Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Julie K. Brown Calls Out The USVI For Their Epstein Hypocrisy (Part 1)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Julie K. Brown has a monstrous article out today that
- 0:10Speaker 1: has to do with the U.S. Virgin Islands and their
- 0:13Speaker 1: BS with Jeffrey Epstein. My only question is, what the
- 0:17Speaker 1: hell took so long? We've known about this stuff for years.
- 0:20Speaker 1: This is stuff that we have been talking about for years.
- 0:24Speaker 1: So in this episode, let's continue that conversation. And to
- 0:27Speaker 1: do that, we're going to use this massive article that
- 0:30Speaker 1: Julie K. Brown just put out in the Miami Herald.
- 0:33Speaker 1: And considering the size of the article, we're going to
- 0:36Speaker 1: break this down into two parts. So let's just get busy. Headline, U.S.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Virgin Islands cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein. Now they're profiting
- 0:45Speaker 1: from his sex crimes. And the second that Denise George
- 0:48Speaker 1: announced this whole lawsuit, this is exactly what I told you.
- 0:52Speaker 1: That they were looking to secure a bag and they
- 0:55Speaker 1: have no business being involved in the conversation when it
- 0:58Speaker 1: comes to restitution, especially considering what happened on this island
- 1:02Speaker 1: under all of their watch. But we should just forget
- 1:05Speaker 1: about that. And everybody should just be on board with
- 1:08Speaker 1: them getting all this money. Well, vafangul to that, I'm
- 1:12Speaker 1: not on board with it at all. And the government
- 1:14Speaker 1: of the U.S. Virgin Islands has about as much right
- 1:17Speaker 1: to that money as you or I do. This article
- 1:21Speaker 1: was authored by Julie K. Brown. For two decades, the U.S.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Virgin Islands' most prominent government and elected officials, as well
- 1:31Speaker 1: as their pet charities, educational institutions, and causes, were paid
- 1:36Speaker 1: millions of dollars by Jeffrey Epstein in the form of salaries,
- 1:40Speaker 1: campaign contributions, and consultant fees. His most trusted employee was
- 1:45Speaker 1: the U.S. territory's First Lady. And again, for those of
- 1:49Speaker 1: us who have been following along, we know all of this.
- 1:52Speaker 1: But for the people who have just showed up to
- 1:54Speaker 1: the party, I hate to break the news to you,
- 1:57Speaker 1: but they were all in on it. That includes all
- 1:59Speaker 1: of your faves, by the way. The Stacey Plaskets, you know,
- 2:03Speaker 1: Miss Big Mouth, who was up there castigating other Americans
- 2:06Speaker 1: during those committees. Well, she was taking money from Epstein.
- 2:10Speaker 1: So what you're trying to tell me is that there
- 2:12Speaker 1: was nobody else that could have sat on that committee
- 2:14Speaker 1: but somebody who took all that money from Epstein and
- 2:16Speaker 1: was obviously eating out of his trough? And it wasn't
- 2:19Speaker 1: like it was private. It wasn't like it was some
- 2:22Speaker 1: big secret. We all knew what was going on. The
- 2:24Speaker 1: legacy media chose to omit that information from you. Now,
- 2:29Speaker 1: for whatever reason, maybe it behooves them or they feel
- 2:32Speaker 1: like it's not going to hurt them politically. So they're
- 2:35Speaker 1: out here talking about it now. But remember, none of
- 2:38Speaker 1: this is new. And the legacy media should have clued
- 2:41Speaker 1: you into all of this years ago. His most trusted
- 2:45Speaker 1: employee was the U.S. territory's first lady. At the same time,
- 2:50Speaker 1: USVI authorities paid little mind to the young women and
- 2:54Speaker 1: girls he shuttled through the St. Thomas Airport following his
- 2:58Speaker 1: 2008 Palm Beach conviction for soliciting a minor for sex.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Epstein's abuse of underage girls became so well publicized that
- 3:07Speaker 1: his hideaway, an oasis built on a bluff overlooking the Caribbean,
- 3:12Speaker 1: became known as Pedophile Island. For years, it was suspected
- 3:16Speaker 1: that Epstein's palatial compound on his private island was being
- 3:20Speaker 1: used as a place for wealthy and powerful people to
- 3:24Speaker 1: commit sex crimes. Let that sink in for a minute.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Everybody knew what was going on on that island. All
- 3:30Speaker 1: the local politicians, all of your favorite elected officials, they
- 3:34Speaker 1: all knew. Did any of them stop it? What about
- 3:37Speaker 1: Bill Richardson? How about George Mitchell? He step up and
- 3:40Speaker 1: stop it at all? No? What about Bill Clinton? No? Huh. Interesting.
- 3:44Speaker 1: And you know what's absolutely disgusting? All the people that
- 3:48Speaker 1: are out here still fawning over Bill Clinton. Everybody knows
- 3:52Speaker 1: about his paddling around with Epstein. Everybody knows that he
- 3:54Speaker 1: had Epstein over at the White House 17 times. But
- 3:58Speaker 1: the legacy media refuses to dive deeper. They refuse to
- 4:01Speaker 1: expose Bill Clinton and show the world the true depths
- 4:05Speaker 1: of his relationship with Epstein. And the reason they won't
- 4:08Speaker 1: do that? Well, they feel like it'll give political ground
- 4:12Speaker 1: to the other side. God forbid one of our faves
- 4:15Speaker 1: is accused. Just ask Nancy Pelosi's daughter. But I guess
- 4:19Speaker 1: it's too much to ask for a little bit of
- 4:20Speaker 1: accountability from people like Bill Clinton. At the very least,
- 4:24Speaker 1: how about a real statement about what went down? Not
- 4:27Speaker 1: that bullshit ass statement you put out in 2019 through
- 4:30Speaker 1: your little buddy there, your communications director, who obviously lied
- 4:34Speaker 1: to everybody. Oh, how do you know that? Well, his
- 4:37Speaker 1: bullshit ass lies were exposed at the Glenn Maxwell trial.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Will he ever be held accountable? Or is accountability only
- 4:44Speaker 1: necessary for your political enemies? Now the same USVI government
- 4:49Speaker 1: has turned a blind eye to Epstein's crimes, is filing
- 4:52Speaker 1: lawsuits and reaping tens of millions of dollars from companies
- 4:56Speaker 1: and individuals it claims enabled the serial sex trafficker. Epstein,
- 5:01Speaker 1: a New York financier pedophile whose friends included leaders in
- 5:05Speaker 1: the world of finance, government, and science, died in a
- 5:09Speaker 1: New York prison cell in August 2019 after while awaiting
- 5:13Speaker 1: trial on federal charges. His death was ruled a suicide
- 5:16Speaker 1: by hanging. In the years since Epstein's death, a litany
- 5:20Speaker 1: of federal lawsuits have been filed, targeting individuals, banks, and
- 5:25Speaker 1: business executives in Epstein's circle who have been accused of
- 5:29Speaker 1: facilitating or being complicit in his sex trafficking operation. At
- 5:34Speaker 1: least 200 survivors have said he and his associates sexually
- 5:38Speaker 1: abused them as girls or young women over two decades.
- 5:42Speaker 1: And unfortunately, we know that that number is much higher
- 5:45Speaker 1: than just 200. We're talking about literally in the thousands.
- 5:50Speaker 1: This guy was active for what? Four decades? And according
- 5:54Speaker 1: to his own words and the words of his associates,
- 5:57Speaker 1: he had three girls coming over a day. So you
- 5:59Speaker 1: do the math. As a result, about $ 500 million in
- 6:04Speaker 1: legal settlements have been paid to Epstein's survivors, most of
- 6:08Speaker 1: that from Epstein's estate, and from J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank,
- 6:12Speaker 1: the two financial institutions where he conducted millions of dollars
- 6:16Speaker 1: in financial transactions that should have raised red flags, red
- 6:21Speaker 1: flags that were all ignored, and not just by J.P. Morgan,
- 6:25Speaker 1: but by FinCEN, by the U.S. Virgin Islands, by everybody involved.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Yet no single entity potentially stands to collect more money
- 6:34Speaker 1: in the fallout from Epstein's crimes than the government of
- 6:38Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now, how is that acceptable to
- 6:41Speaker 1: anybody out there? And this is what I've been talking
- 6:43Speaker 1: about since the very beginning of this lawsuit. The fact
- 6:47Speaker 1: that the U.S. Virgin Islands would attempt to set themselves
- 6:50Speaker 1: up as some kind of victim here is some of
- 6:52Speaker 1: the most bananas bullshit I have ever heard in my life.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Every dollar of that estate should have been paid out
- 6:58Speaker 1: in compensation to the women who were molested. I know,
- 7:02Speaker 1: a novel idea, right? Thus far, the USVI has collected
- 7:06Speaker 1: just shy of $ 200 million in Epstein-related settlements, most of
- 7:11Speaker 1: it the result of a civil racketeering lawsuit its former
- 7:15Speaker 1: attorney general filed against his estate. Now it's seeking another
- 7:19Speaker 1: $ 190 million in an epic lawsuit filed against J.P. Morgan.
- 7:24Speaker 1: The USVI and JP Morgan both claim the other ignored
- 7:28Speaker 1: evidence of and even profited from Epstein's sex trafficking. But
- 7:33Speaker 1: while much of the spotlight has been on the financial
- 7:36Speaker 1: institutions that continue to do business with them, very little
- 7:40Speaker 1: attention has been given to the role that the government
- 7:43Speaker 1: of the USVI, a territory of the United States that
- 7:47Speaker 1: has far-reaching law enforcement powers, played in helping one of
- 7:51Speaker 1: the most notorious sex traffickers, in U.S. history. I mean,
- 7:55Speaker 1: she says very little attention has been paid to it,
- 7:58Speaker 1: and she's not wrong. I'm one of the only people
- 8:01Speaker 1: that's been howling about this shit from the jump, and
- 8:04Speaker 1: like usual, the rest of the legacy media and all
- 8:07Speaker 1: the pretenders are playing catch-up. But for those of you
- 8:10Speaker 1: who have been following the podcast and who have been
- 8:12Speaker 1: listening for years, you know all of this, and you
- 8:15Speaker 1: already know about this audacious plot by the U.S. Virgin
- 8:19Speaker 1: Islands to pilfer all of this money. The USVI governor,
- 8:23Speaker 1: Albert Bryan Jr., declined to comment on JP Morgan's allegations,
- 8:27Speaker 1: but a spokeswoman for the territory's Department of Justice said
- 8:31Speaker 1: that JP Morgan is the only party to this lawsuit
- 8:34Speaker 1: that had intricate knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal operation. That's
- 8:39Speaker 1: such BS. Sorry, I don't buy it. If I was
- 8:42Speaker 1: a survivor, I'd be suing the US Virgin Islands. As
- 8:46Speaker 1: sure as I'm going to be rooting for my miserable
- 8:49Speaker 1: New York Jets tomorrow, I would be suing the Virgin Islands.
- 8:52Speaker 1: The USVI Department of Justice spokeswoman, Venetia Velasquez, added, We
- 8:58Speaker 1: see the lengths JPMorgan has gone to in order to
- 9:00Speaker 1: dodge accountability and distract the public from the critical fact.
- 9:05Speaker 1: It is extremely unfortunate that while JPMorgan continues to display
- 9:09Speaker 1: considerable vigilance in attempting to shape its self-serving narrative and
- 9:13Speaker 1: rebuild its reputation in the press, It showed no similar
- 9:17Speaker 1: concern for protecting the lives of the young women and
- 9:20Speaker 1: girls who were preyed upon. Well, neither did you. You
- 9:24Speaker 1: were the one with subpoena power. You could have arrested people.
- 9:27Speaker 1: You could have raided his property. What did you do?
- 9:30Speaker 1: You took his money. That's what you did. So try
- 9:32Speaker 1: and gaslight somebody else. Said J.P. Morgan in a statement.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Rather than account for its own failure to investigate and
- 9:41Speaker 1: monitor this criminal under its jurisdiction and to protect its
- 9:44Speaker 1: citizens and sovereign interests, USVI blames the third party bank
- 9:49Speaker 1: that did not have USVI's authority to enforce any law. Look,
- 9:53Speaker 1: as much as I hate JP Morgan and the financial sector,
- 9:58Speaker 1: they're not wrong. As scummy as they are, I expect
- 10:02Speaker 1: it from them. I expect better from the USVI and
- 10:05Speaker 1: their politicians. And it's my belief that if you're a
- 10:08Speaker 1: public servant, you need to be held to the highest
- 10:11Speaker 1: levels of integrity. And from my vantage point over here
- 10:15Speaker 1: in the peanut gallery, it doesn't seem like there's very
- 10:18Speaker 1: much integrity in taking money from a convicted sex offender.
- 10:22Speaker 1: or trying to change your sex offender laws to better
- 10:26Speaker 1: suit that sex offender, because he's giving you a bunch
- 10:29Speaker 1: of dough. And no matter how you chop it, that's
- 10:31Speaker 1: what was happening down in the USVI. They were all
- 10:35Speaker 1: getting a bag, and because they were getting that bag,
- 10:38Speaker 1: they were willing to get into bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 10:40Speaker 1: And we see the results, okay? We see them. We
- 10:42Speaker 1: see the lives that were ruined. But somehow the US
- 10:45Speaker 1: Virgin Islands is getting $ 200 million? In the words of
- 10:49Speaker 1: the venerable Junior Soprano, Go and shit in your hat.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Say goodbye. In recent months, discovery from the federal civil
- 10:56Speaker 1: lawsuit provides the strongest evidence to date of Epstein's influence
- 11:00Speaker 1: in the USVI and his cozy relationship with three of
- 11:04Speaker 1: the territory's governors, its former first lady, attorney generals, senators,
- 11:09Speaker 1: leaders of its Economic Development Commission, the Virgin Islands Police,
- 11:14Speaker 1: federal marshals, the Port Authority, and the territory's representative to Congress. Yeah,
- 11:20Speaker 1: we're talking about you, Stacey Plaskett. Epstein gave free turkeys
- 11:24Speaker 1: to 78 federal customs agents at the St. Thomas Airport
- 11:28Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. Yeah, so did El Chapo. So did Nino
- 11:31Speaker 1: Brown in the movie New Jack City. So did Tony Soprano.
- 11:36Speaker 1: You see where I'm going with all of this? It's
- 11:38Speaker 1: called trying to win the hearts and minds when you're
- 11:40Speaker 1: out here committing crime. And that's exactly what Epstein was
- 11:43Speaker 1: doing on this island. At least since 2005, the FBI
- 11:48Speaker 1: suspected that Epstein was trafficking girls and women to and
- 11:51Speaker 1: from several of his residences, including his waterfront home in
- 11:56Speaker 1: Palm Beach and his sprawling USVI estate. The island, surrounded
- 12:01Speaker 1: by treacherous sea urchins, accessible only by helicopter or boat,
- 12:06Speaker 1: provided a perfect cover for the sexual abuse that victims
- 12:09Speaker 1: have long alleged happened there. And you know, it's so crazy.
- 12:13Speaker 1: They talk about, oh, the evidence is now becoming available.
- 12:16Speaker 1: The evidence has always been there. People have refused to
- 12:20Speaker 1: look at it. People have refused to really process this information,
- 12:24Speaker 1: this evidence, because the sorry ass legacy media has covered
- 12:29Speaker 1: for these people from the very beginning. And honestly, I
- 12:32Speaker 1: was blown away to see this article from Julie K. Brown.
- 12:36Speaker 1: I mean, I guess better late than never, right? In 2020,
- 12:39Speaker 1: Denise George, the USVI's then Attorney General, finally acknowledged what
- 12:46Speaker 1: had been rumored for two decades. that Epstein's island was
- 12:49Speaker 1: a nexus for his sex trafficking operation. George filed a
- 12:54Speaker 1: racketeering lawsuit against Epstein's estate, alleging that he would transport
- 12:58Speaker 1: girls there as young as 11 and 12, keeping a
- 13:02Speaker 1: computerized database to track the girls' whereabouts. Several survivors have
- 13:07Speaker 1: also said Epstein's assistants would seize their passports. We've heard
- 13:11Speaker 1: that from many, many different girls. We've also heard about
- 13:15Speaker 1: girls who have said that they were so distraught that
- 13:18Speaker 1: they were thinking about swimming from the island back to
- 13:21Speaker 1: the United States. Imagine what you must be going through, trauma-wise,
- 13:26Speaker 1: to even have that pop up as a thought in
- 13:28Speaker 1: your head. But it's all good because, you know, he
- 13:30Speaker 1: handed out some turkeys and shit. The USVI government, in
- 13:35Speaker 1: addition to the Department of the Homeland Security's U.S. Customs
- 13:39Speaker 1: and Border Patrol... was responsible for monitoring Epstein's movements in
- 13:43Speaker 1: the territory after his release from the Palm Beach County
- 13:46Speaker 1: Jail in 2009. As part of a plea deal, Epstein
- 13:50Speaker 1: served just 18 months in the county jail for procuring
- 13:54Speaker 1: a minor for prostitution and felony solicitation and was required
- 13:59Speaker 1: to register as a convicted sex offender. And do you
- 14:03Speaker 1: need more evidence that Epstein was being protected by the government?
- 14:06Speaker 1: Because I'll give you some right here. After he was
- 14:09Speaker 1: convicted as a sex offender, the New York prosecutor's office,
- 14:13Speaker 1: the Manhattan prosecutor's office, audaciously argued in court that Jeffrey
- 14:18Speaker 1: Epstein should have only been a level one offender. Can
- 14:21Speaker 1: you imagine? The government of New York, the prosecutor's office
- 14:25Speaker 1: of New York making that argument. I mean, it shouldn't
- 14:28Speaker 1: shock us really considering Cy Vance, who used to run
- 14:31Speaker 1: that office, was an absolute tool. Preet Baraha, absolute tool.
- 14:35Speaker 1: And all of them had a chance to take down
- 14:37Speaker 1: Epstein and none of them did it. But to have
- 14:39Speaker 1: the audacity to get up there and say that Jeffrey
- 14:42Speaker 1: Epstein is not a level three offender is just beyond absurd.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Epstein changed his primary residence to Little St. James, his
- 14:51Speaker 1: 72-acre private resort that included a helipad, private dock, gas station,
- 14:57Speaker 1: high-capacity water filtration, two swimming pools, four guest villas, three
- 15:01Speaker 1: private beaches, a gym, and other buildings. This placed him
- 15:06Speaker 1: under the territory's law enforcement jurisdiction and supervision. It's unclear
- 15:11Speaker 1: how often he was required to register in person over
- 15:15Speaker 1: the years, but USVI officials who gave statements for the
- 15:19Speaker 1: JP Morgan lawsuit could find records of only five visits
- 15:23Speaker 1: by the U.S. Marshals and the territory's officials between 2010
- 15:27Speaker 1: and 2019, even though they also acknowledged that they should
- 15:33Speaker 1: have been subjected to weekly checks by the Virgin Islands
- 15:36Speaker 1: police and the federal marshals. Well, why would the police come?
- 15:40Speaker 1: They got themselves some turkeys. How about the computers that
- 15:43Speaker 1: he bought for the police and the U.S. Virgin Islands?
- 15:46Speaker 1: Who's suing all of these people who's trying to get
- 15:48Speaker 1: all this money? Well, they were the ones that were
- 15:51Speaker 1: enabling Jeffrey Epstein. They were the ones that were looking
- 15:54Speaker 1: the other way, and they were the ones that were profiting.
- 15:58Speaker 1: And up until now, I feel like I've been the
- 16:00Speaker 1: only one beating that drum. So it's nice to see
- 16:02Speaker 1: Julie K. Brown come out swinging here. This is a
- 16:05Speaker 1: very important part of what happened in the nexus of
- 16:08Speaker 1: this story. And if we want to hold people accountable,
- 16:11Speaker 1: we should start looking down in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- 16:14Speaker 1: But somehow it's been flipped around and now the U.S.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Virgin Islands has been elevated to victimhood status. It is
- 16:21Speaker 1: all straight up absurd. USVI officials also admit they took
- 16:25Speaker 1: no steps to ensure that Epstein wasn't continuing to harm
- 16:28Speaker 1: minors at a time when authorities in New York, where
- 16:32Speaker 1: he owned what was reputed to be Manhattan's largest private residence,
- 16:36Speaker 1: had classified him as a tier three sex offender, one
- 16:40Speaker 1: that is at high risk of continuing to prey on
- 16:43Speaker 1: young women and girls. That's because the court forced them
- 16:46Speaker 1: to do it. It wasn't because Cy Vance or Preet
- 16:49Speaker 1: Bharaha or any of the other clowns in the office
- 16:52Speaker 1: wanted to do it. Their hand was forced. JP Morgan
- 16:56Speaker 1: has filed hundreds of court exhibits, emails, and depositions in
- 17:00Speaker 1: an effort to prove that there was a decade-long quid
- 17:03Speaker 1: pro quo between Epstein and the USVI government. Epstein was rewarded,
- 17:08Speaker 1: according to J.P. Morgan, for his largesse with $ 300 million
- 17:12Speaker 1: in tax breaks that USVI authorities extended year after year.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Even though audits showed he often fell short on the
- 17:21Speaker 1: program's regulatory requirements. That's because people were profiting personally. Do
- 17:28Speaker 1: you really think that anybody out here who we talk
- 17:31Speaker 1: about is going to put people over profits? They are not.
- 17:35Speaker 1: It's all about getting that bag. It's all about consolidating power.
- 17:39Speaker 1: And if that means girls are getting traffic and these
- 17:41Speaker 1: smarmy fuckbags are going to look the other way, well,
- 17:44Speaker 1: that's what's going to happen. J.P. Morgan's lawyer is described
- 17:48Speaker 1: as office manager, former USVI First Lady Cecile de Jong
- 17:53Speaker 1: as Epstein's primary conduit, assisting him in obtaining special benefits,
- 17:58Speaker 1: including visas, to bring young girls from other countries to
- 18:01Speaker 1: the island. And folks, they weren't bringing them there to
- 18:05Speaker 1: check out the island and have a nice swim, okay?
- 18:08Speaker 1: We all know what they were being brought there for,
- 18:10Speaker 1: and we all know that Cecile de Jong and the
- 18:12Speaker 1: rest of them knew what was up. Since at least 2000,
- 18:16Speaker 1: including during the time her husband, John de Jong, was governor,
- 18:20Speaker 1: Cecile de Jong worked for Epstein. Earning a $ 200, 000 annual salary,
- 18:25Speaker 1: plus other perks, including private school and college, tuition, for
- 18:30Speaker 1: the couple's children. Must be nice, huh? And do you think,
- 18:33Speaker 1: with everything we know about Jeffrey Epstein, he was doing
- 18:36Speaker 1: that out of the kindness of his heart? Or was
- 18:38Speaker 1: he expecting a little something-something on the flip side? We
- 18:42Speaker 1: all know the answer to that. John DeJong declined to
- 18:45Speaker 1: comment for this story. The Miami Herald was unsuccessful in
- 18:49Speaker 1: reaching his wife. They have not spoken publicly about the
- 18:53Speaker 1: allegations contained in the lawsuit or about their relationship with Epstein. Well,
- 18:58Speaker 1: why would they? They're never going to be held accountable.
- 19:02Speaker 1: They're never going to be held responsible for being bribed, basically,
- 19:06Speaker 1: by Epstein to turn the other cheek and let these
- 19:09Speaker 1: girls get molested on this island. But in a May
- 19:12Speaker 1: court deposition, Cecile Dijon testified she had no reason to
- 19:16Speaker 1: suspect that Epstein was doing anything other than being helpful
- 19:20Speaker 1: to young women. Well, besides his previous sex offender prosecution,
- 19:26Speaker 1: that might, you know, clue you in, Cecile Dijon, that
- 19:28Speaker 1: he's an absolute piece of shit, that he's out here
- 19:31Speaker 1: hurting women. But nah, he's a mentor. He's just out
- 19:34Speaker 1: here mentoring young women. They truly think that you're all stupid.
- 19:38Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. They think that everybody
- 19:40Speaker 1: out there is dumb as fuck and they're all going
- 19:42Speaker 1: to buy the bullshit that they're serving. Well, breaking news,
- 19:47Speaker 1: I'm guessing that nobody listening to this podcast is buying
- 19:50Speaker 1: your bullshit. This is a person who had one offense,
- 19:55Speaker 1: had to register as a sex offender, didn't see him
- 19:57Speaker 1: with anybody underage or anything, and I'm thinking he is
- 20:01Speaker 1: just trying to be helpful to people, she said during
- 20:03Speaker 1: the deposition. Talk about straight up brazen lying under oath.
- 20:08Speaker 1: because that's what she's doing right here. She's lying under oath. Now,
- 20:13Speaker 1: are you going to ever be able to nail her
- 20:14Speaker 1: for contempt? Probably not. But there's no doubt she knew
- 20:18Speaker 1: exactly what Epstein was. She knew what he was up to,
- 20:21Speaker 1: and she was helping to try to manipulate the sex
- 20:24Speaker 1: offender laws in his favor. So her old BS, nonsensical,
- 20:29Speaker 1: bulljunk deposition should be thrown out. She also said she
- 20:33Speaker 1: confronted Epstein about the 2008 sentence for soliciting a minor
- 20:37Speaker 1: for prostitution in Florida. I basically asked him what was
- 20:41Speaker 1: going on. What the hell was going on? And he said, I,
- 20:45Speaker 1: it was an error in judgment. And I said, so
- 20:48Speaker 1: that's it? You approach somebody who you thought was older?
- 20:51Speaker 1: And he said, yes. And you just accepted that? You
- 20:54Speaker 1: were just like, all right, well, I asked him. I
- 20:56Speaker 1: did my due diligence, so it's all good. Let's hook
- 20:59Speaker 1: him up with all kinds of contracts. He should get
- 21:01Speaker 1: all kinds of tax breaks now because, you know, he
- 21:04Speaker 1: made a mistake. She recalled that he assured her it
- 21:08Speaker 1: would never happen again. I learned my lesson, she said
- 21:12Speaker 1: he told her. The First Lady's role, however, went far
- 21:15Speaker 1: deeper than being an office manager, according to the lawsuit.
- 21:20Speaker 1: She told him who to hire and who to fire.
- 21:22Speaker 1: She helped him navigate the island's political landscape. She told
- 21:26Speaker 1: Epstein where to spend his money. And according to the lawsuit,
- 21:29Speaker 1: she helped him get visas to freely transport women to
- 21:32Speaker 1: the island. All right, folks, we're going to wrap up
- 21:35Speaker 1: episode one right there, and we're going to pick up
- 21:38Speaker 1: in the next episode with the second part. If you'd
- 21:41Speaker 1: like to contact me, you can do that at bobbycapucci
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