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Millions of Documents, Zero Urgency: The DOJ’s Epstein Excuse Tour · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. According to new reports, the SDNY is absolutely
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buried under Epstein files, and because they're so buried, it's
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causing all kinds of strife with other cases, including a
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few of the bigger cases that are making their way
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through the SDNY right now as we speak. And one
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of the judges has even went so far as to
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say that the SDNY should pull a few prosecutors from
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the Epstein files and put them to work on her case. Now,
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my opinion on that is no, thank you. Hire more prosecutors,
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bring some in from other districts. We've been waiting for
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decades for transparency. You're not going to back burner this topic,
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not again, not now, not with everybody so interested. The
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DOJ has a gigantic payroll. There's no way that I
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believe that they don't have enough people to sanitize these
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document as well as handle the rest of their duties.
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I'm sorry, I don't buy it. Bring more people in,
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pay people more money, be done with it. You've had
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these files for how long, so don't tell me nobody's
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ever went through them. And if that's the case, and
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nobody's ever went through them. How could you sit there
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and tell us that no investigations necessary or warranted? How
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could you tell us that everything's closed and we're just
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going to move on, Because both things can't be true.
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You can't say that you need to keep going through
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all these documents if you've already done so, right, who's
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going to believe that, Oh, well, we have nothing to investigate,
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but we didn't even look at all the evidence. We're
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just you know, going on vibes. Like I told you,
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they're trying to get you to lose interest. They're trying
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to make it like this is such a gigantic task
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that it's impossible for the federal government to even release
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the files, which is crazy considering he's only a loan predator, right,
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only one single guy who had some proclivities. That's what
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the government told us. So why do they have five
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million documents about that guy? Why do they have so
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many documents that need to be sanitized? Could it be
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that the government is not telling us the truth? Well,
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that would be a shokhah. This article was published by
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Politico and the headline top federal prosecutor is crushed by
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Epstein files workload. This article was authored by Erica Orden.
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The premier of federal prosecutor's office in the country, is
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consumed by the task of reviewing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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According to four people familiar with the matter and internal
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memos obtained by Politico, well, good do your job. You
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had a deadline to meet. You should have met your deadline.
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I guarantee you that you're not going to give that
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kind of leeway to people that are facing charges in
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the SDNY, right What if they miss their deadline? What
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if they miss a discovery date. I'm sure the judge
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will just shrug and tell the person that it's okay
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and they could just make the next date. You know,
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they're busy right, way too much discovery to go through.
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I wonder how that would work out for you. Virtually
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every prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who
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isn't handling an imminent or ongoing trial, including some who
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are working on other major cases, has been tasked with
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helping to review more than two million files to redact
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information about Epstein's sex trafficking victims. Bullshit lies. They're adacting
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things about everybody. Every one of their friends, anybody who's
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a co conspirator redacted just given the middle finger to
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the law and to you. That's really what it comes
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down to. They don't respect you. They know you're not
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going to do anything. They know that you're going to,
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you know, get tired of it. You're going to move on.
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There'll be a new topic that you're going to be
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pissed off about insert Greenland or insert you know, ice
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or whatever. And they know that they're going to be
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able to move this narrative how they want to move it.
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And that's just how these things work usually. And that's
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why I say the full core press has to be maintained.
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We can't get lax, we can't you know, get comfortable.
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We have to continue to demand full transparency. And I
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don't want to hear any bullshit about, oh, we don't
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have enough lawyers. You sure have enough lawyers when you're
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going after the mafia or when you're going after somebody
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for tax evasion. I don't want to hear it. Sorry
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to hire more people out here talking about buying Greenland
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for like seven hundred billion dollars or whatever. Meanwhile, we
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don't have enough staff at SDNY to go through the
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Epstein files and do their regular duty. Here's an idea,
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use your Greenland money to hire some more lawyers. Prosecutors
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are being crushed by the work, said one person familiar
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with the matter, who, like others quoted in the article,
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was granted anonymity to discuss internal process. You know is
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really being crushed the survivors, that's who. As you cry
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about your workload, they're going through their daily with the
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burden of what happened to them squarely on their shoulders.
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No one, nobody gives a fuck, knowing that the vast
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majority of people in office would rather play apart politics
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then hold anyone accountable. And then you see this emagency
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in this as a survivor, Oh, we don't have enough
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resources to make sure you get the justice you deserve
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after you were assaulted by some sick, degenerate fuckbag when
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you were fourteen or fifteen years old. Sorry, go back
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to the end of the line. For all intents and purposes,
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that's what they're saying. And my response to that is
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an emphatic fuck. You do your job, quit crying, and
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if you're not capable of doing it, resign and we'll
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get people that can the scale of the review is
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raised questions about whether the task is stretching prosecutors too
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thin and pushing other work to the back burner In
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an office that regularly handles some of the country's most
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important why collar terrorism and financial crimes cases, this is
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the goal. Oh look, this is just taking up time.
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Epstein's old news. Let's just keep moving. The problem is
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what Epstein was up to has directly caused the problems
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that we're in now. All these politicians, all these thieves,
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all these people who think they can get over on us.
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The reason they think that is because they've never been
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held accountable. So I'm sorry that some of these other
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cases don't have enough people working them, But these survivors
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have been waiting for justice for decades. It's signed for
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somebody else to get in the back of the line
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because the days of shoving this one back in the hole,
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those days are over and there is no going backwards now,
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only forward. So if you have to hire more lawyers,
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do so. What nobody wants to hear, though, is about
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how busy you are and how much of a workload
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you're carrying. Even several of the prosecutors working on the
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narco terrorism and drug trafficking case against opposed Venezuelan leader
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Nicholas Madoro, perhaps the most prominent prosecution in the justice
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system at the moment, are also assigned to work on
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the Epstein documents. According to a person familiar with the matter,
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you know what's so funny about Venezuela? Are there no
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more drug boats to blow up? I mean, I thought
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we were blowing up drug boats to stop drugs from
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coming into the United States, But now we moved on
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to taking oil tankers and snatching oil. Huh seems legit.
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Could it be that there was never any thread of
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drugs from Venezuela and you were just bullshitted once again
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as part of a wag the dog strategy to get
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your attention off of other matters. Hint, hint, wink wink.
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I mean, I thought we were blowing up drug boats.
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Where are all these drug boats that we were blowing up?
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You mean to tell me that all the drugs have
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stopped coming out of Venezuela. Now, the whole last thing
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was nothing but a lie. The whole scenario was a
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bunch of bs, and anybody who knows anything about the
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War on drugs which is really the war on you
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knows that the real problem is coming from Mexico. Cocaine's
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not the problem, the crack epidemic that was yesterday's news.
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You know what the problem is now, OPI, it's fentanyl
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and no fentanyls coming from Venezuela. And in that same
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vein the Madero fucking case isn't even the most important
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one in the world of narco trafficking. That's the Elmo case. Okay,
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el Mayo much more powerful in the world of drugs
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than anybody else, and with his case working its way
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through the system, that's the most important narco case when
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it comes to American people and the effect that the
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drugs have on our country. Nothing to do with Maduro.
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I promise you that. Now, if you want to talk
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about the geopolitical implications of Venezuela, that's a different conversation.
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But that's not what the President told us. Right If
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you would have been honest and said, look, we need
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Venezuela because we don't want Chinese or Russian influence in
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our hemisphere, at least that's more acceptable than making up
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a story about drug boats and then just blowing them up.
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And before you start crying about me picking on your
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buddy Trump, I was just as vocal about Obama using
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drone strikes to blow up American citizen even if they
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were terrorists. Due process matters, folks. Okay, it's important. And
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the precedent that's been set not only by Trump but
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by Obama and presidents previously with drone strikes is not
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a good one. And please don't get that confused. If
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we have enemies on the battlefield, drones strike the shit
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out of them. I don't care. But you can't use
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drones on an American citizen without due process. And the
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same goes for this smuggling operation. Why not just intercede
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those boats, intercept them, take the product, arrest the people,
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and be done with it. But we blow the boats up.
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Never made sense and still doesn't. Some prosecutors tasked with
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the Epstein review have weighed asking for extensions on deadlines
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in their other work. According to another person familiar with
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the matter, all right, conspiracy had time. I think that
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this has to do with the Justice Department telling them
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to slow walk it so that they can have more
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time to get rid of things and to get you
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worry about other subjects that's what I think they're doing.
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Now do I have proof of that, of course I don't,
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but it seems the most likely scenario. Here. We went
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from Pambondi saying all these files are on our desk,
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they're all over, you know, coming over in trucks, et cetera,
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et cetera, to now we're finding millions more. Oh, there's
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too much work for the Justice Department to do. Come on, man,
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if you buy that shit, I really don't know what
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to tell you. A spokesperson for the Manhattan US Attorney's
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Office declined to comment. Justice Department officials have described the
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scope of the work in recent core filings, although the
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burden on the Manhattan office appears to be even more
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significant than some of those descriptions suggest. In a filing
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earlier this month, Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in
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the office, told a federal judge that over one hundred
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and twenty five lawyers in the Southern District of New York,
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which employs about two hundred assist in US attorneys, are
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working on the effort. You don't need full blown lawyers
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to do this. Bring in interns, bring in paralegals, and
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have them do it, and then from there you can
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have a group of lawyers season lawyers go through that
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work and look at all their redactions and be done
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with it. Seems pretty easy to me. They're making it
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more complicated than they have to, and that's by design.
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Many lawyers assigned to the task were expected to spend
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the next few weeks dedicating all or a substantial portion
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of their work day to reviewing and redacting files, Clayton wrote.
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In an update last week, he disclosed that more than
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five hundred people across the Justice Department, including attorneys at
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the department's headquarters and in the Southern District of Florida,
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have been reviewing the files. The scope of the work
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in Manhattan stems at least in part from the fact
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that the office handled both the sex trafficking case against
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Maxwell and Epstein, with Maxwell serving a twenty year prison sentence.
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The massive Epstein undertaking began several days before the nineteenth deadline,
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by which the government was legally obligated to begin disclose
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the files. So why did they wait till a couple
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of days? They had over a month to get prepared,
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but they waited all by design, you don't have to
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be a genius to connect these dots. You don't have
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to be some fantastic investigator. It's all right there and
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play in English, and the neon lights that are flashing
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say few. Carl Metzner, the office Associate US attorney who
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supervises the Victim Witness Unit and Privileged Review Team, suggested
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the prosecutors in a memo that the initial marching orders
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were unclear. This obviously raises a whole bunch of questions
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which we don't have all the answers to at the moment.
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He wrote. A follow up from another official notified staff
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that we, as in every ausa in the office, will
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soon be asked to take on redactions of discovery material
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in connection with the Epstein files. Then continued, we appreciate
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that this is unexpected and maybe disruptive as people wind
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down their work for the remainder of the year. All
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we can do is try to gather as much information
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as we can and help you balance this with all
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the other competing deadlines you are juggling. So this is
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really the narrative that they're going to go with. Huh,
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that things are just so restrictive, that's why they miss
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the deadline. Not that it's a cover up or anything
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like that, but you know, simply, it's just too much
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to ask. Is that really the narrative that they're going
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to try and sell us? And more importantly, is that
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a narrative that you're willing to buy? A third memo
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that appears to have been sent that day before the
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deadline read we expect to ask that each AUSA chief
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deputy chief executive staff included complete a batch of approximately
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seventy five documents to certify by the end of the day. Oh,
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the whole seventy five documents? How tough could that be?
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Go through? Look for victims' names, redact them, move on.
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At bottom, we're being entrusted to protect victim information. It said.
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While the timing of this review is challenging for many reasons,
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including that you're all very busy, this is an important task.
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We owe to the victims to do it right. Oh yeah,
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it's all about the victims, right. The dj really cares.
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That's why they had their little meeting with Glenn Maxwell
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and never with the survivors save it. Though the Justice
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Department released multiple tranches of Epstein material in late December,
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it hasn't published any additional documents since then. On December thirty,
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first Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote that DOJ lawyers
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from Maine Justice, FBI, SDFL, and SDNY are working around
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the clock through the holidays, including Christmas and New Year's
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to review documents and compliance with federal law. So, in
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other words, they're finally doing their job. Well, that's cool,
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about time. The effort, Blanche wrote, is truly an all
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hands on deck approach, and we're asking as many lawyers
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as possible to commit their time to review the documents
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that remain required. Redactions to protect victims take time, but
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they will not stop these materials from being released. Oh no,
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not at all. I'm sure that you guys are just
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going to release everything, and you're gonna do it willingly
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and happily as you cry about not having enough manpower.
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It's unclear when additional material will be released, and Clayton's
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recent disclosure haven't provided any guidance on timing. The burdens
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on prosecutors built into public view last week. In one
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of the Manhattan's Office highest profile cases, a defense attorney
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for one of a trio of wealthy jet setting brothers
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facing trial this week for an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy.
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Suggested the office production of evidence to the defense has
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been delayed by the Epstein review. They have half the
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US Attorney's Office on the Epstein files. Tenny Garrigos, an
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attorney for or An Alexander, complained, we have a trial
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starting next week, your honor, cool bring in more attorneys.
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I don't care. I don't care, Tenny Garrigos. How about that.
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I have had enough of Epstein's survivors being put on
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the back burner. This isn't a new story, This isn't
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a new case. These files aren't new, This information isn't new.
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But you know what is new, the pain and suffering,
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the trauma, all of that coming back. That's all new
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for the survivors. So how about having a little bit
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of respect and a little bit of compassion for what
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they went through too. And look, it's not really a
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shot at Tenny Garrigos. She's doing the right thing right,
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doing what she has to do for her client. And
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I get that, and I have a lot of respect
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for Tenny Garrigos. My beef is with the office itself.
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While US District Judge Valerie Caproni acknowledged that the prosecutors
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working on the Alexander brother case aren't themselves tasked with
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Epstein review. She suggested perhaps others in the office could
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be freed to assist them. Yeah, no, sorry, maybe bring
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somebody else in from a different office. But no, and
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if you do take them, you have to bring somebody
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else in from a different office to take over with
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the Epstein files. I have no problem with that whatsoever.
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Let the line prosecutors be line prosecutors and then have
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the interns and have the you know, paralegals and shit
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take care of the redactions. It's not that difficult. They're
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making it difficult, but they don't have to. I do
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take the defense point that perhaps a few people could
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be sprung from epstein obligation to deal with Alexander obligation.
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The judge said, given the facts that these people are
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on trial and Epstein's dead, so does that lessen the
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trauma of the people that he abused. Does that make
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it any better for the girls that were suffering at
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his hands for all those years that he's dead. Oh well,
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he's dead, so we'll just move on. Even though we
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never got any justice no finality, even though nobody ever
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did the right thing. Let's just move on to the
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next one. I'm sorry, but my answer is no. Now.
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Of course, the court needs to move on, right they
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have to handle their business. But the beef here is
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that the DOJ knows that they have enough people, and
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they're doing this on purpose, that's my opinion, And the
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end goal is to exhaust you. Like I've said from
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the very beginning, they want you tired, they want you exhausted,
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and they want you ready to move on. The question
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is will you. All of the information that goes with
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