An air traffic controller saw wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein getting off his private plane in the U. Virgin Islands with girls who appeared to be 11 to 12 years old in , a year before Epstein was indicted on child sex trafficking charges , newly revealed government documents show. Epstein , who is now dead, on other occasions was seen at the St.
Thomas airport in the latter half of getting "off the plane with young girls," including at least one other time when the air traffic controller saw him with a girl who appeared to be between 16 and 18 years old, documents show. The air traffic controller told U. Marshals Service investigators about Epstein traveling with underage girls on July 10, , a week after Epstein was arrested at a New Jersey airport on child sex trafficking charges.
Those same government documents reveal that six months before Epstein was arrested, the Marshals Service began investigating whether the registered sex offender had violated federal law by failing to disclose all the countries he visited. One document shows that Epstein not only failed to tell officials of two other countries he ended up visiting, but that he also notified them of his planned travel just four days before he planned to leave the United States — which was 17 days less than the minimum amount of notice he was required by law to give.
The documents released by the Justice Department and Marshals Service were disclosed by the website MuckRock, which specializes in making public document requests and detailing their results. On Wednesday, French national police published an appeal on Twitter for victims of Epstein and witnesses to possible crimes by him, such as rape of minors, come forward to aid an investigation in that country. Three victims already have contacted French authorities, the Paris prosecutor's office said, according to the Associated Press.
Epstein, 66, died in August from what authorities have ruled a suicide by hanging in a federal jail in New York City. Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, was being held without bail as he awaited trial in his case.
