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Valentino Shine Sr., of Buffalo, New York, has been found guilty of running a sex trafficking business out of his home on Humboldt Parkway. The U.S. Attorney’s office says he exploited women who were addicted to drugs, using those drugs along with beatings to coerce them into prostitution and selling them over the internet. Three of the female victims died of overdoses while working for him.
Epstein, 66, died two days after writing his will. According to the suits, two of the plaintiffs were 17 at the time the alleged assaults began and one was 20. His death is no impediment to their pursuit of civil claims. A complex system of individuals” that worked “in concert and at his direction for the purpose of harming teenage girls through sexual exploitation, abuse and trafficking.”
Now that pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is dead, the 57-year-old socialite is the last one standing in a wide-ranging probe into sex-trafficking in Florida and New York of underage girls among the great and the good. One woman claimed that the statuesque heiress also participated in sex romps with the young girls.
“I told them that he didn’t want to come… there was no reason to bring him and he didn’t want to come. He didn’t want to go through all that. I also told them that the Marshall’s service didn’t want to go through the hassle and everyone was fine with that.”
“With this extradition, the defendant Jose Miguel Melendez-Rojas will be held accountable in a United States court for sex trafficking women and girls and related crimes. “Melendez-Rojas was flown thousands of miles back to New York, N.Y. to face charges.“The Department of Justice is committed to prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law those who profit from forcing vulnerable victims into sexual servitude.”
Tax filings show that Maxwell donated $350 to Girls Educational and Mentoring Services ( GEMS), a charity created “to give the girls and young women of NYC who had been commercially sexually exploited a place for support and a place to create positive change in their lives,” according to its website.
Jeffrey Epstein accused of orchestrating a sex-trafficking ring had been taken off suicide watch before he killed himself in a New York jail. “Unequivocally, he should have been on active suicide watch and therefore under direct and constant supervision,” Cameron Lindsay said.
Weinstein’s lawyers had sought to take the unusual step of immediately appealing Judge Robert W. Sweet’s ruling last August that the proverbial Hollywood casting couch – in which aspiring actors and actresses are promised valuable professional opportunities in exchange for sexual favors – could be considered a “commercial sex act.”
In a recent court filing, prosecutors said that entities controlled by Mr. Epstein own at least two private jets in active service, and that at least one of them is capable of traveling internationally. He frequently traveled by private jet between his homes in New York and Palm Beach, Fla., according to the indictment against him.
Lance Hamilton, 30, of Foch Boulevard, pleaded guilty on Jan. 23 to one-count of sex trafficking before Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Peter F. Vallone Jr., who sentenced him to five to 10 years in prison. Hamilton was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to forcing a teenage girl into the sex trade.
Finding new and innovative ways to combat the demand for purchased sex, raise awareness to this nationwide epidemic, and provide safe environments for victims.
