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The Long Road Towards Transparency In Palm Beach · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: Well, folks, it looks like the judge who is overseeing
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  Speaker 1: the transcripts from 2006 from the grand jury. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like this judge in Florida is going to release
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  Speaker 1: these transcripts. Now, this is a big deal. This is
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  Speaker 1: a huge deal. In fact, this is going to add
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  Speaker 1: what I love the most. Some more context, right? Or
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  Speaker 1: as I say, some more meat to the bone. It's
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  Speaker 1: about time. Now, it's only about 15 years late, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, here we are. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein case, there is no amount of transparency that
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  Speaker 1: could be enough after everything that has went on, after
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  Speaker 1: everything that we know has went on, and after everything
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  Speaker 1: these fucking people got away with. How can we not
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  Speaker 1: be screaming from the rooftops about transparency? So whenever we
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  Speaker 1: have a judge step up to the plate, And move
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  Speaker 1: towards a more transparent position. I got to stand up
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  Speaker 1: and applaud. Because there is no reason that anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with Jeffrey Epstein's disgusting ass. Should be under seal.
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  Speaker 1: It should be exposed for the world to see. No
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  Speaker 1: matter how gross it is. No matter how disgusting it is.
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  Speaker 1: Because the people deserve to know the truth. And the
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  Speaker 1: survivors more importantly deserve justice. And for the past however long, decades, well,
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  Speaker 1: they've been denied that. So it is beyond time that
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  Speaker 1: we start moving to a more transparent position. With that said,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a look at this article from the Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach Post and let's see what author Jane Musgrave has
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  Speaker 1: to say. Headline. Judge expects to release sex offender, pedophile,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's 2006 grand jury transcript. The document is expected
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  Speaker 1: to shed light on why the financier, pedophile, wasn't punished
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  Speaker 1: more harshly after teens say he lured them to his
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  Speaker 1: mansion to have sex. Well, I can tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was friends with all of the people who
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  Speaker 1: were in charge. When you got a picture of Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton in a dress and pumps on your wall... pretty
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  Speaker 1: safe to assume that you're connected on high. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why nothing happened to him. And that's why he scored
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  Speaker 1: this sweetheart deal. What I hope this does, I hope
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  Speaker 1: it exposes everybody who was involved. And everybody who was involved,
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  Speaker 1: I hope that there's repercussions for them. Will there be?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Should there be? 100%. A Palm Beach County
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  Speaker 1: judge Friday signaled he would release secret grand jury records
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  Speaker 1: that could explain why serial molester Jeffrey Epstein didn't face
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  Speaker 1: serious charges for sexually assaulting dozens of teens at his
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach mansion more than a decade ago. I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: going to release the records, Circuit Judge Donald Hatfield told,
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  Speaker 1: said after listening to the Palm Beach Post's arguments about
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  Speaker 1: why the transcripts of a 2006 grand jury hearing should
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  Speaker 1: be made public. Hafeel didn't make a final decision. He
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  Speaker 1: said he would summon attorneys back to court when he
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  Speaker 1: has his mind made up. So it's looking like he's
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  Speaker 1: going to release this shit. And if he does, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be explosive. I don't think people understand
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  Speaker 1: who haven't been following this case, how important this is,
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  Speaker 1: how crucial this information is, because what it's going to
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  Speaker 1: prove is that this profile that we've been building of
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, of him being this so-called elite member of society.
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  Speaker 1: All of that gets built on this because normal people
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  Speaker 1: don't catch these deals. Who was pulling the strings from
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  Speaker 1: on high? My guess is it was Mukasey. But he
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  Speaker 1: said there are a few reasons to keep the record secret.
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  Speaker 1: The politically connected money manager is dead. Pedophile. In August 2019,
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  Speaker 1: at age 66, he hung himself in a Manhattan jail cell, allegedly,
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  Speaker 1: and while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges that could
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  Speaker 1: have sent him to prison for 45 years. Imagine 45 years.
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  Speaker 1: It enrages me to hear that. Only 45 years, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Put a few zeros on the end of that. How
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  Speaker 1: about 4,500 years? This sick fucking guy and all of
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  Speaker 1: his sick fucking friends. I have had a belly full
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  Speaker 1: of these people, folks. I have had a belly full.
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  Speaker 1: and their smug, stupid attitudes, the dumb smirks on their
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  Speaker 1: faces in every picture, and the way they continue to
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  Speaker 1: treat us as chattel. I have had enough. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: over here waiting for everybody else who is carrying the
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  Speaker 1: pitchforks and the torches right now over all of the
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  Speaker 1: other manufactured bullshit to come to their senses and join me.
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  Speaker 1: Your enemies aren't your friends on the internet. Your enemies
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  Speaker 1: aren't your relatives who voted differently than you. These are
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  Speaker 1: your enemies, folks. Wake up! Since then, dozens of his
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  Speaker 1: survivors have publicly talked about the abuse he inflicted upon
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  Speaker 1: them at his mansion in Palm Beach, his ranch in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico, his New York penthouse apartment, and his private
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  Speaker 1: island in the Virgin Islands. Meanwhile, never an investigation in
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico. Not a state investigation. Nothing. Nobody ever kicked
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  Speaker 1: in any doors in New Mexico. I bet you drug
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  Speaker 1: dealers are getting their doors kicked in as we speak
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  Speaker 1: in New Mexico right now, though. But if you kidnap
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  Speaker 1: indigenous women, if you abuse women there, you traffic women,
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  Speaker 1: rape them, no big deal. As long as you have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of bucks and you're politically connected. Have you
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  Speaker 1: folks not seen the absurdity of it all? None of
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  Speaker 1: these people care about you. Not Joe Biden, not Merrick Garland,
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  Speaker 1: not Donald Trump, not Bill Barr, none of them. You
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  Speaker 1: are nothing but a piece on a chessboard. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about something that happened in 2006 as opposed to now,
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  Speaker 1: Hafil said, emphasizing that the passage of time factored heavily
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  Speaker 1: into his decision making. Release may shed light on punishment
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  Speaker 1: Epstein received. If the records are released, the grand jurors,
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  Speaker 1: those who testified, and conspirators won't be identified, he said.
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  Speaker 1: The names will be redacted. Oh, of course they will be.
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  Speaker 1: So about that transparency I was talking about, huh? Right
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  Speaker 1: back at it. Why are you going to redact it?
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  Speaker 1: Why won't you just let us know who the co-conspirators are?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you guys so secretive about that? I'm fired
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  Speaker 1: up this morning, folks, if you can't hear it in
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  Speaker 1: my voice. I'm so sick of this bullshit. And I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait for this trial to get underway. I just
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to see the smug smile wiped off her face.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of her friends, I can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: see them running for the hills. The court will review
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  Speaker 1: each and every shred of documentation, so those involved in
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  Speaker 1: the process are protected to the fullest extent of my ability,
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  Speaker 1: Hatfield said. Attorney Steven Mendelson, who represents the Post, said
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  Speaker 1: the newspaper had no interest in exposing the names of
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  Speaker 1: those who testified or those of the grand jurors. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he said the records are needed so the public can
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  Speaker 1: learn why Epstein wasn't dealt with harshly. After dozens, folks, dozens, dozens,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually hundreds of teens told Palm Beach police they
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  Speaker 1: were lured to his mansion to give him massages and
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  Speaker 1: then they were pressured to have sex. Had he been
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  Speaker 1: prosecuted to the full extent of the law, the lives
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  Speaker 1: of many others could have been spared, Mendelsohn said. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we are where we are, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: When he was out on his little extended stay, when
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  Speaker 1: he was only sleeping at the jail, he was still
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  Speaker 1: raping and abusing people. But nah, nobody should be responsible
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  Speaker 1: for it. Everybody should just wipe their hands clean and
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  Speaker 1: keep it moving. These are the same people that demand
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  Speaker 1: responsibility out of you. These are the same people that
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  Speaker 1: make demands of your body via abortion or medicine or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And yet they can't even hold
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  Speaker 1: these people accountable when they're raping and abusing children. I
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  Speaker 1: can't be the only one who finds this all absurd, right?
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Shane Voight, who represented Palm Beach County Clerk of
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  Speaker 1: Courts Joe Abruzzo, said the office didn't object to the
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  Speaker 1: release of the records that it is legally required to maintain.
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  Speaker 1: The clerk can't do anything without a court order, Voight said.
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  Speaker 1: They will comply with the court order. oh, well, isn't
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  Speaker 1: that nice? I mean, at least he'll comply with the
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  Speaker 1: court order and all. I mean, shh, wow. The Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach Post sued for the release of transcripts in 2019.
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  Speaker 1: The paper filed suits seeking to force the clerk to
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  Speaker 1: release to the grand, excuse me, to force the clerk
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  Speaker 1: to release the grand jury transcripts in 2019. Its investigation,
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  Speaker 1: the first failure, detailed how the Palm Beach County State Attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Barry Krischer, torpedoed the child molestation case that Palm Beach
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  Speaker 1: police built against Epstein. Instead of listening to police or
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  Speaker 1: the victims, Krischer instead was swayed by Epstein's high-octane defense team,
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  Speaker 1: including the famed attorney, Alan, I kept my underpants on, Dershowitz.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Dershowitz was involved, considering the allegation against him
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  Speaker 1: by Virginia. You'd think he'd have a reason for being
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  Speaker 1: involved here, huh? you know, a little bit of motivation
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  Speaker 1: for Mr. I-kept-my-underpants-on, the naked volleyballer from Martha's Vineyard. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: being a prosecutor and getting end-rounded by Alan Dershowitz. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: getting cucked and schooled. What an embarrassment Barry Krischer is.
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  Speaker 1: You had the complete power of the United States government
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  Speaker 1: behind you. and you let this crypt-keeping, naked volleyball-playing, bullshit-prattling,
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  Speaker 1: molester-defending son-of-a-bitch torpedo you. You, Barry Krischer, are voted off
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  Speaker 1: of the island. Krischer first offered to let Epstein plead
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  Speaker 1: guilty to aggravated assault. Under the proposed deal, Epstein wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be jailed, and, if he complied with the terms of probation,
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  Speaker 1: his criminal record would be erased. When that deal fell apart,
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  Speaker 1: Krischer took the case to the grand jury. While at
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  Speaker 1: least 13 underage girls told police Epstein molested them, only
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  Speaker 1: one 14-year-old girl was called to testify. That's because they
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  Speaker 1: knew if they called all 13, they couldn't make this
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  Speaker 1: sweetheart deal appear for them. Am I the only one
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  Speaker 1: who's following here? And meanwhile, while all of this is happening, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're ready for this. your beloved Congress, okay?
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  Speaker 1: That was going to change everything after the election. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're busy going after the Washington football team's emails and
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  Speaker 1: still have no desire to dig into this story. Ask
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  Speaker 1: yourselves why. And then say to yourselves, why did I
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  Speaker 1: vote for these people to send them to Congress if
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  Speaker 1: they're worried about the NFL and the emails there, but
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  Speaker 1: not about children being molested and sold into slavery? How
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  Speaker 1: anyone can... come to terms with that is beyond me,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are. Our Congress is an absolute dumpster fire.
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  Speaker 1: They're an embarrassment, and they're leading us down a road
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  Speaker 1: of disaster. Sources told the Post that prosecutors quizzed the
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  Speaker 1: teen about her MySpace pages, which featured posts about boys
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  Speaker 1: and drinking. Her social media accounts had been provided to
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  Speaker 1: Krischer's office by Epstein's defense team, records show. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what teenage girl doesn't have a couple of
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  Speaker 1: drinks or talk about boys? That's so out of character.
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  Speaker 1: It just makes her a non-credible witness, huh? Miss me
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  Speaker 1: with all of that shit. The idea of the prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: getting in bed with the defense team to move this forward,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the parts of this case that
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  Speaker 1: really ignites me and launches me into orbit, if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been able to tell with the way I've been
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  Speaker 1: acting during this podcast today. It is... unseemly to me,
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  Speaker 1: that this many girls can come forward and only one
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  Speaker 1: of them is asked to testify. Police had asked Krischer
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  Speaker 1: to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity
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  Speaker 1: with a minor and one count of lewd molestation. The charges,
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  Speaker 1: punishable by maximum 30 and 15 year sentences, respectively, could
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  Speaker 1: have sent Epstein to prison for decades. No Man Act.
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  Speaker 1: No RICO. No. Ask yourselves why. It's good for R. Kelly, though, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's good for Rainieri, but not Epstein? Well, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. My opinion? It's because Epstein was being protected
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  Speaker 1: by people in the government, while the other guys, well,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't. Instead, the Grand Jury indicted Epstein on a
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  Speaker 1: single charge of solicitation of prostitution. By then, an outraged
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach police chief, Michael Ryder, had taken the case
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. Attorney's Office. After months of negotiation with
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's defense team in Krischer, South Florida U.S. Attorney Alex
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  Speaker 1: Acosta crafted a secret non-prosecution agreement. Here's where I diverge
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  Speaker 1: from most here. I don't think that Alex Acosta crafted
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  Speaker 1: this agreement. He's a mid-level bureaucrat. This came from on high,
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  Speaker 1: Mukasey and friends. If Epstein would plead guilty to two
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  Speaker 1: state prostitution charges, Acosta agreed to shell the 60-page federal
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  Speaker 1: indictment that had been prepared against him. As part of
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  Speaker 1: that agreement, Krischer added a charge of soliciting a minor
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  Speaker 1: for prostitution. Federal prosecutors insisted on it because it would
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  Speaker 1: force Epstein to register as a sex offender. So that
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  Speaker 1: was their, oh, well, he's a sex offender. We made
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  Speaker 1: him register at least. That was their mea culpa. Man,
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  Speaker 1: F you guys. This whole entire thing is gross and
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  Speaker 1: I won't let it go. How about that? Until someone
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  Speaker 1: rectifies this situation and people are held accountable, me and
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  Speaker 1: my beard are going to be yelling about this. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: ultimately pleaded guilty to two charges. He served 12 months
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  Speaker 1: of an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Stockade.
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  Speaker 1: A cell block, he was allowed to leave for 12
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  Speaker 1: hours a day, six days a week. So basically, it
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  Speaker 1: was like he was some kind of mafioso in the
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  Speaker 1: old days in Sicily. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm in prison. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: he built the prison. He employs all the guards. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here? You think that would happen to you,
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  Speaker 1: your cousin Jeff, your friend Mike? No, it only happens
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  Speaker 1: for the so-called elite and because they have these politicians
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  Speaker 1: in their pocket. Now, run home and tell Merrick Garland that.
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  Speaker 1: As part of the plea agreement, Epstein also agreed to
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  Speaker 1: settle lawsuits that were filed against him by nearly three
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  Speaker 1: dozen women he sexually assaulted. Hafiel handled many of those cases,
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  Speaker 1: along with one Epstein filed against attorney Bradley Edwards, who
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  Speaker 1: represented dozens of young women who sought to bring their
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  Speaker 1: molester to justice. Having presided over those cases, Hatfield said
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  Speaker 1: he was all too familiar with the allegations against Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and voiced dismay at how the young women were treated
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  Speaker 1: by the criminal justice system. These women were not victims,
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  Speaker 1: he said, of how the teens were portrayed. They were
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  Speaker 1: done both criminally and in front of this court. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they were. They were multiple times victims, but they became survivors.
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  Speaker 1: courts more willing to release grand jury records at least
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  Speaker 1: years afterwards. If Hathfield agrees to release the grand jury records,
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  Speaker 1: it would be the first time in the county's history
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  Speaker 1: that the public has gotten an inside look at the
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  Speaker 1: secret proceedings. But in recent years, judges have been more
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  Speaker 1: willing to pierce the veil of secrecy, particularly in high-profile cases.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the releases came years after the fact. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: better late than never, right? but you all know how
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  Speaker 1: I feel about transparency, especially at this point. It needs
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  Speaker 1: to be a more transparent process. In 2008, a New
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  Speaker 1: York judge agreed to release most of the records of
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Jury proceedings that led to the 1950 espionage
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  Speaker 1: indictments of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The couple was tried, convicted,
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  Speaker 1: and executed for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 1: In 2015... Additional testimony was released that historians said raised
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  Speaker 1: questions about Ethel Rosenberg's involvement. Historians also pushed for the
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  Speaker 1: release of testimony of President Richard Nixon that he provided
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  Speaker 1: at Watergate after he left office in 1974. In 2011,
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  Speaker 1: a judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the transcripts to be
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  Speaker 1: made public, and they are now available online. Halfhill said
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein case is unique. Any decision he makes would
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  Speaker 1: be carefully tailored to ensure it can't be used to
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  Speaker 1: open the floodgates of requests to release grand jury documents. Still,
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  Speaker 1: he said understanding what happened in the Epstein case could
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  Speaker 1: help others who are survivors of sex trafficking. These survivors
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  Speaker 1: are not unique, he said. While highly publicized, these kinds
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  Speaker 1: of cases are going on as we speak. with victims
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  Speaker 1: who are not victims of a wealthy Palm Beach resident,
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  Speaker 1: but by people who likely have as much control over them.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a fact. This is happening all over the
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  Speaker 1: world right now. Every county, in every state, in every nation, everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: there are people running these sorts of organizations and criminal enterprises.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, what are our authorities and our elected
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  Speaker 1: officials going to do about it? From where I'm sitting...
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  Speaker 1: Seems they're more concerned about the emails in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: than they are about your kids being trafficked or abused.
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  Speaker 1: And that, in my opinion, is absolutely unacceptable. We have
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  Speaker 1: to demand more from our elected officials. And we can't
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  Speaker 1: do that if we're continuously fighting with one another. So folks,
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  Speaker 1: I implore you. Take a look behind the curtain. And
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  Speaker 1: realize who the real enemy is. If you'd like to
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