FFS, give a source
https://countryhighlights.com/us-news/ann-coulter-the-great-epstein-cover-up-part-i/
"Immediately after Epstein’s arrest at Teterboro Airport in July 2019, the FBI executed a search warrant on his New York mansion. Following a daylong search, agents discovered a hidden safe in the closet of a fifth-floor dressing room, used a saw to break into it, and found an enormous collection of photos of naked girls, and CDs of the girls apparently having sex with influential men.
Then, the agents left — abandoning the photos and CDs, with Epstein’s employees free to wander about the place. As Kelly Maguire, FBI special agent in charge of the search, explained during Maxwell’s trial, they only had a warrant to search the house, but not to remove evidence — evidence at the heart of the entire sex trafficking scheme.
The CDs and photographs disappeared. By the time the FBI returned with a new warrant — four days later — to remove the CDs and photos, they were gone. Later, after a few phone calls, Epstein’s lawyer, Richard Kahn, “returned” the cache in two suitcases. I had no idea they were important! I was just tidying up!"
I read that as the tapes were returned to the FBI, who then don't appear to have released the details, so...
That story about the warrants makes no sense. What good is the first fucking warrant if it’s not to take evidence? What were they even searching for, if not evidence?
Let’s say a swat team had a warrant for a raid on a drug dealer. During the raid, let’s say that beyond drugs, they also find a tranche of CP. Based on that logic, they would just leave the CP because they were there looking for drugs. Sounds like bullshit to me.
Right ? I call bullshit. Serve a search warrant , find evidence , but can't take said evidence ? Makes no sense
I think that's how warrants work
It seems unwise to search a house, find porn, but then leave the house unsecured. securing the site is normally part of the warrant procedure
I think that's how warrants work
No, if a cop has a search warrant for one thing and during the execution of that warrant they find evidence of other crimes they can lay additional charges and seize whatever evidence they discover. They just can't use any of that shit as evidence in the original case if it wasn't on the warrant.
Let's say someone is running a dog fighting ring. The feds have an investigation into the illegal gambling ring, when they find evidence during a warrant search that the suspect was using stolen pets to "blood" the dogs. They can seize the evidence of grand theft and animal cruelty for the pet stealing, but since only stuff relating to gambling and tax evasion was listed on the warrant, they can't use that pet stealing info in the court case on the charges related to gambling and tax evasion. But they can lay new charges of animal cruelty and grand theft because they came across the evidence without violating the suspect's rights.
In this case, there was only the Trafficking investigation. And they found evidence of Trafficking that unfortunately was not listed on the warrant, which is poor warrant construction, since they could have easily put "Any evidence related to violations of human trafficking laws X and Y."
I talked to a lawfag friend today and asked about it. According to him, the FBI acted accordingly assuming that those particular CDs were not what they were looking for in the original warrant. So getting a second warrant was the correct thing to do on their part. However, leaving the site unsecured while obtaining the second warrant was sloppy at best, purposeful at worst.
They exact opposite happened to my friend . Looking for cp and found a few ounces of weed. He caught felony possession and he had no cp
Amazing that judges are on emergency call for issuing warrants everywhere and any time even after hours ...except for against politicians and their friends and blackmailers.
Agreed. Cops can get an emergency warrant in as little as 20 minutes even for evidence of petty theft. They need only secure the evidence until the warrant arrives. In a case this big, with crimes so heinous, it is utterly bizarre that such damning evidence was permitted to 'disappear.'
https://dvdyourmemories.com/blog/how-to-protect-your-video-tapes-from-airport-x-ray-and-security/
“I had a customer that was bringing back several VHS tapes to the US to have them transferred. Unfortunately, these tapes were coming from overseas in their checked baggage. The bags went through one of the luggage metal detectors and were erased. This is a common occurance with older formats of tapes such as VHS and older 8mm, and even audio tapes. Newer tapes are much more resistant to this problem. If a customer is shipping an older tape to you, or bringing them through an airport, be sure to ask them to package the tapes separate from other luggage and write on the package Recorded Media – DO NOT Scan – Hand Inspect ONLY.” -Steve Hoemke Denver store manager
So essentially putting them through baggage could have wiped the data. In any event the chain of custody was broken and they would have been useless in court.
from your link
"x-ray machines at the airport check-in have very little to no effect on video tapes"
was this referenced elsewhere? I don't know why you mentioned it
“I had a customer that was bringing back several VHS tapes to the US to have them transferred. Unfortunately, these tapes were coming from overseas in their checked baggage. The bags went through one of the luggage metal detectors and were erased. This is a common occurance with older formats of tapes such as VHS and older 8mm, and even audio tapes. Newer tapes are much more resistant to this problem. If a customer is shipping an older tape to you, or bringing them through an airport, be sure to ask them to package the tapes separate from other luggage and write on the package Recorded Media – DO NOT Scan – Hand Inspect ONLY.” -Steve Hoemke Denver store manager
Thanks for posting the source.
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