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UK Filing Details Claims Against Tate Brothers

Does this case demand a court reckoning or is a secretive prosecution no basis for extradition?

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UK Filing Details Claims Against Tate Brothers

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Above: Tate brothers' attorneys speak after extradition hearing in Miami, Florida, on Aug. 27. Image credit: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

A years-long pattern of allegedly luring vulnerable women to Romania with promises of romance and webcam work, then using threats, violence and passport confiscation to maintain control, amounts to serious trafficking if proven. Allegations involving a 17-year-old and dozens of indecent images make the failure to prosecute in 2015 look increasingly consequential. The Tate brothers should be extradited to face those claims in a U.K. court.

United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Establishment-critical narrative

A government that spends millions digging through every corner of a man's life, then fights to seal the resulting file, is not acting like a side confident in its proof. Demanding that the full record be opened to the public and the press is the opposite of what someone hiding guilt does. Secret accusers and sealed evidence are no basis for shipping a citizen overseas.

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