Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Jes Staley Contradicts Jamie Dimon’s Epstein Testimony

Transcript

Jes Staley Contradicts Jamie Dimon’s Epstein Testimony · The Epstein Chronicles

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. There have been many mysterious deaths surrounding Jeffrey
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Epstein and this story. So when we learned about the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: death of modeling scout Daniel Syed, well, the red flags
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: certainly were raised. Now, does that mean that I think
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: something nefarious happened to him? Somebody clipped him? I don't know.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: I have no idea at this point. But considering all
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: of the mysterious deaths around this dude for all these years,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: you can't just write this off as somebody who passed
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: away under natural circumstances. At least not at this stage.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: But when we're talking about the deaths surrounding Jeffrey Epstein,
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: it certainly goes a lot deeper than just Daniel Syed.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a whole host of people here.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: So in this episode, we have an article from The
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Telegraph talking about the mysterious deaths surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. And
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: the case overall. Like I said, the article was published
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: by The Telegraph. And the headline, The Mysterious Deaths of
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's Friends. This article was authored by Marianca Swain.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: On Monday, Daniel Syed, a 69-year-old modeling scout, was found
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: dead in his home in suburban Paris by a female guest.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: The woman, 28, tried giving him CPR, but could not
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: resuscitate him. It might seem... like an open and shut,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: if tragic, case, were it not that Syed was closely
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: linked to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and was
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: under investigation for human trafficking. I know, just another big coincidence.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: But at some point, you have to start looking at
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: all the so-called coincidences and ask yourself, is that really
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: what's going on here? Syed's the latest in a string
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: of Epstein associates to die in distinctly mysterious circumstances. His
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: demise was reported as cardiac arrest, but the woman staying
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: with him claimed he hadn't shown any signs of illness
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: and had boasted of his healthy lifestyle. Well, well, well,
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: the plot thickens. And again, just because he boasted that
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: he had a healthy lifestyle doesn't mean he did. It
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he didn't have a heart condition. But
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: according to the one witness that we're hearing from, bro
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't sick, wasn't feeling bad, and he had a healthy lifestyle.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: So this just came on out of nowhere? The Nantier
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: prosecutor's office has since opened an investigation into Syed's death
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: and has ordered a post-mortem examination to determine his cause
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: of death, reigniting the conspiracy theories surrounding the Epstein case
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: and fears of a cover-up, initially prompted by Epstein's own
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: suspicious death in custody in August of 2019. Look, this
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: has been just riddled with unexplained situations. And I am
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: more than willing to accept logical answers. The problem is,
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: we haven't had any of those. And I've already told
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: you what my endgame is. A real investigation. A special counsel.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: The NPA getting done away with. And people really being
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: looked at for the crimes that have been alleged that
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: they've committed. And if we meet that threshold, I will
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: be the first one to get up here and say, look,
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: we're doing everything we possibly can. Every single door has
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: been kicked in. Every bush has been shaken. And this
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: is what we have. But they refuse to do it.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: And instead, they continue to engage in this bullshit. So
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: for me, there's a clear destination. There's no moving the goalposts.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: I've been saying the same thing now for seven years.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Epstein was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: was found dead in his cell. The two guards assigned
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: to watch him following an earlier suicide attempt Allegedly. See,
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: they don't even bring that up. And it's super important.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: So we're just going to say that he tried to
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: kill himself the first time around? Even though we know
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: everything we know about Tartaglione? I refuse to do it.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not buying that storyline. And I'm not jumping on
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: that narrative. Because it's not true. Simultaneously, the cameras in
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: front of his cell apparently malfunctioned. In February, Dr. Michael Bodden,
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: a pathologist who was present during Epstein's post-mortem examination, told
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: the Telegraph that, in his opinion, Epstein's death was most
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: likely caused by strangulation pressure rather than hanging. And there's
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: been plenty of people who have said the same thing.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan, same thing. We're talking about legitimate medical examiners,
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: people that know their gig, know their craft. And this
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: is the stuff they've said. So I'm not just shooting
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: from the hip here. I'm telling you what trained professionals
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: have said about the evidence. The U.S. Department of Justice
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: ruled in 2023 that there were job performance failures by
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: prison officials, but that Epstein had died by suicide. Yet
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: many remain convinced there was foul play involved, giving the
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: threat Epstein potentially posed to numerous powerful individuals. Well, yeah.
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you really think people are just going
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: to suck down this narrative, especially these days? when nobody
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: trusts the government as it is? What's not in question
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: in this murky affair is Syed's close relationship with the
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: late sex offender. His name appeared thousands of times in
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: the Epstein files over the course of a decade, strongly
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: suggesting a role in Epstein's vile schemes. Syed traveled the
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: world searching for women to work as models, but it
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: also appears he was on the hunt for his friend.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: All of that was wrapped up together. The cover story was, oh,
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: I work for a modeling agency. Oh, I'm going to
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: get you a new job. Oh, I'm going to take
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: care of you. Oh, come to America. Come to England, whatever.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: And we're going to hook you up. Then the girls
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: get there, and it's a whole ass different story. And
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: this dirty son of a bitch, Daniel Syed, was right
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: in the middle of it. So believe me, I have
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: no tears or empathy that he's not with us anymore.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: The only regrets I have is that the authorities didn't
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: get more from him or anything from him. Syed sent
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Epstein photos of women and their measurements and arranged meetings
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: for them with Epstein. In one email to Epstein, he wrote,
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: in badly spelled English, In this business, I feel like
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: fisherman sometimes, I cash quick, and sometimes no fish. Epstein, meanwhile,
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: wired Syed payments for expenses incurred during these scouting trips,
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: and sent querying emails saying, what about new girls? Syed
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: emphasized the woman's youth. One reply reads, 26, but she
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: looks 18. And that's what he was doing. That was
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: his role. So all the people out there that talk about, oh,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: there's no human trafficking. What a bunch of morons. And
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: then those same people will tell you that Andrew Tate's
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: being persecuted. Henry Samuel, who interviewed Walsen Vieta Kotrin, Epstein's
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: former butler for the Telegraph, says Kotrin told him Syed
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: was an important, was as important as Glenn Maxwell in
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: arranging for women to visit Epstein in Paris. Yes, he
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: had a guy for every occasion. Jean-Luc Brunel was in
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: charge of Eastern Europe, was in charge of South America,
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: and Daniel Syed, obviously, was the guy on the trail.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: We'll float him some dough. He can go out there,
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: find us some girls, do what he has to do.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: Everything will be great. Unless you're one of these girls.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Syed had professed ignorance of Epstein's crimes, telling CNN, I
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: trusted him. I believe this guy is a professional person. However,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: one victim, Anya, told the BBC earlier this month that
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: Syed had introduced her to Epstein in a complete setup,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: calling Syed essentially a professional trafficker. And in my opinion,
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: based on the evidence that we have, that's exactly what
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: he was. So the next question is, how many other
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: people were doing the same thing? You really believe there
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: were no co-conspirators? Syed was himself accused of rape and
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: human trafficking by Ebba Carlson, a former Swedish model, earlier
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: this year. She claimed that he scouted her in her
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: hometown of Stockholm in 1990 when she was 20, then
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: raped her in France. Syed denied her allegations and his
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: lawyer said he wanted to give his version of events
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: in court, but it wasn't to be. Carlson told France
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: Press on Wednesday that Syed's death was very frustrating, explaining,
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: He was very close to being arrested. We worked so
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: hard for this. trying to have justice. So was he
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: tipped off? Hey, look, you're going to get arrested and
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: it's not going to go well for you. So maybe,
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: just maybe, you should do away with yourself. And if
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: you remember, that's what I said about Epstein too. Tartaglione, messenger. Epstein,
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: message received. Epstein's demise, the end point. Lawyers for Carlson
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: accused the Paris prosecutor's office of scandalous inaction. The office
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: has defended its investigation, which it said did not provide
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: enough evidence to justify arresting Syed. But another former model
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: who gave a deposition to police as part of the
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: investigation told the BBC that with Syed's death, vital information
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: about Epstein had been lost. She said an important link
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: in the chain has just vanished into thin air. And
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: that's what they want. Kick the can down the road. Obfuscate.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Wait it out. The same could be said for the
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: numerous deceased people who operated in Epstein's malevolent orbit. In 2014,
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Alfredo Rodriguez, another butler of Epstein's, died, age 60, from cancer. Infamously,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez was caught by the FBI trying to sell Epstein's
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: little black book for $ 50, 000. It reportedly contained details of
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Epstein's victims as well as his celebrity friends and associates.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: Prosecuting lawyers called it the Holy Grail. According to court papers,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez claimed he had stolen the books for insurance, fearing
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Epstein would make him disappear. And look, there was a
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: lot in those books. Now, we didn't have much context
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: as to why names were in those books, but if
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: your name was in one of those black books, you
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: better believe I have questions. But to be clear, because
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: you're in that black book doesn't mean that you've participated
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: in the abuse. And I think we have to separate
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: the two. Enabling Jeffrey Epstein is one thing, Being a
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: co-conspirator and abusing people, that's a whole ass other story.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: In 2018, Joe Ricari, the Palm Beach detective who had
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: led the investigation into Epstein in the mid-2000s, died after
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: a brief illness. Aged 50, Ricari and Michael Ryder, a
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: police chief, had previously alleged that they were under political
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: pressure to drop the case. Ricari said he had to
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: take different routes to work or swap vehicles because he
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: was being telled. He told the Miami Herald, I was
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: concerned about my kids because I didn't know if it
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: was someone that they had hired just out of prison
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: that would hurt me or my family. We're talking about
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: the police chief, bro. But these girls, they should have
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: stood up to them, right? Get all the way fucked
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: with that nonsense. Some little poor girl from Palm Beach
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: is going to stand up to a guy that has
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: the police chief scared? Yeah, okay, sure. What world do
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: you live in? Because when you're dealing with somebody like Epstein,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: with the connections and the powerful people that he has
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: in his stable, yeah, there's going to be some concerns. Then,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: in 2019, Thomas Bowers, a 55-year-old banker, reportedly hanged himself
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: in his beachside Malibu home. His former employer, Deutsche Bank,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: had taken on Epstein as a client in 2013. In 2020,
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: the company paid a $ 150 million fine for to settle
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: the New York charges, admitting it made a critical mistake
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: in working with a registered sex offender. I don't find
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: that one likely, but again, you never know. And when
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: we're dealing with Jeffrey Epstein, until the door is shut,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I'll be peering in. The dark Epstein world claimed another
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: victim in 2020 as Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, died
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: by suicide, age 55, by jumping from his 27th floor
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: luxury condo in Los Angeles. Bing had previously been in
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, resulting in a pregnancy, for
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: which he denied paternity until the DNA test established he
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: was the father of her son Damien. Bing had a
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: history of drug addiction and sources told TMZ that he
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: had grown depressed while isolating during COVID. Bing had moved
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: in the same high-rolling circles as Epstein. In 2008, Gawker,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: a celebrity blog, named both as members of Clinton's Billionaire
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Boys Club. After Bing's death, Carrie Mitchum, the aunt of
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Bing's late girlfriend, Alex Ann, who died of an overdose
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: the previous year, claimed in a Facebook post that although
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Bing wasn't that close to Epstein, Alex Ann had convinced
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Bing to make a statement via his attorneys telling what
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: he did know about the sex offender. Okay, again, I
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: don't know too much about that, and I don't know
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: if I buy it, but we won't discount it completely.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: The cellmate who knew too much. Suspicions deepened. about Epstein's
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: own demise when in 2021, Efrenstone Reyes, his final cellmate,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: died in his mother's Bronx apartment after reportedly contracting COVID. Reyes, 51,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: who had been jailed on drug charges, was transferred to
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: a private prison on August 9th, 2019, leaving Epstein alone
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: in his cell. The next day, Epstein was found dead.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: According to Reyes' lawyer, Marlon Curtin, Reyes had gotten along
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: with his cellmate, Curtin said the only reason Reyes didn't
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: want to be transferred was the relationship that he had
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: built with Mr. Epstein, adding, I think my client's presence
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: stabilized Mr. Epstein. Could be. And I don't think Stone
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Reyes was somebody that was involved in killing Epstein by
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: any stretch. But he's somebody who's involved in the story.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: He was the last cellmate. The Epstein-related death toll continued
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: to mount with three more strange casualties in 2022. Jean-Luc Brunel,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: A 76-year-old French modeling agent met an eerily similar end
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: to Epstein. He too was found hanged in a cell
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: in a parish prison. He was being held on suspicion
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: of the rape and trafficking of minors, but he denied
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing. Brunel had co-founded MC2 Model Management in the
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: US with funding from Epstein, and prosecutors suspected Brunel of
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: transporting and housing young women for the sex offender, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: getting women sent to him by Epstein too. They were
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: trading back and forth. So again, anyone who thinks Epstein
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't trafficking women to somebody, they're stupid, okay? No more
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: being nice. And if you're out here making stupid ass comments, well,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: you're a stupid ass. Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's accusers,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: victims you mean, survivors, had alleged she was forced into
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: sex with Brunel. After his death, she posted on Twitter,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to face him in
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: a final trial to hold him accountable. Yo, I had
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: so many conversations with Virginia about Jean-Luc Brunel, and honestly,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: he's one of the most vile people in this whole
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: entire ordeal. The Extravagant Mentor That same year, Epstein's mentor,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Stephen Hoffenberg, was found dead, age 77, in his Connecticut apartment.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: He had previously served 18 years in prison, as well
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: as paying a $ 1 million fine and $ 463 million in
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: restitution for what the Securities and Exchange Commission called one
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: of the largest Ponzi schemes in history. Hoffenberg met Epstein
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: in 1987 and gave his new protege a $ 2 million loan.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: They traveled together on Hoffenberg's private jet and enjoyed an
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: extravagant lifestyle. But the relationship seemingly soured when Hoffenberg claimed
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Epstein was involved in his investor Ponzi scheme, although Epstein
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: was never charged. In 2016, Hoffenberg, who discovered Christianity in prison,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: sued Epstein, calling him the architect of the scam, in
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: what he characterized as an attempt to recoup money for
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the scheme's victims. And I spoke to Steve Hoffenberg before
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: he passed away as well, and he had some very
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: interesting things to say. Now, does he have a credibility problem?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: A little bit. But does that mean everything he's telling
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: us is wrong? Or not true? No. Because I think
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Epstein was the architect of the Ponzi scheme. And I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: think that his connections that he built during that 1981-2008
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: deposition with the SEC saved him. And that's been my
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: ongoing theory for a very long time. Hoffenberg's body was
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: found in August 2022 in an advanced state of decomposition.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Police estimated he had been dead for about a week,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: and following a post-mortem examination, said that he had died
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: of natural causes. He was discovered after Maria Farmer, another
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Epstein accuser, raised the alarm. She had struck up an
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: unlikely friendship with Hoffenberg and who, according to Farmer, felt
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: ashamed for trusting Epstein and taking him under his wing.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: That's true. Steve did come out, and he had a
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: lot of remorse. And I think we have to give
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: people credit when they come forward and say, look, I
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was wrong. I want to make this right. How do
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I fix this? We need to have a little bit
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: of grace when people make mistakes, if they're willing to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: own them. And not only own them, but move forward
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and try and pursue justice. I think there's space for
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: offering a bit of grace to people like that. Now,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: does that absolve any wrongdoing that they've done? Of course not.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: But Mr. Hoffenberg served his sentence, the implausible suicide. The
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: third 2022 death was Mark Middleton, who met a particularly
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: grisly fate. While serving as special assistant to Bill Clinton,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Middleton had facilitated access to the White House for Epstein,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: who visited at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Middleton also flew on Epstein's private jet, the so-called Lolita Express. Middleton, 59,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: was found dead at a heifer ranch in Arkansas, apparently
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: after taking his own life. He was hanging from a
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: tree with an extension cord looped around his neck and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a shotgun wound to the chest. A Stoger 12-gauge coach
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: shotgun was discovered nearby. Theodore Brown, the coroner, noted Middleton's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: history of depression and ruled that he had taken his
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: own life. But the shocking and rather puzzling scene caused
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: widespread speculation. One former business associate of Middleton's was unconvinced,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: telling Radar Online, he knows nothing about guns. He hated guns.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: He couldn't have tied a noose to save his life.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: The man couldn't change a light bulb by himself. His
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: death scenario is completely implausible to everybody that knew him.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And look, I still have questions about Mark Middleton. That
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: whole scene, as far as where he was found dead,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: is really unexplainable. And I think that it's certainly worthy
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: of more discussion. Now, does it mean that he was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: taken out? No, it doesn't. I'm not going to sit
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: here and tell you that with certainty. I don't know
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: for sure, but I think that when you look at
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the totality of all of this, I think that you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: would be crazy not to be suspicious. The high-profile politician.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: In 2023, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died in his
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: sleep in his Massachusetts summer home, age 75, with no
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: cause of death given. He, too, had Epstein Associations. As
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: revealed in 2019, he'd been named in the civil suit
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: between Roberts and Maxwell, with Roberts alleging Richardson... was among
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the high-profile men to whom she was sexually trafficked by
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Maxwell and Epstein. And nobody wanted to do shit about
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it at the time. And even more, the Biden administration
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: thought it would be a good idea to have Bill
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Richardson around. And I absolutely destroyed them for that. Why
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the fuck is Bill Richardson involved in any kind of
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: negotiation to get Brittany Griner home? You want to talk
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to the authorities? Talk about Epstein. And it's always made
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: me pretty agitated, honestly. The way that Bill Richardson and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: George Mitchell have been above reproach. And still to this day.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Where's the big expose on George Mitchell? Where's the New
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: York Times? Oh, that doesn't fit your narrative? Got it. Notably,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Epstein had contributed $ 50, 000 to Richardson's governor campaign in 2002.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And flight logs show Richardson traveled with Epstein and three
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of his survivors to from the British Virgin Islands to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2011. A spokesman for Richardson
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: said he did not know Roberts and had never seen
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Epstein in the presence of young or underage girls. I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: don't believe him. He's lying. And I believe Virginia. Is
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that clear enough for everybody out there? Of course, Virginia
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: herself then tragically died at 41 in 2025 at her
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Australian home, reportedly after taking her own life. But her father,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Sky Roberts... question that explanation. Tell Imperius Morgan somebody got
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to her. Now, with Syed, to meeting a troubling end,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: suspicions will only grow. It seems that for Epstein's friends,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: as well as those who tried to defy him, this
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: affair is far from over. Well, that's for sure. But
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: you know what else is for sure? The Predator has
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: now become the prey, and the days of the gaslighting
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and the bullshit are long over. All the information that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found on in the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: description box.