A little background on the presiding Judge in the Epstein Bail Hearing today..(from NY Mag) :"U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman will preside over the bail hearing. Some of his past cases include those of the Chelsea bomber, Tom Brady’s “Deflategate” suit against the NFL

2-"and the 2016 case of a Turkish-Iranian gold trader involved in money laundering, which bears some similarities to Epstein’s circumstances in regards to bail. Berman wrote at the time that the defendant’s request to self-finance his house arrest was “unreasonable because

3-"it helps to foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort of criminal defendants who are extremely wealthy.” Epstein’s lawyers also cited the gold trader’s case,

4-"claiming it as irrelevant, as he was not an American citizen and his assets were held outside the country..." #MondayMotivation #Epstein
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