On the Daily Beat, Conchita Sarnoff reports that the Justice Department is investigating the billionaire Harvard donor for child trafficking.

Sarnoff, who continues to break new ground on a story that many Harvardians wish would simply disappear, reports that:

• Federal investigators continue to investigate Epstein’s activities, to see whether there is evidence of child trafficking—a far more serious charge than the two in his non-prosecution agreement, the arrangement between Epstein and the Department of Justice allowing him to plead guilty to lower-level state crimes. Trafficking can carry a 20-year sentence.

• The FBI is also investigating Epstein’s friend Jean Luc Brunel, whose MC2 modeling agency appears to have been a source of girls from overseas who ended up on Epstein’s private jets.

The question for friends and associates of Epstein is, What did they see on those private jets?