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New Mexico’s Truth Commission Demands Answers From U.S. Attorney’s Offices Tied to Epstein (6/22/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. A few days ago, we were talking about
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  the subpoenas that were administered by the Truth Commission in
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  New Mexico. Well, one of those subpoenas has to do
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  with the South Carolina story that we've talked about with
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  the allegations against Donald Trump. Now, what are they going
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  to find? I have no idea, but whenever somebody makes
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  statements like this to the FBI under oath, I feel
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  like it has to be taken seriously and it has
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  to be looked at. Now does that mean after the
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  investigation that everything comes back that it's true. No, but
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  we don't know what's true and what's not because they
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  refuse to really investigate. Now I hope that's changing here
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  with New Mexico and that they're going to do the
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  right thing and you know, really go deep and chase
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  it wherever it goes. And I think that the Commission
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  has the same problem that anybody has that's investigating this,
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  and that of course is the gigantic lack of trust
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  that the people you and I have in institutions. So
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  is this Truth Commission gonna put that to rights? Are
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  they going to change our minds. Well, they're saying the
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  right things. The question, like usual, is if they're going
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  to follow through. Today we have an article from the
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  Posting Courier and the headline new Mexico Epstein investigation targets
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  records from South Carolina and two other states. This article
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  was authored by Glenn Smith. New Mexico officials have raised
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  the possibility of more Jeffrey Epstein related intrigue in South
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  Carolina after hitting federal prosecutors here with a subpoena and
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  in two other states about investigations into the late financier
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  and sex offender. Now, look these subpoenas, I'm pretty interested
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  to see what they return, especially in places like Michigan
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  and South Carolina, because those places, they haven't been part
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  of the main conversation. They're not places we've been talking about,
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  you know, since twenty nineteen. I mean a little bit
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  about Michigan, you know, Interlogan and the rest of it.
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  But besides that, not too much going on up there.
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  But now that New Mexico is trying to get subpoenas
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  for these locations, it opens up the door, right, what
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  was happening? What would lead the truth Commission to want
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  to kick in this door. And I think that's a very,
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  very very interesting question. New Mexico's Truth Commission on Epstein
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  wants to know why US attorney's offices in South Carolina, Florida, Michigan,
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  and the US Virgin Islands chose not to press charges
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  against them after investigations. Well, we all know why. Do
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  you think main Justice would be receptive to that? And
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  make no mistake, it's up to the Justice Department who
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  they're going to indict, who they're going to investigate, and
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  who they're going to let And I think through their actions,
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  the DJ has been very very clear about who's going
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  to be in trouble here and who's not. And the
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  answer is nobody's going to be in trouble. Well, if
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  the DJ has their way, we have information that there
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  were investigations in each of these spaces into the activities
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  of Jeffrey Epstein. New Mexico Rep. Andrea Romero, a Democrat
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  and chair of the Investigative Committee TOTLL reporters on a
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  June eighteenth video call, and look good, if there's information there,
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  let's get it. Let's see what it says. Because unlike
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  a lot of people out here. All I've ever really
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  wanted is a real investigation. I don't have an extra
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  grind against any of these politicians. Against any of these people,
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  they don't occupy space in my brain unless we're talking
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  about this story. So it's not like I'm on some
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  personal crusade here. But at the same time, I'm not
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  going to ignore obvious corruption and I don't give a
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  shit who's in charge of that corruption. And believe me,
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  I know that it would be way more profitable for
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  me to pick a side, but I'm not going to
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  do that. I'm not going to sit here and tell
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  you that one side's better than the other. They have
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  both failed us for decades. And while this is a
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  step in the right direction, I have my doubts, especially
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  when it comes to this story right now during a
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  political election season, and after this election, is there still
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  going to be this desire or are these people that
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  are talking about it all the time going to just
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  move on to the next shiny thing. And unfortunately, history
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  has told us they're not going to have the willpower
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  and the political capital to stick it out. The US
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  Attorney's Office in South Carolina referred questions from the Post
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  and courier to the US Justice Department. Officials there did
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  not immediately offer a reply, of course not. They're above it.
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  They're above the Fray main Justice. They can do whatever
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  they want, even if that means given somebody like Jeffrey
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  Epstein a non prosecution agreement. The commission, comprised of New
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  Mexico legislators, has sought records from law enforcement agencies, financial institutions,
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  and other entities. It's issued about twenty three subpoenas to date.
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  Ahead of a planned interim report in July, reuter Is
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  reported its investigation has extended well beyond the borders of
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  its home state, which is home to Epstein's infamous or
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  A ranch where alleged sex abuse occurred, not alleged that
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  should happened. Okay, we're not talking about if here. We're
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  talking about how vast it was, just how much of
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  it was happening, not if it was happening. Exactly what
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  records the panel seeking in South Carolina remains unclear. The
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  Commission has not made public copies of the subpoenas, and
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  messages sent to its chair and staff were not immediately
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  returned on June nineteenth, So again, I don't know what
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  those subpoenas are looking for or what they hope to
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  find in a place like South Carolina. Now, obviously it
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  has to do with this Trump stuff, but after that,
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  I have no clue. I mean, we really didn't hear
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  much about Epstein down in South Carolina, and I'm not
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  going to sit here and make pretend we did. So
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  that's one place I really don't have any idea about. Now.
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  With Michigan, like I was saying before with Interlogan, I
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  think that that's a very very good idea because we
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  need to know more about what happened up there, who
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  is responsible for bringing Jeffrey Epstein on board all of it,
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  and of course if anybody else was abused due to
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  their participation at those camps. But the US Justice Department's
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  release of the voluminous records from the so called Epstein
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  Files has revealed several alleged connections the accused sex trafficker
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  had to the Palmetto State. Now, I don't know why
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  they call it the alleged file. That's what they are, right,
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  files that are related to Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes.
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  What else should we call them? Front and center where
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  a woman's claims to the FBI agentsa Epstein's actually abused
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  her when she was a teen living on hilton Head Island.
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  She later told federal investigators that Donald Trump assaulted her
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  long before he became president, sometime around nineteen eighty four
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  in the Northeast. And look, we've been through this and
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  I don't know the truth. Diddy Didney, We don't know.
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  And I think that's a big part of the problem
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  that the FBI and the DOJ refused to release the
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  other documents that are related to this. And I would
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  think that if Donald Trump has nothing to worry about,
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  nothing to hide, then this would be beneficial to him.
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  Oh look, another crazy person. Here's the evidence proving that
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  it didn't happen. But we don't see that, right, Just
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  like with the whole nonsense about the forgery. If that
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  birthday card was a forgery, don't you think there could
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  be an investigation? Go and pass the fake dollar bill
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  and watch how quick Secret Service shows up. But somebody's
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  trying to frame a sitting president and there's no investigation
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  to speak of. The Post In Courier was first to
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  report the woman's initial contact and interview with the FBI
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  in July of twenty nineteen. She alleged that when she
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  was thirteen, Epstein hired her to babysit while he was
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  staying at the Sea Pines resort on Hilton Head. Her mother,
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  a realtor, offered up her services to rental clients and owners. Now, look,
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  I don't dispute that. I don't why would we not
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  believe that what Epstein didn't go to Hilton Head. I'm
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  sure he did. The question is how much of the
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  story's true. The alleged victim said she arrived at the
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  condo and discovered there were no children. Epstein gave her
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  drugs and alcohol, and then sexually assaulted her. She told
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  the FBI, boy, sure sounds like those grooming gangs over
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  in the UK. Huh. Her account included sorted details of
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  other encounters with him during his time on the islands.
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  She and her attorney acknowledged that she had told other
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  girls about Epstein and hopes a recruiting fresh meat as
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  Epstein had called it, and all of that tracks. So
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  it really comes down to you asking yourself, is she
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  reliable as a witness? Is she telling the truth? And
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  I think that the only conclusion to come to is
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  we need more information. I don't know how anyone can
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  look at what's been provided and decide one way or
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  the other. We need more information, and the big problem
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  right now is that the FBI and Donald Trump's DOJ
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  refused to give us that information. And what are we
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  supposed to make of that. That's not looking good for them,
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  right The optics aren't good. You have these wild accusations,
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  you have these damning accusations, but at the same time,
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  there's no real investigation into what's going on, into if
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  this is real or not. And this is why we
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  need special counsel. We're just spinning our wills a neutral
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  And if you think the DOJ is going to investigate itself,
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  if you think the DOJ is going to do the
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  right thing under this administration, you have not been paying attention.
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  The White House Press Secretary has insisted there was zero
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  credible evidence behind the claims. The Epstein files also contained
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  records about a former South Carolina teen who came from
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  an abusive family and became involved with Epstein a few
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  years after moving to Florida when she was fifteen or sixteen.
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  She recounted being recruited to give Epstein massages in exchange
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  for money, earning two hundred dollars for her services. Later,
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  she and other victims sought restitution from Epstein's six hundred
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  million dollar estate for the sexual abuses that they endured.
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  And the craziest part is that the USVII got more
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  money than all of the women put together. Chew on
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  that shit for a minute. Other documents describe how a
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  US Customs and Border Protection agent stationed in Charleston reportedly
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  befriended Epstein while previously posted in Saint Thomas, part of
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  the US Virgin Islands, near an island owned by the financier.
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  Epstein had a lot of people in his pocket. And
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  if you're one of these customs agents or somebody on
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  the front line and Epstein shows up offering you a
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  bunch of dough, a lot of people are gonna take it.
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  I don't think people understand how much corruption there is.
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  These bureaucrats are not squeaky clean people. CBP officials became
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  concerned about Agent Timothy Rouch in twenty nineteen, worrying that
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  the veteran inspector in the North Charleston office had grown
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  too close with Epstein while stationed at the Saint Thomas Airport.
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  Federal airport officials on the island, which is a US territory,
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  had frequent contact with Epstein as he ferried passengers and
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  packages to Little Sat James, his private Caribbean luxury island
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  at the center of his sexual crimes. Was it really though,
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  I mean, I know that's where the focus was, But
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  I think that the most dastardly acts, the worst of
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  the worst crimes, I think they happened in New Mexico.
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  One document from a twenty nineteen meeting indicated Rouch had
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  acknowledged going to Epstein's house, being on his boat, and
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  flying in his helicopter for well watching. Jeffrey Epstein was
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  just a loan predator. He had no contacts, no power,
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  and he certainly wasn't somebody that was connected to the
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  government in any way. Meanwhile, back here in reality, the
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  FBI opened a preliminary probe into Rouch. According to an
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  email released by the Justice Department, federal investigators dug into
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  Rauch's background, interviewing Epstein's pilot about the CBP agent's relationship
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  with the convicted felon, and even subpoenaing Rouch's credit report.
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  According to documents, What does that mean? Why are you
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  looking for his credit report? How about his bank statement?
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  Nothing apparently came of the inquiry, and Rouch told the
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  Post in Caurier in February that he never had a
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  close relationship with Epstein. That whole thing is lies everything
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  said in there about me. I don't know Epstein. I
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  don't have any relationship with him, Rooch said at the time. Yeah. Yeah,
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  they just decided to investigate you for no reason. Dude,
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  That's what happened. Let's throw darts at a dark board
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  and we'll just pick a name. Epstein was found dead
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  in a New York prison cell in twenty nineteen. His
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  death ruled a suicide. He was being held in custody
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  after the US Attorney's Office through the Southern District of
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  New York, charged them with sex trafficking of minors. And
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  I think it's going to be really interesting to see
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  where New Mexico goes with this truth commission, because there's
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  a lot of avenues to explore, and I think that
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  one of the places that has the least amount of
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  information about it that's publicly known is certainly a Zoro ranch.
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  So like usual, we're going to keep on keeping on
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  and when we have some more information to share about
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  the Truth Commission and their investigation, we'll get it added
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  to the catalog. All the information that goes with this
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