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New Mexico's Lawsuit Filed Against Epstein Executors Darren Indyke And Richard Kahn (Part 5) (10/23/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to dive right
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  Speaker 1: back into the lawsuit filed by New Mexico against Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Indyke and Richard Kahn. Indyke and Kahn knew that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was involved in various acts of coercion and assisted him
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  Speaker 1: in carrying out those acts. The Epstein enterprise used false, fraudulent,
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  Speaker 1: and deceptive promises of providing or financially supporting professional modeling,
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  Speaker 1: performance arts, educational, and and other opportunities, careers, and contracts
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  Speaker 1: to cause girls and young women to travel interstate or
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  Speaker 1: internationally to locations, including Zorro Ranch, where they were sexually
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  Speaker 1: abused and exploited. Once girls and young women were recruited,
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  Speaker 1: participants in the Epstein enterprise controlled survivors by passport confiscation,
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  Speaker 1: controlling and extinguishing external communication, and threatening survivors with physical
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  Speaker 1: danger or violence. They also made fraudulent statements to family
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  Speaker 1: members of survivors claiming survivors were being well cared for
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  Speaker 1: and supported financially in college and other educational opportunities. Throughout
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  Speaker 1: this time and beyond 2019 through present, the Epstein Enterprise
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  Speaker 1: deliberately concealed its actions to prevent detection by New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement. Zorro Ranch Isolation facilitated the Epstein Enterprise concealment
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  Speaker 1: of trafficking in New Mexico. The nature of the crimes
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  Speaker 1: and vulnerability of the young age of the victims targeted
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  Speaker 1: by the Epstein enterprise, rendered disclosure to authorities more difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's great wealth and power made witnesses further reluctant to
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  Speaker 1: report their observations to local law enforcement. Associates within the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein enterprise, including Kahn and Indyk, took deliberate steps to
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  Speaker 1: conceal the sex trafficking and sexual abuse. These acts of
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  Speaker 1: concealment include, but are not limited to the following, a.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein using the seclusion of Zorro Ranch to hide the
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  Speaker 1: trafficking from detection by law enforcement and to isolate girls
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  Speaker 1: and young women during their stays at Zorro Ranch, many
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  Speaker 1: of whom had been transported there via private airplane or
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  Speaker 1: commercial aircraft and therefore lacked access to any ready means
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  Speaker 1: of departure or neighbors for help. The Epstein enterprise using
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  Speaker 1: private aircraft to transport girls and young women to the
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  Speaker 1: Zorro Ranch to hide this visible sign of trafficking from
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  Speaker 1: the public law and law enforcement, Zorro Ranch employees being
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  Speaker 1: directed not to communicate or interact with guests at Zorro Ranch,
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  Speaker 1: and not to disclose to anyone events that occurred there.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein directly or indirectly creating, through services provided by Kahn
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  Speaker 1: and Indyke, multiple entities in which he appeared as president, director, manager,
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  Speaker 1: or sole member of for the purpose of forming a
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  Speaker 1: complex array of corporate entities, even within the ownership and
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  Speaker 1: operation of Zorro Ranch itself, to shelter Epstein's assets in
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  Speaker 1: order to fund, carry out, and conceal the enterprise's pattern
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  Speaker 1: of criminal conduct. Between 2003 and 2013, using Epstein's businesses
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  Speaker 1: and ostensibly charitable foundations to pay survivors who were trafficked
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  Speaker 1: and sexually abused to avoid the transactions being detected by
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  Speaker 1: or reported to law enforcement, and to reduce the likelihood
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  Speaker 1: that survivors would report abuse to law enforcement. Specifically, the
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  Speaker 1: COUQ Foundation paid over $ 30, 000 to women in 2012 for
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  Speaker 1: purposes apparently unrelated to the charity. Epstein and his associates
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  Speaker 1: preventing witnesses from cooperating with law enforcement by requiring them
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  Speaker 1: to sign confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements that prohibited them from
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  Speaker 1: speaking to or sharing information with law enforcement. If they
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  Speaker 1: were contacted by law enforcement, they were instructed to notify
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein Enterprise and be represented by Epstein's counsel. In
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  Speaker 1: or around the Epstein 2008 conviction and incarceration in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein Enterprise or persons acting on its behalf, instructing
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  Speaker 1: at least one witness to destroy vibrators and photographs described
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  Speaker 1: as nude images of young women. H. Indicant cons participation
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  Speaker 1: and benefit from the trafficking venture. the complex web of
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  Speaker 1: interconnected enablers and companies surrounding Epstein's activities and facilitating his
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  Speaker 1: sexual abuse of young girls and women, the Epstein enterprise
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  Speaker 1: more than constitutes a venture under the TVPRA. Two or
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  Speaker 1: more individuals, associated in fact, whether or not a legal entity,
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  Speaker 1: suffices to comprise a venture. Indyk and Kahn each participated
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  Speaker 1: in a trafficking venture by providing personalized services for it,
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  Speaker 1: including but not limited to professional services as a lawyer, Indyk,
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  Speaker 1: and as an accountant, Kahn. Indyk and Kahn each benefited
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  Speaker 1: from their participation in the trafficking venture by receiving salaries
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  Speaker 1: and compensation for their professional services provided. Indyk actively facilitated
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  Speaker 1: and participated in the trafficking of girls and young women
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  Speaker 1: for Epstein's gratification by handling and managing finances associated with
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  Speaker 1: the trafficking scheme including providing Epstein a ready supply of
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  Speaker 1: cash that he could and did use to pay girls
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  Speaker 1: and young women whom he subjected to commercial sex acts,
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  Speaker 1: while structuring the withdrawal of cash to avoid triggering CTR
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  Speaker 1: reports that could have flagged these cash withdrawals to bank
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  Speaker 1: or federal supervisors. Indyk further actively facilitated and participated in
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  Speaker 1: the trafficking of girls and young women by assisting, through
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  Speaker 1: his role as an officer and director of Epstein's linked entities,
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  Speaker 1: and a signatory of Epstein's linked financial accounts at multiple
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  Speaker 1: financial institutions in the payment of substantial sums of money
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  Speaker 1: to traffic girls and young women. Based on the frequency
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  Speaker 1: and high dollar amount of these cash withdrawals in amounts
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  Speaker 1: unjustified by any business purpose and structured to avoid otherwise
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  Speaker 1: mandatory reporting requirements, with withdrawals necessary at a second bank, DB,
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  Speaker 1: after the initial bank, JPMC, terminated the banking relationship. Indyk
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  Speaker 1: knew of, or recklessly disregarded, Epstein's illicit purpose. Indyk received
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  Speaker 1: above-market compensation for his services, including more than $ 16 million
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  Speaker 1: from Epstein and Epstein-related entities over the period from 2011
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  Speaker 1: to 2019, a loan of $ 7 million from Epstein that
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  Speaker 1: was never repaid, financial assistance from Epstein in purchasing homes
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  Speaker 1: in Jersey and Boca Raton, Florida, and coverage for multiple
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  Speaker 1: rounds of in vitro fertilization. Indyke received compensation for his
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  Speaker 1: participation in the trafficking venture directly and via his ownership, investment,
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  Speaker 1: or control of other entities, including Darren K. Indyke LLC.
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  Speaker 1: Kahn actively facilitated and participated in the trafficking of girls
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  Speaker 1: and young women for Epstein's gratification by handling the managing
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  Speaker 1: finances associated with the trafficking scheme. including overseeing financial accounts
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  Speaker 1: that paid for commercial airline tickets for travel of girls
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  Speaker 1: and young women to locations across the United States, whom
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  Speaker 1: Epstein subjected to commercial sex acts, overseeing financial accounts that
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  Speaker 1: paid for lingerie, salon, and spa expenses for trafficked girls
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  Speaker 1: and young women, and arranging for payments for medical bills
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  Speaker 1: related to trafficking of girls and young women. Kahn further
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  Speaker 1: actively facilitated and participated in the trafficking of girls and
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  Speaker 1: and young women by assisting, through his role as an
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  Speaker 1: officer and director of Epstein-linked entities and signatory on Epstein-linked
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  Speaker 1: financial accounts, in the payment of substantial sums of money
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  Speaker 1: to traffic girls and young women. The frequency and high
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  Speaker 1: dollar amounts of these transactions to girls and young women
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  Speaker 1: with whom Epstein had no apparent familial relationship, established friendship,
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  Speaker 1: charitable interest, or apparent business purpose, which Kahn at times
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  Speaker 1: was required to explain in the financial institutions either put
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  Speaker 1: Kahn on notice or should have put Kahn on notice
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  Speaker 1: of the illicit purpose of these payments and purchases. Kahn
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  Speaker 1: received above-market compensation for his services, including more than $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million from Epstein and Epstein-related entities over the period from
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  Speaker 1: 2011 to 2019, and a payment of $ 4. 9 million from
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's JPMC account to Kahn's company HBRK Associates for the
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  Speaker 1: period from approximately 2005 to or 2006 until 2013. Kahn
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  Speaker 1: received compensation for his participation in the trafficking venture directly
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  Speaker 1: and via his ownership, investment, or control of other entities,
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  Speaker 1: including HBRK Associates. Kahn and Indyk's concealment of the criminal
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  Speaker 1: conduct of the Epstein enterprise continued until after Epstein's death
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  Speaker 1: and continues to be present via their unwillingness to meaningfully
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  Speaker 1: participate in investigations into the proceedings, related to Epstein's trafficking activities. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of the nature, scope, and magnitude of Indyk
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  Speaker 1: and Kahn's Epstein or the enterprise on lawful conduct could
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  Speaker 1: have been acquired earlier through the exercise of reasonable diligence.
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  Speaker 1: The state of New Mexico has diligently pursued information about
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Enterprise and its operation in New Mexico. As early
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  Speaker 1: as 2019, the New Mexico Department of Justice opened an
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  Speaker 1: investigation into criminal conduct at Zorro Ranch. which NMDOJ subsequently
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  Speaker 1: halted at the request of federal prosecutors at the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, who
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  Speaker 1: subsequently breached their promise to provide results of their investigation
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  Speaker 1: to New Mexico. NMDOJ believed in good faith that the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office would refer back any findings that potentially constituted
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  Speaker 1: a state crime. The full extent of Epstein's enterprise activities
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  Speaker 1: and Indyk and Khan's roles in concealing those activities was
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  Speaker 1: hidden from the public for years and remained shielded from view.
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  Speaker 1: Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November of 2014. 2025,
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  Speaker 1: demanding the end of secrecy regarding Epstein's crimes and aiming
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate accountability for those who participated in and facilitated
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  Speaker 1: his criminal activity. Only through the gradual release and unsealing
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  Speaker 1: of investigative files, court records, witness testimony, and other materials
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  Speaker 1: that comprise the Epstein files has a more complete picture
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's operations emerged. These documents include additional details of
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  Speaker 1: the involvement of numerous individuals, including Conan Endyke, in facilitating
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  Speaker 1: or concealing those activities. The publicly available documents remain significantly
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  Speaker 1: redacted and accordingly the full scope of the Epstein enterprise
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  Speaker 1: illegal activity and fraudulent concealment has yet to come to light.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to wrap up right here And
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  Speaker 1: in the next episode, we're going to dive in to
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  Speaker 1: the cause of action. All the information that goes with
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