Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Stand Down: How the DOJ Sidelined NYPD in the Epstein Case

Transcript

Stand Down: How the DOJ Sidelined NYPD in the Epstein Case · The Epstein Chronicles

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Epstein Chronicles. Back in twenty nineteen, when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested,
• 0:10
  the FBI reached out to authorities in New York and
• 0:14
  ordered the authorities in New York to stand down and
• 0:18
  see their investigation to the federal government. And usually I
• 0:22
  just shrug my shoulders. Right, the Feds think that they
• 0:24
  have a better case, or maybe they believe they have jurisdiction,
• 0:28
  whatever it might be. But that's only for people that
• 0:30
  get the benefit of the doubt. And when it comes
• 0:32
  to the FBI and the DOJ and their behavior in
• 0:36
  the realm of Epstein, I don't think anybody should be
• 0:39
  giving them the benefit of the doubt. And honestly, I
• 0:42
  don't think I'm the only one. I think that the
• 0:45
  vast majority of people are sick of the nonsense, sick
• 0:48
  of the lies, and sick of the bs. And I
• 0:51
  don't just mean with Epstein, I mean in general, and
• 0:53
  considering all of that, and considering the piss poor job
• 0:56
  they've done, do you think they've earned the benefit of
• 0:59
  the doubt? Well? I have a funny feeling after we're
• 1:02
  done with this article and this email if you didn't
• 1:05
  have any questions before, you might have some now. So
• 1:09
  why don't we just start with this email? And this
• 1:11
  was an email that was sent from you guessed it
• 1:14
  redacted or redacted, but it's obviously federal agents talking about
• 1:18
  the case and what's going on in New York. So
• 1:22
  let's start with the first message. On July tenth, twenty nineteen,
• 1:27
  Jeffrey Berman wrote, I spoke to Sweeney. Will be going
• 1:31
  forward with the compromise. CFI in the room, but interview
• 1:35
  conducted by AUSA and agent. There will be a strategy
• 1:38
  session with CFI before each interview, and any suggestion from
• 1:42
  CFI will be incorporated by us in the interview to
• 1:46
  the extent we can. If CFI feels that they have
• 1:50
  to interject during the interview, they can, or they may
• 1:53
  talk to us outside the room. We of course will
• 1:56
  be solicitous of CFI. They're the experts. Does this work
• 2:00
  for everyone? And then there's a response from somebody who
• 2:05
  is not notated, This is fine with me if they
• 2:09
  can be nimble. For example, the agents and redacted or
• 2:12
  in Florida. As we speak, agents are doing approaches and
• 2:16
  interviews lined up for tomorrow. We can't let the bureaucracy
• 2:19
  stand in the way, have to delay things, etc. I
• 2:23
  suppose we go with it for now and see if
• 2:26
  that becomes a concern. Oh yeah, that's not concerning. Huh,
• 2:29
  can't let the bureaucracy stand in the way. What does
• 2:32
  that even mean? The next response in the chain is
• 2:35
  from the same person. It looks like sorry, interviews lined
• 2:39
  up for Friday, not tomorrow. Here's another fire. DA n
• 2:43
  Y District Attorney in New York is proceeding with their
• 2:46
  investigation and already reached out to NBC News victim to
• 2:50
  arrange an interview. I'm not sure what the point is
• 2:53
  given both their double jeopardy and sol issues. Let's discuss
• 2:57
  outreach to them. Extra response, same person, also as redacted
• 3:03
  is pointed out, DA and Y is presumably working with NYPD,
• 3:08
  but NYPD, through the Task Force, is working with us
• 3:12
  and even stood up to announce the charges with US,
• 3:15
  so we may also want to conduct outreach that way.
• 3:20
  Final message redacted just called FBI reached out to NYPD
• 3:25
  leadership already and they were told the SPU has been
• 3:28
  directed to stand down and that all the Epstein stuff
• 3:31
  needs to go through us DA and y could still
• 3:35
  try to go forward with their own investigators, so I
• 3:38
  think it's worth a call over. So what you see
• 3:41
  here is the FBI and the US Attorney's Office trying
• 3:45
  to figure out how to get the District Attorney of
• 3:49
  the State of New York out of the way so
• 3:52
  they can pursue their case in a way they want
• 3:54
  to pursue it. And look, under normal circumstances, this wouldn't
• 3:57
  be weird, right, you'd be like, all right, cool, this
• 3:59
  is what happened. But when we look at it, added
• 4:03
  to everything else we know about and all the other
• 4:05
  behavior of the federal government when it comes to Epstein
• 4:08
  and protecting them, it's very concerning. And it all goes
• 4:12
  back to the scope. The federal government wanted this case
• 4:17
  so they could control the scope so that blast radius
• 4:20
  was limited, and I think the more evidence that we're seeing,
• 4:23
  especially recently, really reinforces that point. So in this episode,
• 4:28
  we have an article from AlterNet and the headline FBI
• 4:33
  told NYPD to stand down probe into Jeffrey Epstein. This
• 4:38
  article was authored by Sarah K. Burris. Ryan Goodman, editor
• 4:43
  in chief of Just Security, uncovered a document in which
• 4:46
  the New York police department was told by the federal
• 4:49
  government to stand down on its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
• 4:54
  In a video posted on Monday, Goodman said that he
• 4:57
  found documents in which the FBI sent the instructions to
• 5:01
  the NYPD just five days after Epstein's arrest. Goodman said
• 5:05
  he found it surprising that the order also applied to
• 5:08
  the SVU Special Victims Unit, and Goodman explained that it's
• 5:12
  the key part of law enforcement that is specially trained
• 5:16
  and equipped to investigate crimes against miners and crimes of
• 5:20
  such abuse. Well, the Feds have their own department, so
• 5:23
  they're going to bring in their own people BAU you know,
• 5:27
  crimes against Victims CEOs, a whole bunch of different divisions
• 5:31
  that they use when they're pursuing crimes like this. The
• 5:34
  problem is they didn't utilize any of it, and instead
• 5:37
  they narrowed the scope so that the only targets would
• 5:40
  be Epstein and Maxwell her self. And that was all
• 5:43
  by design. It has nothing to do with them not
• 5:45
  having evidence. They have mountains of it. And that's why
• 5:49
  it's so annoying when you have people out here who
• 5:51
  try and rely on this initial investigation as something that
• 5:56
  is worthwhile as something that you can look at and say,
• 5:58
  you know what, every single door was kicked in, every
• 6:02
  bush upturned, because we know that's not true. And before
• 6:08
  it was just me telling you that. Now it's obvious
• 6:11
  from these documents that it's true. They didn't pursue this
• 6:15
  investigation the way that they usually do, especially when we're
• 6:18
  talking about organized crime, when we're talking about criminal enterprise.
• 6:23
  This is usually their favorite thing to go after because
• 6:26
  it makes headlines, it's a gigantic slam dunk, and it's
• 6:29
  a career builder. But they didn't do it, did they.
• 6:32
  They narrowed the scope and they were only focusing in
• 6:35
  on Jeffrey Epstein and Glenne Maxwell. And in pursuit of that,
• 6:39
  they had to make sure that the case was kicked
• 6:40
  down from state to federal because remember DOJ main office
• 6:45
  has no jurisdiction over state level law enforcement. So they
• 6:49
  wanted to be in control of everything from actual boots
• 6:53
  on the ground to the actual narrative. They wanted to
• 6:56
  be in control of all of it. And now we
• 6:58
  know why. I mean, you have all these crimes that
• 7:01
  were committed in New York and you don't want the
• 7:04
  assistance of the SVU, one of the most premier svus
• 7:09
  in the country, by the way, But now we'll have
• 7:12
  them step aside. We got this and I know it's
• 7:15
  just another coincidence, right. The documents showed that the existing
• 7:19
  District Attorney of New York was in an ongoing investigation
• 7:23
  into Epstein and was communicating with the victims. Some of
• 7:26
  those victims then began to speak out, including a twenty
• 7:30
  nineteen interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC. Goodman said that
• 7:35
  they considered the DA reaching out to the victims of
• 7:38
  fire that needed to be put out. All of this
• 7:42
  was during President Donald Trump's first administration. It's quite stunning
• 7:46
  because a large part of the allegations against Epstein and
• 7:49
  Glenn Maxwell and the allegedal conspirators happened in New York
• 7:53
  that would be the epicenter of a lot of the
• 7:55
  crimes of the trafficking of the young girls and women.
• 7:59
  The sexual abuse of the young girls and women happened
• 8:02
  in a townhouse in the Upper East Side of Manhattan,
• 8:04
  good Men explained. So you'd think you'd want the New
• 8:07
  York Police helping you out, have their assistance and work
• 8:12
  in coordination with them, but No, the whole last thing
• 8:15
  had to be run from Maine Justice and who was
• 8:17
  in charge at that time. Oh, that's right, Bill Barr.
• 8:20
  So to close off such an investigation from those on
• 8:23
  the ground, he said, is astonishing, as it would be
• 8:26
  the most productive avenue of getting at the other men
• 8:28
  involved in crimes. While the federal government may have assumed
• 8:32
  that the NYPD and DA stopped, they actually continued the
• 8:35
  probe through a robust investigation. I highly doubt it was robust,
• 8:39
  by the way, including speaking to the survivors through their attorneys.
• 8:44
  One part of the investigation focuses specifically on Leon Black,
• 8:47
  a private equity investor, whom Business Insider reported on last week.
• 8:52
  Black has never been charged. Well, I'm sure it's because
• 8:56
  there's no evidence, right. Has nothing to do with the
• 9:00
  poor job of the federal government or them snatching jurisdiction
• 9:03
  and providence from the local districts. Nothing to see here, though,
• 9:08
  Just how things work, folks. The office of the New
• 9:12
  Mexico Attorney General, Ronald Torres said last week that in
• 9:15
  twenty nineteen it was also told to stand down facts.
• 9:19
  That is true, one hundred percent, but they didn't have
• 9:22
  to listen. They could have had their own investigation running concurrently.
• 9:28
  The investigation was closed in twenty nineteen at the request
• 9:32
  of the U. S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District
• 9:35
  of New York. Torres said he wants them to be reopened.
• 9:39
  The U S Attorney in twenty nineteen was Jeffrey Berman,
• 9:42
  who was also actively investigating potential financial abuses related to
• 9:46
  Donald Trump's twenty seventeen presidential inaugural committee and pursuing investigations
• 9:53
  into Michael Cohen from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. The
• 9:58
  document showed that on December sixth, twenty eighteen, the NYPD
• 10:02
  SDNY n FBI Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force opened
• 10:07
  a case on Epstein. On July tenth, twenty nineteen, and
• 10:12
  Epstein's survivor, Jennifer ARREOs, was interviewed by Guthrie for The
• 10:16
  Today Show. She said, the recruiter knew she was fourteen.
• 10:20
  Wait a minute, I thought nobody was young here. I
• 10:23
  thought there was no children who were harmed. Isn't that
• 10:25
  what some of the Epstein apologists are telling us? A
• 10:28
  bunch of jerkofs. After the interview aired, ARREOs submitted a
• 10:32
  New York State court filing seeking information from Epstein about
• 10:36
  how a recruiter who allegedly worked for him Recruiteder. Her
• 10:41
  lawsuit against Maxwell and then assistant was filed on August fourteenth,
• 10:45
  twenty nineteen, just four days after Epstein was found dead,
• 10:49
  so she filed the suit against his estate. The stand
• 10:54
  down directive came in twenty nineteen. On July tenth and eleven,
• 10:58
  one month later, Epstein went dead. By January twentieth, email
• 11:03
  showed that the FBI was discussing the NYPDS probe of Epstein.
• 11:08
  So the pieces of the puzzle are certainly all coming together,
• 11:11
  and all these receipts are piling up, and all this
• 11:14
  circumstantial evidence that has been compiled are now, in my opinion,
• 11:18
  turning into the foundation for the biggest cover up in
• 11:21
  the history of the United States. And if you were
• 11:24
  wondering why they want you to move on, well here
• 11:28
  it is. All the information that goes with this episode
• 11:33
  can be found in the description box.