Headquarters in New York City. We start with that breaking news. We are awaiting a News Conference here in New York City on Sex Trafficking charges against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, a man politically connected to two president s and a host ever other wealthy and powerful people. You can see folks assembling there for that News Conference set to start any moment now. We will bring it to you when it starts. Officials telling nbc news that epstein was arrested saturday after a joint investigation by the fbi and new york police stemming from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. Epstein is charged with two counts of Sex Trafficking for allegedly sexually abusing three minors. Im joined now by nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, msnbc legal analyst former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner also with me. Wendy murphy is in massachusetts and here with me in the studio former federal prosecutor ann
marie mca voi and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. Tom, let me sta
marie mca voi and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. tom, let me start with you. i knew you are on the phone inside the courthouse as we await the start of this news conference. what do we know about the charges? that s correct, craig. i m actually inside the press conference room here at the u.s. attorney s office where we expect this press conference to start probably in about five or ten minutes from now. we expect there is a big white piece of board up there, we expect to have a little bit of a chart that will kind of explain how epstein basically kind of ran this vast network, as federal prosecutors put it. we also expect the fbi assistant director bill sweeney who runs the new york office here and oversaw parts of this investigation to implore people that were a victim if they believe that they are were a victim of sexual abuse by jeffrey epstein to contact the
come forward if you believe they might have also been sexually assaulted by jeffrey epstein. we also found out, danny cevallos, and ms. mca voi here, ann marie, that during the course of that raid on saturday of his new york city town house they found what appeared to be according to the u.s. attorney there what appeared to be nude pictures of other young girls. danny, you commented on and this is something that has gotten a fair amount of attention on social media as well, the jurisdiction here. this appears to be a case that is going to be investigated not by the unit that would usually investigate these crimes, but the public corruption unit as well. are we reading too much into that? no. no. even though you just heard the u.s. attorney tell us don t read too much into that, i m choosing to read too much into it because this is a unit that handles corruption, corruption is normally tied not to private citizens, it s tied to public