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