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Available reporting and advocacy tallies indicate thousands of people have been reported “missing” from ICE/DHS public records since early 2025: a crowd‑sourced tracker claims 5,784 disappeared beginn...
’s sex‑trafficking saga spans decades: early accusations and a controversial 2007 non‑prosecution plea deal, a federal arrest in July 2019 on new sex‑trafficking charges, his death in custody in Augus...
Multiple reputable outlets reported that hundreds—not —of people who were held at the nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” could not be located in ICE’s public detainee locator after the facility was emptie...
The reporting does not support the claim that located "" of the people who disappeared after passing through ; instead, independent investigations found roughly 800 detainees no longer appeared in ICE...
The widely circulated claim that former Venezuelan intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal "released" a list naming U.S. senators who received kickbacks from the Maduro regime is unsupported by available rep...
Reporting and public records show multiple instances in 2025 where U.S. government removal operations produced cases that courts and advocates have called “wrongful deportations,” including at least f...
The preponderance of reporting across the supplied sources indicates that the . Recent investigative reporting and official accounts also document a parallel into Central America (notably Belize), and...
Federal court records tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s prosecutions have been both sealed and unsealed at different times: many civil-case materials were sealed during litigation and later unsealed in stages...
Federal records and reporting show , with a July 2025 Justice Department and FBI memo reporting over two decades, mostly minors, while survivors’ lawyers and reporting describe hundreds more who have ...
Reports from September 2025 indicate that a large share of men held at the Florida detention site nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" could not be located in federal tracking systems, with journalism and a...
Multiple actors have controlled access to portions of the “Epstein files” at different times: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and the Department of Justice withheld and later produced large batches of docume...
Venezuelan-linked traffickers use maritime corridors from Venezuela’s Caribbean coast — including Sucre, Falcón and Margarita Island — to send cocaine to the Eastern Caribbean (islands such as Martini...
President Biden did not have a blanket legal bar preventing release of Epstein/Maxwell materials during his administration; reporting and legal filings show the files were subject to ongoing investiga...
Flight manifests released from Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft show Donald Trump listed as a passenger on multiple domestic trips in the 1990s (seven appearances between 1993–1997 are cited) but none of th...
Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 Florida plea deal resulted in guilty pleas to two state prostitution-related charges: solicitation/procurement of a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution, with...
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal sex‑trafficking charges in early July 2019 and was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019; the Southern District of New York announced the 201...
Reporting from multiple outlets finds that hundreds — by some counts about two‑thirds of roughly 1,800 men held in July — who passed through the Florida site nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” could not b...
Jeffrey Epstein was first charged in federal court in July 2019: prosecutors in Manhattan announced an indictment charging him with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy t...
The reporting establishes that of people detained at Florida’s so‑called “Alligator Alcatraz” were reported missing or unaccounted for in 2025, with a concentrated spike tied to the mass intake in Jul...
A clear single-number answer does not exist in the provided records because : a federal court ordered relief for 22 people unlawfully detained in Chicago, while investigative reporting on Florida’s “A...