Zed A. Shaw, Painter

So he commits a crime that I would server my entire life for, but he's wealthy so he gets off. Happens all the time. What doesn't seem to happen often is when a criminal gets a plea deal for himself, that magically prevents 4 other criminals from being prosecuted.

And, I'm pretty sure the plea deal literally says, "4 prominent people" in naming the co-conspirators. It's absolutely bizarre that they'd just straight up say, "Yeah it's 4 people so powerful we want to protect them." It then gets even weirder:

Apparently Prince Andrew and that law professor had a hand in help Epstein get this plea deal, which weirdly seems to protect those two. AND, AND, the deal was made without asking the victims (like 40 girls) if they were alright with the deal, which is required? I guess so.

To put this into perspective: Imagine I rob banks with my crew of 5. One day I get caught and I can make a plea deal. So, the DA goes, "Alright, we'll give you one year and we won't go after your 4 co-conspirators." No fucking way. The law is actually the reverse.

The normal law is if you get caught committing a crime with 4 other people you all do time, even if all you did was drive the car or answer phones. They do this with drug crime all the time, throwing women in jail when they arrest their boyfriends: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mandatory-minimum-sentencing-girlfriend-problem-757690/ …

And they are ruthless about this. They don't just stop prosecuting a whole organization because they did one deal with one dude. The drag everyone in jail, even tangentially related. Yet.....this deal absolves 4 other people of criminal prosecution w/o their own deals? WTF?

So in this case, the DA caught Epstein, arrested him, then cut him and 4 people a deal, but they never ... arrested the 4 other people to work out the deal. See the problem? How can they get a plea deal without an arrest? Or even questioning? Takes some power to do that.