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They also had all those guys on camera doing crimes in Washington DC and bragging about it on Twitter.

FBI was literally sitting on Epstein files for years. They have chosen not to prosecute. When the state tried to investigate Epstein, FBI came in, took control over with claim they will share investigation results ... and then did nothing.

I seem to remember him dying in a jail cell?

Yes, which happened only because a journalist broke a story about how FBI was not investigating Epstein for years and years. It was media who forced that to happen, after decades of abuse FBI was aware of.

Speaking of which, the previous conviction, the super sweet deal Acosta gave to Epstein before is also an example of elite unaccountability.

FBI and friends protected Epstein until it became impossible.

Ok but can't you say that about most non-street-level convictions? That they required some amount of complaining for a detective to do their job?

What do you think Epstein was doing, if not recording people on cameras?

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