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Jeffrey Epstein and the Latin American Power Brokers Around His Network (Part 1) (5/27/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Up until recently, very few people were talking
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about Jeffrey Epstein and South America. But as of late,
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the conversation has picked up some steam and we're starting
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to learn a little bit more about what Epstein and
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his operation were up to down in South America. And
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I know we've talked about Peru, We've talked about Colombia,
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and we most certainly have talked about Brazil. But one
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place that we haven't talked about too much is Venezuela
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and how Jeffrey Epstein made inroads in Venezuela with the
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most powerful people in the whole country. And this is
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going to build on what we've been talking about down
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in South America and hopefully give us a little more context.
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So let's dive into this article from the Miami Herald
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and let's see what they have for us. Headline Oil
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in Venezuela, research in Cuba inside Epstein's ties to Latin America.
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This article was authored by Shersha Dasgupta, disgrace financier and
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registered sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein had numerous relationships with a
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rich and powerful across South America and the Caribbean, a
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Miami Herald investigation has found. And when we're talking about
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a story like this, it's not about what you know,
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it's about what you can prove. And we knew previously
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that Epstein was running around South America treating the whole
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continent like his own Bach and all room, but we
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didn't have the receipts to back it up. Well, those
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receipts are starting to pour in. And the people who
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tried to tell you that Jeffrey Epstein was a lone wolf,
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they're looking stupider by the day. When Venezuelan's strong men
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Hugo Schabez nationalized reports at Porto Cabello in two thousand
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and nine, Epstein advised the chief executive of the Dubai
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multinational that had operated it on how to navigate the situation. Yeah,
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you know, his buddies over the Middle East, the ones
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that he was so fond of and the ones that
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were so fond of him, Yeah, those guys. Epstein also
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discussed business ventures with Francisco di Agostino, an influential Venezuelan
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businessman who has relationships with both the Nicholas Maduro regime
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and the country's opposition. Di Agostino was under US sanction
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from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five for brokering
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oil deals for the country Stay controlled energy company, and
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it just so happens that he is no longer sanctioned
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once Trump gets into office. Huh has Trump ever met
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a scumbag that he doesn't like? I mean, real question.
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Epstein and di Agostino also often discussed sexual exploits and
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exchange derogatory comments about women. Emails between them show. For instance,
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in an email correspondence in October twenty twelve, they described
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a woman as a financial bond that they could trade
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and split the commission. That was typical. That's what they
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think about people. That's what they think about you. You're
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a commodity, your chattel. You're worth nothing to them. And
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the funniest part is all these pundits that have taken
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up their cause trying to call this a hoax, et cetera.
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They mean nothing to them either. They're disposable and interchangeable.
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Everything is transactional for Trump, just like it was for Epstein.
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And the truth is, once you get to this level,
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everything is transactional for you. It's not like how you
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or I live. You don't do things out of the
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kindness of your heart. You don't, you know, help people
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out because you can. Once you get to a position
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like Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump, it's all about, Okay,
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if I do this for you, what can you do
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for me? And that's why power continues to insulate power
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in another missive. A few months later, di Agastino told Epstein,
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or asked Epstein about a young woman that he had
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met on the financiers private island the previous year. Epstein
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replied that she was here and naked, and speaking of that,
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not to go too off course here, but didn't just
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Staley admit to sleeping with one of Epstein's assistants, and
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I know he said it was consensual. But if one
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of those assistants was also being abused, as they claim,
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wouldn't that mean that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked a woman to
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Jess Staley? And wouldn't that blow the claims that Epstein
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never trafficked anybody to anybody right out of the water.
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Oh it does, doesn't it? Like I've been telling all
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these tourists from the very beginning, you're not wanted here,
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Kick Rocks. Head back to whatever stupid topic you were
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talking about before this became quote unquote popular, and let
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the adults continue the discussion, because there's way too many
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people who think they know who don't know. The Herald's
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reportings based on the millions of pages or records released
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earlier this year by the US Justice Department. The findings
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highlight how the financier was constantly cultivating relationships with inflo
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dential figures and using them to add to his fortunes. Well,
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I thought he was a lone wolf, just a regular guy,
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you know, who had a couple of disgusting proclivities, who
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wanted to pray on young girls. Oh what, he was
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something besides that, and that was just a perk of
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the job for him. Oh that's why the government protected him.
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I get it. Okay, So they let Jeffrey Epstein do
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what he wanted, just like they let Whitey Bulger kill
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whoever he wanted, as long as the means justified the ends. Folks.
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That's it. In a nutshell, this is not that confusing.
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This is not some great mystery. Jeffrey Epstein was created
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by the US government and then protected by the US
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government for years. That's it. That's the story. Die Gastino
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was introduced to Epstein by hedge fund manager Todd Measter
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in twenty twelve. Measter pitched Epstein on a project to acquire, develop,
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and operate up to one thousand in mega watts's solar
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energy plants in the Atacama Desert in Chile. An investment
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deck stated that upon completion, the venture projected revenue exceeding
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thirty million within a decade. How much do you want
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to bet that whatever that project was didn't benefit the
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people from Chile. Oh, I'm sure I benefited Epstein and
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his buddies, but certainly not the Chileans. Measter told The
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Herald that the venture did not come to fruition that
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he never had any business relationship with Epstein. He described
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the investment deck as a preliminary document that he had
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sent Epstein because the financier seemed to look at emerging
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markets and opportunities that were not mainstream. Sorry, mister Mester,
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we don't buy it. Everybody wants to act like they
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had no idea. You had all the ideas in the world.
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You didn't care, and the only reason you care now
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is because you're getting called out, and then of course
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we get the BS statement right, hardly knew the guy,
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never met him. Epstein's footprint in the Caribbean, The Herald
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found extended beyond Little Saint James's private island, where he
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allegedly raped and sexually assaulted countless women and girls. Not allegedly,
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it definitely happened. Now, if you want to talk about
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how many people were abused and just how vast and
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for how long the abuse went on, then that's certainly
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a discussion. But to act like it was alleged, like
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nobody ever was assaulted on that island, that is ridiculous.
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In two thousand and three, he traveled to Cuba and
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met the late Fidel Castro, and in twenty seventeen, Epstein
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helped fund to State back neuroscience conference in Havana. Well,
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communists have no problem with a guy like Epstein, just
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like capitalists don't. Folks, don't you get it yet, It
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doesn't matter what people say they are when it comes
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to powerful people, they're gonna do what powerful people do,
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and none of that shit includes you. So the next
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time you want to fight with somebody over one of
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these dumbass politicians. Just remember what they were saying about
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you in these emails. A conference in Havana In March
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two thousand and three, he traveled to the island nation
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with his accomplice and former partner Glenn Maxwell and the
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former President of Colombia Andres Pastrana Arongo. We met Fidel Castro.
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Maxwell told the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in an
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interview last year, Well, isn't that guy Hassan Piker, the
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streamer dude in trouble for going to Cuba? Should Maxwell
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getting out for the same thing? Was her trip approved?
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And if so, who approved it? And why? Boy? It's
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a tangle web wee weave, isn't it. The Herald did
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not find any evidence of Epstein discussing anything related to
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politics or business with the Cuban strongman. How would you
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know what? Somebody's going to come forward and be like, hey,
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Epstein was talking about X, Y and Z. No, that's
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not how it works. Roughly fifteen years after that trip,
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Epstein's long held of financing a giant conference in Havana
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came true. He provided funds for the New Psycho Congress,
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a Cuban state backed international neuroscience conference in Havana in
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November of twenty seventeen. Epstein got involved via Hong Kong
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researcher Gino Yu, whose work into conscientiousness and special abilities
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he was already financing. What is this, little boys? Epstein
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and his buddies are trying to make a Homelander type
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of character. Would that really shock you? It wouldn't shock me.
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Nothing shocks me when it comes to the depravity of
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these disgusting people. But the financier Pedophile was unhappy with
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the results and complained that he was not getting proper
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reports and considered the endeavor a waste of his time
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and his money. I have yet to see one dollar
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of my Cuba project was spent, Not one dollar, not
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one paper, he wrote to the late British neurophysiologist Peter Fenwick,
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who was among the attendees. Fenwick assured him that it
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was a success conference excellent. Sandwich wrote back, many young
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Cubans with neuroscience posters and papers. Who was nice to
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encourage some senior Cuban scientists with remarkable discoveries. The Herald
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tried contacting you through Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he
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currently teaches, but did not receive any response. The records
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suggest that was the last time Epstein funded any academic
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project in Cuba. Drug plane. Among the planes he was
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exploring buying was one belonging to South Aviation Incorporated, a
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Fort Lauderdale company owned by Argentine businessman Federico Machado. US
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federal prosecutors indicted Machado in twenty twenty one, charging him
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with conspiracy to commit cocaine trafficking, export violations, and wire fraud.
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Sounds like the exact kind of guy hanging out with Epstein.
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The indictment, detailing roughly three hundred and fifty million dollars
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in criminal activity, alleged that the South Aviation were part
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of his scheme to purchase and illegally register airplanes in
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the US. The jets would then be lent to organize
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crime syndicates across Latin America, which use them to transport
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cocaine destined for the US. The illicit proceeds were used
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to buy more planes. And remember the DEA investigation we
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were talking about that Epstein was part of. Could this
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have something to do with that? Very possible, Very very possible,
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because they still don't want to give us any information
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about the details of what was going on. And if
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it was some kind of operation going against cartels or whatever,
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then of course there's going to be operational secrecy. But
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if there was a case, then we should have some
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core paperwork, right, we should have some kind of paper trail.
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So I still have some questions about what was going
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on with that DEA investigation and what the hell Epstein
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was doing as part of it. Whether the jet Epstein
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was interested in was also used in illicit activity is unclear.
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Epstein ultimately decided not to proceed with the purchase. Machado,
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who was extradited by the US from Argentina late last year,
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is now in federal custody and awaiting trial. He faces
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up to life in prison. The Herald reached out to
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Machado for comment VIA's attorneys in the US, but did
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not receive any response. And look, this report really is
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just building out on what we know, and it's adding
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some pieces to what we already suspected. And the fact
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that Jeffrey Epstein was very active in South America financially
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is something that would have been easily traced by the
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United States government if they would have cared, but as
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we all know, they didn't care. And the whole entire
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quote unquote investigation was built to fill from the very beginning.
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And when you go back and you look at the
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evidence and you look at what was going on in
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real time, it's rather obvious that the fix was in
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and that Jeffrey Epstein was being protected by somebody or
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somebodies in the government. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap
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up episode one right here, and in the next episode
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we're gonna pick up where we left off and finish
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this bad boy up. All the information that goes with
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