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Dual Sovereignty: The Legal Sledgehammer Waiting for Ghislaine Maxwell If Pardoned (Part 2) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off talking about New York State and
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  the possibility of Glenn Maxwell being charged at the state
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  level if she does receive a pardon. Financial institutions implicated
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  in the Epstein Maxwell network have already faced lawsuits in
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  New York Civil court, including JP Morgan Chase, and Deutsche Bank,
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  and for good or for ill, New York State has
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  been a hub of legal accountability when any has been
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  brought forward for the broader Epstein enterprise. In this context,
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  bringing criminal charges against Maxwell would not be a radical move.
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  It would be a continuation of an existing legal and
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  moral campaign to expose and punish the entire architecture of exploitation.
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  Her pardon would not invalidate the facts. It would only
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  accelerate the moral necessity to hold her accountable elsewhere. In
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  addition to legal grounds, New York has political capital to spend.
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  Secutors have publicly aligned themselves with survivor focused prosecution, promising
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  that no one is above the law. If Maxwell were
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  suddenly walking free due to a federal pardon, their credibility
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  would be on the line to maintain public trust and
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  fulfill their pledges, They would be under immense pressure to
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  act in that moment. In action would be louder than
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  any indictment and far more damning. The part of maxwell
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  would also force the public to confront an uncomfortable truth that,
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  even in cases involving child sex, trafficking an elite corruption,
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  the federal system can be bought or bargained with. Such
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  a move would not just be a betrayal of survivors,
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  it would signal to predators everywhere that political power can
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  insulate them from consequences. The only remaining defense against that
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  message would be state prosecution, an assertion that some jurisdictions
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  still believe justice should be blind, even when the defendant
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  has friends in high places. Critics might argue that a
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  second prosecution would be double jeopardy or an abuse of power,
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  but legally this claim doesn't hold water. The US Supreme
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  Court has time and time again affirmed the dual sovereignty doctrine,
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  allowing both federal and state prosecutions for the same conduct,
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  and in moral terms, one could argue that no amount
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  of legal technicality should stand between a predator and accountability,
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  especially when survivors are still bearing the scars. Maxwell's ability
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  to manipulate legal systems should not be mistaken for innocence.
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  If anything, it makes her even more dangerous. We must
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  also consider the ripple effect. If Maxwell were allowed to
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  walk free, it would embolden others, though still lurking in
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  the shadows of Epstein's network. It would send a message
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  to co conspirators, silent enablers, and participating clients that accountability
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  is optional, consequences negotiable, and well placed political favor is
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  the ultimate get out of jail free card. State prosecution
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  in New York would not just be about Maxwell. It
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  would be a warning to every man and woman whoever
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  thought what they did with Jeffrey Epstein would stay buried forever. Justice,
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  if it's going to mean anything at all, must extend
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  beyond one courtroom, one jurisdiction, or one verdict. If the
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  federal government fails to carry the full weight of moral accountability,
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  then it becomes a solemn duty of the states to
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  step up, and no state is better positioned to do
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  so than New York, where the crimes were committed, where
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  the victims were abused, and where the walls of Epstein's
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  townhouse still whisper the truth. A pardon doesn't erase that,
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  but a prosecution, state level, unflinching and unapologetic, just might
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  begin to restore what was lost. If New York chooses
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  not to act, it looks at a mountain of evidence,
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  the pain of survivors, the clear cut violations of state law,
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  and still shrinks away, then it will confirm what so
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  many already suspect that justice is selective, conditional, and reserved
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  for the powerless. Say that no matter how many laws
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  are broken, no matter how many girls are harmed, accountability
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  can still be bartered away behind closed doors if the
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  right names are on the guest list. This isn't just
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  a failure of the prosecution. It's a betrayal of public trust.
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  Because Glenn Maxwell is in some confused middleman or low
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  level fall guy. She was the engineer of logistics, the gatekeeper,
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  the fixer, the madam who made it all run smooth
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  so the rich never had to look dirty. And she
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  did it all in New York City, over and over again,
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  in the same brownstone, behind the same locked doors, on
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  the same beds that prosecutors now pretend are too far
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  in the past to matter. But they do matter because
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  the girls that were abused there still live with it
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  and they still remember. Letting her skate would do more
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  than absolved Maxwell. It would stain every institution that remained silent,
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  every official who once promised the public they would leave
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  no stone unturned, every prosecutor who posed in front of
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  count cas and declared war on child sex trafficking. If
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  all that fire and fury ends in a shrug and
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  a sigh because a president handed her a get out
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  of jail free card, then what was it ever worth?
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  What did any of it ever mean? Because let me
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  tell you, right now, somewhere in this country, there's a
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  teenage girl being groomed right now by someone with money,
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  influence and a contact in high places. That predator is
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  watching how this ends, watching to see if this system
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  actually has teeth or if it just gnashes its gums
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  for show. If Maxwell has pardoned, then the state does nothing.
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  It will send a loud clear signal, don't worry, keep
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  doing what you're doing. If you're rich enough, connected enough,
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  shameless enough, nothing will ever touch you. And that should
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  terrify every decent person who has ever demanded better, Because
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  if we can't even prosecute someone like Lane Maxwell, someone
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  convicted in federal court, someone named by hundreds of survivors,
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  someone who ran operations out of a mansion and daylight,
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  Then who can we ever prosecute? What does a crime
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  even look like anymore? If not this? How grotesque does
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  the truth need to be before someone actually picks up
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  the phone and files the fucking charges? And my advice
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  to prosecutors in New York don't wait for political permission.
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  They should not be hesitating out of fear of blowback.
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  Their job is not to serve the headlines or catered
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  to the powerful. Their job is to serve justice. And
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  right now that job is sitting on a platter, ready waiting,
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  fully documented, legally sound, morally obvious. All that's left is
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  the courage to act. And if they don't, we need
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  to be honest about what we're witnessing. It won't be justice,
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  it won't be closure. It'll be a white gloved handshake
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  between institutions that protect each other while the rest of
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  us are told to clap and move on. It'll be
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  the final chapter in a story of power shielding power,
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  dressed up in legal ease and cowardice. It will confirm
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  that even in the face of monstrous, well documented evil,
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  there are still some doors no DA's willing to knock on.
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  But if they do act, if New York does what
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  the federal system would be too compromised to do, then
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  for once, the survivors win, not fully, not completely, but
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  enough to know that their abuser didn't escape scot free,
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  enough to believe that the truth still matters, that power
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  can be checked, that pain doesn't have to be swallowed
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  in silence, and in a world this broken, that would
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  be something real, something worth fighting for. Because the question
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  is in can New York prosecute Glain Maxwell. The law
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  says yes, the facts say yes. The survivors are screaming yes.
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  The only question left is whether anyone in power is
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  brave enough to say it out loud. And if they aren't,
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  if they just let her disappear into the shadows with
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  the smug grin and a clean slate, then let it
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  be known. Justice didn't fail. It was told to stand down,
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  and it obeyed. So here we are. After everything we've
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  laid out, the jurisdiction, the evidence, the survivor testimony, the
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  legal precedent, you're left with one simple truth. Glenn Maxwell
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  can still be prosecuted by the State of New York.
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  The law allows it, the facts demand it, and the
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  survivors they deserve it. A federal pardon is not a
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  magical spell. It doesn't absolve guilt, it doesn't raise pain.
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  It doesn't mean she didn't do it. It just means someone
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  with power decided to pretend that she didn't. And if
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  that's the standard we're accepting now, if presidential whim can
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  overrule everything, we have slipped into something far darker than injustice.
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  We've slipped into feudalism, where loyalty, silence, and connections matter
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  more than truth. But this story doesn't have to end
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  that way. New York has been handed an opportunity few
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  prosecutors ever get, a second chance, a clean shot, an
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  open door to right or wrong that could soon go
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  global in its insult. And if they fail to walk
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  through it, then they're not just complicit in Maxwell's escape,
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  they're accessories to the erosion of public faith in justice itself. Because,
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  let's be honest, if Glayne Maxwell walks away clean, then
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  who doesn't. Who's left to answer for Epstein's empire? The
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  co conspirators, the clients, the billionaires who were shuffled into
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  silence by the cowardly media outlets and white glove lawyers.
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  If the person who help build the pyramid is allowed
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  to vanish into the shadows, then no one else is
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  ever going to be dragged into the light, no matter
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  what she tells the doj as she sits in that
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  jail cell. And what does that mean for the survivors,
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  for the girls who were exploited, discarded, and then ignored.
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  What message do we send when the system that was
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  supposed to protect them instead shields their abuser? Again, do
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  we really expect them to keep believing injustice even when
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  the clearest, most documented case of elite abuse gets flushed
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  down a political toilet. Yo, this isn't complicated, It's not abstract.
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  The mansion was in Manhattan, the girls were trafficked across
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  state lines. The grooming happened on New York's This isn't
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  a question of jurisdiction. It's a question of will, of spine,
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  of whether anyone in a position of power has the
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  courage to go after someone who's rolodex still makes people nervous.
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  And maybe that's the point. Maybe the silence isn't incompetence,
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  it's fear. Maybe the reason so many powerful people want
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  this case buried is because Glenn Maxwell knows too much.
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  And maybe the reason they're willing to let her walk
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  is because they'd rather set her free than hear or speak.
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  But justice isn't supposed to be shaped by secrets. It's
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  supposed to break them open. So here's the ask, not
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  for forgiveness, not for hope, but for action, for a
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  stay of prosecutor in New York to step up and
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  say not on my watch, For someone, anyone in a
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  position of authority, to remember why they took that oath
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  in the first place. The law is still there, the
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  files are still there, and the pain and never left.
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  If this country still believes in consequences, this is the
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  moment to prove it. Not with statements, not with symbolism,
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  but with charges, real ones that stick, that sting, that
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  tell every predator is still lurking in the shadows. You're
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  not safe anymore. Because if we, like land Maxwell vanish
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  into the wind, then justice didn't lose. It surrendered and
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  it will never be taken seriously again. All of the
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