Jeffrey Epstein a real-life Raymond Reddington? Connection to Bush Administration?

By Mike Shoesmith

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades. He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world that he has compiled over the years and is willing to inform on their operations in exchange for immunity from prosecution. (Wikipedia)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender.^[1][2] Epstein began his career in finance at the investment bank Bear Stearns before forming his own firm, J. Epstein & Co. Epstein was a multimillionaire who, until his conviction for sex crimes in 2008, was well connected with the financial, political, and cultural elites of society.^[3]

In April 2005, police of Palm Beach, Florida, began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter.^[4] After an investigation, prosecution, and plea negotiations, Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted by a Florida state court of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an underage girl for prostitution on June 30, 2008.^[5] He served almost 13 months in custody, with work release, as part of a plea deal; federal officials had identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, who had been molested.^{[6][7]  (Wikipedia)}

Alexander Acosta (27th United States secretary of labor from 2017 to 2019) told Trump transition officials that he'd been told to back off the Epstein case at the time and that was why he gave Epstein such a generous deal. From the Daily Beast:

Epstein's name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who'd infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and trafficking.

"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)

The timeline from Wikipedia shows the investigation into Epstein began during the Bush Jr administration and the so-called "deal" was made during the final months of his presidency. Could this be a case of art imitating life as is so often the case? Like Epstein (according to Acosta), Reddington "belonged" to the alphabet intelligence agencies, more specifically the FBI, and made a "deal" which kept him (mostly, though not entirely) out of prison, almost exactly as it played out for Epstein in 2005 - 2008. So I suppose it's worth asking: is Epstein even dead? And if so, who killed him? According to former inmates of that very same prison, it is literally, and intentionally, impossible for someone to kill themselves there. So who did it? Will we ever know? Or is Jeffrey Epstein sipping cocktails on an island somewhere next to Loretta Fuddy - who allegedly died of a 'heart attack' after a soft water landing off the coast of Hawaii. Yeah... I'm looking at you Hussein.

Note: Reddington may not be a paedophile but he is a murderer and a black market arms dealer selling arms to groups responsible for heinous crimes against humanity... including children. According to Blacklist Fandom "Eventually he went from just selling secrets to also starting wars, toppling governments, and influencing geo-politics to suit his needs. He became known as "The Concierge of Crime" due to his ability to arrange deals in the black market. He is also an extremely ruthless individual with no qualms about killing and often chuckles at victims' death with a smile (rarely). He does not needlessly kill for the pleasure of it nor is he an genocidal maniac hellbent on eliminating all crime, but rather sees it as an effective means of gaining information, leading to the eventual deaths of blacklisters, and displays almost no empathy with killing people but instead covering it up with an faux affable evil facade to trick his victims into lowering their guard so he can kill them or exploit them. He himself stated that when he kills someone he doesn’t pretend to care how they feel;"