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What Jes Staley Told Congress About Jeffrey Epstein’s Assistant · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Over the past few years, we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about Jess Staley and his so-called consensual encounter with one
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  Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein's assistants. And while we don't know the
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  Speaker 1: name of that assistant, when you start putting two and
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  Speaker 1: two together, it certainly sounds like it's Sarah Kellen Vickers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is it Sarah Kellen Vickers? I don't know. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be very clear about that. But when you start
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  Speaker 1: putting the pieces together, and you hear Jess Daly's story,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it sounds like to me. Especially considering he
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  Speaker 1: says he went to her townhouse. Who else had a townhouse?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it was Nadia, but I'm thinking all
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  Speaker 1: the signs point to Sarah Kellen Vickers. And if that's
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  Speaker 1: the case, didn't Sarah say that she's a victim? So
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't that mean that Jess Daly had relations with a
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  Speaker 1: trafficking victim? And it also makes me wonder if this woman...
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  Speaker 1: is the Snow White that we heard about in those emails.
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  Speaker 1: So today, we have an article from the New York Post,
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  Speaker 1: and then later on, obviously, we're going to dive in
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  Speaker 1: to the transcripts from that deposition. But first things first,
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  Speaker 1: this article was published by the New York Post and
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  Speaker 1: the headline, Ex-Barclays Chief Jess Daly Details His Intimate Encounter
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  Speaker 1: With Jeffrey Epstein's Assistant to House Investigators. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Victor Nava. Former Barclays CEO Jess Daly described
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  Speaker 1: one sexual encounter he claims he had with an assistant
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  Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein as consensual in an interview with congressional
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  Speaker 1: investigators last month. And this is going to be bad
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  Speaker 1: for him. Now, I don't know if he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be investigated as far as criminally, but this is not good.
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  Speaker 1: And if I was a betting man, I would say
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  Speaker 1: that there's probably some lawsuits coming his way. She was
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  Speaker 1: an assistant to Jeffrey Epstein. And I met her at
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  Speaker 1: his townhouse, Staley told the House Oversight Committee, according to
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  Speaker 1: a transcript released on Wednesday. We met and began to
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  Speaker 1: have a dialogue and it turned flirtatious. And we met
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  Speaker 1: and had one intimate encounter, the ex-Barclays chief acknowledged. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that. Only one encounter? Sure, buddy. How many
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  Speaker 1: other encounters did you have while you were hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with your buddy Epstein? That's the real question. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to get any answers to that. Staley
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  Speaker 1: was brought in by the House panel after the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department Epstein file showed that Staley exchanged some 1,200 communications
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein between 2008 and 2012. There's no denying how
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  Speaker 1: close these two dudes were. We're talking almost best friends.
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  Speaker 1: And there wasn't a financial move that was made by
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  Speaker 1: Epstein during this period that Jeff Staley wasn't involved in
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to J.P. Morgan. just about everything Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was up to, J.P. Morgan had a hand in. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, his guy at J.P. Morgan was Jess Staley.
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  Speaker 1: And Jess Staley, he certainly utilized the quote-unquote perks from
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, didn't he? Using Epstein's house,
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  Speaker 1: and according to him, his assistants. At the time Staley
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  Speaker 1: was head of J.P. Morgan's private bank, And Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: one of his clients. Staley was adamant that the sexual
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  Speaker 1: encounter with the woman, whose name is redacted in the transcript,
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  Speaker 1: was consensual and not set up by Epstein. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. I'm sure Epstein didn't tell, insert woman here,
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  Speaker 1: you better make sure that you take care of my
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  Speaker 1: boy Jess. Do we really think that didn't happen? Do
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  Speaker 1: we think that, you know, Glenn Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: weren't telling these girls that in private? Oh, they most
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  Speaker 1: certainly were. They most certainly were. And this is exactly
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  Speaker 1: how Jeffrey Epstein would ingratiate himself to people like Jess Daly.
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  Speaker 1: Now he has something on Jess Daly. Because what, you
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  Speaker 1: don't think? Whoever the girl was told Jeffrey Epstein what
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  Speaker 1: was happening? She did. And Jeffrey Epstein, you better believe
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  Speaker 1: he booked that shit, put it in a dossier, and
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  Speaker 1: hid it away for later. The banker claims that the woman,
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  Speaker 1: who he said was in her 20s or 30s, invited
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  Speaker 1: him up to her Upper East Side apartment in New
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  Speaker 1: York one morning in 2009 or 2010. Now, mind you,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was already convicted, right? So you have Jess Staley
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  Speaker 1: going over to a convicted sex offender's house, meeting a
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  Speaker 1: woman or girl, whatever you want to call it, and
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  Speaker 1: then going over to her house for an encounter. How
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  Speaker 1: about a little bit of discernment? How about a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of better judgment? How about A trip to the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: I think we talked. I believe we were sitting on
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  Speaker 1: our couch together while we talked, and one thing led
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  Speaker 1: to another, and we had an intimate engagement, Staley testified. Hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who does what. As long as everybody's consenting,
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  Speaker 1: have at it. You want to be the biggest freak
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  Speaker 1: amongst the most freaks? I don't care. Doesn't affect my life.
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  Speaker 1: The beef here isn't that Jess Staley was out looking
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  Speaker 1: for some trim. The beef here is that Jess Staley
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  Speaker 1: had relations with the girl who was being trafficked. That's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. My recollection is, she invited me into her bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: He said when pressed about how he knew that the
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  Speaker 1: encounter was consensual. Oh, did you sign a consent form?
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  Speaker 1: Did she? Isn't that the way things go these days?
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  Speaker 1: Staley claimed that the woman invited him over months after
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  Speaker 1: they first met at Epstein's residence, and that they crossed
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  Speaker 1: paths up to a dozen times before and after, but
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  Speaker 1: only had the one sexual encounter. which he said he
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  Speaker 1: never told Epstein about, you can rest assured she did.
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  Speaker 1: If you think that this woman, whoever it was, didn't
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  Speaker 1: go back and tell Jeffrey Epstein, you have not been
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  Speaker 1: paying attention. That was part of the hustle. That was
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal. And when these women would be
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  Speaker 1: coerced and, you know, brought into Jeffrey Epstein's machine, they knew.
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  Speaker 1: And believe me, it wasn't every single woman. He had
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  Speaker 1: specified people to do specified things. And when he was
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  Speaker 1: looking to really entrap somebody, really get somebody locked in.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what he did when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: people like Jess Daly. Because once Jess Daly had relations
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  Speaker 1: with insert woman here. Well, now Epstein has that over
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  Speaker 1: his head, right? Even if he says he didn't tell Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really think that Jeffrey Epstein didn't know? The
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  Speaker 1: ex-Barclays chief said he was not aware if Epstein had
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  Speaker 1: ever instructed women to have sex with his associates. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. You guys never talked about that. You
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  Speaker 1: guys never talked about Beauty and the Beast, or Snow White,
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  Speaker 1: or any of the other stuff. Jess Staley, you're a liar, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Is that clear enough? Is that straightforward enough? You're a liar,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't believe anything you're saying. When informed by
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  Speaker 1: an investigator that the woman had sued Mr. Epstein for
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  Speaker 1: sexual abuse and settled with his estate, Staley indicated that
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  Speaker 1: he had no knowledge of Epstein, having ever abused his assistants. Wow. Really?
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  Speaker 1: The smartest man in the room, huh? Jeff Staley, who's
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  Speaker 1: been around Jeffrey Epstein his whole life, basically. Whole professional life.
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  Speaker 1: But he had no idea that that's what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Does anyone believe that? And how the fuck does Congress
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  Speaker 1: accept it? Imagine sitting there in that room as a
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  Speaker 1: congressman or woman and not smacking the hammer down on
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  Speaker 1: this dude. I would have held him in contempt 17
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  Speaker 1: ways to Sunday. And I would have referred him to
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department the second he walked out of that room.
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  Speaker 1: The House panel also grilled Staley about whether he had
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  Speaker 1: ever seen a woman dressed as Snow White at Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: residence or had sex with a woman in the Disney
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  Speaker 1: character costume. Staley insisted that he did not recall ever
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  Speaker 1: seeing a woman in a Snow White costume before. at
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's place and was adamant that he did not have
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  Speaker 1: sex with a woman in such an outfit. So what
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  Speaker 1: about the email? What does that even mean then? I
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  Speaker 1: know you and your boy weren't sitting around having Disney
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  Speaker 1: night on the island. Well, unless it has to do
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  Speaker 1: with you know what. But besides that, stop it. The
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  Speaker 1: files released by the DOJ show that Staley wrote to
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  Speaker 1: Epstein on July 9th, 2010. Maybe they're tracking you. That
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  Speaker 1: was fun. Say hi to Snow White. So can we
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  Speaker 1: have an explanation for that, please? I'm guessing he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a quality explanation, but let's see what he has
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  Speaker 1: to say. What character would you like next? Asked Epstein
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  Speaker 1: in response to the following day. Beauty and the Beast,
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  Speaker 1: Daly said. Imagine being this depraved. Yeah, let's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: molest girls. Let's abuse women. But first, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: dress them like Disney characters? Fucking depraved. And anybody getting
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  Speaker 1: down with this sort of shit is just a sick degenerate.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, don't get it confused. I don't mean consensually.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to dress like Snow White, and you
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  Speaker 1: want your dude to dress like the Seven Dwarves, one
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  Speaker 1: of the Seven Dwarves, or all of them, I don't care. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to have Seven Dwarves come over, and
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  Speaker 1: you guys all get it on, I don't care. As
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  Speaker 1: long as you guys all consent. To which Epstein replied, well,
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  Speaker 1: one side is available. Another unidentified person emailed Epstein on
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  Speaker 1: July 10th, 2010. The Snow White was fucked twice as
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  Speaker 1: soon as she put on her costume. During his appearance
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  Speaker 1: before the committee, the trans shows investigators provided Staley with
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  Speaker 1: a photograph Epstein emailed to her redacted name on July 11,
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  Speaker 1: 2010 of a young woman in a Snow White costume. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he had no idea what that was though, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We just talked about that. That never
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  Speaker 1: really happened. Staley said he didn't know the woman in
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  Speaker 1: the costume and maintained that he did not recall ever
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  Speaker 1: seeing that person with Epstein. Look, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: much clearer I need to be about Jeff Staley. This dude,
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  Speaker 1: he should be indicted. And not only for his stupidity
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to one of Epstein's quote-unquote assistants. What
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  Speaker 1: about all the financial malfeasance that was occurring under his watch?
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  Speaker 1: Does that not matter? Does that not mean anything? Well,
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  Speaker 1: It might not mean anything to the authorities, but it
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  Speaker 1: certainly means something to the population at large. And that's why,
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  Speaker 1: once again, I'm calling on Congress to refer Jess Staley
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  Speaker 1: to the DOJ. Because if Jess Staley isn't worthy of
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  Speaker 1: an indictment here, then who the hell is? All the
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  Speaker 1: the description box.