Financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein bought a second Caribbean island for $18 million in 2016 and work building on it continues even while he is imprisoned amid charges of sex trafficking, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
The U.S. Virgin Islands plot, the Great St. James, neighbors the Little St. James he purchased in 1998 for $7.95 million.
Epstein bought it from two parties and, despite being approved to just erect a flag pole, has begun building roads, a home, and a pool, according to the report.
The unapproved work, which continues while he is imprisoned on sex trafficking charges in New York, drew a $70,000 fine and another one for between $140,000 and $180,000, per the Mail.
Epstein had been issued cease and desist orders to stop building in December and the continuation of work might put him on the hook for almost $2.15 million in fines and penalties, according to the report.
Epstein is imprisoned at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan awaiting trial and had been denied bail because he is a considerable flight risk.
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