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Alex Acosta And His Jeffrey Epstein Related Statement Back In 2011 · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I like to do when we're
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  Speaker 1: discussing this case is go back in time and look
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  Speaker 1: at news articles from years gone by and you can
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  Speaker 1: see how this story has changed over time, how it's
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  Speaker 1: transformed over time and how the legacy media loves to
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  Speaker 1: use revisionist history talking about how nobody knew what was
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  Speaker 1: going on with Jeffrey Epstein. Well, I say that's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of BS. And the proof of that is all
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  Speaker 1: of these articles that you can still find if you
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  Speaker 1: just do a simple search, that were telling the story
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  Speaker 1: about who Jeffrey Epstein was. Here's the truth. The people
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  Speaker 1: that were still associating with him, the people that were
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  Speaker 1: still hanging out with him, they didn't care. That's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So today, we're going to go back in time once
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  Speaker 1: again and go all the way back to 2011 and
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  Speaker 1: to an article from the Daily Beast. This article was
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  Speaker 1: authored by Conchita Sarnoff and Lee Aitken. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: how the hedge fund mogul pedophile got off easy. So
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  Speaker 1: at least they call him a pedophile in the headline, right?
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  Speaker 1: And this was in 2011. Nowadays, you can't even get
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  Speaker 1: the legacy media to admit that he committed crimes, right? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: his alleged victims, his alleged trafficking survivors. No, nothing alleged
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  Speaker 1: about it. Documents obtained by the Daily Beast reveal how
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  Speaker 1: pedophile hedge fund mogul Jeffrey Epstein escaped hefty jail sentence
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  Speaker 1: despite overwhelming evidence of sex crimes with dozens, that's dozens folks,
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  Speaker 1: of young girls. Conchita Sarnoff and Lee Aitken on how
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  Speaker 1: the fear and intimidation experienced by survivors during pretrial proceedings,
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  Speaker 1: combined with a ferocious protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution,
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  Speaker 1: culminated in a set of charges that became a virtual
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  Speaker 1: slap on the wrist. Now, we all know that. 2022,
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  Speaker 1: we all know the story well. But remember, this is
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  Speaker 1: 2011 when this story was published. So for all the
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  Speaker 1: people out there that act like they had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, that's a lie. This was out
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  Speaker 1: in the Daily Beast. This was out in other publications.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear, we had no idea
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  Speaker 1: who Epstein was. Why is Prince Andrew palling around with
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  Speaker 1: this dude? It is proving difficult for hedge fund manager
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  Speaker 1: and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to avoid the glare
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  Speaker 1: of media scrutiny, British tabloids most recently cried foul, over
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  Speaker 1: the shabby royal comportment of Prince Andrew in agreeing to
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  Speaker 1: be the guest of acknowledgement of the pedophile. But the
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  Speaker 1: larger mystery surrounding Epstein, who completed a 13-month sentence for
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  Speaker 1: soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2010, has remained unsolved.
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  Speaker 1: How did the hedge fund mogul manage to finesse the
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  Speaker 1: kind of sex crimes allegations typically associated with a hefty
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  Speaker 1: prison sentence? And that's really what it comes down to, right?
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  Speaker 1: How does someone like Jeffrey Epstein avoid serious jail time
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  Speaker 1: for these obviously very, very serious crimes that usually carry
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  Speaker 1: a very long time in jail, 20, 30, 40, 50 years?
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  Speaker 1: But he gets 13 months in a county stockade, a
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  Speaker 1: county lockup. And nobody's supposed to have any questions about that, huh?
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  Speaker 1: For the first time, the U.S. attorney who oversaw the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein prosecution in Florida's Southern District is commenting publicly on
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  Speaker 1: the case in a letter released exclusively to the Daily Beast.
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  Speaker 1: This letter, along with other correspondence unearthed in our reporting,
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  Speaker 1: sheds new light on the no-holds-barred battle waged by Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: lawyers to evade the full exercise of prosecutorial power. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is 2011, before Alexander Acosta was even considered for
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  Speaker 1: a role in a presidential administration. Why would anyone, and
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  Speaker 1: I ask this honestly, why would anyone have Alex Acosta
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  Speaker 1: as part of their administration. Are you kidding me right now?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have people that are vetting people like Acosta
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  Speaker 1: for these positions? All it would take is a simple
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  Speaker 1: Google search or a DuckDuckGo search or whatever browser you use,
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  Speaker 1: and you could come up with this information. So why
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  Speaker 1: would anyone want this guy to be part of their administration?
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  Speaker 1: Some of the most shocking allegations against Epstein surfaced only
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  Speaker 1: after the conclusion of an FBI probe and civil suits
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  Speaker 1: brought by his survivors. For example, the claim that three
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  Speaker 1: 12-year-old French girls were delivered to him as a birthday present.
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  Speaker 1: But the feds did identify roughly 40 young women, most
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  Speaker 1: of them underage at the time, who described being lured
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein's Palm Beach home on the pretense of giving
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  Speaker 1: a massage for money, then pressured into various sex acts,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the Balkan sex slave Epstein allegedly boasted
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  Speaker 1: of purchasing from her family when she was just 14.
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  Speaker 1: So that's Nadia Marcinkova, obviously, right? Again, now that we
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  Speaker 1: have hindsight to guide us, we know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: And we also know that it was Jean-Luc Brunel who
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  Speaker 1: allegedly provided these 12-year-old triplets to Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday,
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  Speaker 1: for him to abuse. We heard that right from Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard it from other sources. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: am so adamant at this point that Nadia Marcinkova should
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  Speaker 1: be looked at in a different manner than these other women,
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  Speaker 1: because she was brought in at such a young age.
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  Speaker 1: You're purchased from... Think about it for a minute, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Your parents sell you to some disgustoid and then you
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  Speaker 1: end up in their atmosphere, in their orbit and your
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  Speaker 1: whole life. This kind of abuse is normalized. So, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to think that this is the right way
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  Speaker 1: to go. Like this is how normal people live. So
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about Nadia Marcinkova, it's a whole different
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  Speaker 1: ball of wax for me. And my opinion on her
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  Speaker 1: and her involvement here has evolved over time. When I
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  Speaker 1: first started looking at this, I just lumped her in
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  Speaker 1: with the other core four members. But when you get
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  Speaker 1: down into it and you get into the weeds and
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  Speaker 1: you follow the evidence, to me anyway, it's rather obvious
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  Speaker 1: that Nadia Marcinkova was somebody who was groomed and was
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  Speaker 1: dragged along into this. More recently, a big cash payment
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  Speaker 1: from Mail on Sunday coaxed one of Epstein's main survivors
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  Speaker 1: out of anonymity to describe what she claims were her
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  Speaker 1: years as a teenage sex toy. This survivor, Virginia Roberts,
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  Speaker 1: produced a photo of herself with Prince Andrew in 2001
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  Speaker 1: and reported that Epstein paid her $ 15, 000 to meet the prince.
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  Speaker 1: Then 17 years old, she claims that she was abused
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  Speaker 1: by Epstein and loaned to his friends from the age
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  Speaker 1: of 15. Now again, another girl who was brought into
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  Speaker 1: his orbit when she was young. And you see, there's
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  Speaker 1: the issue for me. If you're brought in when you're malleable, right?
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  Speaker 1: A young teenage girl, a little bit younger than that
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  Speaker 1: maybe even, it's a lot easier for these sick bastards
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate you mentally. And for them to create this
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  Speaker 1: sort of picture in your brain that what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: is okay. And Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were professionals
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  Speaker 1: at that. Sex crimes of the kind Roberts alleges took
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  Speaker 1: place typically carry a term of 10 to 20 years
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  Speaker 1: in federal prison. Yet, when all was said and done,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein served his scant year plus one month in a
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  Speaker 1: private wing of the Palm Beach Jail and was granted
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  Speaker 1: a 16-hour-per-day free pass to leave the premises for work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how many of you out there have friends who have
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  Speaker 1: been to prison, or maybe yourself? Were you ever afforded
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  Speaker 1: those kind of privileges? You could leave jail, go to work,
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Of course you weren't, because you're
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  Speaker 1: not rich. Because you weren't running around with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other so-called elites. A Daily Beast examination into the
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  Speaker 1: inner workings of Epstein's defense strategy reveals how the fear
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  Speaker 1: and intimidation experienced by survivors during pretrial proceedings, combined with
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  Speaker 1: a ferocious protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution, summed up
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  Speaker 1: as the best defense, is an all-star offense, culminated in
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  Speaker 1: a set of charges that became a virtual slap on
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  Speaker 1: the wrist for the globetrotting financier, for the pedophile. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm so adamant about a full look into
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  Speaker 1: what went on down in Florida as well. I know
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  Speaker 1: I go hard on the SDNY and that's because they're
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  Speaker 1: considered the most elite prosecutor or prosecutorial office in the nation, right?
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  Speaker 1: So they should be doing a better job. But what
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  Speaker 1: went on down in Florida? Yo, this is a straight
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  Speaker 1: up abortion of justice. The prosecutors in Florida and everybody
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  Speaker 1: involved down in Florida, they should all be looked at.
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  Speaker 1: Because Epstein manipulated everything that happened down here. He was
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  Speaker 1: able to finagle and maneuver himself into a position of
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  Speaker 1: only getting 13 months? And this next segment was the
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  Speaker 1: actual letter from Alexander Acosta to the Daily Beast. Over
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  Speaker 1: the past weeks, I have read much regarding Mr. Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Our words opening an extraordinary letter written by R. Alexander Acosta. Acosta,
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  Speaker 1: who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
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  Speaker 1: Florida during Epstein's criminal investigation. Mr. Acosta goes on to
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  Speaker 1: detail how in 2005, a young girl first brought sex
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  Speaker 1: crimes allegations to the Palm Beach Police Department, which sought
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  Speaker 1: felony charges against Epstein. Subsequently, however, the state attorney agreed
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  Speaker 1: to charge him only with one count of aggravated assault
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  Speaker 1: with no intent to commit a felony, Acosta writes. He
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  Speaker 1: notes that such a charge would have resulted in no
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  Speaker 1: jail time, no registration as a sexual offender, and no
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for restitution to Epstein's underage survivors. So basically what
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  Speaker 1: he's saying is he's the hero here, folks. Mr. No Spine.
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  Speaker 1: Limpy-ass backbone, Alex Acosta, set himself up as the hero.
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  Speaker 1: You're no hero. You're just another yes-man that went along
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  Speaker 1: with this absolute travesty. Frustrated by the state attorney's decision,
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  Speaker 1: the police referred the case to the FBI, which handed
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  Speaker 1: it to the U.S. Attorney General's office. After reviewing the charges,
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  Speaker 1: federal prosecutors agreed that the state charges were insufficient, Acosta writes.
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  Speaker 1: In a script that could have been lifted from Law
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  Speaker 1: & Order, his team gave Epstein two choices. Plead to
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  Speaker 1: more serious state felony charges, or prepare for federal felony trial. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that never happened, right? And you might ask yourselves, why
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  Speaker 1: is that? Well, we're about to find out. The next
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  Speaker 1: passage is where things get really interesting. What followed was
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  Speaker 1: a year-long assault on the prosecution and prosecutors. Epstein had
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  Speaker 1: assembled a world-class legal team, including Allen, I kept my
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  Speaker 1: pants on Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, and Roy Black, best known
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  Speaker 1: for having defended William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach. One member of the defense team warned me
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  Speaker 1: that the office's excess zeal in forcing a good man
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  Speaker 1: to serve time in jail might be the subject of
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  Speaker 1: a book if we continue, Acosta writes. In his in
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  Speaker 1: his view, excessive zeal more aptly describes the actions in
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's camp. Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their family.
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  Speaker 1: So why didn't you put a stop to it? Your
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors let Jeffrey Epstein and his lawyers run a rough
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  Speaker 1: shot over you and your whole ass office. Who's to
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  Speaker 1: blame for that? If it's not you often fail to
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  Speaker 1: negotiate in good faith. They would obtain concessions as part
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  Speaker 1: of a negotiation and agree to proceed, only to change
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  Speaker 1: their minds and appeal the office's position to Washington. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Folks, let me be very clear once again.
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  Speaker 1: It was not Alexander Acosta making these decisions on his own.
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  Speaker 1: He just told you that. Okay? They appealed to Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Who was in D.C. at the time? Mukasey, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: just follow the trail. Who was McKay's he associated with?
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  Speaker 1: What were his associations? And then you come to the
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  Speaker 1: reasoning at how Epstein and his lawyers can manipulate this situation. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: you're not paying for your lawyer for what he does
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  Speaker 1: in the courtroom. You're paying for who he knows behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes, how many judges chambers he can access. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have the team, that Jeffrey Epstein had? Do
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  Speaker 1: you really think that these guys had trouble accessing the
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  Speaker 1: very highest levels of DC or any of these judges?
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  Speaker 1: Of course not. That's what you're paying for. That's why
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  Speaker 1: it costs you $ 2, 500 an hour. Undeterred, Acosta stuck to
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  Speaker 1: his position that Epstein must agree to the three criteria
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  Speaker 1: he had laid out. Jail time, registration as a sex offender,
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  Speaker 1: and restitution to survivors. Acosta's account is supported by a
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  Speaker 1: second document obtained by the Daily Beast, a five-page letter
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  Speaker 1: written by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne-Marie Villafana to another of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's lawyers, Jay Lefkowitz, during the period when both sides
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  Speaker 1: were hammering out the eventual plea agreement. The indictment was
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  Speaker 1: postponed for more than five months to allow you and Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's other attorneys to make presentations to the office to
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  Speaker 1: convince the office not to prosecute. Villafano writes, conjuring the
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  Speaker 1: degree of pushback apparently central to the team strategy. Those
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  Speaker 1: presentations were unsuccessful. Villafana also mentions her efforts to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein would serve time in a federal prison camp
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  Speaker 1: and not a state prison, which would be far rougher environment,
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  Speaker 1: particularly for a child molester. So Anne Villafana, Anne Marie
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  Speaker 1: Villafana was over here acting like she was helping the survivors,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time playing ball with Epstein's lawyers.
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  Speaker 1: So she was playing both sides of the fence here.
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  Speaker 1: And that's always been my interpretation of her involvement. Villafano
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  Speaker 1: marshals these facts in the process of strenuously disputing apparent
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  Speaker 1: charges of misconduct by the defense. I continued to work
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  Speaker 1: with you in a professional manner, even after I learned
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  Speaker 1: that you had been proceeding in bad faith for several weeks,
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  Speaker 1: thinking that you would fool our office into letting Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein plead to a non-registerable offense. And the whole entire
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  Speaker 1: time that they were trying to maneuver, they were reaching
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  Speaker 1: out to the bosses in D.C. They were reaching out
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  Speaker 1: to the Mukasey's office and the Department of Justice leadership.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think they were doing? Just hanging out,
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  Speaker 1: eating cereal? At another point in her letter, Villafano refers
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  Speaker 1: to an apparent allegation of self-dealing in the selection of
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  Speaker 1: an outside attorney who would represent the 40-odd survivors identified
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  Speaker 1: in the probe. In a somewhat unusual arrangement, Epstein agreed
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  Speaker 1: not to contest his liability in any civil suits brought
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  Speaker 1: by these survivors and, in fact, pay for lawyers to
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  Speaker 1: represent them. So take all of the alleged and shove it, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Epstein admitted numerous times that he did this shit. And
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  Speaker 1: he did it with hubris and in a straight-up, in-your-face manner.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody had anything to say to him, huh? Nobody
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  Speaker 1: wanted to stop him? Yeah, 13 months, man. That's all
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get for this. No big deal. In
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  Speaker 1: her letter, Villafana denies any personal interest in the choice
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  Speaker 1: of attorney and goes on to say, your attacks on
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  Speaker 1: me and on the survivors establish why I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: find someone whom I could trust with safeguarding the survivor's
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  Speaker 1: best interests in the face of intense pressure from an
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  Speaker 1: unlimited number of highly skilled and well-paid attorneys. Imagine being
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  Speaker 1: some girl from the other side of the tracks, accusing
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  Speaker 1: somebody like Jeffrey Epstein of this. and then getting faced
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  Speaker 1: with all of these high-profile attorneys that are basically ruining
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  Speaker 1: your life? If they're so brazen and so comfortable going
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  Speaker 1: after prosecutors, do you really think they'd have any qualms
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  Speaker 1: going after survivors? Responding to her request for comment on
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  Speaker 1: Acosta's account of events, Roy Black wrote the Daily Beast
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday that, I can't reply to a letter I
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  Speaker 1: haven't received. I can't give a reason to response without
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  Speaker 1: examining the files and being able to refresh my recollection
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  Speaker 1: of events that occurred years ago. Black went on. I
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  Speaker 1: do not believe any of the things you mentioned occurred,
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  Speaker 1: except for the fact we did exercise our right to
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the Department of Justice to determine if a
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  Speaker 1: federal crime had been committed. There you go again, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what I tell you about the little golden nuggets
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  Speaker 1: that we get here? It's his lawyer telling you, not me, okay?
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  Speaker 1: This isn't me telling you. It's his lawyer, Roy Black,
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  Speaker 1: telling you that they appealed to the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 1: That means Mukasey. That means the bosses about all of
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  Speaker 1: this and what was going on. Now, you mean to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that those guys had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 1: the slap on the wrist here, huh? OK, it's all
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  Speaker 1: Acosta's fault. Other Epstein attorneys contacted by the Daily Beast
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  Speaker 1: did not respond. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of Florida had no comment. Why did Acosta decide
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  Speaker 1: to voice his opinions now? In part, he clearly is
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  Speaker 1: reacting to ongoing criticism that Epstein's puny punishment did not
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  Speaker 1: fit his crimes. Some may feel that the prosecution should
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  Speaker 1: have been tougher, Acosta writes. Evidence that has come to
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  Speaker 1: light since 2007 may encourage that view. Many survivors have
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  Speaker 1: since spoken out. Physical evidence has since been discovered. Acosta
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  Speaker 1: may also have chosen to come forward now because on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: attorneys for a number of those survivors filed the suit
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  Speaker 1: under the Victims' Crimes Rights Act to challenge the non-prosecution
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  Speaker 1: agreement that ultimately resulted from all the wrangling, claiming that
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  Speaker 1: they were not consulted. The U.S. Attorney's Office, now led
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  Speaker 1: by Wilfredo A. Farrar, has indicated it will file a
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  Speaker 1: response to the suit on April 7th. Now remember, this
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  Speaker 1: was 2007. And they brought this suit in 2011. And
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  Speaker 1: they brought this suit in 2011. And it was still
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  Speaker 1: ongoing all the way through all these years. Now ask yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: why is that the case? Don't you think a case
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  Speaker 1: like this would be heard in a timely manner and
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  Speaker 1: not dragged out through the courts? The fact is this.
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  Speaker 1: The government doesn't want to be transparent here. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give you all of the details of what
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  Speaker 1: went down because it makes them look absolutely horrible. In
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  Speaker 1: his letter, Acosta also takes issue with the way Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: sentence was carried out. Although the terms of confinement in
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  Speaker 1: a state prison are a matter appropriately left to the
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  Speaker 1: state of Florida, without doubt the treatment that he received
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  Speaker 1: while in state custody undermined the purpose of a jail sentence. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's brief confinement likely reinforced a perception that he had
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  Speaker 1: merely succumbed to a nuisance suit. Such a gross misapprehension
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  Speaker 1: would help account for the apparent ease with which Epstein
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  Speaker 1: has rejoined the ranks of the social elite. 2011, folks, remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is before the second arrest, when all of these
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  Speaker 1: people welcomed him back with open arms. Katie Couric, Woody Allen,
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  Speaker 1: and George Stephanopoulos, among others, attended a dinner party he
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  Speaker 1: hosted for Prince Andrew in December, and New York authorities
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  Speaker 1: seem to be either unaware or unconcerned that his Upper
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  Speaker 1: East Side home is within 1,000 feet of an Episcopal
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  Speaker 1: preschool in violation of sex offender laws. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: all just such a big-ass joke to these people. All
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  Speaker 1: of these people who are supposed to safeguard folks, who
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to protect the vulnerable, They made a big
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  Speaker 1: joke out of all of this and acted like these
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: survivors and what they went through didn't matter. And they
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: thought they were never going to have to hear about
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  Speaker 1: it again. They thought this boomerang was never going to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: come back and slap them in the head. Well, guess what?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: The boomerang has arrived and the slapping has begun. Yet
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a source tells the Daily Beast that Epstein's legal troubles
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: may not be over. Talk about foreshadowing, huh? It is
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  Speaker 1: possible that as an outgrowth of the 2007 Florida investigation,
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  Speaker 1: federal investigators are now looking into allegations of money laundering
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  Speaker 1: and other financial misdeeds. Boy, wouldn't that be nice? How
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  Speaker 1: long have I been telling you this is a financial crime?
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  Speaker 1: They knew it all the way back then, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't chase it down because people like Mukasey and the
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  Speaker 1: bosses at the DOJ told them not to. Now, can
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  Speaker 1: I prove that with documentation? I cannot. But if you
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  Speaker 1: add up all of the things that we have heard
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  Speaker 1: from Acosta and others involved, it's obvious who was pulling
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  Speaker 1: the strings here. And if you think some second-rate Florida
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  Speaker 1: state attorney general, or I mean federal attorney general, is
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  Speaker 1: going to be pulling the strings of an investigation like
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  Speaker 1: this into Epstein, I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Because this comes from on high. Villafana notes at the
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  Speaker 1: end of her letter to Lefkowitz, You accuse me of
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  Speaker 1: broadening the scope of the investigation without any foundation for
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  Speaker 1: doing so by adding charges of money laundering and violations
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  Speaker 1: of a money-transmitting business to the investigation. Again, I consulted
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  Speaker 1: with the Justice Department's money laundering section about my analysis.
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  Speaker 1: The duty officer agreed with my analysis. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: FBI telling you right there, folks, that there was money
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  Speaker 1: laundering going on. A whole ass lot of it, too.
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  Speaker 1: Villafana knew it. Their office knew it. The DOJ knew it,
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  Speaker 1: and they refused to act. So keep this all in mind,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: what we just talked about. Next time you hear somebody
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: talking about how this is all Acosta's fault, it is not.
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  Speaker 1: He is somebody who played a part, and a big part,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But he ended up really being
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the fall guy. And when we use fall guys, we
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: don't ever get to the real problem, do we? So
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the people who were really At the levers of power here.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: The people who were really making the decisions. Once again
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: get off scot-free. And we turn all of our anger.
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  Speaker 1: All of our rancor. Towards Acosta. And while he definitely
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: deserves it again. I have to keep reiterating that. Because
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to think I'm saying. Oh Acosta
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  Speaker 1: is a victim here. He is not. He is a
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  Speaker 1: spineless coward. Who should have stepped up to the plate.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not willing to just stop there. Other people
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: might just want to go hunting for a regular old deer, right? Me,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I'm looking to go trophy hunting. And that means I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: want the people who are behind the decisions. Those are
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the people that need to answer questions because they're the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: ones who made these decisions and let Jeffrey Epstein, in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the wake of those decisions, continue to abuse people. Somebody
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: needs to be accountable for it. And all these years later, unfortunately, still,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody is. All right, folks, it's going to do it
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• 24:10
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