Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / The Federal Charges Swept Aside by Epstein’s Sweetheart Deal (Part 1)(10/13/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to the Epstein files and
- 0:07Speaker 1: release documents, one of the most coveted documents of all
- 0:10Speaker 1: time was the charging document that the DOJ drew up
- 0:14Speaker 1: but never applied to Jeffrey Epstein. Well, the Department of
- 0:18Speaker 1: Justice released that document originally but then pulled it back.
- 0:23Speaker 1: But your boy has his hands on it and that's
- 0:26Speaker 1: what we're going to begin taking a look at in
- 0:28Speaker 1: this episode. So, With that said, let's get right to it.
- 0:33Speaker 1: United States of America vs. Jeffrey Epstein. Background. At all
- 0:38Speaker 1: times relevant to this indictment. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein employed defendants Redacted, Redacted, Redacted, a.k.a. Redacted,
- 0:46Speaker 1: and Redacted to perform, among other things, services as personal assistants.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Defendant Jeffrey Epstein owned the property located at Redacted, Palm Beach, Florida,
- 0:57Speaker 1: in the Southern District of Florida. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein was
- 1:01Speaker 1: the principal owner of J.E.G.E. Inc., a Delaware corporation. J.E.E.G.E. Inc.
- 1:09Speaker 1: sold business activities related to the operation and ownership of
- 1:13Speaker 1: a Boeing 727, 31 aircraft bearing the tail number, and 908J. E.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Defendant Jeffrey Epstein served as president, sole director, and sole
- 1:24Speaker 1: shareholder of J.E.G.E. Inc., and had the power to direct
- 1:29Speaker 1: all of its operations. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein was principal owner
- 1:34Speaker 1: of Hyperion Air Incorporated, a Delaware corporation. Hyperion Air Incorporated
- 1:39Speaker 1: sold business activity related to the operation and ownership of
- 1:43Speaker 1: a Gulfstream G-11-59B aircraft, bearing tail number N-909-JE. Defendant Jeffrey
- 1:52Speaker 1: Epstein served as president, sole director, and sole shareholder of
- 1:56Speaker 1: Hyperion Air Incorporated, and had the power to direct all
- 2:00Speaker 1: of its operations. Pursuant to Florida Statute Section 794.05, a
- 2:05Speaker 1: person 24 years of age or older who engages in
- 2:08Speaker 1: sexual activity with a person 16 or 17 years of
- 2:12Speaker 1: age commits a felony of the second degree. For purposes
- 2:17Speaker 1: of this section, sexual activity means oral, anal, or vaginal
- 2:20Speaker 1: penetration by or union with the sexual organ of another. However,
- 2:25Speaker 1: sexual activity means does not include an act done for
- 2:28Speaker 1: a bona fide medical purpose. Florida Statute Section 794.021 states
- 2:35Speaker 1: that ignorance of age of the victim is no defense,
- 2:38Speaker 1: and that neither misrepresentation of age by the victim nor
- 2:41Speaker 1: a bona fide belief that such a person is over
- 2:44Speaker 1: the specified age shall be a defense. Pursuant to Florida
- 2:48Speaker 1: Statute Section 800.45A and 800.45C2, an adult who intentionally touches
- 2:56Speaker 1: in a lewd or lascivious manner, the breasts, genitals, genital area,
- 3:00Speaker 1: or buttocks, or the clothing covering them, of a person
- 3:04Speaker 1: less than 16 years of age, or forces or entices
- 3:07Speaker 1: a person, under 16 years of age, to so touch
- 3:10Speaker 1: the perpetrator, commits lewd or lascivious molestation, which is a
- 3:14Speaker 1: felony of the second degree, if the victim is 12
- 3:17Speaker 1: years of age, or older, but less than 16 years
- 3:20Speaker 1: of age. Pursuant to Florida Statute Section 800-1,. 046A and 800.046B,
- 3:29Speaker 1: an adult who intentionally touches a person under 16 years
- 3:33Speaker 1: of age in a lewd or lascivious manner or solicits
- 3:36Speaker 1: a person under 16 years of age to commit a
- 3:39Speaker 1: lewd or lascivious act commits lewd or lascivious conduct, which
- 3:44Speaker 1: is a felony of the second degree. Pursuant to Florida
- 3:48Speaker 1: Statute Section 800.047A and 800.047A,. 047C, an adult who intentionally masturbates,
- 3:56Speaker 1: intentionally exposes the genitals in a lewd or lascivious manner,
- 4:01Speaker 1: or intentionally commits any other sexual act that does not
- 4:04Speaker 1: involve actual physical or sexual contact with the victim, including
- 4:08Speaker 1: but not limited to the simulation of any act involving
- 4:11Speaker 1: sexual activity in the presence of a victim who is
- 4:14Speaker 1: less than 16 years of age, commits lewd and lascivious exhibition,
- 4:19Speaker 1: which is a felony of the second degree. Pursuant to
- 4:23Speaker 1: Florida Statute Section 800.04.2, a person who commits any unnatural
- 4:29Speaker 1: and lascivious act with another person commits a misdemeanor of
- 4:33Speaker 1: the second degree. Defendant Jeffrey Epstein was over the age
- 4:37Speaker 1: of 24 and did not have any medical licensure. During
- 4:42Speaker 1: the period of their involvement with defendant Jane Doe 3
- 4:45Speaker 1: and 10 attended redacted in Palm Beach County. During the
- 4:49Speaker 1: periods of their involvement with defendants, Jane Doe's 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
- 4:57Speaker 1: and 19 attended redacted in Palm Beach County. During the
- 5:02Speaker 1: period of her involvement with defendant Jane Doe 7 attended
- 5:05Speaker 1: redacted in Palm Beach County. During the period of her
- 5:09Speaker 1: involvement with defendants Jane Doe 9 attended redacted in Palm
- 5:13Speaker 1: Beach County. During the period of her involvement with defendant
- 5:16Speaker 1: Jane Doe 11 attended redacted in Palm Beach County. Count 1, Conspiracy, U.S.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Code 18, Section 371. Now this is all the stuff
- 5:27Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Epstein should have been charged with, instead of
- 5:30Speaker 1: it going to the state level. So pay very close
- 5:33Speaker 1: attention to all of the charges and everything they're saying
- 5:36Speaker 1: in this indictment. Paragraph 1 through 19 of this indictment
- 5:41Speaker 1: are re-alleged and incorporated by reference as though fully set
- 5:45Speaker 1: forth herein. from at least as early as 2001, the
- 5:49Speaker 1: exact date being unknown, to the grand jury, through in
- 5:52Speaker 1: or around 2005, in Palm Beach County, in the Southern
- 5:56Speaker 1: District of Florida, and elsewhere the defendant Jeffrey Epstein, redacted, redacted,
- 6:02Speaker 1: redacted and redacted, did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, confederate,
- 6:07Speaker 1: and agree with each other, and with others known and unknown,
- 6:11Speaker 1: to commit an offense against the United States, that is
- 6:13Speaker 1: to use a facility or means, of interstate or foreign
- 6:17Speaker 1: commerce to knowingly persuade, induce, and entice individuals who have
- 6:21Speaker 1: not attained the age of 18 years to engage in
- 6:24Speaker 1: prostitution in violation of Title 18 U.S. Code Section 2422B,
- 6:30Speaker 1: the purpose and object of the conspiracy. It was the
- 6:33Speaker 1: purpose and object of the conspiracy to procure females under
- 6:37Speaker 1: the age of 18 to travel to redacted Palm Beach,
- 6:40Speaker 1: Florida so that Jeffrey Epstein could, in exchange for money,
- 6:44Speaker 1: engage in lewd conduct with those minor females in order
- 6:46Speaker 1: to satisfy Jeffrey Epstein's interests. Manner and Means The manner
- 6:51Speaker 1: and means by which the defendants and other participants sought
- 6:54Speaker 1: to accomplish the purpose and object of the conspiracy included
- 6:58Speaker 1: the following. A. It was part of the conspiracy that defendants,
- 7:02Speaker 1: the redacted names obviously are the core four, Leslie Groff,
- 7:06Speaker 1: Sarah Kellan, Adriana Ross, and Nadia Marcinkova. would contact minor
- 7:12Speaker 1: females via the use of cellular and other telephones to
- 7:15Speaker 1: arrange appointments for minor females to travel to Redacted to
- 7:19Speaker 1: allow defendant Jeffrey Epstein to engage in lewd conduct with them. B.
- 7:24Speaker 1: It was further part of the conspiracy that defendant Jeffrey
- 7:27Speaker 1: Epstein and Redacted, Redacted, Redacted, and Redacted would make payments to,
- 7:32Speaker 1: or cause payments to be made to, minor females in
- 7:35Speaker 1: exchange for engaging in lewd conduct. It was further part
- 7:39Speaker 1: of the conspiracy that defendant Jeffrey Epstein and the Corps
- 7:42Speaker 1: 4 would ask females to recruit other minor females to
- 7:46Speaker 1: engage in lewd conduct with defendant Jeffrey Epstein. It was
- 7:50Speaker 1: further part of the conspiracy that defendant Jeffrey Epstein and
- 7:53Speaker 1: the Corps 4 would make payments due or cause payments
- 7:56Speaker 1: to be made to the recruiters for bringing additional minor
- 7:59Speaker 1: females to redacted to engage in lewd conduct with defendant
- 8:03Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. It was further a part of the conspiracy
- 8:07Speaker 1: that defendant Jeffrey Epstein would pay minor females to engage
- 8:10Speaker 1: in lewd conduct with defendant redacted, to satisfy defendant Jeffrey
- 8:14Speaker 1: Epstein's interests. Overt Acts In furtherance of this conspiracy, and
- 8:20Speaker 1: to affect the objects thereof, there was committed by at
- 8:22Speaker 1: least one of the co-conspirators herein, at least one of
- 8:25Speaker 1: the following overt acts, among others, in the Southern District
- 8:29Speaker 1: of Florida. 1. In 2001, defendant redacted led Jane Doe
- 8:34Speaker 1: 2 from the kitchen to of redacted upstairs to defendant
- 8:37Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's bedroom at redacted. In the beginning of 2001,
- 8:42Speaker 1: defendant Jeffrey Epstein engaged in sexual intercourse with Jane Doe 1,
- 8:46Speaker 1: who was then a 17-year-old girl in the presence of
- 8:49Speaker 1: Jane Doe 2, who was then a 14-year-old girl. In
- 8:53Speaker 1: or around 2001, defendant Epstein masturbated in the presence of
- 8:57Speaker 1: Jane Doe 2, who was then a 14-year-old girl. In
- 9:01Speaker 1: or around 2001, defendant Epstein made a payment of $ 300
- 9:04Speaker 1: to Jane Doe II. In or around 2001, defendant Redacted
- 9:11Speaker 1: placed a telephone call to a telephone used by Jane
- 9:13Speaker 1: Doe II to make an appointment for Jane Doe II
- 9:16Speaker 1: to travel to Redacted. In or around 2000, defendant Jeffrey
- 9:20Speaker 1: Epstein paid $ 400 to Jane Doe II, who was then
- 9:23Speaker 1: 15 years old, to Redacted. In or around 2002, defendant
- 9:29Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein asked Jane Doe II if she had any
- 9:32Speaker 1: younger friends who'd be interested in engaging in similar activities
- 9:35Speaker 1: with him. In or around 2003, defendant redacted took nude
- 9:40Speaker 1: photographs of Jane Doe 2, who was then a 16-year-old girl.
- 9:44Speaker 1: In or around 2003, defendant redacted made a payment of
- 9:49Speaker 1: $ 500 to Jane Doe 2 in exchange for posing for
- 9:52Speaker 1: nude photographs. In or around 2003, defendant redacted told Jane
- 9:57Speaker 1: Doe 2 that defendant Jeffrey Epps had asked redacted to
- 10:01Speaker 1: take nude photographs of Jane Doe number 2. In or
- 10:04Speaker 1: around 2003, defendant Jeffrey Epstein masturbated in the presence of
- 10:09Speaker 1: Jane Doe number 2, who was then a 16-year-old girl.
- 10:13Speaker 1: In or around 2003, defendant Jeffrey Epstein made a payment
- 10:17Speaker 1: of $ 300 to Jane Doe number 2. who was then
- 10:20Speaker 1: a 16-year-old girl. In or around 2003, defendant redacted placed
- 10:25Speaker 1: a telephone call to a telephone used by Jane Doe No.
- 10:29Speaker 1: 2 to make an appointment for Jane Doe No. 2
- 10:31Speaker 1: to travel to redacted. In or around 2003, Jeffrey Epstein
- 10:36Speaker 1: engaged in sexual intercourse with an unidentified female in the
- 10:40Speaker 1: presence of Jane Doe No. 2, who was then a
- 10:42Speaker 1: 16-year-old girl. In or around 2003, defendant Jeffrey Epstein paid
- 10:47Speaker 1: $ 300 to Jane Doe No. 2, who was then a
- 10:51Speaker 1: 16-year-old girl, for allowing an unidentified female to perform oral
- 10:56Speaker 1: sex on Jane Doe No. 2 in Epstein's presence. In
- 11:00Speaker 1: or around the spring of 2003, defendant Jeffrey Epstein masturbated
- 11:04Speaker 1: in the presence of Jane Doe No. 4, who was
- 11:06Speaker 1: then a 15-year-old girl. In or around the spring of 2003,
- 11:11Speaker 1: defendant Jeffrey Epstein made a payment of $ 200 to Jane
- 11:14Speaker 1: Doe No. 4, In or around 2004, defendant Jeffrey Epstein
- 11:20Speaker 1: directed Jane Doe IV, who was then a 16 or
- 11:22Speaker 1: 17-year-old girl, to redacted. In or around 2004, defendant Jeffrey
- 11:28Speaker 1: Epstein redacted of an adult female in the presence of
- 11:31Speaker 1: Jane Doe IV, who was then a 16 or 17-year-old girl.
- 11:36Speaker 1: In or around 2004, defendant Jeffrey Epstein made a payment
- 11:40Speaker 1: of $ 200 to Jane Doe IV. In or around 2004,
- 11:45Speaker 1: defendant Jeffrey Epstein instructed Jane Doe No. 4 to redacted.
- 11:50Speaker 1: In or around 2004, defendant Jeffrey Epstein redacted of Jane
- 11:54Speaker 1: Doe No. 4, who was then 16 or 17 years old.
- 11:57Speaker 1: All right, we're going to wrap up right here. And
- 12:00Speaker 1: in the next episode, we're going to pick up where
- 12:02Speaker 1: we left off. All the information that goes with this
- 12:05Speaker 1: episode can be found in the description box.