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Mega Edition: How The Deck Was Stacked Against Epstein's Survivors In Florida (5/3/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit more about the report that the
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prosecutors showed to the survivors on Thursday, And coming out
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of that report, we have another bit of information that
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is absolutely ridiculous, and it just goes to show that
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the Department of Justice itself is a shit show. These people,
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they don't give a damn about anything. All they care
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about is increasing their power and pushing whatever sort of
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political narrative that their bosses inject in their stupid heads.
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We have a report that one of Jeffreys Epstein's attorneys
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dated one of the prosecutors in the trial. So how
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in the world can anyone look at this and think
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that these gals got a fair shake. The survivors got
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absolutely screwed by the prosecutors in Florida and the federal
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prosecutors as a whole. And now let's remember what we're
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talking about here. In the first case, we're talking about
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young high school girls from Palm Beach mostly, and this
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scumbag was able to just walk and skate and get off.
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And you mean to tell me that we're just supposed
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to ignore all of his connections. We're supposed to ignore
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all of the relationships that his lawyers have had no
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pun intended, and we're just supposed to ignore the fact
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that he was so close to such a power broker
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like Bill Clinton. Now, remember we're talking about two thousand
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and eight. Still, Bill Clinton was still a big time
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power player on the scene, and Hillary Clinton was getting
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ready to have a job in Barack Obama's administration. These
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are very, very powerful people that were close to Jeffrey Epstein,
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and at every turn he was able to gain the system,
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and he was able to be afforded a certain set
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of rights and favors that normal people would never ever, ever,
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ever be afforded if they were caught up in the
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same circumstances. And the new information here about one of
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his attorneys dating a prosecutor is just it's just more
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nonsense to add to the top of the nonsense mountain.
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How in the hell is a prosecutor who dated one
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of his attorneys not recused from the case? How is
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this person even still working on the case. And how
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does the Department of Justice find in their shitty ass
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internal review that just a couple of mistakes were made. Now,
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I don't think the Department of Justice expected the outcry
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over their information that they released right. I don't think
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that they expected there to be this much of a blowback.
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But what they need to understand is people have had
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enough and we're no longer going to just sit by
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silently while the Department of Justice drags its feet and
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does not pursue the people that need to be pursued.
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Will be here every single day, We'll be talking about it,
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will be raising hell, and they're not going to be
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able to ignore us. One voice, sure, millions of us. Impossibility.
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So we just have to keep the pressure on, and
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we have to keep asking these kinds of questions. How
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the hell is a prosecutor who is supposedly going after
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Jeffrey Epstein, How is he not recusing himself or being
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replaced by his superiors knowing that he had a relationship
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with one of Epstein's lawyers. It is ridiculous that this
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guy was not accused. All right, So our article today
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is from the New York Post headline Epstein's attorney dated
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the prosecutor in trial where he got a sweetheart deal.
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I mean, how is that not looked upon by the
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Department of Justice as something that is just unbelievably unacceptable.
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You can't have this guy as one of the prosecutors
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while at the same time dating one of Epstein's lawyers.
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There's what do you think there's no conflict of interest there?
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How do we know that this dude isn't throwing sweetheart deals?
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Many of men have fallen under the spell of a
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beautiful woman. This article was posted excuse me, authored by
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Paula Frolick. It was a sweetheart deal that has baffled
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the world. How In two thousand and eight, Jeffrey Epstein
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was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser felony prostitution charge,
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register as a sex offender, and served just thirteen months
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in a county jail where he could come and go
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during the day, despite several underage survivors testifying he raped them. So,
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right off the bat, you say to yourself, what in
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the hell this guy scored this sweetheart deal while at
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the same time one of the prosecutors was dating one
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of his attorneys. Right off the bat, that looks bad.
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And that's before you even add in all of the
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other stuff. Right, So again, all these little nuggets, all
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these little pieces of information, all of these little puzzle pieces,
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when they're fitted together, they start to draw a much
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darker picture than if we were just looking at these
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things as one offs, right, every look, one offs happen,
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and shit in cases, right, every now and then there's
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a coincidence. But this case is littered with all sorts
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of shit that is just completely and utterly backwards. The
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Department of Justice has been almost complicit in all of this,
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in my opinion, and there needs to be some repercussions
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for people who are involved. I'm very strong in that belief.
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It's now been revealed that one of Epstein's defense attorneys
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previously dated one of the top prosecutors on the deal.
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I don't even honestly, I don't even know what to
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say about that right now. It's just so it's so sad.
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I guess I should say that the Department of Justice
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has sat on this information for ten years. They've known
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this stuff for ten years, and it's just coming out now.
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They're an embarrassment, and Bill Barr is the biggest embarrassment
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of all. I know a lot of you out there listening,
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are you under the impression that Bill Barr is pursuing
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people on behalf of justice? And that is not the case.
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Bill Barr is a political hack, He's a retread. He's
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been in Washington, d C. Forever. He is exactly what
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Trump was talking about when he talked about swamp monsters.
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But yet somehow Trump brings barr in. It's all a
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shell game. I don't trust any of these people. The
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last politician I trusted was Ron Paul Lillly. Anne Sanchez
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was a member of Epstein's defense team in two thousand
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and eight when he was facing a potential federal indictment
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and life imprisonment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between
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nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and seven. I mean,
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I know it's an uncomfortable question to ask in all,
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but did this relationship have any sway on what mister
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Mentchell did? Did it have any were there any Was
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there any pressure by miss Sanchez to get a favorable
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deal for her client. Look, we know that stuff like
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that occurs. We know that people like Menchell, who get
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caught up in a relationship with a beautiful young woman
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can easily be manipulated. Now again, I'm not saying that occurred.
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I don't know. I wasn't there. I wasn't hanging out
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with them while they were talking about you know whatever
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it is they're talking about. But I think that when
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you look at everything that went on in this case,
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there are so many unanswered questions that we can't leave
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any avenue on explored. Sanchez had also dated Matthew Menchell,
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one of the prosecutors who worked on the plea deal.
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So this miss Sanchez has quite the bit of a
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dating going on in her realm of work. Me personally, yeah,
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I don't think it's a good idea to be dipping
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the old pen in Company, inc. If you get my drift,
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And that's in any sort of situation, never mind a
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job like this where you're dealing with serious, serious matters.
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We're dealing with Jeffrey Epstein, for Lord's sake, and this
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lady who is one of his attorneys is having an
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affair with a prosecutor and someone involved in the plea deal.
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How many people is this lady having an affair with?
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Is it all a coincidence or was she targeting these
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people to date? The romance came to light after the
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Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility OPR issued a report
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this week slamming the Florida prosecutors for poor judgment and
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the pedal pervs deal. Poor judgment is absolutely a understatement. Okay,
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poor judgment, this was dereliction of duty. I got your
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poor judgment, as Tony Soprano would say, I got your
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poor judgment right here in my ass. I mean, are
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you kidding me? Right now? Sanchez and Manchell dated in
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two thousand and three when they were both employed at
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the Southern District of Florida's US Attorney's office. They later
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broke up but never disclosed the relationship while both worked
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on the Epstein deal. Bam right there, that alone should
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get the deal thrown out, folks. I'm telling you right now,
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with all of this stuff that's coming out, the Eleventh
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Circuit Corps Circuit Appeals Court is going to have a
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field day with this shit. I said earlier that I
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thought it was a better than good chance that the
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non prosecution agreement agreement gets overturned. I'm accelerating that. I'm
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saying a very good chance at this point because the
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Eleventh Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals is going to see
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all of this information too. They're going to have everything
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in front of them, and they're going to make their
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decision based on everything that has been presented. To them
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and everything that could be found by their clerks or
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whatever the hell they have going on. But the point
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is this is really bad for the Prosecutor's office. And
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while they might not face sanctions by the Department of Justice,
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I have a funny feeling the Eleventh Circuit is going
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to come down hard with an iron fist on these people.
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The report says Manchell had left the office before the
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Epstein case was resolved. Menchell told Justice Department investigators during
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the probe that his relationship with Sanchez had no impact
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on his handling of the case. Oh yeah, I'm sure
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had no handling at all. You're just you could never
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fall to the charms of a woman. Huh, mister Menchell,
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you're just better than the rest of us. Obviously, give
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me a break. We all know that Jeffrey Epstein was
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running a honey trap. This could have just been another
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portion of that honey trap, another way to pierce the
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veil and get somebody on the inside. What where. We
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don't think that Epstein and his people are that devious.
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Come on, folks, this is exactly what they do. This
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is in their wheelhouse. So mister Menchell here he should
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be brought under oath, and he should have to talk
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about what occurred because I have a sneaking suspicion that
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he has not been too forthright about his tryst with
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miss Sanchez. Here letting a well connected billionaire get away
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with child rape and international sex trafficking isn't poor judgment,
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it is a disgusting failure. Senator Ben Sass said in
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a statement released on Thursday. Americans ought to be enraged.
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Epstein should be rotting behind bars today, but the just
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US Department felled Epstein survivors at every turn. Well, mister Sas,
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I'm here to report to you, sir, the Americans are enraged,
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and guess what, You're in a position to do something
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about it. So do you want to become a hero
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in this story? Do you want to become somebody that
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both sides of the aisle can look up to, like
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the old days when we actually we actually had a
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political system that worked. If that's who you want to be,
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mister Sas, now's the time step forward, demand hearings and
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demand that these people be brought to justice. Epstein was
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found hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
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in Manhattan last August while awaiting trial on new sex
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trafficking charges. You see how the Post doesn't say, oh,
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he committed suicide. And if you notice, certain outlets don't
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come out and say, well, he committed suicide. They'll say
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found hanging in his cell or found dead in his cell.
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And I think that that is good quality journalism because
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at the end of the day, we don't know what
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happened in that cell. So to assert that he definitely
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hung himself or to assert that he was definitely murdered,
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we just don't have all of those details yet. But
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it is something that needs to be discussed obviously. Now
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I think that Ben Sass getting sassy about all of
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this is a definite good thing. It's a step in
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the right direction. But they need to be more forceful
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about it. The Congress, the Senate, they need to come
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out and they need to take a stand against this
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shit and let people like Epstein and those who were
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running this operation behind the scenes, those who were working
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with Epstein, and those who were financing Epstein that this
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shit is never going to happen again in this country.
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And if you took part in this, if you enabled this,
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if you were involved with Jeffrey Epstein financially, then you
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are in the crosshairs as well. That is a message
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that needs to be sent. It needs to be sent strongly,
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and it needs to be sent now. If you'd like
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of the links that go with this episode can be
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found in the description box to them. We're gonna pick
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up where we left off on this morning's morning Update
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and finish off our article from the Palm Beach Post now.
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Earlier on this morning, we were taking a look at
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this indictment by the Palm Beach Post against Barry Krisher
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about how terribly his office conducted themselves in regards to
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the first prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. We know that the
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Department of just Us did their internal investigation right, but
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that had nothing to do with the local state prosecutors.
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They had some opinions, but it wasn't an investigation into
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those state prosecutors. Now, Barry Krisher. From the very beginning
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of this when we first started hearing information about the
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first case has always looked like an absolute piece of trash.
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The way that he went about his business, the way
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that he was working hand in hand with the prosecutors
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to try, I mean, excuse me, with the defense lawyers
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of Epstein to demean these girls is just mind boggling. Now.
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I'm certainly not a scholar on the topic of law, right,
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and like I always say, I've never really followed any
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of these kinds of cases before. But this can't be
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normal behavior. This can't be how police departments handle these
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sorts of allegations. Can it be? It would seem to
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me as if this is an outlier kind of situation
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out here, right, a situation that deserves a harder look.
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Everybody who took a look at this case that was
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a lawyer or a judge or anyone else who is
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in the field of law said it was garbage that
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this NPA was ever even administered. And as much flak
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as Acosta gets, I think krisher really needs to start
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shouldering his own load here, of folks. And this piece
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by the Palm Beach Post is very damning, and it
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cuts right to the heart of the matter, and that
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matter is these survivors and the these girls that were
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abused were failed by the federal government and the state
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and local prosecutors, and that can all be rectified by
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the Eleventh Circuit Court. As we finished reading through this
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article and we reflect about upon what we learned earlier
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in this morning's portion of this article, I don't see
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how anyone in their right mind could agree with this
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non prosecution agreement being put in place. It should be
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done away with, and then all of these people who
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say that they're innocent should have their day in court
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and they can defend their name that way. Hiding behind
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this non prosecution agreement, hiding behind taking the fifth every
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single time that you're asked questions about Jeffrey Epstein. That's
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not going to get it done. People are going to
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have questions and they're going to demand answers. So let's
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jump right back into this article right where we left off.
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Krisher's decision to take the unusual step of presenting the
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case to a grand jury true particular criticism from federal prosecutors.
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He should have never ever brought this before a grand jury.
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There was plenty of evidence to get an indictment in
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the public court. You didn't need to bring it into
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a grand jury to make it secretive. Why Because Epstein
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had a bunch of dough. Because Epstein had all kinds
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of political power and all kinds of friends in high places.
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So that's why you made that move. Huh. And it's
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so scummy even behind closed doors. They were manipulating things,
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even behind closed doors in that grand jury room, those
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jurors only got to hear from one girl. And it
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wasn't even the fourteen year old girl. Can you imagine.
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Assistant US Attorney Matthew chief of the Criminal Division, told
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investigators that he understood that Kersher could have filed charges
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against Epstein directly, but didn't like the case. Didn't like
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the case. Huh. So he doesn't like winning cases. He
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doesn't like slam dunk prosecutions where you go big game
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hunting to bring down people like Jeffrey Epstein. That's not
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a winnable case. Huh. That's not the kind of case
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to pursue. Huh. You got more drug cases to go after, right,
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You gotta pursue your failed war on drugs for a
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little while longer. Huh. It's an absolute joke that they
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would prioritize some of the things that they give priority
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status to, while at the same time ignoring shit like
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this and acting like I didn't have a case. There
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was a big case, a gigantic, huge case. It wasn't
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that you didn't have the case a case, mister Kersher.
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You didn't have the courage. You had a heart that
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is made of sharman, You soft ass, weak limp wristed,
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sorry punk. He took the case to the Grand Jerry
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to get political cover for either dropping it or letting
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Epstein plead to minor charges. Menchell told investigators, and you
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see what's going on here, right, he said, she said,
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blame the other guy type of routine. The federal prosecutors
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are pointing every single finger they own at the Acosta
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and I mean, excuse me at Kersher and the local prosecutors,
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and the local prosecutors for their parts, say, well, obviously
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the Feds let this happen. The Fed signed off on it.
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It was the Feds. Nobody takes responsibility. The court refuses
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to make these people take responsibility. So far, and so
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this draconian, bullshit, garbage trash non prosecution agreement continues to
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hang in the air. Heavy over the whole entire proceeding
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Assistant US Attorney Andrew Lourie, who was Villafana's supervisor in
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the West Palm Beach office, was more critical the state
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intentionally torpedoed it in the grand jury, so it was
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brought to us. He wrote in a May two thousand
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and seven memo, can you imagine the audacity, the cowardice,
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the lack of morality to wilfully torpedo this case? And
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you mean to tell me that there's no recourse here,
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that Kersher, that Barry Kirsher can't be Krisher can't be
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held responsible here. This is far beyond negligence, folks. This
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is wilful. This is he was wilfully helping the defense
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to demean these girls, to defame them, and then to
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ignore their case and help Jeffrey Epstein avoid getting justice.
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In my opinion, and of course, remember you can take
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that down to the local coffee shop with a buck
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fifty and get yourself a coffee, right, But in my opinion,
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he aided and abetted Jeffrey Epstein's behavior by this ruling.
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For his part, Krisher said there was good reason to
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take the case to the Grand jury. In two thousand
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and six, he said his office filed prostitution charges against
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teens as young as fourteen. The law changed in twenty sixteen,
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when state lawmakers agreed that girls under eighteen can't be
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charged with prostitution because they legally can't give consent. His
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office was bringing prostitution cases against girls that are fourteen,
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according to him, But they're not bringing those same cases
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against the johns who were obviously exploiting and abusing these
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young girls, because remember, these little girls can't consent, right,
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Fourteen year old girls certainly not consenting. Sixteen year old
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girls certainly not consenting to be a prostitute. We're not
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talking about a nineteen year old dude or a nineteen
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year old girl who has sex with a seventeen year
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old boy or girl. That's a different story, right, that's
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gray area. There's all sorts of debate there. That's not
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the case here. Okay, these girls are not prostitutes. They
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were not prostitutes. Then it is unseemly that this is
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the way that they went about this case. We're talking again,
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Let's remember, folks, let's keep it in context. What we're
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talking about here. We're talking about little high school girls
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that were involved in a pyramid scheme of sex and
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they were considered prostitutes. What sort of backwards ass seventh
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century civilization type shit is that the possibility that Epstein's
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survivors could be prosecuted for prostitution caused great consternation within
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the office, Krisher told investigators, that's why he decided to
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take the case to the grand jury. There's so that
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such bullshit, that is such bullshit. You were the prosecutor.
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You're the one who decides what gets tried and what
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doesn't get tried, So don't try and use a cop out.
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And you went to the grand jury just like the
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article stated a second ago, for political cover. That's exactly
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what it was, what it's always been, and what it
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always will be, cover your ass type of situation. You
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didn't care about these girls. You certainly didn't care about justice.
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There were so many issues involving the victim witnesses that,
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to my mind, in consultation with my prosecutors, the only
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way to achieve, to my mind, real justice to present
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the case to the grand jury and not direct file
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criminal charges against Epstein. Krisher told investigators, such bs if
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you're going to have the position that Chrisher has, then
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have the fortitude, have the backbone to make these decisions
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and go with it. How many poor people have you
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thrown in jail for a lot less, mister Krisher. How
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many drug addicts, drag addicts are rotting away in jail,
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mister Krisher. But yeah, Jeffrey Epstein doesn't get the full
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weight of the law thrown on him. Because the girls
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have MySpace profiles where they're drinking and they talk about boys.
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How does that hold up to anybody who is sensible.
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Despite writer's criticism, Krisher said the whole thing was put
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before the grand jury. Investigators wrote at the time. Chrisher's
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office said that jurors were given a list of charges
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ranging from the most serious to the least. They settled
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on one count of solicitation of prostitution. Acosta said he
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was unaware that his own prosecutors believed Krisher had deliberately
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sunk the case. I mean, what sort of shit show
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is being run down there. You didn't know that these
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guys were torpedo were going to torpedo the case, that
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that was their intent. What were you doing down there?
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Mister Acosta, eating good food and hanging out on the
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beach all day. You certainly weren't prosecuting anybody. Obviously, you
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were too busy to have meetings with your prosecutors to
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get a game plan about how to go after Jeffrey Epstein.
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But then again, it wouldn't have even mattered, right If
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they would have came hard after Jeffrey Epstein, the result
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would have been the same. Mukasey's office would have killed
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this shit on the vine. I am so convinced of
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that at this point. But he said, based on Krisher's actions,
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he worried that Epstein would get off with no jail
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time and no requirement that he registered as a sex offender.
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That he told investigators would have been a manifest injustice.
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Breaking news, buddy. The whole entire thing's been an injustice,
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from the top to the bottom, all of it. And you,
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mister Acosta, played a big part in this coming to fruition.
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Not because you're the one who initiated it, not because
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you're the one who decided that Epstein was going to
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get this plea, but because you didn't have the courage
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to stand up to your superiors and you didn't have
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the courage to go public if they tried to force
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feed you this. That's why you're a bitch in my opinion.
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That's why you're a chump in my opinion, and that
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is why you had the rug pulled out from underneath you.
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You have to have some courage if you're in a
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position such as this. In my opinion, you can't just
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go with whatever way the wind blows. You can't do
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what's politically expedient. Sometimes hard decisions have to be made,
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and sometimes you need to be a hard ass man
29:13
or woman to make those decisions. And if you're not
29:16
capable of doing this, then you should get yourself a
29:19
job as an essential employee at Smith's, or over at Van's,
29:23
or get yourself a job at a warehouse. Because it's
29:27
obvious that mister Krisher was not built for this. The
29:35
non prosecution agreement called for an eighteen month jail sentence,
29:39
required Epstein to register as a sex offender, and forced
29:43
him to settle civil suits filed against him by roughly
29:47
forty women who were identified as survivors. Now, one thing
29:51
I want to see too, I want those grand jury
29:54
records to be released, right those sealed grand jury records
29:57
that the Palm Beach Post is trying to get right
29:59
now down in four Lord, amongst some other folks. I
30:02
really want that stuff released because I think it will
30:05
tell us quite the tale. It will add a lot
30:08
more context, and it will be an important part of
30:13
this story in my opinion. And as far as the
30:17
non prosecution agreement, oh yeah, it called out for the
30:20
payment right of some of these girls, but Epstein was
30:25
going to also pay for third party party lawyers. And
30:28
you really think these ladies were paid out. These girls
30:31
were paid out the way they should have been, the
30:35
way it's going to go down at that fund. Hell,
30:37
no zero chance that happened. These women basically got hush
30:42
money that came along with this non prosecution agreement. The
30:48
government basically signed off on Jeffrey Epstein paying hush money.
30:54
We should all be enraged about all of this. The
30:59
agreement was far for mydeal, Acosta told investigators, but it
31:02
was adequate to serve as a backdrop to the state's prosecution.
31:06
He said. It was a polite way of saying encouraging
31:09
the state to do a little bit more. That's such bullshit.
31:13
You could have had Providence over this case. You could
31:15
have taken this case, had jurisdiction, and ran it however
31:19
you saw fit. But you were scared of your superiors.
31:23
You always had designs on other jobs. Obviously you became
31:28
the Labor secretary that then you weren't just laying at
31:30
home one night and got a phone call for that, right,
31:32
You had your eyes on a bigger prize. Therefore, you
31:36
didn't want to make any waves over the Jeffrey Epstein case,
31:40
so you just went along with it. You just went
31:42
right along with it, mister Acosta, when you were told,
31:45
oh he's intelligence, hands off of him. You didn't question
31:48
any deeper. You didn't go any harder. You didn't try
31:51
and find at the very least a sliver of the truth.
31:59
So don't come back now and start with the hindsight
32:03
in twenty twenty and talking about how your office and
32:07
the moves you made were in hopes of encouraging the
32:11
state to do a little more. Shut up, all right,
32:14
just shut up. I don't want to hear it. Nobody
32:16
else wants to hear it. You're an ept, you have
32:21
no courage, and you're gonna go down as one of
32:24
the biggest jokes in the history of federal prosecutors in
32:28
the United States of America, and that is saying a lot, sir,
32:32
considering some of the pieces of work we've had in
32:36
those same positions. However, Villafana said, even after the agreement
32:43
was signed in September two thousand and seven, Krisher continued
32:47
to try to derail it. In early two thousand and eight,
32:50
Krisher told a manager in her office that he and
32:53
defense attorney Goldberger had worked out a deal that would
32:56
allow Epstein to spend just ninety days in jail. Ninety
33:00
days in jail, that's all ninety days. People do a
33:04
longer stint for not paying traffic tickets, and Krisher had
33:10
a plan for Epstein to do a ninety day bid. Huh.
33:16
Tell me, how is this guy not being sued. Chrisher
33:19
should be being sued for personal liability over all of this.
33:22
This is unseemly. I believe he's part of the private
33:26
sector now, and if that's the case, I would try
33:29
and sue him if I was these survivors that he
33:32
was so negligent in protecting that he worked against. In fact,
33:40
please tell me that you are joking. Villafana email the colleague.
33:44
Maybe we should throw Epstein a party and tell him
33:46
we are sorry to have bothered him. Yeah, that's what
33:49
they would have wanted, right, That would have been the
33:51
proper route to go. What a major bosses up on
33:54
high very happy. Oh yeah, Let's keep make sure our
33:57
golden goose is taken care of. Let's make sure Jeffrey
34:01
Epstein the asset is well looked after. Even Villa Fauna,
34:11
for all of her wanting to do the right thing,
34:17
didn't have enough backbone to do it. And that's what
34:21
it comes down to, folks. There's no more there's no
34:24
more time to cut corners here, There's no more time
34:27
to skip around the truth. All of these people involved,
34:33
Villa Fauna, Mentchell, Krisher, Acosta, and everybody in between all
34:39
hold their share of the blame. She said. She called
34:46
an emailed Krisher and Goldberger to tell them that the
34:48
deal would prompt the US Attorney's office to dust off
34:52
the sixty count federal indictment and file it against Epstein.
34:56
Oh big talk, missus Villa Fauna. How about that sixty
34:59
count federal indictment was filed right away? Why was everyone
35:04
playing grab ass in the park with this guy in
35:06
the first place. Why didn't anyone have the courage to
35:09
stand up, tell Mukesi and Philippe to get screwed, and
35:13
tell the rest of these people. Guess what, there is
35:16
not a soul on this planet that is going to
35:19
stop me from prosecuting you. But no, there was none
35:23
of that. It was absolute garbage. Someone needs to talk
35:31
to Barry. Villafana emailed her supervisors. Epstein survivors, who were
35:36
already reluctant to stand up against their rich, powerful tormentor,
35:40
were also convinced Krisher didn't take their allegation seriously. She said,
35:45
that's for sure, on fact, on record, the girls have
35:48
said that, right. Look, Chrisher didn't take anything seriously here.
35:51
His whole, entire motivation was to protect at Epstein and
35:55
to make sure that this case went away as quick
35:58
as possible. That was his motivation, not justice, not reparations
36:05
for the survivors, and certainly not because it's his job.
36:13
Early on, she said, she tried to assure them that
36:15
the federal investigation would be a different process than the
36:18
one conducted by Krisher's office. The survivors felt that they
36:22
had not been particularly well treated. She told investigators. And
36:26
you know when I always talk about the missing girls,
36:28
the girls who haven't come forward yet, this is a
36:30
big part why I think a huge step forward would
36:35
be the non prosecution agreement being trashed and the Grand
36:38
Jerry documents from the first case being released to the
36:41
public in a transparent manner. I think that would go
36:44
a long way with convincing some of these girls that
36:47
have not come forward still to come forward and to
36:52
confront those that abused them and those that help them
36:56
be abused. However, survivors would again soon be abused by
37:02
the system. None was told about the non prosecution agreement,
37:06
nor were they alerted before Epstein pleaded guilty in pomp
37:10
Beach County Circuit Court in June two thousand and eight.
37:14
So you see, the disrespect, the negligence, and the downright
37:24
departure from humanity that occurred in this matter is prevalent,
37:31
and it went on time and time again. The Eleventh
37:36
Circuit Court finally has a chance to start fixing all
37:40
of these wrongs, and I really hope they do. None
37:45
was told about the pact or the plea hearing, in
37:48
part because of the strange and uneasy relationship between state
37:52
and federal prosecutors and Acosta's lack of leadership. Investigators said,
37:57
and again that came from on high, right, hands off,
38:00
he's intelligence. Let the state prosecutors deal with it. Acosta's thinking, Hey,
38:06
I'm a company man, right, I work for the federal prosecutors.
38:09
If the CIA is in control here, I better back
38:12
the hell off. That's what he was saying in his mind,
38:15
when in reality, a real man would have said, screw
38:18
all of you, what are you crazy? We got ourselves
38:20
a prolific child abuser here, and I'm burying this son
38:25
of a bitch underneath the jail. That's what a real
38:28
man says. Still, controversy about those missteps were future concerns.
38:37
When Epstein pleaded guilty the solicitation of prostitution and solicitation
38:41
of a minor four prostitution and was sentenced to eighteen
38:45
months in jail, a Costa considered it a job well done.
38:48
He described it as a proud moment. Imagine that's a
38:52
proud moment for you. What sort of mental condition are
38:57
you suffering from if this is a proud moment for you.
39:01
Villa Fauna was far less effusive. After all the hell
39:06
they put me through. I don't feel like celebrating eighteen months,
39:09
She sent in an email to a colleague, he should
39:12
be spending eighteen years in jail. Her hell was far
39:17
from over. Fed's hoodwinked on work release. Within days of
39:24
Epstein's plea, Villa Fauna learned that Epstein was being held
39:27
at the stockade, not the jail. Further, she was told
39:31
that he was eligible for work release. I mean, imagine
39:35
you worked on this case like Villa Fauna. And remember
39:38
I'm not trying to demonize nor re lionize her. Right
39:41
out of all of the people that worked on this
39:43
case from the original team, she was the only one
39:46
that seemed to even care. But I don't think she
39:50
went far enough right that said, she certainly wasn't somebody
39:55
who was okay with what went down. She wasn't somebody
39:58
who was like, oh, yeah, this is cool, we'll just
40:00
move on. This is a job well done. And she
40:04
was very vocal about that fact, and nobody in the
40:06
office wanted to do anything about it. When you're a
40:09
low level prosecutor like her, you only have so much power,
40:12
right you have to go to your bosses. They go
40:14
to their bosses it's a huge, gigantic bureaucracy. So Villa Fauna,
40:22
while I don't find her to be a hero by
40:24
any means, is certainly the only one that seems to
40:27
be a decent person in this case. Months before Epstein
40:32
pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors had made it clear that work
40:36
release wasn't an option. Krisher said Epstein would be eligible
40:41
for it because he wouldn't have had to register as
40:43
a sex offender until after his sentence was complete. FDL,
40:48
which runs the registry, now disputes that claiming registration occurs
40:52
when a sex offender pleads guilty. Bing bang boom. Krisher
40:56
needs to be held responsible for what happened here, folks,
41:00
he really does. And I don't see enough talk about Chrisher.
41:03
I sure see a lot about Acosta, the low hanging fruit,
41:07
but I don't see enough about Chrisher. And I'll tell
41:09
you what. It's time to focus on this man and
41:13
his role. Still Still in November two thousand, Krisher told
41:20
federal prosecutors that if the work release prohibition was in
41:23
the agreement, he would try to enforce it. When FBI
41:27
agents met the met with Belhovolac, to ask that it
41:31
be put in the plea deal. She said she would
41:33
discuss it with Krisher. The provision was not added to
41:37
the agreement, of course it wasn't. What do you think
41:41
his lawyers were going to allow that to be added.
41:43
Hell no, they weren't. Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers wrote this agreement.
41:48
That's what all the evidence is pointing to. Krisher was
41:51
just there as a passenger on the ship right to
41:54
sign off on it. Epstein and his lawyers constructed this.
41:58
They constructed the NP and the prosecution sat around with
42:02
their thumb planted fromly right up their rear ends. While
42:11
meeting with investigators, Chrisher said granting a work release was
42:14
within the control of the Sheriff's office, not my office.
42:19
FDL is also investigating the Sheriff's office to determine why
42:23
it violated its own policy that prohibits sex offenders from
42:27
being put on work release and other unusual perks that
42:31
offered Epstein. PbSO declined to comment for this story. Hell yeah,
42:35
they declined to comment. They know they know, And this
42:38
investigation that is being initiated and looking into them, I
42:42
really hope it bears some fruit. Do I think it
42:45
will probably not. What do I always say about investigations
42:49
that look into themselves usually a lot of political theater
42:54
and just to cover your ass tactic. But hopefully maybe
42:58
one time, maybe just once, things will turn the other way.
43:05
The gift of work release inflamed Villa Fauna. When she
43:08
learned in November two thousand and eight that Epstein was
43:11
being allowed to leave the stockade, she immediately contacted her
43:14
a boss's can I indict him now? She asked in
43:18
an email. An FBI agent talked to the stockade work
43:22
release coordinator to try to find out why the request
43:25
was approved. Villafuna told investigators. The coordinator said he had
43:29
been threatened with legal action if he did not allow
43:32
Epstein to participate in the program. So again, Epstein's lawyers,
43:39
I kept my underpants on. Dershowitz and the rest of
43:41
them threaten this man, this agent of the court, this
43:45
agent of law, with legal action if Epstein wasn't allowed
43:49
to leave the house to go and molest other I mean,
43:51
leave the jail, to go and molest other people and
43:53
conduct whatever business he saw fit. Where was the government
43:58
to protect this law officer of the law. Where was
44:01
the Department of Justice to step in sanction. Epstein's lawyers
44:06
revoke his deal and sent him to prison forever. Where
44:14
were they? Villa Fanna maintained that it constituted a material
44:22
breach of the non prosecution agreement and told investigators she
44:25
alerted Epstein's lawyers. Epstein was going to work at the
44:29
Florida Science Foundation, a non profit agency that he claimed
44:34
awarded research grants. When he pleaded guilty and was sentenced,
44:39
Epstein told Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Dale Dean Puchillo
44:44
that it had existed for fifteen years and he worked
44:47
there every day. Villa Fauna's research revealed that the foundation
44:51
had been created just twelve months earlier. Further, it shared
44:56
an address and phone number with Goldberger's law I mean
45:02
the lord the judge got dog walked. He was half
45:05
asleep probably throughout the whole case. He was worried about
45:08
what his tea time over at mar A Lago was.
45:11
He's like, yeah, non prosecution agreements, that sounds great. Will
45:15
I be out of here by noon to go meet
45:17
up with Biff and Buffy over at the golf club?
45:24
Are these people for real? He had an office over
45:28
at Goldberger's He told the judge he'd been going there
45:31
for fifteen years, and in reality the place only existed
45:34
for twelve months. It appears that since day one, Goldberger
45:41
and Krisher have been scheming to get Epstein out on
45:44
work release, she told her supervisors in an email. Further,
45:48
she wrote, Epstein was paying sheriff's deputies to guard him
45:51
when he was at the foundation's office in downtown West
45:54
Palm Beach. Oh yeah, I'm sure that they were getting
45:57
paid to not watch him, to let him do whatever
46:00
he wants. Have these cops come forward, the ones that
46:03
we're watching him as anyone talk to them? Have they
46:05
been subpoenaed? I'd like to hear what they have to say,
46:08
that's for sure. It appears that he is paying between
46:11
three thousand and forty one hundred per week for this service.
46:15
Despite the work release rules barring anyone from the sheriff's
46:19
office and the sheriff's office itself from having any business
46:23
transactions with inmates while they're in the custody or supervision
46:27
of the sheriff. She wrote, Oh yeah, a little double
46:30
dip in let's wet our beaks from both sides of
46:33
the dish Palm Beach County, the jail system down there,
46:40
the state prosecutor's office down there. They all need to
46:43
be audited, They all need to be subpoenaed, and every
46:46
single person who was involved needs to be dragged in
46:51
front of FBI agents and put under oath. This is
46:54
unbelievably sickening. Finally, she contacted the Sheriff's office in hopes
47:02
of convincing them to revoke Epstein's work release privileges because
47:06
he had lied on the application. In addition to pointing
47:09
out the dubious legitimacy of the foundation, Villa Fauna said
47:13
the foundation's vice president, who promised to supervise Epstein, lived
47:17
in New York. There was no way he could monitor
47:20
Epstein's daily activity. She said. They don't have to. They
47:24
could just put all that shit down in paper and
47:26
do whatever they want. The rest of us have to abide, right.
47:29
We have to wear an ankle monitor, we have to
47:32
have a guardian, or whatever they decide you need to have.
47:36
But Epstein, Nah, I'll hire a couple of deputies. I'll
47:39
go to work and I'll continue to molest and abuse
47:42
girls while the deputies sit downstairs drink their coffee, have
47:45
a Chris By Kreme, and talk about what they ate
47:48
last night at the barbecue joint. The Sheriff's office neither
47:54
acknowledged nor responded the Villa Fauna's letter. Investigators said because
47:58
of the way the non prosecutor was crafted, there was
48:01
nothing federal prosecutors could do because work release was not anticipated,
48:06
The NPA did not specifically address it, and the USAO
48:10
was unable to foreclose Epstein from applying for admission to
48:14
the program. It concluded. So again, the state dropped the
48:20
ball and the federal government dropped the ball originally by
48:25
not prosecuting him themselves. They left it in the hands
48:28
of the state. And this is what the result was.
48:31
And if you think that Acosta's bosses didn't know that
48:34
this was going to be the result, boy, I have
48:38
an ocean front property to sell you in the middle
48:42
of the Mojave Desert. It's that time of year again.
48:49
Time to computers were also powerless to object. When Epstein
48:52
walked out of the stockade after serving just thirteen months
48:55
of the eighteen month sentence, they had agreed he would
48:58
be eligible for gain time. If it was federal he
49:01
wouldn't get any of that, he would have been not
49:03
eligible for none of that mandatory sentences. Clink clank, clunk
49:08
enjoy the Blowney Sandwiches agreement kept secret. Investigators who interviewed
49:15
more than sixty people and reviewed hundreds of thousands of documents,
49:19
also examined the thorny question of why survivors weren't notified
49:23
of the non prosecution agreement or told when Epstein was
49:26
set to plead guilty. Oh, you know why they weren't
49:30
told because it wouldn't have went over. It would have
49:33
never occurred. If they were told, their lawyers wouldn't have
49:35
let it happen. Epstein would have faced federal time, and
49:38
we wouldn't have had to be here for the last
49:40
what I don't know, fourteen straight months without missing a
49:43
day talking about this. But here we are. So now
49:48
the question becomes, what are we going to do to
49:50
rectify this situation? What are we going to do to
49:54
hold these people responsible for s bivers on the public.
50:01
The lack of transparency was one of the most damaging
50:03
oversights in the ill conceived and poorly executed prosecution. Investigators
50:08
said one hundred I wouldn't be here right now talking
50:12
to you guys about this. If it wasn't for the
50:15
downright draconian nature of the federal government. That's what drew
50:21
me into this, the way they handled this, the way
50:23
they handled themselves. And I'm even more disgusted now than
50:29
I have ever been by the conduct of those pieces
50:34
of trash that were involved in this Jeffrey Epstein case.
50:38
From top to bottom. It created the misimpression that the
50:46
government had colluded with Epstein's counsel to keep the agreement
50:49
secret from the survivors. They wrote, the illusion, the misimpression,
50:56
Uh what? A federal judge in febus U. Twenty nineteen
51:01
ruled that federal prosecutors violated the Crime Rights Victims' Rights
51:05
Act by not allowing survivors to comment on the non
51:08
prosecution agreement before it was signed. The Eleventh Circuit Court
51:12
of Appeals is now reviewing that decision. Now, remember that's huge, folks.
51:17
It still looms large as far as this part of
51:21
the case, right these older crimes. If they get rid
51:24
of this NPA, it's a knockout blow to Epstein's whole
51:28
entire organization because there is piles and piles of evidence
51:35
that will send these people up river. Forever. Prosecutors maintained
51:40
that the women didn't have to be notified because Epstein
51:43
was never charged in federal court. That's because you used
51:46
a technicality in a workaround. You charge them in the
51:49
state court. So you didn't have to go through all
51:51
of this rigamarole because you knew it would never fly again.
51:57
That might sound cynical of me, but when we know
52:00
everything that we have learned in eight hundred and seventy
52:03
plus articles here together, how can you take any other
52:07
look at this and not see the forest through the trees.
52:15
Investigators said they did not find evidence that Acosta or
52:18
any of his prosecutors hid the non prosecution agreement from
52:22
the survivors to protect Epstein or avoid public scrutiny, but
52:26
they said survivors should have been alerted before Epstein appeared
52:30
in circuit court to plead guilty. They concluded that the
52:33
failure to do so stemmed from Acosta's decision to hand
52:38
the reins to Krisher, which muddied lines of responsibility. And again,
52:43
all the way from the top this happened, they knew
52:45
that Krisher wasn't capable of handling this. They knew that
52:49
Krisher was going to get strong armed that they didn't
52:51
have nowhere near the budget that the federal government has
52:55
to go after cases like this, And they knew what
52:57
the result was going to be, so they handed it off,
53:00
used Acosta as the fall guy, and they used Krisher
53:04
as the useful idiot. While Acosta said he expected the
53:11
state's attorney's office to notify all of the survivors, neither
53:14
Christi Krisher nor a Belhovoleak were aware they had been
53:19
given that responsibility. Oh yeah, not our responsibility. We're not
53:22
telling anybody Further. Investigators said Krisher's office was dealing only
53:28
with three of the young women, not the dozens who
53:31
had been identified by federal prosecutors. Plausible deniability, right, Oh,
53:35
we didn't have any idea. It's the federal government's fault.
53:38
The federal government. Oh, it's a state's fault. Meanwhile, the
53:41
survivors and the rest of us are all just sitting
53:43
around like we don't give a shit. Rectify it now,
53:47
fix it. We know it was wrong, so fix it. Now.
53:51
Let's move forward and let's get the ball rolling. Let's
53:57
get these people who were involved held accountable. But according
54:04
to Florida law at the time, survivors were to be
54:07
afforded their right to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of
54:11
and to be present at a defendant's plea and sentencing
54:15
if they had requested it, investigators wrote. During Epstein's sentencing hearing,
54:21
Judge Pachillo asked Belovolac whether the survivors agreed with the
54:25
plea deal. This. This is mind boggling right here, folks.
54:30
I have spoken to several myself, and I have spoken
54:33
to council through counsel as to the other victim, and
54:36
I believe yes, the whole of Ac, responded, according to
54:40
a transcript of the hearing, So all the dozens and dozens,
54:44
she says, they spoke to a couple of these victims.
54:47
I don't believe it. Okay, I'm just gonna straight out
54:49
say it. I don't believe it. I need to see
54:51
proof of that. I don't trust Chrishier's office, I don't
54:56
trust belovoll Ac. I don't trust any of these people
54:58
to be honest. While meeting with investigators, however, she said
55:06
she couldn't remember whether survivors were notified of the hearing.
55:09
She noted that given the charge of solicitation, of prostitution.
55:13
They may not have technically been victims for purposes of
55:16
notice under Florida law, but rather witnesses, investigators wrote. After
55:21
reviewing the States files, investigators said they could find no
55:26
evidence that any survivor was notified of the plea hearing.
55:30
That right there should take the Eleventh Circuits Court's job
55:34
to a nice easy level. Right, just let it slide
55:37
right in. And we all know that these people were negligent.
55:42
We all know that this non prosecution agreement was trash,
55:45
and we all know that it should be done away with.
55:50
They blamed the Costa for the blunder. While he told
55:52
the investigators he assumed survivors would have an opportunity to
55:56
speak up at the state hearing, he took no action
55:59
to assure that would happen. And that's where the federal
56:02
government is being held responsible here by Courtney Wilde. They
56:07
were negligent in their duty. The girls were not afforded
56:10
the rights that were given to them under the rights victim,
56:13
the victim's right to act, and now there needs to
56:17
be redressed. Another GAF that was laid squarely on Acosta
56:23
was a decision to grant immunity to four of Epstein's
56:26
assistants and any potential co conspirators. It is just mind
56:32
boggling that that ever occurred. It's so I get so
56:36
angry every time I think about this non prosecution agreement
56:39
and the fact that these people were afforded such protections.
56:43
And again, while I hate Acosta and I think he's
56:47
a scuss bag, I can't drive home the point enough.
56:50
Let's focus our rage where it belongs, and that's up
56:53
the ladder. Because these fall guys, they'll just be replaced
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by another stooge, another useful idiot. Such a sweeping measure
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based on no evidence was inexplicable. Investigators said it was
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even something strenuously demanded by Epstein's attorneys. Yeah, I wonder why.
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I wonder why Dershowitzen team would strenuously demand something like that.
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Huh on. One unidentified federal prosecutor who specializes in sex
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crimes against children called it horrendous. Another said, I don't
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know how it is that you give immunity to somebody
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who's not identified. I don't know how that works. Yeah,
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me either, buddy. I am a prosecutor, but I agree there.
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I have no flip an idea how that works. How
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the hell does that even go down? So if I
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get arrested for a crime, can I just claim that
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I'm afforded protection under Epstein's immunity deal. I'm one of
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Epstein's co conspirators. I mean, come on. Man. Costa objected
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to being blamed for not making sure survivors were notified
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before Epstein's plea hearing, but his attorney told investigators he
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acknowledges that mistakes were made. Oh yeah, mistakes, huh, some
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of the biggest mistakes we've ever seen in American courtrooms.
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You bunch of clowns, You clown fish, holy cow. Deferring
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prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein to the state attorney rather than
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proceeding with a federal indictment or a federal plea was,
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in hindsight, poor judgment, his attorney told investigators. Acosta himself
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said the prosecution agreement relied too much on state authorities,
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who he gave Epstein and his counsel too much wiggle room.
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If I was advising a fellow US attorney today, I
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would say think it through. He said, Oh, well, don't worry,
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You're not going to be advising anyone for anything. Anytime soon.
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Maybe your local township has a dog catcher role that
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is open to you, But I don't even think you'd
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win an election for that, So don't you worry. I
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don't think anyone wants any advice from you, Acosta, You spineless, prick,
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you coward. This whole entire situation in Florida gives me adjita.
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The heartburn builds up, and then it turns into white
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hot rage. This non prosecution agreement must be scattered into
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the four wins of time, and all of these people
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local and federally who were involved in this case must
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be put under oath and must answer questions about their
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role and their complicity with Jeffrey Epstein and his attorneys
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to get him off of these charges. If you'd like
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to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapuci
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at Protonmel dot com. That's bo b By c ap
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