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Epstein’s Berkeley Connection: Tuition Payments and a Recruitment Pipeline · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. One of the sectors of society that Jeffrey
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  Epstein loved to infiltrate was academia, and it didn't matter
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  if the school was on the East coast or the
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  West coast, or anywhere in between. And we've talked a
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  whole lot about Jeffrey Epstein and his Ivy League adventures
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  at Harvard and Yale. But if you think it stopped there,
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  you have not been paying attention, because now we have
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  records showing us that Jeffrey Epstein was paying for students
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  at Berkeley University as well, and not only that, one
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  of the stipulations was that she had to find Jeffrey
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  Epstein to quote unquote assistance, and considering who we're talking about,
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  that seems to be a bit disturbing assistance. We all
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  know what Jeffrey Epstein's assistants were expected to do. Now,
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  to be clear, the person in this article that they're
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  talking about never ended up being one of Jeffrey Epstein's assistants,
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  if you will, but instead somebody that seems like they
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  got caught up in his web. So let's dive into
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  this article from The Daily Californian and let's see what
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  they have for us. Headline price to pay for Berkeley
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  Jeffrey Epstein paid law students tuition in exchange for assistance.
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  This article was authored by Ray Weimer, Eleanor Dalton, Hannah Camicker.
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  Record show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded as
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  students you see Berkeley School of Law degree in return
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  for referring female assistants. That is just nefarious as fuck.
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  Like here, I'm gonna pay for you to go to school,
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  but I need you to refer these women back to
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  me that you meet on campus. That's part of it.
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  And what did he need the women for? We all know,
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  we all know what he needed the women for. And look,
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  one of the main reasons we're even talking about this
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  article is because it offers more proof of what Epstein
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  was up to. This man was recruiting women everywhere he went,
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  and once he got him into his web, the coercion
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  began and it was rinse and repeat right. How many
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  times throughout history did Jeffrey Epstein do this same exact scheme? Plenty,
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  That's how many times Jeffrey Epstein paid Berkeley Law School
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  one thousand dollars deposit in twenty sixteen, according to a
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  March twenty second American Express credit card statement. The timing
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  of the payment corresponds with several emails exchanged between Epstein
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  and the law student. The pair communicated frequently from twenty
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  fifteen to twenty nineteen, during which the student completed a
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  Master of Laws from Berkeley's Law program and graduated in
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  twenty seventeen. And do you think Jeffrey Epstein was doing
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  that out of the kindness of his heart or did
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  he have ulterior motives. He wasn't doing it because he
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  was nice and he wanted this girl to succeed. He
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  was doing it because he wanted something from this girl.
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  And it looks like what he was trying to get
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  along with whatever else was her to help him recruit
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  other girls. And that was the Ponzi scheme Epstein was
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  up to. He would coerce these women, get them here
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  from other countries, get them involved in all kinds of
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  immigration fraud, take their passports, put them in that building
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  at E sixty six, and then make them do whatever
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  he wanted. And we have heard that time and time
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  again from multiple women. According to the emails. The student
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  was already training to be a French barrister and was
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  looking to work in the United States. The Master of
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  Laws is intended to prepare international students for the fundamentals
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  of US law practice, making them eligible for a US
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  bar exam. So she was over here from France trying
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  to get her stuff together and become a lawyer here
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  in America, or at the very least be able to
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  take the bar. And who was her benefactor, Well, none
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  other than Jeffrey Epstein. And again do you think he
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  was doing it out of the kindness of his heart?
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  This man was as transactional as transactional could be. Everything
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  had a price, especially human flesh. A few days prior
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  to the payment, on March fifteenth, twenty sixteen, Epstein said
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  that he would personally handle the one thousand dollars deposit.
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  In the same email, Epstein expressed frustration that the student
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  had not supplied him with assistants, insisting it was part
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  of an understanding with the student when they asked for
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  financial support. You know, I'm going to give you this dough,
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  but I'm going to need you to bring some women
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  into my web. Now. Of course, I'm sure that wasn't
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  the conversation right. I'm sure Jeffrey Epstein was more convincing
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  and probably pitched something different. But at the end of
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  the day, that's the result, and that's what he wanted,
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  and that's exactly how his operation functioned. It relied on
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  women bringing other women into the spider's web, and it
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  was the same strategy he used with the high school girls.
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  But after he got mailed the first time, Epstein decided
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  to flip the script a bit and start abusing girls
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  from outside of the country. That's the real story. That's
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  what he was doing. Now does that mean he wasn't
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  abusing people in America. Of course not. He certainly was,
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  but he wised up all these little girls he was
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  bringing in from South America, from Eastern Europe. That was
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  all by design, and it was designed to give him
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  cover and to make sure that he didn't get nailed
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  doing what he was doing. Now that you are a lawyer,
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  I would have thought you recognized it had an agreement,
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  had two sides, each with its own obligation, Epstein said
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  in the email. The former student declined to comment after
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  a request from The Daily Californian. See when people declined
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  to comment it makes it worse for them. Now. Of course,
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  this woman is probably somebody who was abused. Let's be honest. Okay,
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  Epstein doesn't do anything for free, and maybe she doesn't
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  want to come forward, she doesn't want to talk about
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  it whatever. That is certainly her prerogative and nobody should
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  force her to do so. But what I will say
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  is this, it fits the pattern right. This is exactly
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  the sort of shit Epstein was up to. Campus spokesperson
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  Janet Gilmore said UC Berkeley could not comment on individual
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  students due the federal privacy laws, but noted that many
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  students have third party sponsors that pay for tuition and
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  other fees across the campus academic programs, which are processed
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  through the standard building procedure. I don't find anything wrong
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  with that. If you have somebody you want to sponsor
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  and help get through school, cool, But you should be
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  doing it from a place of giving, right, not from
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  a place of expectation, not from a place of I'm
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  doing this for you, so I expect this from you.
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  But in Epstein's world, we all know that the abuse
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  was almost mandatory, and Epstein was so adept at doing
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  it and normalizing it that some of these women didn't
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  even realize they were being abused. Year's of correspondence with
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  Epstein from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen detail the student's
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  application process, deferral, and attendance at Berkeley Law. Document showe
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  Epstein provided financial support in exchange for recommendation of assistance
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  referred to as girls. Oh, I'm sure. Emails included photos
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  of candidates, their names, and descriptions of a number of
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  girls from New York, Paris, Zurich, and mind that all
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  tracks exactly what Epstein was looking for. Bring somebody over here,
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  control their whole life, and then mold them. That's what
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  he wanted to do, same thing he did with Naudio
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  Right now. Some of these girls, these women were over age.
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  There's no doubt about it. Epstein wasn't only trafficking young girls.
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  That was what he liked. That was his proclivity. But
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  if he can control somebody and get them as part
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  of the operation, he's cool with that too. Their correspondence
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  began in twenty eleven, but it was not until twenty
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  fourteen that their emails first mentioned Berkeley Law. If your
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  company could invest in my education at Berkeley we can
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  make an agreement and I will work for one of
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  your companies upon my completion, the student wrote in an
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  email dated December twenty fourteen. Talk about walking into the
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  mouth of the beast. Good lord, poor woman. In January
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  twenty fifteen, the student asked for an official contract with
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  Epstein that guaranteed a commitment of twenty five thousand dollars
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  intuition payment from his foundation before applying to the program.
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  I can work for you as a lawyer with pleasure
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  after you know it, the student said in the January
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  twenty fifteen email. Honestly, though, as bad as I feel
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  for the student, she should have known better here. Epstein
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  was already a convicted sex offender. You're not going to
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  google your patron. You have no idea who he is. Look,
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  there has to be some self responsibility in life, and
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  you have to take ownership of the decisions you make.
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  And if this woman led anybody into the clutches of
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  Jeffrey Epstein, she should have to answer for it. Upon
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  acceptance into the Master of Laws program, the student deferred
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  their attendance for a year after a job offer from
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  a Swiss bank. According to emails for to Epstein, between
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  the student and the admissions manager at Berkeley Law. After
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  agreeing to make the deferral payment as requested by Berkeley Law,
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  Epstein assured the student they did not need to repay
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  him for the tuition. In twenty sixteen, a series of
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  emails from Belloclin, one of Epstein's former accountants, to the student,
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  show that Epstein made about two seven hundred dollars worth
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  of payments to campus residential and student service programs for
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  summer session housing. The student said over emails, Epstein would
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  pay for their schooling through his self titled foundation, the
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  Jeffrey Epstein Foundation, And I'm sure he just did that
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  because he wanted to write. Epstein expected nothing in return.
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  He wasn't a transactional guy. He wasn't parasitic. Their communications
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  in twenty seventeen points toward a more explicit expectation of
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  recommending assistance, with Epstein writing I'm not against helping you. However,
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  produced two candidates with your full recommendation, and then I
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  will help. So, in other words, two girls for me
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  to abuse, and then I'll give you some money. So
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  this woman, if she did that, she's part of the plot, right,
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  And she was obviously over eighteen, So let me take
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  back my statement. I just made a second ago about
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  poor woman. If she brought anybody to Jeffrey Epstein and
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  those people were abused, she should be held accountable. That's
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  how I feel. That's my opinion. Anybody who was over
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  eighteen who worked with Jeffrey Epstein should be investigated and
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  if there's enough there, they should be indicted. And then
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  if a Jerry finds them guilty, they should be convicted.
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  I know, crazy stuff, right. Epstein later chastised the student
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  after she recommended a twenty eight year old assistant. In
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  the email, Epstein said the student was not meeting his requirements,
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  to which the student applied with, Okay, no more over
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  twenty four. Sorry for that. You must do as you're told.
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  Your tendency to add your own thoughts is a huge
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  negative in in biz, Epstein said in an email reply.
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  I want it in an organized professional form. I know
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  your work can be better than you have led me
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  to believe. This is high school level. So absolutely admonishing
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  her for bringing him a woman who is too old.
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  That's what it comes down to. That's why he was mad,
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  this sick, degenerate bastard. After her graduation in twenty seventeen.
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  Epstein and the student remained in contact, continuing their communication
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  via email and WhatsApp. Epstein helped the student prepare for
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  the California Bar, and documents indicate that he funded their
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  preparatory course prior to taking the exam. In twenty nineteen,
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  the student shared via WhatsApp how the work they had
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  done for Epstein negatively impacted their reputation in Swiss and
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  vestment bank they previously worked at, and other Swiss circles.
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  The student described their work for Epstein as a side
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  gig recruiting for a businessman in New York. Okay, she
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  needs to be brought in, investigated whatever, a side gig
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  recruiting for a businessman in New York, admitting it. Huh okay,
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  it was the price to pay for Berkeley, I guess,
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  the student said in a text message. And I don't
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  judge or complain. Hire me as a lawyer paralegal at
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  some point, way better than supplying you ladies. And unfortunately, folks,
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  this is just one of many of these types of stories.
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  And when it comes to the girls with known names,
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  forget it. I'm guessing that there is many, many, cases
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  such as this and probably even more extreme, because if
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  you think that Jeffrey Epstein stopped at this one girl,
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  this one woman, you have not been paying attention. All right, folks,
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  that's going to do it for this one. The information
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  that goes with this episode can be found in the
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