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Why Didn’t Authorities Press Larry Visoski for More Answers (Part 2) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In
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  Speaker 1: this episode we're going to pick up where we left off,
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  Speaker 1: talking about Larry Vesosky. The government clearly understood that Vesosky
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  Speaker 1: mattered because federal prosecutors placed him before the jury during
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's criminal trial. His testimony helped establish the internal architecture
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's world before survivors testified about what occurred within it.
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  Speaker 1: That prosecutorial decision alone demonstrates that Vysotsky was not considered irrelevant,
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  Speaker 1: yet being useful enough to establish Epstein's operational environment raises
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  Speaker 1: another question about whether authorities fully explored contradictions, inconsistencies, or
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  Speaker 1: gaps between what employees said they observed and what survivors described.
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  Speaker 1: The point of an investigation is not to presume guilt,
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  Speaker 1: but to subject potentially important witnesses to documentary verification. With Vysotsky,
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  Speaker 1: decades of records existed against which his recollections could theoretically
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  Speaker 1: be compared, making his position exceptionally valuable to anyone determined
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  Speaker 1: to reconstruct the entire enterprise. Consider what a pilot necessarily
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  Speaker 1: knows even without ever witnessing conduct occurring behind a closed
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  Speaker 1: cabin door. He knows destinations because he must physically fly
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  Speaker 1: the aircraft to them. He knows approximate travel dates because
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  Speaker 1: he's responsible for making the flight happen. He knows many
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  Speaker 1: passengers because aviation regulations and operational requirements make passenger identity
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  Speaker 1: and aircraft loading relevant. He knows which locations are visited
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly and which journeys depart unexpectedly. He knows which employees
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  Speaker 1: communicate travel instructions and which individuals receive special treatment. He
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  Speaker 1: knows when aircraft are repositioned without Epstein aboard and when
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  Speaker 1: another crew member takes over. He knows how often particular
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  Speaker 1: properties are visited and whether certain passengers recur on particular routes.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Vysotsky's value to investigators should have extended far
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  Speaker 1: beyond asking the narrow question of whether he personally witnessed
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  Speaker 1: sexual activity aboard the plane. The famous cockpit door explanation
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  Speaker 1: illustrates exactly why the questioning surrounding Vysotsky has remained controversial.
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  Speaker 1: Vysotsky testified that the cockpit door was closed while he
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  Speaker 1: was flying and denied seeing sexual activity aboard Epstein's aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: Taken literally, that could perfectly well explain why a pilot
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  Speaker 1: actively controlling an aircraft did not observe events occurring inside
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  Speaker 1: the passenger cabin, but the relevant investigative inquiry should never
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  Speaker 1: have ended with whether the pilot physically watched the sex
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  Speaker 1: act while airborne. Epstein's operation extended across decades, thousands of miles,
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  Speaker 1: numerous residences, and countless interactions on the ground. Pilots leave cockpits,
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  Speaker 1: arrive at hangars, wait for passengers, observe departures, coordinate vehicles,
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  Speaker 1: communicate with staff and spend considerable time around employers outside
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  Speaker 1: the few hours during which they're manipulating aircraft control. Vesovsky's
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  Speaker 1: own long tenure meant his interaction with Epstein's universe necessarily
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  Speaker 1: extended across an enormous period. An investigator interested only in
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  Speaker 1: what he could see through a cockpit doorway would therefore
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  Speaker 1: be asking... an artificially narrow question. The meaningful issue was
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  Speaker 1: what patterns Vysotsky observed over nearly 30 years and whether
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  Speaker 1: those patterns matched what prosecutors eventually established about Epstein and Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: The absence of direct eyewitness testimony to sexual conduct does
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  Speaker 1: not eliminate the enormous circumstantial and logistical knowledge a longtime
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  Speaker 1: insider like Vysotsky might possess. I think that Maxwell's trial
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated this distinction particularly well, because Vysotsky's testimony helped jurors
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  Speaker 1: understand that hierarchy. He portrayed Maxwell as an extremely important
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  Speaker 1: figure in Epstein's life, effectively identifying her as second only
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein within the environment he observed. And that was
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  Speaker 1: a scorcher, because Maxwell's defense attempted to distance her from
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility of Epstein's conduct. Vysotsky could speak to her
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  Speaker 1: importance because he had spent years watching how Epstein's world
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  Speaker 1: actually worked. That is institutional knowledge in its purest form.
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  Speaker 1: Organizations often have formal titles that tell outsiders very little,
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  Speaker 1: while employees understand exactly who possesses real authority. Vysotsky's description
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  Speaker 1: of Maxwell revealed that he understood at least some of
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  Speaker 1: those internal power dynamics. If he could identify the hierarchy
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  Speaker 1: at the very top, investigators had obvious reasons to ask
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  Speaker 1: what else he understood about the people operating beneath it.
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  Speaker 1: Who requested flights? Who arranged passengers? Who traveled repeatedly? Who
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  Speaker 1: greeted arrivals? Who controlled properties? And who communicated Epstein's instructions
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  Speaker 1: were all questions falling naturally within his observational universe. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: none of these answers necessarily would have implicated Vesasky himself,
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  Speaker 1: but they could have helped map a conspiracy much broader
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  Speaker 1: than two people eventually prosecuted federally. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: the government's historically narrow handling of the Epstein investigation becomes
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  Speaker 1: impossible to separate from the Vysotsky question. Epstein's criminal world
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  Speaker 1: contained recruiters, schedulers, household employees, pilots, financial professionals, property personnel,
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  Speaker 1: and numerous other people who interacted with different pieces of
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  Speaker 1: his existence. A serious enterprise investigation should have attempted to
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  Speaker 1: determine where innocent employment ended, where willful blindness may have begun,
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  Speaker 1: and where knowing facilitation could potentially be established. Those categories
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  Speaker 1: are legally and morally different, and collapsing them together would
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  Speaker 1: be unfair, but refusing to explore them would be equally unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: Federal conspiracy law does not punish someone merely for working
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  Speaker 1: for a criminal, nor does association transform an employee into
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  Speaker 1: a conspirator. Prosecutors generally need evidence demonstrating knowing participation in
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  Speaker 1: an unlawful agreement or another independently chargeable offense. But determining
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  Speaker 1: whether such evidence exists requires aggressive investigation of the very
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  Speaker 1: insiders most capable of explaining the organization. And Vysotsky's extraordinarily
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  Speaker 1: long tenure put him near the top of that list. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Epstein's aircraft were particularly important because geography was
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  Speaker 1: central to his system. Survivors described abuse at multiple properties,
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  Speaker 1: and Epstein's airplanes provided the bridge connecting those properties. Zorro
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  Speaker 1: Ranch alone demonstrates why this matters because the secluded New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico compound sat far from the scrutiny surrounding Manhattan or
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach. According to survivor accounts and subsequent investigations, Abuse
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  Speaker 1: occurred at the ranch, while New Mexico officials later complained
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  Speaker 1: that the property had never received the federal investigative attention
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  Speaker 1: its significance warranted. The failure to fully investigate Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: when Epstein was alive also magnified the importance of people
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  Speaker 1: like Vysotsky. Investigators can recover physical evidence from a property,
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  Speaker 1: but they can't recover conversations that disappeared decades earlier unless
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  Speaker 1: witnesses remember them or records captured them. Employees become living
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  Speaker 1: archives in cases involving long-running organizations. A long-time pilot can
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  Speaker 1: potentially remember unusual passenger requests, recurring travel patterns, periods of
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  Speaker 1: intense activity, and relationships that documents alone can't explain. And
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  Speaker 1: these are exactly the details that transform isolated documents into
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  Speaker 1: a coherent, investigative chronology. Vysotsky's decades of continuity made them
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  Speaker 1: unusually valuable documents. because employees came and went while he remained.
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  Speaker 1: And allowing such institutional knowledge to disappear without exhaustive public
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  Speaker 1: accounting represents an enormous missed opportunity in any investigation of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's network. Then, of course, there's the issue of loyalty,
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  Speaker 1: a subject that can't be ignored when analyzing Epstein's inner circle.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein did not simply employ Vysotsky briefly before moving on
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  Speaker 1: to another pilot. He kept him around for almost the
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  Speaker 1: entirety of the period, during which Epstein developed a lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: that eventually became inseparable from allegations of systematic sexual abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Long-term employment creates economic dependence and often personal loyalty, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the rarefied environment of private aviation and Reports and
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  Speaker 1: records concerning land, financial arrangements, and other benefits reinforce the
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  Speaker 1: impression that Vysotsky's relationship with Epstein exceeded a completely impersonal
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  Speaker 1: commercial transaction. And while that might not establish criminality, it
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  Speaker 1: does establish a relationship worthy of careful examination because loyalty
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  Speaker 1: can influence what employees notice, what they rationalized, and what
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  Speaker 1: they eventually tell investigators. Epstein possessed enormous wealth and could
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  Speaker 1: substantially improve the lives of people whose cooperation he valued.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators confronting such a structure should always examine whether benefits
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  Speaker 1: were ordinary compensation, generosity, retention incentives, or something more complicated.
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  Speaker 1: The public deserves to know whether those questions were pursued
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  Speaker 1: with the intensity appropriate to a decades-long sex trafficking investigation.
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  Speaker 1: rather than simply assuming that employment relationships were innocent or
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  Speaker 1: sinister without doing the work. One of the most frustrating
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  Speaker 1: aspects of the Epstein saga is that the public repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: received fragments rather than a complete organizational picture. We learned
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  Speaker 1: about the flight logs without always receiving a comprehensive explanation
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  Speaker 1: of the flights we learned about assistance without seeing every
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  Speaker 1: investigative interview conducted with them we learned about properties long
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  Speaker 1: after opportunities to search them had vanished we learned about
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  Speaker 1: financial relationships through civil lawsuits years after Epstein's first prosecution
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  Speaker 1: We learn through Maxwell's trial that long-time employees could describe
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  Speaker 1: internal hierarchy even while denying awareness of criminal conduct. Bososki
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  Speaker 1: embodies that fragmentation perhaps better than almost anyone. His name
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  Speaker 1: appeared across flight records, testimony, correspondence, and the broader history
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's properties, but the public has never received anything
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  Speaker 1: resembling a complete prosecutorial accounting of what authorities determined about
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  Speaker 1: his knowledge. Look, at the end of the day, Larry
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  Speaker 1: Vesosky matters because Jeffrey Epstein could not have maintained his
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary lifestyle alone. Epstein required people who flew airplanes, maintained properties,
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  Speaker 1: arranged schedules, handled money, answered telephones, coordinated visitors, and solved problems.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those people may have been entirely innocent employees
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  Speaker 1: performing legitimate jobs for an employer whose criminal conduct remained
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  Speaker 1: hidden from them. Others could theoretically have possessed varying degrees
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge, suspicion, or involvement, and only evidence can tell
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  Speaker 1: us where particular individuals belonged on that spectrum. Vysotsky's longevity
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  Speaker 1: and proximity make him especially important because very few people
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  Speaker 1: observed Epstein's movements over such an extended period. He witnessed
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  Speaker 1: the evolution of Epstein's empire from the early 90s through
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  Speaker 1: the years of criminal investigation, conviction, renewed social rehabilitation, and
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  Speaker 1: eventual federal arrest. He transported Epstein while the financier accumulated
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  Speaker 1: powerful acquaintances, and maintained residences across multiple jurisdictions. He watched
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell occupy a position important enough that he later described
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  Speaker 1: her as Epstein's number two. He remained close enough to
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  Speaker 1: the operation that prosecutors called him during the most consequential
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  Speaker 1: Epstein-related criminal trial ever completed. And that's precisely why the
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  Speaker 1: lack of broader accountability surrounding Epstein's infrastructure remains so maddening.
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  Speaker 1: The federal government successfully convicted Glenn Maxwell, proving beyond a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt that Epstein did not operate entirely alone. Once
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  Speaker 1: that proposition became legally established, the obvious investigative question was
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  Speaker 1: how far the architecture of assistance extended. Not every employee
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  Speaker 1: was a conspirator, and accusing people without evidence just produces
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  Speaker 1: the very kind of injustice legitimate investigations are supposed to prevent.
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  Speaker 1: But an organization capable of moving Epstein, staff, young women, guests,
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  Speaker 1: and associates across numerous properties for years unquestionably depended upon infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: And aviation was one of the most important pieces of
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  Speaker 1: that infrastructure. And Larry Vesosky sat inside that aviation operation
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  Speaker 1: longer than anybody. And that's why it's important that Vesosky
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  Speaker 1: is not understood as just a byproduct or somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the back pages. He occupied a front row position to
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  Speaker 1: the logistics of Epstein's existence for a period spanning nearly
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  Speaker 1: 30 years. He knew the aircraft, the destinations, the properties,
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  Speaker 1: the travel rhythms, and many of the personalities passing through
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's world. Epstein apparently trusted him enough to maintain the
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  Speaker 1: relationship across decades and extend benefits well beyond a fleeting
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  Speaker 1: commercial association. Maxwell's prosecution demonstrated that Vysotsky understood at least
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  Speaker 1: part of the hierarchy surrounding Epstein. while released correspondence has
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  Speaker 1: further illuminated how deeply aviation was integrated into Epstein's day-to-day logistics.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that knowledge ever crossed the line into criminal awareness
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  Speaker 1: is a question that must be answered with evidence. But
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  Speaker 1: there should be no ambiguity whatsoever about whether authorities had
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  Speaker 1: reason to investigate the question aggressively. When a convicted sex
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  Speaker 1: offender maintained a sprawling interstate and international operation, involving private aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: remote properties, and the movement of young women? The long-time
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  Speaker 1: chief pilot was an obvious witness whose knowledge demanded exhaustive examination.
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  Speaker 1: The enduring scandal is not that the public can conclusively
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  Speaker 1: declare Larry Vesosky a criminal, because the publicly established record
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  Speaker 1: does not justify that conclusion. The enduring scandal is that
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  Speaker 1: everything we know about Jeffrey Epstein, Americans are still left asking...
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  Speaker 1: what one of his longest serving and most trusted insiders knew,
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  Speaker 1: what investigators learned from him, and why the government has
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  Speaker 1: never provided anything close to a satisfactory answer. All the
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