well we we definitely received substantial evidence that he was involved in trafficking young women and children to the virgin islands for a very long period of time through our airport through his private jet and then he would by helicopter or sometimes boat would then transport them over to little saint james and that's where he has his complex where he lives which is his official residence as well and that these young girls and women were subject to sexual assault sexual exploitation um through coercion false imprisonment where the passports at some points were taken away the actions
were just reprehensible and and it was quite a number of women and we we found through our investigation that at least up to 2018 that continued so what your investigation is showing is the broad scope of jeffrey epstein's nefarious activities that it just kept going based on the evidence that we found thus far let me make something very clear jeffrey epstein was very good at protecting himself and being secret you know the secrecy was he was very good at that and because of his wealth his power he was able to do that and secure that
so when you think about it he owns a private island that's an island over a mile away from saint thomas the main island and it's out there and it's isolated he purchases that right then he owns the jet that flew in to the airport it's under a name of one of the front companies that actu actually has been named in our complaint but it's him he's the member of that llc and he owns the helicopter and the boats that took or transported him and the women and children over to the island so when you think
about that it's him orchestrating all of that yes there have been baggage handlers there may have been other persons who looked and saw him and other females with young girls yes but i i think that it's important that we focus on how jeffrey epstein was so able to create such an elaborate scheme especially by doing it in such secrecy and he had the money and power to create the secrecy so that not just local authorities but we have federal authorities here too that um that you know that are here all along not even they might
have been able to see it in looking at that you you have to really you know get a good understanding of how he was able to protect and isolate himself once you get on that island how do you get off it's not like a person who's on the island can just say okay i'm going to swim to st thomas they can't do that it's not like a person who's there and needs help that they can sneak away and run outside and flag down a vehicle or flag down a police car or run to the nearest
police station like they might be able to do on st thomas on the main island the island is isolated so that kind of isolation is is really how you have what you have to look at when you start to think how could this have happened for so long i i think the picture you paint is a terrifying one a terrifying one of isolation but also abuse of power and i just wonder why the people who worked for jeffrey epstein weren't terrified for the girls going over there they knew how isolated that island was they knew
the ages of those girls they saw powerful men there why weren't they terrified why didn't they become whistleblowers well one thing i do know first of all is that there are the non-disclosure agreements that jeffrey epstein had all of the employees if not most of them sign then they had to agree not to disclose any information to law enforcement or anyone else um for you know to you know regarding what goes on on that island and um and even after jeffrey epstein's death those non-disclosure agreements are still in place and still enforced by the estate
um so so this was just one of the ways that you can pretty much intimidate or silence people but in addition to that when you see someone connected with powerful people who may visit the island or he may be involved with whether it's not whether it doesn't have to be here it could be anywhere in the world and it's known that these powerful people are his friends and associates that alone is intimidating to the ordinary citizen who's sitting there and watching this and say oh that does not look good but could you imagine the reluctance
of that person to say i'm going to come forward i'm going to tell on that person who's friends with all these powerful people so that alone the way that he surrounded himself with these powerful people that was us an example of the kind of intimidation that would cause a certain cause what you're saying people to be silent about what they may see or suspect as far as the virgin islands is concerned we i need to make sure that the virgin islands is not is not and is not perceived as a haven for this kind of
sexual exploitation human trafficking and and sexual and child abuse it's it's we have to make that clear it is very important that we enforce our laws against human trafficking against child abuse against um child and and and sexual exploitation of women it is important that we do that because if i don't do it as the attorney general the top law enforcement person if we do not do it in the virgin islands then those types of crimes will continue to flourish hello i'm tara brown thanks for watching to keep up with the latest from 60 minutes
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