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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Empire Too Big For RICO (10/28/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. One of the key themes that I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about from the very beginning when it comes to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and his criminal empire that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest tells that something was amiss was that Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: wasn't hit with RICO charges. And in this episode, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit more about RICO, what
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  Speaker 1: it is, and why I find it to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest signs that Jeffrey Epstein was in fact
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  Speaker 1: an asset of the U.S. government. So why don't we
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  Speaker 1: just set the table real quick with a recap of
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  Speaker 1: what RICO is. At its core, RICO exists because lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: realized something important back in the 70s. Big criminal operations
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  Speaker 1: don't work like single crimes. They work like businesses. People
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  Speaker 1: have roles. Some recruit. Some move money. Some enforce rules.
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  Speaker 1: Some never touch the crime directly, but make sure the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing keeps running. Now, before RICO... Prosecutors had to
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  Speaker 1: charge each crime separately, which meant the people at the
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  Speaker 1: top often walked free, while underlings went to prison. RICO
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  Speaker 1: was designed to fix that loophole. Under RICO, prosecutors don't
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  Speaker 1: have to prove that every defendant committed every crime. They
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  Speaker 1: only have to prove three basic things. First, that there
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  Speaker 1: was an enterprise, which can be a company, an organization,
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  Speaker 1: or even a loose group of people working together. Check. Second,
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  Speaker 1: that the enterprise engaged in a pattern of criminal activity,
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  Speaker 1: meaning related crimes happened more than once over time. Check. Third,
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  Speaker 1: that the defendant knowingly participated in or benefited from the enterprise,
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  Speaker 1: even indirectly. That's it. You don't need a formal hierarchy
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  Speaker 1: or written contracts. Function matters more than structure. This is
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  Speaker 1: why Rico is so feared. If you're the person who
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  Speaker 1: booked hotel rooms, paid people, moved cash, threatened witnesses, or
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  Speaker 1: cleaned money, you can't hide behind the excuse of, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do the worst part. RICO treats the entire operation
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  Speaker 1: as the crime itself. Think of it like charging the
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  Speaker 1: engine instead of just the individual pistons. Once prosecutors establish
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  Speaker 1: the engine exists, everyone connected to it becomes legally exposed.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, another critical piece of RICO is discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Once prosecutors bring a RICO case, the defense gets access
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  Speaker 1: to a much wider universe of evidence. Financial records, communications,
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  Speaker 1: internal memos, third-party relationships, all of it comes into play.
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  Speaker 1: That's why RICO cases often unravel networks far beyond the
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  Speaker 1: original defendant. It's not just about prison time, it's about exposure.
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  Speaker 1: Who knew what, who paid whom, and who looked the
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  Speaker 1: other way? Now, RICO also gives prosecutors enormous leverage. Lower-level
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  Speaker 1: participants suddenly face longer sentences, which encourages cooperation. That's how
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors climb the ladder. Start with the drivers, flip them
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  Speaker 1: to get managers, flip managers to reach people pulling the strings.
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  Speaker 1: That ladder climbing is the entire point of the law.
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  Speaker 1: RICO's not meant to stop at one arrest. It's meant
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  Speaker 1: to keep going until the whole structure collapses. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why RICO is used in cases involving gangs, cults, trafficking rings,
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  Speaker 1: and financial fraud schemes. It's also why it's controversial. When
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  Speaker 1: used aggressively, it forces powerful people into the open. When
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  Speaker 1: it's avoided, it quietly protects everyone above the defendant. So
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  Speaker 1: when listeners hear that someone wasn't charged under Rico, that
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  Speaker 1: absence matters. It means prosecutors chose to treat a system
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  Speaker 1: like a series of accidents instead of what it actually was,
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  Speaker 1: an organized enterprise. So in short, Rico is the difference
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  Speaker 1: between saying that this guy committed a crime and and
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  Speaker 1: saying the whole operation was criminal from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: And once that second statement is made in court, nobody
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  Speaker 1: inside the operation should be safe anymore. Alright, so that's RICO,
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  Speaker 1: and how it should be applied and a basic overview
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  Speaker 1: of what the law is. And knowing what the law is,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most glaring contradictions in the Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: case is not merely the leniency of his treatment, but
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  Speaker 1: the structural narrowness of the charges brought against him. Federal
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors are not amateurs. and they don't accidentally undercharge defendants
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  Speaker 1: at the scale of Epstein operated. Epstein's criminal enterprise was sprawling, multi-jurisdictional,
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  Speaker 1: and sustained over decades, involving recruitment networks, transportation logistics, financial laundering,
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  Speaker 1: and institutional shielding. That constellation of facts is not ambiguous
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  Speaker 1: under federal law. It fits squarely within the conduct Rico
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  Speaker 1: was designed to address. When prosecutors instead reduce such an
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  Speaker 1: enterprise to isolated acts of solicitation, the choice is not
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  Speaker 1: legal necessity, but prosecutorial discretion. And discretion, when exercised repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: in one direction, becomes policy. Policy choices tell you who
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  Speaker 1: the system is designed to protect. And Epstein's charging history
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  Speaker 1: is therefore not confusing, it's revealing. The confusion exists only
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  Speaker 1: if one assumes good faith by default. Once that assumption
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  Speaker 1: is dropped, the pattern becomes legible. RICO exists precisely because
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  Speaker 1: traditional criminal charges fail to capture complex, ongoing criminal organizations.
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  Speaker 1: Congress created it to prevent prosecutors from pretending large conspiracies
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  Speaker 1: were just coincidental individual crimes. The statute is intentionally expansive,
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  Speaker 1: allowing the government to map relationships, financial flows, and command structures.
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  Speaker 1: It's not reserved for mafia bosses alone, despite popular mythology.
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  Speaker 1: In modern practice, RICO has been applied to musicians, cult leaders,
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  Speaker 1: street gangs, white-collar executives, and even loosely affiliated networks. The
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  Speaker 1: threshold is not violence or optics. It's continuity and enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's operation displayed continuity over at least 20 years. It
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  Speaker 1: involved employees, recruiters, financiers, legal intermediaries, and transportation staff. This
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  Speaker 1: is textbook enterprise conduct. The absence of Rico is therefore
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  Speaker 1: not a legal puzzle, but a prosecutorial decision. And look,
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  Speaker 1: to understand how extraordinary Epstein's treatment was, one must compare
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  Speaker 1: it to cases where Rico was used aggressively. Diddy was
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  Speaker 1: charged under Rico based on comparatively narrow temporal scope. The
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  Speaker 1: government alleged coordinated acts involving coercion, transportation, and intimidation. Even
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  Speaker 1: assuming the allegations are true, the scale of the alleged
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  Speaker 1: enterprise is limited when compared to Epstein's global trafficking network.
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  Speaker 1: Yet prosecutors had no hesitation invoking RICO. That tells us
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  Speaker 1: something critical about institutional confidence. Prosecutors only deploy RICO when
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  Speaker 1: they believe discovery will not endanger their own interests. RICO
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  Speaker 1: is dangerous not because it's hard to prove, but because
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  Speaker 1: it forces exposure. It opens doors prosecutors cannot later close.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's doors, for reasons unexplained publicly, were never opened. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, the R. Kelly case provides another illuminating comparison.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly's crimes were horrific and long-running, but geographically narrower and
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  Speaker 1: less institutionally embedded than Epstein's. Yet prosecutors successfully argued that
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  Speaker 1: his managers, employees, and associates formed an enterprise facilitating abuse.
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  Speaker 1: That argument was accepted by courts and juries. No intelligence
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  Speaker 1: agencies were implicated. No financial megabanks faced discovery risks. No
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  Speaker 1: foreign governments were implicated. The evidentiary blast radius was contained.
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  Speaker 1: And that containment made Rico safe to deploy. Epstein's case,
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  Speaker 1: by contrast, risked detonating across finance, intelligence, and diplomacy. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: aren't blind to the blast radius. They manage it carefully.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't stop at R. Kelly. What about Keith
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  Speaker 1: Ranieri's prosecution? That follows the same pattern. NXIVM was a
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  Speaker 1: cult masquerading as a self-help organization. It used coercion, branding,
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  Speaker 1: and financial leverage to control victims. RICO was applied without hesitation. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because NXIVM lacked sovereign protection. It had no strategic utility
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  Speaker 1: to the federal government. Its exposure embarrassed donors, not institutions.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors could pursue the case aggressively without collateral consequences to
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  Speaker 1: the state. Epstein was different. Epstein sat at the intersection
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  Speaker 1: of finance, intelligence, politics, and academia. His network overlapped with
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  Speaker 1: power centers, prosecutors answered to, not just prosecute, and that
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  Speaker 1: difference obviously mattered. And look, the argument that Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: merely a sex offender, who happened to be rich, collapses
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  Speaker 1: under basic scrutiny. Epstein's wealth was opaque, his income streams undocumented,
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  Speaker 1: and his financial privileges extraordinary. He received sweetheart arrangements from
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  Speaker 1: banks that routinely de-risked far less suspicious clients. He moved
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  Speaker 1: money internationally with minimal friction. He donated strategically to institutions
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  Speaker 1: that shielded him. These are not accidental privileges. They're the
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  Speaker 1: markers of protected status. Rico would have forced prosecutors to
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  Speaker 1: explain those privileges in court. It would have required sworn
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  Speaker 1: testimony from bankers, attorneys, and intermediaries. And that testimony would
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  Speaker 1: not have stayed contained. So the government chose avoidance over exposure.
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  Speaker 1: And the 2008 non-prosecution agreement should be understood as a
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  Speaker 1: dress rehearsal for the strategy. Prosecutors deliberately structured the deal
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  Speaker 1: to foreclose broader inquiry. They avoided co-conspirator language. They concealed
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  Speaker 1: the agreement from victims. They limited jurisdiction. reach. This was
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  Speaker 1: not incompetence. It was precision. And that same instinct carried
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  Speaker 1: forward into Epstein's later federal arrest. Narrow charges ensure narrow discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Narrow discovery ensures narrow accountability. Enrico would have undone that
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  Speaker 1: containment instantly. The choice to avoid it was consistent with
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  Speaker 1: prior behavior. Now, Glenn Maxwell's prosecution further reinforces that conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell was clearly more than a facilitator. She was an
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  Speaker 1: operational manager. Her role encompassed recruitment, scheduling, discipline, and concealment,
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't work alone. And prosecutors knew that, yet
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  Speaker 1: they structured the indictment to isolate her from the broader enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: No additional defendants were named. This is anomalous in trafficking cases.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors usually flip mid-level operatives to reach higher nodes. In
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's case, the latter simply stopped. And in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: that stop was not evidentiary. It was strategic. Because RICO
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  Speaker 1: prosecutions create discovery obligations that prosecutors cannot selectively enforce. Once invoked,
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  Speaker 1: defense counsel gains leverage to demand communications, financial records, and
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  Speaker 1: interagency correspondence. That includes intelligence community interactions. If Epstein had
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  Speaker 1: any formal or informal relationship with government entities, RICO Discovery
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  Speaker 1: would have exposed it. Even the risk of such exposure
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  Speaker 1: may have been deemed unacceptable. Prosecutors do not need proof
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  Speaker 1: of embarrassment to avoid it. They only need to foresee it.
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  Speaker 1: And in Epstein's case, restraint functioned as protection. Now the
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  Speaker 1: concept of Epstein as a government asset is controversial. but
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  Speaker 1: it can't be dismissed out of hand. Intelligence agencies historically
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  Speaker 1: cultivate unsavory figures when utility outweighs risk. That history is documented,
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  Speaker 1: not speculative. Assets are not rewarded with medals, they're rewarded
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  Speaker 1: with protection. Protection often takes the form of selective enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: It does not require written contracts or formal acknowledgement. It
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  Speaker 1: requires silence, access, and plausible deniability. Epstein's legal treatment fits
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  Speaker 1: that model disturbingly well. This does not require belief in conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: It requires recognition of incentives. And incentives shape outcomes more
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  Speaker 1: reliably than morality. Critics will often argue that Rico was
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  Speaker 1: unnecessary because Epstein was already facing significant charges. That argument
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  Speaker 1: misunderstands prosecutorial purpose. The goal of prosecution is not merely incarceration,
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  Speaker 1: but dismantlement. RICO exists to dismantle enterprises, not punish individuals
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  Speaker 1: in isolation. Epstein's enterprise survived his first prosecution intact. It
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  Speaker 1: likely survived a second had he lived. No financial infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: was seized, no network was dismantled, no institutional reforms followed.
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  Speaker 1: That's not success by any serious prosecutorial metric. All it
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  Speaker 1: is is containment. And, of course, the claim that evidence
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  Speaker 1: was insufficient for Rico collapses under comparison. Prosecutors built Rico
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  Speaker 1: cases with less documentation, fewer victims, and shorter timelines. Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: victims numbered in the dozens at the time at a minimum.
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  Speaker 1: His operations spanned borders and decades. His communications were documented.
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  Speaker 1: His associates were known. If that does not meet Rico's standards,
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  Speaker 1: then Rico's standards are meaningless. The more plausible explanation is unwillingness,
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  Speaker 1: not inability. And prosecutors rarely admit unwillingness publicly. Instead, they
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  Speaker 1: hide it behind discretion. Now, another revealing factor is timing.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was arrested during a period of heightened public scrutiny,
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  Speaker 1: not proactive enforcement. The case was reactive, not initiative-driven. That
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  Speaker 1: alone suggests institutional reluctance. Aggressive prosecutions usually unfold over years,
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  Speaker 1: not weeks. RICO cases require planning, grand jury work, and
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  Speaker 1: strategic sequencing. None of that was visible here. The government
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  Speaker 1: appeared to rush towards the narrowest viable charges. That's not
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  Speaker 1: how prosecutors behave when they intend to expose a network.
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  Speaker 1: It's how they behave when they intend to close a file.
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  Speaker 1: And the aftermath reinforces the analysis. Epstein's death conveniently foreclosed
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  Speaker 1: further inquiry. Maxwell's trial was carefully bounded. No meaningful post-conviction
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  Speaker 1: investigations followed. Congressional oversight stalled until recently. Agencies cited ongoing
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  Speaker 1: reviews that produced no results. And look, the pattern is
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  Speaker 1: not unique to Epstein, but its consistency is striking. Systems
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  Speaker 1: close ranks when exposure threatens legitimacy. RICO threatens legitimacy by design,
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  Speaker 1: and that is why it was avoided. Comparisons to organized
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  Speaker 1: crime are instructive. When prosecutors pursued mafia families, they knew
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  Speaker 1: corruption would surface. They pursued those cases anyway, because the
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  Speaker 1: institutions implicated were local, not federal. And of course, Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: network intersected with federal power itself. And that changes the calculus.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors do not prosecute the system that employs them. They
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  Speaker 1: prosecute threats to it. Epstein, paradoxically, was not treated as
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  Speaker 1: a threat. He was treated as a liability to be managed.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's also worth noting that Rico would
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  Speaker 1: have forced prosecutors to explain publicly. They would have had
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  Speaker 1: to identify beneficiaries. They would have had to explain regulatory failures.
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  Speaker 1: They would have had to explain intelligence overlaps. Silence was
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  Speaker 1: easier than explanation. And the narrow charges required narrow explanations.
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  Speaker 1: So the government chose the path of least institutional resistance.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, none of this absolves Epstein or Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: of moral responsibility. It indicts the system that selectively constrained justice.
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  Speaker 1: Selective justice is not justice at all. It's governance through discretion.
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  Speaker 1: And discretion becomes abuse when applied consistently to protect power.
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  Speaker 1: And make no mistake, Epstein's case is not anomalous. It's exemplary.
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  Speaker 1: It shows how law functions when it encounters its own reflection.
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  Speaker 1: Rico was avoided because Rico would have reflected way too much.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, public disbelief persists because citizens are taught
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  Speaker 1: to believe law operates neutrally. In reality, law operates hierarchically.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that people closest to power experienced the
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  Speaker 1: law differently, and Epstein's proximity insulated him. That insulation did
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  Speaker 1: not fail accidentally. It was maintained deliberately. Prosecutors did not
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  Speaker 1: miss Rico. They rejected it. And the narrow charging of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and Maxwell should therefore be understood as as a
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  Speaker 1: boundary setting exercise. The government drew a line around what
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  Speaker 1: could be examined. Everything inside that line was prosecuted. Everything
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  Speaker 1: outside was protected. Rico would have erased that line. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it was never on the table. So as we
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  Speaker 1: wrap up, I want you to keep in mind that
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  Speaker 1: the absence of Rico in the Epstein case is not
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  Speaker 1: an oversight, not an anomaly, or a failure of imagination.
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  Speaker 1: It's the clearest evidence of intent we have. Intent to contain,
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  Speaker 1: intent to protect, intent to avoid institutional self-exposure. Whether one
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  Speaker 1: labels Epstein a government asset or merely a protected liability,
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  Speaker 1: the outcome is the same. Rico would have forced truth,
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  Speaker 1: and truth has never been desired. That's why Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: charged narrowly, died conveniently, and left the system intact. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, the Epstein case... forces an uncomfortable but
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  Speaker 1: unavoidable reckoning with how justice actually functions when it collides
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  Speaker 1: with entrenched power. This was never about a lack of tools, evidence,
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  Speaker 1: or legal imagination, because Rico sat on the shelf the
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  Speaker 1: entire time, fully loaded and ready. It's always been about
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  Speaker 1: risk management, not public safety, and of course institutional survival,
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  Speaker 1: not accountability. Prosecutors made a calculation that exposing Epstein's full
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  Speaker 1: enterprise would expose too much else along with it. And
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  Speaker 1: that calculation explains every anomaly from the narrow charges to
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  Speaker 1: the silence surrounding co-conspirators to the abrupt end of the
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  Speaker 1: inquiry after his death. When compared to Combs, Kelly, or Ranieri,
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  Speaker 1: the disparity is too stark to dismiss as coincidence. Those
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  Speaker 1: cases were safe to unravel. Epstein's was not. The law
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  Speaker 1: was not blind here, it was deliberately nearsighted. And once
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  Speaker 1: you accept that reality, the question stops being why Epstein
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  Speaker 1: wasn't charged under Rico and becomes who exactly the government
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  Speaker 1: was protecting by making sure he never was. All of
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box. What's up everyone and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. If anybody is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for the collective misery of the world, it's the financial sector.
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  Speaker 1: These slimeballs were tripping over each other to get a
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  Speaker 1: seat at Epstein's table because, God forbid, they miss another dollar.
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  Speaker 1: They'll tell you that they had no idea what he
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  Speaker 1: was up to, like the yachts, the private islands, the
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  Speaker 1: shady foundations, and the swarm of underage girls around him
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  Speaker 1: were just quirky lifestyle choices. Yeah, okay. They were lining up, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: shaking hands, and cashing checks. Because money talks. And in
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  Speaker 1: that world, morality walks. Meanwhile, those same institutions are the
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  Speaker 1: ones strangling the rest of us. They treat working people
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  Speaker 1: like ATMs they can kick when they're low on cash,
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  Speaker 1: miss a credit card payment, boom, 30% interest, late fees
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  Speaker 1: stacked like bricks, credit rating tanked so you can't even
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  Speaker 1: finance a toaster, take out a mortgage, they own you
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  Speaker 1: for 30 years, bleeding you dry every single month. And
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  Speaker 1: don't even get me started with student loans. Half this
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  Speaker 1: country's paying rent to the government and Wall Street just
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  Speaker 1: for the privilege of trying to get ahead. Mafia-level rackets
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  Speaker 1: dressed up in business suits. But Epstein? That guy? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was a client. He got the red carpet treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Private wealth management. Exclusive investments. Don't worry about the details, sir.
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  Speaker 1: We'll handle it all. They bend over backwards for a
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  Speaker 1: literal predator while the rest of us can't even get
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  Speaker 1: a bank to approve a car loan. without offering up
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  Speaker 1: our soul, and first born as collateral. It's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: joke in the world. The people funding and protecting a
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  Speaker 1: pervert also happen to be the ones keeping your paycheck
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  Speaker 1: on a leash. And you know what the cherry on
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  Speaker 1: top is? They call it wealth transfer. Sounds so clean,
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  Speaker 1: so clinical. But what it really means is these pigs
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  Speaker 1: have built a system where money flows one direction only, up.
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  Speaker 1: They rake it in from overdraft fees, interest rates, balloon payments,
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  Speaker 1: and fine print. and they laughed their way into executive
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  Speaker 1: dinners with guys like Epstein. Guys who were nothing but
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  Speaker 1: walking dollar signs to them. They knew exactly who he was,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't care. Why would they? He wasn't some
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  Speaker 1: middle-class schmuck trying to keep the lights on. He was
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  Speaker 1: their meal ticket. So yeah, forgive me if I don't
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  Speaker 1: buy the we-had-no-idea routine. These hedge funds and banks are
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  Speaker 1: like mob bosses in three-piece suits. Oh, they'll fund predators,
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  Speaker 1: enable criminals, destroy families, and then turn around and lecture
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us about responsibility. Responsibility? The only responsibility
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  Speaker 1: they care about is keeping their champagne glasses full while
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us are out here deciding between paying
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  Speaker 1: rent or buying groceries. That's the scam. That's the joke.
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  Speaker 1: That is a cynical truth. And no matter what they
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Epstein was not some lone wolf. They all
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  Speaker 1: fed at the trough with him. And when the house
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  Speaker 1: of cards came crashing down, Not one of them went
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  Speaker 1: down with him. Funny how that works, huh? Today's article
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  Speaker 1: is from the Wall Street Journal and the headline, The
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Firms That Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein Until
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  Speaker 1: The End. This article was authored by Khadija Safdar. Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein never got kicked out of the Wall Street VIP club.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's banking and investment activities in the years before his
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  Speaker 1: 2019 death were more widespread than previously known, including accounts
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  Speaker 1: at several banks, as well as large transactions with well-known
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  Speaker 1: hedge funds, according to documents reviewed by the Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: Journal and people familiar with the matter. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what I've been telling you for a long time. Up
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  Speaker 1: until this point, the banks have taken most of the
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  Speaker 1: criticism when it comes to Epstein. But let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: the hedge funds, all the other people that were helping
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  Speaker 1: him move money, helping him stash money, helping him protect
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  Speaker 1: his fortune that was built on ill-gotten gains. And it's
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  Speaker 1: something I've talked about for a very long time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just take a look at Glenn Dubin and Highbridge Capital.
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  Speaker 1: The whole entire point of Glenn Dubin selling Highbridge to
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan was because Jeffrey Epstein facilitated the whole deal.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was the middleman. And if you think that was
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  Speaker 1: the only hedge fund that Epstein was involved in, think again.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's estate has turned over to Congress a list of
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  Speaker 1: more than 20 banks that held accounts for Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: entities related to him, according to people familiar with the matter.
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  Speaker 1: The House Oversight Committee is expected to subpoena banks for
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  Speaker 1: their records. Some of the people said, look, this is
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  Speaker 1: where it gets dangerous for Epstein's friends. If this is
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  Speaker 1: a real investigation, which I have my doubts about, then
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  Speaker 1: following the money is exactly how you get to pay dirt.
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  Speaker 1: You're never going to nail these people when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to human trafficking or anything like that. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to get them, you're going to have to go after
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  Speaker 1: the money. The same way you went after Al Capone.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you think Al Capone was protected, wait until
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  Speaker 1: you get a load of people like Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: or Epstein-related entities had accounts with several of those banks
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  Speaker 1: in his later years, including Wells Fargo, TD Banks, and
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  Speaker 1: First Bank of Puerto Rico, according to those people. JPMorgan
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  Speaker 1: Chase has said it closed Epstein's accounts in 2013 and
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  Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank said it cut them off in 2018. To date,
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  Speaker 1: JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank are the only banks that have
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  Speaker 1: been scrutinized by regulators and sued by survivors over their
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  Speaker 1: ties to Epstein. And I've been advising for years to
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  Speaker 1: go after these other financial institutions. The hedge funds, these
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  Speaker 1: other banks, other people that were involved, go after them all.
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  Speaker 1: The documents reviewed by the journal show that in the
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  Speaker 1: years before he died, Epstein moved more than $ 60 million
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  Speaker 1: into Honeycomb Partners, an investment fund, received $ 13. 5 million from
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  Speaker 1: a hedge fund run by Paul Tudor Jones, and sold
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  Speaker 1: $ 15 million worth of private company shares to crypto investor
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  Speaker 1: blockchain capital. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to
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  Speaker 1: charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to
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  Speaker 1: engage in prostitution under a deal with prosecutors. His activities
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  Speaker 1: set off compliance concerns at J.P. Morgan, but he remained
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  Speaker 1: a prized client until 2013. Then, he moved many of
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  Speaker 1: his accounts to Deutsche Bank, the oligarch's favorite bank. Has
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  Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank ever met a scumbag degenerate? they haven't wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do business with. I mean, we're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: rogues gallery of people who have had accounts with Deutsche Bank.
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  Speaker 1: From every oligarch you can imagine to the cartels to
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, these people are smashing you with a
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  Speaker 1: 30% finance rate for a credit card. JP Morgan and
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  Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank have said they regret their relationships with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and have settled civil lawsuits brought by Epstein survivors without
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  Speaker 1: admitting wrongdoing. And that's the rub, right? They can buy
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  Speaker 1: their way out. All these people can. All these institutions can.
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  Speaker 1: And then that gives them the cover. Oh, look, these
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  Speaker 1: girls just wanted payouts. No, that's the only kind of
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  Speaker 1: restitution they were going to get. They know they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get justice. So what are they supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, that's the way the system's set up, right?
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  Speaker 1: Rich people like this can hide behind their bank accounts
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  Speaker 1: and pay people off to go away. and then they'll
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  Speaker 1: just do it again. And when they get caught, when
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  Speaker 1: they get outed, all their buddies are just like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we had no idea what was going on. We had
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  Speaker 1: no clue so-and-so was such a scumbag. Epstein had bank
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  Speaker 1: accounts associated with a complex web of entities that he
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  Speaker 1: used for his personal and business activities, including sending payments
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  Speaker 1: to women, managing his real estate, and running his financial
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  Speaker 1: advisory business. Financial advisory business, huh? Can we see the
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  Speaker 1: client list? That's a client list that exists. Has one
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  Speaker 1: or two clients on it, but it's a list that exists.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see that. A spokesman for TD Bank said accounts
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  Speaker 1: held by Epstein's lawyer and accountant were closed and relationships
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  Speaker 1: terminated in 2019. A spokesman for First Bank Puerto Rico
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  Speaker 1: said Epstein was a legacy relationship that was acquired when
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  Speaker 1: the bank purchased Chase Banking Operations in the U.S. Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands in 2002. A spokesman for Wells Fargo declined to comment. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I am sure they did. Can you imagine how these
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  Speaker 1: roaches are scrambling in the back room, trying to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of information, dump documents? Having a sex crime conviction
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  Speaker 1: alone wouldn't necessarily disqualify someone from a banking service. Banks
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  Speaker 1: use many factors to evaluate the legal and reputational risk
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  Speaker 1: of retaining clients and are required to monitor suspicious activity
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  Speaker 1: such as frequent cash withdrawals. Hedge funds and VC firms
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  Speaker 1: face lighter regulation than banks and don't typically have access
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  Speaker 1: to transaction activity. The documents reviewed by the Journal show
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein transferred at least $ 60 million to Honeycomb Partners
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  Speaker 1: between 2016 and 2019, including $ 20 million in March of 2019.
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  Speaker 1: The firm is run by David Feisel, who was a
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  Speaker 1: star portfolio manager at Steve Cohen's. 72 hedge fund before
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  Speaker 1: he left in 2015. Feisel recently told clients that he
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  Speaker 1: was returning their money saying he saw fewer investment opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Feisal and a lawyer for Honeycomb didn't reply to requests
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  Speaker 1: for comment. And look, get used to that. None of
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  Speaker 1: these people are going to reply. Why would they? It's
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  Speaker 1: only going to make things worse for them, so they'll
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  Speaker 1: just shut up and wait for us all to get
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  Speaker 1: over it. A spokesman for Tudor Investments said one of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's entities invested in its Tudor's Future Fund in 2001
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  Speaker 1: and redeemed its investment in 2014. He said Jones, the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire investor and senior tutor personnel, didn't know Epstein personally
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  Speaker 1: and didn't have any direct communication or other business with him. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the whole amnesia routine. Does anyone believe it? Does anyone
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  Speaker 1: really believe they have no idea who they're doing business with?
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  Speaker 1: That they have no idea who's bringing in millions? Blockchain
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  Speaker 1: was co-founded in 2013 by Brock Pierce, a serial entrepreneur
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  Speaker 1: and chair of the Bitcoin Foundation to invest in startups
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  Speaker 1: or crypto tokens. A spokesman for blockchain said three of
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  Speaker 1: its funds purchased stakes in private companies from Epstein in 2018,
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  Speaker 1: but he wasn't an investor in its fund. Pierce said
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  Speaker 1: he left the firm in 2017. Yo, the Epstein rot
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  Speaker 1: runs so deep. that it's almost hard to quantify, especially
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about inside of the financial sector. And
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: this is something I've been trying to hammer home to
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  Speaker 1: you folks for a very, very long time. If you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for a boogeyman, it's not under your bed. It's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: not your neighbor. It's the guy that's giving you a
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  Speaker 1: 30% rate on your loan. That's the boogeyman. The documents
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  Speaker 1: also show that Epstein transferred about $ 38 million into Booth
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  Speaker 1: Bay funds between 2014 and 2017 and received about $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million in January 2017 from one of them. Booth Bay
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  Speaker 1: was founded in 2011 and is run by investor Ari Glass.
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  Speaker 1: A spokesman for Booth Bay, said the fund had no
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  Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein beyond its limited partner interest and upon
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  Speaker 1: his 2019 arrest, subjected him to a compulsory redemption. And
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: if that's the case, you can't get too mad at Boothbay, right?
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  Speaker 1: They found out what he was and they dipped. That's
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  Speaker 1: how everybody should be conducting themselves. The problem is, they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: The documents also confirm some of Epstein's transactions that have
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  Speaker 1: been previously reported with well-known associates, including tens of millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars in transfers from private equity billionaire Leon Black,
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  Speaker 1: one of Epstein's financial clients, more than $ 20 million that
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  Speaker 1: Epstein invested in Valor Ventures, a VC firm anchored by
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  Speaker 1: tech billionaire Peter Thiel, and $ 25 million that Epstein received
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  Speaker 1: from the Rothschilds' banking family. Oh, I can see the
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy people going nuts with that one. I'm sure I'm
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: going to get some of those Illuminati emails now. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: guess what? You're not wrong for being suspicious. Villar met
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  Speaker 1: Epstein just once in 2014, at a time when he
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  Speaker 1: was a well-known advisor to world leaders, a top university,
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  Speaker 1: and philanthropic organizations, a spokesman said. And he was also
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  Speaker 1: a child molester, convicted. But sure, let's say that all
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the other people were friends with him, right? It's like
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  Speaker 1: when you were a kid. Hey mom, Johnny's going to
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  Speaker 1: jump off a building. Well, you're not going, but Johnny's
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  Speaker 1: mom said I could. I'm not Johnny's mom. That kind
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: of deal, right? For me, I don't care what anybody
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  Speaker 1: else is saying or doing. The fact that Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: is a convicted child molester should be a full stop
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  Speaker 1: for everybody involved, but it wasn't. So, here we are.
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  Speaker 1: Valor hopes that the eventual distribution of these investments can
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  Speaker 1: be put to positive use by helping victims move forward
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  Speaker 1: with their lives. The New York Times previously reported on
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's investment in Valor. Black has said that he paid
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  Speaker 1: Epstein estate planning and tax advice in 2021. A law
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  Speaker 1: firm hired by the Apollo Global Management Board found that
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  Speaker 1: Black paid Epstein $ 158 million for work performed from 2012
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  Speaker 1: to 2017. Now say it with me, folks. He was
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  Speaker 1: already a child molester. No problem for Leon Black, though.
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  Speaker 1: Let's piece this dude off $ 158 million. The Journal previously
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  Speaker 1: reported that Arianne D. Rothschild negotiated a $ 25 million consulting
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  Speaker 1: contract with Epstein in 2015 to provide services to the bank.
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  Speaker 1: Spokespeople for Black and Rothschild are declined to comment. Of
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  Speaker 1: course they did. Because it's all true. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: left with, right? Oh, well, I'm not going to comment
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  Speaker 1: on it. I'm just going to hide. Okay, fine. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's all true then. The documents also reveal some
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: payments to known Epstein associates that haven't previously been reported.
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  Speaker 1: Joy Ito, $ 1 million. Epstein paid the former MIT Media
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  Speaker 1: Lab director about $ 1 million in 2014 and 2015. and
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  Speaker 1: received nearly $ 500, 000 from him in 2015, the documents show.
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  Speaker 1: In April of 2015, Epstein also sent $ 1 million to Neo10E3,
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  Speaker 1: an investment fund Ito created that year. Ito resigned from
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  Speaker 1: his MIT role in 2019, apologized for his association with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and said he would return the money Epstein invested into
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  Speaker 1: the fund. Ito didn't respond to a request for comment.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what I'm talking about. These people have
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  Speaker 1: had ample time to come forward and say, oh, look,
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  Speaker 1: I looked at my books, and I had more money
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  Speaker 1: from Epstein than I thought. But they don't do it,
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  Speaker 1: do they? They wait until they get called out. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, it's, oh, I had no idea. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't friends with them. I never took any money.
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe your eyes. Believe what I tell you. Terry
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  Speaker 1: Rod Larson, 250 Gs. Epstein transferred $ 250, 000 to the Norwegian
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  Speaker 1: diplomat in December of 2015, the documents show. Rod Larson
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: resigned in 2020 from the International Peace Institute after he
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: acknowledged he received a $ 130, 000 personal loan from Epstein in 2013. Imagine? $ 130, 000
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: personal loan? Anybody out there want to hook your boy up? $ 130, 000
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: personal loan from someone you hardly know, huh? Okay. A
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  Speaker 1: lawyer for Rod Larson said he had no comment. Alan Dershowitz, $ 85, 000.
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  Speaker 1: On March 21, 2016, Epstein paid $ 85, 000 to Alan Dershowitz Consulting.
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  Speaker 1: The attorney said it was an overdue payment from representing
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  Speaker 1: Epstein in the 2000s during his plea negotiations. He thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a terrible deal, and he fired me, the
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  Speaker 1: lawyer said. All part of the plan, huh? All part
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  Speaker 1: of the cover-up. Alright, Jeffy, I'll get you this deal,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and then afterwards you fire me, and it'll be that
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: smokescreen we're looking for. From 2003 to 2013, Epstein paid
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  Speaker 1: 46 law firms and litigation-related entities, and among those, the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: top paid was Dershowitz, who received $ 4 million during that period,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: court documents show. But I thought he fired you. I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: thought you weren't friends. Everything Dershowitz says about his relationship
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: with Epstein, I find questionable. Dershowitz said that he collected
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  Speaker 1: an hourly fee for his work on the 2008 plea
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: deal and that he was Epstein's longest-serving lawyer on the matter.
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  Speaker 1: He said that he used the sum in part to
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: pay lawyers, researchers, travel, and other expenses over four years.
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  Speaker 1: I think I made about $ 3 million myself, he said.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: A cool $ 3 million, huh? Okay. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaym. $ 6, 200. $ 6, 200.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: On July 18, 2017, the Dubai businessman paid Epstein $ 6, 200
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  Speaker 1: a document show, and a day later, Epstein paid bin
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  Speaker 1: Suleiman the same amount. The longtime chief executive of DP World,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a ports operator, was scheduled to visit Epstein's townhouse between
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: 2011 and 2014, the Journal previously reported. The sultan and
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: his spokesman didn't respond to requests for comment. Larry Summers $ 1, 232. 25.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: In November of 2014, Epstein paid $ 1, 232. 25 to L.H. Summers
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  Speaker 1: Economic Consulting. A spokeswoman said Summers said the payment was
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  Speaker 1: a travel reimbursement for a group meeting in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: The former Treasury Secretary, who had more than a dozen
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2013 through 2016, said in
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  Speaker 1: 2023 that he deeply regrets his contact with Epstein after
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  Speaker 1: his conviction. Oh, I'm sure. After the conviction, but previous,
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  Speaker 1: it was game on, huh? When you guys were all
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: riding high on the hog with Bill Clinton, everything was great.
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  Speaker 1: But when you got outed, then it became the marathon.
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  Speaker 1: We have no idea. We weren't his friend. I never
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  Speaker 1: took anything from him. Meanwhile, the truth is right here
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  Speaker 1: in black and white for everybody to see. And once
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you see it, there's no going back. You can't pretend
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  Speaker 1: that it's not happening or that it didn't happen, that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: these people that are in control of basically the world
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  Speaker 1: were not only palling around with this dude, but in
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of cases, enabling him, and in some cases,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: even aiding and abetting. And some of them, unfortunately, were
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: taking part in the abuse, according to survivors and witness reports.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: So for all the people out there that are always
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: looking for these lists, why don't we start with the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: names that we have and then go from there. All
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: of the information that goes with this episode can be
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: found in the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. One of the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: key aspects of going after an enterprise such as Jeffrey
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Epstein's is to follow the money. And it's something that
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: has never really been done with the proper kind of efficiency. Now,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: of course, there have been records subpoenaed, There have been
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: civil cases, but I'm talking about a robust criminal investigation
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: with a forensic accountant going after all of these different
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: accounts that Epstein had and all the different places where
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: he was sending money. Because under normal circumstances, if you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: receive money from a criminal enterprise or somebody engaged in
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a criminal enterprise, then your bank account and your money
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: can be frozen as well because you received ill-gotten gains.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: So they feel like you're a part of the criminal
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: network now. And you're going to have to prove that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you're not. But that's only for normal people, right? When
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's friends or Jeffrey Epstein himself,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: they have a whole different set of rules that they follow.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: So in this episode, we're going to talk a little
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: bit more about the money trail and how Congress has
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: received banking records from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. Today's article is
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: from CBS News. and the headline. Lawmakers obtain Epstein's banking records,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: release photos of his private island compound. This article was
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: authored by Katherine Watson. Democrats on the House Committee on
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Oversight and Government Reform said Wednesday that the committee was
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: has received financial records related to Jeffrey Epstein from JPMorgan
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Chase and Deutsche Bank, while releasing what they said were
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: never-before-seen photos and videos of Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. Well,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I never saw those pictures with
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: those weird-ass masks. Now, again, we've seen the dental chair before,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: and we've heard people talk about it, but those masks,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: that adds a whole different layer. And if you recall,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: we have some of Epstein's survivors talking about how she
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: saw people shapeshift. Juliette Bryant. So could that have been
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: her deep in trauma and these people wearing these masks?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Certainly something to think about. The financial documents could offer
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: a window into Epstein's extensive business dealings and connections. Epstein
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: was a major client of J.P. Morgan, private banking division
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  Speaker 1: for years before the bank cut ties with him in 2013.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Epstein then took his business to Deutsche Bank, where he
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: remained until 2018. He died by suicide in a Manhattan
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: jail in 2019 as he faced federal sex trafficking charges. Boy,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they say that confidently, huh? So let me get this straight.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: CBS News doesn't trust the administration about anything, but they're
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: going to take the administration's word for it that Epstein died?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: All right, cool, I guess. Both banks reached legal settlements
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: in 2023 over their involvement with Epstein, Deutsche Bank agreed
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to pay $ 75 million to settle a lawsuit from his accusers,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: claiming the bank knowingly benefited from his sex trafficking. Well, yeah,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: they did. 100% without a doubt. Do you really think
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the bank is paying up this kind of dough if
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: they had no fault here? They have the best lawyers
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in the world, more money than just about any country.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: And you think they're going to just pay out a
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of dough and know? That this is going to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: hang over their heads moving forward? That people are going
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to refer to it? There's no chance. The reason they
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: got into these settlements, the reason they paid out this
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: gigantic bag, is because they knew they were culpable. That's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the only reason they're going to pay out that kind
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: of money. Especially if something's a hoax. JP Morgan settled
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: its own suit for $ 290 million, CBS News reported at
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the time. Both banks have said they regret their association
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: with Epstein. Yeah, they regret it so much that they
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: stayed in business with him for all those years. Real regretful, huh?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: You see, the truth is, they regret getting caught. That's
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  Speaker 1: all that they regret. Representative Robert Garcia of California, the
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  Speaker 1: ranking member on the Oversight Committee, said Democrats plan to
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  Speaker 1: make the financial records public in the days ahead. Well,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that's a good idea. All those records should be public. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is a settled case. Why are we still protecting people? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the bank's going to be embarrassed. Well, they should be.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And considering they don't show any humility on their own,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should force it from them. The committee also
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: released 73 photos and 4 videos of Epstein's estate on
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  Speaker 1: the 72-acre island known as Little St. James that he
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  Speaker 1: owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Epstein allegedly exploited underage
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  Speaker 1: girls for sex at the island. And he had stakes
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  Speaker 1: in businesses in the U.S. territory. Allegedly? Really, allegedly? This
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  Speaker 1: man was wholesale raping people on that island and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell the truth. What, are you scared you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get sued? I dare them to sue somebody. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: what discovery would look like. There's a reason nobody's suing anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Because they all know that once discovery comes, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to get cooked. We're releasing these photos and videos to
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  Speaker 1: ensure public transparency in our investigation and to help piece
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  Speaker 1: together the full picture of Epstein's horrific crimes. We won't
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  Speaker 1: stop fighting until we deliver justice. for the survivors. It's
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: time for President Trump to release all the files now.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: And keep in mind, all of this would go away
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: if Trump would just release the files. Imagine how different
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  Speaker 1: this conversation would have been if Trump would have just
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: walked up there and said, look, I'm declassifying all of this.
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  Speaker 1: Let the chips fall where they may. He would have
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  Speaker 1: turned himself into the guy that's really transparent like he
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  Speaker 1: said he was and the guy that follows through with
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  Speaker 1: campaign promises. But no. Instead, he backtracks on everything and
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  Speaker 1: even takes it a step further by calling it a hoax.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the images and footage included unredacted versions of
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  Speaker 1: several photos that were previously published by O'Keefe Media Group,
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  Speaker 1: a conservative outlet. The photos released by the committee show
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  Speaker 1: what appeared to be various rooms in the estate, including bedrooms, bathrooms,
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  Speaker 1: and kitchens. One photo shows partially redacted handwriting on a
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: blackboard in an office. Another shows what appears to be
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  Speaker 1: a medical office with masses of men's faces hanging from
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the walls. Others show various views from outside the building.
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  Speaker 1: And again, those faces are creepy, man. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know how else to put it. That's like some shit
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  Speaker 1: out of, like, Hostel or something. Saw. Imagine sitting there
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  Speaker 1: getting your teeth cleaned and all these weird-ass masks are
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: hanging out on the walls. Like, what must be going
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  Speaker 1: through your mind? I know I'd be saying to myself,
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck is happening right now? Where am I?
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  Speaker 1: Who are these people? And what the hell's up with
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  Speaker 1: all these masks on the wall? And I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the people that we're visiting. Imagine coming to somebody's house
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  Speaker 1: and seeing this kind of decor and not having any questions.
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  Speaker 1: One of the photos shows a dentist chair, which a
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  Speaker 1: source tells CBS News was put in for one of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's girlfriends, a European woman who was studying to be
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  Speaker 1: a dentist. 100% true. That is absolutely true. but it's
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff surrounding it. I mean, just looking at
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  Speaker 1: the picture, you got massage tables everywhere. You got those
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: weird ass masks. The whole ass vibe is off. I mean,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: everything about this room, about the decor, everything, screams no
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  Speaker 1: fucking thank you. And anybody who had access to that
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  Speaker 1: room or was in that room ever and didn't say
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  Speaker 1: anything about it, how do you justify that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if I showed up at somebody's house with this kind
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  Speaker 1: of decor, you better believe I'm telling everybody about it
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: If he ends up going to prison for some sordid
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  Speaker 1: ass sex crime or something. 1000%. But you have all
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  Speaker 1: these people that were familiar with this room. With the island.
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  Speaker 1: With Jeffrey Epstein. Who are still playing dumb. The problem
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  Speaker 1: for them is. With all of this information coming out.
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  Speaker 1: That's becoming harder and harder to do. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people just aren't buying it anymore. Because it really
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  Speaker 1: stretches the imagination. To think that people were around him
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  Speaker 1: so often. at his properties, enjoying his house, enjoying his hospitality,
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  Speaker 1: and they had no idea. And now look, I'm not
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: saying everybody knew every single detail, but you have to
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: be one stupid son of a bitch not to have
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  Speaker 1: some questions about what's going on at a place like Epstein's.
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  Speaker 1: The Oversight Committee sent a request to the U.S. Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands Attorney General on November 18th for all documents, communications,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and other information regarding about investigations or potential criminal investigations
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  Speaker 1: related to Epstein or Glenn Maxwell, according to Garcia. Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: is currently serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring with Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein to sexually abuse minors, as the Justice Department put
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: it in 2022 when she was sentenced. And if you
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: recall at the time of the lawsuit down in the USVI,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of subpoenas being sent out to
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, including Elon Musk. So there was
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: so much going on behind the scenes as far as
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: trying to get information and what the USVI was doing
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  Speaker 1: that there was a lot that was probably lost in translation.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see what they
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  Speaker 1: get from the USVI and what ends up not being
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  Speaker 1: redacted because there's a lot of people that got hit
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: with subpoenas and a lot of those people have some
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: questions to answer, in my opinion, starting with people like
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, and Leon Black. How about we
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: start there? Separate from records the Oversight Committee has released,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Congress passed and President Trump signed a law giving the
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Justice Department 30 days to release all records it has
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: related to Jeffrey Epstein. That 30-day countdown began after the
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  Speaker 1: law was signed on November 19th. It's not yet clear
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  Speaker 1: how much information will be redacted. Oh, I think it's
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: pretty clear. I think we're going to get a bunch
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: of redactions and a gigantic middle finger by the DOJ
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and Pam Bondi once again. What have they done that
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: gives you any confidence that anything's going to be different
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: when it comes to this release? They haven't been transparent
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: this whole entire time. They've told us nothing but bullshit lies. Oh,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the list is on my desk. I have truck fulls
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  Speaker 1: of information, yada, yada, yada. And then to show up
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  Speaker 1: to the party with nothing in your hands. So forgive
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: me if I don't believe you this time when you
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: say you're going to bring pizza and some beers, because
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: every time you say you're going to bring something to
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the party, you show up empty handed. And I have
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: a funny feeling that that's going to be the case
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: again when we get these files. Now, the difference is
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think people are going to accept it this time.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's enough people out there that are fired
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: up and pissed off that there is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a gigantic backlash if they try to redact everything. So
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to see what comes of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that if they really want clarity and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: they really want to get going, the path to do
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: that is to follow the financials. And hopefully this is
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the start of them doing that because the financials, well,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: they don't lie. They can't be intimidated. They can't be pressed.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: They can't be paid off. They are what they are.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: And that's why, especially in this case, following the money
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: trail is the ultimate equalizer. The question is, do they
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: have the heart for it? All of the information that
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