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Mega Edition: Epstein Might Be Gone But His Co-Conspirators Are Not (4/30/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. As I continue to make my way through
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the Epstein files that have recently been released, one document
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has really stood out to me, and that document is
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a diary of sorts from a girl who was sixteen
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seventeen years old, who was alleging that she was being
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used as a human incubator of sorts to have Jeffrey
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Epstein's baby. And previously there was no real evidence that
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Jeffrey Epstein had any kids, but now we have the
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email from Sarah Ferguson and we have this diary entry
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of sorts from this girl. So I don't know if
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he had kids or not. But like I always tell you,
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I don't close the door on anything that has to
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do with Jeffrey Epstein until we have evidence one way
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or the other. So what we're going to do in
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this episode is we're going to read through this diary
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entry from this girl, and I have to tell you
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it is absolutely heartbreaking. And considering the nature of the
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content here on the podcast, I don't usually say things
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like hey, trigger warning, but yo, I think I might
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have to do that right here. So consider that your
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trigger warning and with that said, let's get into the document.
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Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes. Don't speak.
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She doesn't talk. I can't stop shaking. And it's been
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a week. A decision was made, but I can't tell
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Jeffrey these things happened. Why didn't I close my eyes
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fast enough? The doctor was different again, I think for Israel.
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He had kind eyes but didn't speak directly to me.
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This was different. A shot and those rod like things
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had a hook and so much pain. Golayne said to
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push all the pain away. I don't understand. Blood and
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water all over the bed. And she was right, like
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a feeling when your tummy hurts, and when you have
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to push. She said to close my eyes and put
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my hands over my eyes, but I didn't close them
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because of the tiny cries. I'm so lost. I saw
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it between her fingers, this tiny head and body in
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the doctor's hands. It reached its tiny arm up and
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had a tiny foot. I closed my eyes and no
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more cries. I don't understand. Just say these things happened,
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but he doesn't believe that. They yelled and screamed, and
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he said it will be the same in a couple
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of months, and she said she was fed up with
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it all. I don't understand what's going on, and no
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one will tell me. I can't go to school like this.
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I can't stop shaking. Why won't anyone make it stop?
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I know Golayne is trying, but nothing changes. Why didn't
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I close my eyes? In the hall? Golane said that
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she was beautiful. She was not his, she was a
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beautiful girl. I heard her. Where is she? Why did
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she stop whimpering? She was born? I heard the tiny cries.
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I can't do this anymore. And then in the middle
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of this, there's another little insert called stillborn, with the
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words still exed out, and this is what it reads.
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These poems do not live. It's a sad diagnosis. They
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grew their toes and fingers well enough. They are little
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foreheads bulge with concentration. If they missed out on walking
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about like people, it wasn't for any lack of motherly love. Oh,
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I cannot understand what happened to them. They are proper
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in shape and number and every part. They sit so
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nicely in the pickled fluid. They smile and smile and
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smile and smile at me, And still the lungs won't
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fill and the heart won't start. They're not pigs. They're
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not even fish, though they have a piggy and a
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fishy air. It would be better if they were alive.
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That's where they were. But they are dead, and their
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mother is dead with distraction, and they stupidly stare and
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do not speak of her. Moving back to the actual
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entry that she was making. He was right a couple
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of months and two pink lines and a hold on
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being with others until after it was positive. I want
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to die. Why didn't she protect me? As long as
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I'm wearing what you want? There's no respect for me
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as a human. I'm nothing but your property and incubator.
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You only trust me when I'm under your complete control.
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I will never trust another man ever. I am the
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only one who provides and sacrifices everything. I give and
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give out of terror, and you take all out of me.
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You need me to continue keeping us all connected. Unlike drugs,
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a child's body can be sold over and over. This
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is not surprising. But there's no such thing as a
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child prostitute. There are children and cannot consent. They are
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missing the biggest in my own backyard, and so many
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more like mar A Lago and where I see mister
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Joe and miss Anne. Please release me from this torture
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and hell, controlled all by Jeffrey all the time. Get
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away from it all and go to New Mexico. What
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in the hell this makes no sense? What about school?
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Behind the scenes, He's now controlling everything when it used
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to be Glaine, who some days acts like she hates me.
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Secrets of all of them. I'm tired of keeping this secret.
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I know people are wondering, but I can't tell. I'm exhausted,
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broken promises. I don't understand why she's treating me on
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some days like I'm the enemy. But then when we
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lay in bed together and she's how she used to
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be warm, he makes her feel my tummy and it's
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so sad and confusing. Gene Pool, Why me, It makes
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no sense. Why my hair of color and my eye
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color that feels very Nazi like? But I think about
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these stupid, insane theories he has. I guess in his
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mind it makes sense. The piano and music comments are
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made to convince me this is right and will create
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perfect offspring, he calls them. I don't think it works
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that way, and it's making me hate playing all together,
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piano or viola. I'm starting to resent them both. I
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missed the person I was before I was made into
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what feels as a human incubator. My friend redacted realize
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much of everything and came to get me out of Mary's.
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She made me leave all things of value on the bed.
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She put all my belongings in the trash. I have
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maybe avoided New Mexico. I've been staying with friends, but
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never more than two or three nights because my mother
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is on the war path. Redacted have been great, so great,
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But Redacted saw changing and knows about the baby. He said,
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he promises to help me, and we will figure out
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a way and what to do. My heart belonged to her.
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She was so very beautiful. She was perfect. I can't
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bring myself to write what happened. I am beyond broken.
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I only got ten to fifteen minutes to hold in
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feed her before they took her. She's mine. I want
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her back. I'm distraught. And here is another little poem
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that was inserted in the middle of this work. It's
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called child. Your clear eyes is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
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I want to fill it with color and ducks. The
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zoo of the new whose names you meditate? April snowdrop,
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Indian pipe, little stalk without wrinkle, pool in which images
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should be grand and classical. Nothing this trouble is wringing
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of hands, this dark ceiling without a star. Back to
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the diary. Help me, please, can anyone find me? Barely
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survived all those procedures. My heart is gone. Then the
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next page says, concerned every day her passion is dead.
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Farewell to a princess and to an angel in human
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profit left behind, survived all those heart is gone. April
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twenty second. I had no choice. I wasn't ready and
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she wasn't ready. My mother had found me, and it
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was urgent. After so many bonding moments with Jeffrey Glaine,
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their baby inside me, with me in the middle, she
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wouldn't even look at me. We said nothing to one another,
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and I was so confused. When I arrived on Palm Beach,
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I was taken to a house close to Jeffrey's I
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think called Ocean Boulevard or street. But it was close
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and I was alone except for a new driver, not
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mister Juan, an elderly French lady whose picture on the
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wall didn't have her. She had a thick accent and
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was kind. Said that she had been born to deliver
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babies and had been doing so before I was born.
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Similar as to the last one, with shot and hook,
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but too much blood, with so much water and unbearable pain.
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She put her hands inside of me and seemed worried
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I didn't understand something about the baby facing the wrong
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way and putting pressure on a placenta. Things would have
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to be different, she said. I had to be brave
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and strong and listen to her directions, so she get
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helped safely get the baby out. I was terrified seeing
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so much blood on the bed and floor and started
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to panic. She had me flip over on my hands
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and knees and had me push and push, and it
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was so excruciating. I could feel everything as she tried
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to guide the baby out, but I was so tired.
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I felt as if I was dying. But suddenly she
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caught a beautiful baby girl who made more than a
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whimper but beautiful cries. She let me hold her and
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washed her and brought her back clean and perfect. She
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smelled so good and showed me how to feed her.
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But only after maybe fifteen minutes mister m came to
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take her, and I was hysterical and begging for more time.
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He said, those horrible girls were in the car waiting,
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but I wouldn't let her go. The old woman promised
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me that she would be safe, and I had to
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let her go. Four pounds ten ounces eighteen inches with
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beautiful long fingers on dead inside, life has no meaning.
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I don't want to be here. Another poem that's been inserted.
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The girl is perfected. Her dead body wears a smile
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of accomplishment. The illusion of a Greek necessity flows in
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the scrolls of her toga. Her bare feet seemed to
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be saying, we have come so far, it's over. Each
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dead child coiled a white serpent, one at each little
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pitcher of milk, now empty. She is fooled, then back
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into her body as petals of a rose clothes. When
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the garden stiffens and odors bleed from the sweet, deep
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throats of the night flower, the moon has nothing to
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be sad about, staring at her from hood of bone.
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She's used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle
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and drag back to the diary. Jean lu Brunel is
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a disgusting pig with bad breath, and I am almost
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positive does these disgusting things because he's struggling with maybe
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being gay. Six weeks wasn't even given before being sent
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back punishment for trying to run. Why can no one
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help me? Glen is gone. I'm so lost and my
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heart is broken? Is this my destiny? I need them
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everyone all to see. I still always dream to build
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a better world. She went from being a beautiful young
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girl to a sad, broken sho but maybe a hope
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after it all. I still truly had it within myself
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one day I aspire to be like this. She came
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in like a lamb and went out like a lioness.
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All right. So that's the diary entry in its entirety.
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And if you ever wondered what nightmare of fuel is,
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well this is it? All right, folks, that's gonna do
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it for this one. All of the information that goes
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Today's episode, we're going to dive into an article from
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the Guardian talking about Jeffrey Epstein's associates and how just
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because they're not accused of crimes, doesn't mean they're not
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dirt bags. And that's really where I've been the whole
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entire time. Right, I've never sat here and said this
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one committed this crime or that crime, unless we've had
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some documentation to back that up. But when we're talking
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about what's right and wrong, when we're talking about enabling,
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when we're talking about looking the other way, when we're
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talking about being part of the overall larger scheme that
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goes for all of them. Now, it's up to the
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justice system to figure out how to prosecute people if
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they committed crimes. But those who enable Jeffrey Epstein, those
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who were helping his operation move forward by helping him
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build his reputation, by allowing him back into their circles,
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they have a lot of explaining to do as well.
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And unfortunately a lot of those people have been able
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to avoid being asked the hard questions. And for me,
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hopefully this document dump starts getting that on the right track,
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and it looks like we're starting to move in that
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direction a bit. More questions are being asked about Bill Clinton,
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which is certainly a good thing. There is no doubt
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that him and Jeffrey Epstein had a very very tight
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knit relationship, and that relationship should be examined under a microscope.
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So today we have an article from the Guardian and
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the headline the Epstein associates aren't ques of committing any crimes,
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but that doesn't mean they didn't do anything wrong. And
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the author of this article is Lucia Osborne Crowley. As
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newly unsealed documents link to a case against the convicted
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sex trafficker Glenn Maxwell reveal names of high profile associates
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of Jeffrey Epstein, many are quick to reiterate that their
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place on the long awaited list does not mean that
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they have done anything illegal. This is absolutely true, and
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as a court correspondent, it is incredibly important to stress
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the legal implications, or more accurately, lack thereof, of this
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new information. And that is one hundred percent spot on.
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Like I told you folks from the beginning, if you're
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looking for some sort of quote unquote list that's never
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been seen before, you're going to be very disappointed because
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that doesn't exist, at least not in the public conversation.
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The closest you're going to get is the Black Book.
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But as far as that smoking gun list, well that's
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not going to be in this dump, that's for damn sure.
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With the exception of allegations made under oath by Johanna
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sho against Prince Andrew that, if proven, would amount a
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criminal conduct, most of those named on the list are
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not accused of any legal wrongdoing. But that doesn't mean
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we should not ask questions about the moral rather than
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strictly legal implications of their conduct. I mean this in
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two senses, both the personal moral implications for those named
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and the morals we hold as a society, which are
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laid hideously bare in these documents. And I think that
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what we got here also when we look at the
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whole Epstein situation, is a window into the world of
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the so called elite, how they conduct themselves, how they
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think about other people. Look at the way the JP
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Morgan executives were talking about Epstein and his so called
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abuse in that email chain. Look at the way other
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people just look the other way. And then to this
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day still you have these same people that were hanging
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out with Epstein who refuse to give any information about
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their time with them, And then we're supposed to think that, oh, well,
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they're just you know people who were there by chance.
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Here's an idea. If you want people to listen to
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what you're saying, if you want people to believe you
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be honest, come forward, talk about what's going on. Tell everybody. Look,
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I was with Epstein, this is what I saw. I
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certainly didn't hurt nobody, but we don't get that. Instead,
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what we've had is people running from these questions for
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all these years. And if you run from something, especially
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questions like this, what exactly should the public believe? And
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as much as I'm not a fan of Alan Dershowitz,
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at least the dude challenge what was laid out against them, right,
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the rest of these people have all run from it.
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I've been working on a book about Jeffrey Epstein and
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Glenn Maxwell, the culmination of my investigative reporting on the case,
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for almost four years. The thing that shocks me even
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more than the graphic details I've learned from survivors that
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have never been made public, is that this sick sex
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trafficking ring was known about and enabled by such an
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enormous group of people for perhaps as long as four decades.
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And that's not hyperbole. At least four decades and not
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only that, it's spanned continents. We're talking about Europe, we're
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talking about North America, we're talking about Asia. So this
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spanned continents. And hell, I wouldn't be shocked if there
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was some tomfoolery down in Africa as well. We know
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about South Africa, but what about elsewhere? And as far
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as the abuse that was suffered by these girls, I
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can concur the stuff that I've heard behind the scenes,
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off the record, it's enough to make you want to
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throw the fuck up. And that's not hyperbole either, that's
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just the truth. It is absolutely disgusting what happened to
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these women, and how long it was covered up, and
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how long this was allowed to go on. It is
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almost unbelievable to even imagine that something like this was
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able to happen under the nose of so many so
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called smartest people in the room, but all of a
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sudden they all have amnesia. The number of people who
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saw or interacted with the victims. I've spoken to people
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who were famous, wealthy, headline grabbing or otherwise and did
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not ask questions about why they were there is staggering.
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And that's really what it comes down to for me,
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Not guilt by association, like some people are trying to
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frame it guilt by inaction. You knew what was up.
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You knew that this dude didn't have all these hot
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girls running around because he's some kind of hot dude,
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some kind of muscle bound A Donnis, give me a break.
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We all knew the deal. And if you were making
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pretend that you didn't know, if you were putting your
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head in the sand and acting like you didn't know, well,
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breaking news. None of us believe you. The headline for
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me of the most recent tranch of documents, in an
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email in which the Epstein survivor, Virginia Roberts, alleges that
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former President Bill Clinton walked into Vanity Fair and threatened
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them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend.
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Referring Robert says to Jeffrey Epstein, this is an allegation
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that has not been proved, but that doesn't mean it
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is not worthy of further inquiry. And the same is
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true for so many other allegations in the Epstein files.
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And that's really all I've ever called for as well,
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a robust investigation. That's not too much to ask for.
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Is it a real investigation subpoenas. Let's bring people in,
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let's get them under oath, and let's clear it all up.
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Why do they refuse to do that? Why do they
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refuse to bring people in and get them on the
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damn record. That would be a great place to start. No,
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If you want to have a real investigation, that would
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be the way to do it. But we haven't seen that,
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have we. The question here is not just criminal conduct
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in terms of actually sex trafficking and or sexually abusing children.
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If that were really our base societal moral standard, we
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should be taking a long, hard look at ourselves. The
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more pertinent question, particularly when the number of Epstein associates
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is so staggeringly high, is about knowledge of criminal conduct,
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which should breach our moral, if not necessarily legal standards.
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If Robert's allegation is true, it goes some way to
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proving that the former president knew, at the very least
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that there were allegations of sex trafficking circulating about his
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good friend. And do you really believe there weren't any
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allegations circulating about his good friend? There most certainly were. However,
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I'm not too sure about this story about Bill Clinton
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storming into Vanity Fair. I can't prove it, this is
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what Virginia says. But we know that Epstein definitely called
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Vanity Fair and sweated them about an article coming out
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from the Farmers Sisters. So we know that Vanity Fair
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has been pressed before, and we know that Graydon Carter
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allegedly caved. So I don't know if it's true or not,
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but certainly it should be part of a robust investigation. No,
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and not for nothing. This is exactly why they didn't
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use RICO. If they used RICO, all these people like
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Bill Clinton and the rest of them, they'd all be
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caught up and they couldn't have it. They just couldn't
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have it. So instead they tried to give us a
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little bit of piecemeal justice. Oh, here's Glenn Maxwell, a
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little red meat. Well, what about everybody else? And I
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would think that we could start with people who were
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all already mentioned by a judge in the middle of
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a human trafficking trial as being part of the criminal enterprise, right,
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probably a decent place to start. If a person, particularly
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a person who has been elected as a role model,
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has knowledge of such serious allegations, they should be expected
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to investigate them further. Rather than shutting them down. Similarly,
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the supermarket billionaire Ron Berkel appeared overnight on a list
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of potential witnesses for the defamation case, with a core
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document therefore, one that illegal practitioner must wear is a
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true and accurate representation of their knowledge, stating that he
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has knowledge of Glenn Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual trafficking conduct. Again,
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this does not prove he had knowledge of crimes being committed.
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It states that Roberts lawyers had reason to believe he
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had knowledge of conduct relevant to the sex trafficking allegations.
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We don't know what that conduct was, but the lawyers
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apparently thought evidence about it could help prove sex trafficking.
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Also on the witness list were Clinton's former advisor Doug Band,
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who the document states may have knowledge of Glenn Maxwell
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and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual trafficking and interaction with minors. The
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list also includes Eva and Glenn Dubin, Prince Andrew, the
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US politician gwendolen Beck and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, the former
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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, and the fashion magnate Leslie Wexner.
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For each witness, a version of the phrasing, has knowledge of,
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or may have knowledge of sex trafficking conduct is used.
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We should be determined to find out what each of
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these people did in fact witness and whether they could
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have intervened to protect Epstein's victims but chose not to.
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I know of many other names of people who allegedly
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either participated in the abuse or witnessed the presence of
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underage girls in Epstein's various homes or planes. Names I've
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been told I cannot report because of the easily abused
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defamation laws in England and Wales, said to be reformed
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through upcoming anti slap legislation. Who should also be asked
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to explain on the record how much they knew? And
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there's a lot of that. There is a whole bunch
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off the record stuff that I have heard from survivors
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that it's just unbelievable. It is really unbelievable, And the
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sad truth is there's a ton more that we just
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don't know about. This speaks to the important difference between
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the role of journalism and the legal system. Having worked
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as a practitioner in both, I feel strongly that the
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role of the press right now is both to clarify
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the law, and to ask hard questions about actions or
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omissions that may not be illegal, but about which we should, still,
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as the fourth Estate, be asking hard questions. Hallelujah, Finally
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somebody in the legacy media trying to do the right thing.
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How about some hard questions? Is that too much to ask?
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That's all I've ever asked for? No more softball questions,
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no more. Referring to a twenty nineteen statement from Bill
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Clinton spokesman, how about we go to Billy boy himself?
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Is that too much to ask? Or what a failure
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to intervene when you suspect or close your mind to
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the possibility of the continuing commission of crimes as serious
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as the abuse of children. May not be illegal, but
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if we wish to continue pushing for a world that
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delivers some degree of justice for abuse survivors, then it
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should certainly be considered gravely immoral. In some cases, the
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law itself backs up this theory. The US concept of
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conscious avoidance, which the jury were instructed about at length
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as I sat in the press gallery of the Maxwell trial,
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and which means ignoring signs that may raise questions about
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illegal activity, can under some pieces of legislation, including some
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sex trafficking legislation, be illegally equivalent to actual knowledge of
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a crime, or just drop rico on all these fools,
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and that will really do him in. It's the most
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powerful tool that the government has in their toolbox. They
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saw fit to use it against young Thug, they saw
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fit to use it against Keith Rainiery, they saw fit
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to use it against R. Kelly. How come not, Colayne Maxwell.
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We are witnessing this week the unveiling of the true
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extent of perhaps the biggest and most powerful sex trafficking
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conspiracy in modern history. The number of people who knew
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or decided not to know about its existence was critical
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to its success and impunity, which lasted for decades and
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is continuing. If we are truly to start to change
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the way the justice system and our culture views sexual offenses,
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we must not put the bar so low as to
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only include the perpetrators. We must hold the enablers to account,
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whether they broke the law or not. And that's really
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what it comes down to. We have to parse through
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all of this bs and see what's what and the
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people that knew those people need to be held accountable.
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And for my money. We should be starting at Jeffrey
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Epstein's core. Four All right, folks, that's going to do
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it for this one. All the information that goes with
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this episode can be found in the description box. What's
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up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. The
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situation down in the US Virgin Islands has always been
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absolutely fubar, but finally people are starting to report on
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how bad things are or were down in the US
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Virgin Islands. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the
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help he was receiving from elected politicians on the island.
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I can't tell you how many times I felt like
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John Snow during the Battle of the Bastards, you know,
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when he's standing there by himself and everybody's charging at him.
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That's how I felt about this USVII issue for the
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last few years. I know, I know what about Alexander Acosta.
26:46
Today's article is from the Saint Thomas Source and the
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headline open Forum. Epstein enablers in the USVII action speak
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so much louder than words. This article was authored by
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David Silverman, and what I love to see is the
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local media down here in the US Virgin Islands starting
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to hold people accountable. Before you never saw any articles
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like this talking about Albert Bryan or DeJong working with
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Jeffrey Epstein. And the crazy part is it was like
27:20
the worst kept secret in the history of the world.
27:23
Everybody who follows the case, or at least follows it
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more than a surface level, understood that the politicians in
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the USVII were on the take. Last month, with much fanfare,
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Governor Albert Bryan Junior announced what he called a major
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initiative to curb human trafficking in the USVII. There is
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no question that human trafficking is an atrocity which should
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be addressed head on and not only curbed, but rooted
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out at its base and expunged from the territory. I
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like this mister Silverman and where he's going with all
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of this, because I feel the same way. But the
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sad truth is, at this point in time, there are
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more people enslaved around the world than any other time
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in history. Now, remember, modern day slavery takes on many forms.
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Sometimes it's human trafficking for work purposes, sometimes for much worse,
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more disgusting purposes, if you get my drift. But the
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fact of the matter is This is a huge problem
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that's affecting everywhere in the world. There's no place that's
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immune from these sick bastards who are preying on the vulnerable.
28:32
And the sad truth is Jeffrey Epstein was only the
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tip of the iceberg. After doing a bit of research,
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it surprised me to find that the Virgin Islands already
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has a comprehensive law entitled Prevention of and Remedies for
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Human Trafficking, which can be found at Title fourteen, Section
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three A of the Virgin Islands Code. The law was
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enacted in July of twenty eighteen, during the final month
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month of the MAP administration. So, in other words, all
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that stuff we talked about previously about Albert Bryan and
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the new human trafficking laws, all of this stuff was
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on the books already. So while that Yim Yam we
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heard from Bryant talking about how that money is going
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to go to human trafficking and different centers to help women.
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What a bunch of bs. That money's gonna go directly
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in the pocket of these corrupt das bastards. That's where
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the money's gonna go. Like usual, you think the people
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of the Virgin Islands are gonna benefit from this windfall
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of cash or do you think some smarmy ass politician
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is gonna benefit from this cash? Meanwhile, none of it
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should have been distributed to the Virgin Islands in the
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first place. And remember I'm not talking about the people
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of the Virgin Islands. They've been victimized by their politicians
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as well. My problem, once again, like usual, is with
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the leadership. And I know some of you don't want
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to hear it, but that goes for Stacey Plaskett as well.
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This woman, in my opinion, is not even fit to
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cook scrambled eggs in the morning, never mind have a
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position of prominence. She's out here taking a bunch of
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dough from Epstein saying she's not going to return it.
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Then once she gets called out on it, she decides, oh,
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maybe I should return it. Now talk about somebody of
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little character. And let me be very very clear, Nobody
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that was paling around with Jeffrey Epstein, nobody that was
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taking money from Jeffrey Epstein, should be sitting in judgment
30:28
of other Americans ever. But because Stacy Plaskett is dancing
30:32
to the correct political tune right now, nobody goes after her. Well,
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guess what, we don't play those games here on this podcast.
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Everybody gets it. There's no quarter for any of these
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people that were appaling around, enabling and associating with Jeffrey Epstein.
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And I don't care what stupid ass political party you're
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part of. So for his entire time in office, Governor
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Bryan has had at his disposal an arsenal of legal
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weaponry to counter human trafficking. And with the brutal historical
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legacy of the trafficking of enslaved African people through the
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Middle Passage, one would think that the Virgin Islands of
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the United States would have long ago obliterated human trafficking
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from our shores. My guess is the citizens of the
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USVII are not big fans of human trafficking, okay, And
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I'm also guessing that they demand more of their politicians. Unfortunately,
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it seems like everybody who goes into politics these days
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is nothing more than a self serving jerk off. With
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the necessary laws already in our code, how has the
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USVII performed over the past five years in the prosecution
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of human trafficking cases. Well, let's take a look the
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human Trafficking Institute publishes annual reports on the performance of
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all states and territories in bringing new cases and securing
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convictions against human traffickers. Here are some of the highlights
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of their report on the Virgin Islands. The twenty eighteen
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report of the Institute states the Virgin Islands has zero
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criminal human trafficking cases active in twenty eighteen, ranking it
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last in the nation with four other states and territories.
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You mean to tell me there's not one human trafficker
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in the US Virgin Islands. Huh okay, I guess so.
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The twenty nineteen report states that courts in the Virgin
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Islands convicted zero defendants in human trafficking cases in twenty nineteen,
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ranking it last in the nation for number of defendants convicted.
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And the twenty twenty one report states that in the
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Virgin Islands, zero new criminal human trafficking cases were filed
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in federal courts in twenty twenty one. Federal courts in
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the Virgin Islands last ordered a convicted human trafficking defendant
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to pay restitution in twenty seventeen. So they said they
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were getting all this money because they have a human
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trafficking problem. On the island. They were gonna, you know,
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use this money to help people who have been human
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traffic YadA, YadA, YadA. What did I tell you then, Well,
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the numbers are backing up. What I told you, and
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what I've been telling you for years is this. The
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politicians in the US Virgin Islands who are working with Epstein,
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they're corrupt. All these politicians who are trying to get
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money from the survivors, they're corrupt. And anybody who ever
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received money from Jeffrey Epstein should be part of a
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RICO case. These facts and figures raised some serious questions.
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If there is no human trafficking taking place in the USVII,
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an unlikely premise, why is the governor making such a
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public issue of it today, And if there is trafficking
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of vulnerable people taking place, why has the GVII done
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little or nothing about it in the five years since
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the local statute was enacted. This does not appear to
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be a matter of lack of laws. It is clearly
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a matter of the lack of enforcement of laws already
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in place. Now we know that the USVII has been
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under an intense spotlight of sex trafficking news stemming from
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the Jeffrey Epstein crimes and the allegations of complicity by
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various people in positions of political power in the territory.
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With the comprehensive legislation already at his disposal, and the
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history of worse than the nation enforcement, one would think
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that the first and most significant step to be taken
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by the Governor would be to request that the Virgin
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Islands Department of Justice, which reports directly to the Governor,
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appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate all allegations of complicity
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in human trafficking directed at current and past political brokers
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in the USVII. Hallelujah. How long have I been calling
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for this? And to see this call being taken up
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by residents now down in the USVII, it gives me
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some hope that eventually perhaps will get a special Council here,
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because there's a lot of people that need to be outed,
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and there's a lot of people that need to go
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to prison. That would be action, not words, that would
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directly respond to the tarnish which the entire Epstein affair
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has cast on our reputation. That might of course implicate
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some close associates of the current political elite, But wouldn't
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those people whose names have been mentioned want to fully
35:22
exonerate themselves. A special prosecutor not only brings charges against
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those who may have committed crimes, the special prosecutor can
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also clear the names of those who are innocent. This week,
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documents were published in the USVII first JP. Morgan case,
35:39
which includes statements made by ex Attorney General Denise George.
35:43
In her deposition in that case, Former Attorney General George
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describes how she was asked by Governor Bryan to consider
35:51
a waiver of travel restrictions for Jeffrey Epstein. She states
35:55
that she refused to consider this because there was no
35:58
justifiable reason, and she resisted the political pressure coming from
36:02
the office of the governor. When asked by the attorney
36:06
for JP Morgan if her refusal might have been one
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of the factors in her eventual firing, the attorney for
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the USVII objected to the question and instructed George not
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to answer. Oh, of course not. Look, we all know
36:19
that the powers that be in the USVII and elsewhere
36:23
want nothing to do with this story, and they certainly
36:26
don't want to be held accountable for the bullshit they
36:29
were up to if we don't meticulously clean our own
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house first, how can speeches and pronouncements be seen as credible?
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Are the governor's words simply public speech? Attempting to take
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the moral high ground in current litigation. I commend every
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step taken to root out human trafficking of vulnerable people,
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to prosecute to the full extent of the law, and
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spare no measures to ensure that the Virgin Islands of
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the United States shall never again be a safe haven
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for Notori sex trafficking. But this will take actions which
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are infinitely more powerful than mere words. And this is
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one hundred percent spot on. And if the people down
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in the Virgin Islands are starting to come around and
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starting to see what's going on here, then maybe, just maybe,
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at some point the people involved will be held accountable.
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But if the past has anything to tell us about
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the future, I wouldn't hold my breath. All right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box.