Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein A Justice System That Looked The Other Way (7/24/26)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: We'll come back to the Epstein chronicles today. We're gonna
- 0:05Speaker 1: go all the way back to twenty and fifteen, and
- 0:08Speaker 1: we're going to talk a little bit more about how
- 0:10Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and his lawyers wanted to keep sealed documents sealed,
- 0:16Speaker 1: and it was such a move on their part that
- 0:20Speaker 1: his whole entire legal team, including Judge Reinhart, was so
- 0:25Speaker 1: invested that they moved to keep these things from being unsealed. Personally, Now,
- 0:30Speaker 1: why would the lawyers in this case be so adamant
- 0:34Speaker 1: to keep the negotiations as far as the plea deal sealed?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Why are they so invested in that? What are they
- 0:42Speaker 1: so worried about? What are they hiding? Why are they
- 0:45Speaker 1: so worried about the public knowing how that plea deal
- 0:50Speaker 1: went down? Well, let's dive into this article from Above
- 0:55Speaker 1: the Law and let's see what was going on in
- 0:58Speaker 1: twenty and fifteen headline Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers want to seal
- 1:04Speaker 1: documents to stop the frolic with the media. This article
- 1:08Speaker 1: was published by Above the Law and it was published
- 1:11Speaker 1: on January thirtieth of twenty fifteen. The author of this
- 1:16Speaker 1: article is Tomorrow Taboo Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaires,
- 1:22Speaker 1: the billionaires suspected of paying underage girls. You mean the
- 1:25Speaker 1: billionaire pedophile who was raping underage girls to give them
- 1:29Speaker 1: X rated massages. No, no, so we could rape them.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Are fighting to keep plea negotiations between Epstein's attorneys and
- 1:36Speaker 1: prosecutors out of public view. Now why would they be
- 1:40Speaker 1: so adamant on doing that? What is in this plea deal?
- 1:43Speaker 1: What did they lay out for the federal government that
- 1:46Speaker 1: would get the federal government at the DOJ level to bite?
- 1:51Speaker 1: What could they dangle that would make the DOJ play ball.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Epstein is implicated in a suit against federal prosecutors brought
- 2:00Speaker 1: by women who claim to it have been sexually abused
- 2:03Speaker 1: by Epstein when they were miners. The plaintiffs claim that
- 2:06Speaker 1: the government failed to fulfill its duty under the Crime
- 2:10Speaker 1: Victim's Rights Act to involve Epstein's survivors in the settlement process.
- 2:15Speaker 1: The women contend that the government instead secretly handed a
- 2:18Speaker 1: sweetheart deal to the well connected billionaire pedophile and any
- 2:22Speaker 1: of his possible co conspirators. The women are represented by
- 2:26Speaker 1: lawyers Brad Edwards and Paul Cassel. Now we know that
- 2:29Speaker 1: the court has already deemed this plea deal illegal. All right,
- 2:34Speaker 1: so the court said that this plea deal was bunch
- 2:36Speaker 1: of buppkists, a bunch of garbage. But yet somehow it
- 2:41Speaker 1: still stands, and we still don't have any information about
- 2:45Speaker 1: how this plea deal came into place. You want to
- 2:48Speaker 1: talk about a veil of secrecy, you want to talk
- 2:50Speaker 1: about shadowy, This is what I'm talking about. And I
- 2:53Speaker 1: don't know how people aren't more fired up about this.
- 2:56Speaker 1: You would think that people who are demanding transparency all day,
- 3:00Speaker 1: every day on TV from everybody would demand some transparency
- 3:04Speaker 1: here as well. Because this has a reverberating effect through
- 3:10Speaker 1: the whole entire Department of Justice, through the whole legal system.
- 3:15Speaker 1: How can anyone be okay with people like Epstein being
- 3:18Speaker 1: able to manipulate the whole system in their favor when
- 3:22Speaker 1: they're facing Haines's charges like this, and to do it well,
- 3:25Speaker 1: all they have to do is get a few ex
- 3:27Speaker 1: prosecutors on board who decide to hop ship for a
- 3:30Speaker 1: fat paycheck, and everything's butter, because again, they're not paying
- 3:35Speaker 1: for these lawyers to come into the courtroom and make
- 3:38Speaker 1: it like a movie. Right, It's not a few good men.
- 3:41Speaker 1: That's not how real life works. They're paying for the contacts.
- 3:44Speaker 1: They're paying for you know, oh, I was his roommate
- 3:47Speaker 1: at Harvard. That's the kind of shit they're paying for.
- 3:50Speaker 1: And when you look at Epstein's team of lawyers, it
- 3:53Speaker 1: was littered with ex prosecutors. It was littered with people
- 3:56Speaker 1: who had very very close knowledge of what was going
- 3:59Speaker 1: on going on, But yet there's no outcry that these
- 4:03Speaker 1: people come forward now and talk about what they know.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Although the defendant in the suit is the US government,
- 4:12Speaker 1: not Epstein himself, he moved to intervene in the case
- 4:15Speaker 1: in July twenty thirteen. Attorneys Roy Black, Jay Lefkowitz, Bruce
- 4:21Speaker 1: Reinhart Huh where do we hear that name recently? And
- 4:24Speaker 1: Martin Weinberg are also interveners in the CVRA suit between
- 4:29Speaker 1: the alleged survivors alleged huh and federal prosecutors. So why
- 4:34Speaker 1: is Bruce Reinhart acting as an intervener here and trying
- 4:38Speaker 1: to make it so that this stuff doesn't get made public?
- 4:42Speaker 1: Was he so worried about if everything was on the
- 4:45Speaker 1: up and up with that plea deal and everything was kosher,
- 4:48Speaker 1: why are all these people acting as interveners here and
- 4:51Speaker 1: trying to make it so the public has no idea
- 4:54Speaker 1: what went down? What are they so worried about? You see,
- 4:57Speaker 1: that's the thing. And when we talk about these people
- 5:00Speaker 1: who were involved here, it's rather obvious that all of
- 5:03Speaker 1: them were swinging for defenses. They all had connections to
- 5:07Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. And in a guy like Reinhart's case,
- 5:11Speaker 1: he was just working for the Prosecutor's office a few
- 5:14Speaker 1: days before going to work for Jeffrey Epstein's associates, and
- 5:18Speaker 1: then to act like he wasn't working for Epstein. That
- 5:21Speaker 1: was the biggest doozy for me. Oh no, he's not
- 5:23Speaker 1: working for Epstein. He's working for his associates or his employees.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Who do you think is paying them bills? Homie? And
- 5:31Speaker 1: if I'm paying the bills, who's really calling the shots?
- 5:37Speaker 1: And of course, Harvard law professor and former Epstein defense
- 5:40Speaker 1: counsel Alan Dershowitz moved to intervene earlier this month, apparently
- 5:44Speaker 1: motivated by the allegations by Virginia Roberts that Dershowitz had
- 5:49Speaker 1: personally participated in some of Epstein's sexual misconduct. So why
- 5:54Speaker 1: would all of these people Roy Black, Jay Lefkowitz, Bruce Reinhart,
- 5:59Speaker 1: Martin Winberg, and Alan Dershowitz moved to intervene here to
- 6:03Speaker 1: make it so you didn't know about what was going on.
- 6:07Speaker 1: And then one of these dudes becomes the federal judge. Yeah,
- 6:10Speaker 1: let's all be happy about that. He's above approach. On
- 6:14Speaker 1: January fourteenth, US District Judge Ken Marra ordered the parties
- 6:18Speaker 1: in the case to brief the issue of sealing the correspondents,
- 6:22Speaker 1: asking for adequate justification for sealing because public policy favors
- 6:27Speaker 1: judicial records being open to the public, so the standard
- 6:31Speaker 1: operating procedure is for this stuff to be open to
- 6:33Speaker 1: the public. But when it comes to Epstein, his associates,
- 6:37Speaker 1: all of his lawyers, all of his buddies, they don't
- 6:40Speaker 1: got to play by those rules. They don't have to
- 6:42Speaker 1: deal with that nonsense like me and you would. The
- 6:47Speaker 1: plaintiffs want the correspondents unsealed. They have already won a
- 6:50Speaker 1: related battle to access many of these documents. In twenty fourteen,
- 6:55Speaker 1: the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the plea negotiations are not
- 6:58Speaker 1: privileged from discovery. In the plaintiff's motions this week, they
- 7:03Speaker 1: argued that The emails and letters between Epstein's lawyers and
- 7:06Speaker 1: federal prosecutors are central to this lawsuit, and sealing the
- 7:10Speaker 1: correspondence would prevent the public from learning about matters of
- 7:13Speaker 1: considerable public concern. Now, remember also, a whole year's worth
- 7:18Speaker 1: of emails between the prosecutors and Epstein's lawyers just up
- 7:22Speaker 1: and vanished, And then when confronted about it, the Department
- 7:26Speaker 1: of Justice said, oh, well, it wasn't just Alcosta's phone.
- 7:30Speaker 1: It affected many people. Yeah, okay, sure, just another coincidence
- 7:33Speaker 1: here in this case. Huh. Cameras don't work, emails disappeared,
- 7:38Speaker 1: guards fell asleep, Epstein was put in a cell with
- 7:41Speaker 1: TARTAGLIONI okay, you're right, your narrative's correct. I mean, for real,
- 7:47Speaker 1: at this point, you gotta be really in the bag
- 7:51Speaker 1: for the establishment at this point to not see how
- 7:55Speaker 1: screwed up everything was here. In the brief on behalf
- 8:01Speaker 1: of Epstein, attorneys Roy Black and Martin Weinberg argue that
- 8:05Speaker 1: their client could be irreparably harmed if Judge Marraw allows
- 8:09Speaker 1: emails and letters between Epstein's defense counsel and federal prosecutors
- 8:14Speaker 1: to enter public record on January twenty sixth, Epstein's lawyers
- 8:18Speaker 1: responded to Judge Marra's orders by filing a limited Intervener
- 8:23Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein response to Order requesting justification for supplemental protective order.
- 8:29Speaker 1: In Layman's terms, go screw yourself. We're not going to
- 8:32Speaker 1: give you any of this information. We're going to muck
- 8:34Speaker 1: it up and gum up the situation by legal proceedings.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Although there is a protective confidentiality order already in place,
- 8:44Speaker 1: attorneys for Epstein contend that the current order's coverage is insufficient.
- 8:49Speaker 1: The order followed Epstein's motions seeking protection from the constant leaks, comments,
- 8:54Speaker 1: and inflammatory accusations made by the plaintiff's lawyers to the
- 8:57Speaker 1: national and international media, as well as the various online
- 9:01Speaker 1: outfits for varying reputations. The recent filings, comments, and exclusives
- 9:06Speaker 1: granted to gossip reporters show that the frolic with the
- 9:09Speaker 1: media has not abated. So this is all about the media, right.
- 9:13Speaker 1: What they're trying to do is say, ah, there's nothing
- 9:15Speaker 1: even here. The media is making more of this than
- 9:18Speaker 1: there is, and everybody who's trying to get involved with
- 9:20Speaker 1: that is just lighting the fires and gassing it up.
- 9:26Speaker 1: You would think that they'd be more worried about, you know,
- 9:28Speaker 1: proving that, but they never could, and they never would
- 9:31Speaker 1: be able to. They further point out that the order
- 9:35Speaker 1: does not provide any protection when those documents are converted
- 9:38Speaker 1: into exhibits and filed as public record with the court.
- 9:42Speaker 1: They fear that Edwards and Cassel will skirt the spirit
- 9:45Speaker 1: of the original order by citing tiny portions of sensitive
- 9:49Speaker 1: documents then dumping entire documents into the public record by
- 9:53Speaker 1: attaching them as exhibits. So what are you so afraid of,
- 9:58Speaker 1: as Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers, If you were all on the
- 10:00Speaker 1: up and up, and you conducted yourselves correctly, and you
- 10:03Speaker 1: got this plea deal through the proper channels, then you
- 10:06Speaker 1: wouldn't be worried about anyone examining this right. But boy,
- 10:10Speaker 1: oh boy, they sure are scared, aren't they. His lawyers
- 10:13Speaker 1: favor a temporary seal order on the plea negotiation correspondence,
- 10:17Speaker 1: whereby the documents would stay sealed unless, unless, and until
- 10:21Speaker 1: Judge Mera ruled on a motion to unseal them individually.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Epstein's lawyer's right. These temporary precautions are appropriate because mister
- 10:30Speaker 1: Epstein and his legal counsel will be irreparably harmed if
- 10:35Speaker 1: what are historically confidential plea negotiations are wrongly filed in
- 10:40Speaker 1: the public record, making their way around the world on
- 10:42Speaker 1: the Internet in minutes before the court has an opportunity
- 10:46Speaker 1: to rule. So again, they were so worried that you
- 10:49Speaker 1: would know what was going on here that they pulled
- 10:52Speaker 1: out all the stops to keep this stuff sealed, so
- 10:55Speaker 1: far as even his attorneys, including Bruce Reinhardt, by the way,
- 10:59Speaker 1: miss above reproach came out swinging, oh, we're going to
- 11:03Speaker 1: be interveners here. Did anybody ask mister Reinhardt about this
- 11:09Speaker 1: exact situation before he became a judge? Probably not considering,
- 11:14Speaker 1: you know, he's a Trump appointee and Trump hat Acosta
- 11:17Speaker 1: working in his administration. So there's that. Epstein's lawyers further
- 11:25Speaker 1: insist that there is a long standing tradition in the
- 11:27Speaker 1: criminal justice system to keep plea negotiations confidential. They argue
- 11:32Speaker 1: that the defense attorney would be unable to fulfill their
- 11:35Speaker 1: duties to their clients if they fear they cannot communicate
- 11:38Speaker 1: with prosecutors openly and frankly without tempering or censoring their
- 11:42Speaker 1: police settlement communications to avoid making statements that could later
- 11:46Speaker 1: come back to haunt their clients in TMZ, the National Inquirer,
- 11:50Speaker 1: or the grocery store tabloids. Nice cover story, nice cover story,
- 11:54Speaker 1: and it certainly tracks right. But the reality is this,
- 11:57Speaker 1: they don't want you to know the truth, and they'll
- 11:59Speaker 1: use this as their basis for you not knowing the
- 12:02Speaker 1: truth in the Epstein case. Oh well, it would cause
- 12:07Speaker 1: harm moving forward to other defendants. Ye okay, sure, sure,
- 12:11Speaker 1: it would just another bullshit excuse from the establishment, from
- 12:15Speaker 1: the system to make sure that we don't have all
- 12:17Speaker 1: of the information here. With allegations as salacious as those
- 12:23Speaker 1: found in documents already on public record, one shutterers to
- 12:26Speaker 1: think what information Epstein might be fighting to keep out
- 12:29Speaker 1: of you. If the public is after sordid but unproven
- 12:33Speaker 1: details about Epstein's past, the Palm Beach Police departments probable
- 12:37Speaker 1: Cause affidavid provides more than enough fodder. I've been dutifully
- 12:42Speaker 1: checking Pacer for updates in this case. I'm sure other
- 12:45Speaker 1: writers and journalists covering the story have been as well. Still,
- 12:49Speaker 1: a lot of the language Epstein's lawyers use to describe
- 12:52Speaker 1: the spread of information via the Internet and sundry media
- 12:55Speaker 1: sounds vaguely histrionic. Still, Epstein's lawyers may have the argument
- 13:00Speaker 1: in the end on this issue. The chilling effect on
- 13:03Speaker 1: future plea negotiations provides a strong public policy argument. Yeah, well,
- 13:08Speaker 1: I guess guess what. I don't buy that. And that's
- 13:11Speaker 1: some lawyers speak right there. What about the survivors who
- 13:14Speaker 1: were greatly wronged all of these years? There's always exceptions made, right, well,
- 13:20Speaker 1: this needs to be one of those situations where an
- 13:23Speaker 1: exception is made. As a general matter, plea negotiations ought
- 13:29Speaker 1: to be kept confidential in order to inspire candor. Our
- 13:32Speaker 1: justice system leans heavily on plea deals to resolve criminal cases.
- 13:36Speaker 1: To agree on a deal, prosecutors and defense attorneys must haggle.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Their haggling won't be as effective if they can't speak freely.
- 13:44Speaker 1: If the specter of future publicity haunts defense counsels, negotiations
- 13:49Speaker 1: with prosecutors, defense attorneys might be less forthcoming. Oh give
- 13:53Speaker 1: me a fucking break here, Okay, give me a break these.
- 13:57Speaker 1: If that's the case, then there has to be severe
- 13:59Speaker 1: penalty for attorneys who are found to be playing games
- 14:02Speaker 1: and lying. Right and I don't mean censure, and I
- 14:05Speaker 1: don't mean a slap on the wrist, I mean losing
- 14:07Speaker 1: your law license. How come it's always about protecting the system,
- 14:11Speaker 1: the system, the system. What about the people that the
- 14:14Speaker 1: systems supposedly set up to protect. Seems like that gets
- 14:19Speaker 1: lost in the translation. Oh, or justice system or precious
- 14:23Speaker 1: justice system. Well breaking news to all those lawyers out there.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Your justice system is a gigantic dumpster fire. Moreover, defense
- 14:34Speaker 1: attorneys maybe required to be less chatty during negotiations with prosecutors,
- 14:38Speaker 1: since they owe a duty to their clients not to
- 14:40Speaker 1: say things that might harm their clients. So another thing,
- 14:44Speaker 1: if that's going to be the case, and you're going
- 14:45Speaker 1: to go about it this way, you better make sure
- 14:47Speaker 1: that the emails never disappear ever again, because there has
- 14:51Speaker 1: to be receipts, Right if there is a situation where
- 14:54Speaker 1: a judge or somebody else needs to look at what
- 14:56Speaker 1: went on, there better be receipts. I don't want to
- 14:58Speaker 1: hear about, oh, my emails, Do I have emails from
- 15:01Speaker 1: like ten or twelve years ago? So I don't even
- 15:04Speaker 1: understand what that means. Furthermore, it would be wrong to
- 15:10Speaker 1: expect defense lawyers to be responsible for whether the prosecutors
- 15:14Speaker 1: have involved survivors as the c As the c VRA
- 15:18Speaker 1: requires later revealing the negotiations in effect pushes the defense
- 15:23Speaker 1: for the prosecution's failure to meet its legal obligations. Courts
- 15:27Speaker 1: can limit disclosure of plea negotiations while still maintaining that
- 15:31Speaker 1: they are not privileged. Of course, a CVRA suit such
- 15:34Speaker 1: as this one might be seriously crippled by the inability
- 15:38Speaker 1: to introduce evidence of the wrangling between defense counsel and prosecutors.
- 15:43Speaker 1: And they knew that. The defense knew that, and they
- 15:45Speaker 1: used it as one of the quivers in their arrow.
- 15:48Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about. They know the law
- 15:51Speaker 1: better than anyone, and they know how to use the
- 15:53Speaker 1: law to their favor better than anyone. If the evidence
- 15:59Speaker 1: is worth any reducing for the court's consideration, there's a
- 16:02Speaker 1: strong presumption that the public ought to have access to it.
- 16:06Speaker 1: But the temporary seal order favored by Epstein doesn't preclude
- 16:09Speaker 1: those documents from entering the public record. Rather, it only
- 16:13Speaker 1: delays it pending a determination by the court. Sure this
- 16:17Speaker 1: process would add time and hassle to the proceedings, but
- 16:20Speaker 1: the gossip media, the internet and the public are patient,
- 16:23Speaker 1: will wait and look again. Really, what this is about
- 16:27Speaker 1: this episode is about how Epstein's lawyers were working to
- 16:30Speaker 1: the gills to make sure that their behavior wasn't exposed
- 16:34Speaker 1: in all of this. That's what this is about. They
- 16:36Speaker 1: didn't want their underhanded tactics to be exposed to the public,
- 16:40Speaker 1: and yet they've been able to get away with it
- 16:42Speaker 1: for all of these years. Nobody's demanding that there's accountability
- 16:46Speaker 1: for those emails going missing the cameras. There's no accountability zero.
- 16:52Speaker 1: So how do they expect anyone to look at what
- 16:54Speaker 1: went on here or what's going on here and say, yeah,
- 16:57Speaker 1: you know what, we have confidence that things are moving
- 16:59Speaker 1: in the right direction because guess what nobody does. And
- 17:04Speaker 1: for me, I've just had enough of all the transparency,
- 17:07Speaker 1: I mean all of the non transparency here. It's about
- 17:10Speaker 1: time that we have a transparent case in front of
- 17:12Speaker 1: us and all of these documents that were considered so
- 17:16Speaker 1: sensitive to be unsealed and released for public consumption. All right, folks,
- 17:22Speaker 1: it's gonna do it for this episode. If you'd like
- 17:24Speaker 1: to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapouchi
- 17:27Speaker 1: at ProtonMail dot com. That's Bo Bby c apu Cci
- 17:32Speaker 1: at ProtonMail dot com. You can also find me on
- 17:35Speaker 1: Twitter at Bobby Underscore cap Ucci. The link that I
- 17:42Speaker 1: discussed can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone,
- 17:46Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In
- 17:50Speaker 1: this episode, we're gonna take a look at another unsealed document,
- 17:54Speaker 1: and this time it's a letter from one of the
- 17:56Speaker 1: lawyers at the Southern District of Florida to Jay Lefkwitz.
- 18:02Speaker 1: And I think that the person writing this letter was
- 18:05Speaker 1: Marie Villa Fauna, but the name is redacted. But when
- 18:09Speaker 1: you look at all the facts and what she talks
- 18:11Speaker 1: about or he talks about in the letter, it all
- 18:13Speaker 1: lines up with it being Marievilla Fauna. But I think
- 18:16Speaker 1: the most interesting thing here is how contentious the relationship
- 18:20Speaker 1: was between Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers and the Feds down in Florida.
- 18:25Speaker 1: And this is why I've told you time and time
- 18:26Speaker 1: again that they went above Acosta's head. When you read
- 18:30Speaker 1: the correspondence, you read the letters, you read the back
- 18:32Speaker 1: and forth, it's obvious that Acosta wasn't playing ball with them,
- 18:36Speaker 1: not how they wanted them to, and things didn't change
- 18:39Speaker 1: until they reached out to Philip. So let's get into
- 18:43Speaker 1: this letter and let's see what kind of context this
- 18:45Speaker 1: can provide US. December eleventh, two thousand and seven, gear Jay,
- 18:53Speaker 1: I'm writing not to respond to your asserted policy concerns
- 18:56Speaker 1: regarding mister Epstein's non prosecution agreement, which will be addressed
- 19:00Speaker 1: by the US attorney, but the time has come for
- 19:03Speaker 1: me to respond to the ever increasing attacks on my
- 19:06Speaker 1: role in the investigation and negotiation. It's an understatement to
- 19:11Speaker 1: say that I'm surprised by your allegations regarding my role
- 19:15Speaker 1: because I thought that we had worked very well together
- 19:17Speaker 1: in resolving this dispute, and because I had described to
- 19:20Speaker 1: you and others as a man of integrity. I am
- 19:24Speaker 1: also surprised because I feel that I bent over backwards
- 19:27Speaker 1: to keep in mind the effect of the agreement would
- 19:30Speaker 1: have on mister Epstein and to make sure that you
- 19:33Speaker 1: and he understood the repercussions of the agreement. For example,
- 19:37Speaker 1: I brought to your attention that one potential plea could
- 19:40Speaker 1: result in no gain time for your client. I correct
- 19:44Speaker 1: one of your calculations of the sentencing guidelines that would
- 19:47Speaker 1: have resulted in mister Epstein spending far more time in
- 19:50Speaker 1: prison than you projected. Well, isn't that nice? Huh? But
- 19:54Speaker 1: the fix wasn't in here, folks, not at all. I
- 19:56Speaker 1: contacted BOP to see whether mister Epstein would be eligible
- 20:00Speaker 1: for the prison camp that you desired, and I told
- 20:02Speaker 1: you my suspicion about the source of the press league
- 20:05Speaker 1: and suggested ways to avoid the press. Importantly, I continue
- 20:09Speaker 1: to work with you in a professional manner, even after
- 20:12Speaker 1: I learned that you had been proceeding in bad faith
- 20:15Speaker 1: for several weeks, thinking that I had incorrectly concluded that
- 20:19Speaker 1: solicitation of minors to engage in prostitution was a registrable offense,
- 20:24Speaker 1: and that you would fool our office into letting mister
- 20:27Speaker 1: Epstein plead to a non registrable offense. Even now, when
- 20:31Speaker 1: it's clear that neither you nor your client ever intended
- 20:35Speaker 1: to abide by the terms of the agreement that he signed,
- 20:38Speaker 1: I have never alleged misconduct on your part. The first
- 20:42Speaker 1: allegation that you raised is that I hid from you
- 20:45Speaker 1: the fact that Bert okere Is is a friend of
- 20:48Speaker 1: my boyfriend, and that I have a long standing relationship
- 20:51Speaker 1: with mister Okerez. I informed you that I selected mister
- 20:55Speaker 1: Okerez because he was a friend and a classmate of
- 20:57Speaker 1: two people whom I respected, and that I never met
- 21:01Speaker 1: or spoken with mister Okerez prior to contacting him about
- 21:05Speaker 1: the case. All of those facts are true. I still
- 21:08Speaker 1: have never met mister ocre Is, and at the time
- 21:12Speaker 1: that he and I spoke about the case, he did
- 21:15Speaker 1: not know about my relationship with his friend. You suggest
- 21:18Speaker 1: that I should have explicitly informed you that one of
- 21:21Speaker 1: the referrals came from my boyfriend rather than simply a friend,
- 21:25Speaker 1: which is the term I used. But it's not my
- 21:28Speaker 1: nature to discuss my personal relationships with opposing counsel. Your
- 21:33Speaker 1: attacks on me and the victims established why I wanted
- 21:36Speaker 1: to find someone whom I could trust with safeguarding the
- 21:39Speaker 1: victim's best interest, especially in the face of intense pressure
- 21:43Speaker 1: from an unlimited number of highly skilled and well paid attorneys.
- 21:47Speaker 1: Mister okere Is was that person. One of your letters
- 21:50Speaker 1: suggests a business relationship between mister Okerez and my boyfriend.
- 21:54Speaker 1: This is patently untrue, and neither my boyfriend nor I
- 21:58Speaker 1: would have received any financial benefit from mister ocre is appointment. Furthermore,
- 22:04Speaker 1: after mister Okre Is learned about mister Epstein and his
- 22:07Speaker 1: actions as described below, he expressed a willingness to handle
- 22:10Speaker 1: the case pro bono, with no financial benefit even to himself. Furthermore,
- 22:16Speaker 1: you were given several other options to choose from, including
- 22:19Speaker 1: the Podthurst firm, which was later selected by Judge Davis.
- 22:23Speaker 1: You rejected those other options. You also allege that I
- 22:27Speaker 1: improperly disclosed information about the case to mister ocre Is.
- 22:31Speaker 1: I provided mister ocre Is with a bare bone summary
- 22:34Speaker 1: of the agreement terms related to his appointment to help
- 22:37Speaker 1: him decide whether the case was something he and his
- 22:40Speaker 1: firm would be willing to undertake. I didn't provide mister
- 22:43Speaker 1: okre Is with the facts related to the investigation because
- 22:47Speaker 1: they were confidential, and instead recommended that he googled mister
- 22:50Speaker 1: Epstein's name for background information. When mister okre Is asked
- 22:55Speaker 1: for additional information to assist his firm in addressing conflicting issues,
- 23:00Speaker 1: I forwarded those questions to you, and you raised objections
- 23:03Speaker 1: for the first time. I did not share any further
- 23:07Speaker 1: information about mister Epstein or the case since mister oakre
- 23:11Speaker 1: Is had been told that you concurred in his selection
- 23:15Speaker 1: out of professional courtesy. I informed mister ocre Is of
- 23:17Speaker 1: the Office's decision to use a special Master to make
- 23:20Speaker 1: the selection and told him that the Office had made
- 23:23Speaker 1: contact with Judge Davis. We have had no further contact
- 23:27Speaker 1: since then, and I have never had contact with Judge Davis.
- 23:31Speaker 1: I understand from you that mister okre Is contacted Judge Davis.
- 23:36Speaker 1: You criticize his decision to do so, yet you feel
- 23:39Speaker 1: that you and your co council were entitled to contact
- 23:42Speaker 1: Judge Davis to try to lobby him to select someone
- 23:45Speaker 1: to your liking, despite the fact that the non prosecution
- 23:49Speaker 1: agreement vested the Office with the exclusive right to select
- 23:52Speaker 1: the attorney representative. Another reason for my surprise about your
- 23:57Speaker 1: allegations regarding misconduct related to the Section twenty two to
- 24:01Speaker 1: fifty five litigation is your earlier desire to have me
- 24:04Speaker 1: perform the role a facilitator to convince the victims that
- 24:08Speaker 1: the lawyer representative was selected by the office to represent
- 24:11Speaker 1: their interests alone, and that the out of court settlement
- 24:15Speaker 1: of their claim was in their best interest. You now
- 24:18Speaker 1: state that doing the same thing that you asked me
- 24:21Speaker 1: to do earlier, as in proper meddling in civil litigation
- 24:24Speaker 1: much of your letter reiterates the challenges to Detective Redacted's
- 24:28Speaker 1: investigation that have already been submitted to the office on
- 24:31Speaker 1: several occasions, and you suggest that I have kept that
- 24:34Speaker 1: information from those who were reviewed the proposed indictment package.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Contrary to your suggestion, those submissions were attached to and
- 24:43Speaker 1: incorporated in the proposed indictment package, So your suggestion that
- 24:47Speaker 1: I tried to hide something from the reviewers is false.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I also take issue with the duplicity of stating that
- 24:54Speaker 1: we must accept as true those parts of the redacted
- 24:57Speaker 1: reports and witness statements that you like, and must accept
- 25:00Speaker 1: as false those parts that you do not like. You
- 25:04Speaker 1: and your co council also impressed upon me from the
- 25:07Speaker 1: beginning the need to undertake an independent investigation. It seems
- 25:11Speaker 1: inappropriate now to complain because our independent investigation uncovered facts
- 25:16Speaker 1: that are unfavorable to your client. You can plain that
- 25:20Speaker 1: I forced the client and State Attorney's Office to proceed
- 25:23Speaker 1: on charges that they don't believe in. Yet you don't
- 25:27Speaker 1: want our office to inform the State Attorney's Office of
- 25:30Speaker 1: facts that support the additional charge, nor do you want
- 25:33Speaker 1: any of the victims of that charge to contact misredacted
- 25:36Speaker 1: or the court Misredacted's opinion may change if she knows
- 25:40Speaker 1: the full scope of your client's actions. Also, it has
- 25:44Speaker 1: always been my intention to have mister Epstein plead to
- 25:47Speaker 1: federal not stay charges. You and I spend several weeks
- 25:50Speaker 1: trying to identify and put together a plea to federal
- 25:54Speaker 1: charges that your client was willing to accept. Yet your
- 25:57Speaker 1: letter now accuses me of manufacturing charges of obstruction of justice,
- 26:02Speaker 1: making obscene phone calls, and violating child privacy laws. When
- 26:06Speaker 1: mister redacted told you that those charges would embarrass the office,
- 26:10Speaker 1: he meant that the office was unwilling to bend the
- 26:13Speaker 1: facts to satisfy mister Epstein's desired prison sentence, a statement
- 26:18Speaker 1: with which I agree. I hope that you understand how
- 26:22Speaker 1: your accusations that I imposed ultimatums and forced you and
- 26:25Speaker 1: your client to agree to unconscionable contract terms cannot square
- 26:29Speaker 1: with the true facts of the case. As explained in
- 26:32Speaker 1: letters from Messrs Acosta and redacted. The indictment was postponed
- 26:37Speaker 1: for more than five months to allow you and mister
- 26:40Speaker 1: Epstein's other attorney to make presentations to the office to
- 26:43Speaker 1: convince the office not to prosecute. Those presentations were unsuccessful.
- 26:49Speaker 1: As you mentioned in your letter, I a simple line AUSA,
- 26:54Speaker 1: handled the primary negotiation for the office and conducted those
- 26:57Speaker 1: negotiations with you, miss Sanchez, as mister Lewis, and a
- 27:01Speaker 1: host of other highly skilled and experienced practitioners. The agreement
- 27:05Speaker 1: itself was signed by mister Epstein, Miss Sanchez, and mister Leftcourt,
- 27:10Speaker 1: whose experience speaks for itself. You and I spent hours
- 27:14Speaker 1: negotiating the terms, including when to use A versus the
- 27:18Speaker 1: and other minutia. When you and I cannot reach agreement,
- 27:22Speaker 1: you repeatedly went over my head, involving Messers redacted and
- 27:26Speaker 1: Acosta in the negotiations at various times. In any and
- 27:30Speaker 1: all plea negotiations, the defendant understands that the opinions and
- 27:34Speaker 1: options are to plead or to continue with the investigation
- 27:38Speaker 1: and proceed to trial. Those were the same options that
- 27:41Speaker 1: were proposed to mister Epstein, and they are not persecution
- 27:46Speaker 1: or intimidation tactics. Mister Epstein chose to sign the agreement
- 27:50Speaker 1: with the advice of a multitude of extremely noteworthy counsel.
- 27:55Speaker 1: You also make much of the fact that the names
- 27:57Speaker 1: of the victims were not released to mister Epstein prior
- 28:00Speaker 1: to signing the agreement. You never asked for such a term.
- 28:04Speaker 1: During an earlier meeting where mister Black was present, he
- 28:07Speaker 1: raised a concern that you now voice. Mister Black and
- 28:10Speaker 1: I did not have a chance to discuss the issue,
- 28:13Speaker 1: but I had already conceived of a way to resolve
- 28:15Speaker 1: that issue if it were raised during negotiation. As I stated,
- 28:20Speaker 1: it was not leading me to believe that it was
- 28:22Speaker 1: not a matter of concern to the defense. Since the
- 28:25Speaker 1: signing of the non prosecution agreement, the agents and I
- 28:29Speaker 1: have vetted a list of victims more than once. In
- 28:31Speaker 1: one instance, we decided to move a name because although
- 28:36Speaker 1: the minor victim was touched inappropriately by mister Epstein, we
- 28:40Speaker 1: decided that the link to a payment was insufficient to
- 28:43Speaker 1: call it prostitution. I have always remained open to a
- 28:47Speaker 1: challenge to the list, so your suggestion that mister Epstein
- 28:50Speaker 1: was forced to write a blank check is simply unfounded.
- 28:54Speaker 1: Your last set of allegations relates to the investigation of
- 28:57Speaker 1: the matter. For instance, your claim that some of the
- 29:00Speaker 1: victims were informed of their right to collect damages prior
- 29:03Speaker 1: to a thorough investigation of their allegations against mister Epstein.
- 29:07Speaker 1: This is also false. None of the victims was informed
- 29:11Speaker 1: of the right to sue under Section twenty two fifty
- 29:13Speaker 1: five prior to the investigation of the claims. Three victims
- 29:17Speaker 1: were notified shortly after the signing of the non prosecution
- 29:21Speaker 1: agreement of the general terms of that agreement. You raised
- 29:24Speaker 1: objections to any victim notification, and no further notifications were
- 29:28Speaker 1: done throughout this process. You have seen that I have
- 29:31Speaker 1: prepared this case as though to precede the trial. Notifying
- 29:35Speaker 1: the witnesses of the possibility of damages prior to concluding
- 29:39Speaker 1: the matter by plea or trial would only undermine my case.
- 29:43Speaker 1: If my reassurances are insufficient. The fact that not a
- 29:47Speaker 1: single victim has threatened to sue mister Epstein should assure
- 29:50Speaker 1: you of the integrity of the investigation. With respect to misredacted,
- 29:55Speaker 1: I contacted her attorney, who was paid for by mister Epstein,
- 29:59Speaker 1: and he was directed by counsel for mister Epstein to
- 30:02Speaker 1: demand immunity and asked only whether he still represented misredacted
- 30:07Speaker 1: and if he wanted to send me the victim notification
- 30:09Speaker 1: letter to him. He asked what letter would say and
- 30:13Speaker 1: I told him that the letter would be forthcoming in
- 30:15Speaker 1: about a week and that I would not provide him
- 30:18Speaker 1: with the terms with respect to misredacted status as a victim.
- 30:22Speaker 1: You again want us to accept as true only the
- 30:25Speaker 1: facts that are beneficial to your client, and reject as
- 30:28Speaker 1: false anything detrimental to him. Misredacted made a number of
- 30:32Speaker 1: statements that are contradicted by documentary evidence, and a review
- 30:35Speaker 1: of her recorded statements shows her lack of credibility with
- 30:39Speaker 1: respect to a number of statements. Based upon all of
- 30:42Speaker 1: the evidence collected, misredacted's classified as a victim as defined
- 30:47Speaker 1: by statute. Of course, that does not mean that misredacted
- 30:50Speaker 1: considers yourself a victim or that she would seek damages
- 30:53Speaker 1: from mister Epstein. I believe that a number of the
- 30:56Speaker 1: identified victims will not seek damages, but that does not
- 31:00Speaker 1: negate their legal status as victims. I understand you and
- 31:04Speaker 1: your co council perceive a strategic advantage to removing me
- 31:08Speaker 1: from the case, and that perhaps my willingness to allow
- 31:11Speaker 1: others to speak for me embolden your criticisms. I hope
- 31:15Speaker 1: that you now understand that your accusations are unfounded and
- 31:19Speaker 1: that you can no longer continue unchecked your attack on
- 31:22Speaker 1: my credibility of myself and my agents. In the future,
- 31:26Speaker 1: I recommend that you address your accusations to me so
- 31:29Speaker 1: that I can correct any misunderstandings before you make allegations
- 31:33Speaker 1: in the department. Sincerely, it say says are Alexandra Acosta,
- 31:41Speaker 1: but then by the signature of who actually sent it,
- 31:44Speaker 1: which I think was Marie Villafauna, is redacted. But it
- 31:48Speaker 1: shows you the contentious nature here, and it shows you
- 31:51Speaker 1: how Epstein's team went above the head of the lawyers
- 31:54Speaker 1: down in Florida, and there was never any way on
- 31:57Speaker 1: this planet or any other that in office like the
- 32:01Speaker 1: one in Florida is going to be able to provide
- 32:03Speaker 1: the kind of deal that Epstein ended up getting. You
- 32:06Speaker 1: don't make that kind of deal if you're just alex Acosta.
- 32:10Speaker 1: And I think that these receipts that were providing gives
- 32:14Speaker 1: us a very fascinating insight to how that back and
- 32:17Speaker 1: forth went, because I really think it tells a whole
- 32:20Speaker 1: lot of the story. So with that said, over the weekend,
- 32:23Speaker 1: we're going to continue climbing to the summit of this
- 32:26Speaker 1: gigantic mountain of Epstein files. All of the information that
- 32:31Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description
- 32:34Speaker 1: box Elaine Maxwell and her legal team have tried just
- 32:39Speaker 1: about every trick in the book at this point to
- 32:42Speaker 1: get their client out of jail. None of it has
- 32:46Speaker 1: worked well. Now they have a list of twelve reasons
- 32:52Speaker 1: why Glaine Maxwell should have some charges dropped, why the
- 32:56Speaker 1: case should be stopped, as why it should be dismissed,
- 33:00Speaker 1: How it's not fair to her because of the jerpool,
- 33:06Speaker 1: a whole litany of BS nonsense. Now, remember what did
- 33:13Speaker 1: I tell you all was going to happen? She was
- 33:16Speaker 1: going to try and use technicalities to get off on
- 33:20Speaker 1: these charges because she can't run on it. She can't
- 33:23Speaker 1: use her innocence as the basis for her defense because
- 33:26Speaker 1: guess what, breaking news, She's not innocent. If she was innocent,
- 33:32Speaker 1: they'd be going hard in the paint to try and
- 33:35Speaker 1: prove that innocence, not looking for technicalities, not looking for loopholes,
- 33:41Speaker 1: and certainly not throwing a bunch of shit against the
- 33:44Speaker 1: wall such as these twelve arguments. It is ludicrous that
- 33:50Speaker 1: this lady and her legal team are able to muck
- 33:54Speaker 1: the court system up with all of these moronic and
- 34:01Speaker 1: ridiculous reasons, But we knew it was coming. We knew
- 34:07Speaker 1: that Gelaane Maxwell wasn't just going to accept her fate meekly,
- 34:11Speaker 1: and we knew that she was going to do whatever
- 34:13Speaker 1: she possibly could to try and get off on these charges.
- 34:19Speaker 1: So it really shouldn't come as a shock to anybody
- 34:23Speaker 1: that she has many different wheels in motion, that she
- 34:27Speaker 1: is exploring every single option that is available to her,
- 34:34Speaker 1: and that her high powered legal team isn't going to
- 34:38Speaker 1: try and drag this out for as long as possible.
- 34:41Speaker 1: A because that's what they do, and b because the
- 34:45Speaker 1: meter is running. Well, you think they're doing this because
- 34:48Speaker 1: they're a charitable organization. Her lawyers, Hell no, they're making
- 34:52Speaker 1: a bunch of money off of Gilaane Maxwell right now,
- 34:55Speaker 1: and they're going to explore every technicality that you could
- 35:00Speaker 1: possibly imagine. And that's what we see here with these
- 35:04Speaker 1: twelve arguments being made by the bipedal serpent and her
- 35:09Speaker 1: legal team, nothing more, nothing less. Now it boomerangs back
- 35:17Speaker 1: to is the judge going to continue to do the
- 35:20Speaker 1: right thing and stand fast and laugh at Gilaane Maxwell's
- 35:24Speaker 1: legal team And they're very very very apparent search for
- 35:30Speaker 1: technicalities and loopholes, And again I don't blame her lawyers
- 35:36Speaker 1: for that. For the most part, that's the system that's
- 35:39Speaker 1: set up by our corrupt ass justice system. So my
- 35:45Speaker 1: real beef is with the lawmakers who have put this
- 35:49Speaker 1: system in place. But at the same time, it's quite
- 35:52Speaker 1: apparent that Gilaine Maxwell's legal team doesn't think that there
- 35:57Speaker 1: is a tenable position to defend when it comes to
- 36:02Speaker 1: guilty or innocent. Their whole entire defense, it seems, is
- 36:08Speaker 1: to search for that technicality and hope beyond hope that
- 36:11Speaker 1: something like the non prosecution agreement offers Glaye Maxwell some protection,
- 36:18Speaker 1: because short of that, I think they realize that there's
- 36:21Speaker 1: going to be no hope for getting her off of
- 36:24Speaker 1: these charges. So let's jump into our article from the
- 36:29Speaker 1: Daily Mail and see just exactly what they have to
- 36:34Speaker 1: say about the situation. Headline from not enough Black and
- 36:38Speaker 1: Hispanic jurors to COVID. Gilaine Maxwell makes twelve arguments as
- 36:43Speaker 1: to why her case should be stopped as she begs
- 36:46Speaker 1: judge to dismiss child sex trafficking charges against her. I mean, really,
- 36:54Speaker 1: is this lady for real? Like, did she come out
- 36:57Speaker 1: of a different alternate universe and think that her ridiculous,
- 37:03Speaker 1: pedantic arguments here are going to work because she's wrong.
- 37:11Speaker 1: You want to get the cases dropped. Here's an idea.
- 37:13Speaker 1: You should have never been involved with Epstein in the
- 37:15Speaker 1: first place. You should have never ever, ever abused these
- 37:20Speaker 1: girls like they said you did. All right, why don't
- 37:24Speaker 1: you try and defend that instead of trying to get
- 37:26Speaker 1: off on technicalities. This article was authored by Sam Baker.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Elane Maxwell has asked to judge to dismiss her case
- 37:38Speaker 1: ahead of her trial on charges she recruited teenage girls
- 37:42Speaker 1: in the nineties for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. Among
- 37:47Speaker 1: the arguments filed by lawyers on behalf of Maxwell fifty
- 37:50Speaker 1: nine was a claim that the indictment should be thrown
- 37:53Speaker 1: out because it was obtained from a grand jury seated
- 37:56Speaker 1: outside New York City in white plains, where the said
- 38:00Speaker 1: black and Hispanic grandeurs would be underrepresented. Wow. Really reaching
- 38:05Speaker 1: down there, really reaching deep? Huh. If Elaine Maxwell thinks
- 38:11Speaker 1: that she's going to find allies in the black or
- 38:14Speaker 1: Hispanic community, she is sorely mistaken. We're talking about two
- 38:19Speaker 1: groups that are not what you would call friends to
- 38:24Speaker 1: people like Elaine Maxwell. Chomo's child molesters. That is an
- 38:28Speaker 1: unacceptable thing to be no matter what. And furthermore, to
- 38:33Speaker 1: talk about oh, because it's in White Plains, it will
- 38:35Speaker 1: be underrepresented. That's a bunch of horseshit too. Where I'm
- 38:39Speaker 1: from South Yonkers, which is right below White Plains, it
- 38:44Speaker 1: is a very diverse place, okay, right on the border
- 38:47Speaker 1: of the South Bronx, and there is a very diverse
- 38:53Speaker 1: jurapool to be selected from. So right off the bat,
- 38:57Speaker 1: we can just slap that one down with a cudgel
- 38:59Speaker 1: writer cross the head. The fact that Gilaine Maxwell, the
- 39:04Speaker 1: epitome of white privilege, the epitome of having everything handed
- 39:10Speaker 1: to you, would have the audacity to try and act
- 39:14Speaker 1: like she is going to not get a fair shake
- 39:18Speaker 1: because of the jerrypool and white planes. Newsflash, Gilaine, you're
- 39:23Speaker 1: gonna get a bunch of your Westchester friends probably on
- 39:25Speaker 1: that jury pool. You should be ecstatic about this. Again,
- 39:31Speaker 1: it's just throwing more shit at the wall for these people.
- 39:35Speaker 1: Gilaine Maxwell's lawyers, they understand, they're not dumb people. They
- 39:38Speaker 1: understand that they don't have a case here. They can't
- 39:41Speaker 1: defend this lady. So let's latch onto anything that we
- 39:46Speaker 1: can as we fall down from the top of this tree,
- 39:49Speaker 1: We'll grab onto any branch, even if it has thorns,
- 39:52Speaker 1: anything to keep us from crashing into the forest floor.
- 39:58Speaker 1: And this next one cracks me up right back to
- 40:00Speaker 1: the COVID Huh they said the coronavirus outbreak was used
- 40:04Speaker 1: as an excuse to see the Grand Jerry outside of
- 40:07Speaker 1: New York City when the pandemic was killing thousands of
- 40:11Speaker 1: city residents. Well, an excuse. I thought it was this
- 40:15Speaker 1: big problem, a big pandemic, and a bunch of people
- 40:17Speaker 1: were dying from it. What do you mean an excuse?
- 40:20Speaker 1: So people dying is not a good enough reason for
- 40:23Speaker 1: Guilayne Maxwell and her Maniac legal team. Sorry, but guess what.
- 40:29Speaker 1: That's what happens all right. It's still in the state
- 40:31Speaker 1: of New York and for them to try and act
- 40:35Speaker 1: like there's no diversity in Westchester County is laughable at best.
- 40:40Speaker 1: I'm from Westchester County. Now, don't get me wrong. There
- 40:43Speaker 1: are some very very affluent areas of Westchester County, no
- 40:47Speaker 1: doubt about. It's Scarsdale, Irvington, plenty of places where there
- 40:52Speaker 1: are people with money. But let's not act like Westchester
- 40:59Speaker 1: is just some ritzy, yutsy plays. Yonkers is a pretty
- 41:04Speaker 1: rough and pumble spot, folks. Okay, certainly never going to
- 41:08Speaker 1: be considered an upper class suburb of New York City,
- 41:12Speaker 1: I can promise you that much. So the coronavirus stuff
- 41:16Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. I'm so tired of people trying to
- 41:21Speaker 1: use the pandemic as a way to get their way,
- 41:28Speaker 1: to make their argument, or to use it as a
- 41:33Speaker 1: way to try and get out of jail, or It's
- 41:36Speaker 1: just so ridiculous. Helen Maxwell is just as safe in
- 41:43Speaker 1: her lodgings in jail as she would be anywhere else
- 41:46Speaker 1: when it comes to the pandemic. In a footnote, they wrote,
- 41:51Speaker 1: the fact that miss Maxwell herself is neither black nor
- 41:54Speaker 1: hispanic does not deprive her of standing to raise this challenge.
- 41:59Speaker 1: I agree with that, right, I'm not gonna I would
- 42:02Speaker 1: never say that somebody can't make a challenge to the
- 42:05Speaker 1: court or to try and get a different jury pool.
- 42:08Speaker 1: That's well within your rights and go for it. But
- 42:11Speaker 1: for them to try and paint it like Westchester is
- 42:14Speaker 1: like this super affluent area, like it's Beverly Hills is
- 42:18Speaker 1: a joke, Okay, an absolute joke. Not true nowhere based
- 42:24Speaker 1: in fact, and I can tell you right now that
- 42:27Speaker 1: there are places in Yonkers that are so poor it
- 42:33Speaker 1: would make your head spin. Folks, So I don't know
- 42:36Speaker 1: what they're talking about. How the jury pool would be
- 42:40Speaker 1: tainted up in Westchester, give me a break. In fact,
- 42:44Speaker 1: I think that no matter where you go in the
- 42:49Speaker 1: vicinity of New York City, you're going to have a
- 42:52Speaker 1: bunch of rich folk, a bunch of people with money,
- 42:55Speaker 1: because guess what, to live in New York City, you
- 42:57Speaker 1: have to be rich and in the in the this
- 43:04Speaker 1: article is the actual letter from Cohen and Gressor, and
- 43:09Speaker 1: the letter reads, Dear Judge Nathan on behalf of our client,
- 43:13Speaker 1: Gillane Maxwell, we will be file file of filing the
- 43:17Speaker 1: following pre trial motions with accompanying exhibits. One motion to
- 43:21Speaker 1: dismiss the superseding indictment for breach of the non prosecution Agreement.
- 43:26Speaker 1: Two motion to Dismisscounts one through four and the superseding
- 43:30Speaker 1: indictment as time barred. Three motion under the due process
- 43:34Speaker 1: clause to suppress all evidence obtained from the government subpoena
- 43:38Speaker 1: two redacted, and to dismisscounts five and six. Four motion
- 43:43Speaker 1: to dismisscounts five and six of the superseding indictment because
- 43:46Speaker 1: the alleged misstatements are not perjurious as a matter of law.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Five motion of a for a severance of the separate
- 43:54Speaker 1: trial on counts five and six of the superseding indictment.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Six motion like from the superseding indictment. Seven motion to
- 44:05Speaker 1: dismiss Counts one through six of the superseding indictment for
- 44:08Speaker 1: pre indictment delay. Eight motion to dismiss either count one
- 44:13Speaker 1: or count three of the superseding indictment as multiplicitus. Nine
- 44:19Speaker 1: motion to dismiss the superseding indictment as it was obtained
- 44:22Speaker 1: in violation of the sixth Amendment. Ten motion for a
- 44:26Speaker 1: bill of particulars and pre trial disclosures. Eleven motion under
- 44:30Speaker 1: the Fourth Amendment Martindale and the Fifth Amendment to suppress
- 44:34Speaker 1: all evidence obtained from the government Subpoena two redacted, and
- 44:38Speaker 1: to dismiss counts five and six. Twelve motion to dismiss
- 44:43Speaker 1: counts one through four of the superseding indictment for lack
- 44:47Speaker 1: of specificity. So that is the basis for their argument, right.
- 44:53Speaker 1: Those are the twelve bullet points outlined by the defense,
- 45:00Speaker 1: and if you notice none of them say, well, our
- 45:02Speaker 1: client is innocent. It is all technicalities and all loopholes. Folks.
- 45:07Speaker 1: This is what I warned you was coming, didn't I.
- 45:09Speaker 1: And again, I'm certainly no legal expert or you know,
- 45:13Speaker 1: an Adam Klassfeld or anything like that. But the writing
- 45:16Speaker 1: was on the wall for what they were going to do.
- 45:18Speaker 1: And I've seen mafioso try and do this before. I've
- 45:21Speaker 1: seen don's try and use this same kind of defense,
- 45:25Speaker 1: and it's just it just doesn't work. It didn't work then,
- 45:28Speaker 1: and I highly doubt it's going to work now. Lawyers
- 45:33Speaker 1: also said the indictment against their client was obtained unjustly
- 45:37Speaker 1: and does not allege crime specific enough to bring before
- 45:40Speaker 1: a jury. Well, we'll see about that, won't we. Let's
- 45:43Speaker 1: get it in front of the jury, and then let's
- 45:45Speaker 1: see what the jerry has to say, shall we? Because
- 45:49Speaker 1: from where I'm sitting, oh, there's a lot. Okay, not
- 45:53Speaker 1: just enough to bring to a jury, but enough to
- 45:56Speaker 1: get your client convicted and sent to the clink for
- 45:59Speaker 1: the rest of us life. Among the twelve separate arguments
- 46:04Speaker 1: attacking the indictment, one of the first claims is that
- 46:07Speaker 1: a non prosecution deal Epstein reached with the federal government
- 46:10Speaker 1: a dozen years ago should shield Maxwell from prosecution. Two
- 46:14Speaker 1: and there it is rearing its ugly head. And this
- 46:18Speaker 1: has falls squarely on the shoulders of the United States
- 46:21Speaker 1: government and the Department of Justice. The Democrats now control
- 46:27Speaker 1: all three branches. You wanted the power, What are you
- 46:30Speaker 1: going to do with it? Are you going to continue
- 46:32Speaker 1: to let these people get off or are you finally
- 46:36Speaker 1: going to put your foot down as the government and
- 46:41Speaker 1: fix this. There's no one else to blame now, there's
- 46:45Speaker 1: no more boogeyman, none of that. It is up to
- 46:51Speaker 1: the current administration to make this happen. It is up
- 46:56Speaker 1: to the current administration to make sure or that deals
- 47:00Speaker 1: like this never happen again. And it certainly is up
- 47:06Speaker 1: to the Eleventh Circuit Court to make this right. They
- 47:09Speaker 1: are the ones who hold all the power right now.
- 47:11Speaker 1: They can make this non prosecution agreement go away and
- 47:15Speaker 1: really open the floodgates. And if there's any justice left
- 47:20Speaker 1: in this country, that's what's going to happen. If not, folks,
- 47:25Speaker 1: if the Eleventh Circuit keeps this non prosecution agreement in place,
- 47:31Speaker 1: it's just another shot to the gut just another example
- 47:36Speaker 1: of how the system is absolutely corrupt and how it
- 47:39Speaker 1: needs to be completely and utterly shattered and rebuilt. This
- 47:44Speaker 1: is their last chance. If they can't do the right
- 47:48Speaker 1: thing here and strike down this non prosecution agreement, then
- 47:55Speaker 1: I think it is certainly, certainly a sign that the
- 48:02Speaker 1: decay can no longer be hidden. So I really hope
- 48:07Speaker 1: the eleventh does the right thing. They said, the fact
- 48:12Speaker 1: that a Manhattan grand jerry convened as early as June
- 48:14Speaker 1: twenty fifth showed there was no reason for prosecution not
- 48:18Speaker 1: to wait other than a publicity driven desire to arrest
- 48:21Speaker 1: miss Maxwell on the anniversary of the Epstein indictment. No,
- 48:26Speaker 1: they're probably trying to send a message, Okay, the publicity.
- 48:30Speaker 1: You driven give me a break. If that was the case,
- 48:32Speaker 1: don't you think that they would have been going after
- 48:34Speaker 1: Maxwell for years. People have been screaming from the mountaintops
- 48:40Speaker 1: about this case for years. Not many people, but a
- 48:43Speaker 1: lot of people have, and that had no bearing on
- 48:47Speaker 1: the case. Here's the deal. Your client got nailed, and
- 48:52Speaker 1: now you're scrabbling and clawing for anything you can grab
- 48:56Speaker 1: a hold of to try and deflect blame, to try
- 49:01Speaker 1: and deflect attention. Oh, it's these technicalities. Maxwell. She should
- 49:06Speaker 1: get off because of these technicalities. Oh, Maxwell didn't do
- 49:11Speaker 1: any of this, You're blaming her for Epstein's sins. Meanwhile,
- 49:14Speaker 1: there are scores and scores of girls who are pointing
- 49:17Speaker 1: the finger directly at Gilaine Maxwell. How about you guys
- 49:20Speaker 1: try and refute some of that. Huh, No, wonder you
- 49:24Speaker 1: don't want to get wanted to go to trial. Maxwell's
- 49:29Speaker 1: lawyers also asked that she'd be tried separately on charges
- 49:32Speaker 1: that she committed perjury when she testified in a civil
- 49:35Speaker 1: case brought by one of Epstein's accusers. They said prosecutors
- 49:40Speaker 1: were using those charges improperly as a way to introduce
- 49:44Speaker 1: evidence from after the nineteen nineties. Again, technicalities, not that
- 49:50Speaker 1: the allegations are incorrect or wrong or that didn't happen,
- 49:54Speaker 1: but they're too old. You can't use those. Meanwhile, the
- 49:59Speaker 1: prosecution is well prepared to deal with this. In my opinion,
- 50:03Speaker 1: I think Alison Moe is very, very smart and very shrewd,
- 50:09Speaker 1: and I think that she will have a proper game
- 50:11Speaker 1: plan to answer each one of these ridiculous, nonsensical bullet
- 50:17Speaker 1: points thrown into the mix by Gilain Maxwell and her lawyers,
- 50:23Speaker 1: so they can try, right, they can try, but I
- 50:28Speaker 1: don't The agreement Epstein reached with a federal government that
- 50:31Speaker 1: forms one of Maxwell's arguments sought to protect Epstein and
- 50:35Speaker 1: those around him. But Maxwell herself was not identified by
- 50:39Speaker 1: name in the document, so that could prove to be
- 50:43Speaker 1: a rub for her as well if she tries to
- 50:44Speaker 1: use this argument. Her name isn't mentioned in here, and
- 50:48Speaker 1: now I know it says all unnamed co conspirators as well.
- 50:52Speaker 1: But I think that there is a pathway for a
- 50:55Speaker 1: legal fight there. There is always a pathway for illegal
- 51:00Speaker 1: fight in the United States, and I think the verbiage
- 51:03Speaker 1: of that agreement can be attacked. So we will see it.
- 51:07Speaker 1: All hinges on what the Eleventh Circuit decides to do.
- 51:10Speaker 1: If the Eleventh Circuit withholds it, I mean upholds it,
- 51:13Speaker 1: then have to move to the next level. But if
- 51:16Speaker 1: they chop it down, then all of its moot and
- 51:19Speaker 1: we really get to see things kicked into motion. The
- 51:25Speaker 1: document had been signed by Epstein when he agreed to
- 51:27Speaker 1: plead guilty to state charges in Florida that forced him
- 51:30Speaker 1: to register as a sex offender afterwards, not in New Mexico.
- 51:34Speaker 1: Though Let's remember he did not have to register as
- 51:37Speaker 1: a sex offender in New Mexico. Lawyers for Epstein had
- 51:42Speaker 1: planned to argue the deal with federal prosecutors in Florida
- 51:45Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight protected him against sex trafficking
- 51:48Speaker 1: charges lodged against him in July twenty nineteen in New
- 51:52Speaker 1: York City. That wouldn't have worked either. That argument would
- 51:55Speaker 1: have been shot dead shot to pieces. It was a
- 51:58Speaker 1: whole different case with a bunch of different charges, same
- 52:01Speaker 1: as Maxwell. Manhattan federal prosecutors maintained they could proceed against
- 52:07Speaker 1: Epstein or those who worked for him regardless. Yeah, and
- 52:12Speaker 1: that's the same presence precedent that's being used here. The
- 52:17Speaker 1: non prosecution agreement isn't an all around get out of
- 52:20Speaker 1: jail freep card. It's just for the specific crimes that
- 52:24Speaker 1: were committed during that period, So any other crimes that
- 52:28Speaker 1: were committed after or before the crimes that were protected
- 52:33Speaker 1: in the agreement are still fair game. Epstein killed himself
- 52:39Speaker 1: out of Manhattan Federal prison a month after his arrest. Allegedly,
- 52:43Speaker 1: Maxwell was arrested last July and has remained jailed on
- 52:47Speaker 1: ground she might flee. She has pleaded not guilty the
- 52:50Speaker 1: charges that she recruited three teenage girls, including a fourteen
- 52:54Speaker 1: year old, for Epstein to sexually abuse between nineteen ninety
- 52:58Speaker 1: four to nineteen ninety Federal prosecutors declined to comment and
- 53:04Speaker 1: will file arguments and response in a few weeks ahead
- 53:06Speaker 1: of a scheduled trial in July. In a recent bail application,
- 53:11Speaker 1: Maxwell revealed she had set aside seven points sixty seven
- 53:14Speaker 1: million to be spent on lawyers out of twenty two
- 53:17Speaker 1: and a half million in assets belonging to herself and
- 53:21Speaker 1: her husband. Oh a whole seven point sixty seven million. Huh?
- 53:24Speaker 1: Just you know, a couple bucks set to the side,
- 53:26Speaker 1: a little pocket change, some coins found in your cousin
- 53:31Speaker 1: from Boston's couch. Isn't that nice? These people are living
- 53:38Speaker 1: in an alternate reality, folks, not the same place that
- 53:41Speaker 1: you and I reside, that's for sure. In the event
- 53:45Speaker 1: Maxwell's lawyers cannot force a dismissal of the charges against her,
- 53:49Speaker 1: they also made requests that would reduce the number of
- 53:52Speaker 1: charges she faces. Again, it is not about her guilt
- 53:57Speaker 1: or innocence, folks, And that's exactly what this shows you.
- 54:00Speaker 1: This just puts into writing what I've been saying now
- 54:05Speaker 1: for months. It's not about guilt or innocence when it
- 54:08Speaker 1: comes to people like Gilay Maxwell. It's about technicalities, loopholes,
- 54:13Speaker 1: and having the most high profile lawyers as possible to
- 54:17Speaker 1: navigate those loopholes behind the scenes. And that's what's being
- 54:20Speaker 1: attempted here, and that's what's always happened when it comes
- 54:23Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts. But guess what, it's
- 54:28Speaker 1: not going to work this time. They're gonna need a
- 54:30Speaker 1: new strategy and I don't think they have one, because
- 54:35Speaker 1: it certainly doesn't seem like they are attempting to argue
- 54:39Speaker 1: guilt or innocence. What they're relying on is simple technicalities,
- 54:47Speaker 1: and folks, I don't think it's gonna work this time.
- 54:51Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
- 54:53Speaker 1: at Bobby Kapucci at protonmel dot com. That's BO B
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