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The New Mexico Epstein Commission Interim Report (Part 5) (8/8/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  Speaker 1: where we left off with New Mexico and their interim
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  Speaker 1: report into Jeffrey Epstein and its crimes and behavior in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico. Telephone lines, Zoro Ranch maintained a sell and
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  Speaker 1: landline directory for all employees. In September of twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Zoro Ranch manager Karen Gordon circulated and updated cell and
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  Speaker 1: landline directory for all Zoro Development personnel, referencing attached files
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  Speaker 1: telephone number ods and ZDC telephone list zero nine, one
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  Speaker 1: one one four. The phone directory itself was an email
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  Speaker 1: attachment that has not yet been produced as part of
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  Speaker 1: the EFTA disclosure. However, elsewhere in the EFTA documents, telephone
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  Speaker 1: numbers associated with Zoro Ranch appear frequently, as reflected in
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  Speaker 1: his required sex offender notification discussed in greater detail below.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein maintained only one cell phone for personal use, but
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  Speaker 1: dozens of landlines across various residences, including Zoro Ranch. Zoro
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  Speaker 1: Ranch operations. Zoro Ranch operated through a number of entities,
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  Speaker 1: Zoro Trust, Zoro Development Corporation, Darren kayndyke PLLC, Harry Beller
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  Speaker 1: and Richard Kahn, Little Saint James LLC, Cyprus Incorporated, and
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  Speaker 1: Zoro Management LLC. Each organization had overlapping purposes and functions.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these entities also played a role in the
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  Speaker 1: management and operation of other Epstein properties, including his property
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, at Little Saint James, in the
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands, in Pombeach, Florida, and in Paris. This corporate
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  Speaker 1: structure evolved over time that Epstein owned Zoro Ranch. The
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  Speaker 1: list below describes the entities primarily involved in the management
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  Speaker 1: and operation at Zoro Ranch. Zoro Trust was an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: based trust for founded on March first, nineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 1: that served as the original holding entity for the Zoro
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  Speaker 1: Ranch property. Jeffrey Epstein served as a trustee and it
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  Speaker 1: initially was capitalized through JP Morgan account. Closed December seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, with a five hundred and sixteen thousand, eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eleven and forty seven cent transferre to Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: personal account. Zoro Ranch Development Corporation was created to manage
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  Speaker 1: and operate Zoro Ranch. It was registered to address forty
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  Speaker 1: nine Zoro Ranch Road Stanley, New Mexico eight seven zero
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  Speaker 1: five six and was associated with Wells Fargo Bank account
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  Speaker 1: routing and account numbers redacted, which received regular wire transfers
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  Speaker 1: from Epstein's JP Morgan account, typically fifty thousand to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. ZDC employed a number of individuals, including
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  Speaker 1: known personnel Bryce Gordon, Karen Gordon, Carlos Delgado, Amber Shavez,
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  Speaker 1: Steve Chavez, Cynthia Cano, and Bradley Royster. Darren Kyndyke dki
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  Speaker 1: PLC was a limited by ability law company established by
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  Speaker 1: Darren ky Endyke, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal attorney and co
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  Speaker 1: executor of his estate. The firm's main office were located
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  Speaker 1: in New York. Dkipl LC employed In Dyke, who provided
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  Speaker 1: overall corporate financial management of all of Epstein's properties, including
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  Speaker 1: Zoro Ranch, as well as Epstein's scheduler, Leslie Groff, who
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  Speaker 1: was involved in coordinating travel to Zoro Ranch by Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein employees and associates, and Epstein's guests. Dki pl LC
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  Speaker 1: also employed habib avdew In, Dyke's legal assistant, who assisted
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  Speaker 1: in the management of Epstein's corporate and legal affairs, and
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  Speaker 1: in the operation of Epstein's various properties. Harry Beller and
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  Speaker 1: Richard Kahn HBr K Associate was a legal entity comprised
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein CPA, Harry Beller and Richard Kahn. Epstein SEEN
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  Speaker 1: was its sole client. Harry Beller managed Epstein's JP Morgan account.
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  Speaker 1: Cohn was co executor of Epstein's trust, managed the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Victim Compensation Fund and later oversaw sale of Epstein's New
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  Speaker 1: York Palm Beach and Virgin Island properties. Little Saint James
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  Speaker 1: LLC LSJE was a legal entity through which Epstein purchased
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  Speaker 1: and operated Little Saint James, the approximately seventy acre island
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  Speaker 1: in the US Virgin Islands. Epstein purchased the island through
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  Speaker 1: LSJE in April of nineteen ninety eight for approximately seven
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  Speaker 1: point nine to five million. LSJE employed approximately twenty individuals,
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  Speaker 1: who together were responsible for the management, operation, and maintenance
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's Virgin Island's properties. Epstein also tasked ZDC employees,
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  Speaker 1: notably Bryce and Karen Gordon, with management and operation of LSJ.
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  Speaker 1: LSJE also retained approximately five contractors at any given time.
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  Speaker 1: Cypress Incorporated was a Virgin Islands Corporation addressed nine to
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  Speaker 1: one zero zero Havensite Port of Sale Saint Thomas USVII
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  Speaker 1: zero zero eight zero two. Cypress received the Zoro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: via special warranty deed dated December nineteenth, twenty eleven, with
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  Speaker 1: Darren and Dyke handling the transfer through Local Council David G.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon at Sutent Dayer and Brown, a law firm in Albuquerque.
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  Speaker 1: The transfer package included assignment of State Land Office Grazing
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  Speaker 1: Lease number GR two one two two, assignment of State
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  Speaker 1: Right Way of Easement number r W three zero one
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  Speaker 1: three seven, and pending BLM assignments. Zoro Management LLC was
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  Speaker 1: an entity registered to the Virgin Islands with an associated
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  Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank account. The entity was subject to a periodic
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  Speaker 1: review of high risk accounts together with Southern Trust Company
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  Speaker 1: Incorporated and Epstein's personal accounts under the Southern Financial Relationship
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  Speaker 1: held at Deutsche Bank. Epstein and Dike and Bryce Gordon
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  Speaker 1: were signatories on the account held by Zoro Ranch Management.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein directed creation on numerous other entities, most of which
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  Speaker 1: had at least some tangible relationship to management and operation
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  Speaker 1: of Zoro Ranch. Some of these entities were nominally focused
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  Speaker 1: on management and operation of Epstein's property in US Virgin Islands,
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  Speaker 1: New York City, Palm Beach, and Paris, France. They include
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Kellen SLK Designs, an E SLLC, a New York
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  Speaker 1: limited liability company which nominally owned Epstein's New York properties,
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  Speaker 1: Neptune LLC, and Southern Trust. Epstein personnel, interview and deposition
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  Speaker 1: of witnesses will be the most crucial part of executing
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  Speaker 1: the Commission's mandate. The most important witnesses, of course, will
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  Speaker 1: be those who interacted directly with Epstein and other important
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  Speaker 1: figures connected to them. The Commission's focus is on the
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  Speaker 1: interactions that occurred in New Mexico or that have a
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico connection. Epstein's orbit included dozens of full time
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  Speaker 1: employees hired to oversee and manage Epstein's corporate, legal and
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  Speaker 1: financial affairs, the operation and logistics of his frequent trips,
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  Speaker 1: the operation and maintenance of his various residences and other properties,
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  Speaker 1: and the servicing of his immediate personal needs. Added to
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  Speaker 1: this orbit were seasonal employees and contractors retained for specialized services.
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  Speaker 1: Many of these employees and contractors may have knowledge or
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  Speaker 1: information relevant to Epstein's activity in New Mexico, and some
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  Speaker 1: may have knowledge of or facilitated Epstein's abuse of women
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  Speaker 1: and girls. The identities of Epstein's employees and contractors have
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  Speaker 1: thus far been drawn primarily from documents made available under
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  Speaker 1: the EFTA, including material generated in connection with past law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement investigation and civil lawsuits, as well as Epstein's email
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  Speaker 1: correspondence dating back to two thousand and nine. Notwithstanding the
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  Speaker 1: extensive bulk of documents, a full picture of the people
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  Speaker 1: in Epstein's life, especially those with a New Mexico connection,
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to complete. That's because the EFTA documents are
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  Speaker 1: redacted Epstein's email captures a limited limited attention was given
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein's activities in New Mexico by media and federal
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement, and Epstein and his circle frequently referred to
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  Speaker 1: people only by their first name or initials. For these reasons,
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  Speaker 1: the list of employees and contractors assemble below should be
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  Speaker 1: viewed as incomplete and as only a starting point for
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  Speaker 1: identifying all persons having relevant knowledge or information about Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: wrongdoing in New Mexico. Subpoenas to the New Mexico Taxation
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  Speaker 1: and a Revenue Department and the Department of Workforce. Solutions
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  Speaker 1: are pending, and it's hope that the information from these
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  Speaker 1: agencies will enable identification of all of Epstein's New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: employees key personnel central to all of Epstein's enterprises. Across
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  Speaker 1: his numerous enterprises, Epstein employed approximately fifty individuals at any
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  Speaker 1: given time, with a combined annual payroll of approximately seven
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, to manage, operate, and maintain his households in
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach, New York, New Mexico, and the US Virgin
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  Speaker 1: Islands and Paris. Some of these employees provided legal, corporate,
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  Speaker 1: and financial advice necessary to manage all of Epstein's properties
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  Speaker 1: and activities. Others acted as personal assistants, supporting and accompanying
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  Speaker 1: Epstein regardless of where he was. Others provided services situated
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  Speaker 1: at a given household. Key players central to all of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's enterprises, each of whom would have had some relevant
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of activities at Zoro Ranch, include the following. Glene
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell Maxwell was born December twenty fifth, nineteen sixty one,
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  Speaker 1: in France, the child of British media baron Robert Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell moved to New York City where she became Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: romantic partner and business associate. Epstein's longtime pilot, Larry Vososki,
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  Speaker 1: testified at trial that Maxwell was Epstein's number two, managing
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  Speaker 1: his households, properties, and travel logistics across the New York townhouse,
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach Estate, Zoro Ranch, and Little Saint James Island.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell was arrested in July of twenty twenty, convicted on
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  Speaker 1: five counts of sex trafficking and related charges in December
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, and sentenced in June twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: two to twenty years in federal prison. At trial, SDNY
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors proved that Maxwell personally recruited and grew miners for
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  Speaker 1: Epstein to abuse from the early nineties through the mid
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, instructed young women on how to perform sexual acts,
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  Speaker 1: and participated in abuse herself. Maxwell's conviction was affirmed on
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  Speaker 1: appeal in September of twenty twenty four. In October of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, the US Supreme Court declined to hear
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  Speaker 1: her appeal, exhausting her standard appellate options. Maxwell has since
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  Speaker 1: filed a Habeast petition challenging her conviction on grounds of
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  Speaker 1: substantial new evidence. In July of twenty twenty five, Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and was subsequently
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  Speaker 1: transferred in August twenty twenty five to a minimum security
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  Speaker 1: federal prison, which many criticized over concerns about preferential treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Darren kay Inndyke is a New York attorney who served
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  Speaker 1: as Epstein's personal lawyer from at least the nineteen nineties onward,
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  Speaker 1: managing his trusts, corporate entities, and tax sensitive financial structures.
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  Speaker 1: In Dyke, who also serves as a co executor of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's estate with Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn, in a will
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  Speaker 1: signed August eight of twenty nineteen, two days before Epstein's death.
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  Speaker 1: In Dyke held signatory authority on numerous Epstein bank accounts
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  Speaker 1: and played as central role in maintaining the financial infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: that supported Epstein's operation across multiple jurisdictions. In Dyke has
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  Speaker 1: been named in a class action lawsuit that alleges in
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  Speaker 1: Dyke concealed and facilitated Epstein's wrongdoing. It's not been alleged
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  Speaker 1: that in Dyke and Khan directly participated in sexual exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: A no fault settlement of between twenty five and thirty
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  Speaker 1: million is pending approval. Indiced testified on March nineteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, before the House Oversight Committee as part of
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  Speaker 1: its investigation into the federal handling of the Epstein case.
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  Speaker 1: During the deposition, Indy testified that he had no knowledge
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever of Epstein's sexual abuse or trafficking, that his role
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  Speaker 1: was strictly limited to legal in corporate work, and that
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  Speaker 1: he did not socialize with Epstein or participate in his
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  Speaker 1: personal life. Richard Khan Khan was a certified public accountant
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  Speaker 1: who within Dyke, served as co executor of Epstein's estate.
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  Speaker 1: Complayed a daily role in the management, operation, and maintenance
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's residential properties. He was involved in financial, operational,
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  Speaker 1: and personnel decision making at a detailed level. Cohn managed
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein victims compensation program, which paid out one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one million to more than one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty five claimants. He also oversaw the sale of Epstein's properties,
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  Speaker 1: including the nine East Street seventy first Street townhouse in
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  Speaker 1: New York City, the Palm Beach, Florida mansion, Little Saint James,
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  Speaker 1: and Zoro ranch Epstein Trust made a bequest to him
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  Speaker 1: of twenty five million, and all debts were forgiven. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up right here, and in the
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  Speaker 1: next episode dealing with the topic, we're going to pick
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  Speaker 1: up where we left off. All the information that goes
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