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Five Years After Jeffrey Epstein's Death And Survivors Are Still Seeking Justice · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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In the wake of the grand jury documents being made available,
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there's been renewed hope that perhaps some justice is going
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to be coming as well. Unfortunately, I have my doubts
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considering how long justice has been avoided here, considering how
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long justice has been willfully ignored, I highly doubt that
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the grand jury documents are going to change anything. Let's
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be real, Okay, everybody knew that those grand jury documents
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were gonna be gross. Everybody knew what they were up to.
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Those grand jury documents. For those of us who have
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been following along, they're just receipts, right, So it just
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proves everything that we've been talking about. And to me anyway,
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there was no doubt that what happened in that grand
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jury room was straight garbage. But the sad truth is
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nobody's going to be held accountable. What Barry Krisher is
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going to lose his pension, Belohovlik's gonna lose hers, None
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of that's gonna happen, just like what THEIG reports and
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the rest of it. They're doing this just to placate you.
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That's it. There's no justice coming. There's nobody else going
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to jail or prison. I mean, hell, they can't even
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hold their faves accountable, never mind send their faves to prison.
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So instead of justice, the hustle just continues. Today we
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have an article from ABC News and the headline, five
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years after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, a push for accountability continues.
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This article was authored by James Hill. In the five
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years since sex offender Jeffrey Epstein first walked into a
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twenty third floor courtroom in Manhattan, shackled and dressed in
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navy blue prison garb, his victims have hastened the public
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downfalls of a British prince and other prominent men, provided
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key testimony that led to the imprisonment of two alleged accomplices,
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and reached out of court settlements totaling more than half
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a billion dollars, and still all of his buddies running free,
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nobody being held to account. In fact, you have people
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like Stacy Plaskett out here talk all kinds of nonsense
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about the survivors and the lawsuit, and nobody has anything
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to say about her. Because from my seat over here
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in the peanut gallery, it sure seems like Stacey Plaskett
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has some questions that need answering. Yet many of the
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survivors of Epstein's decade long sex trafficking scheme are pressing on.
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They continue to push forward in quest for justice, transparency,
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and accountability from institutions and individuals who allegedly aided, enabled,
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and turned a blind eye to the late financier pedophiles
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criminal behavior. And they should. But the truth is they're
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going to continue to run into roadblocks, and that's because
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not enough people care about what really happened. And unless
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it serves you politically, well, you have nothing to say
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about it. If you're in the legacy media. Right, they've
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had all this information as long as we have, but
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yet they chose to gaslight you and act like all
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this stuff wasn't real, act like it's a big conspiracy theory. Meanwhile,
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literally thousands of women and girls have been abused by
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these pieces of garbage, and the only person sitting in
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a jail cell's Glenn Maxwell. How is it that Sarah
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Kelln Vickers isn't in a jail cell? Now, Look, you
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can't go after or down in Florida, right, protected by
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that NPA. But what about elsewhere? You mean to tell
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me that Sarah Kelln Vickers wasn't into it up to
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her eyeballs elsewhere. That's a bunch of bs. We know
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that she was getting down in New Mexico too, But
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the problem with New Mexico, as we all know, is
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there was no state investigation. They punted it to the
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Feds so that the FEDS would have control. Oh, I
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wonder why is it all making sense yet? Does it
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click yet? Folks? You've been had once again. And it's
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wild to me that as many times as the legacy
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media has straight up lied to you, people still take
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what they have to say as if it's gospel. Now. Look,
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don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everything that the
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legacy media talks about is a bunch of bs. But
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what I am saying is, after all these years of
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being duped, shouldn't you trust but verify? Shouldn't you like
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look deeper into subject before just taking it for what
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the author says it is, considering all the bullshit we've seen,
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considering all these liars in the legacy media. Because the
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truth is, they all knew about this for a very
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long time and they chose not to say anything in
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the first half of twenty twenty four alone, lawsuits on
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behalf of Epstein's victims have been filed against the Federal
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Bureau of Investigation, current and former government officials in the
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US Virgin Islands. Epstein's former lawyer, his longtime accountant, and
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a renowned psychiatrist accused of involvement in the sex trafficking operation.
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I think that their story is not over, said Sigared McCauley,
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a lawyer who was spent over a decade advocating for
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Epstein's victims. There were so many people involved, and it's
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remarkable that there was so much facilitation of this trafficking
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operation by many individuals. What's really crazy is that nobody
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else has faced any kind of justice. And it's not
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like we're shooting from the hip here. There's literally mountains
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of evidence. We've had how many judge which just now
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say that Sarah Kelln Vickers was criminally responsible in part
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of this, but no prosecution. Huh. Let me be very
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very clear. Okay, if it was you, you'd be prosecuted,
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you'd be underneath a prison by now. So why isn't
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Sarah Kelln Vickers, all of those accused in the recent litigation,
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including the USVI officials, the lawyer, the accountant, and the
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psychiatrist have denied the allegations against them. And why isn't
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this a bigger story? You would think that down in
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the US Virgin Islands, the fact that the government is
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under the microscope for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise
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would be a bigger story. But then again we have
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to circle back and well what do we run into.
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That's right, roadblocks, obfuscation and all sorts of cover be
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and run for the legacy media's faves. Oh, they don't
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want to talk about the USVII because they'd have to
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put Stacey Plaskett on blast, and they don't want to
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do that, do they. So instead we'll do their job
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for them, and we'll continue to put the spotlight on
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the US v and their Epstein cash grab, because that's
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all it is. If they cared about justice, well, people
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would be in prison, right. Nobody went to prison. There
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was no Rico case. It was a SECO case built
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purposely to go after the finances, and they couldn't even
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do that correctly. McCauley, along with other victim rights lawyers,
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has represented hundreds of survivors of Epstein's abuse in both
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criminal and civil actions over the past decade. Her first
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client was Virginia Roberts, whose allegations of sexual abuse in
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twenty fourteen court filings against Epstein, Glenn Maxwell, Prince Andrew,
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and a host of other well known men ignited a
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firestorm of news coverage that served as a catalyst to
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almost everything Epstein related that transpired over the next decade. Well,
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you would think that, you know, George Mitchell's name would
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be mentioned. Huh, I wonder why George Mitchell's never brought up.
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And like I've told you, folks for a very long time,
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it's not just the straight up lies. It's the lives
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of omission when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein that make
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this so sinister because they knew all of this. It's
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not like people who are privy to this information and
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the legacy media had no idea what was going on.
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They all knew. They chose not to report on it.
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They chose not to lose access to people like Prince Andrew,
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and well, here are the results. Suddenly, Epstein's lenient treatment
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by authorities in Florida years earlier, and his proximity to
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powerful people were under renewed scrutiny by civil attorneys, journalists,
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and law enforcement. When I first sat in a room
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with Virginia, it was almost an entire day, and I said,
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what is it that you want me to help you with?
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How can I help you? And she said, I want
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Epstein and Maxwell to pay for their crimes. I want
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them to be in prison, said McAuley, a managing partner
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at the law firm boy Schiller and Flexner. Robert's civil
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lawsuit against Maxwell, filed in twenty fifteen and settled two
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years later, served as sort of a dry run for
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Maxwell's criminal prosecution. In twenty twenty one, Roberts alleged that Maxwell,
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the socialite daughter of British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, had
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for years enabled and participated in Epstein's abuse. Federal prosecutors
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secretly subpoenaed the sealed records of the case and later
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called as witnesses at Maxwell's trials several of the women
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who were set to testify in the civil dispute. And
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this is exactly why Prince Andrew didn't go through with it.
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This is why Prince Andrew settled because he knew that
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if he gave this testimony, the prosecutors would be able
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to dive into it and perhaps form a case against them.
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So that's why bitch asked Prince Andrew, the King of Corgheese,
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Joe Exotic of the Windsor Family, didn't sit down for
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a deposition because he knew he was cooked. You think
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his lawyer, Andrew Brettler was going to let him get cooked.
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Zero chance, folks, Zero chance. Maxwell was convicted on five
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of six counts related to the abuse in trafficking of
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underage girls and sentenced to twenty years in prison. She
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is currently appealing her conviction A big spiraling ride. Among
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the witnesses against Maxwell was Annie Farmer, who said she
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was lured by Maxwell and Epstein and sexually abused at
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his New Mexico ranch when she was just sixteen years old.
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Farmer was also one of just two of Epstein victims
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to have the opportunity to confront them at his detention
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hearing in July of twenty nineteen. Less than a month later,
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Epstein was dead. His death was ruled by the New
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York City Medical Examiner as a suicide by hanging, but
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widespread skepticism of the official account abounds to this day.
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Well that's because the official narrative is straight gobbage, dirty
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hot gobbage. And all you have to do is take
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a look at the OIG report into the death of
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Jeffrey Epstein and you see the kind of nonsense that
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took place. From Tartaglioni being in that cell, to the
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cameras not working, to the actual investigation of his death,
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none of it makes sense. And we haven't had any
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answers by anyone in power unless you're going to listen
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to what Bill Barr has to say. And I'll tell
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you what, there's about as much chance of me joining
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the Taliban as there is of me listening to Bill Barr.
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I think I've been pretty clear when I've said that
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Darth Barr is corrupt as the day is long, and
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to somebody that should not be trusted. Farmer said in
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an interview this month that attending Epstein's hearing five years
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ago was like beginning of a big spiraling ride and
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you could see that, right. I mean, imagine going through
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what these girls went through and then having to relive
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it all over again. And I feel like I haven't
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gotten off she said, I didn't anticipate that it would
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mean to speak at the hearing in terms of the
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attention that would come with that, And I don't think
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that anyone can really anticipate the way that the news
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story would take off and take on a life of
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its own. Farmer's older sister, Maria, was the first person
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to report Epstein and Maxwell to law enforcement authorities in
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nineteen ninety six, but no action was taken. Both sisters
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also spoke to the FBI in two thousand and six
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when federal prosecutors identified at least three dozen alleged victims
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of Epstein's sexual abuse. But then the government made the
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infamous sweetheart deal with Epstein that allowed him to plead
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to two relatively minor charges in state court. He served
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just thirteen months of an eighteen month sentence with liberal
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work release privileges that allowed him to spend up to
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sixteen hours a day at his office in West Palm Beach. Now,
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how would you feel if you were Annie, knowing all
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of that, and knowing that still justice hasn't been served.
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And frankly, everything that happened around Epstein was a straight
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up travesty. This man should have been in prison the
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first time around for about five thousand years. I have
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friends who have done longer stints for possession beefs than
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Jeffrey Epstein did for molesting over one hundred girls. Maria
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Farmer has been pressing for years for the FBI to
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release records of her initial contact with the agency in
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nineteen ninety six. They just won't do it. They have
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no desire to do anything like that. They want to
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keep everything under wraps. They want to say there's some
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big investigation still ongoing. That way nobody knows the deal,
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and that way nobody knows the bullshit that they were
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truly up to. And this is how they roll. So
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what you're going to see is they're going to settle
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with the Epstein survivor, just like they did with Nasser
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Epstein's nineteen fifty three trust. Epstein's death in twenty nineteen
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set off a frenzy of activity by victims advocates in
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courts from New York to Florida to the US Virgin Islands,
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where Epstein owned the Private Islands estate. Two days before
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his death, Epstein amended his will, transferring all the assets
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of his estate, valued at more than six hundred and
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fifty million to a cryptic entity called the nineteen fifty
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three Trust, apparently named after the year he was born.
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The beneficiaries of the trust have not been identified. And
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you notice everything was moved to the US Virgin Islands right. Oh,
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and by the way, the whole last trust was set
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up in the Virgin Islands by these government officials who
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are now being looked at as far as this lawsuit.
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So you want to talk about enabling Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit,
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Like I've told you from the very beginning before anybody
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else was saying it. By the way, the USVII government
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is right smack dab in the middle. And anybody who
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doesn't understand and that truly just doesn't get it because
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this was never about justice. This was about securing a bag.
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This was about making some money and also providing themselves
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some cover later on down the road. And before they
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were able to do that, thankfully, the survivors sued them.
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And now the USVII finds themselves in the position that
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JP Morgan found itself in while the USVII was going
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after them. So talk about chew on the other foot,
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Epstein named as co executors of his estate, Darren and
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Dyke and Richard Kahan, his longtime attorney and accountant. Lawyers
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for the pair, hashed out in agreement with attorneys for
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the victims to create the Epstein Victim Compensation Fund, a
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voluntary restitution program modeled after similar complex claims for multiple
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victims of nine to eleven and clergy abuse in the
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Catholic Church. The program ended its operations in August twenty
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twenty one, having paid out more than one hundred and
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twenty million two one hundred and thirty six survivors of
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Epstein sex trafficking network. Another fifty two women filed and
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privately settled claims outside of the compensation fund, according to
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court records, and the USVII got more money then the
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compensation fund paid out. How is that even possible? How
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is that okay? And how is that not more of
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an issue here with the overall story? And I need
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somebody to explain to me how the US Virgin Islands
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getting money makes it better for these survivors who actually
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were abused. Can somebody please explain that to me? To
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fund the claims program and to pay other creditors, the
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co executors of the estate sold most of Epstein's assets,
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including the Gulf Stream jet that carried him from Paris
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to Teeterborough Airport, New Jersey on the day of his arrest.
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They also sold his multimillion dollar mansions in Florida and
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New York, his apartment in central Paris, and his two
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private islands off the east coast of Saint Thomas, where
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much of the alleged abuse of children and young women
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is alleged to have taken place. Epstein's New Mexico ranch,
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the last of the estate's major real estate assets, was
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sold in August. Well, I wouldn't say the majority of it.
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I would say some of it, a lot of it.
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But what about Florida? What about New York? What about
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New Mexico? That nobody ever even talks about. Epstein's estate
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is still under probate court supervision in the US Virgin Islands.
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None of the unknown beneficiaries of the nineteen fifty three
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trust can receive benefits until all creditors are paid and
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all claims against the estate have been exhausted. With just
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a handful of lawsuits still active, the estate still holds
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assets of more than eighty four million dollars with liabilities
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of about thirty million, according to most recent accounting statement
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filed in court in Saint Thomas. This dude should ad
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every dollar taken from them and given to the survivors.
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But that's not how it works. Oh you thought that's
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what was going to happen. Sorry, you're wrong. All these
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other people have to get rich on the backs of
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these girls being abused. Survivors of Epstein's sex trafficking have
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also sought accountability from the financial institutions that held Epstein's
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vast fortunes and allegedly ignored red flags that should have
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alerted the banks and government authorities of criminal activity. JP
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Morgan Chase in Deutsche Bank each settled lawsuits brought by
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survivors for two hundred and ninety million and seventy five million, respectively,
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with no admission of wrongdoing. JP Morgan Chase paid another
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seventy five million to the USVII government, and Deutsche Bank
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agreed to pay one hundred and fifty million in penalties
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following an investigation by New York state financial regulators. It
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really woke up the financial institutions to the fact that
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they can no longer turn a blind eye when they're
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seeing these red flags in their institutions. McAuley said, oh yeah, right, sure,
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the financial sector. They're just going to clean it all
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up now, folks. That's it. We're never going to see
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this again. They're never going to be involved in any
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kind of bullshit ever again. I mean, for real, save it,
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sigared macauley. Okay. Private settlement with a prince perhaps no
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ripple effect of Epstein's sex trafficking network has received more
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attention than the ap allegations leveled by Roberts against Prince Andrew,
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who lost his military titles and royal patronages after his
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feled attempt to have Robert's lawsuit against him dismissed. The
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prince twenty nineteen BBC interview, in which he claimed not
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to recall ever meeting Roberts, was widely assailed as tone
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deaf and ineffectual. The Prince privately settled the lawsuit in
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twenty twenty two for an undisclosed sum. As part of
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the agreement, the Prince said he would make a substantial
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donation to Miss Robert's charity in support of victims' rights.
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According to a letter filed with the court, Prince Andrew
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is never intended to malign Miss Roberts's character, and he
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accepts that she has suffered both as an established victim
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of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks.
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The letter said, it's known that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked countless
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young women over the years. Prince Andrew regrets his association
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with Epstein and commends the bravery of Miss Roberts and
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other survivors in standing up for themselves and others. Yet
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not enough to bring the doe to the charity, though
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not enough to talk to the FBI save the candas responses,
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Please for somebody who cares. Expressing regret forever meeting or
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associating with Epstein became a common refrain for many whose
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names appeared in his address book or on flight logs
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of his private jet, or whose business or academic dealings
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with Ebstein were disclosed by journalists and victims lawyers. See
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what they really mean by that is that they regret
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that they were caught, Not that you know, they had
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associations with Ebstein, but that they were caught. That's what
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they really mean, because guess what, they all knew what
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Epstein was, and they chose to be around them anyway.
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The long list of remorseful includes prominent figures like Leslie Wexner,
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the founder of the limited company, billionaire private equity investor
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Leon Black, and many more. All denied any knowledge or
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participation in Epstein's elicted activities. Oh, no participation at all.
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And look, I'm not going to sit here and tell
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you that everybody was taking part in the abuse. I've
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told you a million times that that's not the case.
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There were levels to this and layers to it, and
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these dudes were all involved one way or the other,
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either enabling Epstein, financing Epstein, or in the worst cases,
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actually taking part in the abuse. Several prestigious universities, including
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Harvard and MIT, issued scathing reports on their associations with
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Epstein and acceptance of his financial gifts, even after his
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two thousand and eight guilty plea in Florida for solicitation
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of a minor into prostitution. Going forward, hopefully we will
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be in a position where trafficking victims will have some
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more protections, more people looking out for them, and more
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people doing the right thing. Finally, McCauley said. Annie Farmer
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said that the widespread recognition of the evils of epstein
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trafficking has made her feel like it was worthwhile to
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use my voice to speak out against this, But the
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constant stories in the news and on social media over
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the past five years, she said, have made it very
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difficult to escape a painful feeling that invariably surfaces wherever
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she hears his name. It's a cycle where you'll sort
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of feel like you're moving through it and kind of
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putting it in the past, but then something new comes
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up and you feel a little bit of deja vu.
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In terms of having to look backward. Annie Farmer said,
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it's also just really draining. She said that for all
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of the investigations and examinations of Epstein's operation, there is
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still so much missing. It's not clear to me how
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he was able to be in the position he was
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in financially. I think that opened up a lot of
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doors for him to commit these crimes, she told ABC News.
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And I still don't feel like there's a satisfying answer
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yet about why my sister's original complaint wasn't followed up
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on and what happened in two thousand and six when
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they recognized it was more of a systemic situation. Some
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of those answers could lie and still undisclosed records of
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the FBI, but the government has resisted calls from the victims,
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members of Congress, and the press to make the documents public.
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Prosecutors cite the potential impact exposure of the records could
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have on the retrial of Maxwell if her appeal is successful,
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and as soon as the Maxwell situation is dealt with,
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the FBI better turn these records over or it's gonna
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be a bad day for them, because once they don't
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have that protection of saying they have an ongoing investigation,
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then it's gonna be game time. You know that there's
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gonna be some sort of senator or a congressman or
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woman who's ready to go to town, whether it's for political
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purposes or otherwise. I don't really care at this point,
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as long as these documents get released, right because as usual,
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I don't care who was involved. Everybody who was involved
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gets it. There's no faiths on this podcast. I don't
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like any of these people. Last week, a federal judge
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in New York agreed that the FBI files could be
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withheld by the agency and dismissed a Freedom of Information
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Act case. First filed in twenty seventeen. And look, I
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wish I could sit here and tell you that I'm
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confident that justice is on the way and all these
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people are going to be held accountable, everybody's going to
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be exposed. But that's not gonna happen. Unfortunately, that's just
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not going to happen. And you see it right here
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with the FBI. If they have all this information and
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all of these details and all this evidence, why hasn't
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anybody else been arrested? Why hasn't anybody else been prosecuted?
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And unfortunately, up until now, there are no good answers
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to any of those questions, and unfortunately, I don't think
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any answers are coming anytime soon. All the information that
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