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Jeffrey Epstein And The Allegations That He Paid For Cecile De Jongh's Kids College Tuition · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  The situation in the US Virgin Islands is getting worse
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  than worse by the day for the officials of the
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  US Virgin Islands and that's because they're being called out
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  on their own BS by JP Morgan right now. And
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  who would have thought that it would be JP Morgan
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  of all entities to come riding in and call the
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  US Virgin Islands exactly what they are, and that is
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  people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein's BS, and for the elected
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  officials who were in charge at the time to even
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  attempt to try and distance themselves instead of taking responsibility
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  for the decisions that were made in regard to Jeffrey Epstein,
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  they're just making themselves look worse and worse. And that
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  whole that we talked about them digging for themselves, oh,
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  I don't know two years ago, is getting deeper and deeper.
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  More people are starting to get hip to the fact
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  that the US Virgin Islands is not an entity that's
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  interested in solely pursuing justice here. What they're interested in
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  is making a few more bucks, and not only from
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  Jeffrey Epstein's BS, but on the back end of that
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  BS as well, So they double dipped into what should
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  be survivor's money. So how anyone can look at this
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  and say, you know what, what the US Virgin Islands
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  is doing is righteous and they should be compensated. My
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  response to that is, how the hell can anyone believe
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  that this group should be compensated for what happened down here.
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  It's not like they showed up at Epstein's island, kicked
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  in the door and arrested everybody. They showed up to
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  the party late, and not only that, they showed up
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  to the party empty handed. Today's article is from Fortune
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  and the headline sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had close ties
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  to US Virgin Island's first family, including paying college tuition
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  for their children. This article was authored by Anthony Lynn
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  and Bloomberg. So everything we know about Epstein, would that
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  lead us to believe that he did this out of
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  the kindness of his heart? Or was he doing this
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  because he expected something on the back end? And what
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  was that something on the back end? Well, he wanted
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  more favorable laws as far as being a sex offender
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  on the books in the US Virgin Islands. Thankfully, the
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  other officials that weren't in his pocket, weren't down with it,
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  and the help that he got from the former First
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  Lady wasn't enough to push his bullshit over the finish line.
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  But just the simple fact that these conversations occurred between
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  Jeffrey Epstein and the former First Lady of the US
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  Virgin Islands is something that should be very concerning for
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  anybody who is paying attention to what's going on, and
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  it should also lead people to ask themselves why the
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  US Virgin Islands is entitled to even one single cent.
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  Jeffrey Epstein paid tuition for the children of the US
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  Virgin Islands Governor and First Lady include at New York
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  Skidmore College, JP Morgan, Chase and Company said in a
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  court filing, and to reiterate about JP Morgan and Chase,
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  they showed up here with a very powerful legal team,
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  and they're not going to sit back and let the
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  US Virgin Islands control the narrative. What they're going to
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  do is they're going to come out with their own
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  accusations and their own stories about how the US Virgin
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  Island officials were complicit with what Epstein was up to,
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  and the sad part is, it's not like they're making
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  this stuff up. It's not like JP Morgan is sitting
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  here and they're coming up with all of these far
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  fetched fairy tales. All of this stuff was known to us.
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  JP Morgan is now just pointing it out. Cecile DeJong,
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  wife of then US VI Governor Jean de Jong Junior,
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  sent Epstein in August twenty eleven email with the subject line,
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  please approve attaching a twenty five thousand dollars tuition bill
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  for Skidmore, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs,
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  New York. The email is among dozens of previously sealed
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  documents the bank filed late Wednesday in Manhattan Federal Court. So, look,
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  all of this stuff is backed up by documentation. So
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  it's not like JP Morgan is just asserting that they
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  paid the tuition. Here, they obviously paid the tuition, and
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  they have the receipts to prove that that tuition was
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  paid by Jeffrey Epstein. And in my opinion, that alone
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  should have the whole entire lawsuit that the USVII is
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  bringing against JP Morgan tossed. You had your own officials.
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  The first lady of the territory in the pocket of
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  Jeffrey Epstein. How are you going to tell the bank
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  that they should have done more. Here's an idea. You
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  both should have done more. And now that JP Morgan
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  is paying the two hundred and ninety million dollars fine,
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  it's time for the US Virgin Islands to accept their
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  role in enabling what Jeffrey Epstein was up to for
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  all of these years. Will they do it? Of course not.
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  You to tell everybody that they were the victim and
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  they're the arbiters of justice when it comes to this case.
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  But if that were true, this would be a RICO
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  case in the US Virgin Islands and not a SECO case.
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  JP Morgan is fighting a lawsuit by the USVII accusing
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  it of facilitating Epstein's sex trafficking. The bank is defending itself,
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  in part by alleging the USVII government did far more
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  to aid the crimes of Epstein, who had a private
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  island to retreat Little Saint James there. Look, there's no
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  doubt that the US Virgin Islands did their part to
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  enable what Epstein was up to, and there's no doubt
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  that without JP Morgan and the financial bullshit. They were
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  helping Epstein with that. They're liable as well. So it's
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  funny to me to watch both of these groups sit
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  here and talk about who is more guilty. Meanwhile, the
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  whole world knows both groups are guilty and both groups
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  should pay the price. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the
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  US Virgin Islands is ever going to be held to
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  account here, and what they're going to do probably is
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  end up with another settlement. And I just find it
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  so vile that all of these unnamed women out there
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  aren't going to receive one cent, but the US Virgin
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  Islands is going to have two multi hundred million dollar paydays.
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  And I hate to keep harping on this, but it
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  really discussed me. JP Morgan accused of Seal DeJong, who
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  worked as an office manager for Epstein, in a May filing,
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  of acting as his primary conduit for spreading money and
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  influence throughout the USVII, but the emails released on Wednesday
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  provide additional details, underscoring the closeness of their relationship. The
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  latest filing also indicates that JP Morgan is continuing to
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  vigorously fight the USVII suit, even after announcing Monday that
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  it had agreed to settle a similar lawsuit by victims
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  of Epstein's abuse for two hundred and ninety million, and
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  there was no way that they were ever going to
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  fight Epstein's accusers and survivors in a court over this money.
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  They knew that they were cooked, and they knew that
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  these ladies have already received all this money from the
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  compensation fund, so they were up against it. It was
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  bad press, long litigation, and the clincher it was certified
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  as a class action suit. So once that happens, it
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  becomes even more expensive. So JP Morgan, they sat back
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  and said, you know what, let's just cut these ladies
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  to check and keep it moving. Well, that's not gonna
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  happen with the US Virgin Islands because the US Virgin
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  Islands was complicit. I don't know how else to put it,
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  but that's what happened. All of the information we have,
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  all of the evidence we have from all of these years,
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  leads us to one place, and that's the US Virgin
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  Islands could have done more to stop Jeffrey Epstein. Instead,
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  what they did was profit from his nonsense and from
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  his great wealth. Now on the back end of that
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  you're going to set yourself up as the victim. Huh. Well,
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  Unfortunately for the US Virgin Islands, some of us have
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  been paying attention. The USVII is asking the judge to
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  stop JP Morgan from asserting and unclean hands defense, arguing
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  that doctrine doesn't apply to government actors. Neither Djong nor
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  a lawyer for the USVII responded to requests for comment
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  on Thursday. So what's the USVII going to do if
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  a survivor decides they want to sue them? Are they
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  going to fight the survivor in court and try and
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  argue that the survivors in the wrong for trying to
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  get restitution after they were abused while Cecile de Jong
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  was playing patty cake with Epstein. I'd love to see
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  how a judge rules on that, and boy, I'd love
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  to see a Jerry get it. A spokeswoman for the
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  USVII Attorney General's Office said last month that JP Morgan,
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  which had a legal responsibility to report the evidence in
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  its possession of Epstein's human trafficking, was trying to shift
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  blame to the territory. According to JP Morgan, the tuition
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  paid by Epstein for Dejong's children, pushed your compensation as
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  office manager to two hundred thousand dollars in two thousand
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  and nine. Two hundred grand to be an office manager
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  in the US Virgin Islands. Huh, sounds like a hell
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  of a deal. Where do I sign up for that gig?
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  A year's tuition at Skidmore currently costs about sixty five grand,
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  not including room and board, according to the school's website.
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  The bank claims that in return, she provided him access
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  to the usvi's political elite, who gave him valuable tax
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  benefits and even allowed him to participate in debate about
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  laws that might affect him offenders and predators. In a
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  May twenty eleven email exchange included in the JP Morgan
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  court filing, Epstein and DeJong discussed the usvi's plans to
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  update its sex offender registration laws to discuss the bills
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  possible impact on him. Epstein was registered in the US
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  as a sex offender following his two thousand and eight
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  conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution. And also keep
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  in mind that the reason he chose New Mexico, or
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  one of the reasons, is for the same thing, he
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  didn't have to register as a top end sex offender.
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  Epstein suggested that the USVII might revise the law to
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  more narrowly apply to predators, a category from which he
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  apparently excluded himself. Maybe we should distinguish between offenders and predators,
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  Epstein wrote in the email to DeJong. He also said
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  that a provision for waivers from the law's requirements should
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  be broader to avoid affecting his privacy and his business.
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  So this guy was getting all these favors or trying
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  to get all these favors from Cecil DeJong. But at
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  the same time, the US Virgin Islands has the audacity
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  to say that JP Morgan should have stopped Epstein. Well,
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  what about USVII. This lady was married to the governor
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  of the territory. You want to talk about having power
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  to stop something, how about whispering a few words in
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  your husband's ear while you guys are lounging around. But
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  that would cut into the bottom line, right, So they
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  can't do that. And now that the chickens are coming
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  home to roost, the US Virgin Islands is looking for cover.
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  They don't want these allegations out there. Unfortunately for them,
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  they've been out there forever and now they're just getting
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  legs because JP Morgan is providing some receipts. It's not
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  clear how widely the email was shared, though Dejong's reply
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  as if Epstein wanted to wait for other people to respond.
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  She later wrote that the matter needs to be settled
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  in a few days because the Attorney General needed to
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  submit something by the end of the month. Don't want
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  to email back and forth, she added, yeah, no paper trail.
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  Last thing she wants to do is leave evidence so
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  that later on down the road we can find it
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  like we're doing now. According to JP Morgan, Epstein wasn't
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  happy with the law that passed in June of twenty twelve,
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  and DeJong promised she would find ways to get him
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  around the restrictions. According to the emails released on Wednesday night,
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  the two express frustration that a USVI politician identified only
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  as Russell had betrayed them. So Russell, whoever that is,
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  is somebody that should be padded on the back. I
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  know this is a horrible week and I'm really sorry
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  about how things panned out, DeJong wrote. Not being able
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  to take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. In
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  a likely reference to her husband, she said Russell had
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  screwed John on another bill, but said they could work
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  with other politicians and officials to give the discretion for
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  status quo for you. So she's saying, in her own
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  words that she can get other politicians to help change
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  the laws to better fit Jeffrey Epstein's disgusting patterns of
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  being a predator. So tell me again how the US
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  Virgin Islands should get one dollar? Did the ladies enroll?
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  Some of the other emails detailed Dejong's efforts to help
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  Epstein obtain student visas for young women by arranging their
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  enrollment at the University of the Virgin Islands. Did the
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  Ladies enroll? DeJong followed up with Epstein in a June
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  twenty thirteen email, it is not too late for the
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  fall semester. As we discussed, they need to go down
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  and enroll and show the ability to pay. Epstein was
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  a client at JP Morgan between nineteen ninety eight and
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  twenty thirteen, when the bank cut ties with the financier pedophile.
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  JP Morgan has highlighted that Epstein's ties with the USVII
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  government continued far longer. One twenty seventeen email shows Epstein
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  communicating directly with the usvii's Environmental commissioner about the aftermath
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  of a hurricane and the territory's likely need for money.
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  In an October twenty nineteen email, a few months after
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  Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking and was subsequently found
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  dead in his Manhattan jail cell, a group of USVI
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  officials communicated about an inquiry from The New York Times
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  about tax incentives Epstein was given by the territory. I
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  personally think the questions are opening us up to public scrutiny.
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  USVI official Margherita Benjamin wrote, Well, no shit, Margherita, of
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  course they are. You were in bed with Epstein. You
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  folks were down there helping him out, letting him do
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  whatever he wants. And now, and knowing all of that,
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  you should have been happy with one hundred and five
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  million that you scored from the estate. But greed has
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  led the US Virgin Islands to come back to the
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  trough for a little bit more and it might end
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  up being their undoing. All right, folks, that's going to
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  do it for this one. All of the information that
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