I don't know how legal system works in US, but you are right that few people will resign and restart their lives, no hard punishments despite their names are present in emails and Govt massively trying to hide lots of information, if we are living in a just world and govt gives a crap about those kids the names would've been shown to the world and FBI would be on their doors busting in with guns.
We are reminded yet again that powerful, and some countries and govt can get away with anything and everything, whether its lies over WMD's of Iraq, lies about babies killed in incubators, or Genocide and Ethnic cleansing, murdering journalists and AID workers etc, you just have to be rich and know the right people.
what a shameful display of integrity shown over this whole Epstein files, and I know if I say Govt is protecting them there will be some Geniuses here say, If you hate America why don't you go back blah blah blah.
US Legal system is a tough place to navigate. Most of the time result aren't going to show because there are a bunch of supposed leniency and political pressure applied.
If you want to discuss what it takes for the government, any government to take action on those name, I could go into more detail, but I will just briefly say it here, to have any one of the name investigate (not prosecuting), Trump's DOJ would need to reopen the case and re-investigate all the connection based on the material they had, and then restart their prosecution strategy. But that is what Trump DOJ said, by the mouth of Kash and Pam, that they are not going to do that.
That is because it's not going to be enough to indict these people, you need it to stick, which mean you need to know the ins and outs of everything, if all you want is to indict people, they could have done it now, Bill Gate, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, hell, even Musk and Trump himself can be already indicted with the material alone, but if you need to secure a conviction, those things in this file is not going to be enough, in fact, with Epstien dead, unless you have Maxwell collaborate or they somehow found another angle to confirm those information, this is a no go to begin with.
As I said, it would have been lucky for any victim to claim some sort of civil damage on what we know from the file. There may be more or this would be it, but we know at least one win from Virginia Guiffre already (Well, Andrew Settled, but I will still say that's a win), so I think there are going to be a few other civil action to come, that may not even dent the wallet of those people, but at least at this point, this is the best justice looks like.
