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Mega Edition: Alex Acosta and His Fierce Defense Of The Abomination Known As The NPA (7/9/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Now that we're about halfway through the alex
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Acosta deposition, I thought it would be time to talk
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a little bit about how much of a dog and
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pony show the whole entire thing is. I mean, they
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still have alex Acosta out here defending this monstrosity of
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a plea deal. So let's just get it straight. The
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Department of Justice is supposed to be the guardian of
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truth and accountability, right, well, they actually have the gall
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to defend that travesty of a deal they gave to
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Jeffrey Epstein, that freak show of an agreement that let
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a serial predator stroll through a revolving door. Mask of
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rating as a prison sentence is still somehow being justified
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in official circles, like it was some kind of legal
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masterpiece as opposed to a moral crime scene. They talk
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about it like it was just another tough call, like
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it was complex. Yeah, it was complex, all right, in
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the way racketeering is complex, in the way corruption always is.
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When too many rich people are on the wrong side
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of the table, you can feel the arrogance dripping off
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the DJ's talking points. They honestly think that the rest
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of us are too stupid to notice that the law
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works one way for the powerful and another way for
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everyone else. I mean, you'd think, after all this time,
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someone and that marble floored fortress in DC would have
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the decency to say, yeah, you know, we screwed up.
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But no, Instead they trot out half baked soulis nonsense
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about unique circumstances and legal complexities, as if those phrases
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are some kind of magic spell that erasist accountability. The
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only complexity was how many golf course handshakes it took
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to make a federal sex trafficking case evaporate into thin air.
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The whole thing sounds like it was storyboarded in a
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cigar lounge. These people love their euphemisms, resolution, agreement, non prosecution.
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That's the government's version for a pullin a Roberto Duran
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and quitting on the stool in between round zones. And
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the most insulting part is that they're proud of it,
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still patting themselves on the back for avoiding a lengthy trial,
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as if efficiency is a moral virtue when the price
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is letting a monster off the hook. And the audacity
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all of the audacity of alex Acosta to sit there
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in that congressional deposition with that smug little bureaucrat faith
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and say didn't know the case. You couldn't write satire.
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That's that absurd. Imagine the head chef admitting that he
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never looked at the menu, but insisting dinner was perfect.
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This man had one job prosecute Epstein, and he couldn't
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even be bothered to read the damn file. But somehow
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it was fifty to fifty. Yeah, fifty percent corruption and
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fifty percent cowardice, zero percent competence. That's the real math here.
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Brows like the substitute teacher who never met the students
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but still hands out grades, shrugging while the whole class burns,
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and he delivers it with the tone of a man inconvenience.
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By being asked to explain himself. You can almost hear
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the entitlement in his voice, the same tone you hear
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from every official who's too insulated to realize the country
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can see right through him. He's like the guy at
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the blackjack table who doesn't know the rules but still
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insists he's got the strategy. Except in this case, the
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chips were actual human lives. He wasn't just guessing wrong.
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He was gambling with the lives of dozens of traffic miners.
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And when he lost, he blamed the deck and then
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to hear him spin it like he was outnumbered or
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out maneuvered, Alex, come on, homie, you weren't out maneuvered.
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You were out man morally. You didn't fold because you
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didn't have the cards. You folded because the guy across
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from you owned the casino. The DOJ wants to dress
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it up as prosecutorial discretion, but it was really capitulation,
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plain and simple. It's like watching a boxer throw the
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fight and then brag about how clean his footwork was.
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And let's not talk about who he did. Listen to
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Matthew Minchell. Yeah, that guy, the one with the conveniently
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warm friendship with Epstein, the ski and Buddy, the social
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butterfly of the legal elite. Because nothing screams impartial judgment
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like taking cues from a man carbon slopes with the
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target of your office's investigation. I mean, you can almost
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picture these dudes on the chairlift talking about snow conditions,
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girls and how to quietly bury a federal case. This
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is the American justice system in a nutshell, where a
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conflict of interest is in a red flag. It's the
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entry requirement. Acosta brushed off mari Via Lafauna, the one
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prosecutor who actually gave a damn and instead put his
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faith in the advice of a man who was practically
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sharing hot coco with Epstein in Aspen the second he
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left office. And that's the guy, Acosta says, he relied on,
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not the woman who spent years building a meticulous case,
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but the one linked to the predator himself. You can't
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make this shit up, because at the end of the day,
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Acosta chose comfort over conscience and corruption over courage. He
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listened to the voices telling him to protect power, the
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ones pleading for justice. It's the same choice people like
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him always make, and they always have the same excuse. Ready,
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it's complicated, No, it's not. Well unless you're Jeffrey Epstein.
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The rest of us don't get complicated. We get court dates,
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and then of course we have to talk about those
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missing emails, right, the infamous missing emails, because of course
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there are missing emails. That's the modern signature move for
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anyone caught red handed. Vanish the paper trail, say that
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there was a server error and hope that the storm
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passes somewhere on a DOJ backup drive. There's a digital
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goal mine of conversations that would make Watergate look like
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Amateur Hour. You just know they're out there. Messages full
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of wink wink updates and gentle reminders from DC handlers,
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lunch with Alan, golf with Jeff Marie, still pushing too
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hard if we ever saw them half a DC would
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need a lawyer by breakfast. And it's wild how the
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DOJ acts like this is some localized Palm Beach issue,
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like the world's most well connected sex trafficker just fell
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out of the Florida sky by coincidence. No, this wasn't
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a local matter. Pomp Beach was just the puppet theater.
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The real show was in DC, where strings were pulled
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and phones lit up with quiet instruction. The local prosecutors
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were props and a bigger production, the kind where the
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script was already written and the ending was non negotiable.
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Epstein's lawyers reached out to DC early, and once they did,
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justice didn't stand a chance. It was over before it started.
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Now they'll tell you, well, the evidence wasn't solid, but
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I'll tell you, give me a break. The evidence was
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a mountain, and they acted like it was fog. The
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FBI had flight logs, photos, Warren statements, names, corroboration. Hell,
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they practically had the man's itinery of depravity. The problem
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wasn't the evidence, it was the optics. Too many people,
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too many powerful people in powerful circles, were attached to
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that evidence. So suddenly it's inconclusive. Suddenly witness credibility becomes
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a buzzword. Funny how the rules bend when billionaires are involved.
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For a poor man suspicion alone, it's going to ruin
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your life. For Epstein, mountains of proof weren't enough for
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a week in real prison. Now Lacosta's whole defense might
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as well be I was just following orders. Classic. That
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is the oldest bureaucratic cop out in history. That's the
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line that every moral coward reaches for when the heat
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turns up. I relied on my staff, I followed guidance,
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Sure you did, and OJ just followed his glove. When
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you sign your name to a decision, you own it.
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You don't get to hide behind your subordinates like a
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frightened child holding his mother's skirt. Leave that for Prince Andrew.
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But that's what our system breeds. Men who want the
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title but not the responsibility. And who made those calls, Well,
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we can all take an educated guess. You think this
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whole mess vanished because alex Acosta just woke up generous
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one morning. No people called in favors. Deals were brokered
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in places where he don't take notes, steakhouses, country clubs, penthouses, boardrooms.
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Let's make this go away, someone said, and they did.
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The local office became a stage prop, while the real
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decisions got made behind closed doors by people whose names
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never show up in filings. It's not a conspiracy theory,
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my friends, that's an American reality. And look, you can
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almost picture it right. Epstein's lawyers sitting across from some
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smirking DC operative, the cigar burning low, the deal practically
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writing itself. He's one of ours. Someone mutters, we can't
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let this get out, and that's that. The signatures are
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inked the champagne board and the survivors once again forgotten. Look,
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the fix was clean, professional and er tight, the only
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way Washington knows how to do it. And when it
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was all over, they congratulated each other for resolving another
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difficult matter. The self congratulation of the is always the loudest.
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And now, years later they expect us to believe it
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was all just an unfortunate miscommunication. That's their favorite trick,
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reduced deliberate deceit into bureaucratic confusion. Oops, we accidentally gave
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global immunity to a child trafficker and his entire network
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are bad. The NPA wasn't an accident. It was a
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blueprint for impunity. No other case in history has seen
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a deal like it, a binding federal promise to never
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prosecute anyone connected to a trafficking ring. We're not talking
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about a mistake, folks, We're talking about protection, and they
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know it. Meanwhile, Acosta's out here trying to act like
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a misunderstood martyr. It was complicated, he says, with that
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bureaucratic monotone that makes your blood boil complicated. You don't
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need a PhD in law to know you don't hand
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out immunity to co conspirators in a sex trafficking case.
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You just need a soul. But that's the part that
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seems to go missing when powers involved the soul. Acosta
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didn't lose his job because of bad judgment. He lost
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it because of the truth he accidentally told, and one
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that he denies now. And what was that truth, Well,
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he was told that Epstein belonged to intelligence. And when
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you say that out loud, they show you the door
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real fast. And like I always say, if it had
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been you or me, or anyone without billions or without
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a contact sheet that resembled a Bond villain, they'd be
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eating bologney sandwiches in a concrete box until Kingdom come.
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But Epstein, well we already know, broke out to work
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in his home office every single day, go to his
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mansion at night and order takeout like a man on
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house arrest for jaywalking. The system bent over backward for
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this do nod, and the DOJ is still owed here
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pretending that was fine. Like they're defending the sacred honor
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of corruption itself. And for me, I can't get over it,
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the fact that the DOJ still defends it. They go
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on television, they write their press releases, and they look
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the American public in the eye and say, no laws
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were broken. Well, maybe not on paper, but the entire
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spirit of justice was gutted. They left to hide behind
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the letter of the law because it gives them cover.
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We followed procedure great, so did every other corrupt official
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in history. Procedure without integrity is just theater, and that's
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exactly what this was, a procedural performance to disguise just
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how rotten the whole thing is. And the whole thing
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reads like a badass mob movie. You got smooth talking lawyers,
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the compromised prosecutors, the missing evidence, the shadowy phone calls,
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the payoff, the silence. It's goodfellas with the government pensions.
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Everyone plays their part, everyone gets their cut, and nobody
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talks about it afterward. The only difference is the mob
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had more honor. At least they admitted that they were crooks.
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These people wear their corruption in suits and they call
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it public service. Now. Look, I've said it before and
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I'll say it again. The fix was in from day one,
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the second Epstein's hit, a DC desk justice didn't stand
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a chance. Everything after that was a show. The hearings,
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the filings, the investigations, all just set dressing to keep
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the public pacified while the real machinery of protection clicked
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into place. The DOJ didn't fail. It performed exactly as intended.
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And now years later when they act shocked, shocked that
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people don't trust institutions anymore. I want to throw my
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remote at the TV. What did you expect? You turned
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justice into a punchline. You told an entire generation that
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the law isn't blind, it's for sale, that if you're
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rich enough, even your crimes get tax deductions. And now
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you want to cry about eroding faith in democracy. You
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did that, not us. You burn that bridge. So sparis
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the excuses, the hollow statements, the self serving apologies. The
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rest of us. We live in the real world, where
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the law means something, or at least it's supposed to,
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where predators don't get private deals written in back rooms,
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where survivors actually get their day in court. But when
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it came to Epstein, none of that applied. They didn't
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just fail justice, they betrayed it, and then they had
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the gall to call it a difficult decision. The only
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thing difficult about it was keeping a straight face while
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they sold their souls. All of the information that goes
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with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's Up everyone, and Welcome back to the Epstein chronicles.
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In the wake of the Miami Herald investigation into Jeffrey Epstein,
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there was a lot of questions that had to be answered,
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and unfortunately we still don't have any of those answers. Now.
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Of course, they'll tell you that Acosta was the key
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player in all of this, if you listen to them,
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they'll tell you that Acosta was the man who made
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this deal all on his own. Well, we know that's
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not the case, and we know that there was many
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moving parts that were working together to make sure that
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all of the this happened. So that's why I have
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been so adamant that it's not just Acosta here. And
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if we just focus on Acosta, then we're missing the overall,
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bigger plot. Now, Acosta's the low hanging fruit, right They
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want you to focus on that. They want to look
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at a Costa and say, look, we got rid of him,
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he got fired from his position because it was all
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his fault. But it wasn't all his fault. There was
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a lot going on, and a lot of people who
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should have been worried about these survivors, about these girls,
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weren't worried about these survivors or these girls, And instead, Well,
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you had people leaving their position as state attorneys federal
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prosecutors to go and work on the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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I mean, really, that's okay with people. There's nothing untowards
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about that. There's no conflict of interest there, of course
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there is. But guess what when these are the people
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who are engaging in it, it's okay because they don't
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have the same set of rules that we do. And
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then when they get called out for their bullshit, well
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the legacy media comes riding in to save their lives
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and white knight them when what they should be doing
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is holding them accountable. But they won't do it. They
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refuse to do it. So today we're going to go
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back to an article from twenty to nineteen from the
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Miami Herald where Alexander Acosta points some fingers at some
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other people. Now, the question is why hasn't the fervor
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around these other folks been the same as it was
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around the costa. Is it that we just want, you know,
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the low hanging fruit. Nobody wants to do the extra
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work and really see what the dirty room holds when
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you pull back the curtains, because if they did, they'd
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be going deep here on everybody involved, not just a Costa.
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But they never did it, did they. They tried to
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set a Costa up as basically the fall guy, so
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nobody looked deeper, so nobody looked at who was really
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pulling the strings. Today's article is from twenty and nineteen
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and it was authored by Julie K. Brown. Headline deflecting
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blame a cost appointed finger at others. Why they may
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have some explaining to do. Yeah, everybody involved has some
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explaining to do, Okay, every last person. On October twenty third,
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two thousand and seven, as federal prosecutors in South Florida
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were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a
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plea deal with a Q sex traficker, Jeffrey Epstein, a
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senior prosecutor in their office, was quietly laying out plans
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to leave the US Attorney's office after eleven years. Now,
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mind you, this is in the middle of tense negotiations
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with Jeffrey Epstein and his people. Why would this prosecutor
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think it's a good idea to leave his position and
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go and work for Jeffrey Epstein's associates. And you know what,
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the galling part about that is when people try and
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distinguish it from one another. Right, Oh, well, he was
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working for Epstein's clients, not Epstein. And you think Epstein's
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Epstein's associates were paying for these bills? Or was it
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Jeffrey Epstein who was transferring three hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars to co conspirators? Was he the one paying these bills?
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On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein's lawyers
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and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate,
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opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what
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would become his new criminal defense practice. Oh that's nice.
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Another LLC. Another one of these people who have these
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limited liability companies. The stated address, according to Florida State
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corporate records, two fifty South Australian Avenue, Sweet fourteen hundred.
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It was the same location and identical suite number as
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that of Epstein's lead attorney, Jack Goldberger. So Reinhart leaves
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the prosecution and then basically the next day has an
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office with Epstein's lawyer, Jack Goldberger. But he's not defending
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jeff Epstein. Oh no, no, no, no, has nothing to do
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with the defending Jeffrey Epstein. He's just defending Jeffrey Epstein's associates,
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as if that's any better, As if that is any better.
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By the end of the year, Reinhart had resigned his
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post in the Southern District of Florida. Within days, on
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January two, two thousand and eight, he was hired to
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represent several of Epstein's accused accomplices who would later, like Epstein,
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receive federal immunity for allegedly trafficking underage girls. Huh, So
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this isn't something that should be talked about. I just
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read a whole ass USA Today article this morning trying
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to debunk the fact that Ryan Hart was working with Epstein. Now,
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let's not conflate the issue here and say that, oh, well,
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that's the reason that he sent this warrant over to
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mart That's ridiculous, Okay, But we're not gonna whitewatch the
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fact that this dude worked for Jeffrey Epstein's clients. And
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for those of us who know the story, we know
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that means he worked for Epstein because none of his
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clients had this kind I mean, none of his associates
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had this kind of money to pay for this kind
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of legal service. So please don't try and gaslight me.
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Please don't try and you know, feed me your narrative,
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because we know the real story. Reinhart's defection was one
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of many highly unusual turns that the Epstein case took
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twelve years ago, moves that could merit examination as the
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multimillionaire's controversial non prosecution agreement is dissected in the wake
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of his arrest last week on sex trafficking charges. Well,
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we know that's not the case. We know nobody's gonna
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look at anything because it would lead to egg on
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their face. And believe me, it's not just rein Hard here.
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There's a whole host of characters that were once federal prosecutors,
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that were once federal agents of the law, that worked
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for Epstein and in fact worked to destroy Joy the
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Girl's case. There have been long questions raised about the
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level of influence Epstein and his powerhouse legal team may
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have exerted over federal and state prosecutors, as well as
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Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw. Alexandra Acosta, the former
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top prosecutor of Epstein's case. In two thousand and seven,
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two thousand and eight, resigned on Friday as US Secretary
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of Labor, saying the overwhelming media scrutiny he has faced
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since Epstein's arrest part of the fallout from the Miami
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Heralds investigative series Perversion of Justice, has become too big
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of a distraction to overcome. Bro, You're the distraction, the
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fact that you and your buddies were out here making
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back room deals to let Jeffrey Epstein and his bitch
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ass associates walk. You're the problem. At the same time, Friday,
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authorities in New York revealed that as recently as December
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two thousand in eighteen, Epstein was wiring money to people
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who had potentially damaging information about his alleged sex trafficking enterprise.
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That's what we talked about yesterday, the three hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars transfers. So you see how this all
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plays in, right, You see how I do these little
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lead ins every now and then. There's a method to
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your boy's madness. And today it's to show you that
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everybody who is involved with this non prosecution agreement needs
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to be looked at under the microscope. Bruce Reinhart, Acosta, Mukaesi,
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all of them. New York US attorney Jeffrey Berman said
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the transaction of hundreds of thousands of dollars, made just
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days after the Miami Herald ran its series show that
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the accused sex trafficker was still trying to use his
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money to leverage witnesses. Bradley Edwards, one of the lawyers
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who represents Epstein's survivors, said it's now time for Acosta
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and others involved in the case to explain how and
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why they gave Epstein and others immunity from such serious
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charges without informing his survivors that they were disposing of
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the case. Boy, that would be nice, but we're never
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going to get that, are we. We're never going to
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get accountability here because people are interested in whitewashing what happened.
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When you have USA today basically running a puff piece
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for Judge Ryan Hart just because it might damage them
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politically or whatever, or their favored candidate politically, you know,
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we have a big problem. You need to be able
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to take a sober look at something like this and say, hey, look,
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this person's a scumbag. I don't care what their politics are,
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and if you're not interested in doing that and stuffing
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your biases around this case, then you're in the way.
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And I don't know how much more clear I need
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to be about that. What we need now is for
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Alex Acosta to finally sit down with us and explain
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what happened, and for others involved in the investigation to
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also talk Edwards said, and again, none of that's ever happened.
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We haven't had a real conversation with all of the
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people involved. How come all of these people haven't been
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subpoena Oh that's right, no Rico. At an hour long
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news conference Wednesday, Acosta defended his handling of the case
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and cast's blame in various directions, including at the state
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attorney who had been poised to charge Epstein with a misdemeanor,
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at the sheriff who gave him liberal work release, and
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at unnamed staff members under his own supervision. So, like usual,
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it's everybody else's fault, right, No accountability within the federal government,
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no accountability within any of the institutions. It's always somebody
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else's fault. And if that's always the case, and we
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allow that to occur, just like if you have a kid,
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you let it occur. Well, they're going to build bad
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habits and they're going to continue to do whatever they want,
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just like a kid would do. That's why there needs
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to be repercussions for everybody that was involved here. In
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two thousand and seven two thousand and eight, Acosta's team
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had prepared a fifty three page indictment against Epstein, citing
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nearly three dozen underage girls, mostly thirteen to sixteen, who
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were molested by the wealthy money manager. And if you
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think Ryan Hard didn't know all of this, he most
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certainly did. Remember he was a prosecutor, an old boy
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decided to bounce from prosecution to go and work for
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people like Sarah Kellen Vickers, people like Larry Vessosky. Really
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that means Epstein. Let's not let them, you know, change
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the narrative. But they'll say, oh, this is not a fact,
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but it really is if you know the whole story
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and you know who was paying the bills, because really,
24:46
if you're paying the bills, right, then you're the one
24:48
who's in charge. Acosta, however, agreed to shelve the indictment
24:56
and instead allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two felony
24:59
prostitutions charges in state court. Epstein's lawyers, who in addition
25:04
to Goldberger were Alan Dershowitz, Roy Black, Kenneth Starr, Guy Lewis,
25:09
and Jay Lefkowitz, demanded that the deal be sealed and
25:13
kept secret from Epstein's survivors. Acosta acquiesced emails show even
25:19
though survivors notification was required under federal law. So again
25:24
I ask you, is this Ryan Hart character really somebody
25:27
that everybody should be defending. And in the wake of
25:31
all of this, I remember it was, oh, why is
25:34
everybody attacking a judge? This is dangerous? And then on
25:37
the flip side of that, every single time I look
25:40
at the news, there's another judge being attacked if a
25:43
ruling doesn't go the way of said group. So enough
25:47
is enough, Okay, nobody is above reproach. None of these
25:50
judges are above reproach. None of these politicians are above reproach.
25:55
And stop the nonsense of telling people that they shouldn't
25:58
be critical of decisions that are made. These are public officials.
26:02
These are people that are elected or appointed by elected officials,
26:06
And if you won't hold them accountable, then it's up
26:08
to us to do that. In January, the Justice Department
26:16
announced it had opened a probe into whether there were
26:18
possible misconduct by prosecutors in the case. The investigations by
26:24
DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility remains pending. The DOJ inquiry
26:29
could bump up against the New York investigation, which is
26:32
being led by the Southern District of New York's Public
26:35
Corruption Unit. Now again, I ask you, why was the
26:38
Public Corruptions Unit involved? And nobody in the public sphere
26:42
ever got naeld. I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think, Okay,
26:46
And you know me, I don't do too much of
26:47
the diving into the deep end of the conspiracy pool.
26:51
My guess is that they had everything right in front
26:54
of them. They knew what they could have got, They
26:57
knew what they could have achieved here as far as prosecutors,
27:01
and they chose not to do it. That's right. The
27:04
SDNY let off Epstein and his associates. Once again, there's
27:09
no other excuse, There's no other explanation when you have
27:12
this kind of evidence and you don't go the full Monty,
27:16
what else would you have? Me believe? Berman downplayed the
27:27
significance of the unit's involvement, cautioning reporters not to read
27:32
too much into it, but some experience federal investigators found
27:36
it curious me too. Why the hell would the Public
27:38
Corruptions Unit be involved if we have no public officials
27:42
who are on the radar. The fact that the Public
27:45
Corruption Unit is involved suggests to me that this goes
27:48
beyond the typical crimes against children or sex trafficking case. Typically,
27:53
they don't get involved in something like this unless it
27:56
involves looking at people who are in a position of
27:59
public trust, said James A. Gagliano, a twenty five year
28:03
old a twenty five year veteran of the Federal Bureau
28:06
of Investigations. So what did they find that scared them
28:09
so much? What did they find that they thought was
28:12
so horrible, so heinous, that they couldn't tell us because
28:17
something was found. They had all the evidence, they had
28:19
all of the hard drives, they had all of the pictures,
28:21
they had all the testimony. So what did they find
28:24
that was so disastrous, so bad that they're hiding it
28:27
from us? And at this point, I feel like they're
28:29
hiding stuff from us. Okay, we just talked about the
28:32
Freedom of Information Acts that they're continuously denying. They've never
28:36
been transparent from day one, so why would we think
28:39
that they're being transparent here. The Herald series examined a
28:46
number of people whose actions were questioned by lawyers representing
28:49
Epstein survivors. Besides Acosta, two other prosecutors in the Southern
28:53
District of Florida were named in court documents connected to
28:57
a civil lawsuit filed by two Epstein survivors in two
29:01
thousand and eight. One of them was Palm Beach federal
29:06
Magistrate Ryan Hart. I mean, you would think that people
29:09
would make more of this, right, but what they tried
29:11
to do was whitewash Rhinehart's involvement here, just simply because
29:16
he was the one who pulled that warrant on mar
29:18
A Lago. So you see both sides line up and
29:21
go into their foxholes. Right one side's putting out fake
29:24
pictures of Ryan Hart, the other sides trying to whitewash
29:27
his involvement. And then there's those of us who are
29:29
trying to get to the truth, who were in the middle,
29:31
who have to wade through all of that bullshit to
29:33
get there. And it's not fair to these survivors and
29:38
these people that continuously try to use this issue as
29:41
a political football. I've had enough of it. But the
29:45
fact is this, folks, your boy Ryan Hart is neck
29:49
deep in Epstein bullshit. In a twenty eleven sworn Affidavid
29:56
submitted in the civil case, Reinhart denied he did it
30:00
anything unethical or improper. He asserted, under the penalty of
30:04
perjury that he was not part of the team involved
30:06
in Epstein's investigation and therefore was not privy to any
30:10
confidential information about the case. But two years later, Reinhart's
30:15
former supervisors in the US Attorney's office filed a court
30:18
paper contradicting him, saying that while Bruce E. Reinhardt was
30:22
an assistant US attorney, he learned confidential, non public information
30:27
about the Epstein matter. That's them saying it, okay, folks,
30:31
not me. That's not some crazy person saying it trying
30:34
to cause some political rift. Okay, if that's what you're
30:38
looking for, this is not the podcast for you. We're
30:43
swimming through the bullshit here, folks, and we're trying to
30:45
get to the meat of the situation. And for me, anyway,
30:49
this Bruce Reinhardt character, well, he's neck deep, and I
30:53
wouldn't even be coming here and talking about this once
30:56
again today. But the USA today thought that they'd be
30:59
why guys and hop into the fray and put out
31:02
an article about fact check this, fact check this vafu
31:05
gooul to the fact checkers. Okay, because a lot of
31:08
these fact checkers don't know the facts. Now, I'm not
31:11
talking about other topics. I don't know about the other
31:13
topics the way I do about this one. So I
31:15
stay in my lane. You know, let's stay in our
31:18
lane and talk about the things we know about, not
31:20
talk about a bunch of shit we don't know about,
31:23
you know, like everybody else out there. In response to
31:28
her request for comment from The Herald last year, Reinhardt
31:31
said he doesn't recall learning anything about Epstein's criminal matters.
31:35
Even assuming I had participated personally and substantially in the
31:39
Epstein investigation, which I did not, The relevant Department of
31:43
Justice regulations only prohibited me from communicating with or appearing
31:48
before the United States on behalf of mister Epstein, he
31:51
said in an email, noting that while he represented a
31:54
number of Epstein's employees, he did not represent Epstein, who
31:58
paid for that. You noticed the USA today doesn't ask
32:01
that question, right, So who paid the bills? We know
32:05
now that it was Epstein paying the bills, So why
32:07
isn't anybody curious about that. It's because they're not curious
32:12
to get to the truth. They're only trying to use
32:15
things as a political cudgel to score points. He declined
32:23
to say whether he was being paid by Epstein for
32:25
representing several of Epstein's accused co conspirators, including Sarah kell
32:30
Sarah Kellen, Epstein's assistant in Palm Beach. Remember, Sarah Kellen
32:34
was the one who was mentioned at gahlenne Maxwell's trial
32:37
as being a co conspirator and part of the plot
32:39
here and as abusing girls. But it's okay that Reinhart
32:42
didn't Oh, he didn't represent Epstein. He just represented Sarah
32:45
Kellen Vickers. So it's okay, And you're a conspiracy theorist. Man.
32:49
Shut up. And as I like to say, you can
32:52
miss me with all of that. I have no time
32:55
for the bullshit. I have no time for false narratives.
32:59
And guess what he know who else doesn't have any
33:01
time for it? Anybody else who's interested in justice? Kellen,
33:07
who subsequent married name is Vickers, allegedly scheduled underage girls
33:11
to visit Epstein three and four times a day. Court
33:14
and police record show. So this guy. Forget all of
33:18
the Donald Trump nonsense. I could care less about any
33:21
of that. Okay, write as many warrants as you want,
33:24
tomor a lago, my friend. The real question for me
33:26
is why in the blazes are you even on the
33:29
bench after being involved with Jeffrey Epstein. Another federal prosecutor
33:36
who has been named in court records is Matthew L. Menchell,
33:39
who was in charge of the office Criminal Division and
33:42
was copied on some of the emails and other correspondents
33:45
and passed between prosecutors handling the case. Edwards, who drew
33:50
up civil a civil suit seeking to invalidate Epstein's plea agreement,
33:54
filed a sworn affid David in twenty thirteen, alleging that
33:58
the Justice Department knew that Menchhal had some sort of
34:01
relationship with Epstein. Now look, how many of these prosecutors
34:04
in the office have relationships with Epstein or his friends,
34:08
and none of you find anything untowards about this. This
34:12
is all above board for you, right, Okay? I guess,
34:15
so the government admits that it has information about a
34:19
personal or business relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and another in
34:24
Another prosecutor involved in the Epstein case, Matthew Menchell Edwards
34:28
wrote in the affid David Edwards was asking the judge
34:32
in the case, Kenneth ay Mehra, to demand the government
34:34
disclosed the nature of that relationship so that Epstein's victims
34:38
could evaluate whether there was anything improper about Menchell's involvement.
34:44
Do you folks not see the trend here? Can you
34:46
tell me the last case of amafioso or a drug
34:49
dealer where federal prosecutors abandoned ship at the federal government's
34:54
office to go and work for the drug dealers. But
34:57
it's not odd here that this happened in Jeffrey Epstein's case. Yes,
35:01
people act like this happens all the time. It does not.
35:04
And this man, Ryan Hard should have faced scrutiny, and
35:07
not just now. It should have been then he should
35:09
have never been on the bench when all of this
35:11
came out. They should have handled them. Then, Menchell, Villa Fauna,
35:16
every single person involved in this absolute sordid affair should
35:20
never hold public office again. In my experience, it is
35:27
highly unusual for federal prosecutors to work on a case
35:30
prosecuting someone such as Jeffrey Epstein and then shortly thereafter
35:34
leave the employment of the federal government and enter into
35:37
a business relationship with the person who is being prosecuted. Menchell,
35:42
now a child attorney with the Miami law firm Kobra
35:45
and Kim, declined to comment for this report. I can't
35:49
comment on the advice of counsel because there is an
35:51
open OPR investigation, Menchell said Saturday. Again, with the open investigation,
35:56
do you folks not see what's going on here? I
35:58
mean I We've put it out in black and white.
36:02
The next thing I'll have to do is break out
36:04
the note cards to put the pieces together here, because
36:06
it's rather obvious that all of these people mentioned, every
36:10
single one of them is a scumbag. Barry Kersher, the
36:18
Palm Beach state attorney who had initial jurisdiction over the
36:21
case in two thousand and six before the FBI took over,
36:24
has responded only recently to criticism. Acosta, at his Wednesday
36:29
news conference, seemed to put blam on Krisher for his
36:31
apparent attempt to let Epstein off the hook with just
36:34
a misdemeanor. It was only after then Palm Beach Police
36:38
Chief Michael Ryder wrote a public letter asking that Krisher
36:41
recused himself from the case. That the US Attorney's Office
36:44
and FBI assumed jurisdiction of the Epstein matter. Record show,
36:49
and that's because the whole thing was a shit show
36:51
down there. Nobody was doing the right thing, so Chief
36:54
Writer had to step up and make a move. Among
37:01
the issues raised by pom Beach police investigators is why
37:04
Chrisher's office presented only one survivor to the state grand
37:08
jury that her testimony when Palm Beach police, by that time,
37:12
had identified multiple girls who were molested by Epstein. Good question,
37:17
So why wasn't that the case? Why didn't all of
37:20
these girls get their minute in front of the grand jury?
37:26
Another concern when police rated Epstein's Palm Beach estate, they
37:30
found all his computers had been removed, suggesting that someone
37:33
in Krisher's office had tipped off Epstein about serge warrants. Now, look,
37:37
how many of these people who went to work for
37:39
Epstein were feeding him information before they went to work
37:42
for him. How about that? You want to run around
37:45
and talk about what ifs. How about that run home
37:48
and put that in your pipe and smoke it. USA today.
37:54
Jenouse Bonasayak, a butler for Epstein, testified in a civil
37:58
deposition years later that one of Epstein's assistants, Adrianna Ross,
38:02
and another unidentified man, were instructed in advance of the
38:06
arrival of Palm Beach police to remove multiple computers in
38:10
the house. Krisher never issued a subpoena for the computers,
38:13
even though it was known that they were in the
38:15
hands of Epstein's attorneys by that time. The lead detective,
38:19
Joseph Riccari told the Herald, why not? Why not? Why
38:24
wasn't all of this information seized and in the hands
38:27
of investigators? Once again, no chain of custody. How come
38:32
every single step along the way that has to do
38:34
with Epstein, from arresting him till his death is filled
38:38
with all of these inconsistencies, all of these terrible systemic failures.
38:44
Is it really all systemic failures? Or is it all
38:46
by design? I'll let you figure that out. Krisher has
38:52
not responded to requests from The Miami Herald for comment
38:55
about the case, but he did issue a statement in
38:57
response to Acosta's recollection of events, saying, mister Acosta should
39:02
not be allowed to rewrite history. None of you should
39:04
be nan one of you fools should be, and all
39:07
of you should lose your pensions. In the years following
39:14
the Florida FBI probe, several lawyers who represented Epstein's survivors,
39:18
as well as private investigator, filed complaints with the Justice
39:21
Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, claiming that Epstein's case may
39:26
have gone off the rails because he improperly influenced federal prosecutors.
39:31
That's the core of the issue, Okay, that's what we're
39:34
talking about. Why any of these prosecutors who ended up
39:39
working for Epstein or his associates would go on to
39:41
become judges or anything that has to do with the
39:45
law is fucking beyond me, okay, And anyone trying to
39:49
justify that or okay, it is really not looking for
39:53
justice in this case. And for a long time I've
39:56
just been willing to ignore that shit. I'm not going
39:58
to ignore it anymore. Tired of people pointing fingers at
40:01
other people talking about, oh, you're a biased or this
40:04
that the other thing when they have no desire to
40:06
really get to the meet and potatoes of the issue here,
40:09
and the meet and the potatoes is there was corruption
40:12
from the top folks. Okay, you don't want to hear it,
40:14
but that's the truth, all the way down from Muches's office.
40:18
At the very least, the highest levels of the Department
40:21
of Justice were involved here. One of those complaints filed
40:28
by Paul Cassel, a former federal judge in Utah who
40:31
represents Epstein's survivors, ended up in the hands of the
40:34
US Attorney's office in Puerto Rico. Reinhart said that the complaint,
40:38
which alleged Reinhart committed perjury in his affid David, was
40:41
fully investigated and they declined to pursue the matter. Reinhart said,
40:45
so again, why did this guy even become a judge?
40:47
I don't care about the Trump stuff whatever, that's for
40:51
other people to discuss. I'm not going to spend my
40:53
time yelling into the wind like everybody else does. My
40:56
question is why was this guy on the bench in
40:58
the first place with all of this around him? Is
41:01
this the sort of man that you want sitting on
41:03
the bench judicating cases? The Miami Herald submitted a Freedom
41:10
of Information Act request for the investigation, but the Justice
41:14
Department denied their request, so it's not clear to what
41:16
the investigation entailed. So again, before you run around and
41:21
you talk about conspiracy theories, point your finger at the
41:24
federal government and ask them why they're not being transparent.
41:27
Ask them why they're not giving out the proper amount
41:29
of information in this case that people are requesting through
41:32
the proper legal channels. Gagliano said it's common for federal
41:38
prosecutors to go into the private sector after serving in
41:41
the Justice Department, where they make modest salaries. Since Reinhardt
41:46
wasn't assigned the case, he could successfully argue that he
41:49
wasn't privy to anything other than panter over the water cooler,
41:53
said Gagliano, who is also a CNN Law enforcement analyst.
41:57
I mean, for real, and I guess you could make
42:00
that argument, but it's as ridiculous to me as arguing that, oh,
42:03
I didn't know what Jeffrey with Epstein was up to
42:06
before his first arrest. But the bottom line is, in
42:11
this scenario, I would recuse myself from any case that
42:14
my office handled. It may not be unethical, but there
42:17
is a perception of impropriety. Gagliano said, there's more than
42:21
that for me. And again, maybe it's that I'm cynical,
42:24
But every single person who played a part here in
42:26
making sure Epstein got off, and making sure Sarah Kell
42:29
and Vickers got off, and making sure that Adriana Ross
42:32
got off, and making sure that the rest of them
42:33
got off, I have a big problem with that. Besides
42:42
chrisher Lana Bellaholovac, the lead assistant prosecutor who oversaw Epstein's
42:47
sentencing in two thousand and eight, has been accused of
42:49
leading the sentencing judge, Deborah Dale Puccio, to believe that
42:54
Epstein's crimes involved only several victims and that those victims
42:58
had been notified and were satisfied with the plea arrangement.
43:02
And we know that's not the case. It's all been
43:05
a lie. Why were the prosecutors in Florida so in
43:08
the bag for Jeffrey Epstein and then they go and
43:10
work for him and bring in big ass paychecks. Yeah,
43:14
nothing untowards here, folks. That was not the case. Because
43:26
several of the survivors lawyers, including Robert C. Jofsberg, who
43:30
represented the woman whose case was at the heart of
43:33
the state charges that were brought, told the Herald that
43:36
they were never notified about Epstein's plea deal or sentencing.
43:40
So again, the prosecution completely disregarded the survivors and how
43:45
they feel and what their rights were. In February, Judge
43:50
Marrow ruled that the two thousand and eight deal was illegal,
43:53
finding that the survivors were not only kept in the dark,
43:56
but they were misled by prosecutors in violation of the
44:00
Crime Victim's Rights Act. So who's the asshole here? Okay?
44:05
Really people that are defending this judge Reinhart clown, or
44:09
people who are trying to point out the fact that
44:11
all of these people involved, not just this judge. By
44:14
the way, all of these people involved in this prosecution
44:17
should not hold any office any time after. There's no
44:22
repercussions for people that do this shit. So you can
44:25
just bounce from the prosecutor's office, go work for Epstein
44:28
and then get yourself handed a gavel and go sit
44:31
in some courtroom and be a modern day feudal lord
44:36
that sits well with you guys, not me, not me
44:39
at all, and I'm going to continue to voice my
44:41
concern about it. Bella Hoovlack, who no longer works for
44:48
the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office, and formed a Herald
44:50
reporter through an email from her employer, the State Attorney's
44:54
Office for Southwest Florida, that she would not be commenting
44:57
on the case. Nobody wants to comment. And again, and
45:00
you wonder why there's conspiracy theories out there, why people
45:02
are making up their own stories, This is why. So
45:06
you can blame the people who make up the conspiracies,
45:08
but you have to blame the government as well for
45:11
not doing their job and informing you of the facts.
45:18
Then there's Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw, who gave
45:21
Epstein work release even though his own department's policy explicitly
45:25
banned sex offenders from getting work release. Bradshaw has declined
45:28
to talk to The Miami Herald, but interviewed earlier this
45:32
year on sundial, a local radio program, Bradshaw claimed that
45:35
Epstein was not a sex offender when he was given
45:38
work release. Nah, not a sex offender. Epstein was a good,
45:41
old wholesome guy. You know, he was never in trouble
45:43
for anything. Hell of a guy that I would want
45:45
to leave my federal prosecutor's job for to go and
45:48
work for Sarah Kell and Vickers and have him pay
45:50
for it. However, the nature of his charges was well known,
45:57
and records obtained by The Herald show that Epstein signed
45:59
document It's at his sentencing acknowledging that he was a
46:02
sex offender and outlining all the requirements that go with
46:06
being a convicted sex offender. So they just straight up
46:09
lied to you this whole time, and everybody accepted it
46:12
for all of these years. Well, we're not accepting it anymore.
46:15
In the days of hiding behind political tribes and hiding
46:18
in bunkers, those days are over for me. It is
46:20
open season on everybody involved with Jeffrey Epstein. In a
46:27
wide ranging interview about various Sheriffs of Department issues on
46:30
Miami's WLRN in April, Bradshaw was asked about the department's
46:34
decision to allow Epstein to leave the county jails six
46:37
days a week. Epstein's private driver would pick him up
46:41
and take him to an office he had set up
46:43
in downtown West Palm Beach. In the same group of
46:45
sweets as his lawyer, Goldberg and Reinhardt. By the way,
46:49
Epstein spent up to ten hours a day at the
46:52
office with the sheriff's deputy stationed outside. Record show and
46:56
we know that those records were destroyed. By the way,
46:58
Why were those records destroyed? Why? What is there no
47:01
investigation into any of this? All we did was house him,
47:06
Bradshaw told Luis Hernandez, host of Sundial, we met the
47:09
criteria for work release. He was not adjudicated as a
47:12
violent sex offender. He wasn't even adjudicated as a sex offender,
47:16
which is a straight up lie. And that gets to
47:19
the heart of all of it. Folks. Everybody who's been
47:21
involved in this from day one has lied to you.
47:25
They have lied to you, straight up lied to you.
47:27
They've lied to you with lies of omission, and they've
47:30
lied to you about this Judge Reinhart's involvement as well.
47:33
And believe me, both sides have done it. You think
47:37
making a fake picture of Judge Reinhart on Epstein's plane
47:41
with Glenn Maxwell is doing the cause any good. You're
47:45
just as bad as people who are denying the fact
47:48
that Reinhardt had anything to do with helping Epstein's co conspirators.
47:54
There is enough sealaciousness here where you don't need to
47:57
make shit up. There are enough people involved in heinous
48:01
acts that we don't have to go down that route.
48:05
And I'm not saying that there aren't some weird things
48:07
that need to be investigated that could be quote unquote
48:10
considered conspiracy theories. But here on this podcast, it's not
48:15
about what I know. It's about what I feel like
48:18
I can prove. And for me, the proof is in
48:21
the pudding that any prosecutor who was working on Jeffrey
48:24
Epstein's case should not become a judge. All right, folks,
48:30
that's gonna do it for this episode. If you'd like
48:32
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