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How The USVI Assisted And Enabled Jeffrey Epstein · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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The conversation about Jeffrey Epstein and his behavior down in
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the US Virgin Islands has been a hot topic of
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conversation as of late, and today, in this article from
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the Insider, we're going to talk a little bit more
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about how the US Virgin Islands was complicit with helping
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Jeffrey Epstein do what he did. And to do that,
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we have an article from Business insider dot com headline
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Jeffrey Epstein used US Virgin Islands First Lady to remain
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unchecked in sects trafficking scheme, JP Morgan claims in court filing.
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This article was authored by Jacob Shamsion. And there's zero
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doubt that all of these people down in the US
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Virgin Islands that are out here now talking all kinds
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of crazy were at the very least on the ground level,
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involved one way or the other with helping Jeffrey Epstein,
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enabling Jeffrey Epstein. And now, of course when the exposure starts,
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forget it. They're a victim. Everyone's a victim, huh, except
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for the actual victims. They're the ones that are forgotten about.
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They're the ones that are having money taken from them
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by the US Virgin Islands. And does anyone think that
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one hundred and five million dollars that they already got
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is going to go to the people of the US
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Virgin Islands or is it going to go to some
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other jerk off politician down in the US Virgin Islands
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so they can stuff their pocket. New filings in the
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messy lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan
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chase over who bears responsibility for Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation,
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are dragging former US Virgin Islands First Lady Cecial DeJong
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into the spotlight. Well, guess what, that's where you belong.
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All of these people have been hiding like the cockroaches
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they are for way too long, and now that they're
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being exposed a little bit, oh forget it, God forbid.
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On Tuesday, US District Judge Jed Raykoff, who was overseeing
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the lawsuit, ordered Jeffrey Epstein's estate to produce all emails
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and other documents referencing DeJong to JP Morgan, which is
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defending itself in the lawsuit. On the same day, JP
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Morgan alleged in its own filings that DeJong was Epstein's
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primary conduit for spreading money and influence throughout the US
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Virgin Islands government. And that certainly tracks with everything we know,
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with everything we've been talking about and a lot of
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other people, by the way, for a very long time. Look,
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do you think Epstein chose to go down to the
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US Virgin Islands just for fun? He just threw darts
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at a map and one of the darts hit the
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US Virgin Islands and he was like, you know what,
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here's where I'm gonna go. Because that's not how we operated.
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Everything was calculated, everything was measured out, and there was
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a reason behind every move. Unequivocally, a political culture was
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fostered within a local Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands
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that allowed Epstein to remain unchecked in exchange for his
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sponsorship and financial contributions. JP Morgan claims in the filing,
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and I have to tell you, when's the Democratic Party
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going to have a reckoning here? How many people that
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are Democrats and high ranking Democrats have to be attached
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to this? Is there ever going to be any kind
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of self reflection? Because remember during the last administration, it
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was always finger pointing and trying to use this Epstein
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disgustingness as a political cudgel to smack their enemies. But
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when you look at all the facts surrounding this, and
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you look at all of the documented players that were
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on the stage, there's no doubt that Jeffrey Epstein had
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his tentacles deep in the Democratic Party and not only
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the Democratic Party but the bundlers who are funding it.
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And why would he do that, Well, of course he
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wants the laws to be favorable to him. So if
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he gets the bag man who owns the politician, you
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know how it all works from there, right, And he
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was a master at that. Epstein was an absolute piece
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of shit, an absolute disgusting individual, but he knew his
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craft well, and he knew how to manipulate things into
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a situation that worked for him. And he also knew
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that these greedy ass politicians were the perfect target to
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help him further his own devious, disgusting plans. I mean,
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how much more powerful of a politician do you need
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to be than George Mitchell or Bill Richardson or Bill Clinton.
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I mean, come on, now, you're talking about Stacey Plaskett,
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You're talking about the Jong just go through the list
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and go through OpenSecrets dot com and look where Epstein
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was dumping his money. So for all the big mouths
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that were out there during the last administration pumping their
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gums all the time, well where are you at now?
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The US Virgin Islands Attorney General's Office filed the lawsuit
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against JP Morgan in December, alleging the financial institution pulled
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the levers of Epstein's sex trafficking operation. Epstein died in
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Manhattan jail in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on sex
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trafficking charges, and his longtime associate co conspirator, general all
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around scusbag bipedal serpent, Glene Maxwell, was convicted in twenty
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twenty one for trafficking girls to him to rape. And yeah,
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it was just those two, right, just Epstein and Maxwell.
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Nobody else was involved here. Nobody else was shown up
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at the house to have a little party, huh. According
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to the US Virgin Islands lawsuit, Epstein's JP Morgan accounts
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were used to pay off as victims and conceal wrongdoing.
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The bank ignored red flag laws that would have allowed
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them to stop Epstein earlier, according to the suit. In
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its own filings. JP Morgan says the US Virgin Islands
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should have used its own oversight powers to stop Epstein,
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and that it was greedy for seeking more damages after
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already obtaining more than one hundred million dollars in a
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settlement with Epstein's estate. So they're trying to take more
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money out of the pocket of the survivors. I don't
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understand how the survivors aren't hell bent about this. I'd
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be so mad right now. Forget it. It's bad enough
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you're getting taxed by the government. It's bad enough the
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government took the lion's share of the money, but now
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you have another government showing up with their handout playing
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the beggar. Meanwhile, this same government was complicit with helping
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Jeffrey Epstein do what he was doing for all of
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these years. Somebody make it make sense. This next section
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is one that some people aren't gonna want to hear.
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But guess what, Like Tony Soprano says, I'm gonna say
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some bad words and you're just gonna have to listen.
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Epstein had deep ties to the local Democratic Party. JP
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Morgan claims he's beating around.
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Speaker 2: The bush here.
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Speaker 1: The author Let's be very clear, Okay, Epstein was paying
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a lot of money to a lot of Democrats for
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a very long time. And while everybody was out here
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busy pointing at alex Acosta, dudes like Bill Richardson, dudes
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like George Mitchell, somehow caninue to avoid any kind of
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real public scrutiny. So how do you explain that, where's
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the Miami Herald with their gigantic peace on George Mitchell
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or Bill Richardson? I wouldn't hold my breath. Epstein maintained
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a quid pro quo relationship with usvii's highest ranking officials
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by giving them money and political favors in exchange for
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millions of dollars in tax incentives, and for them looking
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the other way when he brought girls to his private island.
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According to JP Morgan's new filing, that's correct. There's nothing
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incorrect about that. Just follow the money, really, that's what
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it comes down to. Just follow the money, and if
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you're honest with yourself, you'll see where all of that
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money ends up. At the center of Epstein's links to
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the government officials, JP Morgan alleges was DeJong, who served
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as First Lady when her husband, John Dejeong Junior, was
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Governor of the US Virgin Islands between two thousand and
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seven and twenty and fifteen. Cecil DeJong didn't immediately respond
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to a request for comment after Insider reached a representative.
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Much of the details of her work for Epstein are
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redacted from the filing. Whenever you're talking about somebody like this,
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her job was to smooth things out for Epstein. Make
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sure things were smooth when he showed up, make sure
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the right people were there, make sure he was being
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introduced to the right people. Oh, you need to talk
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to the Economic Commissioner. Perfect, we'll bring him over for dinner.
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And that's what she did. She was a facilitator, not
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so much as in bringing girls for him to abuse,
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but a gatekeeper for other rich, powerful people in the
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local Democratic Party in the US Virgin Islands. She had
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worked for the Southern Trust Company, a corporation Epstein allegedly
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used for his sex trafficking enterprise, as well as one
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of Epstein's philanthropic foundations. According to the new JP Morgan filing,
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DeJong worked for Epstein while also serving as first Lady
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and managed Epstein's corporation despite her public role and official duties.
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The political donations she facilitated, according to JP Morgan, came
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with strings attached. Oh you don't say, of course they do,
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and of course they did. And the local politicians in
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the Democratic Party down in the US Virgin Islands, they
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were all too happy to play ball. According to the filing,
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Epstein also fostered connections with Kenneth Mapp, who served as
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governor between twenty fifteen and twenty nineteen, as well as
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Albert Bryant, the current governor, who was scheduled to be
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deposed for the lawsuit on January sixth. Neither Map nor
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a representative for Brian immediately responded to requests for comment
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about their alleged relationships with Epstein. They're not going to
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say anything.
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Speaker 2: They know better.
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Speaker 1: They're already in it too deep, and making a comment
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here just opens themselves up further to criticism. Epstein raised
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funds for Stacy Plaskett, a Democrat who serves as a
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non voting delegate, who has represented the US Virgin Islands
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in Congress since twenty fifteen, and who served as a
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House manager during former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
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Imagine that Huh, this lady's up here on her ivory
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tower talking all this nonsense, talking all this craziness, calling
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other people terrorists and the rest of it. Meanwhile, this
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woman took over thirty grand from Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I gave it back, So it's okay. No, it's
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not okay.
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Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me that the favored attack
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dog that you put out in the spotlight here is
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somebody disconnected to Epstein and nobody has anything to say
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about it.
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Speaker 2: Huh.
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Speaker 1: And I can't help but, going back to the quote
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by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, every time something like this comes up,
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some of our faives are going to be caught up
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in this. And it's gross that the legacy media is
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giving all of these people a pass. Stacey Plaskett shouldn't
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have to answer questions about what she was doing with
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Jeffrey Epstein. And furthermore, how dare you have this lady
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up here in a prominent position when she has those
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connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Plaskett has since said she's donated
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those funds to nonprofits supporting women and children and called
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Epstein's conduct despicable. Well, at first, she said she wasn't
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going to return those donations. Remember we talked about that
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at the time. And the refusal for the legacy media
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to hold people to the same standard no matter who
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they are is the biggest problem that people have with
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the legacy media these days. And you wonder why places
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like Vice are going out of business, and you wonder
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why all of these legacy media journalists are crying on
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Twitter that they're getting fired or they're not making any money. Well,
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when you make content for only half of the people,
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you shouldn't expect your shit to pop. And this story
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right here is a shining example of it. You would
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think that they'd be all over a story like this.
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Somebody like Stacy Plaskett, this high ranking official, somebody who
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has a prominent position. For the last few months, nobody
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decided to ask her about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Speaker 2: Huh. Nobody called her out in those trials or those hearings.
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I know I would have.
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Speaker 1: If I was standing in front of her and she
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was running her yap at me, my first comment would
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have been, so, how long did you take money from Epstein?
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Speaker 2: And what did you have to do for that money?
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Speaker 1: That's the question people should be asking Stacey Plaskett in
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a partially unredacted transcript for a deposition she took in May.
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Plasket discussed traveling to Epstein's Manhattan townhouse as late as
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twenty eighteen, which was more than a decade after his
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sex offender designation and about a year before his arrest
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by federal prosecutors. Now, imagine if this was, say, oh,
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I don't know Ted Cruz doing this. Can you imagine
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how crazy things would be right now? And that's all
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I'm saying about the legacy media. They don't call balls
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and strikes fair, and then they cry when nobody wants
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to listen to their bullshit. And that's exactly what's happening
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right now. People have had enough of the legacy media
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being half baked for this one or that one and
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not doing their job as the fifth of State, and
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that job is holding people in power to account, and
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they've forgotten their charter. JP Morgan alleges that Epstein's powerful
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connections with the US Virgin Islands political establishment meant that
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they effectively ignored his status as a registered sex offender,
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which followed his two thousand and seven guilty plea for
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solicitation in Florida. So can somebody give me a quality
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excuse that Stacy Plaskett can give the rest of us
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as to why she was meeting him at his house
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in twenty eighteen. Oh what, Stacey Plaskett shouldn't be held
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to the same standard as Glenn Dubin. Maybe that won't
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happen elsewhere, but here on this podcast, we're not pulling
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any punches with these people anymore. And the fact that
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people like Stacy Plaskett are thrust into these prominent roles,
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it's a really big black eye for the Democratic Party
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and there's just no way around it. In some in
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exchange for Epstein's cash and gifts, USVI made life easy
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for him. The new filing claims the government mitigated any
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burdens from his sex offender status and it made sure
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that no one asked too many questions about his transport
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and keeping of young girls on his island. And this
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is all documented, all of the people at the airport
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who saw this happening, all of the girls that talked
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about it. There's no doubt that Epstein was doing this
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with the protection of several different people in the US
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Virgin Islands. And follow the money who got his money,
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and whoever got that money, my guess is they're the
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ones that were doing the protecting. I know, a novel
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idea right to follow the money. What do we always say,
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if you follow the money on the street, you're gonna
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end up out a drug dealer. But if you follow
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the money from the drug dealer's office, inevitably you're gonna
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end up in some politician's office.
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Speaker 2: And the same holds true here.
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Speaker 1: Just follow Epstein's money and eventually it's gonna lead back
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to some scumbag politician. Person for the US Virgin Islands
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government said that JP Morgan's new filing is an obvious
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attempt to shift blame from the bank. JP Morgan Chase
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facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and should be held accountable for
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violating the law. The spokesperson said, you mean the law
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that you were chosen and elected to uphold. You know,
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the law you didn't uphold, the fact you let this
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dude do what he did. It takes a big set
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from the US Virgin Islands, in my opinion, to come
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out here and talk about there do anything. In fact,
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I would love to see the US Virgin Islands get
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sued for one hundred and five million dollars. Sounds like
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a good number. JP Morgan Chase facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's abuse
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and should be held accountable for violating the law, the
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spokesperson said. JP Morgan has also filed a lawsuit against
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Jeff Staley, a former JP Morgan executive who formed close
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ties with Epstein, alleging he should be solely responsible for
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any wrongdoing. On Wednesday, Raykoff allowed the lawsuit against Day
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to move forward, rejecting his attempts to dismiss it. The
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US Virgin Islands settled its separate sex trafficking case with
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Epstein's estate in December, with the estate agreeing to hand
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over more than one hundred and five million dollars and
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a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the
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Dead Pedophiles Island residences. The island sold for sixty million
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in May. Stephen Dekoff, the financier who purchased them, has
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said he has plans to turn them into a destination resort.
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A destination resort is it? Huh, can't wait to go there.
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That's going to be fun. And as far as the
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Virgin Islands and the corruption We've been talking about this
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for a very long time. It's nice to see some
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other people catching up. But there's no doubt that hands
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were being greased and people were on the arm, and
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it wasn't happening for free. Epstein was paying them, giving
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them money, and in return they were giving him favors.
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Speaker 2: That's called quid pro quo.
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Speaker 1: So is anybody in the US Virgin Islands ever going
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to be held responsible or is the cash grab going
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to continue in perpetuity? All right, folks, that's gonna do
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it for this one. All of the information that goes
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