BREAKING: Epstein Lawyer claims fake Passport was a gift from a friend...

[brooklynite]

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[Qutzupalotl]

1. So...someone else used a passport with HIS picture?!

That does not pass the smell test.

[mr_lebowski]

9. The story would be that the passport was of someone else, got used, then the photo was

changed to Epstein's, and given to him.

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Sounds legit. nt

[mr_lebowski]

17. It's more possible than the story you were proposing ...

Not saying I necessarily believe it, but ... 1980's passports weren't real high-tech.

[jberryhill]

19. Who looks like their passport photo?

[htuttle]

2. Guessing that friend is MBS

He used the passport more than once. There were border stamps in it.

That's not a very good excuse.

[Cartaphelius]

6. So his legal team is lying to the court?

I did not think that was an option or even legal.

[htuttle]

12. MAGA: Making Attorneys Get Attorneys

It's not like we haven't seen other lawyers breaking the law for clients like Trump and Epstein. Seems like there's a price tag attached to their ethics.

[dalton99a]

3. A friend in the Austrian passport office? in Mossad?

[htuttle]

4. 18 U.S. Code 1543

Whoever falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, mutilates, or alters any passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, with intent that the same may be used; or

Whoever willfully and knowingly uses, or attempts to use, or furnishes to another for use any such false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, or any passport validly issued which has become void by the occurrence of any condition therein prescribed invalidating the same—

Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 25 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of international terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this title)), 20 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929(a) of this title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense, if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of international terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years (in the case of any other offense), or both.

[FBaggins]

8. There's still a jurrisdiction issue

That would apply to any fake US passport... and would probably apply to the use of an Austrian passport to enter the US...


... but if he used a fake Austrian passport in travel between the EU and Japan... the US probably couldn't charge him under that law.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Conveniently, their story avoids all of that ... nothing there about being 'in possession of'

So could be it's actually not illegal to possess unless he himself altered it or caused it to be altered or used it illegally.

[jberryhill]

20. Correct

[ScratchCat]

5. Yeh, I remember that time

that my buddy gave me a foreign passport with my picture and some other name on it for my birthday. Who hasn't gotten one?

[tanyev]

32. OMG, I remember one birthday party where 3 people gave me fake passports.

And I was like, "You guys, what part of NO PRESENTS did you not understand??"

[RainCaster]

7. It looks truthy to me

Except for the stamps, showing that he used it. This was an Austrian passport, so if it was fake, their government would have no record of this, right? Check with the Austrian embassy.

[mr_lebowski]

10. It belonged to someone else, someone else used it, then the photo was changed

then it was given to Epstein.

That's their story. We have no way of knowing it's true or not.

[FM123]

11. A gift from a friend?

So now I know what to get all my friends for Christmas....

[dalton99a]

14. Pick a pretty one

[FM123]

18. One? I'll take them all!

[Pachamama]

30. My money is on that Epstein has more of those where they came from and he got more after it expired

I think that its just that is what was what the FBI found at the NY residence when they raided....who knows what is at the other residences or that he hasn't had hidden elsewhere since.

[True Dough]

16. RIIIIIIIIGHT!

[Phoenix61]

22. Would that be the friend who supplied

the fake passports for the girls Epstein sex trafficked?

[DBoon]

31. one "gift" in exchange for another?

That was my first thought

[Hugin]

23. Oh, yeah... I get prank fake passports from my friends all the time.

I don't keep them in a safe, tho.

[llmart]

25. Isn't that the most telling part of this?

He felt the need to keep it locked away.

I call bullshit.

[Hugin]

27. Along with 70 grand and a heap of diamonds.

It was his getaway kit. No question.

All that was missing was a latex Nixon mask.

[skypilot]

26. So THAT'S what you get for the man...

...who has everything.

[bitterross]

28. Officer, those aren't MY drugs. They are a friend's drugs.

Sure, buddy, sure. Go with that.

[Pachamama]

29. His friend Mr. Netanyahu? His friend Mr. Putin? His friend MBS?