”.

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      cough slow poisoning cough

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        Dihydrogen monoxide isn’t quick, but it’s effective.

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    The prosecutor who offered that joke of a deal WAS GIVEN A CABINET POSITION by The Dipshit.

    Acosta was the secretary of labor for 2 years. He’s still alive.

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      Was that the deal that gave immunity to any of Epstein’s co-conspirators?

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    And so it begins…

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      First Ozzy, now this 80 year old man.

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      If you go to Zahadoom you will die…

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    Lol. This will destroy any progress they thought they were making burying the Epstein story, even if it is natural causes

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      killing Ozzy was successful in taking the focus away for a few minutes

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        At least he was old. Did they really have to throw in Theo Huxtable?

        • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
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          As someone who was caught in a rip tide with my 6 y/o son, it has to be one of the top worst ways to die.

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            and a very traumatic experience even when you survive. does he still like swimming in the ocean? I know I didn’t after my experience

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              Good question. Haven’t really been to the beach with him in a very long time. That was 21 years ago.

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            Yep RIP tides are no laughing matter. I was lucky enough when it happened to me I just ended up several hundred feet down the beach. Once you are in it. It can be way harder to get out than a lot of people might think.

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              Yes, we needed help getting out. I was swimming parallel as needed and kept pushing my son out 2-3 feet ahead of me so I was motivated enough to swim to him. After a few minutes, a young man, probably 20s, came in to help.

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        At some point they’ll have to bring out the big guns and murder Bob Dylan.

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      “guys, did we do this? was this one us? i’m kinda freaking out over here”

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    80 and ill. But horrible timing. Idk guys smells fishy to me

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      horrible timing

      Yeah, 80

      /s (don’t really know much about this upstanding citizen)

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    I don’t know much about the man but he chose an excellent time to die.

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    Okay, he was very old and ill, but I’m still suspicious!

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      The timing is indeed odd

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      All the easier to murder for political reasons, my dear

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      No reason to murder this guy now, though.

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      What are you doing that makes you so suspicious? Trenchcoat and shades?

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