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More Context On The Lawsuit Filed By The Epstein Survivors Against The USVI · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Ever since the US Virgin Islands thought it would be
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a good idea for them to try to secure a bag,
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it's been my opinion that the survivors should sue the
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US Virgin Islands the same way that they sued JP Morgan.
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And now finally that is occurring, and in this episode
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we have some of the details about that lawsuit. So
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let's dive into this article from the Rome News Tribune
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and let's get ourselves caught up. This article was originally
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posted in the Virgin Island Daily News. The author of
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this article is Suzanne Carlson. A new lawsuit filed by
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five survivors of Jeffrey Epstein contains bombshell allegations against the
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Virgin Islands government and officials like former First Lady Cecil DeJong,
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who was accused of doing nothing while Epstein raped a
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woman in the next room. So this is the kind
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of thing I've been talking about for years. How is
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it that the US Virgin Islands, who let all of
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this go down in the first place, is in line
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to get themselves a bag. How are they getting any
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kind of financial compensation when they were enabling this behavior
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from Jump Street, and finally the survivors are calling them
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out for this bullshit, because let's remember, at the end
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of the day, the survivors are the ones who suffered
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at the hands of not only Epstein but also all
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of his little bitch ass buddies that were in government.
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And how many times have we went through the evidence
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and pointed out that the US Virgin Islands is neck
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deep in all of this, and it's audacious for them
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or anyone else to think that they, meaning the US
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Virgin Islands, should be in line for any sort of money.
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It is just one of the most absurd things that
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I have ever seen or heard in my life. And
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that's why I was banging the drum for so long
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about the survivors getting together or one of them and
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ensuing the US Virgin Islands. And it would seem to
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me that if I was one of the survivors, that
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my pain and suffering would be worth about two hundred
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and ninety million. The survivor's lawsuit includes allegations about conduct
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that occurred between two thousand and one and twenty and nineteen,
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nearly the entire two decades that Epstein lived in the
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Virgin Islands. Epstein died by suicide allegedly in a Manhattan
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jail cell in August of twenty nineteen, while awaiting trial
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on new charges. The lawsuit paints a grim picture of
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a territory sometimes referred to as America's Paradise, where Epstein's
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victims would be removed from their families, friends and loved
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ones and be completely isolated. But nobody knew what was
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going on. None of these politicians that were taking Epstein's
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money had any idea, Not Stacy Plasket, not Cecial DeJong,
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not the local Democratic Party, nobody. I mean it's not
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like he was a registered sex offender anything like that, right,
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So all of these stupid ass excuses that they use,
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all of these dumbass oh, I didn't know they're lying
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to you. They knew, they didn't care. According to the
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thirty seven page complaint filed Wednesday in US District Court
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for the Southern District of New York, Epstein did not
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act alone. No, he did not. And the sooner everybody
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realizes that, the better off we're going to be, and
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the sooner people stopped protecting their faves, the sooner will
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have justice but unfortunately the powers that be, and there
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are propagandists in the news, they'd rather just pitch you
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a bullshit scenario, a bullshit narrative about how everybody had
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no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, except for
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all the workers at the airport, except for everybody else around,
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the politicians, around the power players, So only those people
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knew what was going on. None of the smartest people
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in the room had any idea. Okay, I guess. In
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addition to Miss DeJong and the government, the list of
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defendants includes former Governors John Dejeong Junior and Kenneth Mapp,
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former Senators Celestino White Senior and Carlton Doe, VI Delegate
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to Congress Dacy Plaskett, and VI Attorney General Vincent Fraser.
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There are also one hundred unnamed John Doe defendants, including
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law enforcement officers who are accused of turning a blind
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eye to Epstein's crimes. So over one hundred John does
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can you imagine whose names are named inside of this lawsuit?
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The class action lawsuit identifies the current plaintiffs as Jane
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Doe one through Jane Doe five, and the victims are
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asking the court to proceed anonymously and use pseudonyms. The
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class consists of dozens of women, and the identities of
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other class members can be found in records maintained by
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Epstein's estate. According to the lawsuit, this is some of
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the greatest news ever. The fact that the US Virgin
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Islands is actually getting sued now and that they're going
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to to actually have to defend their bullshit is just
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fantastic because remember, without the US Virgin Islands, without the
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politicians in the US Virgin Islands, Jeffrey Epstein would have
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been nowhere near as successful as he was doing what
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he did. So all of these politicians who are now
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crying that the US Virgin Islands was victimized, they have
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a lot of nerve. And the fact that people were
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down with it and people were like, yeah, you know what,
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the US Virgin Islands, they're a victim. Here shows you
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the people that have no idea what they're talking about
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when it comes to this case, and my friends, there
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are many of them. When it comes to Epstein and
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when it comes to Maxwell, the grift is real. Much
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of the information in the new lawsuit was taken from
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depositions of the Virgin Islands government officials during litigation that
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the VI Justice Department initiated against JP Morgan Chase that complaint.
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The government said bank officials violated the Trafficking Victims Protection
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Act by failing to report Epstein's suspiciously large cash transactions
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which he was using to pay victims and others involved
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in the conspiracy, such as pilots and politicians. So imagine
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all of this stuff coming out in court documents and
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nobody getting arrested, no indictments, certainly no convictions, but yeah,
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justice is equitable. The federal law allows victims to file
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suit against any person who knowingly benefits from participating in
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a venture that they knew or should have known violated
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the laws against sex trafficking. So that's every single person
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that was ever with Epstein, every person who's ever partied
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with them, every person who's ever had a woman, all
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of it. They're all culpable, and they should all be
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arrested and all of them should be thrown in prison,
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or they should be publicly shamed after they're given a
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suspended sentence or whatever the law prescribes for them, because
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is enough. Government officials claim that the lawsuit against JP
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Morgan was filed for the benefit of Epstein's survivors. Yeah, okay, sure,
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what did I tell you? Then? Epstein survivors aren't gonna
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benefit one bit from that deal. You know how they
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would have benefited if you would have went after people criminally,
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but instead it was a SECO case. And that was
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all because this whole thing was designed for the US
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Virgin Islands to profit on both ends. That's what it
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comes down to. Just like a mob boss, I'm gonna
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profit in the beginning and I'll profit at the end.
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And that's exactly what the US Virgin Islands did. And
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the saddest part is they reached their hands into the
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survivor's bag to do it. The defendants actively and knowingly
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concealed their actions for many years, and it wasn't until
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the JP Morgan lawsuit that the plaintiffs and public learned
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of the many acts committed by the defendants. According to
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the lawsuit, well, if you've been listening to this podcast,
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you already know and buying their bullshit from Jump Street?
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What did I tell you the second that that SECO
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suit was filed and here we are. I mean, you
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don't have to be the oracle of Delphi to read
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these tea leaves. This was nothing more than a cash
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grab from Jump Street. Because if it was something else,
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then these politicians who were involved, these politicians who gave
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Jeffrey Epstein aid and comfort and gave him their assistance,
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every single one of them should be called on the
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carpet and every single one of them should have to
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answer under oath about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. A
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number of those acts were committed by a First Lady DeJong,
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acting within the actual and apparent scope of her office
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to further the USVII and Epstein's interests, according to the lawsuit,
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and that's a fact one hundred percent that happened. Epstein
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employed DeJong as his longtime office manager. During her deposition
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in the JP. Morgan case, Dejean claimed to have not
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known anything about Epstein's crimes. No I knew nothing at all, blind,
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death and certainly dumb. Unfortunately for these bozos, you're nothing
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of the sort. And all of you out there that
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have been following along, you all know the deal. The
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emails I get from you tells the story. You all
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know the deal here. You all know what happened, and
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you all know that this is nothing more than a
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straight up disgusting grab for cash, and finally somebody's gonna
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step in here once again. It has to be the
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survivors themselves, unfortunately, but it had to be done. We're
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just gonna sit back and let the US Virgin Islands
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collect all this money standing on the shoulders of these
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abused girls. How could anyone ever find that to be okay?
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The new lawsuit says that's not true. Around two thousand
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and three or two thousand and four, Epstein brought Jane
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do four to his office in Red Hook on Saint Thomas,
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according to the lawsuit. Inside his office, Epstein raped her
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over the desk. The brutal assault lasted about ten minutes,
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according to the lawsuit. When Epstein was finished, they left
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through a door where a defendant to Seal DeJong was sitting.
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Given her proximity, DeJong heard the sexual assault, yet she
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looked at Jane do four, straightened her eyes from her desk,
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and did nothing at the time or any time afterwards.
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According to the lawsuit, given her proximity, it would have
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been impossible for her not to have heard the sexual assault,
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and she did nothing with that information. At the time.
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Can you imagine. I mean, I'm not mister tough guy
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or anything like that, but if I'm sitting in a
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room and I hear a violent sexual assault, You're not
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gonna have to worry about the cops showing up to arrescue.
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It's gonna be the ambulance coming because I'm coming in
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that room and I'm gonna break your fucking face. But
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what did these cowards do down in the USVII. They
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didn't do that, did they. In fact, they helped prolong
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the abuse. In fact, they helped ans it. With the
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help of the Virgin Islands government, Epstein built what was,
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by many accounts, the most powerful and wealthy sex trafficking
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venture ever created, according to the lawsuit, which accuses local
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leaders of negligence and aiding and abetting Epstein's crimes. According
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to the victim's lawsuit, the adventure had everything a sex
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trafficking organization needed, including funding and a place to operate
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openly and without fear of interference or oversight, and complicit laws, employees,
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and government. All five victims were solicited by Epstein in
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New York and transported from New York to the USVII
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an held captive, then abused in the USVII at Epstein's estate.
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According to the complaint, The lawsuit accuses Virgin Island officials
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of protecting Epstein in exchange for money and favors, even
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after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing underage girls in
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Florida in two thousand and eight. So they don't even
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have the excuse of saying, I don't know the guy
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was already a convicted sex offender. How are you going
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to try and tell me you don't know, you knew,
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you didn't care. Epstein was ordered to register as a
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sex offender following his release from prison, but the complaint
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claims Virgin Islands government officials agreed to grant him special
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treatment so he could continue to travel freely with young women.
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In exchange for their assistance, Epstein gave payments, advice, and
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other benefits to the highest USVI government officials, According to
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the lawsuit, which includes several incidents previously detailed in the JP.
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Morgan case, on one occasion, when the USVI government was
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desperate for money, USVII officials affirmatively and directly solicited Epstein's assistance.
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Epstein worked with both the sitting and former USVI governor
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on a plan to secure cash by extending it a
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fifty million dollar loan collateralized by USVII Islands. According to
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the complaint, Miss DeJong suggested Epstein put Senator Celestino White
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on a monthly retainer to obtain government loyalty and access,
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and directed payments from Epstein to political candidates. According to
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the complaint, all of that is true. All of that
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is true and known, and we have known it for
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a long time, and finally somebody else is talking about it.
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But what does that say about the legacy media? That
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my dumbass has been telling you this for how long?
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And I'm certainly not a journalist, but I've been telling
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you this for how long? And now finally it takes
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the survivors themselves to file a lawsuit for people to
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pay attention. How many times do we have to lap
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the legacy media here on the podcast? Epstein also freely
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loaned the Djong family money after Governor de Jong was
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charged in twenty fifteen with using five hundred thousand dollars
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in public money for improvements to a private home, and
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DeJong resolved the case by paying a three hundred and
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eighty thousand dollars settlement without admitting wrongdoing by successfully borrowing
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two hundred and fifteen thousand from Epstein to pay the settlement.
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According to the complaint, well isn't that nice. Let me
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just borrow some money from Epstein? You know, cool three
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hundred and eighty grand, even though he's a sex offender.
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But I had no idea who he was. His money
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was good, though, right, That money sure was great when
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it hit your bank account. Just ask Stacey Plaskett. Plaskett
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was deposed as part of the government's lawsuit against JP
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Morgan and was forced to admit that she had met
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privately with Epstein at his home in New York to
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ask him for money, information she had not previously shared
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with the public. What else is she hiding? Now? You
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see my big problem with her sitting on the January
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sixth committee. They couldn't find nobody else to do it. Now, look,
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if you want to have your committee, that's fine, do
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what you want to do, But why do you have
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Stacey Plaskett sitting on it? And do you really think
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that nobody's gonna call that out? Nobody's gonna have a
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problem with that. And remember this is an innuendo about
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Stacey Plaskett. These are all facts. This is on the
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record in court documents from her own deposition. So once
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again I ask, where's the accountability for Stacey Plaskett that
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was demanded for alex Acosta Before she ran for office.
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Plaskett served as the attorney for the VII Economic Development
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Commission while Governor Albert Bryant Junior, who was the DC
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chairman at the time, and other members, signed off on
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lucrative tax breaks for Epstein's companies. Brian is not named
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as a defendant in the complaint. After Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest,
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Plaskett publicly defended her decision to take campaign contributions from him,
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citing her personal lit miss test that she said Epstein
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had passed despite being a registered sex offender. So this
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lady can't even tell that Epstein is not a good
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guy to take money from. But you think it's a
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good idea to have her deciding other Americans' fate on
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that stupid ass committee they had. Here's an idea. When's
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the Epstein committee being impaneled and when is Stacey Plasket
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being called on the carpet for the part that she
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played in enabling Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. I'd like to see
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that committee. Is that ever going to happen or a
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we just going to have a lot more BS talk.
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Plaskett initially said she would not return the eighty one
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hundred dollars she had received from Epstein, but as public
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pressure mounted, Plasket reverse course and said instead she would
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donate an equivalent amount to the Women's Coalition of Saint
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CrOx and the Family Resource Center on Saint Thomas. It
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wasn't until her deposition in May that Plasket admitted she
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had actually accepted a total of thirty thousand dollars in
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campaign contributions from Epstein and as employees. So about that accountability,
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we've been talking about any chance anybody but he's going
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to be screaming and shouting about accountability for Stacey Plaskett,
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I highly doubt it. Plaskett has declined several requests for
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comment and has not responded to questions from The Deli
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News about whether she has donated any of the twenty
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one thousand, nine hundred dollars she received from Epstein's associates.
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Plaskett has also not responded to questions about whether her
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litmus test for receiving campaign contributions has changed and if
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she would accept campaign contributions from other registered sex offenders. Well, yeah,
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as long as you weren't at the Capital protest on
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January sixth, that's her litmus test. You could be a
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sex offender, but don't go to the Capitol and protest.
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God forbid. Epstein donated widely to many politician campaigns through
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his Saint Thomas based business, Southern Trust Company. For example,
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Senator Donna Freft Gregory said in July twenty nineteen that
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Southern Trust DC status gave her confidence in accepting the
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one thousand dollars contribution because EDC companies go through a
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very rigorous vetting and investigative process before they are awarded benefits.
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In reality, the EDC vetting process relies heavily on companies
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to self report information, and former VI Attorney General Denise
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George later sued Epstein's estate, claiming that Southern Trust was
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nothing more than a front for epstein sex trafficking operation.
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That's what it was. One million percent wasn't a real bank,
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despite having no discernible legitimate business operations in the territory
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Epstein received tax benefits worth over three hundred million from
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the EDC over the course of his lifetime. According to
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court records. The figure had also been closely guarded government
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secret until the territory sued JP Morgan and information about
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Epstein's tax benefits came out in discovery. The discoveryss on
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Earth the wealth of documents, including emails between Epstein, Miss
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DeJong and government officials willing to trade access for favors.
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For example, Map asked Epstein to assist him in developing
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a way for EDC beneficiaries to avoid paying even more taxes,
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and one of Epstein's lawyers drafted proposed legislation for the governor.
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According to the new lawsuit, are you guys paying attention yet?
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Y'all focused on what's really going on? Good? And for
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those of you who aren't paying attention, it's time to
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wake the fuck up before you get woke the fuck up.
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The lawsuit is claiming the VI government and other officials
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violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in a variety of
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ways and failed to protect victims from abuse. Some of
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the still unidentified defendants who were employed by the Virgin
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Islands government as police officers, but others are federal employees.
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For example, the lawsuit identifies some defender and since as
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USVII customs agents, but customs agents are not under the
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control and supervision of the local government. Still, the lawsuit
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claims that epstein will died influence so powerful it extended
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even to federal employees. For example, he complained to Dujong
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in a twenty ten email about a US Customs official
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who caused them difficulty, and the Jong promised that she
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would ensure this wouldn't happen again by calling the head
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of Customs. According to the lawsuit, as another example, a
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USVII customs agent and or a border control worker was
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compensated by Epstein under the guise of playing Caribbean Drums
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forum on his island. In addition, law enforcement in the
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Virgin Islands never investigated Epstein, even after Florida law enforcement
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facts Epstein's sexual predator registration information to the USVII Department
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of Justice officials in July of twenty ten, with which
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they included a new article confirming his status as a
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sex offender. According to the lawsuit, but nobody knew They
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had no idea. Folks remember that story. The complaint includes
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a section that asks the court to enter judgment in
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favor of Epstein's victims and against Deutsche Bank. That appears
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to be a typo and is possibly language borrowed from
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a similar complaint filed by the victims against the German bank,
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which took Epstein on as a client after he was
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dropped by JP Morgan Chase. That lawsuit was recently settled
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for seventy five million, thirty percent of which will go
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to pay lawyers representing victims. Attorneys representing the victims in
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this case against the VI government include Jordan Meerson, a
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Net Haspidis, Jordan Rutsky, and Kimberlee Kramer. Government House communications
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director Richard Matta, Junior Justice Department spokeswoman Sandra Guman Singh,
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and Plasket spokeswoman Tioni Scotland have not yet responded to
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a request for comment from The Deli News. So, folks,
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there you have it. More information about this new lawsuit,
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and I couldn't be happier. I am happy that somebody
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is going to hold the US Virgin Islands accountable for
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their bullshit and I can't even believe that I have
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to say that. And the best part for me is
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the fact that all these people were out here talking
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about the USVII and their big win, and now this
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boomerang comes back and smacks them directly in the face.
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Like I've said from the beginning, the USVII they are
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in heroes. They don't care about justice, and they certainly
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don't care about the survivors. So I hope the survivors
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get every single dollar that the USVII got from Epstein.
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I hope the survivors sue the USVII for all of
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that money, and then I hope they get it all right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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