Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Florida Woman Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Jeffrey Epstein Victims Fund (9/18/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Whenever you have a situation like the one
- 0:07Speaker 1: we had with Epstein, with so many people claiming that
- 0:10Speaker 1: they were abused by him, inevitably there's going to be
- 0:13Speaker 1: some people who are not being honest. And one of
- 0:17Speaker 1: those people has now just pled guilty to defrauding the
- 0:21Speaker 1: fund for Jeffrey Epstein's victims. And this woman was paid $ 750, 000
- 0:25Speaker 1: all off of a bogus claim. And you know that
- 0:32Speaker 1: people that call this a hoax, they're going to latch
- 0:34Speaker 1: on to some shit like this. Well, did you see
- 0:37Speaker 1: that lady who pled guilty to defrauding the fund? Look,
- 0:40Speaker 1: I'll be the first one to tell you. Not everybody
- 0:43Speaker 1: is an honest person. I know, breaking news, right? There's
- 0:47Speaker 1: people out there that try and use tragedy, try and
- 0:50Speaker 1: use situations like this to create beneficial situations for themselves.
- 0:56Speaker 1: And unfortunately, whether it's Epstein or 9-11 or any sort
- 1:00Speaker 1: of lucrative payout, You're going to have this sort of
- 1:03Speaker 1: situation where people try and get in on it. But thankfully,
- 1:07Speaker 1: this person was caught. Because the damage you do when
- 1:11Speaker 1: you're falsely accusing somebody is enormous. Not only to the
- 1:16Speaker 1: people that actually have cases, but to the overall optics
- 1:21Speaker 1: of a situation such as this. The last thing that
- 1:24Speaker 1: people need is more ammunition to try and call this
- 1:27Speaker 1: shit a hoax. But when you have people like this
- 1:30Speaker 1: woman out here, playing games, and making pretend that they
- 1:33Speaker 1: were being abused, it opens the door for people who
- 1:36Speaker 1: want to talk some shit. And unfortunately, situations like this
- 1:40Speaker 1: certainly open the door to that. So in this episode,
- 1:43Speaker 1: we have an article from ABC News and the headline.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Florida woman pleads guilty to defrauding fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims.
- 1:52Speaker 1: This article was authored by Larry Neumeister. A Florida woman
- 1:57Speaker 1: who was paid $ 750, 000 by a fund for people sexually
- 2:01Speaker 1: abused by Jeffrey Epstein, has pleaded guilty to falsifying records
- 2:05Speaker 1: she used in her application for the money. And unfortunately,
- 2:10Speaker 1: this is a scam that was old when Jesus was young.
- 2:15Speaker 1: People have been doing this kind of shit for how long?
- 2:18Speaker 1: And whenever you have a lucrative opportunity to jump in
- 2:21Speaker 1: on something, there's going to be a lot of fraudulent
- 2:23Speaker 1: people out there that try and get themselves a taste.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And that's what we see here with Miss Jennifer Percival.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Jennifer Percival, a scholar who has written books on autism,
- 2:35Speaker 1: entered the plea in federal court in New York on Monday,
- 2:38Speaker 1: the same day that she was charged in the case.
- 2:41Speaker 1: A transcript of the proceeding was entered in the court
- 2:43Speaker 1: record on Wednesday. And as vocal as we are when
- 2:48Speaker 1: it comes to survivors getting what they deserve, we have
- 2:51Speaker 1: to be just as vocal when somebody plays games like this.
- 2:55Speaker 1: And this woman, Jennifer Percival, is an absolute piece of trash.
- 3:01Speaker 1: During her brief court appearance, Percival didn't speak about Epstein
- 3:04Speaker 1: and prosecutors didn't say whether they had reached a conclusion
- 3:08Speaker 1: about whether she was or wasn't one of his victims. Well,
- 3:12Speaker 1: if she's pleading guilty to defrauding the compensation fund, my
- 3:16Speaker 1: guess is she is not a victim. And that's why
- 3:18Speaker 1: I've told you folks from the very beginning, follow the evidence.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Don't just believe all women or believe all men or
- 3:24Speaker 1: go off of vibes. What does the evidence tell us?
- 3:27Speaker 1: And the evidence tells us here, well, that she was
- 3:30Speaker 1: playing loose with the truth, and that's being generous. Percival, 46,
- 3:35Speaker 1: said she applied in late 2020 to a fund set
- 3:38Speaker 1: up by Epstein's estate to compensate his victims after he
- 3:42Speaker 1: killed himself, allegedly, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
- 3:46Speaker 1: That fund, however, decided she was ineligible for a payment.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Court records didn't say why she was turned down. So
- 3:54Speaker 1: we know that that fund was pretty much just paying
- 3:57Speaker 1: out money to anyone who even had the loosest association
- 4:01Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein, right? We know that. And if you
- 4:04Speaker 1: could provide some documentation proving that you were somebody that
- 4:08Speaker 1: was abused by Epstein, chances are you were going to
- 4:11Speaker 1: get a cut of the dough from the estate. Well,
- 4:14Speaker 1: the estate declined to accept her claim. And that right
- 4:19Speaker 1: there is a tell. Because remember, it wasn't the estate.
- 4:22Speaker 1: It was a compensation fund that was set up to
- 4:24Speaker 1: go through all of that. Then, in 2024, she applied
- 4:29Speaker 1: for a share of a new fund created by JPMorgan Chase,
- 4:33Speaker 1: which had agreed to pay $ 290 million to Epstein victims
- 4:37Speaker 1: to settle legal claims that the bank should have cut
- 4:39Speaker 1: him off as a customer after he was publicly accused
- 4:42Speaker 1: of being a serial sexual abuser of underage girls. Well,
- 4:46Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. And these banks, they got
- 4:50Speaker 1: off easy in my opinion. Because if I was in charge,
- 4:54Speaker 1: people would have went to prison. oh, I might not
- 4:57Speaker 1: have been able to get you on, you know, crimes
- 4:59Speaker 1: related to Epstein's abuse, but I'm going to get you
- 5:02Speaker 1: on financial bullshit. You better believe it. I would go
- 5:06Speaker 1: fucking Elliot Ness, J. Edgar Hoover on these people, and
- 5:10Speaker 1: I would find every single thread that connects them, financially
- 5:15Speaker 1: or otherwise. And that's what an investigation like this calls for.
- 5:20Speaker 1: No half-stepping, no bullshitting around, and not leaving any doors
- 5:24Speaker 1: open for grifters and people to try and come in
- 5:27Speaker 1: and manipulate shit. In support of that application, she falsely
- 5:30Speaker 1: claimed that Epstein's estate fund had found her eligible for
- 5:33Speaker 1: compensation and paid her $ 500, 000. She provided a copy of
- 5:37Speaker 1: her rejection letter, but altered it to make it look
- 5:40Speaker 1: like she had been approved. Well, well, well. She's over
- 5:43Speaker 1: here forging paperwork, documentation. I'm going to go with she's
- 5:48Speaker 1: not a survivor, and instead she's somebody that was just
- 5:51Speaker 1: looking to benefit on the back of people that actually suffered.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And that makes you a deplorable, disgusting-ass person. At least
- 6:00Speaker 1: in my opinion. The purpose of these actions was to
- 6:04Speaker 1: obtain money, which gave me a sense of validation, she
- 6:07Speaker 1: told a magistrate judge. According to the transcript of Monday's
- 6:11Speaker 1: court hearing, you would think that if she was actually
- 6:13Speaker 1: abused by Epstein, she would have told the court that. Look,
- 6:16Speaker 1: I was abused. I was suffering from mental trauma. Blah, blah, blah.
- 6:21Speaker 1: But no, didn't even mention Epstein. So at this stage,
- 6:24Speaker 1: in my opinion, this woman... is somebody that should be charged.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And not only charged, but to the fullest extent of
- 6:31Speaker 1: the law. Because this shit is damaging. And not only that,
- 6:36Speaker 1: what did she get? $ 750, 000? That money could have been
- 6:40Speaker 1: better spent with people who were actually abused. What about
- 6:43Speaker 1: all of those girls from Russia? What about the girls
- 6:45Speaker 1: from South America? They don't matter? The bank's compensation wired
- 6:52Speaker 1: her $ 750, 000 in 2024 based on her misstatements, but at
- 6:56Speaker 1: some point the FBI began investigating. When she was confronted
- 7:00Speaker 1: by agents in late 2025 with the true and accurate
- 7:03Speaker 1: rejection letter from the Epstein Fund, she falsely said she
- 7:07Speaker 1: had successfully appealed and was found eligible after all, Percival said.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Then she gave her own lawyer at the time altered
- 7:15Speaker 1: and fabricated emails that were submitted to a federal prosecutor
- 7:18Speaker 1: as part of a request to for a deferred prosecution deal.
- 7:22Speaker 1: So she lied to the court, she lied to her
- 7:24Speaker 1: own lawyers, chances are, she's lying about her status. And look,
- 7:29Speaker 1: we have to call these people out, because if not,
- 7:31Speaker 1: we're part of the problem. We have to tell this
- 7:34Speaker 1: story truthfully. It's the only way that we're ever going
- 7:37Speaker 1: to get to the results that we're looking to get to.
- 7:40Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm telling you folks anything that's
- 7:41Speaker 1: a secret, but sometimes the truth, well, it hurts. I
- 7:46Speaker 1: know that my actions were wrongful and I accept full responsibility,
- 7:49Speaker 1: Percival said. She brought a check to the plea hearing
- 7:52Speaker 1: for the $ 776, 031 she owes in restitution. A sentencing date
- 7:59Speaker 1: wasn't immediately set. Percival is the director of Florida Atlantic
- 8:03Speaker 1: University's Center for Autism and Related Disabilities and lives in
- 8:07Speaker 1: Boca Raton. Like, she has a good job. She has
- 8:10Speaker 1: a career. She's the head of this department. Why would
- 8:14Speaker 1: you throw that all away? Like, what kind of pathological
- 8:17Speaker 1: nonsense do you have going on in your brain that
- 8:20Speaker 1: would make you just throw that all away? Especially in
- 8:24Speaker 1: a situation like this, did you really think you were
- 8:26Speaker 1: going to get away with it forever? Messages sent to Percival,
- 8:31Speaker 1: her lawyer, and the Autism Center and media contacts for
- 8:34Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic University were not immediately returned on Wednesday. Neither
- 8:39Speaker 1: court records nor anything said in open court makes it
- 8:42Speaker 1: explicitly clear why Percival claimed to have been entitled to
- 8:46Speaker 1: Epstein settlement money. Well, she saw it on the news.
- 8:48Speaker 1: Here's my guess. Okay. Speculation, by the way, she saw
- 8:51Speaker 1: it on the news, read about it, whatever, and decided, Hey,
- 8:55Speaker 1: let me try and get a chunk. And well, she
- 8:59Speaker 1: found success until she didn't. And that's how it usually works, right?
- 9:04Speaker 1: You think you got away with it until you didn't.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Federal sentencing guidelines call for her to spend from three
- 9:12Speaker 1: to four years behind bars, according to the plea deal
- 9:15Speaker 1: that she signed with prosecutors, though a judge does not
- 9:18Speaker 1: have to follow that recommendation. She was released from custody
- 9:22Speaker 1: after the hearing while she awaited sentencing. Her defense lawyer
- 9:26Speaker 1: likely to argue at sentencing that she has earned leniency
- 9:30Speaker 1: through her life's work helping people with disabilities. A university
- 9:34Speaker 1: website listing described her as an award-winning researcher in disability studies.
- 9:39Speaker 1: and said she participates on national and regional advisory boards.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Don't really know if that's a, uh, you know, feather
- 9:47Speaker 1: in the cap for these advisory boards. Yeah, you know,
- 9:50Speaker 1: we got a fake Epstein accuser here on our board.
- 9:52Speaker 1: Maybe we should have her come in and give everybody
- 9:54Speaker 1: a talk. My guess is she ruined her life with
- 9:59Speaker 1: this shit and not just from the criminal aspect, but professionally.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Who's going to ever hire this lady again? A prosecutor
- 10:07Speaker 1: said evidence that would have been introduced at trial would
- 10:10Speaker 1: have included Percival's bank records, search warrant returns for her
- 10:14Speaker 1: email account, along with testimony by the administrator of two
- 10:17Speaker 1: Epstein settlement funds. So this is another story that we
- 10:21Speaker 1: have in the queue now that we're going to keep
- 10:23Speaker 1: an eye on. Because I think it's important that we
- 10:26Speaker 1: tell the whole entire story. And that means all the good, bad,
- 10:28Speaker 1: and ugly. Not just the stuff that, you know, we
- 10:31Speaker 1: find beneficial, but the whole story. And that's what I
- 10:34Speaker 1: continue to strive to do. No matter where the evidence
- 10:37Speaker 1: takes us or who it points to. All the information
- 10:41Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
- 10:43Speaker 1: description box.