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"The Hilltop Monitor" featured Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law's Distinguished Criminal Justice Fellow Mimi Rocah in "Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew Should Come Clean"
Prince Andrew is continuing to be implicated for his ties to accused pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite Buckingham Palace's attempts to distance the royal from the scandal. Davies said Kellen knocked on her door late one night when she was staying on Epstein's private island and told her Epstein was ready for another massage.
The formal goal of the hearing was to drop the charges against Epstein, standard procedure when a defendant dies during a prosecution.
Prosecutors have already "gone out of their way to make clear" they will aggressively pursue the case, including any accomplices and the possibility of civil forfeiture to unlock money for victims, said Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor in NY who is now a criminal-justice fellow at Pace University's law school.
Andrew said in a statement last Saturday that he made Epstein's acquaintance in 1999 and saw him once or twice each year.
He had been arrested on 6 July and pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of girls as young as 14.
"This doesn't lessen the government's resolve to stand up for victims and the government will continue to provide services to victims", Comey said to the judge, adding that there is an ongoing active federal and grand jury investigation.
However, he was taken off suicide watch later that month, and it was later revealed Metropolitan Correctional Centre prison guards on duty at the time of Epstein's death had failed to check on him for "several hours", even though prison protocol demanded inmates be checked every 30 minutes.
One of Epstein's lawyers, Martin Weinberg, challenged that ruling during Tuesday's hearing, telling the judge that an expert hired by the defense determined that broken bones in his neck were "more consistent with pressure. with homicide" than suicide.
Two days before Epstein's death, he made significant changes to his will in which over $500 million was transferred to a trust fund.
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