Attorneys representing registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Tuesday that an expired passport federal investigators found in a safe in the well-connected financier’s Manhattan home was necessary for his "personal protection." During a two-hour bail hearing on Monday, prosecutors used the passport to bolster their argument that Epstein was a flight risk. In response, Epstein's attorneys said the passport was Austrian and expired 32 years ago. On Tuesday U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a filing that “the Government has learned that the safe contained more than $70,000 in cash. In addition to the disclosure of what was in the safe, prosecutors said their case is getting "stronger by the day" after several more women contacted them in recent days to say he abused them when they were underage.

Source: Fox News July 17, 2019 01:34 UTC