Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: The Lawyer, The New York Times And The Mysterious Man (9/14/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:04Speaker 1: David Boies, lawyer for Virginia Roberts and Annie Farmer, has
- 0:09Speaker 1: given his first interview since Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced.
- 0:14Speaker 1: And in this interview with The Independent, he talks about
- 0:18Speaker 1: how the other people who were involved in all of this,
- 0:23Speaker 1: and as we all know, there were a lot of
- 0:25Speaker 1: other people involved in all of this, how they should
- 0:28Speaker 1: be held responsible. now that Maxwell has been. And for me,
- 0:34Speaker 1: there is no other way that this should go. When
- 0:39Speaker 1: you have as many people involved on a day-to-day basis
- 0:44Speaker 1: as we had involved with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,
- 0:49Speaker 1: there is no way anyone can convince me that this
- 0:52Speaker 1: isn't a RICO case and that there aren't other people
- 0:57Speaker 1: who shouldn't be brought in. Now, we have all of
- 1:00Speaker 1: the names Virginia has given us already. And David Boies
- 1:05Speaker 1: and Company, they've handed all of that information over to
- 1:08Speaker 1: the feds. They did that in 2015. So it's not
- 1:12Speaker 1: like the feds didn't have this information, like they were
- 1:15Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to come forward and clue them in
- 1:18Speaker 1: on what happened. We all know what happened. And the
- 1:23Speaker 1: FBI dropped the ball like it has many, many times
- 1:27Speaker 1: before when it comes to severe, serious sexual assault investigations.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Just take a look at how they're on the hook
- 1:34Speaker 1: right now when it comes to Larry Nassar. This is
- 1:39Speaker 1: something that has been pervasive within the FBI. They might
- 1:44Speaker 1: not want to address it, but it's very clear for
- 1:47Speaker 1: everybody else who's paying attention that the FBI really... has
- 1:52Speaker 1: dropped the ball time and time again here. And if
- 1:55Speaker 1: they don't go after this the way they should, and
- 1:57Speaker 1: they don't go after all these other people, well, it's
- 2:00Speaker 1: just another fumble, isn't it? All right, today our article
- 2:05Speaker 1: is from The Independent, and the author of this article
- 2:10Speaker 1: is Bevan Hurley. Headline, Virginia Roberts lawyer on prosecuting powerful abusers.
- 2:17Speaker 1: There are many people involved in this beyond Maxwell and Epstein.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts' attorney tells Bevin Hurley, the rich and powerful
- 2:26Speaker 1: implicated in the Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking ring deserve to be
- 2:31Speaker 1: brought to justice. 100%. And if there isn't a grand
- 2:36Speaker 1: jury panel impaneled right now, then I don't know what
- 2:41Speaker 1: they're doing. Because there's as much circumstantial evidence out there
- 2:46Speaker 1: to arrest people like Indyke and Kahn and Sarah Kellen Vickers.
- 2:52Speaker 1: as there was to bring in Maxwell. So what are
- 2:55Speaker 1: they waiting for? And why have they waited this long?
- 3:02Speaker 1: When powerhouse attorney David Boies received the news that Ghislaine
- 3:05Speaker 1: Maxwell had been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison
- 3:09Speaker 1: for child sex trafficking last week, he allowed himself a
- 3:12Speaker 1: wry smile. It was very satisfying. Mr. Boies told The
- 3:16Speaker 1: Independent in his first interview since the sentencing, this was
- 3:20Speaker 1: an important step. There's no doubt this was an important step.
- 3:24Speaker 1: A huge, a huge step. It sends a message too, right?
- 3:28Speaker 1: But it only matters if the follow through continues. What
- 3:34Speaker 1: do you think? Whoever's out there engaging in human trafficking
- 3:37Speaker 1: right now is going to see the sentence that Ghislaine
- 3:40Speaker 1: Maxwell got or that R. Kelly got? And say to
- 3:44Speaker 1: themselves oh well this isn't worth it. We're just going
- 3:46Speaker 1: to stop. Because that's not going to happen. No matter
- 3:50Speaker 1: how harsh the sentence is. This needs to be a
- 3:53Speaker 1: message to the people who were involved. And the only
- 3:57Speaker 1: way that this message can truly be sent. Like they
- 4:00Speaker 1: say they want to send it. Is if they bring
- 4:03Speaker 1: in the rest of these people. But he also felt
- 4:07Speaker 1: the lingering sense of unfinished business. About the many wealthy
- 4:11Speaker 1: and powerful figures. who have not had to answer for
- 4:14Speaker 1: their roles in Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell's decades-long pyramid scheme
- 4:19Speaker 1: of abuse. I get it. I understand. Now, obviously, I'm
- 4:24Speaker 1: nowhere near as close to all of this as David
- 4:27Speaker 1: Boies is. Dude's been in the trenches fighting against Epstein
- 4:32Speaker 1: and Maxwell for years now. But I understand what he
- 4:35Speaker 1: means with the unfinished business part, because I feel the
- 4:38Speaker 1: same way here on this podcast. There's a lot of
- 4:41Speaker 1: unfinished business. And all of these people like Indyk and
- 4:46Speaker 1: Khan and Vickers especially, they definitely need to be brought in.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Because if not, then what has really been accomplished besides,
- 4:57Speaker 1: you know, bringing Maxwell to justice, which is great, don't
- 5:01Speaker 1: get me wrong, as I've said a million times, definitely
- 5:04Speaker 1: a huge part of fixing the problem. But it takes
- 5:08Speaker 1: a little bit of the shine and the lacquer off
- 5:10Speaker 1: of it if you don't follow through with the next step. Mr.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Boyce has for decades been one of America's best-known litigants, famously,
- 5:20Speaker 1: but unsuccessfully, representing the Democratic Party candidate Al Gore in
- 5:25Speaker 1: a case against George W. Bush to settle the contested
- 5:29Speaker 1: 2000 presidential election. The 81-year-old represented Annie Farmer and Virginia
- 5:35Speaker 1: Roberts in civil lawsuits against Epstein and Maxwell. I remember
- 5:41Speaker 1: when all of that was going on in 2000 and
- 5:44Speaker 1: you had the whole battle royale about the hanging chad
- 5:48Speaker 1: and the armies of lawyers and the lawsuits and all
- 5:51Speaker 1: of the days it took to get the election locked in.
- 5:54Speaker 1: And still, there's a lot of people who don't even
- 5:57Speaker 1: believe that those election results were what they are. In 2015,
- 6:03Speaker 1: he handed over their entire civil file to the Justice
- 6:06Speaker 1: Department in the hopes they would investigate and prosecute Epstein, Maxwell,
- 6:11Speaker 1: and some of the dozens of other rich and powerful
- 6:13Speaker 1: associates named and identified by Ms. Roberts. And this should
- 6:20Speaker 1: have happened back then. All of those people who were
- 6:23Speaker 1: directly implicated by Virginia Roberts especially considering she went on
- 6:29Speaker 1: record and stated those names, those people should all be
- 6:33Speaker 1: looked at under the world's largest microscope. Every one of
- 6:38Speaker 1: them should be brought in, put under oath, and they
- 6:40Speaker 1: should all have to testify about their relationship with Epstein.
- 6:44Speaker 1: And that includes guys like Bill Richardson. Because... Everything we've
- 6:50Speaker 1: heard from Virginia leading up to this point has been
- 6:54Speaker 1: at least some of the foundational basis for these convictions.
- 6:58Speaker 1: And we've seen what's happened to people when there's been
- 7:01Speaker 1: defamation lawsuits as well. Those people end up getting charged afterwards.
- 7:08Speaker 1: She has shown that she's to be believed, at least
- 7:12Speaker 1: in my opinion. So... when she's pointing her finger at
- 7:16Speaker 1: these other people, why should I believe that they weren't involved?
- 7:20Speaker 1: Especially considering that you can put the receipts together and
- 7:23Speaker 1: the paperwork to put them in Epstein's presence a whole
- 7:28Speaker 1: bunch of times. So all of those people, every last
- 7:33Speaker 1: one of them, should be brought in. And if this
- 7:37Speaker 1: was a RICO case like it should have been, they
- 7:40Speaker 1: all would have been brought in. But so far, only
- 7:44Speaker 1: three people have been held criminally liable. They are Epstein,
- 7:49Speaker 1: who died by suicide in prison in 2019, allegedly, aged 66,
- 7:54Speaker 1: while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. His close friend, Jean-Luc Brunel, 76,
- 8:00Speaker 1: who in February hanged himself in a Paris jail where
- 8:03Speaker 1: he had been held for a year on suspicion of
- 8:05Speaker 1: rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.
- 8:09Speaker 1: and Maxwell convicted in New York on five sex trafficking
- 8:13Speaker 1: counts in late December and jailed for 20 years at
- 8:17Speaker 1: her sentencing on June 28th. But, you know, it's just
- 8:20Speaker 1: a coincidence that Brunel and Epstein both suffered the same fate, huh? Now,
- 8:25Speaker 1: with Brunel, doesn't seem as odd, the matter of his death. Again,
- 8:32Speaker 1: I'm not a an expert on French lockups or French prisons,
- 8:37Speaker 1: so I'm certainly not somebody who would sit here and
- 8:39Speaker 1: tell you with any confidence, one way or the other, oh,
- 8:43Speaker 1: I'm certain that XXX or X occurred in that French jail.
- 8:48Speaker 1: I have no idea. Looks to me like Brunel probably
- 8:52Speaker 1: killed himself. Now, is that 100% certain? Man, is anything
- 8:56Speaker 1: 100% certain in this case, besides the fact that these
- 9:00Speaker 1: people are scumbags? But with Epstein, boy oh boy, there
- 9:04Speaker 1: sure is a lot there. The cameras, D'Artagnan, I won't
- 9:08Speaker 1: beat a dead horse, but you get my drift. There
- 9:13Speaker 1: are many people who were involved in this beyond Maxwell
- 9:16Speaker 1: and Epstein and Brunel, Mr. Boyce told The Independent. Sex
- 9:19Speaker 1: trafficking could not have gone on remotely at the scale
- 9:23Speaker 1: at which it went on or for the duration that
- 9:25Speaker 1: it went on without the collaboration and cooperation of a
- 9:29Speaker 1: lot of additional people. These people too should be brought
- 9:33Speaker 1: to justice. But as time goes on and the prosecutors
- 9:36Speaker 1: don't do anything, I think the chances that actually happens diminishes. Look,
- 9:41Speaker 1: he's not wrong. He's not wrong. He's just giving you
- 9:44Speaker 1: the truth. We all want to hope and pray that
- 9:47Speaker 1: the prosecutors are going to move forward and that the
- 9:50Speaker 1: co-conspirators are going to be brought to justice. But we
- 9:55Speaker 1: also know that the reality that we live in, there's
- 9:58Speaker 1: little of that to be had. Many of the famous
- 10:04Speaker 1: names who flew on Epstein's so-called Lolita Express private jet
- 10:08Speaker 1: have come out during civil litigation and at Maxwell's trial.
- 10:12Speaker 1: They include Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew, the
- 10:16Speaker 1: two former U.S. President's have adamantly denied any knowledge of
- 10:20Speaker 1: Epstein's crimes while Prince Andrew settled a civil sexual assault
- 10:24Speaker 1: case with Ms. Roberts for a reported $ 17 million in February.
- 10:28Speaker 1: They say $ 14 million here. That's not the right number.
- 10:32Speaker 1: But there are many names who have remained out of
- 10:34Speaker 1: the public eye. Their identities hidden in sealed files at
- 10:39Speaker 1: the Justice Department. A lot of the materials from our
- 10:43Speaker 1: 2015-16 civil actions, which the government got, are still sealed
- 10:47Speaker 1: to the public, Mr. Boyce said. These kinds of records
- 10:50Speaker 1: should not be sealed. He is 100% correct about that,
- 10:54Speaker 1: especially in this case. If there is any elected official
- 10:58Speaker 1: or anyone who's taking or has taken public money involved
- 11:02Speaker 1: in any list such as this, they should be outed
- 11:05Speaker 1: right away. They generally fall into two categories, Mr. Boyce says.
- 11:10Speaker 1: They are Epstein and Maxwell lieutenants who were involved in recruiting, grooming,
- 11:15Speaker 1: and supervising the survivors that were trafficked. And then there
- 11:19Speaker 1: are the other people who the survivors were trafficked to,
- 11:23Speaker 1: which include a lot of rich and powerful people around
- 11:25Speaker 1: the world, Mr. Boyes added. They're all heavily protected by
- 11:29Speaker 1: cadres of lawyers and PR consultants and political consultants. And
- 11:34Speaker 1: you've got to have a prosecutor who is really committed
- 11:37Speaker 1: to the cause of sex trafficking That is prepared to
- 11:39Speaker 1: take that group on. Well, if there's any prosecutor out
- 11:43Speaker 1: there who has that courage. You better believe that there
- 11:47Speaker 1: are plenty of us who are ready to take the
- 11:50Speaker 1: fight to these people. And if you have any kind
- 11:54Speaker 1: of interest in later on political office, this is a
- 11:58Speaker 1: surefire way to get yourself elected. You go after people
- 12:01Speaker 1: like Epstein's associates. You are definitely going to get the
- 12:06Speaker 1: attention of people who are paying attention. And those votes, boy,
- 12:12Speaker 1: they'll sure pour in. Imagine that campaign. I'm the man
- 12:15Speaker 1: or woman who put away Jeffrey Epstein. Or Epstein's associates,
- 12:20Speaker 1: I mean. I continued the case when no one else
- 12:22Speaker 1: wanted to do it. My career could have been ended.
- 12:25Speaker 1: You know, yada, yada, yada, yada. But there's no one
- 12:28Speaker 1: out there that wants to do it.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Why?
- 12:30Speaker 1: What are all of these prosecutors so scared of? Again,
- 12:34Speaker 1: it comes back to the SDNY, right? Like I always say.
- 12:38Speaker 1: The folks over at the SDNY... They run around and
- 12:40Speaker 1: they talk about how they're the greatest at this. They're
- 12:43Speaker 1: the greatest at that. They bring in all these convictions. Well,
- 12:46Speaker 1: where are they at? They bring in convictions if it's,
- 12:50Speaker 1: you know, people like maybe Kalief Browder or your cousin.
- 12:54Speaker 1: But when it comes to these rich and powerful people
- 12:57Speaker 1: like Glenn Dubin, like Les Wexner, like Alan Dershowitz, these
- 13:01Speaker 1: people don't get brought to justice. That's only for peons, right?
- 13:05Speaker 1: The children of never like us. Mr. Boyd said many
- 13:10Speaker 1: of the survivors were easy to ignore, as Epstein and
- 13:13Speaker 1: Maxwell deliberately sought out vulnerable girls, often from single-parent households
- 13:18Speaker 1: and difficult financial circumstances. Some had already suffered sexual abuse.
- 13:24Speaker 1: More names are coming out all the time. The question
- 13:27Speaker 1: is whether that results in people being brought to justice.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I'm a little pessimistic at this point. Yeah, he's not
- 13:35Speaker 1: the only one. And he has all rights to be
- 13:37Speaker 1: because it is a cause for pessimism. You would think
- 13:42Speaker 1: that when they had the chance here with Maxwell, they
- 13:45Speaker 1: would have really extended the scope of what they were
- 13:48Speaker 1: going for. But they didn't do it. And at the time,
- 13:52Speaker 1: I've said a million times, it's very concerning to see
- 13:56Speaker 1: the small scope of what their charges are. And then
- 14:00Speaker 1: come time for sentencing and the trial, people are all
- 14:03Speaker 1: shocked that a bunch of names weren't named. Well, if
- 14:06Speaker 1: you were paying attention, you knew that this this case
- 14:09Speaker 1: was crafted in that manner. But now that Maxwell has
- 14:14Speaker 1: been hemmed up and they've had a successful prosecution here,
- 14:18Speaker 1: you would think that they'd smell some blood in the
- 14:20Speaker 1: water and they'd go harder in the paint. But that
- 14:23Speaker 1: is not the case. During Tuesday's sentencing, Judge Allison Nathan
- 14:28Speaker 1: named former Epstein associate Sarah Kellen as a knowing participant
- 14:33Speaker 1: in the criminal conspiracy. The judge says this. And you
- 14:37Speaker 1: mean to tell me there's no prosecutors sitting around right
- 14:40Speaker 1: now stuffing their face full of expensive lunch food from
- 14:44Speaker 1: Manhattan in the SDNY that wants to go after these
- 14:47Speaker 1: people or after Sarah Kellen Vickers? Why is that? Ms.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Kellan was identified by survivors at Maxwell's trial as having
- 14:58Speaker 1: booked them for massages with Epstein at his Palm Beach mansion.
- 15:02Speaker 1: The defendant, Maxwell, was Epstein's number two and lady of
- 15:06Speaker 1: the house, Judge Nathan said during the sentencing. At some point,
- 15:10Speaker 1: Kellan took over some of the defendant's duties, but even
- 15:13Speaker 1: after that time, the defendant retained her leadership position as
- 15:17Speaker 1: evidenced by Carolyn's testimonies. Yeah, that's how it broke down.
- 15:23Speaker 1: She was the number two. I always break it down
- 15:26Speaker 1: in terms like the mafia. You have Epstein. He's the boss.
- 15:30Speaker 1: You have Maxwell, the underboss. And Jean-Luc Brunel? Well, that
- 15:33Speaker 1: was the consigliere. And underneath all of them are the capos.
- 15:37Speaker 1: And Sarah Kellen Vickers is as much of a capo
- 15:41Speaker 1: as Mike Francisis was. Carolyn was one of the four
- 15:47Speaker 1: survivors who testified at Maxwell's trial and was only identified
- 15:51Speaker 1: by her first name.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Ms.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Roberts has claimed she was trafficked to have sex with
- 15:56Speaker 1: Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz. The allegation has not
- 16:01Speaker 1: been proven, and Professor Dershowitz adamantly denies it or any
- 16:05Speaker 1: knowledge of other offending. And he's not the only one, right?
- 16:10Speaker 1: Dershowitz certainly isn't the only one. But he's certainly one
- 16:14Speaker 1: that had the finger pointed at him. But has that
- 16:16Speaker 1: affected him? No, of course not. We saw Mr. I
- 16:19Speaker 1: kept my underpants on. Has he lost any status or prestige?
- 16:23Speaker 1: Has anyone kicked in his door? Stole his cell phone
- 16:26Speaker 1: so they can go through records? None of that happened. Instead,
- 16:30Speaker 1: the naked volleyball player of Martha's Vineyard finds himself in
- 16:34Speaker 1: the spotlight once again defending Donald Trump this time. So...
- 16:40Speaker 1: Another person who has been credibly accused here has not
- 16:43Speaker 1: had to answer any kind of serious questions from people
- 16:48Speaker 1: in authority when it comes to what they're being accused of.
- 16:55Speaker 1: In 2019, Ms. Roberts sued Professor Dershowitz for defamation and
- 16:59Speaker 1: emotional distress, and he's since countersued her. The case is ongoing.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Professor Dershowitz told The Independent in an interview he had
- 17:07Speaker 1: visited Epstein's home in Palm Beach and his private island,
- 17:11Speaker 1: Little St. James, and never seen any young or naked women.
- 17:15Speaker 1: It was a deep, dark secret. Everything he did in
- 17:18Speaker 1: part in a part of the house, which was off
- 17:20Speaker 1: limits to anybody, he said. Nobody knew any of this.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Nobody would have associated with Epstein if we had known
- 17:26Speaker 1: any of this. Bro, shut up. You're over there getting
- 17:29Speaker 1: massages by who the hell knows who at his house. Mr.
- 17:33Speaker 1: I-kept-my-underpants-on Dershowitz. And we all know what massage was synonymous
- 17:39Speaker 1: for over in the world of Epstein. So Dershowitz is
- 17:42Speaker 1: another one. And I'm glad he's going to get outed
- 17:45Speaker 1: here in this defamation case. Dershowitz said he saw pictures
- 17:50Speaker 1: on the walls of the Palm Beach mansion of the
- 17:52Speaker 1: billionaire with famous people, including Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro. Ah,
- 17:58Speaker 1: a man accused of sexual crimes and a dictator. Fantastic company.
- 18:04Speaker 1: He had me on the wall. I was one of
- 18:05Speaker 1: the famous people, and believe me, I was fully dressed.
- 18:09Speaker 1: You know, he makes a joke of it, like anyone
- 18:11Speaker 1: thinks he's funny. Like his old ass is a comedian
- 18:15Speaker 1: or something. Bro, the only thing funny is that you
- 18:17Speaker 1: think people actually believe you. That's what's funny. He said
- 18:22Speaker 1: he believed Maxwell's sentence and conviction was unjust. Of course
- 18:25Speaker 1: he did. Birds of a feather and all, right? Mr.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Boyce claimed it was stretching credulity for anyone in Epstein's
- 18:33Speaker 1: orbit to maintain they couldn't have known what was going on.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Everybody who was associated with the survivors has heard reams
- 18:41Speaker 1: of testimony about how obvious it was what Epstein was doing.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Survivor after survivor and law enforcement officers have testified how
- 18:51Speaker 1: there were all these topless girls at the swimming pool
- 18:53Speaker 1: and naked pictures of girls around the house. It was
- 18:56Speaker 1: not something that people could miss. No, it wasn't. He
- 18:59Speaker 1: had chess pieces carved into the likeness of his employees
- 19:04Speaker 1: naked and shit. He had pictures of gross-ass, stank-ass Ghislaine
- 19:08Speaker 1: Maxwell's busted ass all over the walls naked and shit.
- 19:12Speaker 1: What do you mean you missed it? Mr. Boy's chairman
- 19:16Speaker 1: and managing partner at Boy's Schiller Flexner typically charges up
- 19:20Speaker 1: to $ 2, 000 an hour for his services. But he and
- 19:24Speaker 1: fellow managing partner Sigrid McCauley represented Ms. Roberts free of
- 19:28Speaker 1: charge throughout their pursuit of Maxwell and Epstein. And that's great.
- 19:32Speaker 1: That's good that they did that. But in reality, we
- 19:35Speaker 1: know that they also did it to help their own profile.
- 19:39Speaker 1: They know that moving forward, this is good for them.
- 19:41Speaker 1: They win this case against these people. Bang, they're going
- 19:44Speaker 1: to make a ton of dough. And the same goes
- 19:46Speaker 1: for a prosecutor. And that's why it's so crazy to me.
- 19:49Speaker 1: that not one of these prosecutors, even a junior prosecutor,
- 19:53Speaker 1: hasn't stepped up to the plate and said, look, give
- 19:55Speaker 1: me that whole entire caseload and let me slam these fools.
- 20:02Speaker 1: In court on Tuesday, Ms. McCauley read a survivor impact
- 20:05Speaker 1: statement from Ms. Roberts, which she described Maxwell as a
- 20:08Speaker 1: wolf in sheep's clothing. You could have put an end
- 20:11Speaker 1: to the rapes, the molestations, the sickening manipulations that you arranged, witnessed,
- 20:16Speaker 1: and even took part in. You could have called the
- 20:19Speaker 1: authorities and reported that you were part of something awful.
- 20:23Speaker 1: And she didn't, right? And if you don't do that,
- 20:25Speaker 1: then what? You're complicit. Oh, I was scared. I was
- 20:29Speaker 1: held against my will. Okay, well, what happens when Epstein
- 20:32Speaker 1: is gone from your life and you still have not
- 20:34Speaker 1: come forward? Speculation that Maxwell could flip on her former
- 20:39Speaker 1: associates in order to receive a reduced sentence has never eventuated.
- 20:45Speaker 1: Her brother, Ian Maxwell, told the Sunday Times in January
- 20:48Speaker 1: that she had no plans to pursue a plea deal
- 20:50Speaker 1: or offer up information about who else was involved. Maxwell
- 20:55Speaker 1: has maintained her innocence and plans to appeal the verdict
- 20:58Speaker 1: and the sentence. The Independent contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office
- 21:02Speaker 1: for the Southern District of New York to ask if
- 21:05Speaker 1: it plans to prosecute anyone else in relation to the conspiracy,
- 21:09Speaker 1: and if not, whether it would unseal any records related
- 21:13Speaker 1: to the case. Public Affairs Chief Nicholas Biasi declined to comment. Oh,
- 21:18Speaker 1: of course, that's what they'll say. Oh, it's an ongoing investigation.
- 21:22Speaker 1: You can't have any of these files. You know, you,
- 21:24Speaker 1: the taxpayer. So if this is not an ongoing investigation still,
- 21:29Speaker 1: and they're not going after the co-conspirators, they need to
- 21:31Speaker 1: turn over and unseal every file that they have. And
- 21:36Speaker 1: then let's see what's what. My guess is, unfortunately, folks,
- 21:40Speaker 1: they won't do either. All right, that's going to do it.
- 21:44Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
- 21:46Speaker 1: at bobbycapucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can
- 21:56Speaker 1: also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The
- 22:02Speaker 1: link that we discussed can be found in the description box.
- 22:06Speaker 1: I talked about a story that had to do with
- 22:08Speaker 1: the New York Times, David Boies, and a supposed source
- 22:13Speaker 1: that ended up being garbage. If you remember, the source's
- 22:16Speaker 1: last name was Kessler. And it was supposedly, you know,
- 22:20Speaker 1: they had a source that had all the dirt on Epstein, etc., etc., etc.
- 22:25Speaker 1: And it was the New York Times who this man approached. Well,
- 22:29Speaker 1: we have a follow-up story to that in NPR today,
- 22:32Speaker 1: so that's what we're going to go ahead and dive into.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Like you all know, I always like to revisit stories
- 22:38Speaker 1: if we have follow-ups. I always like to add a
- 22:41Speaker 1: little bit more meat to that bone so that the
- 22:43Speaker 1: context is proper, so that we have as much of
- 22:45Speaker 1: the story as we possibly can here in the catalog.
- 22:49Speaker 1: So today, that's what we're going to do. A little
- 22:51Speaker 1: more meat on the bone. This article is from NPR,
- 22:56Speaker 1: and the headline is, The New York Times, the unreliable source,
- 23:00Speaker 1: and the expose that missed the mark. This article was
- 23:03Speaker 1: written by David Folkenflick. The intriguing tale began in mid-September
- 23:09Speaker 1: with an invitation for two New York Times reporters to
- 23:13Speaker 1: come to the Midtown Manhattan offices of the legendary lawyer
- 23:16Speaker 1: David Boies for an off-the-record session. And as you all know,
- 23:21Speaker 1: David Boies is the lawyer locked in his own legal
- 23:24Speaker 1: battle with Alan Dershowitz, and his firm is also representing
- 23:31Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts. The two reporters, Jake Bernstein and Emily Steele,
- 23:37Speaker 1: were asked to leave their phones and laptops outside the
- 23:40Speaker 1: conference room. No taping. The guest of honor, a hard-drinking
- 23:44Speaker 1: burly man who promised that he could link powerful politicians
- 23:48Speaker 1: and globetrotting luminaries to the late Jeffrey Epstein, the financier
- 23:52Speaker 1: and sexual predator. And pedophile. Boys and another lawyer for
- 23:57Speaker 1: Epstein accusers introduce the reporters to the apparent informant. So
- 24:04Speaker 1: this guy Kessler supposedly had the dirt on Jeffrey Epstein
- 24:09Speaker 1: and had video proof, and he brought it to David
- 24:12Speaker 1: Boies and Boies' law firm, and they, in turn, contacted
- 24:18Speaker 1: the New York Times to come in and have a
- 24:20Speaker 1: sit-down about the information. The man went by a pseudonym,
- 24:25Speaker 1: Patrick Kessler, saying he feared retribution. He boasted about damning
- 24:29Speaker 1: videos of prominent men at Epstein's properties. And Kessler showed
- 24:34Speaker 1: the reporters, as he had the lawyers, blurry stills of
- 24:37Speaker 1: what he said were men having sex with women and girls.
- 24:41Speaker 1: And see, folks, sometimes this is where our confirmation bias
- 24:45Speaker 1: comes back to bite us in the ass. Of course
- 24:47Speaker 1: the lawyers want to believe that this source has the dirt.
- 24:50Speaker 1: Of course the lawyers want to believe that this guy
- 24:52Speaker 1: has the info. And he has some blurry photos, etc., etc., etc.
- 24:56Speaker 1: But is that enough when you're looking at it from,
- 25:00Speaker 1: you know, maybe the outside looking in? Is that enough
- 25:03Speaker 1: to call reporters in, especially from the New York Times,
- 25:06Speaker 1: and trying to get an expose? Well, if it's not
- 25:09Speaker 1: something that you're really gung-ho about and something you're not
- 25:13Speaker 1: charging hard after, you don't really have to worry about
- 25:15Speaker 1: your confirmation bias. But when it's something like this that
- 25:19Speaker 1: falls in line with what you believe already, well, it's
- 25:22Speaker 1: easier to be duped. And that's just the human psyche
- 25:25Speaker 1: in general. He claimed the men were in the top
- 25:31Speaker 1: echelons of politics, finance, and law. He promised proof. But
- 25:35Speaker 1: the informant appears to have been a fraud, and he
- 25:37Speaker 1: has since vanished. Even so, he inspired an investigation by
- 25:41Speaker 1: the Times, not of Epstein, but of one of the
- 25:44Speaker 1: country's most famous lawyers. In a 5,400-word expose published on
- 25:49Speaker 1: November 30th and an hour-long television show, the Times placed
- 25:53Speaker 1: boys at the center of a narrative that insinuates deceit
- 25:56Speaker 1: and greed inside a morally corrupt legal system. Look, I
- 26:02Speaker 1: agree that the legal system is morally corrupt and it's
- 26:07Speaker 1: full of greed. But the thought that they would go
- 26:11Speaker 1: after boys... with a 5,400-word expose, and they haven't done
- 26:16Speaker 1: a 5,400-word expose on Sarah Kellen Vickers, tells you everything
- 26:20Speaker 1: you need to know about the New York Times. I've
- 26:22Speaker 1: heard it from survivors in this case directly, that the
- 26:25Speaker 1: New York Times is not a good actor in this story,
- 26:28Speaker 1: that the New York Times has done a lot of
- 26:32Speaker 1: harm to these survivors and their stories. The story, the
- 26:38Speaker 1: result of months of reporting by a team of four
- 26:40Speaker 1: Times journalists, promised to reveal how even the lawyers representing
- 26:45Speaker 1: alleged victims of sexual predators seek paydays in ways that
- 26:48Speaker 1: enable powerful men to avoid accountability. Boyes says the Times
- 26:53Speaker 1: account is terribly unfair. I didn't do anything deceitful here,
- 26:57Speaker 1: and there's no basis for that allegation, Boyes tells NPR
- 27:00Speaker 1: in December. For them to put that in the article,
- 27:02Speaker 1: that is about me, without making clear that they're not
- 27:05Speaker 1: making that allegation about me, it is, I think, quite misleading.
- 27:10Speaker 1: And I agree with that. It is misleading. The New
- 27:11Speaker 1: York Times loves to do this. And this is why
- 27:14Speaker 1: I have no respect for the Grey Lady at this point.
- 27:17Speaker 1: They're a joke of an organization. They are an absolute
- 27:21Speaker 1: joke of a news organization. And I have zero respect
- 27:25Speaker 1: for the Grey Lady, which is sad. Because when I
- 27:27Speaker 1: was growing up and when I was younger, it was
- 27:29Speaker 1: the standard bearer for what is real. And that all
- 27:33Speaker 1: came crashing down around us when they took up the
- 27:36Speaker 1: call for the disgusting fake war in Iraq, an illegal
- 27:39Speaker 1: war in Iraq that should have never occurred. That was
- 27:42Speaker 1: the beginning of the end, in my eyes, of the
- 27:45Speaker 1: New York Times and their credibility. To this day, it
- 27:50Speaker 1: remains unclear what the newspapers reporting uncovered. boy's own actions
- 27:55Speaker 1: on other matters had already tarnished his reputation but the
- 27:59Speaker 1: times journalists acknowledged they didn't have evidence that proved boy's
- 28:02Speaker 1: either acted wrongfully or intended to profit from the epstein
- 28:06Speaker 1: cases and their chief informant for the story had lied
- 28:09Speaker 1: repeatedly the times itself concluded Again, I'm going to believe
- 28:14Speaker 1: the survivors who have told me that David Boies is
- 28:17Speaker 1: acting in good faith, that David Boies is doing right
- 28:20Speaker 1: by them. I'm going to take them at their word,
- 28:22Speaker 1: just like I'm taking them at their word for everything
- 28:25Speaker 1: else that's occurred in this case. Do you know why?
- 28:27Speaker 1: Because they're credible. They're credible. Whereas the New York Times
- 28:31Speaker 1: is not credible. All they do is run garbage stories
- 28:36Speaker 1: these days. And what they've also have done... They've inflicted
- 28:40Speaker 1: a lot of harm by their fake reporting. I'll just
- 28:44Speaker 1: call it what it is, folks. With their fake reporting
- 28:46Speaker 1: on a lot of issues. You know, the idea for
- 28:49Speaker 1: the media is to inform, not to divide. And all
- 28:52Speaker 1: they want to do is divide people into groups these days.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Allegedly.
- 29:07Speaker 1: In August, the man calling himself Patrick Kessler approached the
- 29:10Speaker 1: Winchester star in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley with the same story
- 29:14Speaker 1: about Epstein's powerful friends. As captured on an audio recording,
- 29:18Speaker 1: one of the Winchester reporters asked Kessler why he didn't
- 29:21Speaker 1: seek out a national news outlet. Kessler said he trusted
- 29:25Speaker 1: the star because he had grown up nearby. Yeah, okay.
- 29:28Speaker 1: He chose the star because he thought he could get
- 29:30Speaker 1: one over on them, right? He thought, oh, this is
- 29:32Speaker 1: a smaller operation, I'll be able to slide a little
- 29:35Speaker 1: something in on them, and maybe I'll be able to
- 29:37Speaker 1: catch a little bit of a payday for this bunk information.
- 29:40Speaker 1: i have reporters there soon questioned his veracity his veracity
- 29:45Speaker 1: the star spoke to a lawyer whom kessler claimed to
- 29:48Speaker 1: have consulted he said he hadn't heard of kessler When
- 29:51Speaker 1: he did not show up a week later, I thought, well,
- 29:54Speaker 1: this guy's a crackpot or, you know, a fabulist. Somebody
- 29:57Speaker 1: who just likes to spin stories and just wasted our time,
- 30:03Speaker 1: says Winchester star reporter Evan Goodenow. And so I kind
- 30:07Speaker 1: of dismissed it. Just a week after that, the two
- 30:10Speaker 1: Times reporters met Kessler at Boy's office. Look, so the
- 30:14Speaker 1: Times was hooscowed by this, right? But the Winchester Star
- 30:18Speaker 1: picked up on it right away. Picked up on it
- 30:20Speaker 1: right away that it was garbage. The Times, on the
- 30:23Speaker 1: other hand, well, they're always looking for salacious information at
- 30:26Speaker 1: this point. They don't even need to fact check anything. Oh,
- 30:29Speaker 1: we have a source and unnamed sources say that That's
- 30:33Speaker 1: all they use now. They don't, you know what, like
- 30:35Speaker 1: I said, their credibility, at least with me, is absolutely
- 30:38Speaker 1: and positively shot. I'd much rather get my information from
- 30:42Speaker 1: independent content creators who are actually on the ground in
- 30:46Speaker 1: these places and who are reporting from the ground level.
- 30:49Speaker 1: That's where I prefer to get my news at this
- 30:50Speaker 1: point because I don't trust the media. I truly do
- 30:54Speaker 1: not trust the legacy media to have our best interests
- 30:57Speaker 1: at heart, folks. Not even an hour after the meeting,
- 31:02Speaker 1: Kessler sent a text message to Times reporter Emily Steele
- 31:05Speaker 1: saying that he wanted to meet again. That afternoon, at
- 31:08Speaker 1: the back of a Chinese restaurant, Kessler steered the two
- 31:11Speaker 1: Times reporters, Steele and Bernstein, toward what he argued was
- 31:15Speaker 1: a different scandal, the behavior of the two lawyers they
- 31:18Speaker 1: had just met. Kessler alleged the attorneys wanted to turn
- 31:22Speaker 1: his material to their own advantage, rather than that of
- 31:25Speaker 1: their clients, the women who said they had been victimized
- 31:30Speaker 1: by Epstein and his social circle. Like I talked about
- 31:36Speaker 1: when we first covered this case, We don't know who
- 31:39Speaker 1: this Kessler guy is, we don't know who he was
- 31:42Speaker 1: hired by, but I said it then and I'll say
- 31:44Speaker 1: it now, an absolute disinformation attempt. This man was looking
- 31:48Speaker 1: to muddy the waters, and I have no evidence of this, obviously, folks,
- 31:52Speaker 1: but in my opinion, was probably hired by Epstein's crew
- 31:55Speaker 1: to muddy the waters and to try and destroy the
- 31:58Speaker 1: credibility of David Boies, so going forward... He wasn't credible
- 32:02Speaker 1: when he came forward with evidence. It's just another cloak
- 32:06Speaker 1: and dagger attempt by Team Epstein to make things move
- 32:10Speaker 1: in a direction they want them to move. And that's
- 32:12Speaker 1: the way I read this. That's my opinion of this
- 32:14Speaker 1: whole Kessler situation. That was my opinion when we first
- 32:17Speaker 1: covered this, and that is still my opinion now. This
- 32:24Speaker 1: news direction appealed to the Times. Investigative reporter and one
- 32:28Speaker 1: of the four journalists on the story, Jessica Silver Greenberg,
- 32:31Speaker 1: tells NPR that she had been seeking a window into
- 32:34Speaker 1: the universe of people, powerful men, that had potentially enabled
- 32:38Speaker 1: Epstein and allowed him to continue to allegedly abused women
- 32:41Speaker 1: for decades. What a bunch of bullshit. If they really cared,
- 32:45Speaker 1: they'd be going after the core four like I'm doing.
- 32:47Speaker 1: If I had the resources that the New York Times has,
- 32:50Speaker 1: forget about it, folks. This would already be a wrap.
- 32:53Speaker 1: These people would be living the Weinstein life if I
- 32:55Speaker 1: had the resources that the New York Times had. I
- 32:57Speaker 1: would not stop until these people were arrested. I would
- 33:01Speaker 1: write story after story, make appearance after appearance, until the
- 33:05Speaker 1: pressure was ramped up so high that it could not
- 33:08Speaker 1: be ignored. But yet they sit here and they talk about, oh, well,
- 33:12Speaker 1: we were going to, this direction, it appealed to us because,
- 33:15Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to get in there and destroy
- 33:17Speaker 1: people of power who were with Jeffrey Epstein and expose them. No, no,
- 33:22Speaker 1: you weren't. You were just simply, like every other story,
- 33:26Speaker 1: trying to sell papers from the New York Times. It
- 33:28Speaker 1: had nothing to do with going after Epstein. Lawyers had
- 33:34Speaker 1: helped to shield Epstein, Silver Greenberg says, creating a financial
- 33:37Speaker 1: model in which they could secure big payouts for accusers
- 33:40Speaker 1: and fees for themselves from the prominent men their clients accused,
- 33:44Speaker 1: but let those men keep their actions secret. It reminded
- 33:48Speaker 1: her of nondisclosure agreements and settlements of harassment claims against
- 33:52Speaker 1: Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Women were paid but had to
- 33:56Speaker 1: keep silent, keeping the pattern of his behavior from public view. Well,
- 34:00Speaker 1: everybody who listens to this podcast knows how I feel
- 34:02Speaker 1: about NDAs when it comes to shit like this. There
- 34:04Speaker 1: should be no NDAs when it comes to shit like this.
- 34:07Speaker 1: If you get sued because you sexually assaulted somebody, that
- 34:10Speaker 1: shouldn't become something that's quiet. Everybody should have a right
- 34:13Speaker 1: to know that. Anybody that you're going to work with,
- 34:15Speaker 1: anybody who's sending their children to you to intern, any
- 34:18Speaker 1: of that stuff, people should know that. So, you know,
- 34:21Speaker 1: I don't... I don't like the fact that people have
- 34:26Speaker 1: to keep silent after situations like this. And I think
- 34:29Speaker 1: in the Epstein case, when it comes to the fund
- 34:33Speaker 1: to pay victims out, the payment fund to pay them,
- 34:37Speaker 1: I definitely believe that there should be no NDAs tied
- 34:40Speaker 1: to that whatsoever. It's a bunch of bullshit. Lawyers struck
- 34:46Speaker 1: similar deals for accusations against the late Roger Ailes and
- 34:50Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly, now both gone from Fox News. Ailes, Weinstein,
- 34:55Speaker 1: and O'Reilly all denied those allegations. The Times reported extensively
- 34:59Speaker 1: on them all, helping to usher in the Me Too movement. Look, folks.
- 35:05Speaker 1: The New York Times is not an ally to the survivors, okay? Again,
- 35:12Speaker 1: I've heard it directly from some of the survivors' mouths.
- 35:15Speaker 1: The New York Times ignored them, did everything they could
- 35:18Speaker 1: to stop the case. I mean, to stop the story.
- 35:21Speaker 1: They ignored it. And all of a sudden now, the
- 35:24Speaker 1: New York Times is some hard-charging champion for women. I'm sorry,
- 35:28Speaker 1: I don't buy it. Nondisclosure pacts are legal and even
- 35:33Speaker 1: common in corporate life. Some attorneys for alleged victims say
- 35:37Speaker 1: clients seek to avoid public glare. Yet NDAs are increasingly
- 35:41Speaker 1: under attack. Most recently, now former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg
- 35:46Speaker 1: announced he would release three women who filed complaints against
- 35:49Speaker 1: him at Bloomberg LP from confidentiality clauses after rivals blasted
- 35:53Speaker 1: him for it at a Democratic presidential debate. Look, if
- 35:57Speaker 1: you're running for president or you're going to be the
- 35:59Speaker 1: president and there's NDAs out there against you, well, you
- 36:03Speaker 1: need to make them public. You need to make them
- 36:05Speaker 1: public so the public knows exactly what you're up to,
- 36:08Speaker 1: what you've been accused of, and then they can make
- 36:10Speaker 1: their decision for themselves. All right? The public is capable
- 36:14Speaker 1: of making a decision for themselves on who they want
- 36:17Speaker 1: their elected officials to be. All of the evidence and
- 36:20Speaker 1: all of the information must be presented, though, so the
- 36:22Speaker 1: public can make the proper decision. I had been long
- 36:30Speaker 1: looking at all this huge network of lawyers, Silver Greenberg
- 36:33Speaker 1: tells NPR, not only in the defense of attorneys who
- 36:36Speaker 1: were representing Epstein, but also the attorneys that had represented
- 36:40Speaker 1: the survivors. Boyce stood out. He was a towering figure
- 36:44Speaker 1: with an illustrious record as a litigator. He had argued
- 36:47Speaker 1: the government's antitrust case against Microsoft a generation ago. He
- 36:51Speaker 1: was Al Gore's go-to attorney in the 2000 election recount debacle.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Boys helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage. Look,
- 37:01Speaker 1: like I said, I've been critical of David Boys when
- 37:03Speaker 1: I thought it was appropriate. I've definitely been critical of
- 37:08Speaker 1: a lot of lawyers. I'm not a big fan of lawyers,
- 37:10Speaker 1: as you all know. But what I will say here
- 37:12Speaker 1: is I think Boys is getting a bum rap by
- 37:14Speaker 1: the New York Times and and the way that they
- 37:16Speaker 1: reported this. I think that the New York Times, in
- 37:19Speaker 1: their zeal to try and bring down some big game, well,
- 37:24Speaker 1: in their zeal to do that, they missed the mark here.
- 37:28Speaker 1: And back in the day, you'd say, oh man, that's
- 37:30Speaker 1: just an unfortunate error by New York Times. They missed
- 37:34Speaker 1: the mark. But now it's just par for the course.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Every article misses the mark, it seems like. Every article
- 37:39Speaker 1: is pandering. Every article is divisive. Every article has a bend.
- 37:44Speaker 1: When in reality, the media should just be reporting the facts.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Boys also caught their attention because he represented the Hollywood
- 37:53Speaker 1: producer Harvey Weinstein, accused of sexual assault or harassment by
- 37:57Speaker 1: 100 women. Weinstein was convicted last month of felony sex
- 38:01Speaker 1: crime and rape and sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison.
- 38:06Speaker 1: I think he got off light, by the way. Not
- 38:08Speaker 1: only would I give him 23 years... I would bury
- 38:11Speaker 1: him underneath Guantanamo Bay or whatever prison is the most
- 38:14Speaker 1: viciously harsh. Either bury him under the prison so he
- 38:18Speaker 1: has no access to anybody ever or throw him right
- 38:20Speaker 1: in general population and let the inmates sort it out.
- 38:26Speaker 1: In Epstein's case, Boy Schiller represents several women with claims
- 38:29Speaker 1: against the financier's estate and friends. In that first meeting
- 38:33Speaker 1: with the Times, reporters, a second lawyer was present by
- 38:36Speaker 1: the name of Stan Pottinger. Pottinger would play an essential
- 38:40Speaker 1: role in the Times' tale. He and Boy are friends.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Their unrelated firms represent different clients with similar accusations against
- 38:47Speaker 1: Epstein and his associates. Pottinger did not return four messages
- 38:50Speaker 1: from NPR seeking comment. Well, why would he? Why would
- 38:54Speaker 1: he at this point? He knows you're just going to
- 38:55Speaker 1: try and kneecap him. That's all the media tries to
- 38:57Speaker 1: do at this point is kneecap people, especially if they
- 39:00Speaker 1: think that it's going to, you know, get them a
- 39:03Speaker 1: couple of cheers from their friends on the sidelines. Though
- 39:08Speaker 1: he is not nearly as prominent as Boyce, Pottinger was
- 39:11Speaker 1: a Justice Department official under President Ford and dated Gloria
- 39:15Speaker 1: Steinem in the 70s and 80s. He is now at
- 39:18Speaker 1: Edwards Pottinger. Kessler promised the reporters a window into how
- 39:22Speaker 1: the lawyers operated. Kessler shared with the Times text that
- 39:26Speaker 1: Pottinger had sent in which he had drawn up a
- 39:28Speaker 1: hot list of prominent men as possible targets. Boys was
- 39:32Speaker 1: not copied on the exchanges. The Times wrote, it seemed
- 39:36Speaker 1: to Kessler like Mr. Boys and Mr. Pottinger were plotting
- 39:39Speaker 1: to use his footage to demand huge sums from billionaires.
- 39:43Speaker 1: He said it looked like blackmail. Pottinger suggested in his
- 39:47Speaker 1: text that lawyers can make up to 40% of the
- 39:49Speaker 1: money they negotiated in private settlements. Pottinger confirmed that the
- 39:53Speaker 1: texts were authentic, the paper reported. Pottinger said he had
- 39:57Speaker 1: been deceiving Kessler to get him to share what videos
- 39:59Speaker 1: and other documentation he had against Epstein's friends. Pottinger also
- 40:03Speaker 1: told the paper he informed the FBI and a federal
- 40:06Speaker 1: prosecutor about the material Kessler claimed to have. So again,
- 40:10Speaker 1: we don't know what the truth is here. We have
- 40:12Speaker 1: no idea what the truth is. The New York Times
- 40:15Speaker 1: reports one thing, Pottinger says another. It comes down to
- 40:18Speaker 1: who do you believe? Well, I don't know anything about Pottinger,
- 40:22Speaker 1: so I don't really have an opinion one way or
- 40:25Speaker 1: the other as far as his credibility. But like I said,
- 40:28Speaker 1: I do know that the New York Times really is
- 40:30Speaker 1: not very credible at this point. So, you know, I'll
- 40:33Speaker 1: give them their props when they deserve it, like I
- 40:35Speaker 1: always do. But in cases like this, they're on fishing expeditions.
- 40:39Speaker 1: They're wasting their time. When we have the core four
- 40:43Speaker 1: sitting there, ready to be rounded up, ready to be exposed,
- 40:46Speaker 1: why are you wasting your time on this fake-ass guy
- 40:50Speaker 1: Kessler that we all knew was fake right from the jump?
- 40:55Speaker 1: Emails between Boys in the Times reporters show him wrestling
- 40:58Speaker 1: over whether to trust Kessler, hoping but not certain the
- 41:01Speaker 1: informant was real. The Times concluded that Boyes had outsourced
- 41:05Speaker 1: his relationship with Kessler to Pottinger and that the lawyers
- 41:09Speaker 1: were working in concert. The Times used Kessler's communication with
- 41:12Speaker 1: Pottinger to convey the story of hypocrisy and greed about
- 41:17Speaker 1: Boyes as well. Here's the defining passage of the article. Mr.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Boyes and Mr. Pottinger would go from toasting Kessler as
- 41:24Speaker 1: their whistleblower and informant to torching him as a fraudster
- 41:27Speaker 1: and a spy. Kessler was a liar and he wouldn't
- 41:30Speaker 1: expose any sexual abuse, but he would reveal something else.
- 41:34Speaker 1: The extraordinary, at times deceitful, measures elite lawyers deployed in
- 41:38Speaker 1: an effort to get evidence that could be used to
- 41:41Speaker 1: win lucrative settlements and keep misconduct hidden, allowing perpetrators to
- 41:45Speaker 1: abuse again. Mr. Boyce has publicly decried such deals as
- 41:50Speaker 1: rich man's justice, a way that powerful men buy their
- 41:53Speaker 1: way out of legal and reputational jeopardy. This is how
- 41:56Speaker 1: it works. It's true. That is how it works. There's
- 42:00Speaker 1: no doubt about it. There is no doubt about it.
- 42:03Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you hire a lawyer,
- 42:06Speaker 1: don't you want them to do whatever it takes within
- 42:08Speaker 1: the law to make sure that your case goes forward,
- 42:11Speaker 1: to make sure that you get the justice that you deserve?
- 42:14Speaker 1: You want your lawyer to turn over every single rock,
- 42:16Speaker 1: look under every single bush, and make sure that they're
- 42:20Speaker 1: not missing anything. So it's prudent to meet with a
- 42:23Speaker 1: guy like Kessler. It is also prudent to automatically dismiss
- 42:26Speaker 1: him once you find out that he is not credible.
- 42:30Speaker 1: David Enrich, a Times business editor who helped to report
- 42:33Speaker 1: the story, tells NPR, our obligation is to be truthful
- 42:37Speaker 1: and as transparent as possible and to tell the truth
- 42:40Speaker 1: to our readers as best we can. Well, New York Times,
- 42:42Speaker 1: I have breaking news for you. You're failing miserably at that.
- 42:45Speaker 1: You're not the record, the newspaper of record anymore. You're
- 42:52Speaker 1: just another tabloid. You're just another toss-away tabloid at this point.
- 42:55Speaker 1: And I'm sorry if that offends some of you out
- 42:57Speaker 1: there who are listening that still cling on to this
- 42:59Speaker 1: hope that the legacy media cares about you and that
- 43:03Speaker 1: they're telling you the truth. I'm here to break it
- 43:05Speaker 1: to you, folks. They're not. If they were telling you
- 43:08Speaker 1: the truth, I wouldn't have to do this podcast. You
- 43:10Speaker 1: wouldn't be here listening.
- 43:12Speaker 2: All right?
- 43:12Speaker 1: Those are just the facts. In November, video cameras captured
- 43:18Speaker 1: a tense moment for the Times television show The Weekly.
- 43:21Speaker 1: Reporters Silver Greenberg and Enrich confronted Boyes with the encrypted
- 43:27Speaker 1: text between Pottinger and Kessler, prompted by Kessler's questions of
- 43:30Speaker 1: how they can make money. In their joint interview with NPR,
- 43:34Speaker 1: the two Times journalists say they believe Boyes was gently
- 43:36Speaker 1: aghast at the text they showed him. Well, yeah. Again,
- 43:40Speaker 1: like I said, David Boyes, from everything that I've heard
- 43:43Speaker 1: from the survivors, is an honorable man. I aired him
- 43:47Speaker 1: out over his Harvey Weinstein connections. There's no doubt that
- 43:49Speaker 1: had to be talked about. But at the same time,
- 43:52Speaker 1: I can only go by what people who actually know
- 43:55Speaker 1: him and what people who are being represented by him
- 43:57Speaker 1: have to say, right? I'm going to trust what they
- 44:00Speaker 1: tell me about this guy. He was visibly surprised to
- 44:05Speaker 1: see them, and I think visibly upset to see them,
- 44:07Speaker 1: Enrich tells NPR, so I don't think he knew. He
- 44:10Speaker 1: said that he did not intend to do what Stan
- 44:12Speaker 1: Pottinger says they were discussing doing, and I can give
- 44:14Speaker 1: him the benefit of the doubt on that. Well, that's good.
- 44:17Speaker 1: That's good to see that the New York Times is
- 44:19Speaker 1: willing to give him the benefit of the doubt there.
- 44:20Speaker 1: because it's obvious that David Boies wasn't, you know, pitching this.
- 44:25Speaker 1: It was this Stan Pottinger guy. And again, I'm not
- 44:28Speaker 1: going to sit here and defame Stan Pottinger either. I
- 44:30Speaker 1: don't know him and I don't know all the details
- 44:32Speaker 1: to this story. I only have the information that the,
- 44:34Speaker 1: you know, the New York Times and their buddies at
- 44:36Speaker 1: the NPR want to provide to us. So unless we
- 44:38Speaker 1: get to hear from Pottinger, then we only have one
- 44:41Speaker 1: side of the story. So I think it's nice though
- 44:44Speaker 1: that Uh, Enrich was willing to tell NPR that he
- 44:47Speaker 1: didn't think that boys had anything to do with it.
- 44:50Speaker 1: That's a standup move. The times article nonetheless suggests boys
- 44:55Speaker 1: was a willing part of a larger effort to extract
- 44:58Speaker 1: large sums of money and settlements from powerful men. What
- 45:02Speaker 1: I think is not fair journalism is to somehow imply
- 45:06Speaker 1: I was involved in what was being discussed when the
- 45:08Speaker 1: Times knows and has acknowledged that I didn't even know
- 45:11Speaker 1: about those text messages until they showed them to me,
- 45:15Speaker 1: Boyes tells NPR. He says he's being tarred by the
- 45:18Speaker 1: newspaper's conclusions over his friend's texts. I agree with that.
- 45:22Speaker 1: We just read Enrich saying that he doesn't believe that
- 45:24Speaker 1: Boyes had anything to do with it, but yet that
- 45:26Speaker 1: narrative is still being run in the New York Times.
- 45:30Speaker 1: And that is how the New York Times operates, folks. Unfortunately,
- 45:34Speaker 1: that is how they operate. Just like their buddies over
- 45:38Speaker 1: at the Washington Post, Pravda on the Potomac. Yeah, they
- 45:43Speaker 1: operate the same way. And it's a shame because these
- 45:47Speaker 1: used to be the outlets that we could turn to
- 45:48Speaker 1: as Americans. And no, we're not getting jibed. No, we're
- 45:51Speaker 1: not getting lied to. No, we're not having a story
- 45:54Speaker 1: spun on us. But yet here we are. I didn't
- 45:59Speaker 1: participate in them. I didn't know about them at the
- 46:02Speaker 1: time that they were done, Boyes says. He says his
- 46:05Speaker 1: retention agreements with Epstein's accusers allow him only to recoup
- 46:09Speaker 1: costs and expenses, not fees from such settlements. NPR has
- 46:13Speaker 1: reviewed the agreements, confirmed also by one of his clients.
- 46:16Speaker 1: A foundation Boyes discussed with Enrich would not have benefited him,
- 46:20Speaker 1: Boyes says. And it's true. Again, I've heard it from
- 46:25Speaker 1: people that are being represented by him that this is
- 46:28Speaker 1: all fact that he's saying. So again, everything that I've
- 46:31Speaker 1: heard about David Boies has matched up with the story
- 46:37Speaker 1: here that he's telling that he had nothing to do
- 46:39Speaker 1: with this. It doesn't seem like a move that he
- 46:40Speaker 1: would make in this specific case. As the Times knows,
- 46:46Speaker 1: we were not going to make any money out of
- 46:48Speaker 1: these cases, Boies says. The Times team does not fundamentally
- 46:54Speaker 1: dispute that contention. Its article noted in passing that Boies
- 46:57Speaker 1: was working pro bono without payment. Even so, Enrich and
- 47:01Speaker 1: Silver Greenberg argue Boies remains a key player. Look, he's
- 47:05Speaker 1: not even getting paid for it, folks, all right? That
- 47:08Speaker 1: right there tells you the whole entire story. The man's
- 47:10Speaker 1: not making any money out of it. Sure, he's going
- 47:13Speaker 1: to build his, you know, the public view of the company.
- 47:17Speaker 1: He's going to get, you know, more eyes on the company.
- 47:19Speaker 1: More people are going to want to use his services
- 47:22Speaker 1: after this case, etc., etc. But he's not making any
- 47:25Speaker 1: money from the survivors here. It's not like he's Denise
- 47:28Speaker 1: Georging them. He's not trying to, you know, snatch whole
- 47:32Speaker 1: islands from them and liquidate them so that he has
- 47:34Speaker 1: the money like Denise George. Where's the Times article on
- 47:37Speaker 1: Denise George and her money grab? I don't think it
- 47:42Speaker 1: matters whether or not David Boies is going to get
- 47:45Speaker 1: rich off these.
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- 48:15Speaker 1: Settlements, Silver Greenberg says. Burying that information of sexual assault
- 48:19Speaker 1: or misconduct, making it disappear, and letting some of the
- 48:23Speaker 1: world's richest, most powerful men off the hook through these
- 48:25Speaker 1: legal settlements is the issue. Well, that's not going to
- 48:28Speaker 1: occur in this case, Mr. Silver, okay? Silver Greenberg. That's
- 48:33Speaker 1: not the strategy being employed here, especially for the survivors
- 48:38Speaker 1: that Boies is representing. They want justice, my man. J-U-S-T-I-C-E.
- 48:45Speaker 1: Justice is what they're after. Though Boyes had built up
- 48:50Speaker 1: a distinguished legal record stretching back more than a half century,
- 48:53Speaker 1: he damaged that reputation badly in two recent episodes, one
- 48:57Speaker 1: of which involved The Times directly. Boyes earned sharp criticism
- 49:01Speaker 1: for his close ties to Theranos, a blood-testing startup that
- 49:05Speaker 1: collapsed under accusations of fraud. Speaking of that, there's a
- 49:08Speaker 1: great documentary about that on HBO. I forget the name
- 49:14Speaker 1: right now, but if you Google Theranos documentary... you'll be
- 49:18Speaker 1: able to find it. It was really, really good. good.
- 49:20Speaker 1: And the scam that they were running, oh boy. Its
- 49:25Speaker 1: founder now faces federal criminal charges. Boyd served as an
- 49:29Speaker 1: outside lawyer and a corporate director. The former Wall Street
- 49:32Speaker 1: Journal reporter who exposed the fraud, John Carreyrou, has said
- 49:37Speaker 1: Boyd's firm acted to intimidate whistleblowers. Boyd denies that. Again,
- 49:43Speaker 1: I don't have any information about any of that case.
- 49:45Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Theranos. Those assertions might be correct.
- 49:49Speaker 1: I don't know all the ins and outs of the
- 49:52Speaker 1: actual legal battle. All I know is what I saw
- 49:55Speaker 1: in that documentary. And like I was saying, that documentary
- 49:58Speaker 1: is explosive and I highly recommend it. In recent years,
- 50:03Speaker 1: Boy's firm did legal defense work for the Times. Then,
- 50:06Speaker 1: in late 2017, the newspaper fired Boy Schiller Flexner over
- 50:11Speaker 1: revelations he hired a private firm run by former Israeli
- 50:15Speaker 1: spies for Harvey Weinstein. As the New Yorker first reported,
- 50:19Speaker 1: that firm sought to intimidate the Times sources and even
- 50:22Speaker 1: tailed its reporters. Boyce says he was unaware of the
- 50:25Speaker 1: extent of the firm's work. Well, see, I don't know
- 50:28Speaker 1: about all of that. I don't know if I'd buy that, Mr.
- 50:30Speaker 2: Boyce.
- 50:30Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you knew exactly the type of people
- 50:33Speaker 1: you were hiring if you hired ex-Massad, my friend. So,
- 50:36Speaker 1: come on, let's not try and be dishonest here, alright?
- 50:39Speaker 1: We know if we're hiring ex-Massad as private investigators, you
- 50:44Speaker 1: know what you're getting when you pay for that. You
- 50:46Speaker 1: know what sort of people you're getting. The Times implied
- 50:51Speaker 1: Boyce took on the Epstein case to help restore his reputation.
- 50:54Speaker 1: By 2019, Mr. Boyce, 78, was representing a number of Mr.
- 50:56Speaker 1: Epstein's alleged survivors. Boyd says he represented his first alleged
- 51:05Speaker 1: Epstein victim in 2015, before Theranos became a scandal and
- 51:10Speaker 1: added others subsequently. I think it's fair to say that
- 51:13Speaker 1: Boyd's representation of Epstein's victims has helped him burnish his
- 51:17Speaker 1: reputation when he needed it the most, Silver Greenberg says.
- 51:21Speaker 1: So they're insinuating here, and this is a pretty rough insinuation,
- 51:24Speaker 1: and I don't know how Silver Greenberg can make this insinuation,
- 51:28Speaker 1: but what he's saying is, basically, if you read between
- 51:30Speaker 1: the lines, that David Boies don't give a shit about
- 51:33Speaker 1: the survivors. That all he cares about is his reputation. And, again,
- 51:38Speaker 1: I don't know Mr. Boyce personally, and I don't know Mr.
- 51:42Speaker 1: Silver Greenberg personally either, but I do know that Silver
- 51:44Speaker 1: Greenberg works for the Times, who is notorious for kneecapping people,
- 51:49Speaker 1: who is notorious for trying to destroy people they disagree with.
- 51:53Speaker 1: And we know from just recently in the article that
- 51:58Speaker 1: he had a relationship with the New York Times. And
- 52:00Speaker 1: we know that it ended pretty on a rough patch.
- 52:04Speaker 1: So how do we know that there's not animosity by
- 52:07Speaker 1: the New York Times in this case? Again, folks, all
- 52:09Speaker 1: I'm saying is we have to keep our minds open.
- 52:11Speaker 1: We really don't know what's what. The Times has its
- 52:16Speaker 1: own checkered backstory in covering Epstein. Bingo. Epstein was first
- 52:20Speaker 1: convicted in a Florida state court of a sex crime
- 52:23Speaker 1: involving a minor in 2008. After his release from prison,
- 52:27Speaker 1: Epstein still held significant sway in New York City, hosting
- 52:30Speaker 1: titans of finance, politics, media, academia, and high society. And
- 52:35Speaker 1: people from the media. Let's not forget that, NPR. He
- 52:38Speaker 1: hosted parties at a townhouse that was reportedly the largest
- 52:41Speaker 1: in Manhattan. Even so, the Times wrote about Epstein sparingly,
- 52:45Speaker 1: and when it did, even admiringly. Of course they did.
- 52:50Speaker 1: Of course they did. All of those reporters and all
- 52:53Speaker 1: of those people, the editors, they were all buddy-buddy with
- 52:56Speaker 1: Epstein back then. They were all running in the same circles.
- 53:00Speaker 1: His buddy George Stepanopoulos, Katie Couric, Woody Allen, you know,
- 53:05Speaker 1: the whole lot of them. They were all thick as thieves,
- 53:09Speaker 1: even after his conviction. One financial reporter who kept tabs
- 53:14Speaker 1: on Epstein for the Times wrote a gauzy profile of
- 53:17Speaker 1: him that ran just before Epstein was set to enter
- 53:20Speaker 1: prison in 2008. Reporter Landon Thomas Jr. mostly portrayed the
- 53:25Speaker 1: offense as patronizing prostitutes rather than highlighting it as a
- 53:29Speaker 1: crime involving a minor. And this, my friends, is why
- 53:33Speaker 1: from the very beginning of the Me Too movement, I
- 53:35Speaker 1: laughed at places like the New York Times. They don't
- 53:38Speaker 1: give a shit about victims. They don't give a shit
- 53:41Speaker 1: about survivors. They want to sell papers. That's why they
- 53:46Speaker 1: jumped in on the whole Me Too movement. That's why
- 53:48Speaker 1: they got involved. That's why they act like they're hard-charging
- 53:50Speaker 1: warriors for it. Meanwhile, Epstein's survivors couldn't even get a
- 53:57Speaker 1: minute of their time, couldn't get any of their top reporters,
- 54:00Speaker 1: top journalists to sit down with them and tell their story.
- 54:05Speaker 1: You know why? Because the New York Times does not
- 54:09Speaker 1: give a shit, okay? Point blank, period. They don't give
- 54:12Speaker 1: a shit. In the summer of 2018, Thomas refused an
- 54:19Speaker 1: assignment to call Epstein on a story citing a conflict.
- 54:22Speaker 1: At his request, the financier, Pedophile, had made a $ 30, 000
- 54:26Speaker 1: donation to a Harlem cultural center. Enrich, Thomas' editor, ordered
- 54:31Speaker 1: him not to write about Epstein again. Thomas was forced
- 54:34Speaker 1: to leave the paper at the start of 2019. Enrich
- 54:37Speaker 1: says the Times should have told readers about the episode,
- 54:40Speaker 1: which the paper has never done before. Of course they haven't,
- 54:44Speaker 1: because they're a dishonest trash-rag outlet. Everything you read in
- 54:48Speaker 1: the New York Times, take with a grain of salt, folks.
- 54:54Speaker 1: The Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown broke the story open
- 54:57Speaker 1: in November 2018 by chronicling accusations against Epstein and the
- 55:01Speaker 1: failures of major institutions to hold him accountable. Brown says
- 55:05Speaker 1: the press is among those institutions. Boy, cites the press
- 55:09Speaker 1: failings too. Yeah, no shit. If it wasn't for the
- 55:12Speaker 1: press being such miserable failures, I wouldn't have this podcast.
- 55:15Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here talking to you folks about this.
- 55:17Speaker 1: There would be no need for it. But when you
- 55:19Speaker 1: have survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's reign of terror reaching out
- 55:22Speaker 1: to me, just some average guy who was pissed off
- 55:26Speaker 1: and decided, hell, I need to make a podcast so
- 55:28Speaker 1: my friends are aware of what's going on. I had
- 55:30Speaker 1: no idea that it would turn into what it is
- 55:32Speaker 1: now with, you know, hundreds of thousands of downloads, etc., etc.,
- 55:37Speaker 1: But the fact is, the New York Times should have
- 55:40Speaker 1: been the one stepping up. The New York Times should
- 55:42Speaker 1: have been a place, a safe harbor for these survivors
- 55:45Speaker 1: to contact, for these survivors to go and get help.
- 55:48Speaker 1: But no, it wasn't that. We filed our first Epstein
- 55:53Speaker 1: case in 2015. We filed a second case in 2016.
- 55:58Speaker 1: And in 2016, we tried to get the Times to
- 56:01Speaker 1: write about this, Boyce says. Until July 2019, the Times
- 56:05Speaker 1: showed no interest at all in Epstein's survivors or in
- 56:09Speaker 1: the scope and scale of Epstein's trafficking, or even in
- 56:13Speaker 1: the fact that a sex trafficking ring was going on.
- 56:20Speaker 1: Enrich doesn't flinch at the criticism. I think that we
- 56:23Speaker 1: missed the ball on the Epstein coverage. Yeah, no shit
- 56:25Speaker 1: you did. Add a great detriment to the survivors. Add
- 56:28Speaker 1: a great detriment to their health and their securing justice.
- 56:32Speaker 1: So good job, New York Times. Remember this, folks. Remember
- 56:35Speaker 1: what we're talking about here. Next time you go and
- 56:37Speaker 1: you're trying, you're going to pay for the New York
- 56:39Speaker 1: Times to get behind their firewall. Screw that. Take that
- 56:42Speaker 1: money and give it to your favorite content creator. Donate
- 56:46Speaker 1: that money, whatever it may be, but the New York
- 56:48Speaker 1: Times is not the sort of outlet that should be trusted.
- 56:55Speaker 1: I think we missed the ball on the Epstein coverage,
- 56:57Speaker 1: says Enrich, who joined the paper in 2017 and is
- 57:01Speaker 1: now its business investigations editor. I am really disappointed in
- 57:04Speaker 1: myself and the New York Times for not having responded
- 57:07Speaker 1: as forcefully and as quickly and as aggressively as we
- 57:10Speaker 1: should have. Yeah, because you were still protecting him, alright?
- 57:14Speaker 1: Just be honest. You didn't respond because, you know, you
- 57:16Speaker 1: weren't going to be able to score your political points
- 57:18Speaker 1: this way. It wasn't, you know, your enemies, your political
- 57:22Speaker 1: enemies weren't going to be taken down, so forget the story.
- 57:25Speaker 1: That's what we've devolved into in this country. Every big
- 57:28Speaker 1: story is all about, oh, which politician can we take down?
- 57:31Speaker 1: Who can we take down that doesn't think like us? Meanwhile,
- 57:35Speaker 1: there's sex trafficking rings operating right underneath our noses, and
- 57:39Speaker 1: everybody's too busy engaged in tribalism and petty political fights
- 57:43Speaker 1: to stand up and protect these people. Well, I've had enough.
- 57:49Speaker 1: The Times intensified its Epstein's coverage after a grand jury
- 57:52Speaker 1: handed up indictments against him on more serious charges of
- 57:55Speaker 1: sex crimes against minors last summer. The guy was an
- 57:58Speaker 1: effing pedophile. Everybody knew it. The New York Times knew it.
- 58:02Speaker 1: The people all over the world knew it. The Times
- 58:06Speaker 1: was also slow to cover developments involving Joy Ito, then
- 58:10Speaker 1: director of the MIT Lab. Ito resigned from the New
- 58:13Speaker 1: York Times Company Board and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 58:17Speaker 1: last September as his ties to Epstein came into focus. Again,
- 58:21Speaker 1: they can't even clean their own house of people that
- 58:23Speaker 1: were tied to Jeffrey Epstein. But they had the audacity
- 58:26Speaker 1: to get on their... pillar and yell down at the
- 58:30Speaker 1: rest of us and call David Boyce names and call
- 58:33Speaker 1: this one names and call this one an accuser and
- 58:35Speaker 1: call this one an enabler. Hey, New York Times, here's
- 58:39Speaker 1: an idea. Why don't you take a good hard look
- 58:41Speaker 1: in the mirror, okay? And what you'll find is you'll
- 58:44Speaker 1: find an enabler right there. Ito had solicited contributions for
- 58:51Speaker 1: the lab and his own venture fund from Epstein years
- 58:54Speaker 1: after the financier conviction for crimes involving sex with underage teenagers. Pedophilia.
- 59:03Speaker 1: The Times journalists wrote that their report lays bare how
- 59:06Speaker 1: powerful men buy their way out of legal and reputational jeopardy.
- 59:10Speaker 1: You know, that's funny because I'm pretty sure that's what
- 59:12Speaker 1: the Times does as well. And in interviews, they say
- 59:18Speaker 1: their reporting did so in a transparent way, acknowledging false
- 59:21Speaker 1: starts and unanswered questions. Their lengthy interview with NPR about
- 59:25Speaker 1: the story is part of that transparency, they say. This
- 59:28Speaker 1: is one of the pieces of journalism, both the weekly
- 59:31Speaker 1: television show and the article, that I'm most proud of,
- 59:34Speaker 1: Silver Greenberg says. And I'm proud of us showing our
- 59:37Speaker 1: process in this. Oh, shut up. You have nothing to
- 59:39Speaker 1: be proud of. You know, I try not to get
- 59:42Speaker 1: too wound up. about these articles and these reporters who
- 59:46Speaker 1: are reporting these articles like they're some champion of these survivors, man,
- 59:51Speaker 1: you are not a champion of anybody. Your whole entire
- 59:54Speaker 1: operation turned their back on these survivors when they needed
- 59:57Speaker 1: them most. When nobody was listening to their stories, the
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: New York Times turned their back on them. And if
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: you think I'm ever going to forget that, if you
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: think I'm ever going to stop driving that point home,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: you are sorely mistaken. And what about that man who
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: called himself Patrick Kessler? He told the lawyers and the
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: Times reporters that he had material implicating former Israel Prime
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: Minister Ehud Barak, Britain's Prince Andrew, and Harvard Law Professor
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who had been a legal advisor for
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: Epstein and served on President Trump's legal team during the
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Senate impeachment trial. All have denied any impropriety. All right, well,
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: he might not have the dirt on Ehud Barak, Prince
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Andrew and Alan Dershowitz, but we know that dirt exists.
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: We know that Ehud Barak had a very cozy relationship
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein. I haven't even dove into that yet.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: We haven't even begun to explore Ehud Barak's relationship because,
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: you know, being based here in America, we have so
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: many other people that need to be discussed. But don't
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: think for a minute that Ehud Barak is going to
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: miss his chance to have a closer look because that's
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: coming eventually as well. Times reporters spoke with Kessler repeatedly.
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: One session stretched over eight hours at a Washington Hotel
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: conference room and involved two bottles of Japanese whiskey, according
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: to the paper. Two bottles of Japanese whiskey, huh? So
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: that was the payment? You bought this drunkard a couple
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: bottles of whiskey? Got them all plied on the sauce
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: and then thought you were going to get some information
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: from them, huh? What is the New York Times employing
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: the CIA's method of getting people to talk? I wouldn't
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: be shocked considering their symbiotic parasitic relationship with the intelligence community.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: The Times sought without luck to substantiate Kessler's claims last fall.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: Online searches easily pulled up his supposedly classified documents. A
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: coffee company denied any knowledge of him as an investor.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: He frequently contradicted his own assertions. NPR unsuccessfully sought to
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: reach Kessler on a mobile phone number he had used
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: in the past. A message left with a man who
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: said he knew him was not returned. Most important, Kessler
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: failed to deliver any proof of his claims. Oh, almost
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: like the New York Times, huh? Where's all their proof?
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: A lot of conjecture, but they sure haven't provided us
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: with any proof. On the time show, The Weekly, business
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: editor Ellen Pollack describes waiting delivery of Epstein's computer servers
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: in October from Iceland. The grandiose promise collapsed with Kessler
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: texting about a fire, a missing team member, and his
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: own desperate flight to Kiev. The Times team never saw
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: Kessler again. He didn't even ask for money to be
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: fronted to him, Boyd says. When you conclude a fraud
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: has been committed, the question is, why? He's unlikely to
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: be doing that entirely on his own. Like I said, folks,
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: from the very beginning, I told you what this was.
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: This was an intricate plot to try and ruin David
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: Boyd's credibility, and the vehicle used, once again, was the
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: moronic New York Times. The Times article contains the hint
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: of a question. Was he sent to discredit boys in Pottinger,
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: and by whom? I'll give you a hint. He doesn't
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: like to take his underpants off, and he is completely
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: and utterly up to his neck in the Jeffrey Epstein situation.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: That would be my guess. Do I have evidence proving that?
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: I do not, folks. But that would be my guess,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: and I said that earlier when we talked about this story.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: The Times-Enriched says the paper's reporters continuously hunted Kessler, even
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: after publishing. What was he? A scam artist? An extortionist?
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: A plant? They don't know. There is not a day
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: in those three months, including weekends, that we were not
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: trying to figure out who Patrick Kessler is. what he
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: actually has, where he comes from, and why he's doing this,
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: Enridge says. Oh, even weekends, huh? You guys even work
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: on weekends? That's cute. I haven't missed a day in
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: 158 days. I've been on this podcast 158 straight days,
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: most days with at least two episodes, and they're talking about, oh,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: we've been working weekends? That's nice, with your six-figure salaries.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: The Times journalists say they never thought to wait to
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: publish until they unraveled the secret of Patrick Kessler. They
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: tenaciously held onto the story they sought to tell, as
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: twisty as it turned out to be, alerted to the
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: path by a patently unreliable guide. Folks, look. All I
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: can take away from this is New York Times was
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: used by the Epstein team to try and discredit the
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: survivors' lawyers. That's what I'm taking away from this. And
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: I thought that at the very beginning. And this just
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: this really confirms it for me and sends it home.
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: The New York Times is not a reliable source in
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: the best of times anymore. And when it comes to
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein case, I really have a hard time
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: believing them when it comes to stories like this. Now,
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. Every now and then they have
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: a really good piece, like the piece we read last
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: night that was talking about The core four, that was
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: a fantastic investigative piece. It wasn't a hit piece. It
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: was a piece that got down into the weeds. It
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: dealt with the details of the case. It laid out
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: who these gals were, how they were involved, etc., etc.
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: In a story like this, there's a bunch of conjecture
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: and nonsense and misdirection and basically confusion for the reader.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: And that's what the whoever sent Kessler in, that was
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: their plan to to cause confusion and to cause doubt
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: and to make people think that the survivor's lawyer is
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: just in it for a money grab. So that would
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: in some way demean the survivor's claims as well. And
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: that was the goal, in my opinion, in this whole
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: entire Kessler situation. Folks, before I sign off, I'd like
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: to again reiterate to you that this coronavirus situation, it's
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: a serious situation. Look, we're not going to all die
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: from it. It's not a world-ender, nothing like that. But
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: it is a very serious situation, and even if you're
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: a very healthy person... and you are somebody who might
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: contract coronavirus and just have a mild case and you're
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: not exhibiting any symptoms, you could very well pass that
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: on to somebody who is not as lucky as you.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: Somebody whose immune system is compromised. Somebody who, say, went
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: through cancer. Somebody who has heart problems. Somebody who has asthma.
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: Somebody who has diabetes, etc., etc. If you pass on
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: your mild germ to them, it could become life-threatening for them.
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: So social distancing is very important, folks. In my opinion,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: we don't have to wait for the government to do it.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: We can all do it. You know, mitigate your time
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: in big groups. Mitigate your time around other people. Keep
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: a six foot, you know, barrier as much as you can.
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: And of course, everybody's telling you to wash your hands.
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: And sure, that's great advice. But what they're not telling
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: you is a lot of reports coming out are saying
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: that this virus can live on certain surfaces for up
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: to nine days. So please be very vigilant. Be very vigilant.
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: If you feel like you're sick, don't go to work.
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: Don't take the chance of spreading this to your loved
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: ones or to other people who have compromised immune systems
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: who are seriously at risk of really suffering complications here, folks. Because,
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: you know... I'm not one to ring the bells of alarm,
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: especially in situations like this. I'm always one who calls
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: for calm and for everybody to remain in a state
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: of preparedness, but to remain calm. And that is exactly
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: what I'm calling for here. This is not a time
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: for panic. This isn't a time for panic buying. None
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: of that stuff. We all have to keep our heads
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: and work together to make sure that we get rid
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: of this virus as soon as possible. This isn't the flu.
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: This isn't the common cold. This is a virus with
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: an R0 of anywhere from 2.5 to 5. And what
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: the R0 means is that's how many people it gets
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: spread from one person to the others. And if you
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: understand what exponential growth is and how exponential growth works
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: in pandemics, you understand how serious this could be. This
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: could be just a very, very, very bad situation that
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: could last for a while. You know, I know a
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: lot of people are banking on the warmer weather slowing
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: it down and stopping it. But I have my doubts
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: about that, folks. Just take a look at the way
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: it's starting to rage in places like Qatar and the
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa is now having a problem.
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: We can't rely on that sort of thing to make
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: sure that this virus goes away. We have to work
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: together to make sure that we're being responsible and we're
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: not being involved in large gatherings, large groups, And I
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: know it's hard, especially for the younger people out there.
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: for the social distancing. But folks, we got to do it.
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: The lives of our parents and our grandparents and people
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: with compromised immune systems might very well depend on it.
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: And all you have to do is take a look
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: at Italy and what's going on in Italy, especially northern Italy,
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: where they have a fantastic medical system, where they have
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: a ton of money. And you see how overwhelmed they
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: are because the sheer number of cases that need medical
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: attention in the hospital because of lung issues. So this
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: is what we face, folks. And we have a couple
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: of choices here. We can either... to say, screw it,
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: I'm all about me right now and I'm going to
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: keep going to these social gatherings and I'm going to
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: go to, you know, the bar or whatever it may
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: be and bring those, maybe bring that virus home to
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: your loved ones or the people you work with that
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: have COVID compromised immune systems, or we can all suck
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: it up for a little while and mitigate our contact
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: with big large crowds and going to the store and
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: all of that stuff and suck it up for a
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: couple of weeks and do our best to make sure
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: that those amongst us that are at the most risk
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: are taken care of. I've seen so many callous comments,
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: so many people, oh, it's only older people or immunodeficiency
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: people or You guys realize that people with obesity fall
- 1:10:22Speaker 1: into that category as well, right? And in America, what
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: is the level of obesity, folks? Around 45%? So come on,
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: let's have a little compassion for those of us who
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: might not be as strong in our immune systems as
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: the rest of us. Let's have a little bit of
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: compassion for the people around us. Let's make sure that
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: we're being responsible here, folks. I'm not saying panic. I'm
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: not saying crawl into a bunker. But what I am
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: saying is follow the advice of the medical professionals. Mitigating
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: your contact with large groups is just straight up common
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: sense at this point. And if we needed any more
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: evidence of it, do you really think the NBA would
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: be postponing their season if this wasn't a serious deal?
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: When's the last time that we've had something like this
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: go around and we've seen the elite ruling class catch it?
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: We've Tom Hanks. NBA stars, Italian Series 1 soccer stars.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: I'm sure there's other athletes with it as well. We
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: see all these politicians catching it. So what it is, folks,
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: is it's a lot more serious of a situation than
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: we were led to believe from the very beginning. And
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: now we're playing catch up and it's not a good situation.
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: At the end of the day, though, there is hope.
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: Once we work together and we're all following the guidelines
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: and we're making sure that, you know, we're washing our hands.
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: I'm sick of hearing that. I know all of you
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: are sick of hearing that. We all wash our hands,
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: I hope, in the best of times. But it's important
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: that if you go out or you're someplace where you're using,
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: you're touching surfaces that are high traffic surfaces, make sure
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: you wash your hands. Keep some wipes with you, whatever
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: it may be. But most importantly, if you get sick... Self-isolate.
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: Make sure you self-isolate. Don't run around and say, oh,
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: it's just allergies or it's just a cough because we
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: don't know the extent of the outbreak in the country
- 1:12:10Speaker 1: right now. Believe me when I tell you there has
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: been a silent outbreak going on in this country for
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: quite some time. And if you have not been exposed
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: to it yet, at some point, if you keep going
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: to gatherings and you keep going out into these big groups,
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: you will be exposed to this virus. If you catch
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: it or not, I have no idea. I'm not a
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: virologist and I'm not going to sit here and tell you, oh,
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: if you're out and you're in contact with somebody with it,
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: you're definitely going to catch it. I don't know all
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: of that. I'm not going to sit here and get
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: into the scientific weeds with you. I'm just talking some
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: basic common sense here, folks. Some basic common sense. And
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: I hope that this is done quickly. I hope that
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: everybody's life gets back to normal. But while we're living
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: under the threat of this pandemic, we're all going to
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: have to take the necessary steps to make sure that
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: we're doing the right thing for those in our communities
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: that might not be as equipped to deal with this outbreak.
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: All right, everybody. So if you'd like to contact me,
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- 1:13:29Speaker 1: be back later on tonight with the Daily Drop. And
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: for the God's sake, stop buying every roll of toilet
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: paper in the store. You're going to have toilet paper, folks. Relax.
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: If you're going to go buy anything and spend money,
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: go get yourself a few bags of rice, a few bags,
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: some canned food, you know, stuff that you would normally eat.
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: That way, in case there's a quarantine or a self-imposed quarantine,
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: you don't have to go to the store. You already
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: have a few things in the refrigerator. You're already ahead
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: of the game then if you do that. All right.
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: But the toilet paper thing, stop it. All right, everybody.
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: Until later, I'll talk to you then.