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The Fall Guy Strategy: How DOJ Buried the Truth About Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal (Part 2) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
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  left off with Alex Acosta, the fall guy. The survivors
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  of Epstein's abuse are then fed as story of closure.
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  They're told the deal was a mistake by one man,
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  not a coordinated act by an entire system. But the
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  survivors know better. They've watched for years as door stayed closed,
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  file stay sealed, and the most powerful names in Epstein's
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  orbit never see the inside of a court room, and
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  so the hearings become political theater. The Acosta subpoena is
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  a gesture, a headline and appearance of accountability, but does
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  nothing to answer the fundamental questions. Who inserted the immunity clause,
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  Who in Washington instructed Acosta's office to back down, Who
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  decided that Epstein's case must be buried at all costs.
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  The avoidance of those questions is not accidental. Asking them
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  would require calling Mukasey and others under oath. It would
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  force a confrontation with the reality that the NPA was
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  not just a prosecutorial discretion gone wrong. It was a
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  conscious choice made by the highest levels of doj to
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  protect a man whose crimes were known, documented and overwhelming.
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  It would also expose the uncomfortable truth about the relationship
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  between power and accountability in America. If a billionaire with
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  the right connections can secure an immunity deal that covers
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  not just himself but his entire ring of co conspirators,
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  then what does that say about the integrity of the
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  justice system. A Costa alone cannot answer that. Only Maine
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  justice can, and yet that line has never been crossed.
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  The Committee, the media, the establishment, they all stop at
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  a Costa's doorstep. They dare not push into Washington's corridors
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  because they know that's where the story stops being about
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  a prosecutor's misjudgment and starts being about systemic corruption. The
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  deliberate preservation of that firewall is what ensures the cover
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  up survives. It's why Epstein's legacy continues to fester, why
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  the survivors still wait for justice, and why the public
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  remains in the dark. As long as the focus remains
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  on Accosta, the true architects remain untouchable. In this way,
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  Acosta has served his role perfectly, not as the originator
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  of the NPA, but as a shield his downfall provides
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  the illusion of justice while leaving the real decision makers unscathed,
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  and that is why he was always destined to be
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  the fall guy. But history, or you, should not be fooled.
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  The fingerprints of the NPA don't just belong to Acosta.
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  They belong to the men who outranked them, who had
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  the authority to override them, and who ultimately chose not to.
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  That silence is as much a confession as is his signature.
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  If the committee truly cared, they would not stop until
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  every single official, from the state prosecutors who passed the
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  buck to the DOJ brass who cemented the deal were
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  forced to testify under oath. Only then would the truth
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  about Epstein's non prosecution be laid bare. Until that day comes,
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  the NPA will remain the most glaring example of how
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  power protects itself. Acosta will remain the scapegoat, the one
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  sacrifice to keep the story neat, But the deeper truth
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  that the real decision came from DC's highest levels will
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  haunt every mention of his name. Because history has a
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  way of revealing what the present works so hard to bury,
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  and that's why this case cannot rest Acosta may have
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  been the fall guy, but he was never the architect.
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  If the committee fails to pearce beyond them, then they
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  are not exposing the Epstein scandal, They're reinforcing it. The
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  real answers sit with those who have never been made
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  to answer at all. And the conclusion that emerges from
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  this long trail of evasions is that Alex Acosta's name
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  was chosen not just by accident, but by design. He
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  was expendable, a man whose career could be sacrificed without
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  shaking the pillars of power. That's why, when the scandal
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  finally exploded years later, the institutions all lined up to
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  point at him. He was useful in his fall because
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  his fall protected those above him. This selective accountability is
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  the hallmark of how the justice system handles politically explosive cases.
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  You find a middle manager, a functionary, someone close enough
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  to the paperwork to look responsible, but far enough away
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  from the real levers of power to be disposable. You
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  let him absorb the fire, while those who actually crafted
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  the plants stay hidden in the shadows. That's exactly what
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  happened here. Epstein's legal team understood the importance of reaching
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  the highest levels. They didn't spend their time arguing with
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  line prosecutors in Miami. They took their arguments to Washington,
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  where they knew real power resided, and it worked. When
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  the dust settled, they had secured a deal so favorable
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  it looked like a parody, one that could only have
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  been approved at the very top. A Costa's later humiliation
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  was part of the cost of doing business. His resignation
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  from Trump's cabinet, the endless headlines that branded him as
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  the man who let Epstein walk. All of it served
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  the purpose of keeping the public satisfied with a shallow explanation.
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  As long as the country believed the problem started and
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  ended with him, the story could be contained. But if
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  you follow the logic deeper, you realize how dangerous that
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  containment is. Because if Maine Justice intervened to save Epstein
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  in two thousand and eight, then the rot was not
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  just in one office, but woven into the institution itself.
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  It meant the most powerful law enforcement agency in the
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  country was willing to bend its own rules to protect
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  a predator. That fact alone should terrify every citizen who
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  believes in equal justice under the law, and yet the
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  conversation has never truly reached that point. Even the most
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  high profile coverage stop shy of naming the men who
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  actually had the authority. Instead, they circle back to Acosta
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  again and again because his role is convenient. He's the
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  firewall between the public and the truth. This firewall is
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  why subpoenas must not stop at him. It's not enough
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  to drag Acosta into a hearing and let him stumble
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  through half truths and evasions. The committee must call every
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  single person who touched the NPA, from the state prosecutors
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  who deferred the federal authority to the senior DOJ officials
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  who stamped the final approval. As I've said now multiple times,
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  anything less his theater. The survivors deserve more than theater.
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  They deserve the record that names names, that places responsibility
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  where it belongs, that acknowledges the scale of the betrayal.
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  To reduce it all to one man in Miami is
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  not just inaccurate, it's another form of denial. It's an
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  extension of the same cover up that began in two
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  thousand and eight. Consider how long Epstein's shadow is lingered
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  even after his arrest in twenty nineteen after his supposed suicide,
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  after glend Maxwell's conviction. The real answers have never been
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  pride from the people who mattered most. The focus drifts
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  from one scapegoat to the next, while the core machinery
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  that enabled them never faces the daylight. That's why the
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  Acosta narrative is so dangerous. It teaches the public to settle.
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  It tells people blame the middleman, don't ask about the bosses.
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  It normalizes the idea that corruption at the very top
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  is untouchable, that accountability only applies to those with limited power,
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  that lesson once internalized, corrodes democracy itself. Mukazy and Philippe
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  may never sit before a committee. They may never have
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  to explain what was said in those meetings with Epstein's lawyers,
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  or why such a sweeping immunity deal was allowed to stand.
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  But history is not so easily managed. The unanswered questions
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  will remain gnawing at the edges of their reputations, growing
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  louder each time the case is revisited, and it will
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  be revisited because scandals of this magnitude don't vanish. They
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  linger pass from one generation to the next, until the
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  truth eventually breaks through a cost. Escapegoating may by time,
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  but it cannot erase the fundamental fact that the NPA
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  was a decision engineered by those above them. Every detail
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  of that decision, the meetings, the drafts, the directives, must
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  one day be put under oath. Until then, the story
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  remains half told, a sanitized version designed to protect the
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  guilty while punishing the convenient. That's the real injustice, not
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  just that Epstein escaped accountability, but that the system engineered
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  his escape and then blamed it on one man. The
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  committee's reluctance to cross the line shows how deep that
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  rock runs. They know what lies on the other side
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  of that firewall, the possibility that DOJ itself, at its
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  highest levels, bent the law to shield a man whose
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  crimes were unforgivable. To admit that would be to admit
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  institutional failure on a scale too large for them to stomach.
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  But without that admission, without that courage, the hearings are hollow.
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  They're not justice. They're stagecraft. They're designed to give the
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  appearance of accountability while ensuring the system itself remains untouched.
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  That's why Acosta's name is repeated endlessly, while the names
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  of Muchesi and Phelippe are barely whispered. The survivors, however,
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  will not forget. They know that true justice lies not
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  in blaming a single man, but in holding the entire
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  chain accountable. They know that Epstein's power was not just
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  in his wealth or connections, but in the way the
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  system bent itself to protect them. That bending required hands
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  far stronger than Acosta's. And so the conclusion is clear.
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  Alex Acosta was never the architect of Epstein's freedom. He
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  was the fall guy, placed in position to absorb history's
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  fury while the real decision makers walked away unscathed. Hitting
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  him with the subpoena is a start, but unless the
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  subpoenas stretch upward to every official who touched the NPA,
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  the truth will remain buried. In the end, history will
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  not remember Acosta as the man who freed Epstein. It
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  will remember him as the shield, the one sacrifice to
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  keep the institution safe. The real blame lies higher in Washington,
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  in the offices where decisions were truly made. Until those
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  names are spoken under oath, the scandal is not resolved.
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  It's ongoing, and that's the bitter truth. The Epstein NPA
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  is not just the story of one man's failure. It's
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  the story of a system that protected the powerful, sacrificed
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  the convenient, and dared to call it justice. Unless the
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  Committee breaks that cycle, they are not investigating the scandal.
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  All they're doing is perpetuating it. All of the information
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