Duplicitous Ken Starr defended Epstein in Florida case: “Perversion of Justice”

Ken Starr was probably the most powerful force behind

Jeffrey Epstein’s secret plea deal.

Julie K. Brown

The guy acted like an obnoxious preacher screaming about the evils of Bill Clinton’s affair with a young intern more than two decades ago. He spent more than 60 million dollars investigating a consensual affair between a president and a young 20-something.

Today, Clinton looks like a choir boy when compared to the sleaze of Jeffrey Epstein as the worst sexual abuser of young women in American history and the horrible list of people whose names may someday be released to the public. Clinton did use Epstein’s plane for some of his business ventures, but there is no evidence that he was involved in the sexual trafficking or abuse deals.

This Starr investigation led to the duplicitous groups like the “Family Values” crowd who has now somehow disappeared in the past decade. What Clinton did was disgusting, though never illegal, but what Ken Starr did was even worse. He has since passed away, but his reputation had been damaged by many situations.

He was fired as president of Baylor University in a sex abuse scandal.   

Earlier this decade, a journalist for the Miami Herald who investigated Epstein and the horrible abuse released a book that detailed the steps that Starr took to protect the abuser.

Ken Starr, the abuse-enabler.

“Perversion of Justice”

Here is the start of this story,

Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a new book.

In “Perversion of Justice,” the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to review Epstein’s case.”

The book says that emails and letters sent by Starr and Epstein’s then criminal defense lawyer Jay Lefkowitz show that the duo were “campaigning to pressure the Justice Department to drop the case.” Starr had been brought into “center stage” of Epstein’s legal team because of his connections in Washington to the Bush administration

Ed Pilkington, “Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with ‘scorched-earth’

campaign, book claims,” The Guardian, July 13, 2021

So, this Epstein case involves not just the current president of the United States but also top officials in the George W. Bush administration.

Book details the role of Starr — and his denial

Julie K. Brown’s book was overlooked at first even after the conviction of Epstein on federal charges — and his eventual suicide. However, she makes clear the role of the Republican hero by the name of Starr who was once considered for the U.S. Supreme Court until he became involved in the controversial Clinton-Lewinsky affair.

Ken Starr, the prosecutor who obsessively pursued former president Bill Clinton over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, was largely responsible for securing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s secret 2008 plea deal. The revelation comes via a new book from Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald reporter who covered Epstein and his accusers for years.

“Although I go into this more in my book, Ken Starr was probably the most powerful force behind Jeffrey Epstein’s secret plea deal. Without him, it probably would not have happened the way it did, and Epstein would have ended up in prison for a very long time,” the “Perversion of Justice” author wrote on Twitter Tuesday …

Starr told TheWrap Wednesday, “It’s not appropriate to discuss any counsel I or my law firm provided to a client. I have always tried to act with integrity and to be guided by the great principles of the American legal system.”

Lindsey Ellefson, “Clinton Prosecutor Ken Starr Was ‘Most Powerful Force’ in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 Plea Deal, New Book Says,” The Wrap, July 14, 2021

Act with integrity? Hardly.

The 2008 investigation that Starr stymied

The coverup of the Epstein case in Florida in 2008 has long been controversial, but kept under the radar screen by Republicans in Florida and in D.C.

In 2008, federal investigators identified dozens of underage victims, but Epstein pled guilty to only two charges: procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. As a result of the non-prosecution agreement, he only served 13 months in a county jail and enjoyed work-release privileges. The deal halted an ongoing FBI probe into whether Epstein had more victims, as well as whether there were other powerful people involved.

In a Medium post out Tuesday, Starr’s former advisor Judi Hershman recalled her time with the man best known for his 1998 investigation into Bill Clinton’s relationship with White House intern-turned-staffer Monica Lewinsky.

“There was the time in January 2010 when I saw him in California — he was then dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law — and he asked me, if on my next visit to South Florida, I could extend myself to counsel a ‘very wealthy, very smart businessman who got himself into trouble for getting involved with a couple of underage girls who lied about their ages.’ I confess I did not recognize Jeffrey Epstein’s name at the time, but I knew what statutory rape was and I couldn’t understand why Ken Starr would be involved with him,” she wrote, adding, “It did not occur to me that he might have been part of the legal team that executed a secret and egregious sweetheart deal for the convicted pedophile or that the stickler for details I knew Starr to be might be grossly undercounting the victims in question.”

Lindsey Ellefson, The Wrap, July 14, 2021

So, essentially, the man who spent 60 million dollars to investigate an oral sex liaison and a failed land deal then orchestrated the dropping of both state and federal charges against Epstein.

In addition, the prosecutor in the Florida case was Alex Acosta, who ironically was Secretary of Labor in the first Trump administration.

So much for the Family Values crowds that is now completely silent about this fiasco.