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Mega Edition: Julie K. Brown Puts The USVI On Blast Over Their Epstein Hypocrisy (4/22/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Speaker 2: Julie K. Brown has a monstrous.
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Speaker 1: Article out today that has to do with the US
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Virgin Islands and they're bs with Jeffrey Epstein. My only
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question is what the hell took so long? We've known
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about this stuff for years. This is stuff that we
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have been talking about for years. So in this episode,
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let's continue that conversation. And to do that, we're going
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to use this massive article that Julie K. Brown just
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put out in the Miami Herald, and considering the size
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of the article, we're gonna break this down into two parts.
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So let's just get busy. Headline, US Virgin Islands cozied
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up to Jeffrey Epstein. Now they're profiting from his sex crimes.
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And the second that Denise George announced this whole lawsuit,
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this is exactly what I told you that they were
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looking a secure bag and they have no business being
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involved in the conversation when it comes to restitution, especially
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considering what happened on this island under all.
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Speaker 2: Of their watch.
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Speaker 1: But we should just forget about that and everybody should
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just be on board with them getting all this money. Well,
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vafonngul to that I'm not on board with it at all,
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and the government of the US Virgin Islands has about
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as much right to that money as you or I do.
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This article was authored by Julie Kay Brown. For two decades,
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the US Virgin islands most prominent government and elected officials,
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as well as their pet charities, educational institutions and causes,
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were paid millions of dollars by Jeffrey Epstein in the
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form of salaries, campaign contributions, and consultant fees. His most
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trusted employee was the US Territories First Lady. And again,
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for those of us who have been following along, we
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know all of this. But for the people who have
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just showed up to the party, I hate to break
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the news to you, but they were all in on it.
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Speaker 2: That includes all of your faiths.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the Stacey Plaskets, you know, miss bigmouth,
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who was up there castigating other Americans during those committees,
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well she was taking money from Epstein. So what you're
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trying to tell me is that there was nobody else
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that could have sat on that committee but somebody who
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took all that money from Epstein and was obviously eating
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out of his troth and it wasn't like it was private.
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It wasn't like it was some big secret. We all
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knew what was going on. The legacy media chose to
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omit that information from you now for whatever reason. Maybe
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it behooves them or they feel like it's not going
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to hurt them politically, so they're out here talking about
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it now. But remember, none of this is new, and
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the legacy media should have clued you into all of
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this years ago. His most trusted employee was the US
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Territory's first Lady. At the same time, USVII authorities paid
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little mind to the young women and girls he shuttled
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through the Saying Thomas Airport. Following his two thousand and
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eight Palm Beach conviction for soliciting a minor for sex,
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Epstein's abuse of underage girls became so well publicized that
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his hideaway and oasis, built on a bluff overlooking the Caribbean,
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became known as Pedophile Island. For years, it was suspected
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that Epstein's palatial compound on his private island was being
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used as a place for wealthy and powerful people to
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commit sex crimes. Let that sink in for a minute.
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Everybody knew what was going on on that island. All
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the local politicians, all of your favorite elected officials, they
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all knew. Did any of them stop it? What about
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Bill Richardson? How about George Mitchell, he step up and
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stop it at all? No?
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Speaker 2: What about Bill Clinton?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Huh? Interesting?
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Speaker 1: And you know what's absolutely disgusting all the people that
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are out here still fawning over Bill Clinton. Everybody knows
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about his palin around with Epstein. Everybody knows that he
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had Epstein over at the White House seventeen times. But
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the legacy media refuses to deeper. They refuse to expose
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Bill Clinton and show the world the true depths of
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his relationship with Epstein. And the reason they won't do
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that well, they feel like it will give political ground
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to the other side.
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Speaker 2: God forbid. One of our.
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Speaker 1: Faiths is accused. Just ask Nancy Pelosi's daughter. But I
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guess it's too much to ask for a little bit
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of accountability from people like Bill Clinton. At the very least,
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how about a real statement about what went down, not
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that bullshit ass statement you put out in twenty nineteen
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through your little buddy there, your communications director, who obviously
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lied to everybody, Oh, how do you know that? Well,
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his bullshit ass lies were exposed at the Glenn Maxwell trial.
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Will he ever be held accountable? Or is accountability only
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necessary for your political enemies?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: The same USVII government has turned a blind eye to
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Epstein's crimes, is filing lawsuits and reaping tens of millions
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of dollars from companies and individuals it claims enabled the
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serial sex traffick. Epstein, a New York financier pedophile whose
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friends included leaders in the world of finance, government, and science,
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died in a New York prison cell in August twenty
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nineteen while awaiting trial on federal charges. His death was
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ruled as suicide by hanging. In the years since Epstein's death,
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a litany of federal lawsuits have been filed targeting individuals, banks,
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and business executives in Epstein's circle who have been accused
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of facilitating or being complicit in his sex trafficking operation.
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At least two hundred survivors have said he and his
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associates sexually abuse them as girls or young women over
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two decades, and unfortunately we know that that number is
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much higher than just two hundred. We're talking about literally
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in the thousands. This guy was active for what four decades,
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and according to his own words and the words of
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his associates, he had three girls coming over a day,
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So you do the math. As a result, about five
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hundred million dollars in legal settlements have been paid to
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Epstein's survivors, most of that from Epstein's estate and from
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JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, the two financial institutions where
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he conducted millions of dollars in financial transactions that should
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have raised red flags, red flags that were all ignored,
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and not just by JP Morgan, but by Finnsen, by
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the US Virgin Islands, by everybody involved. Yet no single
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entity potentially stands to collect more money in the fallout
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from Epstein's crimes than the government of the US Virgin Islands. Now,
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how is that acceptable to anybody out there? And this
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is what I've been talking about since the very beginning
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of this lawsuit. The fact that the US Virgin Islands
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would attempt to set themselves up as some kind of
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victim here is some of the most bananas bullshit I
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have ever heard in my life. Every dollar of that
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estate should have been paid out in compensation to the
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women who were molested. I know a novel idea right.
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Thus far, the USVII has collected just shy of two
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hundred million dollars in Epstein related settlements, most of it
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the result of a civil racketeering lawsuit its former attorney
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general filed against his estate. Now it's seeking another one
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hundred and ninety million in an epic lawsuit filed against
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JP Morgan. The USVII and JP Morgan both claim the
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other ignored evidence of and even profited from Epstein's sex trafficking.
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But while much of the spotlight has been on the
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financial institutions that continue to do business with them, very
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little attention has been given to the role that the
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government of the USVII, a territory of the United States
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that has far reaching law enforcement powers, Playton helping one
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of the most notorious sex traffickers in US history. I mean,
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she says very little attention has been paid to it,
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and she's now wrong. I'm one of the only people
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that's been howling about this shit from the jump, and
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like usual, the rest of the legacy media and all
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the pretenders are playing ketchup. But for those of you
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who have been following the podcast, and who have been
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listening for years, you know all of this, and you
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already know about this audacious plot by the US Virgin
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Islands to pilfer all of this money. The USVII Governor,
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Albert Bryan Jr. Declined to comment on JP Morgan's allegations,
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but a spokeswoman for the Territories Department of Justice said
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that JP Morgan is the only party to this lawsuit
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that had intricate knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal operation. That's
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such bs. Sorry, I don't buy it. If I was
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a survivor, I'd be suing the US Virgin Islands as
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sure as I'm going to be rooting for my miserable
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New York Jets tomorrow, I would be suing the Virgin Islands.
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The USVII Department of Justice spokeswoman Venetia of Alasquez added,
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we see the lengths JP Morgan has gone to in
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order to dodge accountability and distract the public from the
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critical fact. It is extremely unfortunate that while JP Morgan
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continues to display considerable vigilance in attempting to shape its
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self serving narrative and rebuild its reputation in the press,
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it showed no similar concern for protecting the lives of
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the young women and girls who were preyed upon. Well,
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neither did you. You were the one with subpoena power.
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You could have arrested people, You could have rated his property.
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Speaker 2: What did you do?
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Speaker 1: You took his money, That's what you did. So try
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and gaslight somebody else, said JP Morgan in a statement.
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Rather than account for its own failure to investigate and
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monitor this criminal under its jurisdiction and to protect its
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citizens and sovereign interests, USVI blames the third party bank
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that did not have usvii's authority to enforce any law.
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Look as much as I hate JP Morgan and the
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financial sector, they're not wrong scummy as they are. I
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expect it from them. I expect better from the USVII
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and their politicians. And it's my belief that if you're
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a public servant, you need to be held to the
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highest levels of integrity. And from my vantage point over
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here in the peanut gallery, doesn't seem like there's very
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much integrity in taking money from a convicted sex offender
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or trying to change your sex offender laws to better
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suit that sex offender because he's giving you a bunch
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of dough and no matter how you chop it. That's
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what was happening down in the USVII. They were all
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getting a bag, and because they were getting that bag,
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they were willing to get into bed with Jeffrey Epstein.
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And we see the results. Okay, we see them. We
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see the lives that were ruined. But somehow the US
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Virgin Islands is getting two hundred million dollars. In the
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words of the Venerable Junior Soprano, go and shit in
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your hat. In recent months, discovery from the federal civil
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lawsuit provides the strongest evidence to date of Epstein's in
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fluence in the USVII and his cozy relationship with three
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of the territory's governors, its former first Lady attorney, generals, senators,
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leaders of its Economic Development Commission, the Virgin Islands Police,
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federal marshals, the Port Authority, and the territories representative to Congress.
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Yeah we're talking about you, Stacey Plaskett. Epstein gave free
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turkeys to seventy eight federal customs agents at the Saint
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Thomas Airport for Thanksgiving. Yeah, so did al Chapo. So
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did Nino Brown in the movie New Jack City. So
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did Tony Soprano. You see where I'm going with all
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of this. It's call trying to win the hearts and
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minds when you're out here committing crime. And that's exactly
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what Epstein was doing on this island. At least since
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two thousand and five, the FBI suspected that Epstein was
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trafficking girls and women to and from several of his residences,
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including his waterfront home in Palm Beach and his sprawling
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USVII estate. The island, surrounded by treacherous sea urchins, accessible
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only by helicopter or boat, provided a perfect cover for
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the sexual abuse that victims have long alleged happened there.
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And you know, it's so crazy they talk about, Oh,
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the evidence is now becoming available. The evidence has always
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been there. People have refused to look at it. People
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have refused to really process this information, this evidence because
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the sorry ass legacy media has covered for these people
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from the very beginning. And honestly, I was blown away
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to see this article from Julie K.
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Speaker 2: Brown. I mean, I guess better late than never.
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Speaker 1: Right. In twenty twenty, Denise George, the usvii's then Attorney
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General finally acknowledge what had been rumored for two decades
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that Epstein's island was a nexus for his sex trafficking operation.
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George filed a racketeering lawsuit against Epstein's estate, alleging that
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he would transport girls there as young as eleven twelve,
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keeping a computerized database to track the girls whereabouts. Several
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survivors have also said Epstein's assistants would seize their passports.
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We've heard that from many, many different girls. We've also
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heard about girls who have said that they were so
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distraught that they were thinking about swimming from the island
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back to the United States. Imagine what you must be
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going through, trauma wise, to even have that pop up
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as a thought in your head. But it's all good,
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because you know, he handed out some turkeys and shit.
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The USVII government, in addition to the Department of the
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Homeland Securities, US Customs and Border Patrol, was responsible for
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monitoring Epstein's movements in the territory after his release from
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the Palm Beach County Jail in two thousand and nine
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as part of a plea deal, Epstein served just eighteen
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months in the County jail for a procuring a minor
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for prostitution and felony solicitation, and was required to REGI
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as a convicted sex offender. And do you need more
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evidence that Epstein was being protected by the government, because
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I'll give you some right here. After he was convicted
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as a sex offender, the New York Prosecutor's Office, the
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Manhattan Prosecutor's Office audaciously argued in court that Jeffrey Epstein
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should have only been a Level one offender. Can you
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imagine the government of New York, the Prosecutor's Office of
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New York making that argument. I mean it shouldn't shock
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us really, considering cy Vance, who used to run that office,
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was an absolute tool. Pret Baraja, absolute tool. And all
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of them had a chance to take down Epstein and
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none of them did it. But to have the audacity
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to get up there and say that Jeffrey Epstein is
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not a Level three offender is just beyond absurd. Epstein
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changed his primary residence to Little Saint James, his seventy
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two acre private resort that included a helipad, private doc
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gas station, high capacity water filtration, two swimming pools, boor
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guest villas, three private beaches, a gym, and other buildings.
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This placed him under the territories law enforcement, jurisdiction and supervision.
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It's unclear how often he was required to register in
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person over the years, but USVII officials who gave statements
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for the JP Morgan lawsuit could find records of only
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five visits by the US Marshals and the territory's officials
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between twenty ten and twenty nineteen, even though they also
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acknowledged that they should have been subjected to weekly checks
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by the Virgin Islands police and the Federal Marshals. Well
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why would the police come? They got themselves some turkeys.
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How about the computers that he bought for the police
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and the US Virgin Islands. Who's suing all of these people,
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who's trying to get all this money? Well, they were
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the ones that were enabling Jeffrey Epstein. They were the
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ones that were looking the other way, and they were
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the ones that were profiting. And up until now, I
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feel like I've been the only one beating that drum.
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So it's nice to see Julie K. Brown come out
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swinging here. This is a very important part of what
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happened in the nexus of this story. And if we
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want to hold people accountable, we should start looking down
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in the US Virgin Islands. But somehow it's been flipped
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around and now the US Virgin Islands has been elevated
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to victimhood status. It is all straight up absurd. USVII
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officials also admit they took no steps to ensure that
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Epstein wasn't continuing to harm miners at a time when
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authorities in New York, where he owned what was reputed
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to be Manhattan's largest private residents, had classified him as
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a Tier three sex offender, one that is at high
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risk of continuing to prey on young women and girls.
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That's because the court forced him to do it. It
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wasn't because say Vance or pre Baraja or any of
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the other clowns in the office wanted to do it.
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Their hand was forced. JP Morgan has filed hundreds of
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court exhibits, emails, and depositions in an effort to prove
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that there was a decade long quid pro quo between
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Epstein and the USVII government. Epstein was rewarded, according to
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JP Morgan, for his largess, with three hundred million in
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tax breaks that USVII authorities extended year after year, even
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though audit showed he often fell short on the program's
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regulatory requirements. That's because people were profiting personally. Do you
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really think that anybody out here who we talk about
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is gonna put people over profits. They are not. It's
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all about getting that bag. It's all about consolidating power.
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And if that means girls are getting trafficked and these
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smarmy fuck bags are gonna look the other way, well
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that's what's gonna happen. JP Morgan's lawyers described as office
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manager former USVII First Lady Cecial DeJong as Epstein's primary conduit,
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assisting him in obtaining special benefits, including visas to bring
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young girls from other countries to the island. And folks,
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they weren't bringing them there to check out the island
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and have a nice swim. Okay, we all know what
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they were being brought there for. And we all know
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that Cecil DeJong and the rest of them knew what
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was up since at least two thousand, including during the
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time her husband John DeJong was governor. Cecile Dejeong worked
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for Epstein, earning a two hundred thousand dollars annual salary,
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plus other perks, including private school and college tuition for
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the couple's children.
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Speaker 2: Must be nice. Huh.
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Speaker 1: And do you think, with everything we know about Jeffrey Epstein,
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he was doing that out of the kindness of his
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heart or was he expecting a little something something on
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the flip side? We all know the answer to that.
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John Dejeong declined to comment.
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Speaker 2: For this story.
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Speaker 1: The Miami Herald was unsuccessful in reaching his wife. They
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have not spoken publicly about the allegations contained in the
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lawsuit or about their relationship with Epstein. Well, why would
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they gonna be held accountable. They're never gonna be held
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responsible for being bribed basically by Epstein to turn the
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other cheek and let these girls get molested on this island.
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But in a May court deposition, Cecil DeJong testified she
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had no reason to suspect that Epstein was doing anything
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other than being helpful to young women. Well besides his
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previous sex offender prosecution. That might you know clue you in,
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Cecil DeJong that he's an absolute piece of shit, that
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he's out here hurting women. But nah, he's a mentor.
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He's just out here mentoring young women. They truly think
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that you're all stupid. That's what it comes down to.
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They think that everybody out there as dumb as fuck,
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and they're all gonna buy the bullshit that they're serving
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well breaking news. I'm guessing that nobody listening to this
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podcast is buying your bullshit. This is a person who
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had one offense, had to register as a sex offender.
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Didn't see him with anybody underage or anything, and I'm
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thinking he is just trying to be helpful to people.
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She said during the deposition, talk about straight up brazen
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lying under oath, because that's what she's doing right here.
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She's lying under oath. Now, are you going to ever
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be able to nail her for contempt? Probably not, but
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there's no doubt she knew exactly what Epstein was. She
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knew what he was up to, and she was helping
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to try to manipulate the sex offender laws in his favor.
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So her old bs nonsensical, bull junk deposition should be
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thrown out. She also said she confronted Epstein about the
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two thousand and eight sentence for soliciting a minor at
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for prostitution in Florida. I basically asked him what was
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going on, What the hell was going on? And he said,
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I it was an error in judgment. And I said,
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so that's it. You approach somebody who you thought was
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older and he said yes, and you just accepted that
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you were just like, all right, well, I asked him,
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I did my due diligence. So it's all good. Let's
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hook him up with all kinds of cos. He should
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get all kinds of tax breaks now, because you know,
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he made a mistake. She recalled that he assured her
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it would never happen again. I learned my lesson, she said,
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he told her. The First Lady's role, however, went far
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deeper than being an office manager. According to the lawsuit,
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she told him who to hire and who to fire.
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She helped him navigate the island's political landscape. She told
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Epstein where to spend his money, and according to the lawsuit,
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she helped him get visas to freely transport women to
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the island. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up episode
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one right there, and we're gonna pick up in the
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next episode with the second part. If you'd like to
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contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapuci at
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this episode can be found in the description box Back
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to the Epstein chronicles. This episode, we're going to pick
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back up where we left off with the Julie K.
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Brown article from the Miami Herald, so let's just get
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right to it. In one instance cited in the lawsuit,
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Cecil de Jeong arranged for three young women from Europe
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to get student visas to enroll in a class at
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the University of the Virgin Islands. Ultimately, the university structured
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a beast Spoke class to enroll victims and provide cover
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for their presence in the territory. The same year, Epstein
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donated twenty thousand dollars to the university through one of
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the companies. JP Morgan said in a court filing, again,
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all stuff we were hipped to now, I'm glad it's
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all coming out now in Julie Kay Brown's article, and
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maybe people will start taking it seriously. Cecil de Jong
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also steered Epstein's money to her husband's preferred candidates, according
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to the lawsuit. In twenty fourteen, when her husband was
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still in office, she wrote to Epstein about a political
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contribution he had given to the campaign of Kenneth Mapp,
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who was running to succeed her husband as governor. The
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MAP campaign is going to take that money that you
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gave to attack John. Can we stop payment on the
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check to send a message, she said, according to the lawsuit.
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In twenty sixteen, Epstein emailed Cecil asking her how did
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our candidates do? She replied that they had all won
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their races. Emails also show that she directed the payments
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from Epstein's companies be made to political action committees that
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benefited candidates. In twenty eighteen, she directed another Epstein employee
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to cut a check for twenty five thousand dollars to
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a pack named Islands Engaged, Incorporated. And we're not talking
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about ancient history here, of folks. We're talking about twenty eighteen,
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twenty sixteen. But she learned her lesson right, give me
23:57
a break. How much money did her and her husband
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been profit from the backs of these young women who
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are being drafficked? That's the question we should all be
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asking ourselves. The former First Lady also went to great
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lengths to help Epstein to get special privileges as a
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sex offender. Emails contained and exhibits with the case show
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that she worked with lawmakers to water down a new
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and more restrictive sex offender law. In twenty eleven, she
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showed Epstein a draft of the law, writing will this
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work for you? He and his lawyers suggested changes that
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would give them more freedom. While Epstein's changes were eventually
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dropped from the law, officials nevertheless worked on finding a
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loophole for Epstein. According to the lawsuit, Cecil promised she
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would continue to influence lawmakers, as well as her husband's
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Attorney General, Vincent Fraser. Ah loopholes and technicalities. I wonder
24:51
where we've heard that before. We will figure something out
24:55
by coming up with a game plan to get around
24:57
these obstacles, she wrote in July of two, twenty twelve,
25:01
adding later, we will work with Vincent to give the
25:04
discretion for status quo for you. That's the least he
25:07
can do. Fraser ultimately issued a waiver that allowed Epstein
25:11
to travel with fewer restrictions. But it's all JP Morgan's
25:15
FAULTA JP Morgan the bank who is liable from a
25:19
financial aspect but it's all their fault everything that happened.
25:24
The US Virgin Islands has no responsibility here. If you
25:28
look at this story and that's what you see, no offense,
25:32
But you're either stupid or blind. After the publication of
25:36
the Miami Herald series Perversion of Justice in late twenty eighteen,
25:41
the territories Assistant Attorney General Carol Thomas Jacobs rescinded Epstein's
25:46
sex offender waivers, according to the lawsuit, And you know
25:50
what's so pathetic about that. It took the media publishing
25:53
an article about Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit to finally make the
25:57
Virgin Islands react. So it's not because they can heard
26:00
about justice. They were trying to get ahead of this
26:02
story and they were trying to make it look like
26:04
they actually cared, but we all know they didn't care.
26:08
If they did, Epstein would have never been able to
26:11
do what he did on their island. Denise George, who
26:16
was then Attorney General, testified in a deposition for the
26:19
lawsuit that the territory's current governor, Albert Bryant Junior, tried
26:24
to pressure her to reinstate the waivers, which said made
26:27
her uncomfortable. Yeah, you think, imagine your boss trying to
26:31
pressure you to reinstate waivers to somebody like Jeffrey Epstein,
26:36
not every sexual offender or any person you know or
26:39
in the position to have the governor make the request
26:41
to the Attorney General. That by itself indicated to me
26:45
that Epstein was flexing his political influence over or with
26:49
the Governor, George said in a deposition she gave as
26:52
part of the JP Morgan lawsuit in twenty twenty two.
26:56
George obtained a one hundred and five million dollar cash
26:59
s in the racketeering lawsuit she filed against Epstein's estate.
27:04
On December twenty seventh. That same year, she filed the
27:07
one hundred and ninety million dollar lawsuit against JP Morgan
27:11
and was promptly fired by the governor days later on
27:15
New Year's Eve. Brian did not give a reason for
27:18
the dismissal, but people who were briefed on the matter
27:21
said Brian was angry George filed the lawsuit without consulting him.
27:26
The people briefed on the matter, who were not authorized
27:28
to speak publicly, said the governor was likely concerned that
27:32
the usvi's own failures to monitor Epstein would come up
27:36
as part of the lawsuit Bingo one hundred percent. Anybody
27:41
who's followed along here knows that the USVII has been
27:44
in bed with Jeffrey Epstein since the very beginning. Brian,
27:49
elected in twenty eighteen, previously served as chairman of the
27:53
Economic Development Commission and was a member of that commission
27:56
when Epstein was awarded his lucrative tax breaks. According to
28:01
the lawsuit, Epstein was asked to give twenty five thousand
28:04
dollars towards Brian's inauguration and thirty thousand dollars at Brian's direction,
28:10
to the usvii's little league. So he was like a
28:13
piggybank right as long as Epstein kept ponying up the dough,
28:17
he was free to abuse and do whatever he wanted
28:20
on this island. In June, Brian was also deposed as
28:23
part of the JP Morgan lawsuit. He indicated he was
28:27
not concerned about Epstein's history, referring to the fourteen year
28:30
old girl Epstein admitted abusing in two thousand and five
28:34
in the Florida case as a hooker. He also acknowledged that,
28:38
based on the information that he had at the time,
28:41
he wasn't really interested in any of the allegations that
28:44
surfaced about Epstein trafficking women and children on the island. Well,
28:49
you know why, right, because he was profiting. If you
28:52
would have upset the apple cart, the bag wouldn't be
28:55
there every week and he'd have to actually, you know,
28:57
get a real job. Through a spokesman, Brian apologized for
29:02
the remark. I believe that we should honor and support
29:05
all victims of human trafficking. That was a terrible use
29:09
of language, and I should have never said that. It
29:12
was disrespectful, the governor said in a statement, Yeah, more
29:16
than disrespectful.
29:17
Speaker 2: This is an.
29:18
Speaker 1: Elected official out here talking like this about Jeffrey Epstein
29:22
and the survivors. How was this guy in any position
29:25
of power? Oh, that's right. The whole lass system is corrupt.
29:30
He declined to answer questions about why his administration gave
29:34
a well known convicted sex offender such leeway for so
29:37
many years. Omerta JP. Morgan alleges that USVII officials failure
29:44
to investigate Epstein reflects the Omerta like culture, the code
29:48
of silence reminiscent of a crime family that the territory's
29:52
politicians had during the time that Epstein lived there and
29:56
ran his businesses from an office complex and the Red
29:59
Hook Quarter of Saint Thomas. And that's because everybody profited.
30:03
I don't know how many times I have to say it.
30:05
When everybody's getting rich, nobody wants to upset the apple
30:09
card to.
30:11
Speaker 2: Prove their case.
30:12
Speaker 1: JP Morgan's attorneys deposed a number of former and current
30:16
USVII elected officials, including John DeJong, the former governor. Did
30:22
you direct anyone on your staff to do any kind
30:25
of investigation into Epstein, one of JP Morgan's lawyers asked
30:29
during a deposition, I would not do that. DeJong replied,
30:32
why not. My assumption will be that the Department of Justice,
30:36
any of the ent that he's dealing with Jeffrey Epstein,
30:38
would have done that. DeJong replied, what a bullshit excuse,
30:43
what a bullshit answer, and John DeJong should lose his job.
30:47
He acknowledged that he never checked or asked anyone in
30:50
his administration, including his own attorney general, to check on
30:55
the territory's most infamous sex offender, Fraser, Attorney General for
30:59
the U s USVII from two thousand and seven to
31:02
twenty fifteen, set in a deposition that he had the
31:06
ability to investigate who Epstein was bringing into the Saint
31:09
Thomas Airport on his private jet, but didn't believe he
31:13
had any reason to do so, what a bunch of bs.
31:17
The traffic controllers even knew that Jeffrey Epstein was bringing
31:20
girls to this island to abuse, but the Attorney General
31:23
had no idea. The governor had no clue. I'm sorry,
31:28
but I'm not buying it. Who he may have flown
31:32
with them on his private jet. The Government of the
31:34
Virgin Islands officials would not know, Fraser said. In fact,
31:39
nearly all of the USVII officials interviewed as part of
31:42
the lawsuit acknowledged that they saw news reports about Epstein's
31:46
abuse of underage girls, but said they dismissed the stories
31:50
as sensational rumors. JP Morgan's documents show that no one
31:54
in the USVII law enforcement considered investigating Epstein, even though
31:59
many of the news stories during this time were based
32:02
on the federal lawsuits containing sworn affid David's by almost
32:06
two dozen girls alleging Epstein had molested them. So, yeah,
32:10
let's just ignore everything because this guy's our patron saint
32:14
of douchebags. And hopefully some of you out there who
32:17
were wondering why I was so adamant about the Virgin
32:20
Islands not getting a single cent, maybe you're starting to
32:23
catch on now. One victim who did fly on Epstein's
32:27
plane to his island, Sarah Ransom, said she is angry
32:30
that no one, including the usvii's Attorney General, US Customs
32:34
and Border Patrol, as well as the FBI, ever did
32:38
anything to stop Epstein. Ransom was twenty two when she
32:42
was lured to the island in two thousand and six
32:45
for what she thought would be a social gathering. Born
32:48
in South Africa, Ransom had hoped to study fashion in
32:51
New York. Epstein told her he had connections at the
32:55
Fashion Institute of Technology and would help her achieve her dream. Instead,
33:00
she said she was raped by Epstein dozens of times
33:04
over the course of a year. In an interview with
33:07
The Herald, Ransom said that Epstein had carte blanche in
33:10
the USVII. Only once did she recall an official scrutinizing
33:14
her passport, and that was when she was arriving on
33:17
a commercial plane. And this is what we've heard over
33:20
and over, and you asked me, well, how do you
33:22
know this stuff? Listen to what the survivors are saying.
33:25
Don't listen to the journalists. Don't listen to all the
33:28
jerk offs spreading rumors and salacious bs on the internet.
33:33
Listen to the survivors, the people who actually, you know,
33:36
lived through it. They might have some information that is
33:39
crucial to the story. You know, she doesn't remember anyone
33:43
ever checking her passport or belongings when she arrived on
33:46
Epstein's private plane. His passengers always deplaned and went directly
33:51
to a helicopter or a boat for the trip to
33:54
Saint James, where they were greeted by a cheerful staff
33:57
that she said, seemed to normalize the promiscuity and sexual
34:01
activity that happened on the island. Look, this is their normal, right,
34:06
this is how they roll, so for everybody involved, it
34:09
was normal. To the rest of us, it's as abnormal
34:13
as it comes. This gross, ass, disgusting ass egg dick motherfucker.
34:18
And there are few people that I can actually say
34:20
that I hate this man is one of them. And
34:23
anybody that ever gave him any help, anybody that ever
34:27
enabled them, they can go.
34:28
Speaker 2: Get fucked too. Where was the FBI?
34:31
Speaker 1: A Ransom said, I was being trafficked while the FBI
34:34
was investigating him. They could have picked up the phone
34:37
and called to find out what was going on. Ransom,
34:41
who was suing the FBI for its failure to stop Epstein, said,
34:44
it's clear the USBI also looked the other way for years,
34:48
and as a result, she and other victims continued to
34:51
be sexually abused. The government should not be rewarded for
34:56
its complicity.
34:57
Speaker 2: Man.
34:57
Speaker 1: I really hope that Sarah Ransom decided to sue the
35:00
US Virgin Islands as well, because if anybody ever deserved
35:04
to get a lawsuit dropped on their ass, it's these people.
35:09
How dare the USVII, which allowed hundreds of women to
35:12
be trafficked, how dare they profit from what happened? Windfall?
35:18
Thus far, the USVII has collected one hundred and five
35:21
million dollars in cash settlements with Epstein's estate, thirty million
35:25
from the sale of Epstein's islands, and another sixty two
35:28
and a half million in cash from Epstein client and
35:32
private equity investor Leon Black, who denied any wrongdoing while
35:37
paying the settlement. It is seeking another one hundred and
35:40
ninety million dollars from JP Morgan. They're not going to
35:43
get that. JP Morgan's fighting tooth and nail here and
35:46
they're not going to give up. They have already spent
35:49
more than fourteen million dollars defending themselves here, and I
35:52
highly doubt they're gonna pony up a settlement to the
35:55
US Virgin Islands, not with everything that they know. Government
36:00
officials say the proceeds will benefit the territories victims of
36:04
sexual abuse, to prevent human trafficking and investigate sex crimes,
36:09
but critics point out that oversight of the fund could
36:12
be problematic in a territory with a history of public corruption. Critics,
36:17
maybe she's talking about me, because I feel like I'm
36:20
the only person that's been talking about this. Marcy Hamilton,
36:25
the executive director of Child USA, a thing tank fighting
36:29
for the civil rights of children, has been working with
36:31
the USVI officials to help set up the territories anti
36:36
trafficking initiatives. She said the money that the government has
36:39
received from Epstein related settlements will be used to launch
36:43
training programs for law enforcement, childcare workers, and education and
36:48
healthcare professionals. It's sex tourism. Hamilton said, we see it
36:52
in Thailand and the Philippines, but it's also here in
36:55
the Caribbean because it's part of our tourism and because
36:58
it's their primary income. It is almost a cancer. This
37:02
is not sex tourism. Please do not try and frame
37:05
it as that. This was a human trafficking operation that
37:09
was burrowed deep within the political structure, deep within the
37:14
financial sector, and certainly more than sex tourism. Okay, The
37:20
usvii's Victims of Human Trafficking Prevention Act has mandatory reporting
37:25
requirements as well as extensive services for trafficking victims. So basically,
37:30
this Marcy Hamilton lady's been brought in to whitewash what's
37:33
happening and if so, and if she starts trying to
37:36
gaslight us, she's gonna get eviscerated on this podcast. I
37:40
look at the USVII as laying down the gauntlet and
37:43
saying no more. This is one of the most progressive
37:46
laws on sex trafficking in the nation. Hamilton said, give
37:50
me a break, where were you before? So because they
37:53
have some new laws on the books, we should just
37:55
all jump for joy. Not gonna happen There needs to
37:59
be a reckoning. There needs to be people held to
38:02
account for the bs they've already done. The legal settlements
38:07
are nevertheless a windfall for a country that faces serious
38:10
economic and financial challenges. A recent bond report noted that
38:15
the Epstein settlement would temporarily alleviate the government's financial distress.
38:20
The US Government Accountability Office recently cited the usvii's debt
38:26
and weak financial management practices as factors in its financial instability.
38:32
The territory also has a history of corruption involving misspent
38:36
public funds. In twenty thirteen, former USVI Senator Alvin Williams
38:43
pleaded guilty of federal racketeering charges involving bribery of a
38:47
USVII official and for soliciting bribes from numerous developers and
38:52
using his tax supported staff for his personal use. In
38:56
twenty eighteen, another former Senator, Wayne ag James was convicted
39:01
of stealing tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars he received
39:05
a fund a historical research project that was actually used
39:09
to pay his own campaign and personal expenses. The former
39:14
governor DeJong was arrested in twenty fifteen on charges of
39:18
embezzling five hundred thousand dollars in public money to make
39:21
improvements to his private home. Emails from the USVII lawsuit
39:26
against Morgan show Epstein offered to help DeJong by loaning
39:30
him money and offering suggestions to the prosecutor in the case.
39:34
I will play any role in this you guys like,
39:37
wrote Epstein, I can lend John the money so he
39:40
immediately has it.
39:42
Speaker 2: I would gladly be.
39:43
Speaker 1: On the phone anonymously with the prosecutor offering suggestions. In
39:48
one of the JP Morgan court filings, DeJong on December
39:51
twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, emailed Epstein asking for a loan
39:56
to help pay the settlement per our previous conversation, DeJong wrote,
40:01
I would like to take you up on your offer
40:03
and request to borrow two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
40:06
I really appreciate your willingness to help. The criminal case
40:10
against DeJong, who denied any wrongdoing, was subsequently dropped after
40:15
he paid a settlement of three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Yeah,
40:19
but the USVII wasn't in Epstein's pocket. JP Morgan alleges
40:25
that some of the usvii's most veteran lawmakers were heavily
40:29
influenced by Epstein's money. Among those named in a subpoena
40:33
for the JP Morgan lawsuit is Celestino, a White senior
40:38
and eleven term senator in the usvii's legislature who is
40:42
also a member of the board that oversees the airport.
40:45
Emails include in the lawsuit discovery show that Whites consulting
40:50
and management firm sent Epstein a contract for unexplained services
40:55
for his island. Oh I wonder what that was for.
40:58
Senator White signed the contors agreement and the confidentiality agreement.
41:03
We will need to get him a check for ten
41:05
thousand by Friday, Cecil Dejeong wrote to Epstein approved. Epstein
41:10
wrote back in twenty fifteen, Cecil DeJong suggested to Epstein,
41:15
you may want to consider putting Celestino on some sort
41:19
of monthly retainer. That is what will get you his
41:21
loyalty and his access. The Herald was unsuccessful in reaching White.
41:27
There is no indication in the lawsuit whether he was
41:29
ever placed on retainer by Epstein for the usvi's Airport
41:34
Authority and the Federal Marshals. Epstein had friendly relations there too,
41:38
emails show. In twenty ten, Epstein wrote in an email
41:42
to Cecil DeJong complaining that he was having difficulty with
41:46
an official from the US Customs and Border Patrol at
41:50
Cyril E. King Airport on Saint Thomas, where Epstein's pilots
41:55
would fly in and out on his private jet. Emails
41:58
indicate that Epstein knew some of them personally. Who was
42:02
in charge of customs in the VI I used to
42:05
have a great relationship with Gloria Lambert, the airport's supervisor.
42:09
I would like to know who is now in her
42:11
place or her boss, Epstein wrote to Cecil DeJong, referring
42:15
to a customs official at the airport. DeJong promised a
42:19
call would be made to the head of customs. Lambert,
42:23
now retired, told the Miami Herald that she was under
42:26
the impression the young women who accompanied Epstein were models.
42:30
She didn't suspect any of them were being trafficked or
42:33
were underage. If I were aware, I would have taken
42:37
the initiative, but there was nothing suspicious when I dealt
42:40
with mister Epstein and his passengers, Lambert said. In another email,
42:45
Cecil de Jong solicited Epstein's support for her husband's proposed
42:49
appointee to the Virgin Islands Port Authority, which controls the airport.
42:54
He worked his tale off on the campaign. She wrote
42:57
of the nominee, Epstein gave other perks to former Governor
43:01
de Jong and his wife, including paying hundreds of thousands
43:04
of dollars in private grade school and college tuition for
43:08
their children, according to the lawsuit discovery documents. In twenty ten,
43:13
for instance, Cecile became irate when Epstein failed to pay
43:17
a twenty five thousand dollars bill tuition for one year
43:21
for one of her children. I will need to negotiate
43:24
a raise so that I can afford to pay for
43:26
my children's tuition at college, the first lady wrote to Epstein,
43:30
John and I have put money into the campaign based
43:33
on what we thought was going to happen with the
43:35
tuition payments. My oldest is a senior this year, and
43:39
I do not want him or my daughter to be
43:41
asked to leave school this semester. Meanwhile, all of these
43:45
poor vulnerable girls on the island are getting abused, with
43:49
school being the last thing on their mind. But as
43:52
long as the politician Cecile Djong's kids are in school.
43:56
Everything's all good. The predator Epstein's free to roam around
44:00
and do whatever the fuck he wants. Stacey Plasket. In
44:04
June twenty fourteen, Cecil de Jong asked Epstein to help
44:08
an up and coming political star, Stacey Plaskett, get elected
44:12
as a Delegate to Congress representing the USVII. Plaskett's parents
44:18
were born in San CUIs, USVII, but moved to Brooklyn,
44:21
New York, where Plaskett was born and attended Choate Rosemary
44:25
Hall as a boarding student. After graduating from Georgetown University
44:30
and American University Law School, she became a Republican assistant
44:34
district attorney in the Bronx. She then worked as an
44:38
attorney for the US House Ethics Committee and later as
44:42
a lawyer in the Justice Department. In two thousand and seven,
44:45
she moved to the Virgin Islands and worked in private
44:48
practice before turning her attention to a running for office,
44:52
changing her party affiliation to Democrat in twenty fourteen. So
44:57
this is your hero, huh, the lady that was up
44:59
here castigating other Americans. Meanwhile she's eating out of Jeffrey
45:04
Epstein's palm. Talk about fucking hypocrisy. She needs to raise
45:09
about seventy five thousand between now. In August, Cecil DeJong
45:13
wrote in an email to Epstein, do you think any
45:16
of your friends would give to her campaign? Plaskett already
45:19
knew of Epstein, as she had been an attorney on
45:22
the usvii's Economic Development Commission at the time that Epstein's
45:26
tax breaks were approved, then worked for Epstein's longtime USVI attorney,
45:32
Erica Keller Hall's. And I remember when we were first
45:35
talking about Stacey Plaskett. There were some ideologues who listened
45:38
to the podcast who got bent out of shape in
45:41
the reports, a political hit job, all kinds of shit.
45:44
But the reality is this, Stacey Plaskett is corrupt, Okay,
45:49
point blank period. In a deposition given in May in
45:53
the USVI lawsuit, Plaskett said she didn't recall whether she
45:57
did any legal work for Epstein or his companies while
46:00
working for Keller Halls, although she acknowledged that Epstein was
46:04
a client of the firm at the time. You know,
46:07
since Stacy Plaskett likes commissioned so much, I think we
46:11
should have a commission put together by Congress, by the
46:14
Senate that looks into all these corrupt politicians who are
46:18
wetting their beak in egg Dick's hand. How about that
46:20
kind of commission? I wonder if Stacy Plaskett would enjoy that.
46:26
From twenty fourteen until twenty eighteen, Epstein and his business
46:30
associates donated a little over thirty thousand to Plasket's campaigns,
46:35
she confirmed during the deposition. She also acknowledged that she
46:39
visited Epstein's Manhattan mansion as recently as twenty eighteen in
46:43
a bid to get him to contribute money to the
46:46
Democratic Party. This is in twenty eighteen, the Democratic Party
46:52
is asking Epstein for money. Nobody's gonna be up in
46:55
a tizzy about that. Huh, where's the outrage? Where is
46:59
the legacy demanding accountability? Epstein offered what she asked for again,
47:05
thirty thousand, but the Democratic National Committee ultimately rejected the contribution. Well,
47:11
they knew better. But the fact of the matter is this,
47:14
this woman shouldn't be there even trying to get this
47:17
money on behalf of anybody, never mind a major political party.
47:20
In twenty eighteen, after we already knew what sort of
47:24
monster Jeffrey Epstein was, Plaskett was asked why the DNC
47:29
had declined Epstein's donation he had not passed their vetting.
47:33
Plaskett replied, what did you understand that to be a
47:37
reference to the JP Morgan lawyer asked, I did not
47:40
know the specifics of what that vetting was. Plaskett said,
47:44
but she took the money. You don't have the same
47:46
exact standards as you're a party.
47:48
Speaker 2: Hm.
47:49
Speaker 1: That's interesting, I wonder why. She was then asked whether
47:52
that caused her to rethink taking contributions from Epstein. I
47:56
recall thinking if I should continue receiving contribution from them,
48:00
she replied, According to the transcript, and for years, Plaskett
48:05
resisted returning Epstein's donations. She reasoned that his felony sex
48:09
charges in Palm Beach had nothing to do with the
48:12
money he earned through his company, But after Epstein's twenty
48:15
nineteen arrests by the FBI, she faced even more scrutiny
48:19
about her connections to Epstein. She eventually relented and said
48:23
she would donate the money to support the USVII organizations
48:27
that help women and children. The Herald tried to get
48:31
details to confirm the donations and the amounts, but Plasket's
48:34
office did not respond to multiple inquiries. Imagine a public
48:39
official refusing to respond to some shit like this and
48:42
nobody in the legacy media really picking it up or
48:45
pressing them. Where's all the big articles in the New
48:48
York Times or how about the New York Post? Oh wait,
48:51
they're too busy chasing down Dave Portnoy over his all
48:54
important pizza reviews. Meanwhile, people like Stacy Plaskett continue to
48:59
swim under the radar without any sort of scrutiny and
49:03
without any sort of accountability. But hopefully that's gonna come
49:06
to an end because they can't frame this as a
49:09
political hit job. What this is is exposing Stacy Plaskett
49:14
for her nonsensical relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the fact
49:18
that she doubled down on that relationship a mere months
49:21
before this man was arrested a second time, And hopefully
49:25
this leads to a lawsuit filed against the US Virgin
49:29
Islands by the survivors. They deserve to have every last
49:32
bit of money that the US Virgin Islands took from
49:35
Jeffrey Epstein's estate from anybody else, and have that money
49:39
directly deposited in their bank accounts instead, because there's no
49:44
doubt that the US Virgin Islands was complicit in what
49:47
Epstein was up to. All Right, folks, that's gonna do
49:51
it for this one. If you'd like to contact me,
49:53
you can do that at Bobby Kapucci at protonmeil dot com.
49:57
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