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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Epstein Chronicles. The most revolting aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein
- 0:08scandal is not just the abuse itself, but the ecosystem
- 0:12of protection that formed around them. And nowhere is that
- 0:16more visible than in the conduct the former prosecutors, who
- 0:19saw the evidence firsthand and still chose proximity over principle.
- 0:25Matthew Minchell was not a bystander in this story. He
- 0:29was directly involved in the legal machinery that produced the
- 0:32non prosecution agreement, a deal that has become synonymous with
- 0:36institutional failure. He had access to the victim's statements, the corroboration,
- 0:41the scope of the abuse, and the pattern that clearly
- 0:44established Epstein as a serial predator targeting miners. This wasn't
- 0:49ambiguous evidence, folks. It was not weak testimony, and it
- 0:53was not a gray area case. It was a file
- 0:56full of underage girls describing recruitment, co worker and sexual
- 1:01exploitation in chilling detail. Any competent prosecutor reading that material
- 1:07understands exactly what they're looking at. There's no confusion, there
- 1:11is no uncertainty, and there's no room for reinterpretation. Yet
- 1:16despite that direct exposure, despite that knowledge, the professional boundary
- 1:21that should have remained permanent did not just erode. It
- 1:24was discarded entirely. And it signals that the weight of
- 1:28those victims accounts was ultimately subordinate to something else. When
- 1:33alex Acosta delegated key aspects of the Epstein negotiations, Menchell
- 1:38became one of the figures shaping the outcome of a
- 1:40case that should have resulted in a federal prosecution with
- 1:44significant prison time. Instead, what emerged was a deal that
- 1:48shielded Epstein and critically insulated unnamed co conspirators from federal charges.
- 1:54That clause alone should have triggered alarms at every level
- 1:58of the Department of Justice. It effectively preempted future accountability
- 2:03for individuals who had not even been fully investigated at
- 2:06that point. Prosecutors are trained to preserve options, not eliminate them,
- 2:11Yet here those options were signed away in a manner
- 2:14that DeFi standard prosecutorial logic. Menchell was part of the process,
- 2:19part of the internal decision making that allowed this outcome
- 2:22to take shape. He can't be separated from it. He
- 2:26can't be reframed as peripheral. He was inside the room
- 2:30where this was constructed, and that level of involvement carries
- 2:34weight that doesn't disappear after the ink dries. Now, I
- 2:38want you to take that reality and put it next
- 2:40to what happened after. Not only did Menchell not maintain
- 2:44distance from Epstein, he moved in the opposite direction entirely.
- 2:47He developed a personal relationship with the man whose case
- 2:51he had helped resolve. In my opinion, that's not just inappropriate,
- 2:56it's obscene. Prosecutors don't befriend defendants after reviewing evidence of
- 3:01systemic abuse, especially when the abuse involves minors. There is
- 3:06an implicit moral line that exists independent of professional rules,
- 3:11and crossing that line requires a level of internal justification
- 3:15that should disturb anyone paying attention. You don't become casual
- 3:19friends with someone whose file contains detailed accounts of exploitation.
- 3:25You have to actively suppress what you know in order
- 3:28to do that, and I don't think that suppression is passive.
- 3:32I think it's deliberate. It's a decision repeated over time
- 3:36until it feels normal, and then you get to a
- 3:39detail that should make everyone's stomach turn. Epstein, asking about
- 3:43Menchell's child, think about the sequence of facts required for
- 3:46that moment to exist. A federal prosecutor reviews evidence that
- 3:50this man targets under age girls, that he recruits them,
- 3:54that he cycles them through a network of abuse, and
- 3:56that he uses wealth and influence to insulate himself. That
- 4:01same prosecutor later stands in a position where that man
- 4:04feels comfortable enough to ask about his kid. That's not
- 4:08just a breakdown of professional ethics. It's a breakdown of
- 4:11basic human instinct. Any rational adult, let alone a trained prosecutor,
- 4:16would create distance so absolute at borders on hostility. Instead,
- 4:22what you see here is him being familiar, and being
- 4:25familiar is the part that should haunt people. It reflects
- 4:30a level of comfort that should never have been possible
- 4:34because it tells you something about how Epstein was perceived
- 4:37within certain circles. He wasn't treated as a predator. He
- 4:40was treated as a peer with a complicated legal history.
- 4:44And that reframing is how predators survive in elite environments.
- 4:49They're not confronted as what they are. They're contextualized, softened,
- 4:53and ultimately normalized. Menchell's relationship with Epstein is a case
- 4:58study in that normalisation. It shows how proximity to power
- 5:02can distort perception to the point where even direct exposure
- 5:07to harm does not produce lasting moral separation. That distortion
- 5:12is an accidental it's cultivated. It thrives in environments where influences, currency,
- 5:17and access is rewarded, and Epstein operated inside that ecosystem
- 5:23with precision. Now, look, this isn't just about one individual's failure.
- 5:29It's about a culture that allowed that failure to occur
- 5:32without consequence. Prosecutors are supposed to be insulated from this
- 5:36kind of influence. They're trained to maintain objectivity, to prioritize
- 5:41evidence over relationships, and to understand the long term implications
- 5:45of their decisions. When someone in that role transitions into
- 5:50personal friends with a subject like Epstein, it raises serious
- 5:55questions about what was happening during the prosecution itself, where
- 5:59the victims to make and as seriously as they should
- 6:01have been, was the full weight of the evidence actually
- 6:04felt inside that office or was it filtered through a
- 6:09lens that prioritize negotiation over accountability. From the very beginning,
- 6:14those questions don't go away, they intensify, They linger over
- 6:19every decision that was made. The non prosecution agreement becomes
- 6:24even more troubling when viewed through this lens. It was
- 6:28not just lenient, it was structurally protective. It created a
- 6:32framework that allowed Epstein to avoid federal charges, serve a
- 6:35minimal sentence, and retain access to the very networks that
- 6:39facilitated his behavior. And look, that outcome didn't happen in
- 6:44a vacuum. It was the product of decisions made by
- 6:48individuals who had the authority to pursue a different path.
- 6:52Menchell was among those individuals. His later relationship with Epstein
- 6:57does not exist separately from that decision. Next to it,
- 7:01it reinforces the perception that the system was compromised at
- 7:05a foundational level. It suggests alignment where there should have
- 7:09been opposition. And what makes this so infuriating for me
- 7:13is the asymmetry between the victim's experience and the consequences
- 7:17imposed on Epstein. The girls who came forward faced stigma, disbelief,
- 7:22and long term psychological damage. Their accounts were detailed, consistent,
- 7:27and supported by evidence. Yet the man they accused not
- 7:31only avoided meaningful punishment, he maintained relationships with people who
- 7:36had seen those accounts firsthand. And look, that's not just
- 7:39an injustice, folks. It's inversion. It's the system turning itself
- 7:44inside out in plain view. And it sends a message
- 7:47that power can absorb consequence without breaking. And that message
- 7:52is corrosive. And there's also the question of incentive that
- 7:56can't be ignored. Epstein didn't cultivate relationships randomly. He targeted
- 8:01individuals who add value to him, whether that value was legal, financial,
- 8:06or reputational. A former prosecutor with direct knowledge of his
- 8:11case represents a unique kind of asset. It provides insight
- 8:15into how the system operates, how decisions are made, and
- 8:18where vulnerabilities exist. The fact that such a relationship formed
- 8:23suggests that Epstein's influence extended beyond the initial prosecution and
- 8:28into the aftermath. And look, that's not speculation. It's consistent
- 8:32with his pattern of behavior. He built networks and he
- 8:35maintained them. Now Mental's conduct also speaks to a broader
- 8:39issue within elite professional circles, where accountability can become secondary
- 8:44to access. When individuals operate within networks that prioritize connection
- 8:50and influence, ethical boundaries can become negotiable. That does not
- 8:55excuse the behavior, It explains the environment in which it occurs.
- 9:00Thrived in that environment because he understood how to navigate it.
- 9:04He understood that relationships could override reputation if the right
- 9:08incentives were in place, and that understanding gave him leverage.
- 9:13It allowed him to operate in spaces that should have
- 9:16rejected him outright. But understanding the environment does not lessen
- 9:20the responsibility of those individuals within it. Mentchel was not
- 9:24coerced into forming or relationship with Epstein. He made that choice.
- 9:29He made it with full knowledge of who Epstein was
- 9:32and what he had done. That's what makes it so
- 9:35difficult to accept. It's not ignorance, it's not misunderstanding. It's
- 9:40informed decision making that runs directly against the obligations of
- 9:43his former role. That contradiction is what defines this entire situation.
- 9:50It's also what makes it so hard to rationalize and
- 9:54look to discust. Here is not performative. I think that
- 9:57it's proportional to the facts. And someone entrusted with prosecuting
- 10:01crimes involving minors ends up personal friends with the perpetrator.
- 10:06It represents a failure at a level that goes beyond
- 10:09policy or procedure. It's a failure of judgment of ethics
- 10:14and of basic human decency. It's the kind of failure
- 10:18that erodes public trust in a way that is incredibly
- 10:21difficult to repair. And as you all know, once that
- 10:25trust is broken, it does not come back easily. It
- 10:28lingers as skepticism, as doubt, as anger, and that erosion
- 10:33of trust is one of the lasting examples and consequences
- 10:37of Epstein's case. People look at situations like this and
- 10:41they don't see an isolated incident. They see a pattern.
- 10:45They see a system that appears to protect certain individuals
- 10:48while failing others. They see decisions that do not align
- 10:52with the severity of the conduct involved, and they see
- 10:55relationships that should never have existed in the first place.
- 11:00That perception is not irrational. It's grounded in observable outcomes.
- 11:06It's reinforced by details like this. Now, the mental example
- 11:11is particularly stark because it collapses a distance between prosecutor
- 11:15and associate in a way that's impossible to ignore, and
- 11:20it forces you to confront the reality that the same
- 11:22system that's supposed to deliver justice can, under certain conditions,
- 11:27become entangled with the very individuals it's supposed to hold
- 11:30accountable and that's not a theoretical concern. It's something that
- 11:35played out in real time. It's documented in behavior, relationships,
- 11:40and outcomes, and that makes it harder to dismiss. It
- 11:45makes it harder to contain, and when you step back
- 11:49and look at the broader picture, this is part of
- 11:51why the Epstein case continues to generate so much outrage.
- 11:55It's not just about what Epstein did, it's about how
- 11:57many people around them failed to respond appropriate to what
- 12:01he did. Some of those failures were passive, others were active,
- 12:06and some crossed into territory that feels almost incomprehensible, and
- 12:12this is one of those moments. It's not subtle, it's
- 12:14not ambiguous, it's direct because at the end of the day,
- 12:19the question is simple, how does someone look at that
- 12:22body of evidence, understand what it represents, and then choose
- 12:25to form a personal relationship with the man at the
- 12:28center of it. There's no answer to that question that
- 12:32sits comfortably. There's no explanation that resolves that contradiction, and
- 12:37there's no justification that makes it acceptable. There is only
- 12:41the reality of the choice that was made, and that
- 12:44reality speaks for itself. All the information that goes with
- 12:50This episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone,
- 12:54and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Folks.
- 12:58We have a doozy on our hands with this one.
- 13:01But before we jump into the article, I want to
- 13:04lay a little bit of groundwork about the person that
- 13:06we're going to talk about. And it's somebody that we've
- 13:09talked about here on the podcast previously, but it's somebody
- 13:12that should be talked about a whole lot more, especially
- 13:15when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein and the plea deal.
- 13:18And when we get to the article, you're gonna see why.
- 13:21But before we get there, let's set the table. Matthew I.
- 13:26Mentchell is a figure whose name may not be as
- 13:28widely recognized as Jeffrey Epstein's or alex Acosta's, but within
- 13:33the legal community and among those who have studied the
- 13:35Epstein case closely, it carries immense weight. During the mid
- 13:39two thousands, Menchell served as the chief of the Criminal
- 13:43Division at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District
- 13:46of Florida, an influential post that made him one of
- 13:48the most powerful federal prosecutors in the region. That office
- 13:52of course would later become the epicenter for one of
- 13:55the most scandalous plea deals in American history. Epstein, a
- 13:59finance with friends in high places, had been accused of
- 14:02serial sexual abuse and trafficking of underage girls. What should
- 14:07have been a landmark federal case became under Menchel's watch,
- 14:11a secret backroom deal that spared Epstein from serious prison
- 14:14time and silenced his victims through procedural manipulation and legal subterfuge.
- 14:20By the time Epstein's legal troubles were reaching their peak
- 14:23in two thousand and seven, the FBI had gathered an
- 14:26enormous amount of evidence, victim statements, corroborating witnesses, phone records,
- 14:31and more, laying the groundwork for a powerful federal indictment. Instead,
- 14:36something changed somewhere between the investigative findings and the prosecutorial response.
- 14:41Momentum stalled. The stalling point was the Miami US Attorney's Office,
- 14:46and specifically the Criminal Division, led by Matthew Menchell. As chief,
- 14:51he oversaw the major prosecutions and wielded substantial authority over
- 14:55which cases advanced and which quietly faded. Internal Justice Department
- 15:00reviews later made public in part identified Mencheal as one
- 15:03of the key officials who effectively blocked the FBI from
- 15:06pursuing Epstein's arrest. The decision not only neutered the federal case,
- 15:11but handed control back to the local level, where a
- 15:14far more lenient outcome could be arranged. To understand mental significance,
- 15:19it's important to recognize how unusual Epstein's treatment was. Prosecutors rarely,
- 15:24if ever, allow serial sexual offenders accused by dozens of
- 15:28miners to negotiate immunity for themselves and their unnamed co conspirators.
- 15:33Yet that's precisely what occurred. The infamous non Prosecution Agreement
- 15:37or MPa, which became Epstein's golden shield, was crafted in
- 15:41secret between federal prosecutors and Epstein's legal team. It granted
- 15:46immunity not only to Epstein, but to anyone who might
- 15:48have helped them, effectively erasing the possibility of broader accountability.
- 15:53As chief of the Criminal Division, mentals, oversight and approval
- 15:57were essential for such a deal to take shape. Even
- 16:01if he did not personally pen the documents, his position meant,
- 16:04nothing of that magnitude could have advanced without his knowledge
- 16:07and his consent. Now, adding to the ethical quagmire is
- 16:11a detail that surfaced years later Menchell's personal relationship with
- 16:15one of Epstein's lawyers, Lilian Sanchez. According to multiple reports,
- 16:19Menchell and Sanchez dated briefly while both served in the
- 16:23US Attorney's Office in Miami. When the Epstein negotiations began,
- 16:28Sanchez began working for Epstein's defense team, a fact that
- 16:31should have triggered immediate recusal or at the very least,
- 16:34a disclosure to internal ethics officials. The Department of Justice
- 16:39Office a Professional Responsibility later concluded that Menchell should have
- 16:42disclosed the prior relationship, a gentle bureaucratic phrasing that belies
- 16:47how serious the conflict was. A prosecutors impartiality must be unimpeachable.
- 16:54Even the perception of bias can undermine a case. In
- 16:57this instance, it wasn't just perception. It was proximity. Personal, Professional,
- 17:01and potentially pivotal critics have since pointed out to this
- 17:06undisclosed relationship as emblematic of the cozy, insular world of
- 17:11high end federal litigation, where the line between adversaries and
- 17:14allies blurs behind closed doors. In Epstein's case, those blurred
- 17:19lines had catastrophic consequences. With Menchell supervising the criminal division
- 17:24and a cost of serving as US attorney, the two
- 17:27oversaw a process that led to Epstein's plea to minor
- 17:30state charges in two thousand and eight, charges that carried
- 17:34a sentence of just thirteen months served mostly in a
- 17:37private cell, with liberal work release privileges that allowed him
- 17:41to leave jail up to twelve hours a day. Federal
- 17:44prosecution was quietly abandoned. Victims were not informed of the plea,
- 17:49in clear violation of the Crime Victim's Rights Act, and
- 17:52perhaps most stunningly, the non prosecution agreement ensured that Epstein's
- 17:55powerful friends, enablers, and co conspirators whose names appear throughout
- 18:00FBI files would never face accountability. In the years since,
- 18:05Menchell's role has been dissected by some journalists trying to
- 18:09piece together how such an extraordinary collapse of justice could
- 18:12have happened. According to one detailed to report, Menchell was
- 18:16a senior prosecutor who blocked Epstein's arrest in two thousand
- 18:19and seven after FBI agents had requested authorization to take
- 18:23him into custody. Another described him as part of the
- 18:26internal faction that resisted mounting pressure from agents who believed
- 18:30Epstein's crimes warranted federal sex trafficking charges. Whatever his precise actions,
- 18:36what is clear is that Menchell was not a peripheral player.
- 18:39He was central to the decision making apparatus that determined
- 18:43Epstein's fate. When the Department of Justice finally reviewed the
- 18:46case years later, the conclusions were damning. The review stopped
- 18:50short of declaring criminal misconduct, but made clear that poor
- 18:54judgment and unprofessional behavior among the prosecutors, Menchell among them,
- 18:59had irreparably to the process. The report described the culture
- 19:02of secrecy, internal confusion, and misplaced deference to Epstein's defense team.
- 19:08In other words, the Miami office had function less like
- 19:10a prosecutorial body and more like a negotiation table for
- 19:14the powerful. Menchell, as the office's senior criminal chief, was
- 19:18a key architect in that environment. After leaving the U. S.
- 19:21Attorney's Office, Menchell entered private practice and built a reputation
- 19:25as a top tier white collar defense attorney. His biography
- 19:29now reads like that of a consummate insider, polished, successful
- 19:33and respected, and yet the shadow of the Epstein case
- 19:36lingers his time in Miami and the decisions made under
- 19:40his authority remain a permanent stain on the record of
- 19:43a legal system that failed spectacularly to deliver justice. And
- 19:47to this day, Menchell has never spoken publicly in detail
- 19:50about his role in the plea deal, nor has he
- 19:53acknowledged any wrongdoing. But one thing is for sure. When
- 19:57prosecutors become too close to the people they're supposed to accountable,
- 20:01when personal relationships intersect with public duty, the scales of
- 20:05justice tip, and not by accident. Menchell's fingerprints, figuratively speaking,
- 20:10are on one of the darkest chapters in modern prosecutorial history.
- 20:14And while Menchell has hoped that history would just move on,
- 20:18the survivors who were denied their day in court will
- 20:20never forget the names of those who made that denial possible.
- 20:25Today's article is from the Tampa Bay Times and the
- 20:28headline Epstein had dinners with top Florida prosecutor on his case,
- 20:33according to documents, boy who told you folks this years ago?
- 20:38I remember arguing with people over this, telling me that
- 20:41that's crazy, it wasn't happening, that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't having
- 20:45meetings with people like Menchell, and that I was crazy
- 20:48that his legal team would be reaching out to Justice
- 20:50Brass to make things move in a direction that's more
- 20:53affable to Jeffrey Epstein. Well, I know this is going
- 20:56to come as a shock to you, but those people
- 20:58that were trying to pitch you that bullshit narrative, they
- 21:00were wrong again. And I'd love to give the author
- 21:02credit here, but there's no name attached, so I'm guessing
- 21:05it with staff. Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls,
- 21:09and dinners with Matthew Minchell, the Miami US Attorney's Office
- 21:13chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein's Sweetheart deal. In two
- 21:17thousand and seven, newly released document show, Well, what do
- 21:21you know. All those people who told you that everything
- 21:25was on the up and up, that the whole entire
- 21:27deal was a okay, there was nothing wrong with it,
- 21:30they were lying to you. They were pitching you some
- 21:33kind of bullshit narrative for whatever reason. But the truth
- 21:36has always been very apparent, and the truth has always
- 21:39been right here for anyone to see. And if the
- 21:43DJ really cared about justice here, if they cared about
- 21:46the survivors, then they'd go and rip that deal up.
- 21:50They'd do whatever it takes to get rid of it.
- 21:52They call all these people in menchell Villa Fauna, all
- 21:55the people I've been telling you about, and they'd put
- 21:58them all under oath. A tranch of over eighty five
- 22:03hundred pages of records from Epstein's estate released by the
- 22:06House Oversight Committee Friday show that Epstein's calendars and emails
- 22:09reflect that Menchell, who left the DOJ in two thousand
- 22:12and seven, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in
- 22:15twenty eleven, twenty thirteen, and twenty seventeen. Lawmakers also referred
- 22:21to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with
- 22:24Epstein sometime in the two thousands, but didn't produce the photo.
- 22:28Oh yeah, nothing to see here, folks, Just the kind
- 22:31of guy we want prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing stinks here.
- 22:35The deal is completely fine. It's above board, and if
- 22:39you have any questions about it, well you should just
- 22:41move on because this is all settled news, right. That's
- 22:45where we were told, that's what the OPR report was
- 22:47supposed to do. But the truth is none of it's settled.
- 22:51And not only that, but you're being lied to. And
- 22:54these are the receipts that prove it. Contacted on Friday,
- 22:57Menchell initially referred the Miami heir to a twenty twenty
- 23:01statement that he had previously sent The Herald in response
- 23:03to questions about whether he had a business relationship with Epstein.
- 23:08I had no business relationship with mister Epstein at any point,
- 23:11not before, during, or after my tenure at the US
- 23:14Attorney's office. He added that Epstein had tried to get
- 23:17his firm to handle some of the civil litigation associated
- 23:20with his case, but we declined. Oh what a great
- 23:23guy there's Menchell is huh as you're on your ski
- 23:26vacations as you're out here hanging out with your buddy
- 23:29Jeffrey Epstein. After publication, Menchell told The Harold that he
- 23:35never skied with Epstein. He did not deny that he
- 23:38met with Epstein after he left the US Attorney's office.
- 23:41Oh well, I didn't ski with him, but we were
- 23:43breaking bread. I was over at his house. After all
- 23:45the evidence you saw as a prosecutor, you have the
- 23:48audacity to go and break bread with this dude. And
- 23:51nobody's calling this Menchel cat out, This dirty, rotten son
- 23:54of a bitch. Should have been on the carpet from
- 23:56day one. Every last one of those architects of that
- 23:59NPA are directly responsible for the people getting away with
- 24:03what they got away with. Remember, it's been the NPA
- 24:06that's been their golden suit of armor this whole entire time.
- 24:09Epstein's two thousand and eight deal allowed the New York
- 24:11financier pedophile to escape federal sex trafficking charges that could
- 24:15have put him in prison for life. It also gave
- 24:18immunity to others involved in his crimes, many whom have
- 24:22never been identified. A two thousand and eight investigation by
- 24:26The Miami Herald called Perversion of Justice detailed how federal
- 24:29prosecutors in South Florida minimized Epstein's abuse of almost one
- 24:33hundred underage girls and work closely with Epstein's high powered
- 24:37attorneys to keep the scope of his crime secret. Well,
- 24:41that's not what alex Acosta is telling us in the transcripts,
- 24:46and we're going to get to those in the next
- 24:47day or two. I have already started recording them, and
- 24:50you're gonna want to tear your hair out. Bro's obviously lying.
- 24:54But at this point I just expect everybody involved to
- 24:57continue to lie. If they told the truth, I would
- 25:00be absolutely shocked at this point. Following publication of the series,
- 25:05federal prosecutors in New York re examined the case, and
- 25:08Epstein was arrested again in twenty nineteen on more serious
- 25:12sex trafficking charges. However, he died nearly a month later
- 25:16in federal custody and what was ruled a suicide by hanging.
- 25:20Friday's revelation about Mitchell comes as the House Oversight Committee
- 25:23continues its probe into the case. Lawmakers are examining whether
- 25:28there were other wealthy and powerful men who were involved
- 25:31in Epstein's crimes, and whether there was a cover up
- 25:34by the FBI and Justice Department. Several banks are also
- 25:37under scrutiny for failing to flag financial transactions even though
- 25:41they knew that Epstein had been accused of sex trafficking miners.
- 25:46And they can go with the cover up from the
- 25:47FBI or the DOJ all they want, and there's no
- 25:51doubt that they're a part of it, But the real
- 25:53information locked away in some fucking vault in Langley or
- 25:57wherever the hell the CIA keeps this shit, because remember
- 26:01it's the CIA who's behind this everybody else is just
- 26:05part of the cover up. Right, The whole entire thing
- 26:07was put into motion by the CIA. President Trump, who
- 26:12was once a friend of Epstein's, has denied he had
- 26:15any knowledge or involvement with the moneyman sex crimes. After
- 26:18initially promising to release the Justice Department files on the
- 26:22case and announcing that a list of Epstein's clients were
- 26:25on her desk, Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General, abruptly announced
- 26:29in July that a review of the files revealed that
- 26:33there was no Epstein client list and no credible evidence
- 26:36that others were involved in his crimes. No, he did
- 26:40it all on his own. Just another lone wolf, another paddock, right,
- 26:45just another guy that had some proclivities, saw his chance
- 26:48and he acted. Imagine trying to pitch that shit to
- 26:51people when all of this other evidence is out there.
- 26:54I mean, just this mental stuff alone is damning as hell.
- 26:58Never mind everything else on top up of it, because
- 27:02that's what we're doing. We're just stacking receipts. At this point,
- 27:05we all know the story, and we all know that
- 27:07we're not being shot straight. But considering the amount of
- 27:10gaslighting and the amount of people that try to rewrite history.
- 27:14The only way to force accountability is to stack the
- 27:16receipts so high that they can't ignore them. And my friends,
- 27:20that's what's starting to happen. All this information that continues
- 27:23to come out is painting a very very damning picture
- 27:26of the DOJ and this deal that they made with
- 27:30Jeffrey Epstein, and nobody's ever answered for it. Ever, don't
- 27:34tell me that OPR report was anyone answering for anything.
- 27:38That was a cover up job. Oh well, there was
- 27:40a couple issues here, but you know, it was just
- 27:43a bunch of coincidences all taking place at the same time,
- 27:47and it took them over three years to come up
- 27:49with that. Meanwhile, mister menchel Over here is out having
- 27:53lunch and dinner and ski trips and the whole nine
- 27:56with Jeffrey Epstein. But sure, let's not mention that in
- 27:59the OPR report. You mean to tell me that the
- 28:01Inspector General didn't have access to that? If not, why not?
- 28:07And if you didn't have access to that, what else
- 28:10didn't he have access to? That led to a public outcry,
- 28:13especially from Epstein's survivors, who held an emotional press conference
- 28:17on Capitol Hill in September to implore Trump to release
- 28:21the files. Trump is called recent attention to the case
- 28:24a hoax. Key questions have long been asked about how
- 28:27Jeffrey Epstein was able to obtain federal immunity in the
- 28:30first place. A judge later ruled that the plea deal,
- 28:34which was initially sealed by Acosta's office, was illegal because
- 28:38it was kept from Epstein's victims and their attorneys. The
- 28:41House Oversight Committee on Friday released the transcript of testimony
- 28:45by Menchell's former boss, Alexandra Acosta, who testified September nineteenth
- 28:50in front of the committee. Acosta, Trump's former labor secretary,
- 28:54testified that he and other federal prosecutors, including Menchel, didn't
- 28:59want to take Epstein's to trial because they considered it
- 29:01a crapshoot. No, you didn't want to take it to
- 29:04trial because you were protecting your boy. And I'm not
- 29:07saying it was Acosta who cooked up the plot. This
- 29:10came from on high. I'm talking Philip and Mukazy. In
- 29:15its coverage of the case, The Herald raised questions about
- 29:18Menchell's role in negotiating the deal. Besides Acosta and Menchel,
- 29:23the case was overseen by prosecutors Jeffrey Sloman, Andrew Lorie,
- 29:27and Ann Marie Villa Fauna. The Herald found that Villa Fauna,
- 29:31the lead line prosecutor, drafted an eighty two page prosecution
- 29:34memo directed to Acosta, his deputy Sloman, and Menchel, who
- 29:39was then head of the criminal division. In the memo,
- 29:41she proposed a sixty count indictment of Epstein on sex
- 29:44trafficking charges. Now you see why it was killed. Does
- 29:47it all make sense to you now now that you
- 29:50find out who Menchell really is. Now look at me
- 29:52with a straight face and tell me that there's not
- 29:55a cover up in play. A subsequent pro by the
- 29:58Justice of the Department's Office a Professional Responsibility OPR later
- 30:02found that its Child Exploitation division in Washington reviewed Philopona's materials,
- 30:07offered to work with her, and called the memo exhaustive
- 30:10and well done. Well, I wonder why they were stopped
- 30:13from doing that. Acosta would later tell federal investigators he
- 30:18could not recall ever reading her memo and that he
- 30:20relied on Menchell and others to know the details of
- 30:23the case. Acosta testified that he never met Epstein or
- 30:27accomplice Glane Maxwell, who is now serving a twenty year
- 30:30sentence for her child sex trafficking and abuse. In his
- 30:34comments before the committee, Acosta also reiterated that he trusted Menchell,
- 30:39who proposed the plea deal with Epstein's lawyers. Oh well,
- 30:42isn't that nice. Uh leave it all up to Menchell.
- 30:47I told you that there was bad guys lurking in
- 30:49the background, and here's one of them. Matthew Menchell, my friend.
- 30:54You're on the clock and it's time you answer some questions.
- 30:58An OPR report issued twenty twenty describes how Villa Fauna
- 31:02became angry in July of two thousand and seven when
- 31:04Menchell explained to her in an email that he had
- 31:07offered the deal to Epstein's lawyer, Lily Sanchez, the only
- 31:10woman involved in Epstein's defense. Villa Fauna felt it was
- 31:14an end run around her, the report said. The report
- 31:17also noted that Menchell had dated Sanchez, should have informed
- 31:20his bosses about it, and probably should have been recused
- 31:23from the case. Acosta was asked about Menchell at least
- 31:27seventeen times during his testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
- 31:31He indicated that he had not been aware that Menchell
- 31:34had a prior romantic relationship with one of Epstein's lawyers,
- 31:37and that Menchell should have told them so that they
- 31:40could have discussed whether there was a conflict of interest
- 31:43there was, Is it not plain as day? It's time
- 31:47to tear up that NPA. Not tomorrow, not next week,
- 31:52not next month, right now today. Acosta was also questioned
- 31:59about a photograph that allegedly showed Menchell skiing and aspen
- 32:02with Epstein sometime in the early two thousands. The committee
- 32:06failed to produce the photograph when asked for more information
- 32:09by Acosta. So we don't know about that picture. I
- 32:12haven't seen it, but I'm guessing they have it. Menchell
- 32:16left the US Attorney's office in August of two thousand
- 32:19and seven, before Epstein's deal was finalized to take a
- 32:22job with the international law firm Cobra and Kim. His
- 32:26LinkedIn profile indicates he is still a lead trial attorney
- 32:29at the firm. Ultimately, a Costa approved Epstein's plead deal
- 32:33in two thousand and eight, despite evidence that Epstein had
- 32:36molested dozens of high school girls whom he lured to
- 32:39a Palm Beach home to give him massages. The massages
- 32:43were a pretense to molest the girls, who arranged in
- 32:46age from thirteen to seventeen years of age. Epstein pleaded
- 32:50guilty to two state prostitution charges, one involving a minor,
- 32:54and would serve only thirteen months in a county jail.
- 32:58Although he was forced to register as a seion offender,
- 33:00he was allowed to leave the jail each day to
- 33:03go to his office in West Palm Beach. Several women
- 33:05later filed lawsuits that claimed they were sexually abused by
- 33:09Epstein in his office while he was supposed to be
- 33:11supervised by the Pombach Sheriff's office. Acosta testified that Epstein's
- 33:17defense team tried to get Epstein off the hook entirely,
- 33:20but he told lawmakers that he believed Epstein's crimes warranted
- 33:23jail time, and he stood his ground. Oh isn't he
- 33:26such a hero? I stood my ground. Shut up, man.
- 33:29He got a slinky for a spine and charman for
- 33:31a heart. Still, he and the other prosecutors, including Villa Fauna,
- 33:36all agreed that taking it to trial would risk him
- 33:39escaping jail altogether. He said. Part of the reason for
- 33:42the decision Acosta said, was the reluctance of his underage
- 33:45victims to testify. You mean the ones that were being
- 33:48paid off or threatened those girls. It's such a travesty
- 33:52that they think they can rewrite history. The bad news
- 33:55for them is we all know the story already. Some
- 34:00refused to talk whatsoever, Acosta said of the victims. Others said,
- 34:04he did nothing wrong, and that's the evidence you have,
- 34:07right Still, Public court records show that pom Beach police
- 34:10and the FBI did gather other evidence, including phone records
- 34:14showing Epstein had contacted underage girls, physical evidence and photographs
- 34:19that the girls were in his home, and phone message
- 34:21pads showing countless messages left for him about the girls
- 34:26being available for quote unquote massages. And we're talking about
- 34:30high school girls here. And the messages were on notepads
- 34:33that were retrieved by the investigators after they rated the
- 34:36pom Beach home. Acosta said he wasn't familiar with the
- 34:42corroborating evidence in the case and relied on his top
- 34:45prosecutor his recommendation, Well, isn't that nice the guy that
- 34:49was paling around with Epstein recommended that he gets a
- 34:51plead deal. I wonder why in hell he would ever
- 34:54do that. Folks, are you paying attention yet, do you
- 34:59realize that you've been job, that you've been lied to,
- 35:01that you've been hustled, And make no mistake, this is
- 35:04all part of the cover up. This is embarrassing as
- 35:07hell for the DOJ for the government. They don't want
- 35:09to have this egg on their face. They'd much prefer
- 35:12that everybody just, you know, moved on. He explained to
- 35:15the committee that while the prosecutors believed a crime had
- 35:18been committed, he didn't think jurors would understand the nuances
- 35:21of the case. In other words, the jury would think
- 35:24the victims were prostitutes there were kids. No, they wouldn't.
- 35:27We're not talking about twenty five year old women here,
- 35:30he said. She said, like, you know, Cassie Ventura, we're
- 35:34talking about kids. I want to be crystal clear here
- 35:37lest I'd be taken out of context or less I
- 35:39be clipped on this. No one in our office ever
- 35:41thought that the victims were anything less than victims. No
- 35:44one thought that they were you know, The idea that
- 35:46they were involved as anything other than victims did not
- 35:49cross the mind of a soul, he said, just lies,
- 35:52heaped on top of lies. He just got done telling
- 35:55us how they weren't credible, how that jury wouldn't believe them. Well,
- 35:58guess what, mister Acosta, we don't believe you. Acosta admitted
- 36:04that Epstein's lawyers and their aggressive tactics would have made
- 36:07the case hard to win at trial. We put him
- 36:09in jail, he registered as a sex offender, and the
- 36:12victims had an opportunity to recover, and that was a win,
- 36:15Acosta told the committee. Looking at all of this, the
- 36:18ultimate judgment was to your roll the dice, and if
- 36:21he gets away with it, you're sending a signal to
- 36:23the community that he can get away with it. Well,
- 36:26I wonder what signal you guys sent with that sweetheart deal. Huh,
- 36:30Because the optics of it's great, the messaging's fantastic. Everybody
- 36:33loves it. Just the greatest deal ever, the best deal
- 36:36that ever, was right right. Acosta was appointed by Trump
- 36:42as Labor Secretary in twenty seventeen. He resigned after Epstein's
- 36:46twenty nineteen arrest because he said he felt the scandal
- 36:50would be a distraction for the Trump administration. Him and
- 36:53Prince Andrew hah, we're going to do the honorable thing.
- 36:56We're going to resign. Look, folks, I told you from
- 36:59the beginning that the NPA was the origin of this bullshit.
- 37:03And guess what. Now we're finding out that the guy
- 37:06who was behind it, or one of the key architects
- 37:09when it comes to the NPA, was one of Epstein's buddies,
- 37:14was going to dinner with them, was going on ski trips. Look,
- 37:17we now have evidence that Jeffrey Epstein, the financier convicted
- 37:21of abusing miners, shared dinners, phone calls, and maybe a vacation,
- 37:26ski trip and friendly meetings with Matthew I. Menchell, the
- 37:30very prosecutor who helped orchestrate is infamous two thousand and seven,
- 37:34two thousand and eight plea deal, Let that sink in.
- 37:37The man entrusted to stand between the predator and justice.
- 37:40The senior attorney in the US Attorney's Office overseeing Epstein's
- 37:44case was face to face, off the record, off the docket,
- 37:48off virtue with the very subject of his office's worst failure,
- 37:52a ski trip, dinner's phone calls, intimacy, all while the
- 37:56victims waited, all while the world believed the law was blind.
- 38:00And now we know that these weren't casual courtesies. They
- 38:03were red flags. They weren't benign social moments. They were conflict.
- 38:08They weren't discrete lapses of oversight. They were a brazen
- 38:11collision of predator and prosecutor, the prosecutor whose division greenlit
- 38:16the sweetheart deal. Now I want you to think about
- 38:18what that means. Victims of horrific abuse and trust our
- 38:21system for protection. Those in charge whole power for one reason,
- 38:25to safeguard justice, to be the barrier. But when that
- 38:28barrier is compromised, when the protector becomes too friendly with
- 38:32the threat, everything falls apart. The system stops safeguarding and
- 38:37it starts shielding. And that's what happened. So now it's
- 38:40time to burn the sunlight brighter on this injustice. The
- 38:43alleged ski trip, the documents, the calls, the dinners logged,
- 38:47These aren't minor details. These are proof that proximity existed,
- 38:51influence merged, discretion faltered, and the consequence a paradigm of
- 38:56justice twisted in favor of the powerful. To miss drum
- 39:00Menchal to his former office, to every official who turned
- 39:03a blind eye. The world's watching. The survivors are still
- 39:06here the calls for accountability scoff louder. Justice doesn't always roar,
- 39:11sometimes it whispers, but this time it should roar, because
- 39:16if the seemingly untouchable can meet his prosecutor on a
- 39:19ski slope, then the rest of us deserve to know
- 39:23who else was meeting behind the curtain, who else smiled
- 39:25while the system faltered. So let's finish with this. Law
- 39:30is supposed to stand for one thing, a quality under
- 39:33its gaze. If it bends for the rich, the cunning,
- 39:36the connected, then what's left for the ordinary, the voiceless,
- 39:39the abused. Release those records, hold the names, demand the accountability,
- 39:45because when a prosecutor dines with the accused, the accused wins,
- 39:49the victim loses, and we all lose confidence in the
- 39:52promise of justice, and in this case especially, justice must win.
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- 40:00be found in the description box. Hello everyone, and welcome
- 40:04to the Jeffrey Epstein Show. I'm your host, Bobby Capuci,
- 40:08and this is a morning update. We're going to talk
- 40:12a little bit more about the report that the prosecutors
- 40:16showed to the survivors on Thursday, and coming out of
- 40:21that report. We have another bit of information that is
- 40:24absolutely ridiculous, and it just goes to show that the
- 40:29Department of Justice itself is a shit show. These people
- 40:34they don't give a damn about anything. All they care
- 40:37about is increasing their power and pushing whatever sort of
- 40:41political narrative that their bosses inject in their stupid heads.
- 40:47We have a report that one of Jeffreys Epstein's attorneys
- 40:53dated one of the prosecutors in the trial. So how
- 40:57in the world can anyone look at this and think
- 41:01that these gals got a fair shake. The survivors got
- 41:05absolutely screwed by the prosecutors in Florida and the federal
- 41:12prosecutors as a whole. And now let's remember what we're
- 41:17talking about here. In the first case, we're talking about
- 41:20young high school girls from Palm Beach mostly, and this
- 41:26scumbag was able to just walk and skate and get off.
- 41:31And you mean to tell me that we're just supposed
- 41:35to ignore all of his connections. We're supposed to ignore
- 41:39all of the relationships that his lawyers have had no
- 41:42pun intended, and we're just supposed to ignore the fact
- 41:47that he was so close to such a power broker
- 41:49like Bill Clinton. Now, remember we're talking about two thousand
- 41:52and eight. Still Bill Clinton was still a big time
- 41:55power player on the scene, and Hillary Clinton was getting
- 41:57ready to have a job, and Barack Obama's admitted stration.
- 42:03These are very very powerful people that were close to
- 42:06Jeffrey Epstein, and at every turn he was able to
- 42:11gain the system, and he was able to be afforded
- 42:15a certain set of rights and favors that normal people
- 42:22would never ever, ever, ever be afforded if they were
- 42:27caught up in the same circumstances. And the new information
- 42:32here about one of his attorneys dating a prosecutor is
- 42:35just it's just more nonsense to add to the top
- 42:41of the nonsense mountain. How in the hell is a
- 42:47prosecutor who dated one of his attorneys not recused from
- 42:53the case? How is this person even still working on
- 42:56the case. And how does the Department of Justice find
- 43:00in their shitty ass internal review that just a couple
- 43:03of mistakes were made. Now, I don't think the Department
- 43:07of Justice expected the outcry over their information that they released, right,
- 43:16I don't think that they expected there to be this
- 43:18much of a blowback. But what they need to understand
- 43:21is people have had enough, and we're no longer going
- 43:24to just sit by silently while the Department of Justice
- 43:28drags its feet and does not pursue the people that
- 43:33need to be pursued. We'll be here every single day,
- 43:37We'll be talking about it, We'll be raising hell, and
- 43:41they're not going to be able to ignore us. One voice, sure,
- 43:45millions of us. Impossibility. So we just have to keep
- 43:49the pressure on, and we have to keep asking these
- 43:51kinds of questions. How the hell is a prosecutor who
- 43:55is supposedly going after Jeffrey Epstein, How is he not
- 43:59accusing himself or being replaced by his superiors knowing that
- 44:02he had a relationship with one of Epstein's lawyers. It
- 44:08is ridiculous that this guy was not accused, all right,
- 44:17So our article today is from the New York Post headline,
- 44:21Epstein's attorney dated the prosecutor in trial where he got
- 44:24a sweetheart deal. I mean, how is that not looked
- 44:32upon by the Department of Justice as something that is
- 44:36just unbelievably unacceptable. You can't have this guy as one
- 44:45of the prosecutors while at the same time dating one
- 44:48of Epstein's lawyers. There, what do you think there's no
- 44:50conflict of interest there. How do we know that this
- 44:53dude isn't throwing sweetheart deals? Many of men have fallen
- 44:57under the spell of a beautiful woman. This article was
- 45:03posted excuse me, authored by Paula Frolick. It was a
- 45:09sweetheart deal that has baffled the world. How In two
- 45:13thousand and eight, Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to plead guilty
- 45:17to a lesser felony prostitution charge, register as a sex offender,
- 45:21and served just thirteen months in a county jail where
- 45:24he could come and go during the day, despite several
- 45:28underage survivors testifying he raped them. So, right off the bat,
- 45:34you say to yourself, what in the hell this guy
- 45:37scored this sweetheart deal while at the same time one
- 45:39of the prosecutors was dating one of his attorneys. Right
- 45:46off the bat, that looks bad. And that's before you
- 45:48even add in all of the other stuff. Right, So again,
- 45:53all these little nuggets, all these little pieces of information,
- 45:56all of these little puzzle pieces, when they're fitted together,
- 46:01they start they start to draw a much darker picture
- 46:05than if we were just looking at these things as
- 46:07one offs. Right, every look one offs happen in shit
- 46:12in in cases, right, every now and then there's a coincidence,
- 46:15but this case is littered with all sorts of shit
- 46:20that is just completely and utterly backwards. The Department of
- 46:26Justice has been almost complicit in all of this, in
- 46:33my opinion, and there needs to be some repercussions for
- 46:37people who were involved. I have. I'm very I'm very
- 46:41strong in that belief. It's now been revealed that one
- 46:46of Epstein's defense attorneys previously dated one of the top
- 46:50prosecutors on the deal. I don't even, honestly, I don't
- 46:55even know what to say about that right now. It's
- 46:58just so it's it's so sad. I guess I should
- 47:03say that the Department of Justice has sat on this
- 47:05information for ten years. They've known this stuff for ten years,
- 47:08and it's just coming out now. They're an embarrassment, and
- 47:14Bill Barr is the biggest embarrassment of all. I know
- 47:17a lot of you out there listening, are you under
- 47:20the impression that Bill Barr is pursuing people on behalf
- 47:25of justice? And that is not the case. Bill Barr
- 47:28is a political hack, he's a retread. He's been in Washington,
- 47:33d C. Forever. He is exactly what Trump was talking
- 47:37about when he talked about swamp monsters. But yet somehow
- 47:41Trump brings Barr in. It's all a shell game. I
- 47:44don't trust any of these people. The last politician I
- 47:47trusted was Ron Paul. Lillianne Sanchez was a member of
- 47:52Epstein's defense team in two thousand and eight when he
- 47:55was facing a potential federal indictment and life imprisonment for
- 47:59sexually abusing dozens of girls between nineteen ninety nine and
- 48:03two thousand and seven. I mean, I know it's an
- 48:08uncomfortable question to ask in all, but did this relationship
- 48:12have any sway on what mister Menchell did? Did it
- 48:16have any were there any Was there any pressure by
- 48:21miss Sanchez to get a favorable deal for her client. Look,
- 48:26we know that stuff like that occurs. We know that
- 48:32people like Menchel, who get caught up in a relationship
- 48:36with a beautiful young woman can easily be manipulated. Now again,
- 48:42I'm not saying that occurred. I don't know. I wasn't there,
- 48:45I wasn't hanging out with them while they were talking about,
- 48:48you know, whatever it is they're talking about. But I
- 48:53think that when you look at everything that went on
- 48:56in this case. There are so many unanswered questions that
- 49:00we can't leave any avenue on explored. Sanchez had also
- 49:05did in Matthew Minchell, one of the prosecutors who worked
- 49:08on the plea deal. So this miss Sanchez has quite
- 49:15the bit of a dating going on in her realm
- 49:19of work. Me personally, yeah, I don't think it's a
- 49:24good idea to be dipping the old pen in company inc.
- 49:27If you get my drift, And that's in any sort
- 49:32of situation, never mind a job like this where you're
- 49:35dealing with serious, serious matters. We're dealing with Jeffrey Epstein,
- 49:40for Lord's sake, and this lady who is one of
- 49:44his attorneys is having an affair with the prosecutor and
- 49:49someone involved in the plea deal. How many people is
- 49:51this lady having an affair with? Is it all a
- 49:53coincidence or was she targeting these people? Is? The romance
- 49:58came to light after the Justice Department in Office of
- 50:00Professional Responsibility OPR issue a report this week slamming the
- 50:05Florida prosecutors for poor judgment and the Pedal Pervs deal.
- 50:10Poor judgment is absolutely a understatement, Okay, poor judgment this
- 50:18was dereliction of duty. I got your poor judgment, as
- 50:23Tony Soprano would say, I got your poor judgment right
- 50:26here in my ass. I mean, are you kidding me?
- 50:29Right now? Sanchez and Manchell dated in two thousand and
- 50:33three when they were both employed at the Southern District
- 50:36of Florida's US Attorney's office. They later broke up but
- 50:40never disclosed the relationship while both worked on the Epstein deal.
- 50:44Bam right there, that alone should get the deal thrown out. Folks.
- 50:48I'm telling you right now, with all of this stuff
- 50:50that's coming out, the Eleventh Circuit Corps Circuit Appeals Court
- 50:55is going to have a field day with this shit.
- 50:58I said earlier that I thought it was a better
- 51:00than good chance that the non prosecution agreement agreement gets overturned.
- 51:05I'm accelerating that. I'm saying it's a very good chance
- 51:09at this point because the Eleventh Circuit Circuit Court of
- 51:13Appeals is going to see all of this information too.
- 51:15They're going to have everything in front of them, and
- 51:18they're going to make their decision based on everything that
- 51:21has been presented to them and everything that could be
- 51:24found by their clerks or whatever. The hell they have
- 51:27going on. But the point is this is really bad
- 51:31for the Prosecutor's office. And while they might not face
- 51:34sanctions by the Department of Justice, I have a funny
- 51:37feeling the Eleventh Circuit is going to come down hard
- 51:40with an iron fist on these people. The report says
- 51:46Manchell had left the office before the Epstein case was resolved.
- 51:51Menchell told Justice Department investigators during the probe that his
- 51:54relationship with Sanchez had no impact on his handling of
- 51:58the case. Oh yeah, I'm sure had no handling at all.
- 52:02You're just you could never fall to the charms of
- 52:04a woman. Huh, mister Minchell, you're just better than the
- 52:07rest of us. Obviously, give me a break. We all
- 52:11know that Jeffrey Epstein was running a honey trap. This
- 52:15could have just been another portion of that honey trap,
- 52:18another way to pierce the veil and get somebody on
- 52:20the inside. What where. We don't think that Epstein and
- 52:26his people are that devious. Come on, folks, this is
- 52:29exactly what they do. This is in their wheelhouse. So
- 52:32mister Minchell here, he should be brought under oath and
- 52:35he should have to talk about what occurred because I
- 52:38have a sneaking suspicion that he has not been too
- 52:42forthright about his tryst with miss Sanchez. Here, letting a
- 52:49well connected billionaire get away with child rape and international
- 52:53sex trafficking isn't poor judgment. It is a disgusting failure,
- 52:57Senator Ben Sass said in a statement released on Thursday.
- 53:01Americans ought to be enraged. Epstein should be rotting behind
- 53:05bars today, but the just US Department failed epstein survivors
- 53:09at every turn. Well, mister Sas, I'm here to report
- 53:12to you, sir, the Americans are enraged, and guess what,
- 53:16You're in a position to do something about it. So
- 53:19do you want to become a hero in this story?
- 53:21Do you want to become somebody that both sides of
- 53:24the aisle can look up to? Like the old days
- 53:26when we act, we actually had a political system that worked.
- 53:30If that's who you want to be, mister Sas, now's
- 53:32the time step forward, demand hearings and demand that these
- 53:40people be brought to justice. Epstein was found hanging in
- 53:46his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan last
- 53:50August while awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges. You
- 53:53see how the post doesn't say, oh, he committed suicide.
- 53:56And if you notice, certain outlets don't come out and say, well,
- 53:59he committed suicide, They'll say found hanging in his cell
- 54:04or found dead in his cell. And I think that
- 54:06that is good quality journalism because at the end of
- 54:09the day, we don't know what happened in that cell,
- 54:13So to assert that he definitely hung himself or to
- 54:17assert that he was definitely murdered, we just don't have
- 54:20all of those details yet. But it is something that
- 54:23needs to be discussed obviously. Now, I think that Ben
- 54:29Sass getting sassy about all of this is a definite
- 54:32good thing. It's a step in the right direction. But
- 54:35they need to be more forceful about it. The Congress,
- 54:38the Senate, they need to come out and they need
- 54:40to take a stand against this shit and let people
- 54:43like Epstein and those who were running this operation behind
- 54:47the scenes, those who were working with Epstein, and those
- 54:51who were financing Epstein that this shit is never going
- 54:54to happen again in this country. And if you took
- 54:57part in this, if you enabled this, if you were
- 55:01involved with Jeffrey Epstein financially, then you are in the
- 55:06crosshairs as well. That is a message that needs to
- 55:10be sent. It needs to be sent strongly, and it
- 55:13needs to be sent now. If you'd like to contact me,
- 55:18you can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com.
- 55:21That's b O B b Y, c ap U C
- 55:24c I at ProtonMail dot com. You can also find
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