Epstein Secrets

is used in the commission of [the] offense, regardless of whether the use is interstate in nature (Le., the telephone call was '°Note that there is an Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction for attempted enticement of a minor. In that instruction, the Eleventh Circuit included a willfulness requirement — including a require

d to use or promote the same unlawful activity. Accordingly, one could charge Epstein alone with individual counts ofviolating Section 1960 for each Western Union transfer and for each ATM withdrawal that occurred immediately prior to one of Banasiak's documented payments to one of the girls. I decided not to

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

23 are more recent additions, which focus on children. All three sections are sometimes jointly referred to as the Mann Act. F! Note that there is an Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction for attempted enticement of a minor. In that instruction, the Eleventh Circuit included a willfulness requirement — including a requirem

hat I forego the Section 1956 charge and, instead, charge Epstein with aiding and abetting the unlicensed money transmitting by causing his bank and Western Union unwittingly to transmit funds intended to be used to promote and support sex trafficking and white slave traffic. The Money Laundering Section refe

d 2423 are more recent additions, which focus on children. All three sections are sometimes jointly referred to as the Mann Act. Note that there is an Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction for attempted enticement of a minor. In that instruction, the Eleventh Circuit included a willfulness requirement — including a requirem

stern Union were the innocent intermediaries who operated the money transmitting business. Nonetheless, Epstein's directions to pay the girls caused Western Union to transmit funds that were intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity — the prostitution of minors. Epstein's directions to Banasi

423 are more recent additions, which focus on children. All three sections are sometimes jointly referred to as the Mann Act. 3F Note that there is an Eleventh Circuit Pattern Jury Instruction for attempted enticement of a minor. In that instruction, the Eleventh Circuit included a willfulness requirement — including a requirem