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Jeffrey Epstein and the Latin American Power Brokers Around His Network (Part 2) (5/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off with that Miami Herald article that
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  was authored by sure show Dasgupta and the headline once again,
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  oil and Venezuela research in Cuba, inside Epstein's ties to
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  Latin America trouble and Porto Colbeo. Chavez had ordered all
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  of Venezuela's ports to be expropriated. The ports wu's private
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  owners did not comply would be seized by the military.
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  At the time, Porto Cabello, a port roughly two hundred
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  miles west of Caracas, was being run by a private
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  company called DP World. As I write this, our operations
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  have ceased to be under our control, the company's highest
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  ranking official in the region, wrote in an email to
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  DP World's top executives on August first that year. And
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  of course that was one of the big things that
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  Hugo Schabz did. He nationalized all of the oil and
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  the companies that were running these oil companies at the
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  time they were sol and some of these companies ended
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  up missing out on billions and billions of dollars. So
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  once that happened all these different ports that were being
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  managed by international firms. They were just pushed out, And
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  of course that also led to what we saw recently
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  in Venezuela with Maduro being arrested by the Trump administration.
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  DP World CEO at the time, Sultan Akhmed Binsulium, with
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  whom Epstein had shared a decades long relationship, turned to
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  Epstein for advice. Hell of a massad agent. Huh, Jeffrey Epstein,
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  King of the Massad, hanging out with nothing but shakes
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  and oil barons and decorating his quote unquote mosque on
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  the island with Islamic trapings. But maybe Ian Carrol or
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  Candae Owens or one of these other morons can tell
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  us some more about how he's really the Massad. James Bond,
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  the financier, It was actually the Cubans who had push
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  Chavez to expropriate the ports. Epstein advised Ben Suliman to
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  travel to Cuba, went over the Castro regime and then
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  have them convince the Venezuelans to let DP World operate
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  the ports. Again, look, when you're dealing with somebody like
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  Hugo Chavez, when you're dealing with the former Venezuelan regime.
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  They'll play ball if you have the right amount of dough.
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  That's what it comes down to. Are you willing to
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  grease the wheels? And if the answer is yes, game on.
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  If the answer is no, you better find someplace else
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  to do business. Bensulium and his team The Record Show
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  planned to travel to Havana in late September that year
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  and meet with Cuban officials at the historic Hotel Saratoga.
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  Neither Bensulium nor DP World responded to The Herald's requests
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  for comment. The ports of Porto Cabello remain under the
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  control of the Venezuelan regime, and in their mind they
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  probably were making more money controlling the port than outsourcing it.
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  And up until Chavez took over, that was pretty much
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  how things were going in that country. The oil companies,
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  the foreign nationals, they had providence to do whatever they
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  wanted basically. But then when you had the socialist regime
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  come in, that changed and they nationalized everything and they
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  chased out a lot of the international businesses that were
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  running these ports and helping the country operate. Black Gold
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  of the Orinoco Diegestino, The Record Show planned to correct
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  his trip for Epstein in twenty twelve and promised him
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  an armored car and security contingent during his stay there.
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  Just a loan predator, Just a guy who likes to
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  do disgusting things. How many loan predators get a security
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  detail when they go down to venezuel to negotiate with
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  the regime. Maybe one of these people that liked to
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  tell us that Epstein wasn't an international trafficker would like
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  to answer that question. Then again, maybe not. A proposed
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  itinerary shows that he wanted to introduce Epstein to some
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  of the most influential figures in the country at the time.
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  They included Alejandro and roj Chavez, personal aid, Henry Ramos
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  alop di Agostino's brother in law and the leader of
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  the Venezuelan opposition at the time, Baldo Sonso, financial advisor
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  to the state controlled oil company, and Yuchi Chen, a
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  Chinese diplomat. Well, I wonder why he wanted to introduce
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  him to a Chinese diplomat. I'm sure that mister Chen
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  wasn't corrupt. I'm sure that he wasn't over in Venezuela
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  up to no good on behalf of the CCP. Di
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  Agostino told The Herald that Epstein's plan trip to Venezuela
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  did not take place. He didn't answer why, well, why not?
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  Why wouldn't you answer why is there a reason? Why
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  wouldnt Epstein go? If it was all planned. During a
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  November nineteenth, twenty twelve lunch meeting with Epstein, the Agostino
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  discussed a business opportunity with them oil. The correspondence and
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  a copy of a non disclosure agreement reviewed by The
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  Herald show the discussion was about Venezuelan company Derwick Associates
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  joint venture with PDVSA to explore the oil fields along
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  the Ronoco River in the southern part of the country,
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  the largest petroleum reserves in the world. Think about that,
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  the largest in the world, more than Saudi Arabia, more
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  than Iran, more than anywhere in the Middle East, more
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  than America, more than Canada. And the people of Venezuela
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  were living the way they were living because these scumbags
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  in power decided to keep all that money for themselves.
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  Asociates chairman is Alejandro Bettencourt Lopez, whom di Agastino introduced
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  to Epstein. The record suggests that one of the topics
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  of discussion at di Agastino meeting with Epstein was the
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  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a federal law and at preventing
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  the bribery of foreign officials for a business gain. And
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  I'm of the belief that just about every business that
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  Epstein was involved in, whether it was behind the scenes
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  or up front, was corrupt, every last one of them.
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  And I'm also of the mind that if you were
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  in business with them and you benefited from ill gotten gains,
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  then you should be part of the conversation too, because
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  I promise you, if somebody was under RICO investigation and
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  they sent you some money, your account would be frozen
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  and the basis would be that you're receiving illicit funds.
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  You're getting funds from a criminal conspiracy. So now you're
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  a part of that criminal conspiracy, and you'd have to
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  jump through hoops, have to get a lawyer, go to
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  the court, the whole thing. Well, when it comes to
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  Jeffrey Epstein and his friends, no way, we can't have
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  a reco investigation, because of course that would lead to
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  real transparency, and that's exactly what they're trying to avoid.
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  Two years later, the Wall Street Journal reported that the
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  Justice Department was probing Derwick's business dealings in Venezuela for
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  potential corruption, an allegation that Derwick has denied. The Manhattan
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  District Attorney's office was also investigating the company for potential
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  violations of New York banking laws. The report said, huh,
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  you know that was happening. I had to tell you.
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  But all these people are breaking the law when it
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  comes to finances. These rich people, You think they have
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  the same rules we do, well, certainly not. And the
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  sad part is they benefit both ways. They get the
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  money tax free, and then on the back end they
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  find a way to shelter it so they never have
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  to pay tax on it, and on and on it goes.
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  In twenty seventeen, the Venezuelan regime, having passed into Maduro's
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  hands after Chavez's death, also announced an investigation into the
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  company for the spectacular overpricing of oil contracts. According to Reuters,
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  the US imposed sanctions on Diagostino in twenty twenty one
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  for coordinating the trade of Venezuelan oil on behalf of PDVSA,
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  which it accused of being the Maduro regime's primary conduit
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  for corruption to exploit and profit from Venezuela's natural resources.
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  The Trump administration lifted the sanctions against di Agostino last year.
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  Of course he did. The Epstein administration is going to
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  take care of Epstein's buddies, and if they feel like
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  mister die Agostino can make them a few bucks, all
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  the better. I met mister Epstein only a few times
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  to discuss business opportunities in Venezuela oil sector that did
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  not materialize, di Agostino said in a statement to The Herald,
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  I decided not to engage in any dealings with mister Epstein. Subsequently,
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  Oh no, not at all. I'm sure you guys just
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  you know, broke off all contact and decided that was
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  that you already knew what Epstein was when you were
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  dealing with them. So don't give me the bullshit, save
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  the nonsense, save the stories, miss me with all of it. Bettancourt,
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  Miami based attorney, told The Herald that di Agostino had
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  introduced his client to Epstein, but that Betancourt never did
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  business with him and did not attend the November meeting.
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  Nobody did business with them, Nobody went to the meetings.
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  Nobody knew him, and it's all just a figment of
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  our imagination. Maybe all of us are suffering through the
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  Mandela effect and we just don't know it. Then again,
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  maybe these people are just, you know, lying. After the
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  initial introduction, mister Bettancourt never spoke to or corresponded with Epstein,
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  nor did Epstein ever invest with my client, he said.
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  Mister Bettancourt had no relationship with Epstein, business or personal. No,
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  not at all. Nobody knew him. Listen, guys, nobody had
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  any idea who Epstein was or what he was up to.
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  Nobody read the paper. Well you think the most powerful
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  people in the world don't have their finger on the
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  pulse and know what's going on in the news. I mean,
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  they really think you're dumb. That's what it comes down to.
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  And I know I keep saying it, but it needs
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  to be set again. They think that their narratives are
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  just gonna hit and they're just gonna get ran with,
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  and that everybody's gonna fall in line. But that's not
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  how it works anymore. And I know that everybody listening
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  right now nobody believes it, and nobody believes that Jeffrey
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  Epstein was a lone wolf. The Justice Department in the
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  Manhattan District Attorney's Office did not answer The Herald's questions
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  about whether Epstein was also part of their probes into Dirwick. Look,
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  we had that dea probe and Epstein was named, so
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  was that this probe? I think it's highly likely. I
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  can't confirm it, obviously, but I think it's highly likely.
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  Federal officers arrested Epstein in July twenty nineteen on sex
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  trafficking charges. He was found dead in federal custody in
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  Lower Manhattan a month later, on August tenth, twenty nineteen.
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  And when I was talking about South America previously, I
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  told you that we're going to learn a lot more.
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  And here we are, and I think that this is
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  just the tip of the iceberg. Because Jeffrey Epstein, Jean
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  Luke Brunel, and god knows who else we're actively using
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  South America as a hunting ground for literally decades. So
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  just how many people have found themselves caught up in
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  that web, my guess is a lot more than we know.
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  And in that vein, we're going to keep on keeping on,
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  and when we have some more information about South America
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  and Jeffrey Epstein's operation down there will get it added
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  to the catalog. All the information that goes with this
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  episode can be found in the description box.