Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: JP Morgan And It's Many Epstein Related Legal Battles (9/24/26)

Transcript

Mega Edition: JP Morgan And It's Many Epstein Related Legal Battles (9/24/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Can you imagine that they still think that
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: we're crazy enough to believe that Jeffrey Epstein was some
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: lone sicko with a thing for young girls on a
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: private island? Like, that's the story that they're still selling.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: That he was some twisted pervert who happened to know
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: a few rich people. That's not how power works. That's
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: not how protection works. You don't get to fly presidents, princes,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: and prime ministers around the world with move hundreds of
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: millions through banks like JP Morgan, and play life coach
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: to CIA directors, if you're just some freak on an island.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Epstein wasn't a rogue. He was plugged in. He was
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: useful to the right people, and in their world, usefulness
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: buys immunity. And the wildest part? They still act shocked
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: when people say it out loud. Like, oh, conspiracy theories. Bro,
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: it's not a theory when the receipts are public. Epstein
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: was literally brokering back-channel deals between Israel and Russia during
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: the Syrian war. He was sitting down with Bill Burns,
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: the former CIA director, talking about philosophy and leadership. You
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: tell me what part of that screams lone wolf deviant.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: The guy had blackmail, money laundering, and psychological manipulation down
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: to a science. He was a one-man covert operation that
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: somehow never got shut down. And you think that that
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: was by accident? And then of course we have the
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: money trail, the part they hope that you won't follow.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: JP Morgan flagged his sketchy transactions in 2002. 2000 and
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: fucking 2. 23 years ago. You mean to tell me
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: that nobody at Treasury, DOJ, or the FBI thought, hey,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: maybe we should take a look at the billionaire flying
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: girls to his island. Of course they did. But Epstein
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: wasn't playing by the same rulebook as the rest of us.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: He was operating under that invisible code they use in
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the intelligence world. You know, the ends justify the means?
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: In other words, if you're doing work that benefits the machine,
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: the machine looks the other way. And now we have
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: the government and the banks acting like two drunks pointing
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: fingers after they crash the same car. The government says
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: the financial sector dropped the ball, the banks say the
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: government tied their hands, and meanwhile Epstein was cruising between
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: them both, untouchable. Every hearing, every accountability statement, like I
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: always tell you, it's all theater. They're not trying to
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: find out what happened. They're trying to control how you
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: remember it. Because if they can convince you that this
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: was just one man's sickness, they don't have to answer
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: for the system that built them. But here's the truth.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: The game was rigged from the start. Epstein was never
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: just an outlier. He was a prototype for how power
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: protects itself. He was the middleman between corruption and convenience.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: A fixer for the untouchable elite who used him when
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: it suited them and buried his ass when it didn't.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, keep buying the fairy tale if you want.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: The rest of us, well, we know better. We've seen
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: enough to understand that Epstein wasn't an accident. He was
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: a mirror. And what it reflects is a system so dirty,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: so rotten, it needs people like him to keep its
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: secrets buried. Today's article is from the Wall Street Journal.
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: And the headline, J.P. Morgan flagged Epstein's suspicions in 2002,
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: years earlier than known. This article was authored by David Benoit,
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Joe Palazzolo, and Khadija Safdar. In April of 2002, JPMorgan
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Chase raised a red flag about Jeffrey Epstein. The bank
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: had noticed his accounts were cashing an unusual number of checks,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: many for $ 9, 500 or $ 9, 800, just under the $ 10, 000 limit
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: that draws increased attention. And we've talked about this plenty.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: If you're playing games, they're supposed to hit you with
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: a SAR. And it was the same thing when I
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: was working at the sports book. If you came in
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: and you tried to structure your bets or you tried
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: to structure your withdrawals, I was going to hit your
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: ass with a suspicious activity report without a doubt. Now
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: what happens to those reports after they're shipped off, that's
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: not up to you. But your job as somebody who
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: is dealing with money is to make sure that that
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: money is being tracked correctly. And sometimes you have to
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: fire off that SAR to make sure that you're covering
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: your own ass. And now according to JP Morgan and
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: these reports in April of 2002, that's exactly what they did. Now,
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: we've heard from the government that they did not respond
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: as far as JP Morgan goes when it comes to
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: firing off SARS or reporting Jeffrey Epstein at all, at
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: least until after his death. But this runs against that counter-narrative.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: So you see what they're doing, right? Well, it wasn't me.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: It was him. No, it wasn't me. It was them.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: What do you mean it was them? It was they.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: What do you mean it was they? It was Joe.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: And so on and so forth. And that's what they'll do.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: They'll just keep kicking the can down the road, passing
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: the ball, in hopes that the clock runs out. But
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: I think this time they're making a grave mistake. I
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: don't think the clock's going to run out. And I
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: don't think people out there, meaning you, are going to
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: let them off the hook this time. JP Morgan filed
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: what's known as Suspicious Activity Reports, or SARs, to federal
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: law enforcement because a clear pattern of transactions typically meant
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: to evade authorities. The bank would file another report in
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: December of 2002 and another in April of 2003. The
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: flags were raised well before any public knowledge of Epstein's
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: crimes and associations with girls and young women, but had
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: little impact on his activities. Well, that's because it was ignored.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Whoever was handling Epstein, they would just reach out to
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: Finson and they'd be like, look, this is very important
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: for national security. I can't have you reporting this. So
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: it would get killed, right? Backburnered. And that's just the
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: way it goes. The CIA, they can pretty much do
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: whatever they want. And if you think the DOJ or
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: the FBI is going to stand in the way of
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: the CIA claiming that something is national security, you're crazy.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: That trumps everything. And that's why they use it so often.
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Epstein would be arrested in Florida three years later, plead
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: guilty in 2008, and then continue his extravagant lifestyle until 2019.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: He would remain a JP Morgan client until 2013, meeting
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: with top executives from the bank, and connecting them with
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: his wealthy associates, including Leon Black and Bill Gates. Wait
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: a minute, I thought Bill Gates told us that he
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: only met Epstein a couple of times. They weren't friends.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: And any report to the counter is just a bunch
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: of BS. Meanwhile, Bro's wife left him, at least in part,
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: because of his bullshit with Jeffrey Epstein. So please save
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: the nonsense. Nobody's buying the bullshit anymore. The newly revealed
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: documents show the nots JP Morgan and all banks can
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: tie themselves in, especially with lucrative clients. On the one hand,
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: they're filing reports warning law enforcement that their client looks
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: suspiciously criminal. But unless their regulators or law enforcement reply otherwise,
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: the banks can continue to serve the client, having fulfilled
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: their obligation with the SAR. And that's 100% true. That
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: is 100% true. And as much as I want to
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: rail on the banks, and you know I do, There's
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: nothing else they could have done here besides file that report.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: But if you notice later on down the road, they
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: don't even bother filing the reports anymore. They just go dark.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Now you could say, if you want, that they're not
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: filing the reports because they know nothing's going to happen
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: if they file them. But I say BS. If you
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: want to defend yourself and protect yourself and the integrity
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: of FinCEN, then of course, you're going to make sure
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: that you're reporting everything, right? You're going to report everything possible.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: That way, if anything comes down the road later on,
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: you can point to it and say, look, I filed
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: the report. Whatever they did over in compliance, that's on them.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: But me personally, I filed this shit and here's the
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: paper to prove it. And if JP Morgan had that
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: kind of documentation, we would have already seen it. They
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: would have broke it out a long time ago before
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: they paid out, what, $ 300, $ 350 million? The unsealed document
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: also included An expert report by a former FBI agent
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: who concluded that J.P. Morgan ignored evidence of Epstein's human trafficking.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: They 100% did. And when I tell you that there's
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: plenty of blame to go around when it comes to
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: the government and the financial sector, I'm not kidding you.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: Everybody's always looking for bad guys. Everybody always wants to
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: look for boogeymen. But the real boogeymen and the real
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: bad guys are right here. The same guys writing you
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: your loan. The same guy that's making sure your mortgage
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: is almost impossible to pay. Those are the boogeymen. Those
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: are the people that really control the world. I mean,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: it's not anything new, and I'm not breaking news to
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: anybody here. Whoever pays the bills, that's the one that's
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: setting the rules. And none of these politicians are getting
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: into office unless they have the backing from the financial sector.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: So who do you think's really making the decisions when
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: all's said and done? The agent, who was hired by
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: lawyers suing the bank, said the lack of any Epstein-related
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: sorrow from 2003 to 2008, a period of more than $ 3. 5
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: million in cash withdrawals from his accounts, indicated that J.P.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Morgan underreported Epstein's suspicious conduct, and that's also part of it.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: Did they recognize it? and then in conjunction with whoever
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: decide just not to report anymore? Were they told not
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: to do that? And of course, these are the questions
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: that we're all trying to find answers to, right? These
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: are the questions that will unravel this whole entire thing.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: And that's why they don't want to give you this information.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: The report described emails by J.P. Morgan employees that referred
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: to Epstein as sugar daddy, perv, slime, the sleazy private
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: bank client, unknown child sleaze, and scum. Tell me again
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: how nobody at JP Morgan knew what Jeffrey Epstein was though,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: or what he was up to, but they're sending all
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: these emails, huh? And the craziest part is, JP Morgan,
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: just like with Prince Andrew, if they thought they could
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: win in court, they would have fought the charges all
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: the way to a jury trial. but they settled. Because
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: they understand how bad all of this is. They understand
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: just exactly what's in those emails, in those documents, and
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: they know that it would absolutely cook them. A JP
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Morgan spokeswoman said the SARS show the bank filed concerns
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: early on and repeatedly about Epstein. It does not appear
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: that anyone in the government or law enforcement acted on
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: those SARS for years, the spokeswoman said. That's true too.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: But you only filed a few of them, You didn't
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: file them for every suspicious transaction. Seems to me that
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: only enough was done so you could refer back to
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: it now when you get caught and say, hey, look,
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: we filed some of these. They were ignored. So we
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: just decided we weren't filing them anymore. Is that going
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: to be the excuse? Because I'll tell you right now,
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: it's not going to work. That is not acceptable, especially
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: considering I'm the one paying the bills, meaning us, you know,
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: the taxpayer. So you bitch asses better be doing the
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: right thing. And if you're not, well, We need to
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: find out about it. As far as I'm concerned, nothing
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: is acceptable, but full transparency. The reports are sent to
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, part of the Treasury Department,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: which monitors the financial system for crimes such as money
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: laundering and makes the reports available to law enforcement. Treasury
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: representatives declined to comment on Friday. Oh, I'm sure they did.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: They're probably scrambling to make sure they didn't have any
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: trades with Epstein at the time, too. The red flags
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: were raised internally at the bank throughout its relationship with Epstein,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: who had dozens of accounts and moved millions of dollars.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: At one point, Epstein and his associates told J.P. Morgan
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: staff that cash was needed to pay for fuel for
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: his private jet. But some J.P. Morgan staffers were skeptical,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: especially after media coverage of Epstein's 2006 arrest in Florida
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: showed he was paying for sex with minors. Yo, unless
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: you're fucking El Chapo, You're not showing up with a
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: bag full of cash to buy gas for your jet.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: You really think Jeffrey Epstein's out here with a bag
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: of cash to buy gas for a jet? Zero chance.
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: That would all be done with wire transfers or whatever
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: it might be. He has to make sure he gets
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: the tax write-off right. He has to make sure he's
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: pilfering from the rest of us at every given moment.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: So don't think for a second that bitch-ass Jeffrey Epstein
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't finding a way To get a tax break on
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: his fuel, he most certainly was. So anybody out here
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: thinking that he was using that cash for fuel for
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: his jet, they're just absolutely crazy. More like payoff money.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: More like fucking hush money. In 2008, the bank filed
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: another SAR on Epstein citing the prosecution and flagging $ 800, 000
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: in withdrawals in 2008 and 2007. In an email exchange
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: in 2013, JPMorgan staffers discussed whether they should include concerns
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: in a SAR about Epstein potentially using the cash to
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: pay for sex, not just for jet fuel. The bank
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: did file a SAR, raising concerns about the fuel story,
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: showing one Epstein account took out more than $ 200, 000 in
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: cash in 2011 and $ 290, 000 in 2012. I think we
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: should stick to taking cash out and traveling abroad to
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: pay for fuel is not normal business practice. True, he
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: has been known to pay for cash for his massages,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: but only minors are the issue and we have no proof,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: one JP Morgan staffer wrote. Can you imagine writing that
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: kind of email? I mean, it is just unbelievable to me.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: If I had that kind of email, I'd be going
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: directly to my boss and saying, yo, I can't be
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: involved in this. I'm not being involved in any kind
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: of facilitation of anyone who's hurting kids or trafficking anybody.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I'll go find a new job. Once the bank decided
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: to close Epstein's accounts in 2013, another JP Morgan staffer
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: wrote to Mary Erdos, who oversaw the private bank, saying
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Epstein had called him. Still looking for closure, understands better
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: now the impact of his cash activities sticking to aviation needs,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: he wrote. Well, that sounds like you were coaching him,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: like you were helping him structure. And that, my friends,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: is also a crime. In the same message, the banker
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: asked his boss whether JP Morgan could continue to work
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: with Epstein through his client's accounts. Erdos replied with a
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: single letter, why? Meaning yes. Of course he could. Gotta
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: make that dough, right? Gotta make sure that we're getting
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: our bonus at the end of the year. We need
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: another yacht. We need another Manhattan condo. Whatever the fuck
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: you weirdos are buying. In 2016, J.P. Morgan filed additional
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: SARs that found that Epstein had sent more than $ 310, 000
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: to a former model. The bank flagged the transfers for
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: possible procurement of sexual services. The documents originate from a
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: 2023 case that the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General filed
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: against J.P. Morgan, alleging that the bank facilitated Epstein's sex
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: trafficking operation. J.P. Morgan agreed to pay $ 75 million that
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: year to settle the suit before it went to trial
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: without admitting wrongdoing. Well, that's because they knew if they
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: went to trial, they wouldn't have to admit to shit.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: The jury would do it for them It's not like
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: they were altruistic, right? They weren't like, well, you know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: this is going to be rough on the survivors, so
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: why don't we just get together and decide to give
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: them some money? No. There was a crisis management meeting
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: where their lawyers got together, looked at the evidence, and decided, oh,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: we're in big trouble. We better settle. Just like the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: rest of these sons of bitches. The case exposed how
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: deep Epstein's ties were with the bank. He introduced prominent
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: clients and pitched executives on big deals. bankers also continued
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: meeting with him after firing him as a client in 2013. Well, yeah,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: they were all buddies. This was a parasitic relationship from
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: start to finish. All of these people were, you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: using each other, whether it was for money, whether it
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: was for power or prestige or fame, whatever it might be.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: All of them were getting something in return. And that's
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: why everybody continued to look away because everybody was benefiting.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Officials at the Gates Foundation also were aware of Epstein's
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: checkered past in 2011 when the organization was in discussions
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: with Epstein and JPMorgan executive Jess Staley on creating a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: potential charitable fund for super wealthy individuals. Bill and Jess
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: share a mutual friend in Jeff Epstein, an important behind-the-scenes
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: broker in the finance world with an unseemly reputation due
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: to being a criminal conviction. From JPMorgan, we know that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Jeff has the ear of Jess and has helped recruit
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes some of JPM's biggest clients, according to
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: a Gates Foundation memo. If you were wondering why there
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: was no Rico here, this is why. Rico for Diddy,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Rico for R. Kelly, Rico for my family members, but
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: not Rico for Jeffrey Epstein. If they did that, well,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the jig would be up, right? We'd all know exactly
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: what he is, and exactly who was protecting him and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: who was running him. And that's the one thing they
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: can't let us know. Gates has said it was a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: mistake to meet with Epstein, Staley, who left J.P. Morgan
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and went on to run Barclays, has maintained he never
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: knew about Epstein's alleged crimes. Epstein was arrested again in
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: 2019 and died in prison that August. Three days after
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: his death, J.P. Morgan began filing SARS, detailing even more
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of his history. The bank eventually reported more than $ 1
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: billion in transactions connected to Epstein's associates, including Victoria's Secret billionaire,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Les Wexner, and hedge fund manager, Glenn Dubin. All people
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that should be called in front of the committee, none
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: of them will be, but they all should be. Black
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: has said that he paid Epstein for estate planning and
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: tax advice. Wexner has said he was defrauded by Epstein,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: his money manager, and cut him off in 2007. All right,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: as the trouble was beginning, huh? That was the built-in safeguard.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: You ever get in trouble, I'm going to cut you off.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Same goes for Leon Black. And that's exactly what we
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: see them do. And then afterwards they say that Epstein
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: was stealing from them? How come you didn't report him
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to the police? How come there was no big investigation
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: into Epstein the thief? Oh, that's right. Because you're lying,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: aren't you, Les Wexner? Instead of letting this dude hide,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we should make his ass shamble like the Crypt Keeper
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: right into Congress to answer some damn questions. The filing
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: said that the wires were consistent with negative media involving
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: sex trafficking of minors and alerted the regulator to Epstein's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: activity in Russia. That is an angle that a lot
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of people don't even talk about, the Russian angle, but
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: it's something I've told you from the beginning. Not only
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: was Jeffrey Epstein ensconced when it comes to people in America,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: we're talking about people in Russia, we're talking about people
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: in Ukraine, we're talking about people in fucking Afghanistan. Jeffrey
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Epstein was using Eastern Europe as a fertile hunting ground.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: All these girls with no names, the vast majority of them,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: come from Eastern Europe, and a lot of them probably
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: come from Russia. And I don't even want to think
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: about what happened to them. can you imagine you go
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: back to Russia and you start telling people what happened
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to you before you know it a couple of Putin's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: goons show up and you're disappeared to wherever the fuck
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they disappear you to these days when I was a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: kid with Siberia I don't even know anymore Kamchatka or
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: some shit but the fact is the fact Nobody's going
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to run around Russia talking about powerful people and what
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they were up to. And all of that shit was
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: by design. Jeffrey Epstein and his people, they might have
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: been sick degenerates, but they knew their business. And that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: business stretched across continents. And the truth is, the lifeblood
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of that business pumped right through these banks that are
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: supposed to be regulated. But instead, what do we see?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: We see Jeffrey Epstein able to get away with this
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: bullshit for all these years. And then the vast majority
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of the stars come in after his death. And that's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the part that should stick with you. The silence. Because
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: after all the noise, all the excuses, all the finger
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: pointing between the banks and the bureaucrats, that's what we're
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: left with. Silence. The kind that follows a cover up
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: so deep, everyone who could tell the truth suddenly forgets
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: how to talk. Maxwell might be in prison. Brunel might
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: be dead. Epstein might be dead. But the machine that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they made? Well, that thing's still running smooth as ever.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Still laundering reputations. Still burying evidence. Still cashing checks soaked
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in blood. So when they tell you that it's over,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: remember this. They said the same thing the day he died.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: They said the same thing when the cameras malfunctioned, when
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the guards fell asleep, when the files disappeared. It's never over.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Not when the same players are still out there, still rich,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: still untouchable. So when they tell you it's over, don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: buy it for a second. That is their favorite trick.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Declare the story finished so nobody asks why the main
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: characters are still walking free. The same people who bankrolled
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Epstein's operation are still throwing fundraisers, still running hedge funds,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: still writing policy. They didn't clean house. They just changed
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the curtains. Epstein's death wasn't closure. It was containment. The
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: cameras didn't fail. The system did on purpose. The same
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: system that protects power, launders guilt, and feeds off the silence.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Because as I've told you plenty of times, Jeffrey Epstein
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't the disease, he was the symptom. The real sickness
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: is the power that let him exist, the institutions that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: fed him, and the people who still whisper his name
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: behind closed doors like it's bad for business to say
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it out loud. They want you to move on because
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the longer you look, the more you realize the infection
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: runs straight to the top. Every politician who stayed quiet,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: every banker who signed off, every bureaucrat who buried a file,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: they all share the same blood on their hands. Epstein
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: might be dead, but the empire that protected him is
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: still breathing. And until that empire rots from the inside out,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: none of us are free of what it built. All
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of the information that goes with this episode can be
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: found in the description box. What's up everyone and welcome
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: back to the Epstein Chronicles. The battle between Jeff Staley
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and J.P. Morgan is is continuing to rage on, as
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: both sides attempt to paint the other as the villain.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: But what both sides are missing here is that they're
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: both the villain, Jess Daly and J.P. Morgan. And both
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the entity and Jess Daly should be held responsible to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the fullest extent allowed by the law. But it won't happen.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: What'll happen is they'll settle just like Deutsche Bank did.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: All of this stuff is going to end up being
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: nothing more then performative. Because when all is said and done,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and they get in that courtroom, and their lawyers look
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: at all the discovery, and they realize that they have
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: no way out here, what, the bank's going to argue
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: their case in front of a jury and win? Oh yeah, look,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: we didn't know what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, but
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: all these other banks have already paid out enormous sums
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to him. But we here at JP Morgan, we're the exception. Yeah, right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: They're going to settle just like the other banks did
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: because nobody wants to go to discovery. Nobody wants to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: be outed for what they were really up to with
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. So that's why we see all of these settlements.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And bitch ass Prince Andrew, he can go on and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: on and on about how he didn't want to, you know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: be part of the settlement. He was talked into it, blah, blah, blah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: But when everything is everything, the facts are the facts.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And the fact is, He paid out that huge amount
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of money because he knew that if he went to trial,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: not only would he lose the civil portion, but he'd
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: be opening himself up to possible criminal action as well.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: We've seen that now with several people who have been
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: deposed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and especially with Maxwell and Epstein. After they were deposed,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that's when the wall started to really come down for them.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And remember Ghislaine Maxwell, she's still... facing contempt of court
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: charges for lying under oath during a deposition. So there's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: certainly some pitfalls for these people that have to sit
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: down and get deposed. The question is, how far will
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the government push? Today's article is from the Financial Times. Headline,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Lawyers for Jeff Staley Blast J.P. Morgan's Absent Claims Over
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein Ties. This article was authored by Joe Miller.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Jess Daly's lawyers have attacked JPMorgan Chase's attempt to make
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: its former executive liable for harm caused by providing bank
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: services to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arguing the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: case was completely absent of concrete claims. And in normal
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: people language, what that means is they don't have bupkis.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That's what Jess Daly's lawyers are saying, that JPMorgan is
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: trying to shift all the blame onto Jess Daly and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not shoulder any of the blame themselves. They had several
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: months of discovery to look into Mr. Staley's emails to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: bring their best shot. Staley's lawyer, Stephen Wolgamuth, told the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: New York federal court on Friday in hopes to get
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the case dismissed. They have to make the allegations. They
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: have to say what is true and what is not. Well,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I think they've been pretty clear with their allegations about
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Jeff Staley and what Jeff Staley's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein was.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of other people have been
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: pretty clear about how strong that relationship was. So I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: don't think there's any doubt about that part of it. Now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: for me, it comes down to what did Jess Daly
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: get away with as far as being a quote-unquote rogue
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: employee that people like Jamie Dimon and the rest of
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the leadership over at JPMorgan Chase had no idea about.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So was he doing this all under the cover of darkness?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Or were other people involved? And did other people know?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And we know for a fact that other people knew.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Just look at the email chains that were being sent
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: amongst the executives of JP Morgan. So them acting like
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it's just Jess Daly and they had no idea what
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Jess Daly was up to is just not true. JP
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Morgan sued Daly. who spent more than 30 years at
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the bank in March, alleging that he breached his fiduciary
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: duties and acted in bad faith by disguising his true
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein, which allegedly included several visits to the
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: disgraced financier, pedophiles, properties, and emails in which photographs of
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: young women were exchanged. It's bad enough if you just
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: had a meeting with Epstein, if you just hung out
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: with him to talk about business like some of these
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: other clowns said they have. But Jess Daly, out here
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: trading pictures with one of the most notorious sex traffickers
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and abusers in modern American history? Not a good look.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure a jury is going to feel
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the same way. The bank is seeking to make the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: 66-year-old liable for any damages awarded in two cases brought
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: against J.P. Morgan last year by an unnamed Epstein accuser
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Those suits accused JP Morgan of profiting from human trafficking
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: by keeping Epstein on as a client for 15 years
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: despite numerous red flags. And the Virgin Islands, they're lucky
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they're not getting sued in a class action suit by
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: these survivors. What exactly did the U.S. Virgin Islands do
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to protect these girls? Oh, that's right, nothing. They gave
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein all kinds of tax breaks, all kinds of
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: officials that lived on the island. were in his pocket
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: getting donations. He's donating computers. He's donating police equipment. So yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: nobody down there in the U.S. Virgin Islands lifted a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: finger to stop this dude. So I think that if
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: they're going to get out here and spearhead this charge,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: they better be very, very careful with what they're doing.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Because it seems to me that there's a case to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: be made that the U.S. Virgin Islands was as complicit
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: as the banks. Staley, who was fired by J.P. Morgan
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: in 2013, is himself accused by the Epstein victim of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: rape and of witnessing Epstein's crimes, claims he has strongly denied.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: The bank has said it first learned about these claims
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in the past few months. And that's funny to hear, huh?
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Go try and get a loan. They'll know what you
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: ate for dinner last night, but all of a sudden
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: they have no idea who Jeffrey Epstein is or what
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: he was up to. Oh, okay, sure. We believe you.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Leonard Gall, a lawyer for JP Morgan, reiterated the bank's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: contention that Epstein was retained because Staley vouched for him
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: within the bank. So that doesn't mean shit. If Staley
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: comes and vouches for him and he's a scumbag and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you still let him come on board, that means all
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of you are responsible. So basically, that's what you're telling
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: us right here. Oh, Jess Staley brought him on board,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: but we kept him in the rotation. We kept him
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: on the books for all of these years. So how
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: are you going to try and blame Jess Staley for
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: all of it? In a statement following Friday's hearing, the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: bank said Staley is accused of unspeakable acts that are
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the foundation of the claims against the bank. If true,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he is accountable for any harm done, not just to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the bank, but to these women. What about all of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: those internal emails you folks were firing off back and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: forth about Epstein being a risky client? How are you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going to explain that to a jury while at the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: same time trying to blame Jeff Staley for all of it?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Because all of you knew. from Mary Erdos on, every
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: single person that was in that email chain, knew what
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was, knew that he was risky, and knew
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that he presented a risk to the bank. Yet, their
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: greed drove them to have a relationship with him anyway.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And now that that's being exposed, forget it. It's everybody
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: else's fault. However, while J.P. Morgan was seeking to make
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Staley responsible for assurances he allegedly gave the bank about Epstein,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: It had failed to state how and when they were made,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Wolgamuth said. The U.S. Virgin Islands' complaint against J.P. Morgan
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: cites an internal meeting in January 2011, which Staley was
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: asked for his opinion on Epstein and allegedly vouched for him.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: But the bank had failed to confirm whether this incident
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: actually occurred, he added. So what, is this a mafia now?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody has to vouch for you before you're brought on board?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: What is this, the mafia and your Donnie Brasco? Yeah,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: let me go and vouch to Lefty Two Guns that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Donnie the jeweler over here is a good guy. This
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: alleged vouching would have been made to JP Morgan employees,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Wolgamuth said. What does the bank say? Was there vouching?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: What did Mr. Staley actually say? Who did he say
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it to? And why did they rely on it? That
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: is their burden, and they have not even tried to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: meet it. He's not really wrong about that either. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: hate to give Jess Daly any kind of points here,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: but it's like rooting for the Taliban versus ISIS. You're
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: But JP Morgan is certainly trying to shuck away the blame,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and I really hope that the court doesn't let them
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: get away with it. Judge Jed Rakoff said he would
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: rule on the motion to dismiss by the end of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the month. Staley, who went on to become chief executive
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: at the UK bank Barclays, but resigned following an investigation
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: into the way he characterized his relationship with Epstein, is
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: set to be deposed by JP Morgan lawyers next month.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And we also have, remember, the Jamie Dimon deposition that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: getting ready to happen in a few days. He's scheduled
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to be deposed on the 25th and the 26th of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: this month, May. And it's going to be interesting to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: see what comes from those depositions. If the U.S. Virgin
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Islands is able to get any sort of information that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: will help them, or more than likely, it'll be an
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: exercise in futility because Jamie Dimon will be well prepared
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: by his lawyers for whatever's to come. So we'll see
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: what happens. And obviously, we'll keep watching what's going on
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: as far as this trial goes. And as new information
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: is available, we'll certainly get it added to the catalog.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with the episode can
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. So JP Morgan is
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: seeking files from the Manhattan DA's office in its Jeffrey
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Epstein lawsuits. And I find that laughable considering that the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: New York prosecutor's office let Jeffrey Epstein off the hook
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: every single step of the way. Just go ask Cy
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Vance about Jeffrey Epstein and ask them why they argue
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein shouldn't be considered the worst of the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: worst when it comes to sex offenders. Because that's the
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: argument the New York Attorney's Office made on behalf of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. So other people might have forgotten. I certainly haven't.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And I know that those of you out there that
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: are following this case, you haven't forgotten either. And while
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm ranting real quick, I might as well rant about
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: all of the snake oil salesmen that pop up on Twitter,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: basically on a daily basis, talking about Epstein. These people
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: don't know the first thing about the first thing, yet
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: they get up there and talk about how they're going
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to expose the whole entire enterprise. Meanwhile, those same people
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: talking about, oh, I'm going to expose this or expose that,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't expose themselves at a nudist festival. So save the bullshit,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: all right? And stop trying to draw traffic to your
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: stupid Twitter site, your stupid Twitter handle, by posting bullshit
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein that's not even real. And the crazy
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: part about that is, there's so much salacious stuff that
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: you could talk about that it's insane that people make
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: stuff up. For example, when's the last time you heard
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a hard-hitting piece about George Mitchell and his relationship with
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein? And if you don't know who George Mitchell is,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: let me give you a little crash course real quick.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: George John Mitchell is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: A leading member of the Democratic Party, he served as
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. After
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: retiring from the Senate, Mitchell played a leading role in
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and in the Middle East.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He was appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: in 1995 to 2001 by President Clinton, and as United
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: States Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace, 2009 through
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: 2011 by President Barack Obama. Mitchell was a primary architect
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: of the 1996 Mitchell Principles and the 1998 Good Friday
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Agreement in Northern Ireland, and was the main investigator in
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: two Mitchell reports, one into the Arab-Israeli conflict, and won
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Mitchell served
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: as the chairman of the Walt Disney Company from March
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: 2004 until January 2007, and later as chairman of the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: international law firm DLA Piper. He was the chancellor of
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Mitchell also served as a co-chair of the Housing Commission
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: at the Bipartisan Policy Center. And then when you scroll
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: down a little bit further here on his Wikipedia page,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: there's one little blurb about his Epstein relationship. You ready
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: for it? Virginia Roberts, a woman who has long claimed
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that disgraced pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein forced
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: her to have sex with powerful men named Mitchell in
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: documents unsealed on August 9th, 2019, a day before Epstein's
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: death by a federal court in the Southern District of
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: New York. The papers included affidavits and depositions of key
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: witnesses in a 2015 lawsuit that Roberts filed against Epstein
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Roberts accused the two individuals
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of sex trafficking her, the high-profile individuals, including Mitchell, in
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the early 2000s while she was underage. Mitchell denied ever
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: having met or spoken with Roberts, and stated that he
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: became aware of Epstein's criminal prosecution only through the media.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: On November 30, 2021, Epstein's former pilot, Larry Vesosky, named
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Mitchell as one of the people he recalled flying on
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: one of Epstein's private planes, but claimed to have never
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: seen sexual activity nor indication that such activity had taken place.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Now remember, This whole entire thing, as far as Epstein
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: getting arrested the second time around, was initiated because the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Miami Herald ran a piece because Alex Acosta got that job.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Let's be very honest about what happened. They were looking
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: for dirt when it came to Acosta and they found it.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And that dirt was his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. And Acosta,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: as I've said a million times, should have lost his job,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: should have had all the ridicule that was thrown on
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: top of him. But why did it stop there? Why
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: did the legacy media stop at Alex Acosta when we
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: have names like George Mitchell, who is and was way
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: more influential than Alex Acosta could ever hope to be?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the most powerful man in the Senate
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: at one point. Not only that, but a man who
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: was brokering these peace deals on a world stage. Then
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you flip the script and you start looking at who
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he was working for. And it all makes sense, right?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Considering all of the ties Clinton has to Jeffrey Epstein,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: it all makes sense. But the legacy media refuses to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: dig deep here. They refuse to really go after the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: people that they should be going after. And so do
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: all of these dumbass Twitter accounts as well. They're too
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: busy trying to move some kind of political message with
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: their nonsense. Oh, Tom Hanks is eating children and now
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: he's locked in a basement in Guantanamo. Meanwhile, the dude's
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: doing movies and all of that stuff is provably false.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So why even bother with it? Because the time spent
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: on all of that dumbass bullshit conspiracy theory nonsense is
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: time spent away from the real scoundrels. like George Mitchell
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: and Bill Richardson. So for all the Epstein experts out
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: there all of a sudden on Twitter talking about how
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: they're going to expose the whole entire enterprise, there's a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: name to start with. And then let's see your work
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: with that name. And then maybe I'll give you another one.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I usually don't let that kind of shit bother me.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: But lately, there has been like this push of a
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: bunch of goofballs. And I'm talking about people with like
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of followers making posts on Twitter that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: are absolutely ridiculous. And it's taking people away from the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: actualities that happened in this case. I don't know how
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: many times I have to say it. This is a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: case where you don't need to make anything up. This
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: is salacious enough with the people involved that you don't
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: need to bring in all sorts of other people where
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you don't have the evidence to prove that they did
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: all the things that you're trying to say that they did. Meanwhile,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: George Mitchell has somebody who is pointing to him and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: saying he raped me. He was part of Jeffrey Epstein's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: criminal enterprise and he raped me. And nobody did anything
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: about it. Nobody's doing anything about it. So until action
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: has been taken on the people that have already been named,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: you can miss me with all of the bullshit to
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: try and drive traffic to your dumbass Twitter page. All right,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: so now that my rant is out of the way,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: we can dive into this article from NBC News and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: see what author Chloe Atkins has for us. Headline, JP
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Morgan seeks files from Manhattan DA in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: JPMorgan Chase is seeking documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Bragg's office in lawsuits the bank faces over its relationship
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: with a late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, a former client,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: according to federal court records. Attorneys for Bragg, JPMorgan Chase,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: a former senior executive, Jeff Staley, and the plaintiffs in
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the case attended a telephone conference before U.S. District Judge
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Jed Rakoff on Tuesday. Rakoff instructed Bragg's office to provide
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a so-called privilege log relating to documents sought by the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Wall Street giant by Friday. That's a list of documents
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Bragg's office argues are privileged and not subject to discovery.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: A spokesman for Bragg said a protective order is in place,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: so we cannot comment on the nature of the requested documents.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: They can never comment when it has to do with Epstein, huh?
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Can you guys comment? On his death yet, or do
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: you need some more time to figure out what happened,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: you bunch of goofballs? JPMorgan Chase didn't immediately respond to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: a request for comment. The bank faces two lawsuits filed
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: last year by the U.S. Virgin Islands and a woman
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: identified as Jane Doe No. 1, accusing it of having
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: facilitated Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise. JPMorgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: of the Epstein trafficking enterprise, the U.S. Virgin Islands alleged
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: in a complaint. The two suits seek monetary damages. JPMorgan
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Chase has denied liability. Deutsche Bank agreed Wednesday to pay
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: $ 75 million to Epstein victims to settle a lawsuit claiming
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: It enabled Epstein's conduct. And it's crazy that these people
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: can get off the hook once again. They're basically aiding
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and abetting sex trafficking and nobody gets in trouble. Oh, yeah,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: we're going to pay a fine. Oh, it's the biggest
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: fine ever paid out. Yeah, like it's going to stop them.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Is it a deterrent? Until the next one, right? Yeah,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: it's the biggest fine until the next scumbag uses their
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: bank to molest a bunch of girls. Then we'll hear
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: about how big the fine is again. It's all just
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a bunch of bullshit. I hope all of you see that.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I hope you see what's going on here. Then we
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: all have money. You can buy your way out of anything,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: even molesting little girls. JPMorgan Chase sued Staley in March,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: claiming he should be held liable for damages it might
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: face from the lawsuits. It accuses Staley, who worked at
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the bank for more than 30 years. of knowing about
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Epstein's conduct and engaging in sexual activity with young women
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: procured by Epstein. Staley asked for the lawsuits to be
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: dismissed and said the bank is using him as a
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: public relations shield. However, he has expressed regret for his
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein. All this regret. I don't care about
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: your regret. Save your sorries. Save your I should have
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: done something else's. You all knew who he was. You
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: knew what he was up to. And you all chose
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to chill with him. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: scheduled to be deposed in the lawsuits this month. In
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: a Bloomberg television interview last week, he said he is
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: so sad that we had any relationship to that man whatsoever.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: You know, we had top lawyers evaluating from the U.S.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement, the Justice Department, you know,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and obviously, had we known then what we know today,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: we would have done things differently, Dimon said. but it's
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: very unfortunate and I have deep respect for these women.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that we're liable for the action of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: an individual, he added, but I do have deep respect
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: for them. My heart goes out to them. No, you're
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: not responsible for his actions. You're responsible for enabling his
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: actions and facilitating them, you jackass. But JPMorgan Chase's banking
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: relationship was also known at the highest levels of the bank.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: The U.S. Virgin Islands said in court documents, in August 2008,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Internal email says, I would count Epstein's assets as a
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: probable outflow for 2008, $ 120 million or so. As I
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: can imagine, it will stay pending the Diamond Review, and
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: guess what? It stayed. Additional internal emails and memos filed
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: as exhibits also revealed that bank executives had been worried
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: about the financial institution's relationship with Epstein dating to 2006.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Financial records showed Epstein uses his JP Morgan account to
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: transfer around $ 3 million to women and girls from 2003
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: to 2013, according to records the plaintiffs filed as exhibits.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: The financial records do not disclose the names of those
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: who received the transfers or their connections to Epstein. And
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: here's another breadcrumb for all of the super Epstein investigators
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: out there on Twitter and elsewhere. Follow the money. OK,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: pretty simple, right? Follow the money and you'll find everything
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: that you're looking for. And the reason that we didn't
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: see Rico here is because of all of these people
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: who are tied to Epstein financially. You really mean to
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: tell me Epstein wasn't out here engaging in money laundering
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: and tax evasion and all the rest of it? Pretty
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: much every transaction the dude made would have been illegal
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: if he was hit under Rico predicates. And that's why
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they didn't do it. They hit Keith Ranieri with Rico, right? Oh,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: they hit R. Kelly with Rico, right? Oh, why not
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell? Why not Jeffrey Epstein? Just ask yourselves that.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: During that time, Epstein withdrew a little over $ 5 million
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in cash, typically in amounts of $ 40, 000, court documents show. Meanwhile,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Senator Tina Smith, Democrat of Minnesota, a member of the Banking, Housing,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: and Urban Affairs Committee, asked Diamond in a letter last
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: week why the bank, ignored obvious signs of Epstein's illegal
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: activity and maintained a relationship with Epstein. Well, Tina Smith,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: why did George Mitchell? Why did Bill Richardson? Why did
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton? Go ask them that. You're a big senator, right?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: You're this big time senator. You're a big shot. Go
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: ask your buddies. Go ask the people who used to
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: call those very halls that you work in on a
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: daily basis in DC home about Jeffrey Epstein and his
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: illegal activity. And furthermore, Tina Smith, since you injected yourself
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: into the conversation, I'm calling on you now to put
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: together a whole-ass committee that digs deep into this and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: goes for RICO predicates, or at the very least, recommends
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: RICO predicates. Put your money where your mouth is, Tina Smith.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: If true, J.P. Morgan's decision to turn a blind eye
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to such egregious misconduct raises serious questions about its role
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: in facilitating Epstein's abuse and its willingness or ability to
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: root out and prevent other less apparent instances of sex trafficking,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: she said. And remember as well that the Congress and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the Senate, they have their own slush fund of taxpayer
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: dollars that they can access to pay off their own
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: sexual harassment lawsuits. So these are the people we're relying
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: on to go after people like Epstein, huh? And put
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: new laws on the books? Talk about inspiring confidence. All right, folks,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: the information that goes with the episode can be found
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: in the description box.