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Podcast: True Crime Never Sleeps
Episode: Lets Talk: The Deal That Broke the System: Jeffrey Epstein
Description: In 2008, a secretive plea deal allowed billionaire predator Jeffrey Epstein to avoid federal charges for sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. He served just 13 months in a county jail—with work-release privileges. What looked like an outrageous failure of justice was, in fact, something far worse: a fully legal arrangement enabled by powerful lawyers, complicit prosecutors, and a justice system all too eager to protect the elite.In this gripping, deeply reported episode, we examine how Epstein gamed the system—and how the system let it happen. From his mysterious rise in the world of high finance to t...