Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein, The Plea Deal And His Alleged Protection (10/22/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Today we're going to hop in the time machine folks
- 0:05Speaker 1: and head back to 2019. We have an article from
- 0:09Speaker 1: the Scottish Sun and this article is talking about Maxwell
- 0:15Speaker 1: and Epstein and their ties to the intelligence community. I
- 0:19Speaker 1: know that's a huge question for a lot of people.
- 0:21Speaker 1: You know, was Epstein and Maxwell, were they working as spies?
- 0:25Speaker 1: And I believe, in my opinion anyway, that they were
- 0:29Speaker 1: not spies, not the traditional spies you would think about. However,
- 0:34Speaker 1: I do believe that they were assets and that they
- 0:36Speaker 1: were cultivated by real spies to collect information. And I've
- 0:42Speaker 1: said that since the very beginning, all signs point to that.
- 0:46Speaker 1: This was a lot more than just your human trafficking
- 0:50Speaker 1: operation for Epstein to fulfill his disgusting desires. You know,
- 0:55Speaker 1: that was part of it, obviously, but there was a
- 0:57Speaker 1: lot more going on behind the scenes. And in this
- 1:01Speaker 1: article today, we're going to hear from a gentleman named
- 1:03Speaker 1: Ari Ben-Munash, who claims that he was Ghislaine Maxwell's father,
- 1:09Speaker 1: Robert Maxwell's handler. So, let's jump into this article, and
- 1:14Speaker 1: let's see what author Emma Perry has to say. Headline,
- 1:20Speaker 1: Come spy with me. Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were
- 1:24Speaker 1: spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians, ex-handler claims. So,
- 1:30Speaker 1: this is something that has been talked about quite a bit,
- 1:34Speaker 1: and I truly believe that this is what they were
- 1:37Speaker 1: up to. This was their ultimate goal, was to collect information.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Because when you get to this level of power, and
- 1:44Speaker 1: when you're at this, you know, juncture of power, if
- 1:48Speaker 1: you will, having information is worth more than money. If
- 1:54Speaker 1: you can have information that you can use to determine
- 1:57Speaker 1: someone else's fate, then you are in a position of
- 2:01Speaker 1: ultimate power. And when you start having this sort of information, compromise,
- 2:07Speaker 1: on scientists, politicians... business magnates, it sure makes it a
- 2:13Speaker 1: lot easier for you to mold them to your will,
- 2:16Speaker 1: doesn't it? Ghislaine Maxwell and her pedophile lover, co-conspirator Jeffrey
- 2:23Speaker 1: Epstein were both Israeli spies who took pictures of powerful
- 2:27Speaker 1: men having sex with underage girls to blackmail them their
- 2:31Speaker 1: alleged Mossad handler has sensationally claimed. So there's a lot
- 2:36Speaker 1: there right off the bat, right? Now, I've always been
- 2:39Speaker 1: of the opinion that they might have been passing on
- 2:42Speaker 1: information to the Mossad, and it's likely that they were.
- 2:47Speaker 1: But if you think that the buck stopped there, you
- 2:49Speaker 1: are missing the boat. The CIA is not letting anything
- 2:53Speaker 1: like this occur in this country without having their fingers
- 2:56Speaker 1: in the pie. Zero chance. So, while the Mossad is
- 3:01Speaker 1: good at what they do, they are not like this...
- 3:04Speaker 1: all-world beating organization that some people make them out to be.
- 3:09Speaker 1: The CIA is head and shoulders way scummier than any
- 3:13Speaker 1: other intelligence group out there. The pair allegedly ran a
- 3:19Speaker 1: honey trap operation where they would provide young girls to
- 3:22Speaker 1: politicians in order to squeeze them for information for the Israelis.
- 3:27Speaker 1: And like I said, no doubt about it, I'm sure
- 3:29Speaker 1: the Mossad was in on it. This is... has all
- 3:33Speaker 1: the hallmarks of the type of operation the Mossad loves
- 3:36Speaker 1: to run. They'll find themselves one of their adversaries over in, say,
- 3:41Speaker 1: the West Bank or in Lebanon, and they'll set him
- 3:45Speaker 1: up in a honey trap situation where he can be
- 3:48Speaker 1: exposed as somebody who likes other men or whatever it
- 3:52Speaker 1: is to embarrass him. and then they'll hold that over
- 3:55Speaker 1: his head so they can manipulate him to do what
- 3:58Speaker 1: they want him to do. This is one of the
- 4:01Speaker 1: oldest tricks in the book, folks. The unsubstantiated claims have
- 4:10Speaker 1: been made by Ari Ben-Minaj, who claims he is a
- 4:13Speaker 1: former Israeli spy. Ben-Minaj claims that he was the handler
- 4:17Speaker 1: of Ghislaine's dad, Robert Maxwell. who was also a spy,
- 4:21Speaker 1: and that it was the former newspaper baron who introduced
- 4:24Speaker 1: Epstein and his daughter to the Israeli intelligence agency. Well,
- 4:29Speaker 1: we've always thought that that was the case. And I
- 4:32Speaker 1: always thought that the narrative that Epstein and Maxwell didn't
- 4:35Speaker 1: know each other while Bob Maxwell was alive was a
- 4:38Speaker 1: bit bunk. It didn't make any sense to me. And
- 4:42Speaker 1: we know that Maxwell was grooming his daughter for this
- 4:45Speaker 1: sort of position. You know, it's rather obvious when you
- 4:50Speaker 1: look at everything and how it all came together that,
- 4:53Speaker 1: you know, Ghislaine Maxwell didn't just happen to fall face
- 4:55Speaker 1: first into this. This is all by design, in my opinion.
- 5:00Speaker 1: And when you hear somebody like Ben Minosh talk about
- 5:03Speaker 1: his relationship with Bob Maxwell and Bob Maxwell's relationship with
- 5:08Speaker 1: various intelligence services, you know, it all starts to make
- 5:11Speaker 1: some sense, doesn't it? He makes the unverified claims in
- 5:17Speaker 1: a new book called Epstein, Dead Men Tell No Tales.
- 5:20Speaker 1: And I suggest you read this one too. This is
- 5:22Speaker 1: a good book. Melissa Cronin is a good author. And
- 5:26Speaker 1: the other authors that worked on it did a good job.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Solid information in this book for sure. And this whole
- 5:32Speaker 1: entire Israeli intelligence angle and intelligence angle in general, it's
- 5:37Speaker 1: certainly something that is very, very, very apparent. When you
- 5:43Speaker 1: start looking at it and you start... you know, following
- 5:46Speaker 1: all of the clues and all of the evidence. There's
- 5:48Speaker 1: no way that Epstein and Maxwell could have done what
- 5:51Speaker 1: they did without protection from people who were very well placed.
- 5:58Speaker 1: In a preview of the book shared with The Sun Online,
- 6:00Speaker 1: Ben Minosh says, Mr. Epstein was the simple idiot who
- 6:04Speaker 1: was going around providing girls to all kinds of politicians
- 6:07Speaker 1: in the United States. See, effing around is not a crime.
- 6:11Speaker 1: It could be embarrassing, but it's not a crime. And definitely, right? Look,
- 6:15Speaker 1: if you cheat on your wife, you're a scumbag. You
- 6:17Speaker 1: cheat on your husband, you're scummy. But you can survive
- 6:21Speaker 1: that politically, especially these days. But if you get caught
- 6:24Speaker 1: with an underage girl, there's no surviving that. And that
- 6:28Speaker 1: was the goal for Maxwell and Epstein, according to Ben
- 6:32Speaker 1: Minosh anyway, when it comes to their Compromat plan, when
- 6:37Speaker 1: it comes to the honey trap. But effing a 14-year-old
- 6:44Speaker 1: girl is a crime. And he was taking photos of
- 6:46Speaker 1: politicians effing 14-year-old girls if you want to get this straight.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And look, again, these sound like sensational claims. If this
- 6:55Speaker 1: was the only person talking about this, then you could
- 6:58Speaker 1: probably just dismiss it out of hand as somebody looking for,
- 7:01Speaker 1: I don't know, publicity or somebody who might just be
- 7:05Speaker 1: straight up crazy or whatever. But it's not that, right?
- 7:09Speaker 1: We have years and years and years of evidence pointing
- 7:12Speaker 1: to this. We have other people who have whispered about this.
- 7:16Speaker 1: And then this dude comes forward and he says he
- 7:18Speaker 1: was Robert Maxwell's handler and he has direct knowledge of
- 7:21Speaker 1: all of this. Well, hey. Gotta be something that needs
- 7:25Speaker 1: to be discussed then, right? And... We talked about this
- 7:29Speaker 1: way back in 2019 when it was first breaking and
- 7:33Speaker 1: this book first came out. But I thought it deserved
- 7:36Speaker 1: another look today because it's a very interesting and important
- 7:40Speaker 1: part of all of this. Because if Epstein really was
- 7:44Speaker 1: a spy like a lot of people believe or an
- 7:46Speaker 1: asset like a lot of people believe, then there's so
- 7:50Speaker 1: much more here that needs to be unpacked and that
- 7:53Speaker 1: needs to be exposed. They, Epstein and Maxwell, would just
- 7:59Speaker 1: blackmail people. They would just blackmail people like that. Ben,
- 8:04Speaker 1: Ben Minosh is a mysterious Iranian born Israeli businessman who
- 8:08Speaker 1: claims to have worked for the Mossad from 1977 to 1987. Now, again,
- 8:14Speaker 1: it's up to you to decide if you believe this
- 8:17Speaker 1: man's claims. For me personally, what it does, it just
- 8:21Speaker 1: lends some more concrete to the foundation because we have
- 8:25Speaker 1: heard from a lot of people. that Epstein was an asset.
- 8:29Speaker 1: We have heard from a lot of people about Maxwell's dad.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And it's not just Ben Minosh who has said this,
- 8:36Speaker 1: but if you believe his story and he was Robert
- 8:40Speaker 1: Maxwell's handler and he was part of the Mossad, then
- 8:45Speaker 1: this is a pretty strong testimony about who Maxwell and
- 8:50Speaker 1: Epstein were and what they were up to. He was
- 8:54Speaker 1: arrested in 1989 in the U.S. on arms dealing charges,
- 8:58Speaker 1: but was acquitted in 1990 after a jury accepted he
- 9:02Speaker 1: was acting on behalf of Israel. So that right there
- 9:05Speaker 1: shows you he obviously was working for Israel, Ben Menashe,
- 9:09Speaker 1: when he got arrested in this arms deal in 1989.
- 9:12Speaker 1: And due to his work with Israel, he was acquitted
- 9:16Speaker 1: in 1990 because the jury accepted that he was acting
- 9:19Speaker 1: on behalf of the Israeli government. So to me, again,
- 9:23Speaker 1: that points to him being honest about the fact that
- 9:27Speaker 1: he was a handler for the Mossad, somebody who was
- 9:31Speaker 1: in charge of cultivating these assets, running these assets, and
- 9:35Speaker 1: then milking them for whatever information they came up with.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Israel tried to distance themselves from him with government sources
- 9:44Speaker 1: saying that they never had anything to do, that he
- 9:47Speaker 1: never had anything to do with intelligence services. Although, other
- 9:51Speaker 1: news reports in both the U.S. and Israel confirmed he did. So, yeah,
- 9:56Speaker 1: I'm not going to believe the Israeli intelligence service. I
- 9:59Speaker 1: know it's breaking news that intelligence services like to lie
- 10:02Speaker 1: all the time, but I'm not going to believe what
- 10:05Speaker 1: the Israeli intelligence services had to say. Just like I
- 10:09Speaker 1: wouldn't believe what the CIA had to say. It's rather
- 10:14Speaker 1: obvious that this guy was working for the Israeli government
- 10:17Speaker 1: in some capacity. He later wrote a book called Prophets
- 10:23Speaker 1: of War inside the U.S.-Israeli arms network and in the
- 10:27Speaker 1: early 1990s claimed that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's dad, worked for
- 10:31Speaker 1: the Mossad. And that's for sure, in my opinion. I
- 10:34Speaker 1: don't even think anyone can dispute that Robert Maxwell was
- 10:37Speaker 1: working for the Mossad. I mean, you look at his burial,
- 10:41Speaker 1: look at the honors that the State of Israel gave him,
- 10:44Speaker 1: you look at all of the chatter around him, you
- 10:46Speaker 1: look at how well-placed he was as a tycoon of industry,
- 10:52Speaker 1: and it's the perfect kind of asset for, insert intelligence
- 10:56Speaker 1: agency here, and especially if you're talking about the Mossad.
- 11:07Speaker 1: The new book takes this further and claims Maxwell may
- 11:10Speaker 1: have worked for other governments too as a double or
- 11:12Speaker 1: triple agent. That is something that I have always believed.
- 11:16Speaker 1: And when you're an asset here like Robert Maxwell or
- 11:20Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, a lot of times you're
- 11:23Speaker 1: double dipping. You're passing information on to the highest bidder.
- 11:26Speaker 1: You might have made connections with insert government here, and
- 11:30Speaker 1: they're offering to give you more money or status or
- 11:32Speaker 1: whatever it is, but a lot of times these quote-unquote
- 11:36Speaker 1: free agent assets, they're working for many people. Ben Minosh
- 11:44Speaker 1: claims that despite reports Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell met in
- 11:47Speaker 1: the early 90s in New York, they actually met much
- 11:50Speaker 1: earlier through the socialite, human trafficker, condemnable scumbag and bipedal
- 11:56Speaker 1: serpent's father. And we've talked about this too. There's no
- 11:59Speaker 1: way that Epstein and Maxwell didn't meet until after Bob
- 12:03Speaker 1: Maxwell died. There's just no way, in my opinion. This
- 12:06Speaker 1: was something that was set up, put into motion, and
- 12:09Speaker 1: Epstein and Maxwell were just the perfect vehicles for this operation.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell to open the social doors. Jeffrey Epstein, well,
- 12:18Speaker 1: to do Jeffrey Epstein type shit. He claims that Robert
- 12:25Speaker 1: Maxwell introduced Epstein to Mossad and then Ghislaine got involved later.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Files from the British Foreign Office released in 2003 appear
- 12:34Speaker 1: to back the claims that Robert Maxwell may have been
- 12:37Speaker 1: a spy, with one report describing him as a thoroughly
- 12:40Speaker 1: bad character who was being financed by Russia, and another
- 12:44Speaker 1: saying his questionable activities had been brought to the attention
- 12:48Speaker 1: of the foreign officer on several occasions. So this guy
- 12:51Speaker 1: had his hand in many pockets. We know that Bob
- 12:54Speaker 1: Maxwell was all about making that dough, right? Increasing his money,
- 12:58Speaker 1: increasing his power, just like the rest of them. And
- 13:01Speaker 1: if he could work with, say, the KGB, work with
- 13:05Speaker 1: the Mossad, work with the CIA, and maximize his clout,
- 13:10Speaker 1: his political chits, as well as his income, you know
- 13:13Speaker 1: a guy like that's going to do it. and then
- 13:16Speaker 1: it leads to his mysterious death on that boat, and
- 13:20Speaker 1: it makes it hard for me to believe that he
- 13:23Speaker 1: happened to fall off the boat like that, huh? With
- 13:25Speaker 1: all of these ties to all of these different intelligence agencies,
- 13:29Speaker 1: he just fell off the boat while he was having
- 13:30Speaker 1: a whiz. Okay. While the Maxwell family has always denied
- 13:37Speaker 1: such reports, family friend Laura Goldman says in the book...
- 13:40Speaker 1: My feeling is that he probably was an agent to
- 13:43Speaker 1: the Russians, the Israelis, and the British. I believe that
- 13:47Speaker 1: Ghislaine continued his work. That's her own friend, Laura Goldman,
- 13:50Speaker 1: saying that. And it's just, for me, it's obvious. When
- 13:54Speaker 1: you look at the way they conducted themselves, the circles
- 13:56Speaker 1: they moved in, the people they were hanging out with,
- 13:59Speaker 1: what do you think, Ehud Barak just shows up at
- 14:01Speaker 1: anyone's house to hang out for dinner? You have to
- 14:05Speaker 1: have clout in certain circles for these people to even
- 14:08Speaker 1: entertain the idea of showing up to one of your soirees.
- 14:14Speaker 1: It is not known whether Maxwell and Epstein gathered any
- 14:17Speaker 1: intelligence about pal Prince Andrew in their alleged espionage work,
- 14:21Speaker 1: although the book suggests that the royal was a target.
- 14:25Speaker 1: There's no doubt that they collected compromise on Prince Andrew.
- 14:29Speaker 1: And that's why I said, after all was said and
- 14:32Speaker 1: done with this moron, that he should have came out
- 14:34Speaker 1: and said that he was blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein. He
- 14:37Speaker 1: had no idea about any of this and he wanted
- 14:39Speaker 1: to cooperate. But he's too stupid and has too much
- 14:43Speaker 1: arrogance to even do that. But it's rather obvious they
- 14:46Speaker 1: had a file on him. It's rather obvious they were,
- 14:49Speaker 1: you know, collecting compromise. To do what with? I have
- 14:52Speaker 1: no idea. But it's obvious this stuff was being collected.
- 14:57Speaker 1: John Dugan, who served as deputy sheriff in Palm Beach, Florida,
- 15:01Speaker 1: at the time Epstein was in prison for his first
- 15:03Speaker 1: slew of child sex offenses, says he was given access
- 15:06Speaker 1: to Epstein's case file, including videotapes, in its entirety by
- 15:11Speaker 1: Palm Beach police detective Joseph Ricari, who later died unexpectedly
- 15:16Speaker 1: at age 50. Now, I don't believe one word of
- 15:18Speaker 1: this John Dugan character. Never have, never will. always thought
- 15:22Speaker 1: that he was a clown, always thought that this story
- 15:24Speaker 1: was garbage, and I never took a bite out of
- 15:27Speaker 1: it when it was happening. Whenever my bullshit meter goes
- 15:30Speaker 1: off the way it was when this John Dugan character
- 15:34Speaker 1: popped up, I usually veer away. Dugan managed to copy
- 15:41Speaker 1: the tapes, encrypt them, and flee to Russia, where he
- 15:43Speaker 1: now lives. Well, let's see him, okay? You said you
- 15:46Speaker 1: had the tapes for how long? Another one of these
- 15:49Speaker 1: BS artists. Although he has not watched the encrypted files,
- 15:53Speaker 1: he tells Epstein, dead men tell no tales, that he
- 15:56Speaker 1: is certain they contain blackmail material involving wealthy people and
- 16:00Speaker 1: that Prince Andrew was a target. You haven't even watched
- 16:03Speaker 1: the tapes. How do you know they're old Dugan? Do
- 16:07Speaker 1: I think that Epstein was probably put up to getting
- 16:10Speaker 1: some wealthy people to sleep with some underage women so
- 16:13Speaker 1: these people could be blackmailed by Western intelligence agencies? Absolutely
- 16:18Speaker 1: I do, he said. Well, yeah. That's as obvious as
- 16:22Speaker 1: the sun rising in the morning. MI6 were concerned that
- 16:28Speaker 1: Russia may have obtained compromise, compromising material on Prince Andrew,
- 16:32Speaker 1: according to a Times report. Although Dugan claims he has
- 16:36Speaker 1: given no information to the Russians. I think that was just,
- 16:39Speaker 1: you know, Russia paranoia at the time, right? Oh, the
- 16:42Speaker 1: Russians have compromise. I'd be much more worried about what
- 16:46Speaker 1: the Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 has. Epstein was found
- 16:53Speaker 1: dead in his New York prison cell on August 10th
- 16:56Speaker 1: after allegedly committing suicide while he faced charges for sex
- 16:59Speaker 1: trafficking of minors. Now, again, we all know the situation
- 17:04Speaker 1: surrounding his death. Coincidences abound. Melissa Cronin, the book's author,
- 17:10Speaker 1: believes that Epstein alleged intelligence links add weight to the
- 17:13Speaker 1: theory that he did not kill himself but was murdered.
- 17:16Speaker 1: She also points to Epstein and Maxwell's links with prominent
- 17:20Speaker 1: people from the science and technology industries... and believes the
- 17:23Speaker 1: pair not only ran a honeypot operation, but also an
- 17:27Speaker 1: information gathering operation. 100%, I've always said that. There's a
- 17:32Speaker 1: reason he was collecting scientists. Now, what's terrifying is, what
- 17:36Speaker 1: did he do with this information when he got it
- 17:38Speaker 1: from these scientists that were hanging out with him? And
- 17:41Speaker 1: how much of that information was classified? Now, I don't,
- 17:44Speaker 1: maybe none of it was. I'm just asking the question.
- 17:47Speaker 1: And it terrifies me to think about all of these
- 17:50Speaker 1: knuckleheads sitting around, You know, having access to all of
- 17:54Speaker 1: these young women and spilling all kinds of secrets. What
- 17:59Speaker 1: a shitshow. Before I started with the book, I was
- 18:05Speaker 1: extremely skeptical of the murder theory, she told Sun Online.
- 18:08Speaker 1: I'm definitely not a conspiracy theorist by nature at all.
- 18:12Speaker 1: But the more that we dug into this, there's just
- 18:15Speaker 1: so much incontrovertible evidence about his work in the world
- 18:19Speaker 1: of espionage, his work with the Mossad, And it all
- 18:22Speaker 1: comes together to make a really compelling argument for the
- 18:25Speaker 1: fact that he was murdered. I think one thing that
- 18:28Speaker 1: is interesting and important to say is that Epstein wasn't
- 18:31Speaker 1: necessarily a spy in the traditional sense. He wasn't particularly
- 18:36Speaker 1: loyal to Israel per se. He was a collector of information. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
- 18:42Speaker 1: times a hundred. This is what I have always thought.
- 18:45Speaker 1: And I've always said that. An asset for sure. Someone
- 18:48Speaker 1: who collected information. But a free agent. He wasn't, you know,
- 18:53Speaker 1: people want to set it up like the Mossad is
- 18:55Speaker 1: this unbeatable power and they can just do whatever they want.
- 18:59Speaker 1: And that's not the case. The Mossad is, I mean
- 19:02Speaker 1: the Mossad, the Mossad is the CIA's little weaker brother.
- 19:08Speaker 1: And if you're worried about the Mossad and you're not
- 19:10Speaker 1: paying attention to the CIA, you're missing the plot. So,
- 19:16Speaker 1: of course, there was the blackmail aspect of what he
- 19:18Speaker 1: was doing in terms of the honey trap and getting
- 19:21Speaker 1: his footage of people that he could use as leverage.
- 19:23Speaker 1: At the same time, something that a lot of people
- 19:26Speaker 1: haven't really explored is how he cultivated relationships within science
- 19:31Speaker 1: and technology. That's something I have always talked about from
- 19:34Speaker 1: the very beginning. There's a reason he chose Zorro Ranch, folks.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Santa Fe Institute's right there. You have Los Alamitos down there.
- 19:43Speaker 1: You have a lot of stuff going on and a
- 19:46Speaker 1: lot of access to scientists who are working on all
- 19:49Speaker 1: kinds of crazy stuff. projects. We get really deep into
- 19:53Speaker 1: that in the book and to how he was meeting
- 19:55Speaker 1: with and extracting really sensitive information from scientists and eminent
- 20:00Speaker 1: theorists and things like that. That material, probably even more
- 20:04Speaker 1: so than the blackmail material, is what would really be
- 20:07Speaker 1: of interest to foreign powers such as Israel. Absolutely. If
- 20:11Speaker 1: you can get the science secrets, technology secrets from insert
- 20:18Speaker 1: country here, insert project here, that stuff is worth so
- 20:21Speaker 1: much money. How much do you think America or Russia
- 20:25Speaker 1: would have paid for nuclear secrets back in the day?
- 20:31Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing. Sun Online reached
- 20:35Speaker 1: out to her representatives for Maxwell. Representatives for the Israeli
- 20:39Speaker 1: government did not respond to requests for comment. All right, folks. Well,
- 20:44Speaker 1: there you have it. I mean, look, really, it comes
- 20:46Speaker 1: down to what do you believe? Do you think Jeffrey
- 20:48Speaker 1: Epstein and Glenn Maxwell were working as assets in the
- 20:52Speaker 1: intelligence community? Or were they just these sick people who
- 20:56Speaker 1: devised this plan in this plot all because Jeffrey Epstein
- 21:00Speaker 1: had proclivities and he needed to, you know, chase his
- 21:04Speaker 1: disgusting desires? For me, it makes a lot more sense
- 21:09Speaker 1: that he was a sick bastard who was doing all
- 21:11Speaker 1: of that, you know, chasing his desires and his disgusting wants.
- 21:15Speaker 1: But when you look at everything else, it's rather obvious
- 21:19Speaker 1: to me, anyway, that Maxwell and Epstein were both intelligence assets.
- 21:27Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's going to do it for this
- 21:29Speaker 1: morning's episode. Context episodes most certainly on their way, and
- 21:33Speaker 1: I will be back later on and we'll see where
- 21:35Speaker 1: we're at. If you'd like to contact me, you can
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- 21:55Speaker 1: The link that we discussed can be found in the
- 21:57Speaker 1: description box. All right, folks, have a great morning, and
- 22:00Speaker 1: I will talk to you all later on. What's up, everyone,
- 22:04Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. One of the
- 22:08Speaker 1: biggest issues when we're talking about travesties of justice within
- 22:12Speaker 1: the world of Jeffrey Epstein is most certainly the plea deal.
- 22:18Speaker 1: How he was able to acquire that plea deal has
- 22:21Speaker 1: been the source of much debate and of much contention.
- 22:26Speaker 1: But the fact is, he received that plea deal. And
- 22:30Speaker 1: that deal, well, there is no other deal like it.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Nobody else ever has gotten a deal like Jeffrey Epstein.
- 22:38Speaker 1: So ask yourselves, how is it that he is worthy
- 22:41Speaker 1: of getting such a deal? What makes him so special? Well,
- 22:48Speaker 1: when you're hanging out with the people he was hanging
- 22:50Speaker 1: out with, and you're breaking bread with some of the
- 22:54Speaker 1: most powerful and influential people in the world, you end
- 22:59Speaker 1: up getting a deal that nobody else would ever, ever get.
- 23:06Speaker 1: And that's certainly what happened when Epstein scored this sweetheart
- 23:10Speaker 1: deal down in Florida. Today, we're going to read an
- 23:15Speaker 1: article from Noreen Marcus over at thefloridabulldog.org talking about how
- 23:21Speaker 1: this is a cushy deal and how it's the only
- 23:25Speaker 1: one of its kind in South Florida ever. So, Let's
- 23:30Speaker 1: get into this article, and let's see what Noreen Marcus
- 23:34Speaker 1: has to say. Headline. Jeffrey Epstein's cushy federal deal was
- 23:40Speaker 1: the only one of its kind in South Florida for
- 23:43Speaker 1: at least three decades. And ever, right? When you look
- 23:47Speaker 1: at it, there was no one who ever got a
- 23:49Speaker 1: deal like this. But somehow, this disgusting, gross, child-molesting son
- 23:56Speaker 1: of a bitch comes out with... The sweetest deal in
- 24:00Speaker 1: the history of sweet deals. Now remember how many larger-than-life
- 24:06Speaker 1: criminals have been down in Florida. Had all kinds of
- 24:08Speaker 1: mob guys, drug narco professionals, you name it. And none
- 24:13Speaker 1: of them caught deals like this. What makes Epstein so special?
- 24:18Speaker 1: The sickly sweet deal that lawyers for serial sex offender
- 24:22Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein worked out with South Florida federal prosecutors veered
- 24:27Speaker 1: so far off the beaten path, it blazed a path
- 24:30Speaker 1: of its own. There is no doubt about that. This
- 24:34Speaker 1: is going to be studied in law classes and in
- 24:37Speaker 1: the law profession for years to come. It's going to
- 24:41Speaker 1: be a case study in not how to handle yourself.
- 24:45Speaker 1: This is a deal that should have never been signed
- 24:47Speaker 1: off on. And say it was Acosta, right? Oh, it
- 24:50Speaker 1: was all Acosta's fault. Then where was his boss to
- 24:53Speaker 1: come in and say, look, you can't do this. This
- 24:55Speaker 1: deal's terrible, my friend. There was nobody to step in
- 25:00Speaker 1: and do that. You know why? Because those on high,
- 25:02Speaker 1: Acosta's bosses, they wanted this deal to get done. Over
- 25:08Speaker 1: the last 29 years, three non-prosecution agreements, NPAs, the kind
- 25:14Speaker 1: of deal Epstein got, went to big companies in the
- 25:17Speaker 1: Southern District of Florida, according to a list compiled by
- 25:21Speaker 1: the University of Virginia and Duke Law Schools. So only
- 25:26Speaker 1: to a company, only to companies, not to personal individuals,
- 25:30Speaker 1: and certainly not to unnamed individuals. How the hell do
- 25:34Speaker 1: you even get that part, that provision put in? to
- 25:38Speaker 1: a contract like this, to a non-prosecution agreement. You would
- 25:43Speaker 1: literally have to be using the Jedi mind trick like
- 25:45Speaker 1: Ben Kenobi. But since no company executive was accused of
- 25:52Speaker 1: anything close to Epstein's level of depravity, his deal appears
- 25:56Speaker 1: to be one of a kind. His informal criminal enterprise
- 26:00Speaker 1: that preyed upon teenage girls had no name to include
- 26:04Speaker 1: in the law school's corporate prosecution registry. Oh, that's easy.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. We can just call it that, right?
- 26:13Speaker 1: Or if you want, we can go a step further.
- 26:15Speaker 1: The Epstein crime family. How about that? We love to
- 26:18Speaker 1: slap monikers on people and call them crime families, right? Well,
- 26:22Speaker 1: why not call these guys the same thing? Because that's
- 26:25Speaker 1: what they were. They were facilitating all sorts of crimes.
- 26:29Speaker 1: Money laundering. Human trafficking. Wire fraud. Threats. Solicitation. You name it,
- 26:38Speaker 1: these people were into it. Out of 190 Southern District
- 26:44Speaker 1: federal cases that were resolved before trial from 1992 to
- 26:49Speaker 1: this year, the list shows 86% resulted in pleas. Not
- 26:55Speaker 1: including the Epstein affair, only three of the cases, or 1.6%,
- 27:00Speaker 1: ended with non-prosecution agreements. Now look, very rarely does the
- 27:06Speaker 1: federal government give out a non-prosecution agreement when they have
- 27:10Speaker 1: you bent over a barrel. They love to get their convictions,
- 27:14Speaker 1: don't they, in federal court? And that, you see it here.
- 27:18Speaker 1: 86% resulted in plea deals. 86%, 8 out of 10
- 27:22Speaker 1: people said, I can't beat the federal government at trial,
- 27:25Speaker 1: so I'm just going to plead out. Not Epstein. He
- 27:29Speaker 1: gets himself a nice non-prosecution agreement. That covers him, his co-conspirators,
- 27:36Speaker 1: the core four, and any unnamed co-conspirators as well. Now,
- 27:40Speaker 1: however the hell they whip that one up, I'll need
- 27:44Speaker 1: it explained to me how the federal government and the
- 27:47Speaker 1: state government signed off on it. They are rarer than
- 27:53Speaker 1: hen's teeth, and hens have no teeth, said criminal defense
- 27:56Speaker 1: lawyer Joel Hirshhorn during a 53-year career. He has yet
- 28:01Speaker 1: to negotiate a single one. Think about that, folks, okay?
- 28:05Speaker 1: Do you really think Mr. Hirshhorn here is not a
- 28:08Speaker 1: good lawyer? That he can't, you know, he doesn't know
- 28:11Speaker 1: his way around a courtroom? And on the flip side,
- 28:15Speaker 1: you think Dershowitz is that good in the courtroom? Or
- 28:18Speaker 1: left court? Or Lefkowitz? Of course they aren't. You think
- 28:23Speaker 1: it's just happened to be a coincidence that they had
- 28:25Speaker 1: all these guys from Kirkland and Ellis working on that
- 28:29Speaker 1: law team? Guys like Ken Starr with extreme political reach?
- 28:34Speaker 1: Because that's what you're paying for. If you have the
- 28:36Speaker 1: right amount of money, you're paying for influence. Whereas me
- 28:40Speaker 1: or you? We're just looking to get a lawyer and
- 28:42Speaker 1: we hope we get a plea deal that doesn't send
- 28:45Speaker 1: us to prison for the rest of our lives. A
- 28:49Speaker 1: special deal for Jeffrey Epstein alone. The three companies on
- 28:53Speaker 1: the Southern District's NPA list are Wachovia, now Wells Fargo,
- 28:57Speaker 1: accused of antitrust, Republic Metals Corporation, accused of money laundering,
- 29:02Speaker 1: and Baton Holdings, accused of securities fraud. The deals all
- 29:07Speaker 1: followed some combination of hefty fines, long prison sentences for
- 29:11Speaker 1: company executives, or cooperation with other probes. And that is
- 29:17Speaker 1: the rub, right? We know that Epstein was an informer.
- 29:20Speaker 1: We know he was working for the government. And all
- 29:22Speaker 1: these people that want to act like he wasn't explain
- 29:25Speaker 1: to me how he always got off whenever he got
- 29:28Speaker 1: caught doing something wrong. I call it the Whitey Bulger effect.
- 29:32Speaker 1: And we see it with Epstein time and time again.
- 29:38Speaker 1: but a cushy deal like the late... Epstein's is virtually
- 29:41Speaker 1: unheard of. The use of an MPA against an individual
- 29:45Speaker 1: is very rare, said Miami trial lawyer Marcos Jimenez, who
- 29:49Speaker 1: was the U.S. attorney in South Florida from 2002 to 2005.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy who would know what he's talking about.
- 29:59Speaker 1: But nah, this is just, this is your everyday behavior.
- 30:03Speaker 1: And that's why it's laughable that the appeals court would
- 30:06Speaker 1: look at this and just shrug their shoulders and be like, nah,
- 30:09Speaker 1: you know, we're just going to let this stand. It's
- 30:14Speaker 1: an abomination. Jimenez told the Florida Bulldog he doesn't remember
- 30:21Speaker 1: authorizing any kind of NPA. The law school's list and
- 30:25Speaker 1: media reports confirm his recollection. So... Who's the one that's
- 30:55Speaker 1: bullshitting you folks? The people that want you to believe
- 30:58Speaker 1: that this is just a common everyday occurrence that criminals
- 31:01Speaker 1: get deals like this? Or are you going to believe
- 31:05Speaker 1: the actual facts that are in front of your face?
- 31:07Speaker 1: Because the official narrative that they want you to suck
- 31:10Speaker 1: down is just filled and riddled with holes. Protecting mystery co-conspirators.
- 31:19Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's off-the-charts pact let him avoid federal charges that
- 31:23Speaker 1: carry serious prison time. Prosecutors prepared, but never filed, a
- 31:28Speaker 1: 53-page indictment describing his criminal activities with underage girls that
- 31:33Speaker 1: could have put Epstein away for life. And we all
- 31:36Speaker 1: know how that ended up. Ah, we'll punt it down
- 31:39Speaker 1: to state. He'll get the easier, softer charges. Unlike standard NPAs,
- 31:45Speaker 1: his carefully crafted version even protected any potential co-conspirators, prompting
- 31:51Speaker 1: speculation about former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Britain's
- 31:56Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, and other powerful men in Epstein's social circle. Well,
- 32:02Speaker 1: we see that Andrew tried to use this clause, and
- 32:06Speaker 1: it didn't work out for him in New York. He
- 32:08Speaker 1: got sued anyway. But... criminally speaking, this is a big
- 32:12Speaker 1: roadblock from justice being served in this case. None of
- 32:18Speaker 1: them has been charged in connection with Epstein. Only his ex-girlfriend, co-conspirator,
- 32:23Speaker 1: fellow child abuser, general all-around scuzzbag and bipedal serpent, Ghislaine Maxwell,
- 32:28Speaker 1: is being prosecuted in New York for allegedly procuring young
- 32:31Speaker 1: girls for him to abuse. Now we all know that
- 32:34Speaker 1: it's not prosecuted anymore. She has been convicted. Gregory had
- 32:39Speaker 1: nothing to do with the Epstein case and wouldn't speculate
- 32:42Speaker 1: about possible accomplices, but said he's amazed and astounded by
- 32:47Speaker 1: the NPA clause granting immunity to hypothetical co-conspirators. Again, you
- 32:53Speaker 1: really think that Acosta has the power to sign off
- 32:55Speaker 1: on something like this when you hear from all of
- 32:58Speaker 1: these top-notch prosecutors and people who've worked in the business
- 33:01Speaker 1: that this is unheard of? Jeffrey Epstein from Mansion to
- 33:09Speaker 1: Jail Suicide. I have never heard of a case where
- 33:11Speaker 1: an NPA extended to people who haven't been investigated or
- 33:15Speaker 1: charged yet, Gregory said. It just doesn't make sense. If
- 33:19Speaker 1: you were getting cooperation from someone who would provide you
- 33:22Speaker 1: with leads to take a case to a much higher
- 33:24Speaker 1: or significant person or was opening up the case to
- 33:28Speaker 1: a much broader range of criminal activity, that might lead
- 33:32Speaker 1: to this kind of agreement, he said. Well, we know
- 33:35Speaker 1: it didn't. This all happened because Epstein and his lawyers
- 33:39Speaker 1: had friends on high. The Justice Department was littered with
- 33:43Speaker 1: creatures who were friendly with Dershowitz and Ken Starr and
- 33:47Speaker 1: the rest of these guys. But how could an unknown
- 33:52Speaker 1: co-conspirator barter for immunity from prosecution? Yet, in exchange for
- 33:59Speaker 1: extraordinary largesse from the feds, Epstein pleaded guilty to two
- 34:04Speaker 1: low-level state prostitution offenses and funded a victim's compensation pool.
- 34:10Speaker 1: The government shut down a grand jury that might have
- 34:13Speaker 1: outed others in his sex ring. Jeffrey Epstein got an
- 34:17Speaker 1: 18-month sentence but served a little over a year, mostly
- 34:21Speaker 1: working on work release near his Palm Beach estate. Ten
- 34:25Speaker 1: years later, the wealthy financier, pedophile, died in a Manhattan
- 34:29Speaker 1: jail cell in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial for
- 34:33Speaker 1: sex trafficking in New York. Acosta's poor judgment cost him. Look,
- 34:38Speaker 1: for me, again, I don't buy that for a second.
- 34:41Speaker 1: His cowardice cost him. If my boss ever came to
- 34:44Speaker 1: me with this kind of proposal and I had all
- 34:47Speaker 1: of these girls that I had been investigating to see
- 34:50Speaker 1: if their claims were true and I had this evidence
- 34:53Speaker 1: that it was, zero chance that I'd be okay with this.
- 34:56Speaker 1: I'd raise such a stink that I'd end up getting
- 34:59Speaker 1: fired and all of it because there's some things you can,
- 35:02Speaker 1: you know, look the other way. Not something like this.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Signing off on the notorious 2007 Epstein deal came to
- 35:11Speaker 1: haunt Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney, after Jimenez. Following publication
- 35:16Speaker 1: of a Miami Herald series about the Epstein case that
- 35:19Speaker 1: threw renewed light on his NPA, then-Labor Secretary Acosta resigned
- 35:24Speaker 1: in 2019. Very convenient fall guy, huh? They love their
- 35:29Speaker 1: low-hanging fruit. Jimenez said he agrees completely with a finding
- 35:34Speaker 1: by DOJ regulators that the NPA was a flawed mechanism
- 35:38Speaker 1: for satisfying the federal interest that caused the government to
- 35:42Speaker 1: open up the Epstein investigation in the first place. The
- 35:46Speaker 1: finding appeared in a November 2020 report by the Department's
- 35:50Speaker 1: Office of Professional Responsibility. It concluded Acosta showed poor judgment
- 35:56Speaker 1: when he approved the Epstein NPA, but didn't violate professional norms,
- 36:01Speaker 1: largely because none apply. And you know, it's convenient, right?
- 36:04Speaker 1: That the emails during this whole entire time of Acosta
- 36:07Speaker 1: to his superiors, oh, they just went missing, right? Just
- 36:11Speaker 1: a very convenient fact for the other people who are
- 36:14Speaker 1: involved in the decision-making here. Fall guy, Acosta, right next
- 36:20Speaker 1: to his name, pencil in, fall guy. Jimenez expressed reluctance
- 36:28Speaker 1: to criticize his successor. Still, he said he agrees that
- 36:31Speaker 1: Acosta exercised faulty judgment. NPAs robs victims of rights. Earlier
- 36:38Speaker 1: this month, a discredited deal resurfaced when a federal appeals
- 36:42Speaker 1: court ruled against Courtney Wilde, who says Jeffrey Epstein began
- 36:46Speaker 1: molesting her when she was 15. The U.S. Crime Victims
- 36:51Speaker 1: Rights Act says survivors must be notified about... about and
- 36:55Speaker 1: participate in negotiations between prosecutors and defendants. But prosecutors hid
- 37:01Speaker 1: the Epstein NPA document for several months until he pleaded guilty,
- 37:06Speaker 1: avoiding any objections to its lenient terms. Imagine these guys
- 37:12Speaker 1: hid this document when they're not allowed to do that
- 37:15Speaker 1: by law. And still, no repercussions. Nobody held responsible and
- 37:20Speaker 1: the deal is allowed to stand. Now you tell me
- 37:23Speaker 1: where the equitable justice is. But the 11th Circuit Court
- 37:29Speaker 1: said the law supports victims only after charges are filed.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Since Acosta agreed to the NPA and no charges were
- 37:37Speaker 1: ever filed in that case against Epstein, unfortunately, that was that.
- 37:42Speaker 1: allowing judges to protect victims' rights earlier in the process
- 37:45Speaker 1: would intrude on the prosecutor's discretion, the majority ruled in
- 37:49Speaker 1: an opinion published on April 15th. The courts would be
- 37:53Speaker 1: empowered to issue injunctions requiring consultation with victims, to name
- 37:58Speaker 1: just a few examples. before law enforcement raids, warrant applications, arrests,
- 38:04Speaker 1: witness interviews, lineups, and interrogations, Judge Kevin Newsom wrote for
- 38:08Speaker 1: the majority. Oh, give me a break, Judge Kevin Newsom.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Wasn't he the same guy that was hanging out with
- 38:15Speaker 1: Christian Everdell? Yeah, I believe so. Two dudes, yeah, just
- 38:19Speaker 1: two guys hanging out. No conflict of interest. Wait, what,
- 38:23Speaker 1: they both went to Harvard together? Come on, still no
- 38:26Speaker 1: conflict of interest, right? Right? Dissenters call the deal travesty.
- 38:33Speaker 1: The 704 decision from the full U.S. Court of Appeals
- 38:36Speaker 1: for the 11th Circuit may end Wilde's 13-year pursuit of justice,
- 38:42Speaker 1: though her lawyers plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 38:46Speaker 1: We know that failed, unfortunately. Four 11th Circuit court judges dissented.
- 38:52Speaker 1: Those judges, all women, skewered the Epstein NPA and assailed
- 38:56Speaker 1: the dramatic increase in all kinds of pre-indictment agreements over
- 39:01Speaker 1: the last 15 years. Not one single dude, not one
- 39:06Speaker 1: single man of those lawyers, I mean judges, dissented. What
- 39:12Speaker 1: an embarrassment. You mean to tell me not one of
- 39:14Speaker 1: you guys thought what happened here was disgusting? Maybe you
- 39:17Speaker 1: need to do more research. Maybe you need better clerks.
- 39:24Speaker 1: The majority's ruling leaves federal prosecutors free to engage in
- 39:27Speaker 1: the secret plea deals and deception. that resulted in the
- 39:31Speaker 1: travesty here, Judge Frank May's Hall wrote. It also exasperates
- 39:35Speaker 1: disparities between wealthy defendants and those who cannot afford to
- 39:40Speaker 1: hire well-connected and experienced attorneys to negotiate favorable deals for them,
- 39:46Speaker 1: she wrote. So, will there be another Epstein-like travesty? I
- 39:51Speaker 1: would hope that it never happens again, and I don't
- 39:54Speaker 1: think that it will, Jimenez said. Folks, look, how much
- 39:58Speaker 1: more do we have to explain it? This was a
- 40:01Speaker 1: travesty of epic proportions, and your courts, at every step
- 40:07Speaker 1: along the way, have sided with Epstein, his friends, and
- 40:12Speaker 1: this disgusting-ass deal. I'll leave you with that to think
- 40:18Speaker 1: about for a little while. And as for me, well,
- 40:21Speaker 1: I'll be back later on. If you'd like to contact me,
- 40:24Speaker 1: you can do that at bobbycappucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I
- 40:33Speaker 1: at protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at
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- 40:43Speaker 1: found in the description box.