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| CHAPTER 49
Jeffrey Epstein: September 2007
n the winter of 2013, Scott Blake, a forty-seven-year-old mid-
dle school principal from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, would
be sentenced to the minimum mandatory sentence—ten years in prison, with ten years of probation on top—for plead- ing guilty to one charge of soliciting sex with a minor.
Blake’s crime? He sent sexually charged messages to a Boyn- ton Beach police officer who was pretending to be a fifteen-year-old _ boy. But in a sense, Blake was lucky: he could have been sen- " tenced to life. The case was an interesting example of the kind of j treatment regular Florida folks could expect just for soliciting sex _ With a minor. But nothing about Jeffrey Epstein was regular— _and the plea deal he managed to strike in 2007 was simply "extraordinary,
Epstein had bought himself one of the best defense teams ever embled. His connections and contributions to Democratic
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