This Week In Blunders – Aug. 16-22
“When justice sleeps, justice is canceled.” – Babylonian Talmud
The pervert who ran Abercrombie & Fitch from 1992 to 2014 has finally been ordered to stand trial for alleged sex trafficking offenses that began 18 years ago.
Michael Jeffries is 82 years old. He’s been diagnosed with dementia and a brain injury. A judge ruled he was incompetent to stand trial and committed him to the Federal Medical Center at Butner, N.C. for further evaluation.
So guess what he had to say in recorded prison conversations?
“You better find me incompetent,” he reportedly told one of his prison mental-health examiners.
And on a recorded phone call, he warned his romantic partner and co-defendant Matthew Smith, “we’re screwed” and “we’re in big trouble” if he is deemed fit to stand trial.
Jeffries also complained about his confinement, adding, “That’s why we got to pull this off.”
Defense attorneys argued it was just his filter falling off because of his impairment. On Thursday, a judge nevertheless set a trial date of Oct. 26.
Prosecutors charged Jeffries in October 2024 in sex trafficking and international prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty as has Smith.
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I’ve avoided getting into the the sordid details contained in the indictment against Jeffries, Smith and a third man, James Jacobson, a.k.a. “Mrs. Cook.” But let’s just say Jeffries used the same MO as Jeffrey Epstein, only with young men: So You want to be a model? Come to my sex party in the Hamptons.
