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Mega Edition: Survivors Of Jeffrey Epstein And The Calls For Accountability Within The FBI (5/4/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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One of the first people to report Jeffrey Epstein and
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his behavior was Maria Farmer, and now Maria Farmer and
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her new law firm are asking the FBI why they
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did not stop Jeffrey Epstein from doing what he was doing.
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And they're also asking the FBI to open a probe
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into itself to try and find the answers to those questions.
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And in today's episode, we have a massive article from
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Kate Bricklett over at The Daily Beast talking about this
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new demand by Maria Farmer and some of the other
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survivors and their new law firm for accountability at the FBI.
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So let's dive into this article and let's see what's
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going on. Headline Epstein survivor demands FBI investigate its failure
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to stop them. This article was authored by Kate brig
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When Maria Farmer worked for Jeffrey Epstein in nineteen ninety six,
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she saw girls in school uniforms, visit the pedophile's Manhattan townhouse,
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and encountered binders with photographs of teens and young women
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at his mansion in Palm Beach. At the time, Farmer
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told The Daily Beast. Epstein's then girlfriend and accomplice, Glaine Maxwell,
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claimed these young visitors and photographs were related to modeling
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jobs for limited brands owned by Epstein's billionaire client, Les Wexner.
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But Farmer's suspicions about her employer turned into a living
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nightmare after Epstein and Maxwell allegedly assaulted her in Ohio,
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where she spent the summer working on an art project
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at Wexner's estate. Wexner's security guards, she says, held her
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against her will for hours after she tried to flee
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the premises. Now, Maria has told her story here and elsewhere,
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many many times, and the fact of the matter is
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nothing ever came of her allegations. Nobody looked further, nobody
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looked deeper. They swept that shit under the rug. When
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she returned to New York, Farmer filed reports with the
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NYPD and the FBI, which both ultimately shrugged off her
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warnings about Epstein and Maxwell. Did they really shrug them
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off or did they know what was going on and
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couldn't be bothered to have their operation put on blast?
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Because there's no way that the FBI, the CIA and
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all the rest of these knuckleheads had no idea what
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Epstein was up to. Now, nearly twenty seven years later,
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Farmer is demanding that the FBI examined why it failed
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to investigate her complaints about Epstein, similar to how the
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agency probed its errors in other crimes, including the Parkland, Florida,
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school shooting and Larry Nasser's sex abuse. On Tuesday, a
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lawyer for Farmer sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Ray,
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Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz,
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demanding an inquiry into the FBI's failure to seriously investigate
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Epstein and Maxwell. Well. I don't know what Horowitz is
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going to do, considering we still don't have any sort
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of information about Jeffrey Epstein's death over at mcc dudes
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had all these years to put something together, and we
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have Didley's squat when it comes to official information. So
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if we're waiting for Horowitz to investigate, we're gonna be
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waiting until san Zanad. The fifteen page document reviewed by
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The Daily Beast raises questions about why the FEDS seem
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to have given Epstein a hall pass for one of
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the largest sex trafficking and see sam conspiracies in recent memory.
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Certainly a good question. Do I think the FBI is
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ever going to answer it? I do not, But especially
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if you're somebody like Maria who alerted the authorities to
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these people, told the authorities what these people were up to,
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and then all these years later, still no investors litigation,
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even though there has been tons of evidence that there
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was impropriety at the very least within the federal government
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in regard to Epstein. Still no investigation though, huh. And
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it's pretty sad that somebody who is a survivor of
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Epstein all these years later is still looking for some
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help from the FBI. As counsel to many survivors of
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the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy, we write regarding the
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failure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to properly, adequately,
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or timely investigate the sex trafficking of hundreds of girls
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and young women, wrote Jennifer Freeman, senior counsel at the
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Marsh Law Firm. The FBI utterly failed to investigate serious
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allegations involving Epstein's and perhaps others child sex abuse materials
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significant additional criminality, which until recently has been disregarded, disrespected,
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and essentially denied. Freeman, whose firm also represent and Sarah Ransom,
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another survivor of Epstein and Maxwell, wrote that the FBI,
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Justice Department and Attorney General must conduct a comprehensive investigation
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to determine why there was and remains such abject failures
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to timely investigate, expose, and prosecute this unprecedented, decades long
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criminal conspiracy. And that's pretty plainly put right, not mincing
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any words there. Everybody knows what these scoundrels were up to.
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Everybody knows what Epstein was up to, The FBI knows,
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the DOJ knows, everybody knows, and everybody knew, and they
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didn't do anything about it. They continued to let him operate.
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They continued to let him do what he wanted to do.
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And when you're having meetings with somebody like mister Burns
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over here, who ends up being the CIA director, you
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see how all of that can get facilitated. Right When
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you have friends like that, well, you can get away
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with just about anything. For many years, the public has
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been asking for a reckoning by the FBI and the
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United States government for its clear dereliction of duty to
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serve and protect the American people against Epstein the sex
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trafficking conspiracy, wrote Freeman, adding, however, we are aware of
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no investigation of the FBI and certainly no public disclosure
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or explanation. And the sad fact is they're never going
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to be transparent about this investigation about what went on,
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because they know that they're going to come out smelling
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like a big pile of dog shit. And we all
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know that the career bureaucrats can't allow that. Right Epstein
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and Maxwell's victims, the public at large arote a full
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accounting of the FBI's many failures and missed opportunities. The
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American people, the survivors, and the victims all deserve to
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know the truth. The letter arrives amid a year's long
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battle to hold Epstein's powerful enablers accountable for his crimes.
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Billionaire philanthropists, multinational banks and their executives, academics, and other
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elites who associated with Epstein have found themselves under the
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microscope in the wake of his twenty nineteen arrest and
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the death in a federal lockup in New York. Since then,
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more than three dozen accusers have brought lawsuits against the estate,
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and the Victim Compensation Fund paid out one hundred and
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twenty one million to one hundred and fifty of his victims,
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But they paid out the same amount basically to the USVII,
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So the United States Virgin Islands gets as much as
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all of the victims combined. Make that make sense, please.
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By the end of twenty twenty one, Manhattan federal prosecutors
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also secured Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking, and last summer,
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Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years behind bars and to
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serving time at the low security FCI Tallahassee in Florida.
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Now a trio of lawsuits against JP Morgan and Deutsche
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Bank are revealing how banking executives apparently knew of accusations
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that Epstein trafficked women and girls, but continued to provide
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the financial infrastructure for his international sex ring. It's about
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time somebody's paying attention. We've been ringing that bell for
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how long on this podcast talking about the financial sector
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and how deeply they're involved with all of Epstein's bullshit,
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and not just Epstein, you talk about crime in any regard.
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Massive amounts of crime. All of that money is being
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laundered through the financial sector, and they're not doing a
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thing about it. The US Virgin Islands government and the
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victim referred to as Jane do One have both filed
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complaints accusing JP Morgan of participating in Epstein's legal venture.
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JP Morgan knew that it was providing the financial lifeblood
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for Epstein's international sex trafficking organization from nineteen ninety eight
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through August of twenty thirteen. Those lawsuits says, adding that
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the bank's crucial financial support allowed Epstein to successfully rape, sexually, assault,
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and coercively sex traffic Jane Doe one and numerous other victims.
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On Friday, lawyers for Doe and another victims suing Deutsche
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Bank submitted legal memorandum asking a federal judge to grant
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their cases class action status, indicating more than one hundred
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victims could join the litigation based on the bank's oone
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financial records. And that's what it should be. This should
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be a massive class action suit with so many people
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involved that they can't sweep it under the rug. Because
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you know, these banks are going to try and settle,
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that's what they want to do. They don't want to
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get to discovery. They don't want people to see the
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nonsense that they were up to. They don't want to
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get aired out in public, so they'll look to settle
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before it even gets anywhere close to that. Meanwhile, these
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legal proceedings have possibly uncovered new photos and video evidence
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related to Epstein's victims. In response to a subpoena from Doe,
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Council for the Epstein estate notified her lawyers that it
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had located materials and was concerned some of it might
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contain child sex abuse imagery, according to an April court filing.
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As a result, US District Judge Jed Raykoff signed an
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order directing the Epstein estate to review the materials and
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to notify the FBI if a recording appears to contain
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possible see Sam Farmer says that she warned the FBI
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about Epstein's graphic images nearly three decades ago when she
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contacted them about his sexual abuse, and Maria has been
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very very clear telling her a story about what happened
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with Jeffrey Epstein, the photographs and all of the stuff
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that came in the aftermath, and nobody paid attention, not
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the FBI not the NYPD, nobody, And these are documented reports.
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She filed these reports with the authorities, and they ignored it.
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That's what it comes down to. Freeman's letter states Farmer
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reported to the FBI that Epstein and perhaps others appeared
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to engage in the production, possession, and distribution of sexually
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suggestive or exploit of images of children that could constitute
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se SAM. It adds that in response to miss Farmer's
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clear eyed, prescient report, and despite subsequent repeated red flags
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that Epstein traffick girls and collected sexualized images of children,
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the FBI appears for years to have done little to
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investigate and prosecute Epstein's sex trafficking, and to date done
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nothing regarding reports of possible see Sam. They still haven't.
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What have they done? Who has been arrested? Has anybody
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had their door kicked in? And have they been dragged
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out kicking and screaming? No, of course they haven't. That's
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reserved for you and me. The letter suggests that Epstein
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may have had a special relationship with the government that
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led to the FBI's refusal to target him and high
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profile men in disorbit well if he was working as
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an asset for the United States government. The last thing
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they want to do is burn their own asset, right,
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So why would they have an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein?
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Want to talk about more breadcrumbs about him being somebody
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connected to intelligence or the FBI or whatever. All you
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need to know is that he's paling around with the
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current CIA director. That might warrant a little bit of investigation. No,
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considering that Jeffrey Epstein was someone who collected blackmail and
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compromud on everybody, did he have compromut on Burns? Now,
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I'm not saying he did. I don't know, but that's
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a question that should be asked. No, where all the hearings.
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Is Senate gonna have a hearing? How about the Congress?
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I highly doubt any of that's going to occur though.
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You know why, folks, because really, when it comes down
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to it, they don't care what Epstein was up to.
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They don't care one single bit. If they did, we
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wouldn't even be at this point right now. All of
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these people would have been caught up in a rico
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net and we would have been on to the next one.
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But that's not how it works in the real world,
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is it? When you have money, you have power, you
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have the ability to slip the drag net and not
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pay the price for your actions. And we see it
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time and time again. It's paramount that people know about
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these systemic failures within our government, Farmer told The Daily Beast,
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adding that she believes that the agency favored wealth and
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power over American children. I want to see those girls,
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those women victimized by Epstein broad justice before I die.
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That's my main goal. The FBI declined comment, all right,
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we're gonna wrap up part one here and in the
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next episode we're gonna pick up with part two. All
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of the information that goes with the episode can be
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found in the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome
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back to the Epstein Chronicles. We're gonna pick up where
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we left off in the last episode with the Kate
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Bricklet article from The Daily Beast about the FBI and
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the new calls for accountability. Farmer, an artist and recent
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graduate of the New York Academy of Art, was likely
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the first victim of Epstein's to contact the police, as
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The Daily Beast has a report, after the financier, Pedophile
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and Maxwell assaulted Farmer. She would soon learn that they
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tried to groom her younger sister Annie during a visit
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to the New Mexico compound. At Maxwell's trial, Annie testified
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that she was sixteen when Maxwell groped her chest during
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a massage at Epstein's New Mexico ranch, and that Epstein
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had entered her room announced he wanted to cuddle with
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her and pressed his body against hers. And again, Zoro
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Ranch is one of the least explored places in this
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whole entire sordid affair. What happened at Zoro Ranch. That's
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a question that everybody should be asking, and unfortunately we
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have little to know answers about what went on there.
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We've heard from Annie about her experience, but as far
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as an overall robust picture being painted, we have not
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had that yet, and there hasn't been very many people
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that have come out and talked about what was going
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on down at Zoro Ranch. My guess is there's a
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lot of girls locally that were probably abused as well.
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We know that that was Epstein's mo send girls out
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to the local schools, all the rest of it, bring
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girls in in his sexual Ponzi scheme. So you mean
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to tell me he wasn't doing the same in New Mexico.
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And then you look at New Mexico in the frame
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of all of the missing Indigenous girls, and it really
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paints a very ugly picture. Freeman's letter notes that Farmer
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also believed that Epstein and Maxwell had snatched some photographs
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of her younger sisters, one of whom was eleven years
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old and partially dressed, from her collection during her stay
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at Wexner's property. Farmer told us those images were for
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an art series on adolescents, they were not sexual, she said.
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When Farmer confronted Epstein and Maxwell about their activities, they
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allegedly threatened her safety and warned they'd bite her artwork
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on fire. And Maria has told this story countless times,
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I mean countless times, on many different platforms. Farmer reported
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the duo to the NY six Precinct, which took a
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report on the alleged fire threats, but directed her to
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bring her claims of sex abuse to the FBI. The
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letter says. A nineteen ninety six police report reviewed by
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The Daily Beast shows that Farmer told cops that Epstein
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stated he was going to burn her paintings and send
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her polaroids of the damage. The fbis repeated and continual failures, delays,
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and inactions allowed Epstein and others to continue their sex
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trafficking conspiracy for nearly a quarter of a century. Freeman wrote, Unfortunately,
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MSS Farmer's nineteen ninety six report regarding Epstein's sex trafficking
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and sexually concerning images proved to be spot on. And
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guess what, history proves that right people can say whatever
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they want. But history proves that Maria Farmer and her
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allegations as far as the pictures and what Epstein was
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up to, that all checks out. And there's no doubt
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that she reported this dude way back in the day.
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And all of these clowns that get on TV, especially
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from the SDNY and the New York State Prosecutor's Office
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who live on their ivory towers, they should all be
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real ashamed of themselves. But for them to be ashamed,
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they'd have to actually have some kind of moral compass,
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And in my opinion, anyone letting Epstein get away with
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what Epstein was getting away with certainly does not have
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a moral compass. Had law enforcement taken even minimal action
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to respond to them as farmers and to others two
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thousand and six, two thousand and eight, twenty eleven, and
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other reports, more sex trafficking and likely see SAM crimes
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could have been avoided. Freeman added, She's not wrong. I mean,
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it only makes sense if this guy is inactive and
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he's off the street, and he's being held in prison
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while he's not out on the street molesting anybody seems
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pretty simple to me. But the SDNY could even do
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that simple task and arrest Jeffrey Epstein and keep him
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in jail. The discovery of video footage and photos in
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Epstein's lairs, as well as victim's claims that he kept
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hidden cameras throughout his homes, has led to speculation about
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whether some video was recorded to blackmail rich and powerful friends.
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When Palm Beach cops raided Epstein's Florida mansion in two
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thousand and five, they discovered nude photographs of teen girls
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and turned the images over to the FBI and US
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Attorney's office. Before the bust, however, an assistant of Epstein's
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removed computers from the residents. So how did they get
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tipped off to the bust? How did they know that
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the Jakes were coming to kick in the door and
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raid the house. They're not fortune tellers right over in
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the Epstein estate. They didn't know what was going to
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happen on their own. Somebody told them. Somebody called Jeffrey
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Epstein or his people and said to him, look, buddy,
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you're about to get raided. Get rid of all the
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evidence that you have. Now. The question is who was
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the person who tipped them off. There's no doubt that
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it happened. We just don't know who the person is,
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inside the government or elsewhere who gave Jeffrey Epstein and
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his team the tip that led to him removing those
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computers before they were seized. The existence of loot images
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made news again in twenty nineteen, after the FEDS arrested
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Epstein for a trafficking dozens of underage girls in New York.
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At the time, the Manhattan US Attorney's Office announced that
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a search of his Upper east Side townhouse unearthed an
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extraordinary volume of photographs of nude and partially nude young
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women or girls. Some images were found inside a lock
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safe on CDs with labels such as girls, Picks, Nude,
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and miscellaneous nudes. Won So where all of these pictures
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and who was he sharing them with? And who else
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is in possession of these pictures. At Maxwell's criminal trial
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in late twenty twenty one, an FBI agent testified that
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authorities also discovered boxes of hard drives mysteriously covered an
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evidence tape that hadn't been played there by police, And
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when prosecutors showed jurors a video of Palm Beach police
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two thousand and five walkthrough of Epstein's home, the footage
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revealed the decor, including sexualized photos of underage girls and
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one photo of Epstein posing with a girl in her underwear.
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And remember all the people that went to Epstein's house,
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all these people that said they saw nothing heard nothing, Well,
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they saw these pictures, they saw all of this weird
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ass decor, and they still kept coming back. They still
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kept coming and breaking bread with Jeffrey Epstein and hanging
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out with them and covorting with them. So when they
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tell you they knew nothing, they saw nothing, they are
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lying to you. While the FBI did interview Farmer and
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other victims in two thousand and six, the case was
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scuttled by the Miami US Attorney's office after secret meetings
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with the high powered legal team and once again, Acosta
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shares a bit of the blame here, but he's not
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the one who made the final decision that was made
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by Mukesy and the bosses in the office at the DOJ.
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I don't think people understand that Alex Acosta was nothing
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more than a middle manager. And you see all of
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this hubbub about alex Acosta being the man who gave
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out the sweetheart deal. Well it was his signature on there,
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no doubt about it. And if he had a backbone
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and he was a real man, he would have stood
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up to his bosses. But he's none of that. He's
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a coward and a bitch. But he's not the only
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one responsible here. Back then, the FBI likely knew that
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Epstein had illicit recordings of children, according to a twenty
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twenty report by the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility,
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which examined Epstein's plea agreement and lack of notification to
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the victims. The document reveals that then Assistant US Attorney
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Marie Villafauna told OPR that the FBI had information that
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Epstein used hidden cameras in New York residences to record
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his sexual encounters, and one victim told agents that Epstein's
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assistant photographed in the nude villa. Fauna and other witnesses
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also told OPR that Epstein's computers might have contained child pornography.
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Opr's report noted the interstate transmission of child pornography was
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a separate and serious federal crime that could have changed
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the entire complexion of the case against Epstein. In her
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letter to the FBI, Freeman wrote, to date, law enforcement
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still is not seriously pursued possible See SAM crimes involving Epstein.
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Had law enforcement done their job, the Epstein trafficking and
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possible Sea SAM crimes could have been stopped. It is
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imperative to hold the FBI responsible for failing to investigate
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what happened to so many survivors, Freeman told The Daily
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Beast in an interview. Accountability is critical in order to
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ensure that this never happens again, and she's not wrong,
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but unfortunately there's not going to be any accountability. Nobody's
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gonna stand tall before the wagon for this, and things
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will just be what they've always been in Freeman and
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Farmer are pushing for a federal investigation into the FBI's
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handling of Epstein that could be similar to the probes
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into the agency's actions with regard to the Parkland shooting,
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Larry Nasser's sex abuse case, and Charleston church massacre. Last year,
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family for the victims of the twenty eighteen high school
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shooting in Parkland, Florida, reached a one hundred and twenty
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seven and a half million dollars settlement with the US
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government in connection to the FBI's failure to follow up
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on a tip about the gunmen. A month after the shooting,
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the FBI released a public statement about its own investigation
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into the bureau's lack of response. In twenty twenty one,
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DOJ Inspector Horowitz issued a report revealing FBI officials failed
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to respond to accusations against Nasser, the disgraced US gymnastics
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team doctor, leading to the sexual abuse of seventy more
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young athletes. Months later, the Justice Department settled with the
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families of victims of the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting.
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After the incident, the FBI published the statement about the
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lapses in its background check system that led to the
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white supremacist gunman's purchase of a weapon. Much like the
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Parkland Nassler and Charleston Church cases. Government agencies have a
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responsibility to investigate and explain why the FBI failed for
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a quarter of the century to properly investigate miss Farmers
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and others repeated allegations of Epstein's abuse. Freeman wrote, and
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I think at the very least they should have to
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answer those questions, where's Congress? Where Senate? How come there's
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no hearings? Demanding accountability. The letter highlights some of Epstein's
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prior entanglements with the government and alleged financial misconduct, including
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a regulation deviolation while working at bear Stearns. Curiously, Epstein
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was known and tied to federal authorities for decades, often
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in connection with suspicious and the legal activities, Freeman wrote,
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referring to his ties with Steve Hoffenberg, a former business
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partner who in nineteen ninety five was convicted in a
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massive Ponzi scheme, and Epstein's nineteen ninety two rental of
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a Manhattan townhouse that had been controlled by the State Department.
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There has been rampant speculation for years that Epstein was
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a confidential informant, Freeman wrote, adding that Epstein told colleagues
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and friends that he was an intelligence asset. Then you
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look at what's going on now with Burns, and it
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all really makes sense. Right. I'm sure people out there
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will continue to deny it for whatever reason, but the
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fact is this, folks, Epstein was being protected and Epstein
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was also being run as an asset. Indeed, Epstein's prominent
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connections continue to be revealed. On Sunday, The Wall Street
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Journal reported that William Burns, now the director of the
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Central Intelligence Agency, held meetings with Epstein in twenty fourteen
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when he was Deputy Secretary of State. Others who have
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hobnob with Epstein in recent years include former White House
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Council Goldman set A, top lawyer Katherine Rumler, linguist Noam Chomsky,
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and ariy Anne de Rothschild, the head of the Swiss
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private bank, whom Epstein reported he asks for help in
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finding new female assistants. Oh, I'm sure that that was
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just all mundane too. A CIA spokeswoman said Burns and
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Epstein had no relationship and had only met him twice,
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while a Goldman spokesman said Rumler never flew on Epstein's
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plane or visited his private island and didn't see anything
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concerning at his townhouse. No, what about those pictures? What
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about the picture of Bill Clinton in address? None of
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that stuff's concerning huh. So that says a lot more
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about Rumler than anything else, in my opinion. Chomsky told
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the journal that he met with Epstein to discuss political
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or academic topics, and at the time, what was known
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about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of
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a crime and that he served his sentence according to
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US laws and norms that yields a clean slate. A
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spokesperson for a Rothschilds Bank said she was unaware of
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any questions regarding his personal conduct, and that she feels
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for and supports his victims. Again, I had no idea.
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You really mean to tell me Epstein was a scumbag.
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I didn't know that. And remember, these are all the
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smartest people in the room, folks. Okay, these aren't people
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who aren't media savvy. These aren't people who aren't reading
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the news. That's all they do. But they had no
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idea who Jeffrey Epstein was. In twenty eighteen, the Miami
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Herald reported that it obtained documents showing Epstein provided unspecified
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information to the government as part of his two thousand
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and eight plea deal, and that he was allegedly a
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key witness in the prosecution of two bear Stearns executives.
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Months later, However, Fox Business sided sources who denied Epstein
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was such a witness. There is strong, circumstantial evidence in
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the public domain that Epstein's special relationship with the government
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explains the FBI's failure to investigate or prosecute Epstein in
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nineteen ninety six, the special treatment he received from two
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thousand and five to two thousand and eight, and the
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failure to investigate the possible wrongdoings of important public officials
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and powerful businessman. Freeman wrote, she isn't the only one
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to emphasize the FBI's apparent decision to overlook Epstein. In
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twenty twenty, ABC News reported that a woman who was
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abused by Epstein in New York and whose accusations were
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crucial to his Manhattan indictment, was questioned by the FBI
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in Florida more than a decade before. Before she could
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testify to a grand jury. Epstein secretly inked his non
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prosecution agreement, and the federal investigation died. I certainly think
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with the FBI's capabilities even back then, that they could
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have unraveled the entire network from New York to Paris
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to New Mexico. Spencer Couvin, an attorney who represented three
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of Epstein's accusers in Florida, told ABC at the time
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the potential was always there. Couvin said, the government shut
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this thing down and pled them this thing out before
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going through and talking to probably more than half the
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women that were involved in the whole thing. Had they
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conducted a full investigation and taken their time, this would
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have been a whole different story. And he is not
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wrong about any of that. But we have history to
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tell us the government does not want a robust look
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at what happened here. Sure they'll give us a little
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red meat, they'll give us Glan Maxwell, but what about
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everybody else? What about all of the enablers, What about
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all of the people engaging in the abuse, and what
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about all of the people providing political protection and legal
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protection for Epstein and his buddies throughout the years. Are
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those folks ever going to get exposed? I highly doubt it.
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They had their chance during the Glean Maxwell trial and
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they didn't do it. So hopefully This new action here,
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taken by Maria Farmer, the other survivors and their new lawyers,
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forces the FBI's hand and forces them to come clean
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about their obvious failure when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Alright, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
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