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When Institutions Fail: The Bureaucratic Collapse Behind the Epstein Case · 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. When you hear the name Jeffrey Epstein, obviously
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  the first thing you think of is that he's a
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  disgusting piece of shit who abused a bunch of girls,
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  and you're right to think that way. But the Jeffrey
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  Epstein story is so much more than that, and it
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  goes so much deeper, and it affects just about every
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  facet of our lives. And one of the biggest issues
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  for me that got me interested in the story in
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  the first place was the FBI and the DOJ and
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  their misconduct when it comes to handling this case. So
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  when I first started talking about this back in twenty nineteen,
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  that was the path I was on. That something was fishy,
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  and there was a lot of information out there that
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  just didn't make sense. And when you started putting it
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  all together, it was obvious that the investigation itself was tilted,
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  and that the vestigation was meant to narrow the blast
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  radius to only include Jeffrey Epstein and Glene Maxwell. And
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  why would the government fail to investigate something as egregious
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  as what Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly doing. Well because he
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  was working for them and with them. That's why. But
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  one of the biggest issues that I've always had is
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  how this case was handled. And that's why I've always
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  called for a robust investigation, because there's never been one.
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  We've never had a real investigation here. And like I
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  was saying in the previous episode talking about Wexner, I mean,
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  how can you tell me there's a real investigation if
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  you never even spoke with Wes Wexner, Like, please make
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  that make sense. It's like saying that you're gonna do
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  an investigation into the Sinaloa cartel, but you have no
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  desire to see what the Chippeiteos are up to. How
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  can you call that an investigation? It's not. And the
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  same goes here. They never had a real investigation. The
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  whole entire point was to make sure that the blast
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  radius didn't affect other people who were paying the bills,
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  other people that were well situated, or as we like
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  to call them now, the Epstein class. So in this episode,
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  we have an article from the Guardian and the headline
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  Epstein files placed renewed attention on US authorities failure to
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  stop them. This article was authored by Victoria B. Kempis.
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  The Department of Justice release of millions of Jeffrey Epstein
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  files has not only prompted questions about his crimes, but
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  renewed attention on authorities failure to stop him after an
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  accuser reported him in nineteen ninety six. This new cash
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  of Epstein files has provided more insight to authorities and
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  what they were familiar with when it comes to allegations
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  against them in the years that followed, including the time
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  between his sweetheart plea deal in two thousand and eight
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  and his federal arrest nearly six years ago. Oh, they
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  knew any about him, and not just what Maria told him.
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  They knew what Jeffrey Epstein was. They were utilizing his services.
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  Believe me when I tell you they knew what he was.
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  They didn't care because the means justified the end. While
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  it's known that accuser Virginia Roberts attorneys met with federal
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  prosecutors in twenty sixteen about Epstein to no avail, recently
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  disclosed files indicate that detailed information was provided to federal
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  authorities years before that sit down. This included allegations against
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  Andrew mount Batten Windsor documents indicate that he appeared on
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  the FBI's radar about fifteen years ago. They don't investigate
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  that kind of stuff. They only investigate stuff that has
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  to do with us. Now. They're friends now with people
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  at the top of the wrong right, the soul called
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  masters of the Universe, Queen Elizabeth's son, God forbid you
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  do something wrong. See how quick that shit changes. A
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  woman whose name is redacted from these documents, gave an
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  interview to FBI agents about Epstein and Maxwell in twenty
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  eleven with federal prosecutor in attendance by phone. Hur account
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  echoes Robert's public and legal allegations against the sex traffickers.
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  And not only that, going Reid the grand jury documents
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  that were released, it's clear as daylight the actual investigator
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  who was investigating the case and who gave testimony in
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  front of the jury. The grand jury talks about how
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  these girls were confirmed to be under age. So what
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  is the debate even here, like there is no doubt
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  that these girls were under age. Were they all under age? No?
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  Were they all groomed? No? Were they all abused? Most
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  certainly the US Embassy in Australia told the countries National
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  police The Federal Bureau of Investigation Miami Field Office is
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  assisting the Palm Beach Police Department in Florida with an
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  ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, a US citizen. And it
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  went nowhere. It went absolutely nowhere because it was killed.
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  And when you have lawyers like Alan Dershowitz and Jay
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  Lefkowitz and the rest of that so called dream team,
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  what do you think is gonna happen? Why do you
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  think Epstein hired all those people? Do you think it
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  was because you know they're just great inside the courtroom.
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  That's not what it was. It was for their contacts,
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  for who they know, for how they can get the
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  ball moving. And we see how that worked out for him, right,
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  because they accelerated this all the way up to DOJ
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  Brass and that ended up with Jeffrey Epstein getting that
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  plea deal. Oh No, it wasn't a Costa like people
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  want to tell you, it was Philippe, It was Mukaysy.
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  It was DJ Brass who gave the final low. K
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  now it might be a Costa's name that was signed
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  to it, but we all know he didn't make that decision.
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  The accuser who was told in late two thousand and
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  eight about Epstein's plea deal, as she was found to
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  be one of his victims, contacted federal authorities in South Florida.
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  Three years later, federal agents questioned her at the US
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  Consulate in Sydney on March seventeenth, twenty eleven. This woman
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  provided an extensive account of Epstein's abuse and alleged participation
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  of co conspirator Glenn Maxwell, as well as other men.
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  As a teenage girl during the late nineties. The woman,
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  who described suffering at the hands of several predatory men
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  after leaving a rehab facility, told agents that her father,
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  a maintenance man at Donald Trump's mar A Lago club,
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  secured a job for her as a locker room attendant there. Well,
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  we all know who this person is, right, Who did
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  they get from mar A Lago. The woman, then an
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  aspiring massage therapist, was reading a book on this subject.
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  Maxwell came up to her and claimed that she was
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  looking for a traveling massuse. So this is when Virginia
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  first reported them. What did they do about it? Well,
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  that's right, nothing, not a goddamn thing. But sure all
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  these girls should just come forward and have confidence that
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  people are gonna listen, that people are gonna do something
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  because you know, that's what's happened in the past, right
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  and with the way people are talking now, I'd be
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  surprised if anybody ever comes forward ever again. Not long
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  after the woman traveled to Epstein's Palm Beach home, where
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  he abused her. She told agents she ultimately traveled and
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  that the sexual abuse continued, and that he trafficked her
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  to other men. Roberts, who died by suicide last spring,
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  had long alleged that Epstein and Maxwell made her engage
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  in sexual activity with the former Duke of York Andrew
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  mount Baton Winsol, the former prince, who was removed from
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  royal life over his relationship with Epstein, was arrested on
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  Thursday in England. Is staunchly denied any wrongdoing. Wasn't me.
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  I wasn't in that picture. I was even pizza. Say one,
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  now you're doing what did you happen to have any
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  grape soda? All right, all right, I jest, digest I'm
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  just kidding with that, but really, pizza as the alibi.
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  Pretty ironic, no, pretty funny if you ask me, and
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  certainly not believable. Oh yeah, I was getting a slice.
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  Bro Come on, they have a special up there, two
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  slices and a can of coke four bucks. Oh oh great,
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  I gotta get to Woking. Maxwell, who was found guilty
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  of luring teenage girls into Epstein's predatory orbit, has insisted
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  on her innocence. Epstein died in jail while awaiting his
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  sex trafficking trial in twenty nineteen. FBI documents that chronicle
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  of the interview also detail menacing actions against this woman.
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  She told federal agents about receiving phone calls from men
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  purporting to be FBI agents seeking information about her knowledge
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  of Epstein. She said that her attorney and Epstein called
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  her by phone a few weeks after these men contacted her,
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  and that he said if she did not say anything
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  to investigators, he would take care of her. And this
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  is another big problem. You know, you got people out
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  here who talk like, oh, these girls never came forward.
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  They didn't want to, you know, testify against Epstein. They
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  were a cant did they got paid off? Are you
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  fucking kidding right now? They got paid off? And if
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  you know anything about being poor, you know how enticing
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  that money would be the release of information regarding this
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  twenty eleven interview comes as victims and advocates continue to
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  show that law enforcement officials repeatedly had opportunities to meaningfully
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  hold Epstein and A Maxwell accountable before his twenty nineteen arrest.
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  The chronology makes clear that had Epstein been interdicted, others
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  would not have suffered the same abuse. One thousand percent,
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  one thousand percent. Everybody was negligent in their duty, and
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  a whole lot of people need to explain why. Maria Farmer,
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  a painter who worked for Epstein in nineteen ninety six,
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  filed a report with the FBI stating that he stole
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  nude images of her siblings. This FBI report states that
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  Farmer took artistic photos of her younger sisters for her
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  personal work. Epstein stole photos and negatives and is believed
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  to have sold the pictures to potential buyers. The report said, yikes, Well,
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  we know that he was trading that kind of nasty shit,
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  and furthermore, who was he trading it with? Who was
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  sending him that anybody who sent any kind of see
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  sam should be arrested. No like that should be a priority.
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  In my opinion, Nothing left to investigate say what now.
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  The document also said that Epstein asked for pictures of
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  young girls at swimming pools and threatened farmer, stating that
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  if she tells anyone about the photos, he'll burn her
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  house down. Epstein did serve a brief period of time
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  in the Palm Beach Jail on Florida state level prostitution charges,
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  including procuring someone under eighteen. Under his Sweetheart plea deal,
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  he was granted work release one person, one girl, and
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  over forty came forward. But sure, everything is cool, nothing
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  to see here, just move on. Hey, did you hear
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  there's going to be an alien reveal later? And honestly,
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  I wouldn't be shocked to find out if there are
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  aliens that Epstein was abusing them too. Officials said that
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  Epstein abused others between his plea deal, which allowed him
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  to avoid federal prosecution, and his arrest years later. One
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  adult victim alleged that she was abused at Epstein's office
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  during his daytime furlough. The Virgin Islands sued Epstein's estate
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  in January twenty twenty, stating that flight logs from twenty
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  eleven to twenty nineteen show that he brought underage girls
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  and young women to his private island, where they were
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  deceptively subjected to sexual servitude, forced to engage in sexual acts,
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  and coerced into commercial sexual activity and forced labor. That's
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  what the government says in the USVII. But sure, let
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  me listen to some unkept, slovenly looking scumbag who spends
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  her time talking shit on Twitter. Woh okay, Yeah, that
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  sounds like a great source. As recent as twenty eighteen,
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  air traffic controllers and others at the airport reported seeing
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  Epstein leave his plane with young girls, some of whom
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  appeared to be between the ages of eleven and eighteen years.
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  The lawsuit states the Virgin Islands that Epstein trafficked and
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  abused these girls and others in the Virgin Islands through
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  twenty eighteen. Spencer Coove, who did not represent Virginia but
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  as an attorney for multiple Epstein victims, questioned why federal
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  agents did not take action following the twenty eleven interview.
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  If that information was credible, and there is every reasonab
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  believe it was, then the obvious question is why meaningful
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  action did not follow, said Gouvin Couvin of Gold Law
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  survivors did their part, they spoke, and when institutions failed
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  to act on the disclosures, the system, not the victims,
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  must answer for that. It's deeply troubling. Survivors like Virginia
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  showed extraordinary courage in coming forward. He also said the
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  lack of urgency is institutional. Accountability must include examining why
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  those opportunities were missed. Ask what transpired following the twenty
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  eleven interview. The FBI said it declines to comment. The
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  Justice Department did not immediately respond to a question about
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  what happened after that interview. There needs to be a lawsuit,
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  a class action lawsuit five by all the survivors, every
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  last one of them, against the United States government, the
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  same way that happened with Naser. That needs to happen here,
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  and people who were involved, they need to be held accountable.
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  Anybody who didn't file reports, you know, swept things under
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  the rug. Anyone who gave that kind of order, we
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  need to hear from them, because it's obvious that this
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  wasn't just one mistake, that this wasn't just one thing
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  that ended up slipping through the cracks. It was systemic,
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  it was planned, and it was ongoing, and I want
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  to know who signed off on it, who gave the okay,
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  who told the investigator is that, you know what, we're
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  not going to investigate this any further. Close that down.
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  That's the kind of information we need. And whoever those
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  investigators are, they should be brought in front of Congress,
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  and they should be under oath too, because this wasn't
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  just one or two bad decisions. It was the whole
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  entire system being tilted in the favor of Jeffrey Epstein. Rightly, so,
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  the people of America and the people of the world, well,
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  we want to know why. All right, folks, that's gonna
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  do it for this one. All of the information that
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  goes with this episode can be found in the description box.