…ought to be livid about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Harvard-donating billionaire finished a year of house arrest yesterday, and he’s a free man—which only goes to show you that, when it comes to having your way with the law, money is even more powerful than celebrity.

According to Conchita Sarnoff on the Daily Beast,

• Victims alleged that Epstein molested underage girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, including three 12-year-old girls brought over from France as a birthday gift.

• The victims also alleged trips out of state and abroad on Epstein’s private jets, which would be evidence of sex trafficking—a much more serious federal crime than the state charges Epstein was convicted of.

The Palm Beach police department located 17 reportedly underage girls who allegedly had sexual contact with Epstein after he had them brought to his house to give “massages.”

The FBI put that number, including girls at other locations, at around 40.

For Epstein’s birthday one year, according to allegations in a civil suit, he was presented with three 12-year-old girls from France, who were molested then flown back to Europe the next day. These same civil complaints allege that young girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, few of whom spoke English, were recruited for Esptein’s sexual pleasure. According to a former bookkeeper, a number of the girls worked for MC2, the modeling agency owned by Jean Luc Brunel, a longtime acquaintance and frequent guest of Epstein’s. Brunel received $1 million from the billionaire around the time he started the agency.

One reason these matters never went to criminal trial? Because the victims were intimidated by Epstein’s high-priced legal team, including Allan Dershowitz.

When the Palm Beach police started to identify victims, according to Detective Joe Recarey’s report, Dershowitz began sending the detective Facebook and MySpace posts to demonstrate that some of these girls were no angels. Reiter’s deposition also states that he heard from local private investigators that Dershowitz had launched background checks on both the police chief and Det. Recarey.

Dershowitz has denied those allegations, and some of the victims may have had credibility issues—there could have been a Crucible-esque situation going on.

Still, Sarnoff’s piece, which is based on real reporting, raises disturbing questions about American justice.