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Mega Edition: Judge Kaplan Blasts Prince Andrew And His Legal Team (7/15/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: The phone call took place today between Prince Andrew's representatives,
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  his new lawyers that are based in Hollywood, and the
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  prosecutors and the judge. And it looks like from the
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  reports we're hearing that the judge wasn't having any of
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  Prince Andrew and his legal team's nonsense. In fact, when
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  it's so far as admonishing them for making things way
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  more difficult than they had to be. Pretty much figure
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  that would be the case, right, Look, these judges, like
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  I said earlier, they're like feudal lords.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You mess with these dudes, it's like going into a
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  badger den and taking a whiz on one and expecting
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  it not to, you know, go crazy on you. So
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  with Andrew and his team all of the bluster about
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  how they were just going to ignore all of this,
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  we knew that wasn't going to be the case, because
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  being tried in absentia is never the proper route to
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  go if you're looking to you prove your innocence.
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  Speaker 2: So I figure that.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be ready to feel this call. But it's nice
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  to see the judge giving them a bit of a
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  slap here and telling them that he's not playing games.
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  Pretty much no more, bs, Let's get down to it
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  is basically what the judge is telling them. So let's
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  jump into this article from law and crime and author
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  Adam Klasfeld, and let's see exactly what in the hell
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  went on today during that phone call. Headline Federal judge
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  skewer's lawyer for Prince Andrew for making service more complicated
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  than it is. And again it really that's really what
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  it comes down to, right, this guy is ducking and
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  dodging like Rip Torrens throwing wrenches at him and he's
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  in dodgeball when in reality he should accept this summons
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  and come and challenge these accusations in court. He's such
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  a big tough guy, right, He's such a war hero,
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  such an honorable dude. Then what are you running for? Bro?
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  What are you hiding out at your mom's house for?
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  Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
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  Prince Andrew has disputed that the woman accusing him of
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  sexually abusing her as a seventeen year old served him
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  properly with a lawsuit. That argument appeared to land poorly
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  in court on Monday, when a federal judge signaled that
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  this is a losing battle. Look, there was no doubt
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  in my mind that this was going to be the result. Right,
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  he wasn't gonna get off on the service of this warrant.
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  They weren't going.
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  Speaker 2: To be able to.
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  Speaker 1: Use that as a way for him to wiggle off
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  the hook. I was pretty confident that Boys and Schiller
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  and the rest of the legal team would have been
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  very thorough leading up to all of this.
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  Speaker 2: This is very high profile.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't something you throw together in a day or two, right,
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  and with the legal office, I am sure that this
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  is something they've been preparing for for quite some time.
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  So I am sure that they went through everything they
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  needed to go through. You know, had a mock situation
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  that they ran before them and came up with the
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  best way to go about serving this guy that would
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  have some weight with the court.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they just.
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  Speaker 1: Woke up one day and they were like, all right,
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  we'll show up at insert castle.
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  Speaker 2: Here and we'll just do whatever we.
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  Speaker 1: Want and say we serve them. There's a certain process
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  that goes along with it, and those steps have to
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  be followed, and according to this judge, those steps were
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  obviously followed. And Andrew and his team are the ones
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  playing games. You have a pretty high degree of certainty
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  that he can be served sooner than later. US District
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  Judge Lewis Kaplan told the Prince's lawyers during a telephone conference.
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  Let's cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance.
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  He added, Man, is this judge hanging out listening to
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  the podcast? This me and this guy might be kindred souls.
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  I am so tired of technicalities when it comes to
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  these trials and these situations of law. How about we
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  get down to who's innocent and who's guilty. Shouldn't that matters?
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  Shouldn't that be like the most important thing? But it's
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  really not right. It's a game of technicalities and loopholes
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  that these people are playing, and the one who's the
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  most proficient at that, the one who is the most
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  skilled at that, is going to be the best lawyer
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  in the room. It has nothing to do with guilt
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  or innocence anymore, and hell, maybe it never has. Again,
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  I'm not some kind of expert in the field of
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  you know, a judicial law. I most certainly am not.
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  But I'm also not going to be gas lit or
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  bullshit by these people. So when it comes down to
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  this kind of situation. It's nice to see the judge
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  himself bringing up technicalities and pointing out that he's not
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  gonna stand for it. Let's get to the substance. Let's
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  get to the meat on the bone. Why are we
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  dicking around around the edges. With that remark, the judge
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  made clear that ducking service is not likely to be
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  a successful gambit to avoid a lawsuit by Virginia Roberts,
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  one of the most outspoken victims of the now deceased
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  pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And so this can only be considered
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  a w for Virginia here in round one. Right, So
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  they're gonna have to answer for this. There's gonna be
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  no running, there's gonna be no avoiding the service. And
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  if him and his law team don't show up to
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  any of these trials or whatever, then this judge is
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  going to render a decision in absentia and it's not
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  going to turn out well for Prince Andrew. So, like
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  I thought from the jump, old boy is over the barrel.
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  And all of those people who thought, oh, because he's
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  a royal, he's gonna avoid this, well, a lot of
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  people didn't have any clue about what's really going on here.
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  There are all sorts of different levers and methods put
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  into place via treaties for these exact kinds of situations. Now,
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  of course, him being a royal definitely throws a wrench
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  into things. But obviously this judge and I'm sure other
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  judges don't really care about that, and pretty much proving
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  it right here by telling Andrew he's gonna have to
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  answer for this in court. You're not gonna get off
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  on this on a technicality. You're not going to just
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  push this away. You're gonna have to sit down and
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  you're gonna have to, you know, defend yourself here. Roberts
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  alleges in her lawsuit that the Duke of York sexually
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  assaulted her as a teenager in three places Epstein's New
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  York mansion and private island in the US Virgin Islands,
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  and accused sex trafficking Gallaine Maxwell's London home. So Prince Andrew,
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  it wasn't a one time thing either, right, multiple times
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  he's accused of this. You would think that a guy
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  like Prince Andrew wouldn't need to be hanging out with
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  Jeffrey Epstein and Furthermore, imagine Jeffrey Epstein or anybody showing
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  up with their buddy Gallaine Maxwell and some little young
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  girl who looks like she's about Oh if you look
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  at the picture sixteen seventeen, maybe they show up with
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  her in tow and you're the Prince of England. You
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  don't ask any questions. You don't say, all right, hold up,
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  who's the kid?
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  Speaker 2: Guys?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on here? Is this someone's niece? What are
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  you guys doing with this kid?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 1: She on like a school field trip or something. Can
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  I can I see her parents' release for him? That's
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  allowing her to go? I mean, nobody asks any questions
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  with these all these young looking girls hanging out. Oh
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  it's not my business. Oh it's not, bitch, It is
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  your business. Do you think that if you're hanging out
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  at the dope spot and it gets rated, you're not
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  going to jail. So why should these motherfuckers be allowed
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  to get away with enabling and in some spots, even
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  being an accessory. It would seem.
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  Speaker 2: Because the law.
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  Speaker 1: Is not put on the books for you or me.
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  It's meant for people like Prince Andrew. It's meant for
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  people like his whole circle, his whole entourage, all of
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  his friends. Notice how long they were able to get
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  away with the shit they were getting away with. Doesn't
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  work like that for everybody else, does it. So again,
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  it's nice to see this judge at the very least
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  make this guy will go on the hook for a
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  little while. Maxwell, whom Roberts claim turned her into a
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  sex slave, can be seen in the background of a
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  photograph showing the Prince's arm around the then teenager's waist.
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  Roberts made the same allegations against the Prince during her
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  since settled twenty fifteen lawsuit against Maxwell. So this dude
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  has been under the microscope for all of this time, right,
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  everybody has at the very least gotten a whiff of
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  what's going on, and still nobody has forced him to
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  speak to the authorities. So that shows you what the
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  royal family thinks about the survivors of sexual abuse. It
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  shows you what the Queen herself thinks about these girls,
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  and it's pretty pathetic. Sometimes you have a defective child,
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  and the Queen most certainly has a defective child with
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  Prince Andrew. Dude's head is not right hanging out with
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  Jeffrey fucking Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender. Look,
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  remember before you these guys can make the excuse, oh,
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  we had no idea what he was, even though they did, right,
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  but they can at least make that excuse. Afterwards, well,
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  that excuse goes bye bye, So there is no excuse
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  for you hanging out with him at that point. But
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  Monday's hearing revolved the less around the allegations of the
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  lawsuit than the proprietary of US courts to hear the
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  case at all. And that exactly was That was what
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  the meat and potatoes of today was. Will this case
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  stand on its own two feet here in America? Will
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  this case be something that is worth the court looking at.
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  That's what this whole entire thing was today. And it
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  certainly looks like the judge is signaling that Andrew better
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  bring his lunch. We believe that this is a baseless,
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  non violent, bull and potentially unlawful suit, argue the Prince's lawyer,
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  Andrew B. Brettler, a Los Angeles based attorney known for
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  representing Hollywood luminaries accused of sexual misconduct. Look at this
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  cast of characters. Armie Hammer, I mean, did his parents
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  hate him, by the way, who's gonna last name's Hammer already?
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  Now you're gonna name me Army dude who was bound
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  to be a sickle from the jump? Huh, Danny Masterson.
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  Another fine member of society, Brian Singer's gross disgusting close ass?
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  Did I say gross enough? And then Brett Ratner as well. Boy,
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  this guy has a nice stable almost one parrival. Mister,
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  I kept my underpants on Dershowitz. Huh, pretty nice.
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  Speaker 2: How that works.
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  Speaker 1: Look, these lawyers, they're gonna do whatever they possibly can
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  to make sure that this case does not go to trial.
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  They don't want this in front of a jury or
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  a They don't want that. Everything that they do, every
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  move that they make, is to try and set this
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  up as an illegal service of this warrant or the
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  whole entire thing in general is illegal. All about technicalities.
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  You notice nobody's running around screaming from the rooftops about
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  how innocent Prince Andrew is. Right, where's his legal team
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  with oppressor talking about here's this evidence, that evidence, this
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  and this and this is why our client is innocent.
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  They can't even do that, They can't even bring that
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  to the table. And try and swing the narrative in
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  their way. That's how hard or pressed they are here
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  for the facts, and when the facts are in short supply,
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  it's probably a good idea to keep you a yap shut.
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  Robert's attorney, David Boyce, insisted that the service was proper.
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  Speaker 2: We've proceeded to.
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  Speaker 1: Serve Prince Andrew in several ways pursuing to Article ten
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  of the Hay Convention, Boys said, And that's what I
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  was talking about a little bit ago. There's all kinds
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  of different conventions that have been signed, a treaties between
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  the United States and the UK and elsewhere obviously, but
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  in this case, specifically between these two nations. And to
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  think that David Boyce and his team wouldn't know what
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  they're doing here as far as making sure all their
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  ducks are in a row and everything's lined up correctly,
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  I just that that was a step too far for
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  me to take. I highly doubt that a legal team
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  such as this is not going to have everything in
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  order right. So when people were talking about how it
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  wasn't even gonna, you know, get by the judge, the
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  judge is gonna get rid of it because it wasn't
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  served correctly. I just I had my doubts that would
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  be the resolution now from here. Who the hell knows,
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  But I kind of figured from the jump that he
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  wasn't going to be able to ignore this. Right what
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  I've been pretty consistent in that messaging. He can't just
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  ignore this, going to have to face it one way
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  or the other. That is the treaty under which Prince
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  Andrew disputes service. But Judge Caplan skewered the Prince's lawyer
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  for making matters more complicated than they need to be.
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  And that's the mo of these guys, right, these high
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  profile lawyers, that they're looking to make things way more
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  complicated than they need to be. The longer they can
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  draw this out, the more chance that the prosecution's case crumbles.
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  That's exactly how it always works with these guys, and
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  that's what you're seeing here. They want to battle over
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  technicalities until the cows come home. What they don't want
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  to battle over is truth and lies. I'm sure you
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  know that the Hague Convention is supplemental, Caplin told Brettler,
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  adding that he can order service effected upon a foreign
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  national under federal rule for f three of the United
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  States code. Again. Anyone who thinks that the long arm
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  of the federal government can't reach out and touch you
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  if you're in a different country, they are sorely mistaken.
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  It all comes down to the will of the United States.
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  If the federal government wants to pressure allies into turning
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  people over, they're going to turn people over. If they
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  want to press their allies into getting statements, they're going
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  to get whatever cooperation that they want for the most part.
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  But the caveat is does the federal government have the
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  will power to expand the political capital necessary to do so?
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  And in this instance, I do not think that we
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  will see that, right the extra pressure, the you know,
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  complete tightening of the fist, if you will, because I
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  don't think it's going to be necessary. I think that
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  Andrew is in a position now, especially now, where he's
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  going to have to answer these charges, and all of
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  the technicalities, all of the loopholes, all of the slippery
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  slopes on Earth or in the universe aren't going to
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  be able to help him from the eventual reality that
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  the train.
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  Speaker 2: Of justice has left the station.
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  Speaker 1: That rule offers wide latitude for serving a foreign person
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  by other means not prohibited by international agreement as the
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  court orders. Judge Caplan indicated that he would likely grant
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  that order and is unlikely to change his mind on
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  that front. So Judge Kaplan looks like he's gung ho
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  here on at the very least hearing all of the
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  evidence in this case. And at the end of the day,
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  that is exactly what you have to hope for. Right
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  It's the first step getting this through, the first barrage
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  of you know, anti aircraft fire that the defense is
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  going to throw up into the sky. And thankfully, it
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  looks like Judge Kaplan is seeing the bs here, has
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  seen the nonsense and doesn't want to deal with it
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  and wants to get right to the substance of the matter.
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  What kind of evidence do you have, Let's see it.
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  I'm busy, I want to go play golf, Me and
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  the rest of my soul called elite buddies have a
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  ten thousand dollars a day, a ten thousand dollars a
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  plate function to go to. Let's go, let's get things moving.
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  So I don't think we'll see any sort of tom
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  foolery going on here with this. Judge seems like he
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  wants to streamline this and get it rocking and rolling.
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  The Duke of York denies the allegations. For years, federal
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  prosecutors in the Southern District of New York described the
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  Prince as unhelpful in their investigation into the Epstein case.
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  The district's former US attorney, Jeffrey Berman, released a statement
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  declaring that Prince Andrew provided zero cooperation in connection with
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  the matter, and when that happened, we discussed how irregular
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  that is. That is not the kind of thing that
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  the federal government usually does, especially in a high profile
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  case like this. What it looks like is they were
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  trying to leverage him. They were trying to use a
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  public opinion in their favor to get him to start
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  to yap. While it was a decent try, There's no
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  way that this guy is speaking to anybody at this point.
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  I mean, is there anybody out there listening that thinks
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  he's innocent of these charges? And if so, look I
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  would love to hear why you think he's innocent and
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  see some of the at least circumstantial evidence that points
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  in that direction. Because every path I take, every alley
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  I look down, every trail I traverse, I come to
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  the same destination, and that destination is this dude is
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  guilty as fuck. His successor, current US Attorney Audrey Strauss,
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  made a point to say that her office would like
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  to have the benefit of the Prince's statement when Maxwell's
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  charges were made public. Well, yeah, it would definitely help, right,
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  And it's another reason why he didn't give that statement.
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  Him and Glenn Maxwell are thick as thieves, aren't They
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  real close friends, and they understand that their fates are
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  intertwined at this point, Andrew's more so than Gallan's, because
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  Galliane's already rotting in a cell. So I would not
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  even think for a second that, you know, the old
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  princely boy here is feeling comfortable. Maxwell's criminal case will
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  go to trial in November inside the Southern District of
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  New York, the same courthouse where Roberts filed her civil
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  lawsuits against the Prince and Maxwell.
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  Speaker 2: All right, folks, well there you have it, hop a right, folks.
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  Speaker 1: So the phone call took place today between Prince Andrew's representatives,
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  his new lawyers that are based in Hollywood, and the
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  prosecutors and the judge. And it looks like from the
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  reports we're hearing that the judge wasn't having any of
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  Prince Andrew and his legal team's nonsense. In fact, when
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  is so far as admonishing them for making things way
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  more difficult than they had to be. Pretty much figure
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  that would be the case, right. Look, these judges, like
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  I said earlier, they're like feudal wards. Right. You mess
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  with these dudes, it's like going into a badger den
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  and taking a whiz on one and expecting it not
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  to you know, go crazy on you. So with Andrew
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  and his team all of the bluster about how they
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  were just going to ignore all of this, we knew
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  that wasn't gonna be the case, because being tried in
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  absentia is never the proper route to go if you're
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  looking to you know, prove your innocence.
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  Speaker 2: So I figure that.
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  Speaker 1: They'd be ready to feel this call. But it's nice
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  to see the judge giving them a bit of a
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  slap here and telling them that he's not playing games
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  pretty much no more, bs, Let's get down to it
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  is basically what the judge is telling them.
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  Speaker 2: So let's jump into.
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  Speaker 1: This article from Law and Crime and author Adam Klasfeld,
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  and let's see exactly what in the hell went on
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  today during that phone call, headline Federal judge Skewer's lawyer
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  for Prince Andrew for making service more complicated than it is.
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  And again it really that's really what it comes down to. Right,
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  this guy is ducking and dodging like Rip Torrens throwing
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  wrenches at him and he's in dodgeball when in reality
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  he should accept this summons and come and challenge these
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  accusations in court. He's such a big, tough guy, right,
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  he's such a war hero, such an honorable dude. Then
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  what are you running for, bro? What are you hiding
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  out at your mom's house for? Don't make it more
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  complicated than it needs to be. Prince Andrew has disputed
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  that the woman accusing him of sexually abusing her as
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  a seventeen year old served him properly with a lawsuit.
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  That argument appeared to land poorly in court on Monday,
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  when a federal judge signaled that this is a losing battle. Look,
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  there was no doubt in my mind that this was
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  going to be the result. Right, he wasn't going to
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  get off on the service of this warrant. They weren't going.
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  Speaker 2: To be able to.
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  Speaker 1: Use that as a way for him to wiggle off
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  the hook. I was pretty confident that Boys and Schiller
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  and the rest of the legal team would have been
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  very thorough leading up to all of this.
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  Speaker 2: This is very high profile.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't something you throw together in a day or two, right,
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  and with the legal office, I am sure that this
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  is something they've been preparing for for quite some time.
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  So I am sure that they went through everything they
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  needed to go through, you know, had a mock situation
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  that they ran before them and came up with the
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  best way to go about serving this guy that would
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  have some weight with the court.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Just woke up one day and they were like, all right,
• 23:35
  we'll show up at insert.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Castle here and we'll just do whatever we.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Want and say we serve them. There's a certain process
• 23:43
  that goes along with it, and those steps have to
• 23:46
  be followed. And according to this judge, those steps were
• 23:51
  obviously followed. And Andrew and his team are the ones
• 23:55
  playing games. You have a pretty high degree of certainty
• 24:00
  that he can be served sooner than later. US District
• 24:03
  Judge Lewis Kaplan told the Prince's lawyers during a telephone conference.
• 24:08
  Let's cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance.
• 24:11
  He added, Man, is this judge hanging out listening to
• 24:14
  the podcast? This me and this guy might be kindred souls.
• 24:19
  I am so tired of technicalities when it comes to
• 24:22
  these trials and these situations of law. How about we
• 24:25
  get down to who's innocent and who's guilty. Shouldn't that matters?
• 24:29
  Shouldn't that be like the most important thing? But it's
• 24:33
  really not right. It's a game of technicalities and loopholes
• 24:36
  that these people are playing, and the one who's the
• 24:39
  most proficient at that, the one who is the most
• 24:42
  skilled at that, is going to be the best lawyer
• 24:45
  in the room. It has nothing to do with guilt
• 24:47
  or innocence anymore, and hell maybe it never has. Again,
• 24:51
  I'm not some kind of expert in the field of,
• 24:54
  you know, a judicial law. I most certainly am not.
• 24:58
  But I'm also not going to be gas lit or
• 25:01
  bullshitted by these people. So when it comes down to
• 25:06
  this kind of situation, it's nice to see the judge
• 25:11
  himself bringing up technicalities and pointing out that he's not
• 25:15
  gonna stand for it. Let's get to the substance. Let's
• 25:19
  get to the meat on the bone. Why are we
• 25:21
  dicking around around the edges? With that remark, the judge
• 25:29
  made clear that ducking service is not likely to be
• 25:32
  a successful gambit to avoid a lawsuit by Virginia Roberts,
• 25:37
  one of the most outspoken victims of the now deceased
• 25:40
  pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And so this can only be considered
• 25:45
  a w for Virginia here in round one, right, So
• 25:48
  they're gonna have to answer for this. There's gonna be
• 25:51
  no running, there's gonna be no avoiding the service. And
• 25:55
  if him and his law team don't show up to
• 25:58
  any of these trials or what, then this judge is
• 26:01
  going to render a decision in absentia and it's not
• 26:05
  gonna turn out well for Prince Andrew. So, like I
• 26:09
  thought from the jump, old boy is over the barrel.
• 26:11
  And all of those people who thought, oh, because he's
• 26:14
  a royal, he's gonna avoid this, well, a lot of
• 26:16
  people didn't have any clue about what's really going on here.
• 26:22
  There are all sorts of different levers and methods put
• 26:27
  into place via treaties for these exact kinds of situations. Now,
• 26:33
  of course, and being a royal definitely throws a wrench
• 26:36
  into things. But obviously this judge and I'm sure other
• 26:40
  judges don't really care about that, and pretty much proving
• 26:45
  it right here by telling Andrew he's gonna have to
• 26:47
  answer for this in court. You're not gonna get off
• 26:49
  on this on a technicality. You're not gonna just push
• 26:52
  this away. You're gonna have to sit down and you're
• 26:55
  gonna have to, you know, defend yourself here. Roberts alleges
• 27:04
  in her lawsuit that the Duke of York sexually assaulted
• 27:07
  her as a teenager in three places Epstein's New York
• 27:11
  mansion and private island in the US Virgin Islands, and
• 27:14
  accuse sex trafficking Glaine Maxwell's London home. So Prince Andrew
• 27:21
  it wasn't a one time thing either, right, multiple times
• 27:24
  he's accused of this. You would think that a guy
• 27:30
  like Prince Andrew wouldn't need to be hanging out with
• 27:34
  Jeffrey Epstein. And furthermore, imagine Jeffrey Epstein or anybody showing
• 27:40
  up with their buddy Gallaine Maxwell and some little young
• 27:43
  girl who looks like she's about oh, if you look
• 27:44
  at the picture sixteen seventeen, maybe they show up with
• 27:48
  her in tow and you're the Prince of England. You
• 27:50
  don't ask any questions. You don't say all right, hold up,
• 27:54
  who's the kid?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Guys?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: What's going on here? Is this someone's niece? What are
• 27:57
  you guys doing with this kid here? Like a school
• 28:00
  field trip or something? Can I can I see her
• 28:03
  her parents' release for him? That's allowing her to go.
• 28:07
  I mean, nobody asks any questions with these all these
• 28:10
  young looking girls hanging out. Oh it's not my business.
• 28:14
  Oh it's not, bitch, it is your business. Do you
• 28:19
  think that if you're hanging out at the dope spot
• 28:21
  and it gets rated, you're not going to jail. So
• 28:24
  why should these motherfuckers be allowed to get away with
• 28:26
  enabling and in some spots, even being an accessory. It
• 28:30
  would seem because the law is not put on the
• 28:36
  books for you or me. It's meant for people like
• 28:39
  Prince Andrew. It's meant for people like his whole circle,
• 28:42
  his whole entourage, all of his friends. Notice how long
• 28:47
  they were able to get away with the shit they
• 28:49
  were getting away with. Doesn't work like that for everybody else,
• 28:56
  does it? So again, it's nice to see this judge
• 28:59
  at the very least make this guy wiggle on the
• 29:02
  hook for a little while. Maxwell, whom Roberts claim turned
• 29:11
  her into a sex slave, can be seen in the
• 29:13
  background of a photograph showing the Prince's arm around the
• 29:16
  then teenager's waist. Roberts made the same allegations against the
• 29:20
  Prince during her since settled twenty fifteen lawsuit against Maxwell.
• 29:26
  So this dude has been under the microscope for all
• 29:29
  of this time, right, everybody has at the very least
• 29:32
  gotten a whiff of what's going on, and still nobody
• 29:38
  has forced him to speak to the authorities. So that
• 29:41
  shows you what the royal family thinks about these survivors
• 29:44
  of sexual abuse. It shows you what the Queen herself
• 29:48
  thinks about these girls, and it's pretty pathetic. Sometimes you
• 29:55
  have a defective child, and the Queen most certainly has
• 29:58
  a defective child with Prince Andrew. Dude's head is not
• 30:01
  right hanging out with Jeffrey fucking Epstein after he was
• 30:06
  a convicted sex offender. Look, remember before you these guys
• 30:09
  can make the excuse, oh, we had no idea what
• 30:12
  he was, even though they did, right, but they can
• 30:14
  at least make that excuse afterwards, Well that excuse goes
• 30:19
  bye bye, So there is no excuse for you hanging
• 30:22
  out with him at that point. But Monday's hearing revolved
• 30:29
  the less around the allegations of the lawsuit than the
• 30:31
  proprietary of US courts to hear the case at all.
• 30:36
  And that exactly was That was what the meat and
• 30:39
  potatoes of today was. Will this case stand on its
• 30:43
  own two feet here in America? Will this case be
• 30:47
  something that is worth the court looking at? That's what
• 30:50
  this whole entire thing was today. And it certainly looks
• 30:53
  like the judge is signaling that Andrew better bring his lunch.
• 30:58
  We believe that this is a baseless, non viable, and
• 31:01
  potentially unlawful suit, argue the Prince's lawyer, Andrew B. Brettler,
• 31:07
  a Los Angeles based attorney known for representing Hollywood luminaries
• 31:11
  accused of sexual misconduct. Look at this cast of characters.
• 31:15
  Armie Hammer, I mean, did his parents hate him? By
• 31:18
  the way, who's gonna last name's Hammer already? Now you're
• 31:21
  gonna name me Army dude who was bound to be
• 31:24
  a sickle from the jump?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Danny Masterson, another fine member of Society, Brian Singer's gross disgusting,
• 31:32
  gross ass Did I say gross enough? And then Brett
• 31:35
  Ratner as well, Boy, this guy has a nice stable,
• 31:39
  almost one to rival. Mister, I kept my underpants on Dershowitz.
• 31:43
  Huh pretty nice, how that works. Look, these lawyers, they're
• 31:48
  gonna do whatever they possibly can to make sure that
• 31:51
  this case does not go to a trial. They don't
• 31:54
  want this in front of a jury or a they
• 31:57
  don't want that. Everything that they do, remove that they
• 32:00
  make is to try and set this up as an
• 32:04
  illegal service of this warrant or the whole entire thing
• 32:08
  in general is illegal. All about technicalities. You notice nobody's
• 32:13
  running around screaming from the rooftops about how innocent Prince
• 32:16
  Andrew is. Right, where's his legal team with oppressor talking
• 32:20
  about here's this evidence, that evidence, this and this and
• 32:23
  this is why our client is innocent. They can't even
• 32:28
  do that. They can't even bring that to the table
• 32:31
  and try and swing the narrative in their way. That's
• 32:33
  how hard or pressed they are. Here for the facts,
• 32:37
  and when the facts are in short supply, it's probably
• 32:41
  a good idea to keep you a yap shut. Robert's
• 32:46
  attorney David Boyce insisted that the service was proper. We've
• 32:50
  proceeded to serve Prince Andrew in several ways pursuing to
• 32:54
  Article ten of the Hay Convention, Boys said, And that's
• 32:57
  what I was talking about a little bit ago. So
• 33:00
  there's all kinds of different conventions that have been signed,
• 33:03
  a treaties between the United States and the UK and elsewhere, obviously,
• 33:07
  but in this case, specifically between these two nations. And
• 33:13
  to think that David Boyce and his team wouldn't know
• 33:15
  what they're doing here as far as making sure all
• 33:18
  their ducks are in a row and everything's lined up correctly,
• 33:21
  I just that that.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Was a step too far for me to take.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I highly doubt that a legal team such as this
• 33:29
  is not going to have everything in order right. So
• 33:34
  when people were talking about how it wasn't even gonna,
• 33:37
  you know, get by the judge, the judge is gonna
• 33:40
  get rid of it because it wasn't served correctly, I
• 33:43
  just I had my doubts that would be the resolution
• 33:46
  now from here. Who the hell knows, but I kind
• 33:52
  of figured from the jump that he wasn't going to
• 33:55
  be able to ignore this.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: What I've been pretty consistent in that messaging. He can't
• 34:00
  just ignore this. He's going to have to face it
• 34:02
  one way or the other. That is the treaty under
• 34:07
  which Prince Andrew disputes service. But Judge Caplan skewered the
• 34:11
  Prince's lawyer for making matters more complicated than they need
• 34:14
  to be. And that's the mo of these guys, right,
• 34:17
  these high profile lawyers, that they're looking to make things
• 34:21
  way more complicated than they need to be. The longer
• 34:26
  they can draw this out, the more chance that the
• 34:28
  prosecution's case crumbles. That's exactly how it always works with
• 34:32
  these guys, and that's what you're seeing here. They want
• 34:35
  to battle over technicalities until the cows come home. What
• 34:38
  they don't want to battle over is truth and lies.
• 34:46
  I'm sure you know that the Hague Convention is supplemental
• 34:49
  Caplin told Brettler, adding that he can order service effected
• 34:53
  upon a foreign national under federal rule for f three
• 34:57
  of the United States Code. Again, and anyone who thinks
• 35:02
  that the long arm of the federal government can't reach
• 35:05
  out and touch you if you're in a different country,
• 35:08
  they are sorely mistaken. It all comes down to the
• 35:12
  will of the United States. If the federal government wants
• 35:16
  to pressure allies into turning people over, they're going to
• 35:19
  turn people over. If they want to press their allies
• 35:23
  into getting statements, they're gonna get whatever cooperation that they
• 35:27
  want for the most part. But the caveat is, does
• 35:31
  the federal government have the will power to expend the
• 35:36
  political capital necessary.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: To do so?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And in this instance, I do not think that we
• 35:42
  will see that, right, the extra pressure, the you know,
• 35:47
  complete tightening of the fist, if you will, because I
• 35:51
  don't think it's going to be necessary. I think that
• 35:54
  Andrew is in a position now, especially now, where he's
• 35:58
  going to have to answer the charges, and all of
• 36:01
  the technicalities, all of the loopholes, all of the slippery
• 36:04
  slopes on Earth or in the universe aren't going to
• 36:08
  be able to help him from the eventual reality that
• 36:13
  the train of justice has left the station. That rule
• 36:19
  offers wide latitude for serving a foreign person by other
• 36:23
  means not prohibited by international agreement.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: As the court orders.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Judge Caplan indicated that he would likely grant that order
• 36:31
  and is unlikely to change his mind on that front.
• 36:34
  So Judge Kaplan is looks like he's gung ho here
• 36:38
  on at the very least hearing all of the evidence
• 36:40
  in this case, and at the end of the day,
• 36:42
  that is exactly what you have to hope for. Right
• 36:44
  It's the first step getting this through, the first barrage
• 36:49
  of you know, anti aircraft fire that the defense is
• 36:53
  going to throw up into the sky. And thankfully, it
• 36:57
  looks like Judge Kaplan has seen the bare, has seen
• 37:01
  the nonsense, and doesn't want to deal with it and
• 37:03
  wants to get right to the substance of the matter.
• 37:05
  What kind of evidence do you have, Let's see it.
• 37:07
  I'm busy. I want to go play golf. Me and
• 37:10
  the rest of my soul called elite buddies have a
• 37:12
  ten thousand dollars a day, a ten thousand dollars a
• 37:15
  plate function to go to. Let's go. Let's get things moving.
• 37:21
  So I don't think we'll see any sort of tom
• 37:25
  foolery going on here with this. Judge seems like he
• 37:28
  wants to streamline this and get it rocking and rolling.
• 37:33
  The Duke of York denies the allegations. For years, federal
• 37:36
  prosecutors in the Southern District of New York described the
• 37:39
  Prince as unhelpful in their investigation into the Epstein case.
• 37:44
  The district's former US attorney, Jeffrey Berman, released a statement
• 37:48
  declaring that Prince Andrew provided zero cooperation in connection with
• 37:53
  the matter, and when that happened, we discussed how irregular
• 37:58
  that is. That is not the kind of thing that
• 38:01
  the federal government usually does, especially in a high profile
• 38:04
  case like this. What it looks like is they were
• 38:08
  trying to leverage him. They were trying to use a
• 38:11
  public opinion in their favor to get him to start
• 38:14
  to yap. While it was a decent try, There's no
• 38:21
  way that this guy is speaking to anybody at this point.
• 38:27
  I mean, is there anybody out there listening that thinks
• 38:30
  he's innocent of these charges? And if so, look, I
• 38:33
  would love to hear why you think he's innocent and
• 38:37
  see some of the at least circumstantial evidence that points
• 38:39
  in that direction. Because every path I take, every alley
• 38:45
  I look down, every trail I traverse, I come to
• 38:52
  the same destination, and that destination is this dude is
• 38:57
  guilty as fuck. His successor, current US Attorney Audrey Strauss,
• 39:04
  made a point to say that her office would like
• 39:07
  to have the benefit of the Prince's statement when Maxwell's
• 39:10
  charges were made public, Well, yeah, it would definitely help, right,
• 39:15
  And it's another reason why he didn't give that statement.
• 39:19
  Him and Glenn Maxwell are thick as thieves, aren't They
• 39:22
  real close friends, and they understand that their fates are
• 39:26
  intertwined at this point, Andrew's more so than Gallan's because
• 39:31
  Glaiane's already rotting in a cell. So I would not
• 39:37
  even think for a second that, you know, the old
• 39:43
  princely boy here is feeling comfortable. Maxwell's criminal case will
• 39:49
  go to trial in November inside the Southern District of
• 39:52
  New York, the same courthouse where Roberts filed her civil
• 39:55
  lawsuits against the Prince and Maxwell.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: All right, folks, well so there you have it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Figured i'd hop in the studio when we'd update that
• 40:04
  right now while it was hot off the press, and
• 40:06
  then we'll move on tomorrow morning and we'll add some
• 40:08
  meat to the bone, some context, whatever it may be.
• 40:11
  But one thing you can guarantee is that we will
• 40:15
  be back tomorrow morning and we will do it all
• 40:19
  over again.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Have a great