ICE Deputy Director on Jeffrey Epstein & criminals flocking together

By Kary Love

      Back in the old days parents taught their kids “birds of a feather flock together.” I thought this lesson was lost in America today, but one ICE official got it. Speaking on Fox News on July 14, 2025, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan said the agency was expanding its dragnet for arrests, because, “I think we all know that criminals tend to hang out with criminals,”. “And so when we start to build a case, we’re going to be going after everyone that’s around them. Because these criminals tend to hang out with like-minded people who also happen to be criminals.” Yep we all know it. Mom knew it and she warned you.

Criminals tend to hang with “like minded” criminals according to ICE. Mom taught us “birds of a feather flock together,” so stay away from the “bad kids,” because “everyone knows the bad kids gang up to do bad things.” Now I do not know all the piggies who ate their bacon with Epswine (Jeff, is it OK if I call you ‘Epswine’), but I do know that Mom would say any who partied with Epswine lean swinish. ICE agrees. Might one suggest pedophiles prefer to hang with others so inclined? The Beatles told us piggies will be swine:

Have you seen the little piggies crawling in the dirt? 

And for all the little piggies, life is getting worse 

Always having dirt to play around in

Have you seen the bigger piggies in their starched white shirts? 

You will find the bigger piggies stirring up the dirt 

Always have clean shirts to play around in\

In their sties with all their backing 

They don’t care what goes on around 

In their eyes, there’s something lacking 

What they need’s a damn good whacking

Everywhere there’s lots of piggies living piggy lives 

You can see them out for dinner with their piggy wives 

Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon

The denials about Epstein Files  emanating from the  swamp defies common sense insights stretching from Mom to ICE. Reports indicate Trump first slept with Melania on Epswine’s “Lolita Express.” Bill Clinton was there on other occasions. Say what you will about Jeff Epswine, he was a criminal pedophile of the first order. The odor of swine swirling about him would have surely put off any but those swine inclined. Swine don’t flock but they wallow together in their “pigsty,” playing piggy games, protected by power, and depraved by nature.

I am not sure whether Epswine suicided in prison, but I have represented many a criminal who claimed he was sexually abused as a child, and when they got to prison they could hardly wait for the pedophiles to be in their cell block, to seek revenge. Society deemed them crooks upon conviction, but one cannot deny even crooks have their own sense of “justice.” “Death to pedos” was a core principle of the Convict Code.

The core fact of the “Epswine” matter: This is about the sexual abuse of children. Possibly hundreds or maybe thousands of them. Epswine’s sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell helped Epswine get victims. Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump (a former Democrat who spent part of 15 years enjoying life with Jeffrey Epstein who once called Trump “his best friend”), and Bill Clinton appear to be as debauched as Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. The swamp scum is a bipartisan “rainbow” coalition. The old adage “where there is smoke there is fire,” resonates too.

What we know about Jeffrey Epstein is he had virtually zero marketable skills, but he had an uncanny ability to influence powerful people, he was an academically unremarkable college dropout who somehow went from preying on students at an elite academy he wasn’t even qualified to teach to being a billionaire financier to the stars.

How did that happen? Maybe ICE knows. We also know that Jeffrey Epstein ran a vast underage sex trafficking ring procuring somewhere in the ballpark of 1,000 underage girls for a host of wealthy clients in Manhattan and Palm Beach between the years of 1994 and 2004 and possibly much earlier and much later than that. One suspects Epswine’s upward progress was aided and abetted by his criminal connections to power.

We know these things about Epswine because federal prosecutors have told us as much and the victims have told us the rest. Yet somehow, Epswine had to be caught twice because the first time he got busted in 2006, he was inexplicably awarded a plea deal by a South Florida attorney and future Trump staffer named Alexander Acosta who allowed Epstein to serve a 13-month sentence for a 13-year crime in a luxury wing of a county prison that he paid to have built himself. Once again, one catches a whiff–stench, actually–of favoritism. Unequal justice under the swine contaminates the air and contributes to the “odour de swine.”

What we know about Donald J. Trump is that this is a man who has been accused of a variety of sexual predations dating back to the 1970s by over two dozen women. Smoke, fire? The accusations include multiple acts of sexual assault and at least two claims of rape, one made by Trump’s first wife in her 1989 divorce deposition (which was only retracted years later when she found herself in a lucrative business engagement with her ex-husband, hmmmm) and on the other, Trump was found liable in a court of law.

Trump now denies these allegations, but he has also bragged about them. He was recorded on tape boasting pompously about walking in on changing teenage beauty pageant contestants and his boastful King-like ability to grab women by the pussy. Not quite Epswine conduct, but, well you decide. Or ask Mom. Or ICE.

Reports say Epstein introduced Trump to at least one of his confirmed victims. Trump admits Epstein “stole” a young woman from his “Mar-a-Lago” club, apparently a place Trump and Epstein enjoyed some good times together. Surely not a pigsty? Swine in my club? I’m shocked. I’m shocked. How could I know?

Maxwell is in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to entice and transport individuals under 17 with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity, as well as sex trafficking of individuals under the age of 17 and 18. Recently Maxwell got an “upgrade,” to a cushier prison, after granting an “interview” to a DOJ Attorney associate of Trump, and one is told to deny one’s common sense and conclude, “nothing rotten here,” on appeals from the “swamp.” Right. Ask Mom what she thinks. Ask ICE.

Big piggies, little piggies, as Mom told us “swine do swine things together.” As Lord Acton taught us: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, that is why all powerful people are evil.”

And that is why powerful people must be bound down in the chains of the Constitution and the rule of law. And if caught, throw the book at them. Ordinary crooks do not swear to uphold the law, but those who do and violate it ought receive the harshest punishment as dirty, damnable double-crossers.

If they get a “cushy deal,” then the fix is probably in, you know it, your Mom knew it, and ICE knows it. One suspects all the alphabet agencies responsible to enforce the law know it.

Give the people the Epswine Files! All of them. And then the people will decide. I think they need, deserve and must get a “damn good whacking,” every single swine of them. Mom agrees, so does ICE.

Kary Love, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Michigan attorney who has defended nuclear resisters and many others in court for decades.