{"id":19078,"date":"2020-07-05T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19078"},"modified":"2020-07-05T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T11:49:16","slug":"oh-really-a-statue-of-jeffrey-epstein-happens-to-appear-in-albuquerque-the-day-before-ghislaine-maxwells-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19078","title":{"rendered":"Oh, really, a statue of Jeffrey Epstein happens to appear in Albuquerque the day before Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffrey Epstein \u2018statue\u2019 appears in downtown Albuquerque, baffles officials<\/h1>\n

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This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)<\/p><\/div>\n

By: Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014\u00a0<\/b>Officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were scratching their heads early Wednesday after several residents spotted a “statue” of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein downtown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to\u00a0KOAT<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0KRQE<\/a>, officials discovered that the figure, which briefly stood outside Albuquerque’s old City Hall building before workers removed it, was a mannequin painted to resemble a statue. It included a plaque describing the disgraced financier, who was found dead of an apparent suicide last August in a New York prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Jeffrey (Jan. 20, 1953\u2013Aug. 10, 2019) was an American financier, who started as a teacher and worked his way up from a low-level assistant to being one of the top financial advisers in the USA,” the plaque read,\u00a0according to KOAT<\/a>. “He had a home in New Mexico, Zorro Ranch. He was also a rapist who died in prison.”<\/p>\n

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