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Jeffrey Epstein's wealth and power gave him protection that his victims never got

The more we learn about the late Jeffrey Epstein's 13 months in so-called custody at the Palm Beach County Stockade, the clearer is the lesson:

It definitely helped to be rich, even if you were a monstrous sexual predator.

It didn't help Epstein that much at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan, where he hung himself early Saturday.

For the sake of his many victims, Epstein's death can't be the end of this story.

Just last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the Florida Department of

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