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As new reports emerge about the various ways the late convicted
pedophile Jeff Epstein procured and pimped young women to some of the
most influential men in the world, the public has heard little from the
pilots who greeted the VIPs and the underaged girls as they boarded
EpsteinAs private jets. Larry Visoski and David Rodgers flew for
Epstein for nearly two decades. How could they be unaware of what
the boss was up to?

Still, Visoski and Rodgers, both of Florida, remain free to work as
commercial pilots with no enforcement actions taken against them from
the years Epstein pled guilty to those activities.

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Virginia Roberts Guiffre, seen in the photo below with EnglandAs Prince
Andrew, says as a teenager, Epstein repeatedly ordered her to have sex
with the prince. They are listed as having traveled together on
EpsteinAs planes on multiple occasions. Guiffre told the Miami Herald
the planes were called the oLolita Expresso because they were used to
ohave sex with underage girls.o If true, this would be a crime and if
the flights crossed state or national borders as many of them apparently
did, it would be a federal crime. Even so, according to the Federal
Aviation Administration, it is not behavior that will cause a pilot to
lose his or her license.

oThe only criminal activity that can result in the loss of a certificate
is using an aircraft to transport illegal drugs and flying while
intoxicated,o said FAA communications manager Lynn Lunsford. oThere is a provision for good moral standing, although it is nebulous.o

Neither Visoski nor Rodgers have been subject to agency enforcement
actions in the past, according to Lunsford. The agency policy is not to
comment on whether an investigation is presently underway. (Florida
pilots Robert Gary Roxburgh, Pete Rathgeb, Bill Hammond and Bill Murphy
also worked for Epstein, though less frequently.)

You may be baffled that transporting illegal drugs is a more significant
threat to oneAs pilot license than human trafficking. But more may be at
play here.

Of the six pilots who flew for Epstein, only Rodgers appears to have
kept detailed notes about his passengers. His handwritten logs are a mind-boggling list of names including Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey,
ColombiaAs former president Andres Pastrana, New York hedge-fund
operator Glen Dubin and model agency owner Jean Luc Brunel to name just
a few. The flights were both within the United States and international. Rodgers describes trips that hopscotched across Europe, North Africa and
Asia.

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RodgerAs logs corroborate some of the claims of Guiffre u who said she
was not only EpsteinAs sex slave but was repeatedly ordered by him to
perform sex acts on Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Brunel as
well as Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew and Dershowitz have both challenged
her story.

Perhaps federal investigators are squeezing Rodgers and Visoski, holding
the ogood moral standingo clause over their heads to encourage them to
tell what they know or risk losing their tickets to fly.

oIf the government can make a compelling case that they knew the conduct
was occurring and that they aided Epstein or helped hide it from the authorities, the FAA may make a case that their licenses should be
suspended or revoked,o said Justin A. Marchetta a New Jersey lawyer representing aircraft owners, operators and pilots with the New Jersey
firm, Inglesino, Webster, Wyciskala & Taylor

Just last year, New Jersey private pilot Stephen Bradley Mell,
surrendered his license and three aircraft he owned after making a plea
deal with federal prosecutors on charges he used his airplane to cross
state lines with a minor for purposes of engaging in sex with a 15-year
old.

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Mell met the teen when her mother brought her to Mell for flying
lessons. Prosecutors claimed that Mell took the girl out of state. On
one occasion according to the indictment, the 51-year-old married father
of three, put his plane on autopilot to have sex with his victim on a
flight from Massachusetts to New Jersey.

oThe case of the pilots of EpsteinAs planes, it is more nuanced,o
Marchetta told me. Visoski and Rodgers omay or may not have known this
was going on or that the girls were underage.o

Perhaps, but Rodgers saw a lot. From 1995 until 2013, he wrote a
detailed entry for each trip he flew for Epstein. Rodgers testified in a
2016 deposition that opeople get on the airplane and I see who the
people are, and I put them down there,o he said of the log. While
Rodgers said he tried to be as accurate as possible, some passengers got
more attention than others. There are repeated instances when Rodgers
noted the traveler not by name but by gender, even on international
flights.

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This raises the question of whether he complied with immigration and
Homeland Security requirements.

Rodgers and Visoski were well acquainted with EpsteinAs osex slaveso and
young companions. Both men had apartments in the same New York building
at 301 East 66th Street as EpsteinAs unindicted co-conspirator, Global
Girl celebrity pilot Nadia Marcinko who was herself reportedly an early
victim of Epstein. On her social media feed, Marcinko posted photos and
videos of herself flying right seat with Visoski.

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Rodgers testified that the girls flying with Epstein into New York often
stayed in other apartments in the same building, all of which were owned
by Epstein. If osheAs on the plane with us on multiple trips then most
likely she probably stayed there,o Rodgers said of the girl travelers. (Business Insider has an interesting investigation into the building on
66th Street which you can read here.)

Pedophilia and human trafficking are serious crimes but Epstein did not
commit them without help nor is that the likely limit of his nefarious activities. As various news accounts show, over the course of decades,
Epstein orchestrated an international network of wealthy, powerful and influential people who my Uncle Maurice would call ono-good-niks.o

Just because Epstein is dead, other scoundrels should not be able to get
away with their crimes, including the pilots who appear to have enabled
a lot of bad behavior without encountering a single unpleasant
consequence. No investigation into Jeffrey Epstein should be considered complete without getting the full story from the pilots. And maybe the
FAA should consider if Rodgers and Visoski met the ogood moral standingo expectation attached to their pilotsA licenses.

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