This seems like relevant viewing, just to set the scene of how paedophillic and rapey the US elite has historically been. Deeper than just Epstein.

  • spex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In 1988, state and federal authorities began looking into allegations that prominent citizens of Nebraska, as well as high-level U.S. politicians, were involved in a child prostitution ring.[3] Alleged abuse victims were interviewed, who claimed that children in foster care were flown to the East Coast of the United States to be sexually abused.[4]

    The accusations primarily centered on Lawrence E. King Jr., who ran the now defunct Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, and alleged that King hosted “lavish parties at which minors were sexually abused”.[3][5][6] King was a rising figure, donor, and powerbroker in the Republican Party before the investigation, singing the National Anthem at the 1984 Republican National Convention and spending $100,000 on parties for the 1988 convention.[7] King had a luxurious lifestyle, chartering private jets and limousines and wearing expensive clothes and jewellery, including a $69,000 watch seized after he went into court-ordered receivership.[7] He also owned multiple houses and businesses in Nebraska, alongside a house near Embassy Row, Washington, D.C., which he rented.[5][7] The Franklin Credit Union was raided by authorities investigating the embezzlement of over $38 million in November 1988

    Yes, that sounds an awful lot like Epstein, but it must be a conspiracy… no-one would ever sexually exploit poor foster kids for the wealthy…

    Well, sure, Claudius “Bud” Vermilye did it with his Boys’ Farm for wayward youth in Tennessee, but this Franklin one sounds too far fetched, shipping poor kids across the country on planes…

    Well, sure, John David Norman did it with the Delta Project, the Odyssey Foundation, and probably more of his organizations, but it’s not like he’d kill anyone, unlike his partner and former employee of John Wayne Gacy - Philip Paske…

    Still, we’re getting off topic, this Franklin thing couldn’t be true, just because it sounds a lot like what Francis Shelden, Gerald Richards, Adam Starchild and Dyer Grossman set up with Brother Paul’s Children’s Mission, doesn’t mean that there is anything to it.

    Nothing to see here, just some more satanic panic, am I right!?!?!?!?!