66 h. ago New York City auditor traded free lap dances for helping strip club chain avoid $8M in taxes: authorities

Indictments against five executives from RCI Hospitality Holdings were announced earlier this month

Culture

5 d. ago P Diddy has been teaching inmates business management in jail after sexual abuse conviction

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 55, was found guilty on two sex trafficking charges in July and faces a maximum of 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on 3 October

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6 d. ago Man charged in sex trafficking probe as London police appeal to other potential victims

Man charged in sex trafficking probe as London police appeal to other potential victims  CBC

Events

7 d. ago Elon Musk and Peter Thiel mentioned in Epstein documents released by Democrats

Prince Andrew and Steve Bannon also referenced in six-page batch of documents made public with redactionsDemocratic lawmakers on Friday released documents from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that may show interactions between the disgraced financier and prominent conservatives, including Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel.The six pages of documents made public with redactions come from a batch provided by the justice department to the House oversight committee, which is investigating how the sex-trafficking charges against Epstein, who died in 2019 in federal custody, were handled. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Human trafficking raid sees man arrested and charged in Edinburgh

Cops stormed the property and charged a 49-year-old man.

Events

1 week ago Diddy's lawyers request reduced prison sentence over prostitution

Sean 'Diddy' Combs was convicted of prostitution-related offences and was acquitted on the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering

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1 week ago Concern as six per cent of human ­trafficking and modern slavery cases end in conviction

Research has found only a tiny ­proportion of criminal charges concerning trafficking and slavery lead to a guilty verdict in court.

Politics

1 week ago Ghislaine Maxwell seen for first time after move to 'Camp Cupcake' on way to yoga class

The image of the convicted sex trafficker swanning around Federal Prison Camp Bryan, Texas, has infuriated Maxwell's victims and those of her lover Jeffrey Epstein

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1 week ago Ghislaine Maxwell pictured for first time since sex trafficker was moved to cushy jail

The image of the convicted sex trafficker swanning around Federal Prison Camp Bryan, Texas, has infuriated Maxwell's victims and those of her lover Jeffrey Epstein

Events

1 week ago Former US attorney defends Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal in hours

2008 plea deal saw Epstein get just over a year in prison and avoid federal sex trafficking case that could’ve resulted in life sentence

Economics

2 w. ago Barr tells House panel Jeffrey Epstein’s death was ‘undoubtedly suicide’

Attorney general during Trump’s first term made comments to House oversight committee, transcript showsThe former US attorney general William Barr has repeated his finding that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death in prison was “undoubtedly suicide” to a panel of lawmakers looking into the disgraced financier’s crimes and connections.Barr, the top prosecutor in Donald Trump’s first term when the justice department brought sex trafficking charges against Epstein, made the comments to the House oversight committee late Monday, according to an interview transcript. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Longtime head of Mexican megachurch is indicted in New York on federal sex trafficking charges

A New York federal indictment has charged the longtime head of a Mexican megachurch with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking

Politics

4 w. ago France’s female boxers are banned from world championships due to genetic sex test delay

French federation calls exclusion ‘a profound injustice’World Boxing insists it warned all competitors of policyFrench female boxers have been barred from competing at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool after failing to meet a deadline for a genetic sex test that the French boxing federation (FFBoxe) said was incompatible with French law.World Boxing, which issued a list of competitors for Thursday’s opening rounds with no French entrants included, said it would not comment on individual cases but added it had warned all federations of the policy. Continue reading...

Sport

last month US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files

Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice.The release comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls. Continue reading...

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