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Attorney Warns Epstein Settlement Could Shut Out Future Survivors (9/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Over the past few months, there has been
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  Speaker 1: some negotiations going on down in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 1: about a settlement that would basically get Jeffrey Epstein's estate
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  Speaker 1: off the hook moving forward. And this is a settlement
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  Speaker 1: proposal that was brought forth by Boies and Schiller, lawyers
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  Speaker 1: representing roughly 40 Epstein survivors. The only problem is, this
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit's going to let the Epstein estate off the hook.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, but also redistribute roughly $ 80 million
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  Speaker 1: to people like Indyke and Kahn. And frankly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how that's acceptable to anybody. Because this kind of
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  Speaker 1: settlement might be profitable to a few people that are
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  Speaker 1: involved in it, but what about all the people who
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  Speaker 1: haven't come forward yet? What about all the women with
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  Speaker 1: no names? Should they just be excluded? So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that there should be any sort of lawsuit ever
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  Speaker 1: against the Epstein estate that bars people from coming forward
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  Speaker 1: and suing them later on. Because not everybody is going
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  Speaker 1: to operate at the pace everybody else does. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take people a little bit longer. Maybe people
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  Speaker 1: aren't ready to come forward. So I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there should ever be a deal that certain people enter
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  Speaker 1: into that bars other people from suing the estate. And
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  Speaker 1: in this article, that's what we're going to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But before we jump into the article, here's a quick
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  Speaker 1: overview of what's going on. In February of 2026, a
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  Speaker 1: federal judge granted prelim approval for a new $ 35 million
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  Speaker 1: victim class action settlement targeting Jeffrey Epstein's longtime financial gatekeepers
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  Speaker 1: and estate co-executors Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn. The class
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  Speaker 1: action lawsuit specifically accused Indyke and Kahn, who managed Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: finances out of the U.S. Virgin Islands, of actively using
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  Speaker 1: shell companies, secret payments, and complex banking structures to conceal
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  Speaker 1: his sex trafficking enterprise. Now, the payout was approved by U.S.
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  Speaker 1: District Judge Aaron Submaranian, and you'll remember him from our
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  Speaker 1: Diddy coverage. He was the lawyer that oversaw the Diddy trial,
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  Speaker 1: and according to him, the deal should ensure that a
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  Speaker 1: payout between $ 25 million and $ 35 million occurs. It specifically
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  Speaker 1: compensates more than 40 survivors who were unfairly excluded from
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  Speaker 1: prior restitution funds. Now, there was a hearing on September 16th,
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  Speaker 1: 2026 about the status of where this is all at
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  Speaker 1: and if it was going to go forward. But as
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  Speaker 1: of now, we don't have any information from the court
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other. So there is the outline.
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  Speaker 1: There's what we're looking at. Now, let's dive into this article. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: VI attorney objects to broad Epstein settlement. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Matt Probosco. A Virgin Islands attorney has objected
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  Speaker 1: to a proposed settlement of all sexual assault and trafficking
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  Speaker 1: suits against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. The agreement would
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  Speaker 1: also block any future suits related to Epstein's abuse of
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  Speaker 1: women and girls, while setting aside tens of millions for
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's friends and his heirs. Boy, the U.S. Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 1: just really, really loves hooking Jeffrey Epstein up. Remember, they
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  Speaker 1: ate out of both sides of the trough. First, they
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  Speaker 1: were eating off Jeffrey Epstein's plate, and then After all
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  Speaker 1: was said and done, they claimed to be a victim
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  Speaker 1: and they started scooping up crumbs. And I told you
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  Speaker 1: at the time how disgusted it made me. Why in
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  Speaker 1: the hell should the USVI benefit to that kind of
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  Speaker 1: level when these women were hardly getting anything? Now, collectively, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money was paid out and some survivors
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  Speaker 1: got a lot more than others. But you know what's
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  Speaker 1: not disputable? The fact that the USVI made more money
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  Speaker 1: than anybody else in this whole entire ordeal. while at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, they were enabling Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit. And
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't get people more fired up and more upset,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. And another thing that
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  Speaker 1: needs to be addressed is that the vast majority of
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  Speaker 1: these people were elected Democrats, and there has never been
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  Speaker 1: a reckoning for that. It's just sort of been glazed over,
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  Speaker 1: and I find that to be completely unacceptable. A federal
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  Speaker 1: judge in New York preliminarily approved the proposed settlement brought
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  Speaker 1: by Florida-based attorneys for the lead plaintiff in a class
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  Speaker 1: action suit against Epstein's estate in February, setting a timeline
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  Speaker 1: for details to be hammered out through the summer. The
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  Speaker 1: settlement would cover all sex crime claims against Epstein between
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  Speaker 1: January 1, 1995 and August 10, 2019, when Epstein died
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  Speaker 1: in a Manhattan jail cell at 66. It would release
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's estate estimated to have dwindled to around $ 120 million,
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  Speaker 1: as well as its managers, longtime attorney and accountant for
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  Speaker 1: the sex offender, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, from the
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  Speaker 1: current litigation and any future legal action related to Epstein's crimes,
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  Speaker 1: many of which allegedly took place in the territory. Well,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But I think that Jeffrey Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: most heinous crimes took place in Florida. And that's because
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  Speaker 1: the vast majority of those girls in Florida were underage. Now,
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  Speaker 1: does that mean that Jeffrey Epstein continued on that path?
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  Speaker 1: It does not. And anybody who's being honest about the topic,
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  Speaker 1: about the subject, will tell you that Jeffrey Epstein changed
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  Speaker 1: up his pattern, changed up what he was doing. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of getting little girls from the high school, this
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  Speaker 1: rotten bastard would bring them in from other countries, places
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  Speaker 1: with less regulation, and girls that had no voice. They
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  Speaker 1: were completely dependent on him and Jean-Luc Brunel, and once
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  Speaker 1: they got to America, forget it. Sanqua attorney Russell Pate,
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  Speaker 1: who represented Virgin Islanders in suits against tobacco, oil, and
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  Speaker 1: other industries, wrote to the court expressing his objection. The
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  Speaker 1: settlement would reserve $ 80 million to be distributed, as Epstein
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  Speaker 1: laid out in his will, potentially rewarding people who aided
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  Speaker 1: and abetted the financiers' notorious sex crimes, Pate said. Not
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  Speaker 1: one single dollar of this estate should go to anybody
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  Speaker 1: besides the people who were harmed, and any other restitution
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  Speaker 1: that might have to be paid. But how can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me for a single second that Darren Indyke or
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  Speaker 1: Richard Kahn should benefit from this? These two scoundrels were
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  Speaker 1: right in the middle of all of it, and if
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  Speaker 1: the reports about the investigation are true, then they most
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  Speaker 1: certainly should be barred. from profiting from crimes they were
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  Speaker 1: involved in, no? Just because you're the executor of the estate,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that you weren't complicit. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you didn't enable Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit. And that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you didn't commit your own crimes. Pate wrote to the
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  Speaker 1: court Friday, saying he had just learned of the settlement plan.
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  Speaker 1: If it took a docket-watching attorney months to hear of
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  Speaker 1: the plan, what hope would a non-lawyer have, he asked.
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  Speaker 1: And that's certainly true. This isn't the kind of story
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  Speaker 1: that you hear on the legacy media or any of
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  Speaker 1: the salacious idiots out there, right? Because it's not something
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  Speaker 1: that really moves the needle. And for them, that's what
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  Speaker 1: it's all about, engagement. We're playing the long game here.
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  Speaker 1: And the way we go about business is that this
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  Speaker 1: is a reoccurring story each day. And we just pick
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  Speaker 1: up where we left off from the day before. That's
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  Speaker 1: how much content there is. That's how much is going on.
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  Speaker 1: And the vast majority of it isn't even reported. Like,
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  Speaker 1: where's this story? How come we're not hearing more about
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  Speaker 1: what's going on down in the USVI? Well, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Because it's not salacious enough. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: move the engagement needle. And in the old days, the
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  Speaker 1: saying used to be, if it bleeds, it leads. And
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  Speaker 1: it's still true. It's just a different medium, right? Instead
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  Speaker 1: of the news. That shit's on the internet. That it's
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  Speaker 1: on podcasts or blogs or Twitter posts, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 1: But everything's about the engagement. And everybody's trying to one-up
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  Speaker 1: the next person. when it comes to salacious nonsense. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the real heart of the story, the real meat of
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  Speaker 1: the story, is in situations like this. And not just
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  Speaker 1: one situation, all of them combined. Remember, you have to
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  Speaker 1: combine the evidence. It's not just one piece of evidence,
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  Speaker 1: it's the totality of it. And when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the totality of the evidence, it's damning. There could be
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  Speaker 1: dozens of unknown victims who have never received actual notice
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  Speaker 1: of this class action settlement, but would have their claims
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  Speaker 1: extinguished even though these victims may have timely claims pursuant
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  Speaker 1: to statute of limitation tolling available in the U.S. Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands or their home court jurisdictions. This is a due
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  Speaker 1: process problem, he wrote to the court on Friday. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows that. What, you think some woman in insert
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  Speaker 1: country here, some little village in Peru, knows about this
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  Speaker 1: class action suit? It's not all over the front page
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  Speaker 1: of the news. Nobody's on Fox News talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're all the idiots on MSNBC. You know, all the
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  Speaker 1: people that have shown up to this story over the
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  Speaker 1: past year, acting like they care so much. They only
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  Speaker 1: care when they have some salacious news that they think
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  Speaker 1: is going to be damaging to the quote-unquote other side.
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  Speaker 1: And anybody that's playing that game is not somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: serious about justice. The agreement should be altered, Pate said,
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  Speaker 1: to allow any potential victim to join the class in
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  Speaker 1: the future and not shield the estate from future suits. Further,
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  Speaker 1: the deal made in New York would undermine legal proceedings
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  Speaker 1: underway in the Virgin Islands, where the estate is situated.
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  Speaker 1: The Epstein estate, however, is a Virgin Islands entity administered
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  Speaker 1: under Virgin Islands law, and the estate, including its approximately
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  Speaker 1: $ 120 million in remaining assets, is in a U.S. Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands probate proceeding. The proposed judgment from this court would
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  Speaker 1: effectively adjudicate the rights of present and future tort claimants
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  Speaker 1: against the Epstein estate, including those who might sue in
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  Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands, Pate wrote. A key difference is how
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  Speaker 1: the wealth of a deceased person is treated in New York,
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  Speaker 1: where a named Epstein plaintiff could see $ 875, 000 versus the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands where it paid estimated those same women could
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  Speaker 1: be estimated to millions. So it really comes down to jurisdiction, right?
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  Speaker 1: And each jurisdiction has different laws. And depending on where
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  Speaker 1: you're based, you have to find the right court that
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  Speaker 1: is going to oversee your allegations. So that is the
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  Speaker 1: battle for jurisdiction. And a lot of times you'll see
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  Speaker 1: a case get thrown out without prejudice. because it's not
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  Speaker 1: filed in the right jurisdiction. New York follows an archaic
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  Speaker 1: legal principle that when a defendant dies, like Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: victims can no longer seek punitive damages, despite Epstein's outrageous, egregious,
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  Speaker 1: and reprehensible intentional conduct. The Virgin Islands, like Pennsylvania, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and a minority of other states, follows a more enlightened approach,
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  Speaker 1: that the death of a defendant changes nothing in the case,
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  Speaker 1: not the claims or the damages. Essentially, Jeffrey Epstein's estate
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  Speaker 1: inherits the same liability and damages as every claim survives
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  Speaker 1: to his estate, including punitive damages, Pate wrote. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the right way to do it. So what,
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  Speaker 1: you die and your estate gets off the hook? You
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  Speaker 1: made the money for that estate, you built that estate.
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  Speaker 1: That's your legacy, right? Well, your legacy should be torn down.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a diddler especially, yeah, fuck you. Now look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying every crime should have the same penalty, right?
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  Speaker 1: Some things are forgivable. Which one of us has never
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  Speaker 1: made a mistake? Which one of us has never done
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  Speaker 1: something we regret? But this is not that. You see,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an unreasonable person. And I don't just get
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast and bash everybody for no reason. If
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  Speaker 1: you notice a trend here, every single person that we
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  Speaker 1: talk about in depth, well, how's it turned out for them?
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  Speaker 1: Not so well, right? There's a reason. And that reason is,
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  Speaker 1: there's a mountain of evidence pointing... at every single person
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  Speaker 1: we talk about on this podcast. So if you find
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  Speaker 1: your name on this podcast, there is a damn good reason. Further,
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  Speaker 1: it makes little sense to bar unknown victims who may
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  Speaker 1: live anywhere in the world from coming forward in the future.
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  Speaker 1: She may decide to come to the U.S. Virgin Islands
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  Speaker 1: to sue Epstein's estate in its home forum, Pate wrote
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  Speaker 1: to the court. New York should not rob that victim
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  Speaker 1: of pursuing punitive damages against Epstein's estate under the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands law, the law that Jeffrey Epstein chose to
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  Speaker 1: live under and that his estate exists under, and that
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  Speaker 1: is 100% true. Everything should be governed by the USVI law.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the estate's managed. The court should set aside
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  Speaker 1: the $ 80 million for future claimants rather than pay out
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's heirs and enablers paid, argued, 1,000%. There should be
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  Speaker 1: no money left to the estate when all is said
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  Speaker 1: and done. In the plainest English possible, this settlement provides
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  Speaker 1: absolute immunity to the Epstein estate from any future victim lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: which logically will protect tens of millions of dollars in
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's estate. The Epstein estate will then distribute this excess
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  Speaker 1: money to Indyke and Kahn as Epstein's heirs. This result
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  Speaker 1: is perverse, he wrote. Further, this class action settlement robs
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  Speaker 1: victims who may come forward of going to the best
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  Speaker 1: venue possible for justice, the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of New York planned a teleconference for Tuesday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: but under the proposed agreement, the time for other victims
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  Speaker 1: to come forward has already passed. In order to receive
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  Speaker 1: funds from the settlement, women who were part of the
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  Speaker 1: class action suit must have filed out a questionnaire and
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  Speaker 1: other forms by May 12th. Just another way to screw people.
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  Speaker 1: And the court should be ashamed of itself. Every time
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  Speaker 1: you turn around, they're doing something to help these people out.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as boys in Schiller go, come on, really?
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  Speaker 1: Anything to get another buck, right? Screw everybody else who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't come forward as long as we get ours. And
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  Speaker 1: that's been an ongoing theme with all of these lawyers.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the fazools. It's all about the money.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to keep an eye on this. And
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  Speaker 1: when we get some details about what happened at that
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  Speaker 1: teleconference and about whatever decision was made, we'll get it
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  Speaker 1: added to the catalog. All the information that goes with
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