Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: How Did The IRS Miss A Guy Like Jeffrey Epstein? (10/13/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: On tonight's program, we're going to discuss Rico and how
- 0:04Speaker 1: a former IRS agent would go about investigating Jeffrey Epstein's
- 0:10Speaker 1: co-conspirators and their financial crimes. Now, I talk about this
- 0:15Speaker 1: quite a bit here on the podcast, and I talk
- 0:17Speaker 1: about it because I feel it's a very, very, very
- 0:21Speaker 1: important part of this case. I think that A forensic accountant,
- 0:26Speaker 1: or obviously a team of forensic accountants in this case,
- 0:30Speaker 1: would be able to pin so many financial crimes on
- 0:34Speaker 1: so many people that were involved with Jeffrey Epstein that
- 0:37Speaker 1: it would end up being the crime of the century.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Because all of these people are connected. All of these
- 0:43Speaker 1: people have received money from Jeffrey Epstein or one of
- 0:47Speaker 1: his so-called charities, which are really front companies. And once
- 0:52Speaker 1: that occurs, once you have received ill-gotten gains from somebody
- 0:56Speaker 1: who is under investigation for RICO, well, you now also
- 1:00Speaker 1: become subject because you are part of the conspiracy in
- 1:03Speaker 1: the government's eyes now since you received those ill-gotten gains.
- 1:07Speaker 1: At least that's how it works when they're going after
- 1:09Speaker 1: Italian folks. Now, tonight we have an article where a
- 1:15Speaker 1: former IRS agent gets down into the weeds and he
- 1:19Speaker 1: talks about how he... would initiate an investigation, what pathway
- 1:25Speaker 1: he would use, and what sort of tools would be
- 1:28Speaker 1: at his disposal if he was investigating Jeffrey Epstein's financial crimes.
- 1:33Speaker 1: So let's jump into this article and see what they
- 1:37Speaker 1: have to say over at the Daily Beast. This article
- 1:42Speaker 1: was authored by Martin Scheel on July 17th of 2019. Headline,
- 1:46Speaker 1: former IRS agent, Here's how I'd investigate Jeffrey Epstein's finances. Financier, pedophile,
- 1:59Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein is an accused sex trafficker. This much we know.
- 2:04Speaker 1: The new SDNY investigation will hopefully cure the bogus plea
- 2:08Speaker 1: deal Epstein received in Florida at the direction of then-U.S.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Attorney Alex Acosta, who is now an ex-Secretary of Labor,
- 2:16Speaker 1: due to negative publicity finally catching up to the deal
- 2:20Speaker 1: and rubbing off on President Trump's administration. Well, it took
- 2:25Speaker 1: you guys long enough to catch on, legacy media. It
- 2:29Speaker 1: took you guys long enough to give a damn. And
- 2:33Speaker 1: then once Acosta was gone, all of a sudden, all
- 2:36Speaker 1: the interest was gone once again. The legacy media, as
- 2:42Speaker 1: I've said numerous times, is a dumpster fire. But where
- 2:48Speaker 1: did Epstein's money come from? Where does it go? There
- 2:51Speaker 1: are plenty of media reports suggesting that Epstein ran his
- 2:54Speaker 1: own hedge fund after leaving Bear Stearns, but no one
- 2:58Speaker 1: seems to know who his clients were beyond Retail King
- 3:02Speaker 1: and accused abuser Les Wexner, nor whom he traded with.
- 3:08Speaker 1: One report even suggested that Epstein might have belonged to intelligence.
- 3:13Speaker 1: And now remember, folks, this article is from July, right?
- 3:16Speaker 1: So we have the benefit of hindsight here. We have
- 3:19Speaker 1: the benefit of Monday morning quarterbacking this information. So it's
- 3:23Speaker 1: interesting to see that this soon after Jeffrey Epstein's death even,
- 3:28Speaker 1: there were hints about the intelligence angle. And you know
- 3:32Speaker 1: that made the parasites in the legacy media absolutely paranoid.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Because they don't want their relationships outed. Look what happened
- 3:43Speaker 1: over at ABC when we got a little peek behind
- 3:46Speaker 1: the curtain. Look how ABC squashed Amy Robach's story because
- 3:51Speaker 1: they still wanted access to Joe Exotic and his family.
- 3:57Speaker 1: So don't think for a minute that the legacy media
- 4:02Speaker 1: garbage hounds weren't paranoid over this. Well, even spies are
- 4:09Speaker 1: required to pay their taxes. And this is another thing
- 4:11Speaker 1: that I've said, right? If you follow the underworld, the
- 4:15Speaker 1: criminal underworld and the history of the mafia and the
- 4:19Speaker 1: cartels and the Russian mafia, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
- 4:24Speaker 1: you know that a lot of these guys are basically
- 4:27Speaker 1: serial killers, right? But they don't end up going to
- 4:30Speaker 1: prison for that. they end up going to prison for
- 4:32Speaker 1: stuff like wire fraud, money laundering, mail fraud. Those sort
- 4:39Speaker 1: of financial crimes are what they get pinned with because
- 4:43Speaker 1: it's much harder, obviously, to charge somebody with a murder, say,
- 4:48Speaker 1: and make it stick, right? But when you get into
- 4:51Speaker 1: the financials of these people and you have a quality team,
- 4:55Speaker 1: a quality team of forensic accountants, Boy, if you're up
- 5:00Speaker 1: to no good, you stand zero chance of hiding that.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Zero chance. And we have not seen that in this case.
- 5:06Speaker 1: We have not seen a full charge into the financials
- 5:10Speaker 1: of everybody connected. Every single person that Epstein donated money
- 5:16Speaker 1: to or Epstein gave money to, every single person should
- 5:21Speaker 1: be under the microscope. The bare-bones financial statement provided to
- 5:26Speaker 1: the federal court in Manhattan on Monday, which summarized Epstein's wealth,
- 5:31Speaker 1: left out a whole lot of detail, frustrating the prosecutors
- 5:36Speaker 1: but tantalizing the rest of the world. According to his lawyers,
- 5:40Speaker 1: Epstein is half a billionaire, worth in excess of $ 500 million. Well,
- 5:46Speaker 1: we know that's at $ 634 million now in... paper funds,
- 5:50Speaker 1: meaning money that we can track, money that's on paper,
- 5:53Speaker 1: money that's been accounted for. But the whole entire idea
- 5:57Speaker 1: and what we're talking about here is there is a
- 5:59Speaker 1: lot more money out there that is not accounted for.
- 6:03Speaker 1: And that money needs to be found. And if that
- 6:06Speaker 1: money needs to be seized from other participants within this organization,
- 6:10Speaker 1: then so be it. But all of that money should
- 6:13Speaker 1: go to the survivors. Lots of cash, equity investments, and properties,
- 6:20Speaker 1: including offshore in the U.S. Virgin Islands, were outlined. But
- 6:24Speaker 1: no real detail was included that could explain the piles
- 6:27Speaker 1: of cash and dozens of diamonds found in his safe
- 6:30Speaker 1: by FBI agents during a raid on his $ 77 million
- 6:34Speaker 1: Upper East Side mansion. And the diamonds are interesting, too.
- 6:38Speaker 1: How many of those diamonds were hot? How many of
- 6:40Speaker 1: those diamonds were bought from, let's say, less than... less
- 6:46Speaker 1: than moral diamond dealers, right? We all know about blood diamonds.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And we all know that Jeffrey Epstein isn't going to
- 6:54Speaker 1: spend more money than possible. In fact, we know he's
- 6:57Speaker 1: going to try and chisel the price down a bit.
- 7:00Speaker 1: So let's talk about those diamonds a little bit. Where
- 7:02Speaker 1: did they come from? Who did he buy those from?
- 7:05Speaker 1: Do those have receipts? You know, like normal people, you
- 7:08Speaker 1: buy a big purchase item like that, you probably have
- 7:11Speaker 1: your receipts stashed somewhere just for, you know, safekeeping. God forbid.
- 7:16Speaker 1: I know I do. So how does he account for
- 7:22Speaker 1: all of the diamonds? Now the cash, that's a whole
- 7:26Speaker 1: different issue. That's a lot harder to pin down on
- 7:28Speaker 1: somebody unless we're talking about banking. And then once we're
- 7:32Speaker 1: talking about banking, then we have Title 31, CTRs. We're
- 7:36Speaker 1: going to get into that a little bit later in
- 7:37Speaker 1: this article. But there's a lot of stuff that goes
- 7:40Speaker 1: with cash transactions, folks. A lot of things. Nor was
- 7:46Speaker 1: much explanation provided for the passport found in the safe
- 7:50Speaker 1: issued by Austria with a Saudi address and bearing Epstein's photo,
- 7:55Speaker 1: but containing a different name. And now we know that
- 8:00Speaker 1: there are a lot of ties that bind Austria with
- 8:04Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, right? The Lauder connection, the connection to the
- 8:08Speaker 1: Reagan administration, the timing of the passport being drawn, etc., etc.,
- 8:13Speaker 1: There is a lot more going on with that passport
- 8:16Speaker 1: as well. And that definitely deserves a deeper dive at
- 8:19Speaker 1: some point. Because an Austrian passport is like gold. Those
- 8:24Speaker 1: aren't just given out, right? Those are very difficult to receive.
- 8:29Speaker 1: And then you add a little bit more sauce to
- 8:31Speaker 1: the fire. I mean, a little more sauce to the
- 8:33Speaker 1: dish by having his address be in Saudi Arabia. Yeah,
- 8:39Speaker 1: there's a lot of weird stuff going on there, folks.
- 8:41Speaker 1: No doubt about it. and bearing Epstein's photo, but containing
- 8:46Speaker 1: a different name. Police have not confirmed whether the passport
- 8:50Speaker 1: is legitimate or fake. Epstein's lawyers say it was just
- 8:53Speaker 1: for protection against hijacking. Yeah, because that's what everybody does, huh?
- 8:57Speaker 1: We all have fake passports in case our plane gets hijacked,
- 9:00Speaker 1: because that happens often. I mean, this guy, what, is
- 9:04Speaker 1: he watching too much Delta Force or something? Your plane's
- 9:07Speaker 1: not getting hijacked, Mr. Epstein, okay? You're flying around on
- 9:11Speaker 1: a private jet. Nobody's hijacking your plane. And in fact,
- 9:19Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, you're as scummy as those terrorists
- 9:23Speaker 1: or anybody who's going to hijack your plane. So I'd
- 9:25Speaker 1: be worried about your own affairs, sir. Hijacking? I'm worried
- 9:29Speaker 1: about hijacking. That's why I need another passport. I mean,
- 9:34Speaker 1: what is he at, the casino? He needs a second
- 9:35Speaker 1: rewards card in case he loses the first. I need
- 9:39Speaker 1: a passport in case I get hijacked. What sort of
- 9:42Speaker 1: lunacy is that? The Daily Beast has previously reported on
- 9:48Speaker 1: Epstein's supposed multi-million dollar investment in a modeling agency called
- 9:54Speaker 1: MC2 run by his associate Jean-Luc Brunel, which allegedly sourced
- 9:59Speaker 1: models from Europe. And obviously we've been talking about that
- 10:02Speaker 1: for the last couple of segments and the Jean-Luc Brunel
- 10:05Speaker 1: situation is appalling. This is a man that deserves to
- 10:10Speaker 1: be arrested right now, yesterday and the day before. How
- 10:14Speaker 1: is this dude still running around, living his life to
- 10:18Speaker 1: the fullest? and not answering hard-ass questions under the gaze
- 10:25Speaker 1: of a seasoned interrogator. Brunel has denied that Epstein helped
- 10:31Speaker 1: fund his agency. Yeah, okay. Epstein is also alleged to
- 10:36Speaker 1: have secretly invested $ 1 million in an Israeli tech startup
- 10:40Speaker 1: originally called Reporti Homeland Security Limited, but now called Carbine Limited.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is the chairman of
- 10:50Speaker 1: Carbine Limited, which purports to develop call handling and identification
- 10:55Speaker 1: capabilities for emergency response services. And we discussed this at
- 11:00Speaker 1: length as well within our three-part series on Ehud Barak.
- 11:05Speaker 1: All of this stuff ties in together. And when we're
- 11:07Speaker 1: talking about financials, this Ehud Barak character, Brunel, all of
- 11:14Speaker 1: these people that Jeffrey Epstein gave seed money to or
- 11:17Speaker 1: invested in or any of that, every single one of
- 11:20Speaker 1: these companies should have their assets frozen and they should
- 11:26Speaker 1: be under scrutiny. by forensic accountants. Carbine Limited has offices
- 11:35Speaker 1: and employees throughout South America and just opened offices in Mexico.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Israel's current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was quick to attack
- 11:44Speaker 1: his rival Barak's association with Epstein, raising questions not only
- 11:49Speaker 1: about Carbine Limited, but also queries about a 2004 transfer
- 11:54Speaker 1: of $ 2. 3 million from the Wexner Foundation, apparently made by
- 11:59Speaker 1: Epstein to Barak for murky reasons. Guys, this is money
- 12:04Speaker 1: laundering right here. at its core, okay? This money wasn't
- 12:08Speaker 1: accounted for. They have receipts for all of this money.
- 12:11Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. And if they do, where are they?
- 12:16Speaker 1: This should be blown up in the legacy media. There
- 12:20Speaker 1: should be, you know how they do those hour shows
- 12:22Speaker 1: on all the nonsense on TV you see on a
- 12:24Speaker 1: regular basis? They should have an hour show every single
- 12:27Speaker 1: night exposing the people involved in this conspiracy to commit crime,
- 12:33Speaker 1: in this criminal organization. Because what went on here and
- 12:37Speaker 1: what is still going on here is disgusting. It is
- 12:42Speaker 1: enough to make you want to throw up all over
- 12:44Speaker 1: the place because the people who are involved and the
- 12:48Speaker 1: high levels that it reaches, these are people that have
- 12:51Speaker 1: a direct influence on our life. These are people who
- 12:54Speaker 1: have a direct influence on our day-to-day activities. And yet
- 13:00Speaker 1: we continue to put our confidence... In people who are
- 13:06Speaker 1: morally corrupt, people who do not care about, forget their
- 13:11Speaker 1: fellow man, they don't care about their friends or their
- 13:14Speaker 1: supposed friends. But these are the sort of narcissists that
- 13:18Speaker 1: we continue to put into office, and then we wonder
- 13:22Speaker 1: why things are all screwed up. Barack claimed that Wexner
- 13:30Speaker 1: Transfer was for research purposes and that Carbine Limited was
- 13:33Speaker 1: a legitimate business that had paid all its taxes. Did they?
- 13:37Speaker 1: Did Epstein? Given the immense of unexplained wealth accumulated by Epstein,
- 13:42Speaker 1: authorities will surely give serious consideration to exploring the money
- 13:47Speaker 1: trails via a criminal tax fraud and or money laundering investigation. Yeah,
- 13:54Speaker 1: you think? That is the way to go, folks, okay?
- 13:58Speaker 1: It is the most important tool that prosecutors have at
- 14:05Speaker 1: their disposal. If they go this route, this automatically becomes
- 14:09Speaker 1: a RICO case, and everything opens up. I don't know
- 14:14Speaker 1: how much more they need to really break out the
- 14:17Speaker 1: big guns down at the SDNY, and I don't know
- 14:21Speaker 1: how much longer they need to start making arrests. Professor
- 14:29Speaker 1: Thomas Valschow, who has been researching Epstein for a book
- 14:32Speaker 1: he is writing, explained to me in an email that
- 14:34Speaker 1: he believes Epstein advised wealthy clients on sophisticated tax shelters
- 14:39Speaker 1: when Epstein worked at Bear Stearns. Valschow further noted that
- 14:44Speaker 1: Epstein controlled tons of entities, LLCs, LLC stands for Limited
- 14:48Speaker 1: Liability Companies, which are also known as shell companies used
- 14:52Speaker 1: by sophisticated real estate investors to purchase luxury real properties
- 14:58Speaker 1: in an anonymous fashion. They are also used by money
- 15:02Speaker 1: launderers as conduits to move monies around offshore without attracting
- 15:06Speaker 1: undue attention from the authorities. Typical mafioso behavior. This is
- 15:13Speaker 1: the sort of thing you do when you have big
- 15:16Speaker 1: money that needs to be washed. And Jeffrey Epstein and
- 15:22Speaker 1: all of his friends were obviously engaging in this. From
- 15:26Speaker 1: the evidence that we have, folks, from everything that we've seen,
- 15:30Speaker 1: all of the evidence leads to a gigantic money laundering operation.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Michael Cohen most famously made use of a shell company, LLC,
- 15:41Speaker 1: called Essential Consultants, as a secret conduit to conceal hush
- 15:45Speaker 1: money payments from Donald Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Paul Manafort also famously made use of offshore shell companies
- 15:54Speaker 1: and bank accounts in Cyprus and other locations to make
- 15:57Speaker 1: covert luxury purchases in the States. And Paul Manafort's downfall
- 16:03Speaker 1: was exactly that. Again, his financials. This is a man
- 16:08Speaker 1: that would have been able to withstand the other stuff,
- 16:11Speaker 1: but it was the financial misdeeds and the terrible, terrible
- 16:17Speaker 1: examples of money laundering that he was engaged in that
- 16:21Speaker 1: sent him up the river. And a quick look at
- 16:25Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein gives us everything we need to know that
- 16:29Speaker 1: this is exactly the route that they should be taking.
- 16:34Speaker 1: If a federal agent came to me and requested authorization
- 16:38Speaker 1: to open up a criminal tax and or money laundering
- 16:41Speaker 1: investigation regarding Epstein's unexplained cash and diamonds as well as
- 16:46Speaker 1: his alleged concealed investments into MC2 and Carbine Limited with
- 16:51Speaker 1: concomitant and concealed income streams, I would likely approve. And
- 16:55Speaker 1: this is the IRS agent that's speaking now. The man
- 17:00Speaker 1: who was in charge of this sort of thing, these
- 17:02Speaker 1: kind of investigations. And this is what I've been telling
- 17:05Speaker 1: you guys from the beginning with this RICO stuff. And
- 17:08Speaker 1: the only reason I know this is because I've seen
- 17:11Speaker 1: it happen. I've seen it unfold before my eyes. I've
- 17:13Speaker 1: seen people have their whole lives ruined over RICO for
- 17:18Speaker 1: mundane crimes, folks, all right? Crimes that are illegal in
- 17:24Speaker 1: every state now. Gambling crimes. And I have seen people's
- 17:28Speaker 1: whole lives turned upside down over this. I've watched it
- 17:32Speaker 1: in real time occur. I've seen them get their house
- 17:35Speaker 1: raided by an FBI SWAT team. But yet, these dudes
- 17:41Speaker 1: are moving around. We're talking not a couple of hundred grand, right?
- 17:45Speaker 1: We're not talking a couple of, you know, a couple
- 17:48Speaker 1: of hundred boxes of Ziti here. We're talking... serious weight.
- 17:53Speaker 1: We're talking millions and tens and tens of millions. And
- 17:55Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein even took it a step further than someone
- 17:58Speaker 1: like Paul Manafort and had his own banks opened up.
- 18:01Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me that the people in
- 18:03Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands, the authorities in the Virgin Islands who
- 18:06Speaker 1: gave him the permits shouldn't be involved in this investigation? Oh,
- 18:11Speaker 1: they most certainly should be. The investigation into Trump-connected lobbyist
- 18:16Speaker 1: Manafort might serve as a blueprint for such an investigation. Obviously,
- 18:21Speaker 1: all bank and equity accounts would require subpoenas and spreadsheet analysis.
- 18:26Speaker 1: And that's where the forensic accountants come in, folks, because
- 18:29Speaker 1: this is tedious work, right? You got to go through
- 18:32Speaker 1: this with a fine tooth comb every single transaction. And
- 18:38Speaker 1: there are people that are in that field that are
- 18:41Speaker 1: exceptionally good at what they do, folks. But requests for
- 18:48Speaker 1: personal tax returns with an emphasis on Schedule B for
- 18:52Speaker 1: analysis would be a mandatory cross-reference. Schedule B on the
- 18:56Speaker 1: 1040 form contains the famous three yes or no questions
- 19:00Speaker 1: that Manafort lied about with regard to foreign bank account
- 19:04Speaker 1: ownership and activity. Very important there, right? Foreign bank account
- 19:10Speaker 1: ownership and activity. FinCEN databases would also need to be queried. Now,
- 19:18Speaker 1: we're getting into some stuff that I know about because
- 19:20Speaker 1: I had to deal with it at my former job. Now,
- 19:24Speaker 1: for those of you who have been listening to the
- 19:26Speaker 1: podcast or know me in real life, know that I
- 19:30Speaker 1: worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, which is a huge, gigantic company
- 19:35Speaker 1: on Wall Street. Now, I worked in their gaming division
- 19:38Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, managing sportsbooks and working in sportsbooks, and
- 19:43Speaker 1: we were very much involved with this sort of thing.
- 19:46Speaker 1: suspicious activity reports, the FinCEN database, Title 31, all of
- 19:52Speaker 1: these things that have to do with finances and financial transactions, etc., etc.
- 19:59Speaker 1: We were using these things on a daily basis. For example,
- 20:03Speaker 1: say somebody came in and they were acting suspicious, right?
- 20:06Speaker 1: They were going to make a wager, and it was
- 20:10Speaker 1: just a suspicious situation. And the ticket writer had a
- 20:13Speaker 1: bad feeling about it and decided that they wanted to
- 20:18Speaker 1: talk to the supervisor and fill out a SARC. Well,
- 20:22Speaker 1: all of those SARCs that get filled out, no matter
- 20:25Speaker 1: how mundane they might be, once those SARCs get filled out,
- 20:29Speaker 1: they get put into a database. And that database is
- 20:34Speaker 1: the FinCEN database. And the authorities, the feds, have access
- 20:40Speaker 1: to that database, and they can go in there at
- 20:42Speaker 1: any time and search it for the SARs and the
- 20:45Speaker 1: SARCs to see if the people that they're investigating pop
- 20:49Speaker 1: up in the system. And there were a lot of SARCs.
- 20:55Speaker 1: written up. There's no doubt about it because you want
- 20:57Speaker 1: to cover your ass, right? From a company perspective, you
- 21:01Speaker 1: want to make sure that you're in CYA mode at
- 21:03Speaker 1: all times and it doesn't hurt to file the SARC.
- 21:06Speaker 1: So we were, we filed them, you know, at a,
- 21:09Speaker 1: at a decent clip when we thought it was necessary.
- 21:12Speaker 1: But this is all huge, huge, huge money laundering stuff here.
- 21:19Speaker 1: And in a job like a sports book, you always
- 21:21Speaker 1: have to be aware of people trying to use that
- 21:24Speaker 1: to wash their money. So we were definitely aware of
- 21:27Speaker 1: that stuff and we tried to stay on top of it.
- 21:29Speaker 1: And I had a bunch of different training classes about
- 21:32Speaker 1: all of this financial stuff. So that's why it jumps
- 21:36Speaker 1: out to me so much, right? That's why I'm such
- 21:38Speaker 1: a stickler about it. And I'm always talking about the
- 21:40Speaker 1: RICO aspect of this case because folks, it is, they are,
- 21:44Speaker 1: the feds don't play around when it comes to this stuff.
- 21:47Speaker 1: They do not play around. First and foremost, all suspicious
- 21:53Speaker 1: activity reports, SARs, would need to be scrutinized. FinCEN had
- 21:57Speaker 1: over 20 SARs on Manafort in their database regarding his
- 22:01Speaker 1: suspicious foreign bank account activities using shell companies. And I
- 22:05Speaker 1: can only imagine what the FinCEN database has on Jeffrey
- 22:09Speaker 1: Epstein and what has been ignored by regulators. What might
- 22:13Speaker 1: this database reveal concerning Epstein's foreign financial transactions? Is there
- 22:18Speaker 1: a SAR existent with regard to the 2004 wire transfer
- 22:21Speaker 1: to Ehud Barak? Are there other SARs available regarding suspicious
- 22:26Speaker 1: foreign bank account activity in recent years by Epstein? These
- 22:29Speaker 1: are huge questions, and these questions will go very, very
- 22:33Speaker 1: far into getting to the heart of this whole entire disgusting,
- 22:38Speaker 1: corrupt operation. How did Epstein get his million-dollar investment in
- 22:44Speaker 1: Carbine to Barak? Wire transfer to Barak's LLC in Israel?
- 22:48Speaker 1: Did Epstein file the required foreign bank account record, FBAR,
- 22:52Speaker 1: with Finston? Manafort ended up pleading to multiple counts of
- 22:56Speaker 1: FBAR felonies after he was caught lying to his accountants
- 23:00Speaker 1: about not being required to file. Does Finston have any
- 23:04Speaker 1: FBARs on record for Epstein with regard to his foreign
- 23:07Speaker 1: financial transactions? And if not, why not? That's huge, folks,
- 23:13Speaker 1: because if he doesn't, it will definitely go to move
- 23:20Speaker 1: things forward as far as this being a gigantic cover-up.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Because you cannot get it by me and try and
- 23:31Speaker 1: tell me that there's no SARS on this guy. Because
- 23:36Speaker 1: the way he was handling his money, if he was
- 23:38Speaker 1: in my sportsbook making transactions like this, wiring this kind
- 23:41Speaker 1: of money in, et cetera, et cetera, I would have
- 23:43Speaker 1: definitely sarked him. Not even a question. He would have
- 23:47Speaker 1: definitely got hit with a suspicious activity report. Zero chance
- 23:53Speaker 1: that he wouldn't have. So it's very hard for me
- 23:55Speaker 1: to believe that there are no F-bars on record for
- 23:58Speaker 1: him in Finson. Does the IRS have foreign account tax
- 24:02Speaker 1: compliance requirements? FATCA files available on Epstein that might inform
- 24:07Speaker 1: with regard to Epstein's foreign financial transactions? Have local New
- 24:11Speaker 1: York and Florida banks filed currency transaction reports, CTRs with
- 24:16Speaker 1: FinCEN regarding cash deposits and or withdrawals by Epstein that
- 24:20Speaker 1: might explain the tons of cash found in his safe?
- 24:23Speaker 1: And what CTRs are is anytime that you are withdrawing
- 24:31Speaker 1: or depositing $ 10, 000 and one cent, you have to fill
- 24:36Speaker 1: out a CTR. And that's a currency transaction report, title
- 24:42Speaker 1: 31 currency transaction report. So you'll you need to give
- 24:46Speaker 1: up your social security card, you need to fill out
- 24:49Speaker 1: a W nine, if you don't have one on file
- 24:52Speaker 1: with the institution, it's a whole thing, right? It's a
- 24:55Speaker 1: big deal. It's all about money laundering. A lot of
- 24:58Speaker 1: it came into effect after the Patriot Act. You know,
- 25:00Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that happened. But the fact
- 25:02Speaker 1: of the matter is this. If he was engaging in
- 25:07Speaker 1: any sort of cash transaction that was above $ 10, 000, well,
- 25:13Speaker 1: there should be CTRs to report that. And if there isn't,
- 25:17Speaker 1: the people who didn't file the CTRs were obviously in
- 25:20Speaker 1: on the take. So, where are the arrests? A careful
- 25:29Speaker 1: FinCEN database query on each of Epstein's four potential co-conspirators
- 25:33Speaker 1: from his Florida plea deal might also be fruitful. Folks,
- 25:38Speaker 1: how long have I told you this, okay? This is
- 25:40Speaker 1: the key here. You gotta go after all of these people,
- 25:43Speaker 1: and that's how it goes. Certainly, queries should also be
- 25:47Speaker 1: made for any names associated with Epstein, such as the
- 25:51Speaker 1: alleged alias on his Austrian passport. All of the people...
- 25:56Speaker 1: who were engaged with any sort of financial transactions with
- 26:00Speaker 1: Epstein have to be brought in, but especially the core four.
- 26:04Speaker 1: You start digging into their financials. Were they as smooth
- 26:07Speaker 1: as Epstein? Did they have Indyk and Khan to hide
- 26:10Speaker 1: their financials? What happened after Epstein died? Were Darren, Indyk,
- 26:15Speaker 1: and Khan still involved helping? So who knows, right? But
- 26:19Speaker 1: the point is, you have to track this stuff down.
- 26:22Speaker 1: You have to chase this stuff down. And that's why
- 26:24Speaker 1: these tools are there. FBARs and CTRs and SARCs, et cetera,
- 26:28Speaker 1: et cetera. So the only way Epstein could have gotten
- 26:32Speaker 1: away with this for all these years at Deutsche Bank,
- 26:36Speaker 1: at JP Morgan, and elsewhere, is if the bankers themselves
- 26:41Speaker 1: were on the take with him. That is my opinion, folks.
- 26:48Speaker 1: There is no way that all of these regulators overlooked
- 26:51Speaker 1: all of these transactions. They didn't file the FBARs. They
- 26:54Speaker 1: didn't have CTRs on file. There's no Sarks on him.
- 26:59Speaker 1: No way. Jeffrey Epstein, he's never been suspicious ever once
- 27:02Speaker 1: in his life. Well, the game is up. We are
- 27:10Speaker 1: on to you. The Bankster Gangsters... and their disgusting friends
- 27:15Speaker 1: like Jeffrey Epstein, have done nothing but cause misery for
- 27:19Speaker 1: the rest of us. And it's about time that they
- 27:23Speaker 1: start answering some hard questions. Hedge fund operators, spies, and
- 27:30Speaker 1: sex traffickers are all supposed to pay their taxes. The
- 27:35Speaker 1: above financial investigative steps would be recommended to the SDNY
- 27:39Speaker 1: in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, whatever the mysterious or potentially...
- 27:44Speaker 1: potentially bad source of his income might be. And look,
- 27:49Speaker 1: I certainly never worked for the IRS, right? That's like
- 27:53Speaker 1: working for a dark army, in my opinion. But all
- 27:56Speaker 1: kidding aside, honestly, just from the job that I used
- 28:00Speaker 1: to do managing sportsbooks and how berserk I used to
- 28:05Speaker 1: make myself over the financials, meaning what's coming across the
- 28:09Speaker 1: desk and if it should be sarked If it's acceptable,
- 28:13Speaker 1: is this guy trying to launder money with us? Did
- 28:16Speaker 1: everybody get the right, did everybody file the CTRs that
- 28:19Speaker 1: they're supposed to if they're making bigger bets? So these
- 28:22Speaker 1: are the kind of things that I know are super serious.
- 28:27Speaker 1: And when we're talking about a huge criminal organization like
- 28:31Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's, these are the tools that the investigators have
- 28:37Speaker 1: at their disposal that they can use to initiate The
- 28:41Speaker 1: RICO indictments. So the question I have for the prosecutors
- 28:48Speaker 1: and for everybody else involved in this case, as far
- 28:51Speaker 1: as those at the Department of Justice and in the
- 28:54Speaker 1: governments around the world, my question to you is this.
- 28:58Speaker 1: What are you waiting for? If you'd like to contact me,
- 29:04Speaker 1: you can do that at BobbyCapucci at ProtonMail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I
- 29:11Speaker 1: at ProtonMail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at
- 29:14Speaker 1: B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. What's up, everyone, and welcome to another
- 29:20Speaker 1: episode of the Epstein Chronicles. You ever notice how the
- 29:25Speaker 1: IRS is relentless when it comes to you and me?
- 29:27Speaker 1: If you accidentally misplace a decimal point, Forget to report
- 29:31Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks from selling old furniture online, or
- 29:34Speaker 1: miscalculate your mileage deduction. They'll come after you. Like you're
- 29:38Speaker 1: the Al Capone of... of Craigslist. They'll slap you with penalties, interests, threats,
- 29:44Speaker 1: bleed you dry over pocket change. But when it comes
- 29:46Speaker 1: to Epstein, the convicted sex offender, the man moving millions
- 29:50Speaker 1: of dollars through a labyrinth of shady accounts, the so-called
- 29:53Speaker 1: financier with no legitimate business model, they acted like he
- 29:58Speaker 1: didn't even exist. Like their enforcement radar magically went blank
- 30:02Speaker 1: the moment his name appeared on a transaction. Epstein wasn't hiding.
- 30:07Speaker 1: His dealings were right there in black and white, woven
- 30:09Speaker 1: into the financial system like a neon sign flashing fraud.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Leon Black alone paid him over $ 150 million in advisory fees.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Advisory fees for what? Epstein wasn't a Wall Street titan.
- 30:23Speaker 1: He wasn't a tax savant. He was a predator who
- 30:26Speaker 1: had already been convicted in Florida in 2008. His name
- 30:30Speaker 1: was toxic. His presence was radioactive. And even a half-conscious
- 30:35Speaker 1: regulator should have been asking, why is a billionaire CEO
- 30:39Speaker 1: wiring hundreds of million dollars to a registered sex offender
- 30:42Speaker 1: for advice? But the IRS, they never asked. Not once.
- 30:47Speaker 1: They looked away as if their job was to protect them,
- 30:50Speaker 1: not police them. And that's the bitter irony. Epstein weaponized
- 30:54Speaker 1: the very indifference of institutions like the IRS. He turned
- 30:58Speaker 1: their silence into currency, and those transactions weren't just about money.
- 31:02Speaker 1: They were about legitimacy. Every unexplained wire transfer that passed
- 31:07Speaker 1: unchallenged made him look untouchable. If the IRS wasn't calling
- 31:10Speaker 1: him out, if the government wasn't investigating his income streams,
- 31:14Speaker 1: then the message to everyone else, the banks, the billionaires,
- 31:17Speaker 1: the elites, was clear. It's safe to keep doing business
- 31:21Speaker 1: with him. He's been given a pass. And we're not
- 31:24Speaker 1: talking about oversight here. because oversight implies they didn't see it. No,
- 31:29Speaker 1: they saw it. Every wire, every fee, every dollar had
- 31:33Speaker 1: to have been visible. It all went through the system
- 31:35Speaker 1: that the IRS claims to monitor like hawks. But when
- 31:39Speaker 1: it came to Epstein, they became pigeons, flapping around, pecking
- 31:43Speaker 1: at crumbs, pretending the loaf of bread didn't even exist.
- 31:48Speaker 1: He moved money through foundations, shell companies, offshore havens, classic
- 31:52Speaker 1: red flags, and the watchdog stayed asleep. Meanwhile, you better
- 31:57Speaker 1: not forget to carry the one. And look, let's be honest.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Epstein's dealings with Leon Black are just the tip of
- 32:04Speaker 1: the iceberg. He had financial connections with Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin,
- 32:08Speaker 1: hedge funds, private banks, you name it. Each of those
- 32:12Speaker 1: networks involved millions of unexplained dollars flowing into the hands
- 32:16Speaker 1: of a man who was supposedly radioactive. Yet somehow, that
- 32:20Speaker 1: radioactivity never set off alarms at the IRS. It's almost
- 32:25Speaker 1: as if there was an unspoken policy. Don't look too closely.
- 32:28Speaker 1: Don't touch him. Don't open that file. Now contrast that
- 32:32Speaker 1: with how they treat the rest of us. You file
- 32:34Speaker 1: your taxes late one year because of a family emergency
- 32:37Speaker 1: and you're drowning in penalties and interest. They garnish wages,
- 32:41Speaker 1: seize accounts, drag you into compliance with a chokehold. But Epstein,
- 32:45Speaker 1: he lived like a king on blood money. He bought
- 32:48Speaker 1: private islands, maintained Manhattan mansions, flew private jets, and paid
- 32:52Speaker 1: hush money all through channels that should have triggered red alerts,
- 32:56Speaker 1: the IRS didn't just fail, they enabled. Because here's the thing,
- 33:00Speaker 1: the IRS loves to scare the working class, they love
- 33:03Speaker 1: to terrify small business owners and middle class families into compliance,
- 33:07Speaker 1: but when it comes to the rich, the connected, the
- 33:10Speaker 1: predators like Epstein, they transform into meek little clerks rubber
- 33:14Speaker 1: stamping paperwork while pretending not to see the rot in
- 33:18Speaker 1: front of them. They'll audit a waitress for claiming too
- 33:21Speaker 1: many tips, but let Epstein rake in millions in fees
- 33:24Speaker 1: from billionaires without batting an eye. And this isn't just
- 33:27Speaker 1: a story about negligence, it's about complicity. Every dollar the
- 33:31Speaker 1: IRS let slide was another brick in Epstein's empire of abuse.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Every unexplained transaction that passed through without scrutiny was another
- 33:40Speaker 1: shield he could wield against exposure. The IRS's indifference wasn't passive,
- 33:45Speaker 1: it was active fuel for his criminal machinery. They made
- 33:49Speaker 1: it possible for him to operate with impunity long after
- 33:52Speaker 1: he should have been finished. So when you hear the
- 33:55Speaker 1: IRS brag about fairness, about accountability, about nobody being above
- 33:59Speaker 1: the law, remember Epstein. Remember the hundreds of millions in
- 34:03Speaker 1: dealings with men like Leon Black that slipped through without
- 34:06Speaker 1: a whisper. Remember that. While you're sweating bullets over a
- 34:09Speaker 1: mistake on a 1040 form, Jeffrey Epstein was running a
- 34:13Speaker 1: global blackmail operation under the government's nose, financed by money
- 34:17Speaker 1: that should have set off alarms in every office of
- 34:20Speaker 1: the IRS. The truth is simple, and it's ugly. There
- 34:24Speaker 1: are two tax systems in this country. One for you,
- 34:27Speaker 1: where every dime is squeezed, every mistake punished, every corner cut,
- 34:31Speaker 1: treated like a federal offense. And one for them. For
- 34:35Speaker 1: men like Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire wife. so-called clients
- 34:40Speaker 1: where millions can vanish into thin air and the IRS
- 34:43Speaker 1: is more than happy to look the other way. Today's
- 34:46Speaker 1: article is from Art News and the headline, U.S. Senator
- 34:50Speaker 1: Ron Wyden Calls for Investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's Work for
- 34:54Speaker 1: Collector Leon Black. This article was authored by Alex Greenberger.
- 35:01Speaker 1: Leon Black, a billionaire investor and art collector, is once
- 35:05Speaker 1: again the subject of scrutiny for his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein,
- 35:08Speaker 1: the late financier convicted of sex trafficking. At the end
- 35:13Speaker 1: of July, Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon who
- 35:16Speaker 1: sits on the Senate Finance Committee, called on the Internal
- 35:20Speaker 1: Revenue Service to investigate what Wyden described as suspicious transactions
- 35:25Speaker 1: involving alleged tax planning work performed by Jeffrey Epstein for
- 35:30Speaker 1: Leon Black. And I told you at the time that
- 35:34Speaker 1: this was nothing but fraud. There is zero reason for
- 35:37Speaker 1: a guy like Leon Black, who is at the helm
- 35:40Speaker 1: of Apollo fucking Global, to need any kind of advice
- 35:44Speaker 1: from Jeffrey Epstein about anything. Apollo Global is one of
- 35:49Speaker 1: the most massive companies in the whole ass world. And
- 35:52Speaker 1: they have more money than they know what to do with.
- 35:55Speaker 1: You really think that somebody like Leon Black needs Captain
- 35:58Speaker 1: Egg Dick to help him with his taxes? Unless, of course,
- 36:01Speaker 1: you mean to help him hide that money so he
- 36:04Speaker 1: doesn't have to pay taxes, because that's obviously what was
- 36:07Speaker 1: going on here. It's the same thing they do with
- 36:09Speaker 1: the high-end art market. They buy all these paintings, they
- 36:13Speaker 1: buy all this art, and then they have no kind
- 36:16Speaker 1: of accountability for where their money's at. And of course
- 36:18Speaker 1: that money can't be tracked, so it can't be taxed.
- 36:21Speaker 1: And it's laughable to think that the IRS had no
- 36:24Speaker 1: idea what was going on. They most certainly did. They
- 36:27Speaker 1: looked the other way. The question is, why? In a
- 36:32Speaker 1: letter to the IRS submitted on July 31st, Wyden accused
- 36:36Speaker 1: the organization of having failed over the course of many
- 36:39Speaker 1: years to audit major tax transactions involving Epstein. and denounced
- 36:44Speaker 1: what he described as transactions amounting to tens of millions
- 36:47Speaker 1: of dollars paid to known criminal for the purpose of
- 36:51Speaker 1: helping a mega-wealthy individual dodge billions in taxes. Wyden called
- 36:56Speaker 1: for the IRS to supply more information by September 1st
- 37:00Speaker 1: of all the investigations going on or so-called investigations going on.
- 37:05Speaker 1: This is the one that could really lead to pay dirt.
- 37:07Speaker 1: Follow the money. I know it's cliche, right? I know
- 37:11Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time, pretty much no
- 37:13Speaker 1: matter what's going on. But here especially, if you follow
- 37:17Speaker 1: the money, you're going to hit pay dirt. And the
- 37:20Speaker 1: people that were transferring money in this kind of amount
- 37:24Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein, well, all of those people have some
- 37:27Speaker 1: explaining to do as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately for me,
- 37:32Speaker 1: and for everybody else who's interested, I'm not in charge.
- 37:37Speaker 1: But if I was, you better believe I'd have an
- 37:40Speaker 1: army of forensic accountants diving into every bit of paperwork,
- 37:43Speaker 1: looking at every transaction that's ever been made. And if
- 37:47Speaker 1: there's anything that's illegal, I'd hold everybody accountable. Unfortunately, back
- 37:52Speaker 1: in reality, that's not how things work. The letter was
- 37:55Speaker 1: sent to Billy Long, who was appointed Commissioner of the
- 37:58Speaker 1: IRS by Trump. On August 8th, Trump replaced Long with
- 38:02Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Besson. Black has previously been the subject
- 38:07Speaker 1: of Epstein-related investigations, In 2020, Black wrote in a letter
- 38:11Speaker 1: to shareholders at Apollo Global Management, the investment firm he co-founded,
- 38:16Speaker 1: that he and Epstein had engaged in estate planning, tax,
- 38:19Speaker 1: and philanthropic endeavors. An investigation the next year found that
- 38:24Speaker 1: Black was not involved in Epstein's criminal activities, though it
- 38:27Speaker 1: did state that Black had paid $ 158 million between 2012
- 38:30Speaker 1: and 2017. I'm sure that was just for the advice, right?
- 38:38Speaker 1: What kind of advice do you think you're going to
- 38:40Speaker 1: get for $ 158 million? That's more than Fortune 500 CEOs
- 38:46Speaker 1: are making, right? Why is he sending so much money
- 38:50Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein? Especially considering Epstein's not offering any kind
- 38:54Speaker 1: of service. And as far as the investigation goes, it
- 38:57Speaker 1: was an internal investigation. Oh, they hired an outside company,
- 39:00Speaker 1: of course, but come on, really? Does anyone really believe
- 39:04Speaker 1: these internal investigations ever exist? turn up anything worthwhile? Of
- 39:09Speaker 1: course they don't. The idea is a cover story, just
- 39:12Speaker 1: like with this whole congressional bullshit that we're seeing right now.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Same concept. A spokesperson for Black directed Art News to
- 39:20Speaker 1: the investigation and said in a statement that the inquiry
- 39:23Speaker 1: concluded that Mr. Black had not engaged in any wrongdoing,
- 39:27Speaker 1: had no awareness of Epstein's criminal activity, and all of
- 39:30Speaker 1: the fees were paid for legitimate tax, estate, and philanthropy
- 39:35Speaker 1: planning services, and were vetted and approved by outside law firms.
- 39:39Speaker 1: Outside law firms that they paid. They always like to
- 39:42Speaker 1: leave that part out, right? They hired these law firms
- 39:45Speaker 1: to come in and quote-unquote take a look. I'm sure
- 39:48Speaker 1: there was no backroom deal, right? I'm sure nobody sat
- 39:51Speaker 1: down and said, this is what I want you to
- 39:52Speaker 1: find and we'll give you X amount of dollars. Black
- 39:57Speaker 1: is widely considered one of the world's top art collectors,
- 40:00Speaker 1: appearing on Art News' Top 200 Collectors list each year
- 40:03Speaker 1: since 1997. He was formerly the chair of the board
- 40:07Speaker 1: of the Museum of Modern Art, a position that he
- 40:10Speaker 1: left as the Epstein proceeding continued on. He remains a
- 40:13Speaker 1: trustee at the museum. Does anyone out there really believe
- 40:17Speaker 1: that this man paid that kind of money for advice
- 40:20Speaker 1: from Jeffrey Epstein? And if so, let's see some documentation.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Let's see the paperwork. And hopefully with this letter that
- 40:28Speaker 1: was sent to the IRS, we get to see some
- 40:30Speaker 1: of that. Now, I don't know if we'll get to
- 40:32Speaker 1: see it publicly. And considering that we have a big
- 40:35Speaker 1: problem with transparency, I have my doubts that anything will
- 40:38Speaker 1: come of this. But this is the right path to
- 40:40Speaker 1: be on. 100%. Because the money paper trail, it doesn't lie.
- 40:46Speaker 1: It's going to lead you directly to the people that
- 40:48Speaker 1: were in business and that were profiting from that business
- 40:52Speaker 1: when it comes to Epstein. And those people, they should
- 40:55Speaker 1: have to answer for all of it. The question is,
- 40:58Speaker 1: will they? All of the information that goes with this
- 41:02Speaker 1: episode can be found in the description box.