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Leon Black Sues Congressman Robert Garcia for Defamation Over Jeffrey Epstein Allegations (11/5/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. So Leon Black has filed a defamation lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: against Robert Garcia. And Robert Garcia is the top Democrat
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  Speaker 1: on the House Oversight Committee that's been overseeing the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: that's been overseeing the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and the
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  Speaker 1: people that enabled them. And according to Leon Black, he's
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  Speaker 1: been defamed. by Mr. Garcia. Now, that is quite the allegation,
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  Speaker 1: especially considering everything that we know about Leon Black. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is everything that's been said about Leon Black true? Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: But is there enough smoke to investigate the fire? I
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  Speaker 1: would say so. And I think that trying to claim
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  Speaker 1: that he's being defamed is quite a stretch. But according
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  Speaker 1: to Leon Black and his team, That's exactly what's going on. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to make the allegation, and it's another
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  Speaker 1: thing to see it all the way through. So I
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  Speaker 1: have my doubts that we're going to see Leon Black
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  Speaker 1: sit for a deposition when it comes to this situation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he's just trying to get out ahead
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  Speaker 1: of things by filing this lawsuit. So that he could
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  Speaker 1: say that he's being, you know, politically targeted, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: might be. And it's funny, why did he file against Garcia...
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  Speaker 1: and not Comer, my guess is so that he could
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  Speaker 1: say it's political persecution. Oh look, I'm being targeted by
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  Speaker 1: Robert Garcia, the Democrat, yada yada yada. Going right to
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  Speaker 1: Trump's playbook. But I don't think that playbook's going to
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  Speaker 1: work out so well moving forward. There's legitimate concerns with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. And a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: have been engaged in a lot of corruption. And those
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  Speaker 1: people need to be held accountable. I'm not somebody that
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  Speaker 1: wants to see show trials, right? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see retribution. What I want to see is accountability. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope that the Democrats go that route as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to just retribution. Because I'll be outspoken against that. That
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  Speaker 1: leads us to a dark, bad place, just like when
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  Speaker 1: Trump was doing it. Somebody has to be the bigger person,
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  Speaker 1: the adult in the room. And truly start caring about
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  Speaker 1: what happens to the republic moving forward. Because this back
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  Speaker 1: and forth tit for tat stuff. Never turns out well.
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  Speaker 1: When all is said and done. So we need to
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  Speaker 1: have rational people. Going after folks. Who are actually involved
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  Speaker 1: in corruption. And criminal activity. It can't just be retribution right?
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  Speaker 1: And when it comes to Leon Black. There's no retribution here.
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  Speaker 1: This is a man. Who's never answered questions. really answered
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  Speaker 1: questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And now people
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  Speaker 1: are asking for those answers, and he wants to sue people?
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  Speaker 1: He wants to act like an idiot? Okay, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what the court has to say. Because remember,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to say, oh, I'm going to sue somebody,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a whole ass other thing to see that
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  Speaker 1: shit through. And don't think for a second it's not
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  Speaker 1: perilous for Leon Black, because it most certainly is. Especially
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  Speaker 1: when we start talking about Discovery. And shit like that.
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  Speaker 1: Because once you're engaged in that, that can be used
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  Speaker 1: by the authorities to go after you in a criminal manner.
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  Speaker 1: Just ask Elaine Maxwell. So, the stakes are very high
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  Speaker 1: for Leon Black here. And I have my doubts about
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  Speaker 1: just how far Leon Black plans to take it. So today,
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  Speaker 1: we have an article from NBC News and the headline.
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  Speaker 1: Billionaire Leon Black sues Representative Robert Garcia alleging defamation over
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein comments. This article was authored by Raquel Coronel Uribe.
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  Speaker 1: Billionaire Leon Black filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against
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  Speaker 1: Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the
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  Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee, which has spearheaded a Jeffrey Epstein investigation,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to call it that. I mean, let's
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  Speaker 1: be real. I've been pretty critical of the process from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of And that's because I don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: they've gone hard enough. The people that were getting called in,
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  Speaker 1: they should all be getting colonoscopies. It shouldn't be a
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  Speaker 1: friendly endeavor. Every last one of these people should have
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  Speaker 1: been put under oath and forced to testify under oath.
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  Speaker 1: I've always said that it should have been much more adversarial.
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  Speaker 1: It was too friendly. I mean, look at Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 1: and his meeting with Glenn Maxwell. They might as well
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  Speaker 1: have had tea and crumpets, right? Certainly didn't look like
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  Speaker 1: the top lawman in America. Grilling one of the worst
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  Speaker 1: child sex traffickers we've ever seen. So that's another question
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be answered. But when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire congressional committee, sure, they had some depositions
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  Speaker 1: and they talked to some people. But what came of it?
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  Speaker 1: That's really what it comes down to. You can talk
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  Speaker 1: until the cows come home. But what came of that conversation?
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  Speaker 1: Did anybody get referred? Did anybody get arrested? Is anybody
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  Speaker 1: going to be held accountable? Well, so far, the answer
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  Speaker 1: is no. Black has been the target of subpoenas from
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  Speaker 1: the Republican-led committee, which unanimously voted in September to hold
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  Speaker 1: him in contempt over his refusal to comply with those subpoenas. Black,
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  Speaker 1: a former Wall Street private equity investor who had a
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  Speaker 1: business relationship with Epstein, sued Garcia in the Southern District
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  Speaker 1: of New York, alleging he has knowingly and willfully lied
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  Speaker 1: about Leon Black and defamed him. The suit cites comments
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  Speaker 1: from Garcia that Black was at the center and directly
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  Speaker 1: involved with Epstein's crimes. Well, I'd say that's true. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not directly as far as abusing all the girls with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly financially. Yo, do people not understand that you
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  Speaker 1: can do 25 years for wire fraud? Like, what are
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  Speaker 1: we talking about here? Like we should just forget that
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  Speaker 1: and ignore it like it's no big fucking deal? The
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  Speaker 1: amount of financial malfeasance that occurred? I'm sorry, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to let it go. There's just way too
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  Speaker 1: much meat on that bone. And I think that if
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  Speaker 1: we want to hold people accountable, I know you're getting
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  Speaker 1: tired of hearing me say it, but that's how we
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  Speaker 1: do it. We go after the people that we're engaging
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  Speaker 1: financially with Epstein and then we work from there. That
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  Speaker 1: opens the door. And once the door is opened, who
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  Speaker 1: the fuck knows what we're gonna find. A spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: Garcia didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit. Garcia said in a statement in September in
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  Speaker 1: response to a lawsuit Black filed against the committee that
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  Speaker 1: Black had funded Epstein's abuse and trafficking women, adding, multiple
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  Speaker 1: women have also accused Black of sexual assault. His connections
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein and his unwillingness to cooperate are unacceptable. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. There's no doubt that he should
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  Speaker 1: be cooperating and he should have cooperated a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: And that's part of the problem. The fact that nobody
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  Speaker 1: went and talked to him when Epstein was first arrested,
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  Speaker 1: when all of this was first starting, that's a big problem.
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  Speaker 1: And that needs to be answered. Who made that decision? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Who was involved? Did that come down from DOJ brass?
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  Speaker 1: Did somebody decide that on their own? And if so,
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  Speaker 1: who's that person? Because remember, that's what the Epstein Files
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  Speaker 1: Transparency Act called for. We're supposed to know who was
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  Speaker 1: making decisions and why those decisions were made. But instead,
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  Speaker 1: we got a bunch of fucking redactions. And then they
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  Speaker 1: wonder why they lost the election. In a statement about
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit against Garcia on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Black
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  Speaker 1: wrote that he has never abused a woman. He has
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  Speaker 1: never been with an underage woman. He's never been involved
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  Speaker 1: with sex trafficking. And he never paid Epstein for women. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what exactly did he pay Epstein for? And don't give
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  Speaker 1: us the bullshit, oh, it's tax advice. Nobody believes that.
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  Speaker 1: So open the books. Let's see what's going on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what he was paying for. I mean, if that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want to do, if that's what Leon Black
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  Speaker 1: is saying, then cool. Subpoena his books, go through them
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  Speaker 1: with a fine-tooth comb, and any kind of financial malfeasance
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  Speaker 1: that's found, he should be charged to the fullest extent
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  Speaker 1: of the law, and anybody else associated with him that
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  Speaker 1: was receiving ill-gotten gains, they should be charged too, just
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  Speaker 1: like you would be. With the Democrats set to take
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  Speaker 1: control of the House in January, Garcia's poised to become
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  Speaker 1: the new chair of the Oversight Committee. Black stepped down
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  Speaker 1: from the hedge fund he co-founded Apollo Global Management in
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  Speaker 1: 2021 after the firm conducted an independent review of his
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  Speaker 1: ties to Epstein. The review found that Black whose denied
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  Speaker 1: wrongdoing tied to Epstein, wasn't involved in Epstein's criminal activities. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there it is, folks. Apollo Global tells us that their
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  Speaker 1: boss wasn't involved. Everybody should pack it up and head home.
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  Speaker 1: What a bunch of absolute nincompoops. Black sat for a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary closed-door transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee over
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  Speaker 1: the summer, but left before it was over. Lawmakers on
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  Speaker 1: the committee issued subpoenas to compel him to answer questions
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  Speaker 1: They said he wasn't answering, but Black didn't show up
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  Speaker 1: for a later deposition. He then sued the committee to
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  Speaker 1: block the subpoenas for his appearance and nondisclosure agreements tied
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein. The case is still being litigated. And I
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  Speaker 1: think when all is said and done, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to turn over this documentation to Congress. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: might be some kind of NPA that has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with Epstein that is left out, but anything tied
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein, I think he's going to be forced and
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  Speaker 1: compelled to turn over. The House later voted to hold
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  Speaker 1: Black in contempt of Congress, Reuters reported, that the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department said September 16th in a statement that the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia will review the
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  Speaker 1: referral of Mr. Black carefully and will not hesitate to
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  Speaker 1: pursue additional cases where the evidence supports. No charges have
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  Speaker 1: been filed against Black. And I'm sure that his son
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  Speaker 1: Ben Black being part of this corrupt-ass, disgusting administration has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with that, right? I mean, can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine being Donald Trump and having all these Epstein adjacents
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  Speaker 1: around you? No wonder this dude wants everything kept under wraps.
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  Speaker 1: So as far as it goes here with this lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: when I actually get the documents, we'll get those added
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  Speaker 1: to the catalog as well. But as far as this
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  Speaker 1: one goes, that's going to do it. All the information
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  Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  Speaker 1: description box below.