Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Ted Waitt And The Transcript From His Epstein Related Trip To Congress (Part 10) (8/1/26)

Transcript

Ted Waitt And The Transcript From His Epstein Related Trip To Congress (Part 10) (8/1/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: where we left off with the Ted Waite testimony he
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: gave to Congress MSS Cathay. Question did you ever assist
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell and finding employees to work for? Answer? To
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: work for or no? Question you never helped her search
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: for candidates or anything? Answer no, not that I can
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: think of. Question I'd like to return now to minority
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: exhibit marked as G get that back. This is located
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: on the first page of EFTA number ending nine zero
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: five eight. There's an email from Glenn Maxwell to Ted
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Waite dated April second, two thousand and four, and the
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: first sentence says, one of the things I'm working on
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: is finding someone to work for you. I think I
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: have some potential candidates. Do you know what miss Maxwell
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: is referring to here? Answer? I do not. Question do
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: you know generally of her ever finding employees to work
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: for you? Answer? I think she did assist with finding
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: life housekeeping staff when I was setting up a new
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: house after my divorce with my wife. Question did you
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: ever find anyone to help you in the office with
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: your foundation? Answer? I don't really know. I don't believe so,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Miss Mace. Can I ask one last question then I'm out?
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Miss Cathe Yeah, Mace okay. Going back to the seven million,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: two hundred and eleven thousand, two hundred and thirty eight
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: dollars gift to Maxwell, was there any legal document between
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: the two of you about what that money was for
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: or why anything for any legal or liability reason. Was
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: an attorney involved? Was there any documentation about what it
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: was Mister Waite, It was handled by my staff. Later.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: I did not want to have any contact with or
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: relationship with her, so I think the final negotiations were
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: handled by my finance and legal team, Miss Mace. Did
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: you normally pay off ex girlfriends? Is that a thing?
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Miss Callen? Just for the record, he was married when
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: he founded his company, then he dated Miss Maxwell, and
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: then he got married again shortly after. Mace. Okay. But
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: there would have been some kind of legal document between
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: the two of you about that money, and you know
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: how you arrived to that figure. It's a very specific figure.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: Mister Wait. I believe it was a deduction for the
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: gift tax. Mace okay, Wait, it was deducted from it. Mace.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: All right, that's it, Thank you, mister spector. You said
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: it was the negotiations that were handled by your staff,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: answered the final elements, Yeah, they were handled by my team.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Questions So, just to be clear, was there some kind
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: of negotiation back and forth with Maxwell about the amount? Answer?
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I don't recall. I think it was. I recall her
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: not being happy with the amount, wanting more, But that
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Question she wanted more than seven point two million? Answer? Yeah,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't. So gets cut off by the person asking
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: the questions. I'm sorry. Just to be clear, she wanted
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: more than seven point two million? Answer, I don't know.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to have anything to do with it.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: I had my team handle it at the end. And
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: so from your recollection, maybe someone on your staff informed
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: you that she was unhappy with the seven point two
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: million answer yeah. I think someone on my staff might
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: have said she was very unhappy with the breakup, and
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: she was not, you know, in a good state. She
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: was quite devastated by the breakup. So at that point
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to get directly involved, and I had
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: my team handle the final details. Question sure, thank you,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Ms Cathay. Question to that point, outside of the cash
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: seven point two million and other money you might have
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: given her. Did you have assets that you and miss
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Maxwell owned together that was tied up? Answer we didn't
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: have any assets that we owned together. Question staying on
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: the topic generally, did you have a professional or financial
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: relationship with Miss Maxwell outside of your romantic relationship with her? Answer? No,
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: like professional or financial Other than the financial support the
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: thirty thousand a month, there was no financial relationship. Question
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: So to clarify, did you have any sort of business
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: relationship with Miss Maxwell? Answer? No? You never invested any
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: money in business ventures that you brought to you. Answer
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: not that I can recall. She invested her own money
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: in some business ventures, but I don't recall having any
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: investments that we did together. We kept everything separate. Question
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: So you and miss Maxwell never had any joint bank accounts?
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: Answer no. Question are you familiar with l max LLC? Answer?
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: That was the name she used frequently. Question and that
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: was the name of an entity she owned. Answer I'm
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: not familiar with that entity specifically or what it did,
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: but she used that the l max name, But it
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: sounds like something that she would have had. Question understood.
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: Do you know of anything else that she named el max.
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: You say she used it for other things. Answer. I
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: think her email address was l max. I think that
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: was a company like her, So I don't know if
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: at some point, I don't know if it was a
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: company or what it was. Really question understood. And since
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: we're on the timeline, we've jumped around to the end
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: of y'all's relationship. We've touched on it in various ways.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: But you mentioned ultimately the relationship ended because you knew
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: that you weren't going to get married, and we talked
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: about mister Rostein. So Miss Maxwell said in an interview
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: with the DOJ in twenty twenty five that the relationship
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: quote couldn't survive the black mail threats that were issued
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: against you by mister Rostein. So why would miss Maxwell
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: say that is the reason the relationship ended. Well, because
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: she's a liar, that's why. Answer, I have no idea.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Question did she ever express to you during the breakup
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: that that was the reason for the relationship ending? Answer
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: not that I can recall. Question So, in no way
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: for you anyway, did the black mail threats and mister
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Rostein contacting you have anything to do with the breakup? Answer? No,
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: misterses Caldanny, were you aware of any blackmail threats at
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: the time? Answer no, Specter. Was there anything about your
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: relationship with Miss Maxwell that could have been leveraged for blackmail?
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Answer no, Miss Callen, And just to be clear, it's
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: not his understanding that he was ever being blackmailed. It
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: was a business deal his understanding that's being proposed, and
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: he declined, and I think there's documents to that effect,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Ms Cathay. Outside of the business deal the proposal. Did
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: mister Rostein ever contact you regarding lawsuits against Miss Maxwell?
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Mister Waite, I never had any direct contact with mister
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Rostein spector with interactions of that sort. I mean, you're
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: a very successful person, of course, and you just mentioned,
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: of course you have staff. Would an interaction like that,
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: you know, these sorts of discussions, would that even normally
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: get go straight to you? Or is that the kind
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: of thing your staff would handle anyway, mister Waite, it
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: came through a friend of mine at the time. Rostein
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: approached a friend or they got together and he approached
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: my right hand person at the time, mister Spector. Who
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: is that, mister Waite, the guy that ran my family office.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: He worked for me for thirty plus years, and so
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: mister Descala approached him, and then he brought it to
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: my attention because it was a friend of mine. He
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: probably never would have even brought it to my never
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: would have made it to my desk if it wasn't
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: somebody that I knew that brought it in specter. Okay,
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: thank you, Miss Cathay. Question did you inform Miss Maxwell
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: about the contact? Answer? I believe I did. I believe
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: that there's an email that says I did. Question do
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: you remember any conversation outside of those emails about mister
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Rostein contacting you that you had with Miss Maxwell? Answer?
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: I don't recall any conversations. No question. Was the first
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: time that Miss Maxwell had heard about what mister Rosstein
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: brought up? Answer? I don't know. Mister Grant jumps in.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Miss Maxwell and yourself went to mister Epstein's
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: pom Beach house. She invited you in, but you decided
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: to wait in the car. I believe you said she
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: needed to get something from the house. Do you know
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: what she had to get? Answer? No question. Did she
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: walk out with anything? Answer? I don't remember. Question. And
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: when you were in the Palm Beach. Were you guys
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: already there just for a vacation or some other purpose? Answer? Yeah,
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: we were there for some other purpose and it wasn't
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: targeted tripped upon beach. Answer no, mister Grant. Thank you,
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Miss Cathay for clarity of the record, because we've bounced
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: around so much. Did you maintain any other former relationship
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: with Miss Maxwell following the end of your romantic relationship,
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: mister Waite, No, Miss Cathay, and I believe you did
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: mention this earlier. But when was the last time that
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: you spoke to Miss Maxwell? Mister Waite, The last time
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: I recall speaking to her was at this Economist Ocean
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: conference in San Francisco that she appeared at, and it
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: was quite shocking and surprising that she was there. But
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: that was the last time I remember speaking to her.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what year that was, mister Spector. Did
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: any proxy or mutual friend intermediary of any kind ever
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: tried to pass a message from Miss Maxwell or tell
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: you that you wanted to talk to you after you
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: broke up, mister Waite, No, Miss Cathay, And who put
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: on the ocean event, mister Waite, the Economist, the magazine,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Miss Cathay the Economist. Okay, thank you, I miss that,
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: Miss ms Callen. I think we've tried to look for
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: the date and we can't find it. Mister Spector, it
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: was an oceanfront conference though, answer ocean conservation. That's where
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: I spend most of my time. Question and so, miss Maxwell,
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: was there likely for Taramar project? Is that right? Answer exactly?
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Question did she ever? I think you've already, by the
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: way my last question answered this. But did her or
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: any of her proxies ever ask for a financial assistance
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: or donations for that project? Answer no, I did not
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: donate anything to the project, mister Spector, Thank you, Ms Cathay.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Question did you have any involvement with Taramar project? Answer no.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Question mister Waite, are you familiar with the Clinton Foundation?
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Answer yes. Question and what was the nature and extent
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: of your involvement in the Clinton Foundation? Answer? I've gone
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: on trips with Bill Clinton when he's representing the Clinton Foundation.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: I made some smaller donations to the foundation than I said.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: The major donation was the Clinton Library. I think that
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: went through the Clinton Foundation, but it was specifically for
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: the library. Question how many trips did you go on
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: with President Clinton. Answer, I remember accompanying him on a
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: trip and like maybe the two big international trips, one
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: to South Africa and one to when he was doing
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: the tsunami relief an AIDS trip and Papua New Guinea
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: and Indonesia and Thailand. Question do you remember what year
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: these trips were? Answer? I do not. Question do you
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: remember do you remember who else was on the trip
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: or either of these trips? Answer on the one, I
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: believe miss Maxwell was on that trip. Question which one
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: was that? Answer the one that went to Bandaachi, Indonesia,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Thailand areas affected President Clinton for the tsunami relief. There
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: was a major tsunami that happened in the mid two thousands.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: It was very devastating. He went on that trip and
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: then he did an AIDS signed an AIDS treaty and
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: Papa New Guinea. Question and miss Maxwell was not on
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: the trip to Papa New Guinea. Answer, I believe she was.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: Question she was on the trip? Answer, I believe she was. Question,
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: So forgive me for misunderstanding. There were two trips with
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell. Answer that was one long trip. That was
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: one long trip. Question that was one long trip and
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: the other trip was too gets cut off by weight.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: The other trip was Miss Maxwell was not on that
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I recall and I went to South Africa. Question and
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: what was that trip for? Answer? That was for Nelson
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Mandela's eighty fifth birthday. Question. Okay, was mister Epstein on
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the trip? Answer no question. Was he on the other trip?
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Answer no question? Okay, thank you. All right, folks, we're
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: gonna wrap up right here, and in the next episode
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: dealing with the topic, we're gonna pick up where we
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: left off. All the information that goes with this episode
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: can be found in the description box.