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Mega Edition: Peter Mandelson's Epstein Denials Vs. The Record (6/4/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles.
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Jeffrey Epstein had plenty of powerful friends, and not all
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of them resided in the United States of America. He
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also had very powerful friends in the UK, and one
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of those powerful friends was Peter Mandelssohn. Peter Mandelssohn was
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an ex politician in the UK. He was the Labor
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Cabinet Minister, and according to Epstein's schedule, Mandelsshn was penned
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in at least four times. And not only that, he
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also allegedly had a sleepover at Epstein's townhouse after Ebstein
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was already convicted as a sex offender. So just another
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shining example of another elected official who thinks it's a
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good idea to hang out with a pedophile. Today's article
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is from the Daily Mail headline Peter Mandelssh had four
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dates scheduled in the diary to see Jeffrey epstein're the
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tycoons jail term. This article was authored by Daniel Bates.
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Peter Mandelsson was scheduled to have four meetings with Jeffrey
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Epstein after the tycoon you mean pedophile served time in
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prison for having sex with underage girls. The Pedophile's private
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calendars reveal that the ex Labor Cabinet minister was due
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to meet the financier Pedophile between twenty ten and twenty
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and thirteen, even though he was a registered sex offender.
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The diaries even suggest Lord Mandelsson stayed at his sixty
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three million pound New York mansion in twenty twelve. All
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of these grown ass men having sleepovers? Is that not
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weird to you? Fellas? How many of you out there
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are having sleepovers at the Homies house now that you're
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in your thirties and your forties whatever. I'm sure not
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many of you, unless, of course you're out, you're drunk
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something like that. Okay, I get it. Nobody wants to
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drive drunk, nobody who has a brain in their head.
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But besides that, why is a grown man staying the
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night at another grown man's house? Can somebody please explain
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that behavior to me? The Mail on Sunday can also
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reveal that Prince Andrew was so comfortable in Epstein's home
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he invited a close friend over for tea. The calendars
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were revealed as part of hundreds of documents handed over
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by the Epstein estate during an investigation by the government
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of the US Virgin Islands where he had a private island.
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Well private for the rest of the world, maybe not
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private for these disgusting assholes who were hanging out with them.
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That island was legitimately Disney World for pedophiles. They shed
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light on the network of associates cultivated by Epstein, who
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hanged himself in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
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The disgraced billionaire pedophile was jailed for thirteen months in
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June of two thousand and eight for soliciting a minor
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for prostitution as part of a sweetheart plea deal. After
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leaving jail, Epstein had to register as a sex offender
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and was subject to a twelve month house arrest, which
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expired in July of twenty ten. We all know that
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that wasn't a real house arrest. He was out working allegedly. Really,
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what he was doing was committing more crimes, and the
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record shows it. While he was out on house arrest
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and under the management of Palm Beach, this dude was
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still bringing girls to his office. There were still girls
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coming to the house, and he was under the management
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at the time of the Palm Beach County Probation office,
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and then to find out that they lost all that
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paperwork documenting Epstein's time on probation is almost too much
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to stomach. But it fits right in with all the
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other stuff that we have seen throughout this entire case,
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missing videos, chain of custody being ignored, stash of videotapes gone.
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So where did all of this evidence go, Who's in
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possession of it and why has it not been acted on?
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Despite this, Lord Mandelsson, a former EU Commissioner for Trade,
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appears to have met Epstein several times. Lord Mandelsson declined
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to confirm if the meetings had taken place, but other
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figures who appear on the documents have said their get
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togethers did go ahead. At the time, the Peer was
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out of public office but being tipped to lead the
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IMF or the World Trade Organization. All of these groups,
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these bodies that people point to all the time, like
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the World Trade Organization, the IMF, the UN, all of
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these organizations are suffering from a severe amount of corruption.
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Every time you turn around, there's a new scandal with
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the UN or the IMF or one of these groups.
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They talk about, how you know they're here to help people,
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and they're going to help poor countries or whatever. But
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instead what we hear are reports of people that are
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part of these un teams end up raping people, molesting people,
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and doing way more harm than they do good. So
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it doesn't shock me for a second that they'd be
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in bed with Jeffrey Epstein. We already know that, and
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stories like this coming to the forefront they just reconfirm
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what folks like us already knew, and that is all
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of these people who were hanging out with Epstein, all
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of them were sick degenerates who knew what he was
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and willingly chose to dance to the tune that he
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was playing. The first two meetings were listed for Epstein's
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New York townhouse on March first and March third of
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twenty ten, when he was still under house arrest. The
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March first entry says Lord Mandelsson was due at seven
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thirty pm, while Benjamin Wegg Prosser, referred to as Peter's friend,
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was due to arrive at one pm. And when you
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look at all of the people, as far as people
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in the UK politicians and other powerful people that are
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connected to Epstein, is it any wonder that Scotland Yard
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decided not to pursue this case the way they should have.
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Who are they trying to protect? No different than over
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here when you have certain folks in certain positions protecting
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people like Epstein say things happening over in the UK
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because this degeneracy, what you think, it starts and stops
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here in America? Of course, not the rich, the powerful,
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those in charge. This is how they roll. They show
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us every single day who they are. The question is
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when are people going to start paying attention. Mister wegg
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Prosser was Lord Mandelsson's assistant and was previously Tony Blair's
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director of strategic Communications. He now works at Global Council,
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Lord Mandelson's consulting company as a managing director. An entry
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for May twenty eighth, twenty twelve said Peter Mandelsson to
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arrive in the evening from Shelter Island. Will he stay
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at the house. Shelter Island is an island in the Hamptons,
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the millionaire's playground east of New York. The entry for Wednesday,
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May thirtieth reads Peter Mandelssohn possibly leaves today if meeting
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organized for Boston. Otherwise, the parts Thursday for DC. So
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this guy, Peter Mandelssohn obviously has enough money. He could
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stay wherever he wants, the Waldorf, Astoria, Hilton, whatever you
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want to do. But no, I'm gonna stay at this
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convicted pedophiles house. And then I'm gonna get mad when
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people ask me questions about my relationship with said pedophile.
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And then I'm gonna get mad anytime anyone asked me
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a question about my relationship with Epstein. I mean, these
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people are just bizarre. They really truly think that they
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can just control the narrative and the stuff that we know,
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the stuff that has been outed about them, that they
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can just put it all back in that little box.
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But they can't. We all know what we know now,
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and it's time for these people to finally be held
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to account and at the very least, at the very
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least answer some questions. And until they start putting people
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under oath with some skin in the game, then we're
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never gonna get any real answers from any of these
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people who are around Jeffrey Epstein. Why would they answer,
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Why would they open their mouths if they're not compelled
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to do so. It's only going to make it worse
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for them, right, And that's why so many people that
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have been connected to Jeffrey Epstein just keep their head down,
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ignore the story, and act like nothing is happening. And
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they're able to do that, unfortunately, because the legacy media
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refuses to challenge these people about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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And then the legacy media has the audacity to call
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people conspiracy theorists when they won't even set the record straight.
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So they set the stage for there to be all
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of these conspiracy theories and fertile ground for them to grow,
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and then they cry when it happens. Here's an idea,
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Tell the truth about what happened here, and you won't
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have to worry about conspiracy theories because the real truth,
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the actual truth of what occurred, is so good and
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disgusting you don't need a conspiracy theory to be mad
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about it. All you have to do is look at
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the real facts and the people who were with this
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dude committing these crimes. And it becomes very apparent why
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the legacy media has had a pretty much hands off
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approach until Alexander Acosta's name popped up with the story.
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The final entry is for April fourth, twenty fourteen, and
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is a dinner with Mandelssohn, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Brock,
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investor Mord Zuckerman and Jess Day, the former head of
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JP Morgan, who has been accused of abusing Epstein's survivors.
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Previous reports have shown photos of Lord Mandelsson on Epstein's
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island in two thousand and five and at his birthday
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in two thousand and six, but the diaries are the
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first suggestions of meetings after his prison sentence. Mister wegg
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Presser said I had the misfortune to meet Epstein on
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one occasion. It was a short meeting of no consequence
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and thanks flee was never repeated. Meanwhile, The Mail on
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Sunday has learned that Prince Andrew invited family friend Kathleen
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Keating forty one, daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating,
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to Epstein's mansion. We saw the pictures. We already knew
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that he was photographed peering around the door of the
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disgraced billionaire's home Pedophile on December sixth, twenty ten, as
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he waved goodbye to her. One source said Andrew told
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Emily Maitliss in his Newsnight interview, he went to New
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York to sever his ties with Epstein, So it seems
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counterintuitive he would feel comfortable enough to invite an old
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family friend over for tea. You have to wonder what
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was he thinking. He wasn't thinking about anything besides the
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fact that he felt untouchable. I'm the Prince of England
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and I'm with mister Jeffrey Epstein, who is being protected
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by Lord knows who, So why would he feel anything
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but comfortable? And now that all of this comes back
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and boomerangs to hit Joe Exotic of the Windsor family
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directly in the face, is anyone surprised? I'm not. How
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long have I been telling you about this shit? We
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have been talking about this for years now, and the
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fact that the legacy media is talking about it like
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it's just dripping out now is absolutely absurd. But if
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it gets more people interested in what's going on here
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and more people demanding accountability, I say better late than never.
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All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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All of the information that goes with the episode can
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be found in the description box. What's Up Everyone, and
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Welcome Back? To the Epstein chronicles. There are so many
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scumbags that were caught up with Jeffrey Epstein that were
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in political positions around the world that it will make
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your head spin. And in today's episode, we're going to
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talk about one of those dirt bags once again, and
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that dirt bag is Peter Mandelson, another UK politician who
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thought palin around with Jeffrey Epstein was a good idea.
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And now mandelssn's being exposed for the fact that not
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only was he paling around with Epstein, he was still
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in contact with him after Epstein was already a convicted
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sex offender. Today's article is from the Guardian headline. Bank
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report details Peter Mandelsson's apparent contact with Jeffrey Epstein. The
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author of this article is Rowena Mason. Court documents of
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shed light on the labor former business secretary Peter Mandelson's
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apparent contact with a disgraced businessman you mean, pedophile Jeffrey
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Epstein after the pedophile was convicted of procuring an underage
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girl for prostitution. No big deal to them, right, an
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underage girl for prostitution, that's just you know, light work
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for these disgusting scumbags, So why would they be mad
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at their buddy Jeffrey Epstein for the same shit they're doing.
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The document is a twenty nineteen internal report on Epstein
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by JP Morgan Bank, which had a fifteen year relationship
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with the financier, and was filed to a New York
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court this week. It found that Prince Andrew appeared to
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maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew, the Duke
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of York, and Lord Peter Mandelsson, a senior member of
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the British government. And you wonder why Prince Andrew, Jeffrey
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Epstein and Glenn Maxwell weren't even really investigated in London.
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And you have the answers you need right here. How
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many well placed people within the elite establishment of London
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were in the pocket of Epstein or were friendly at
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the very least with them. A whole lot of people, right,
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And then you add to that you got guys like
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Mandelssh and Prince Andrew, and they can exert a lot
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of political pressure on people not to investigate them, and
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we have seen the effects of that. Look what ABC
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did with the tapes that they had for the Amy
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Robock Show with the interview with Virginia. How they quashed
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that interview because they wanted to keep access to the royals.
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So for a long time, the last thing any of
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these knew, all his agencies wanted to do was to
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step on the toes of the royal family. And then
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you add in a guy like mandelssh who's very powerful
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as well, and you see how a guy like Jeffrey
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Epstein was able to operate with impunity. In two thousand
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and eight, Epstein was given an eighteen month sentence after
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pleading guilty to procuring an underage girl. That is such
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ridiculousness right on its face. Procuring an underage girl. You
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mean molesting an underage girl, right, You mean being a
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child molester, because how could a young girl who is
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under age be a prostitute if they can't consent? And
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the only reason that they were labeled as a prostitute
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is because Epstein brought up the money in the first place.
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What you think these fourteen year old girls were out
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there working the blade. No, he went and recruited them
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by using other girls to bring them into his scheme. Prostitutes.
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I got your prostitute right here, you fucking sto noad.
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He served time at the private wing of the Palm
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Beach County Stockade in Florida before being released on probation
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on July twenty second of two thousand and nine. And
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imagine the travesty of this idiot saying that he actually
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had to do jail time when he was just hanging
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out in this stockade. He didn't do real jail time.
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What he was in the yard, he was mainlined. He
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was dealing with all of the pressure that real people
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deal with when they're incarcerated. Hell no, he wasn't. And
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when you have dossier's on people like Prince Andrew and Mandelsshn,
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you know that they're gonna dance to your beat. And
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we know that Epstein had dossier's on just about everybody.
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What was in those dossiers, Well, that's the question. The
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JP Morgan Report reveals that Epstein wrote to his private
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banker Jess Daily on the seventeenth of June in two
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thousand and nine, in relation to Mandelssyn, to say, Peter
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will be staying at seventy first over the weekend. Do
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you want to organize either you or you? And Jamie
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quietly up to you at the time, Lord Mandelssh was
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Business secret terry in the government of Gordon Brown and
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talking about Jamie, he's referring to Jamie Diamond, the same
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guy who says he had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was.
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That's interesting, huh. At that time, Lord Mandelsson was Business
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Secretary in the government of Gordon Brown. It also refers
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to an email from Mandelssohn when he was still Business
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Secretary in March of twenty ten, to Epstein saying can
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just send me email on issues Read Dodd's Vulkar. The
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request appears to be related to US regulations in the
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wake of the financial crisis. You mean the financial crisis
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that was created by these idiots, all of these financial
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sector experts who destroyed everybody's retirement in savings and lives.
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So during this whole period they're in contact with Epstein
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trying to find a way to navigate the new regulations. Meanwhile,
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I was sitting in the employee dining room at the
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hard Rock Hotel with some of my coworkers who were
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older and ready to retire, watching their whole lives be
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ripped out from underneath them because they lost their retirement,
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They lost their four oh one K. They lost everything
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and what happened nothing? Did any of these bankers go
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to prison? Did anything change? Of course it didn't. They
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might have changed the hustle, but look, the lick remains
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the same. The report also refers to two occasions on
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which Epstein said he was with pd which the Bank
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interprets as a reference to Mandelssohn, in November twenty ten
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and January twenty and eleven. Mandelssohn was out of the
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government by this point. Still scumbag ex political figure Palin
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around with pedophile Epstein. Yeah, you're gonna get called out
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for that, buddy, believe it. The Guardian has contacted Mandelssh
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and the lawyer for the Duke of York for comment
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on the report. A spokesperson for the Labor Peer said,
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Lord Mandelsson very much regrets ever having been introduced to Epstein.
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This connection has been a matter of public record for
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some time. He never had any kind of professional or
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business relationship with Epstein in any form. It has understood
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that Mandelson has no recollection or record of staying in
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Epstein's house in New York in two thousand and nine.
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They never remember, and you know how I say, they
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all play out of the same playbook. Here it is
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once again, I don't recall, I don't remember, and they
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frame it like that on purpose, so if they get
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out it later on, they can refer back to their
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previous statement and say, look, I said I didn't recall,
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I didn't deny it. And that's what every single one
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of these people has done when they've been called out
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on their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelssh appears to have
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been introduced to Epstein by Glenn Maxwell, daughter of the
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tycoon Robert Maxwell. She is serving twenty years in prison
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for the assisting of Epstein in sex trafficking of underage girls.
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The report also raises questions about print It's Andrew's claims
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have cut ties with Epstein in December of twenty ten.
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The royals friendship with Epstein has been criticized, particularly after
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he stayed with Epstein during a December twenty ten visit
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to New York, which the Duke of York has said
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was to tell him that they could no longer be
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in contact. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna fly across the pond
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so I can talk to this moron and tell him
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we can't be pals anymore? Does anyone believe that? Honestly?
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Out there, does anyone believe that story? That explanation? Would
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any of you do that hop on a plane fly
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across the Atlantic to tell a friend who has been
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outed as a pedophile that you can't be friends with
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them anymore? Or would you just stop talking to them
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altogether and say go fuck yourself? However, the JP Morgan
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report states that in February twenty eleven, two months after
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the Central Park meeting, Epstein wrote to Staley Andrew asked
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for your London schedule. Last year, the Duke of York
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settled a sexual assault case filed against him by Virginia
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Roberts for an undisclosed sum, but with no admission of liability.
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Roberts was introduced to him through Epstein and Maxwell. Look,
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he might not have admitted what he did, but when
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you pay out that sum a doe, do you really
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think that people are going to believe that you just
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paid it so you can move on. You're not rich,
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you're over there, a griftin from your brother, you're a
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mom everybody. So that's a big blow to Prince Andrew
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and his fortune. If he was innocent don't you think
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he would have fought that. In twenty nineteen, federal prosecutors
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charged Epstein with sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy
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to commit sex trafficking. Epstein denied the charges and was
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refused bail. He died months later in custody in an
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apparent suicide. The JP Morgan report was commissioned to examine
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the extent of the bank's relations with Epstein, which continued
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until twenty thirteen. And it's funny about that JP Morgan report.
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Up until this lawsuit with the US Virgin Islands, there
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was no chance that we were ever going to see
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that report. You think JP Morgan was going to let
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us see this internal report that is outing themselves as
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being scumbags. Zero chance. They did that report for this purpose,
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specifically in case they got nailed down the line, they
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could refer back to the report and tell the court, Look,
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we're our own self watchdog. We initiated this whole entire investigation.
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See what we did here. Meanwhile, it's a bunch of
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bs and they're just investigating themselves. But now that it's
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convenient to them and that they might use it as
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far as ammunition, well they can't wait to release it. Right,
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Mandelsshn has given informal advice to the current Labor leadership.
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A spokesperson for the party said, there are a whole
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range of people that kyr Starmer talks to. Obviously, he
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talks to people who were part of the last Labor government,
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including Peter Mandelssohn. Well, again, this is nothing new to us, folks.
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We've known about Peter Mandelssohn for how long now, But
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again it shines a spotlight on all of these powerful
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people that were palaling around with Epstein that still have
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not answered for that relationship, and unfortunately they're never going
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to be forced to do so. All right, folks, that's
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gonna do it for this one. All of the information
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that goes with the episode can be found in the
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description box. What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode
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of the Epstein Chronicles. So Peter Mandelssyn was arrested yesterday
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and now he has been released on Bell and that
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follows the same pattern that we saw with Prince Andrew
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who was also recently arrested and released after about twelve hours. Now.
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The investigation obviously is ongoing, and they haven't confirmed one
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way or the other which way they're leaning. But just
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from the emails themselves, it's rather obvious that these two
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dudes passed on confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein. And I
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know some people act like it's no big deal, but
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it most certainly is. I mean, how much more evidence
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is needed that Jeffrey Epstein was collecting information, was using
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that information for his own ends, for his own benefit
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and for the benefit of whoever else than what we've
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seen already. I mean, we have confirmation right here that
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two high ranking members of the English government were passing
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classified information to somebody that's been called an intelligence asset.
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Do you think Epstein was just collecting that information for
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fun or do you think that he had a purpose
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for it, that he had a use for it, Because
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I don't think there's any doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was
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collecting this information for a specific purpose. What that purpose is,
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I have no idea sell it to somebody, use it
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to benefit for himself, whatever it might be. He wasn't
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just collecting this information to collect it though, that's for
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damn sure. And I think that this really throws cold
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water over the narrative that Jeffrey Epstein is just some
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kind of pervert, because it was obviously a lot more.
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In the previous episode, we talked about the Dea investigation
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that included Jeffrey Epstein. That's never been explained. We've talked
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about how many different money laundering situations, and it doesn't
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just stop at money laundering. If there's a financial crime
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that could be committed, these people were committing them. You
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have to remember people like Epstein, they wrote the book
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on how to commit crimes in the financial sector. His mentors,
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the people that showed him the ropes. They knew exactly
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what buttons to push, and Epstein himself getting all that
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experience at bear Stearns and running his own financial scheme
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over at Tower Financial. Epstein had everything that these people
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were looking and then you add the proclivities to that,
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his sick, disgusting, deviant desires, and it was a match
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made in heaven. So if anybody thinks that Jeffrey Epstein
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was just some pervert who might have hooked up with
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a seventeen year old girl one time, congratulations, you're the
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exact kind of moron they're counting on. Today's article was
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published by AP and the headline Former UK Ambassador Mandelsshn
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released on Bell after arrest and Epstein probe. This article
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was authored by Pan Pylos and Jill Lawless. Police in
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Britain said Peter Mandelson, the former UK ambassador to the
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United States, has been released on Bell after he was
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arrested in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties to
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the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after a friendship
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with Epstein landed the former Prince Andrew in police custody,
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and the writing was on the wall right once Prince
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Andrew was arrested, I knew that Mandelssohn was next, and frankly,
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I thought that Mandelson would have been arrested first. But
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once Andrew was arrested, you knew that mandelsyn was gonna
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get hemmed up. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said in a
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statement issued just after two am Tuesday, A seventy two
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year old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public
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office has been released on Bill pending further investigation. So
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this isn't going away, and I think that Mandelssynh is
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facing a lot of exposure here now. Of course, we
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always have to keep in mind Is this all just
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for show? Are they acting like they're just absolutely mortified
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by Mandelssohn's actions and then they're gonna go light on
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them because you know, he's one of us. That's how
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it's always been. Is the UK going to change course
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and actually treat Mandelson like they would anybody else? Imagine
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if Mandelsson was I don't know, a lieutenant in the Navy,
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any passed nonsensitive information to anybody, how would that be
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dealt with? We all know that it would be dealt
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with swiftly and brutally, So the same should be true
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for Peter Mandelssohn and people like him when they find
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themselves in the crosshairs of an investigation. The man was
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not named, in keeping with British police practice, but the
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suspect in the case previously was identified as the former
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diplomat who's seventy two. Mandelssohn was filmed being led from
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his London home by a car by plane clothes officers
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on Monday afternoon, and I know people wanted like a
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dramatic arrest, but that was never going to happen, the
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fact that they even arrested Mandelssohn and Andrew is gigantically huge. Now,
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of course I'm not naive it could all be performative.
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Certainly wouldn't be the first time, and it certainly won't
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be the last. But I have a feeling that the
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people of the UK have had enough and I think
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that Mandelssh and Prince Andrew or the former Prince Andrew
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are a good start. But of course the million dollar
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question is does the British establishment have the backbone to
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see this through? And I guess we'll have to wait
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to see what goes down, but certainly a good start.
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Both Mandelsson and Andrew Mountbatten windsor the former Prince Andrew
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are suspected of improperly passing UK government information to the
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disgraced US financier, and the high profile British arrests are
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some of the most dramatic fallout from the troph of
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more than three million pages of Epstein related documents released
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last month by the US Justice Department. Well, no doubt
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about that. I mean, here in America we're sitting on
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our hands, no big deal. Come on, this is all
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just overblown. You're just a fableist. This is the moral panic.
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Jeffrey Epstein. Not really that bad of a guy. He
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like seventeen year old girls. So what That's the kind
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of bullshit we're dealing with here in America. Meanwhile, over
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in the UK you got a principal blood getting him
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up and one of the most powerful politicians in the
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whole last country. Like you dudes in America can't find
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one financial crime to arrest anybody on well, for them
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to do that, that have to upset their donors and
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the Epstein administration, I mean, the Trump administration is never
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going to do that. Police are investigating Mandelsyn overclaims that
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he passed sensitive government information to Epstein a decade and
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a half ago. He does not face allegations of sexual misconduct. Yeah,
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I've never heard anything about Mandelsinn diddling anybody, so certainly
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not in that realm. But when it comes to other
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things enabling Epstein and helping enrich Epstein, there's no doubt
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that Mandelssyn is a co conspirator. His arrest came four
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days after in Mount batt And Windsor was arrested in
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a separate case on suspicion of a similar offense related
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to his friendship with Epstein. He was a released after
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eleven hours in custody while the police investigation continues. Yeah,
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I didn't think they were going to hold them. I mean,
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they'll keep them there, interrogate them, and then release him
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after he sees a judge or makes bail or whatever.
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But there was no way that they were going to
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hold him indefinitely. There's no capital crimes committed here. But
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I will say this, the fact that they're even talking
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about treason is a big deal. Do I think they're
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going to go that route? No, but they should. Anybody
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who's passing classified information to anybody else is putting the
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whole nation in jeopardy. And I know if I was
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a British citizen, I wouldn't be happy about any of it.
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And you can say that is taking it too far,
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or it's overblown, whatever, but I don't agree. Once you
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start talking about state secrets and passing those along to
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other people, especially people like Epstein, we're talking about big
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trouble and we're literally talking about treason because you don't
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know what Epstein's going to do with that information. Is
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he going to sell it to whoever? Probably either that
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or he's going to enrich himself, And either way it's
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bad news. Mandelson served in senior government roles under previous
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Labor governments, and was UK Ambassador to Washington until Prime
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Minister A. Curas Starmer fired him in September after emails
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were published showing that he maintained a friendship with Epstein
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after the financier Pedophiles two thousand and eight conviction for
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sex offenses involving a minor. And this is the big
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problem because it says involving a minor. It was a
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lot more than that. And I think that Barry Krisher
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and the State of prosecutors that are responsible for this
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should have to answer for it, because there's no way
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in hell that with what Epstein was up to, he
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should have only received the sentence that he received. Was
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looking at a life sentence on those federal charges. To
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go from a life sentence to thirteen months only for
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a guy like Epstein, certainly not for me, certainly not
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for you. The files released in January contained more explosive
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revelations about Mandelson's ties to Epstein, whom he once called
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my best pal. Messages suggest that Mandelssohn passed on sensitive
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and potentially market moving government information to Epstein in two
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thousand and nine, when Mandelssohn was a senior minister in
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the British government. That includes an internal government report discussing
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ways the UK could raise money after the two thousand
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and eight global financial crisis, including by selling off government assets.
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Mandelssohn also appears to have told Epstein he would lobby
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other members of the government to reduce a tax on
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banker bonuses. And remember, Jeffrey Epstein benefited from the financial
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collapse by being made whole by the taxpayer. Oh, if
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you're not mad about that, I don't think there's any
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help for you. How can you not be mad that
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you are being robbed by Jeffrey Epstein? Please explain that
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British police launched a criminal probe earlier this month and
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searched Mandelssohn's two houses in London and Western England. The
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decision to appoint Mandelsson nearly cost Starmer's job earlier this month,
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as questions swirled around his judgment about someone who has
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flirted with controversy during a decade's long political career. Though
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he acknowledged he made a mistake and he apologized to
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victims of Epstein, Starmer's position remains precarious. His future may
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rest on the release of files connected to Mandelsson's appointment.
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The government has pledged to begin releasing those documents in
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early March, though the timeline may be complicated by his arrest.
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Mandelssohn has been a major, if contentious figure in the
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center left Labor Party for decades. He's a skilled, critics say, rum,
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ruthless political operator whose mastery of political intrigue earned him
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the name Prince of Darkness. While not that great, huh
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was sending emails to Jeffrey Epstein audition off state secrets
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and not even protecting those communications. Not so savvy after all.
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Lizzie the grandson of former Labor Cabinet minister Herbert Morrison.
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He was an architect of the party's return to power
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in ninety seven as centrist modernizing New Labor under Prime
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Minister Tony Blair. Mandelsson served in senior government posts under
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Blair between ninety seven and two thousand and one and
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under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from two thousand and eight
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to twenty ten. In between, he was the European Union's
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Trade Commissioner. Brown has been particularly angered by the revelations
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and has been helping police with their inquiries. Mandelsson twice
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had to resign from government during the Blair administration over
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allegations of financial or ethical impropriety, acknowledging mistakes but denying
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any wrongdoing. Oh, just a big mistake. I had no idea. Well,
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if you're that dumb, you shouldn't be in government. Pretty simple.
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And how many times are you guys going to throw
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this dude out of government and then let him back in?
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What he's a change man? Oh, I've turned over a
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new leaf. I only take money from pedophiles now, not
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arms traffickers. Oh wait, Epstein's both. He later returned to
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government and was back on the political front line when
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Starmer named him Ambassador to Washington at the start of
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US President Donald Trump's second term. Mandelssohn's trade expertise and
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comfort around the ultra rich were considered major assets. He
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helped secure a trade deal in May that spare Britain
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some of the tariffs Trump is imposed on countries around
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the world. Oh well, in that case, let's just forget
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everything else he was up to. No big deal, got
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us a couple of trade deals, So no big deal.
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The status of the deal is now up in the
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air after Trump announced a new set of global tariffs
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in the wake of a US Supreme Court decision quashing
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his previous in poor tax order. Earlier this month, Mandelssohn
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resigned from the House of Lords, Parliament's upper chamber, to
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which he was appointed for life in two thousand and eight,
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but he still has the title Lord Mandelsson that went
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with it. All right, So there's where we're at with
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Lord Mandelssh and his arrest, and obviously when we have
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some more information, one way or the other will get
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it added to the catalog. As far as this one, well,
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that's going to do it. All the information that goes
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