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Cecile De Jongh And Her Stay At Epstein's Place In 2017 · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  You know, I've told you, folks for a very very
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  long time that the US Virgin Islands was in on
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  it with Jeffrey Epstein. And I had a lot of
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  pushback from people in the beginning who thought that there
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  were actually good guys in this story. Well breaking news.
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  There are no good guys. There are no heroes coming
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  to save us, and we're gonna have to save ourselves
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  because people like Cecille de Jong, the former First Lady
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  of the US Virgin Islands, they don't care about you
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  and they don't care about your children. If they did,
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  would they be breaking bread with Jeffrey Epstein? Would they
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  be staying at his house, using it like a hostel,
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  and then trying to gaslight you about it and tell
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  you that there's nothing to see here. Well, I don't
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  know about you, but I don't even have one friend
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  who's a sex offender, never mind multiple today's article is
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  I'm on the Daily Mail and the headline exclusive. Former
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  first Lady of the US Virgin Islands, cecil DeJong, admitted
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  to staying at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan apartment in twenty seventeen
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  for nee replacement surgery. Twenty seventeen. Folks, how many years
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  after he was already convicted, was already a sex offender,
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  and just a very short time before he was arrested
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  a second time. But if you're Cecil de Jong, the
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  former First Lady of the US Virgin Islands, it's all good.
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  I'll just go and stay at Epstein's house to get
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  a nee replacement. Well, while you're at it, lady, why
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  don't you get a brain replacement. This article was authored
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  by Daniel Bates. The former First Lady of the US
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  Virgin Islands, admitted that she stayed at an apartment owned
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  by Jeffrey Epstein while visiting New York for an operation.
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  Court documents have revealed. And according to those documents, she
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  stayed at an apartment that was provided by Apace. And
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  where was that apartment located, Well, we all know the
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  apartment building on sixty first where Epstein kept all of
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  the trafficked women, all of the women that he was abusing.
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  You know, his building of horrors. You know, another place
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  of Jeffrey Epstein's ill repute that nobody talks about. And
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  if you're wondering why I always say that the legacy
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  media has only given you a scratch of the surface
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  when it comes to this story. This is why this
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  was happening in twenty seventeen. You mean to tell me
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  that none of those high flying New York Times journalists
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  knew what was going on. They didn't have the hookup,
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  they didn't have the inn. This isn't news or is
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  it only news when it's alex Acosta, because I'm hearing
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  a whole lot of quiet coming from certain quadrants when
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  it comes to all of these people that are being
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  exposed recently for being part of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise,
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  from Kathlyn Rumler all the way down to Cecile de Jong,
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  you would think that there would be some deep dives.
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  You would think that some of these journalists out here
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  would do the right thing and go deeper. But that's
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  not the case unless you're talking about outlets like The
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  Daily Mail or The New York Post. These other outlets
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  don't give a damn. And it's hilarious to me when
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  people malign outlets like The Daily Mail or the New
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  York Post when we're talking about true crime, Because as
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  somebody who spends a lot of time reading articles, The
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  Daily Mail is on top of all of it when
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  it comes to true crime, and especially when it comes
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  to Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it was
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  outlets like the Daily Mail that we're carrying all the
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  water when it comes to this investigation. So while I
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  would never rely on the Daily Mail for regular news
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  as far as you know, political or anything like that,
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  when it comes to true crime or just stories of
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  the screwed up, the Daily Mail is one of the
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  best sources out there. And when we're talking about the
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  investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, Glenn Maxwell and the rest of
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  the scoundrels, Daniel Bates over at the Daily Mail has
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  been on top of this the whole entire time, and
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  he's done a real good job cataloging what has occurred.
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  But if we had a functioning for the State, then
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  they would have been all over this as well, from
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  the very beginning, the second that Miss DeJong showed up
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  at Epstein's house, they would have been there and they
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  would have known that they probably should be reporting on
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  this story. Oh, the ex first Lady of the US
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  Virgin Islands staying with Jeffrey Epstein, who used to live
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  in the Virgin Islands. Who has a place called Pedophile
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  Island in the Virgin Islands? Yeah, no story there, huh.
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  I thought that democracy died in the dark. Cecil de
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  Jong said she had to stay at the pedophile's property
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  rather than with her daughter, who also lived in New York,
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  because his building had an elevator. She also claimed that
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  Epstein's apartment was far more convenient because it was six
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  blocks away from the hospital. God forbid, she's inconvenienced. Let
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  me go and stay at mister pedophile house because I
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  don't want to be inconvenienced. I don't know about you, folks,
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  but I don't believe a word coming out of Cecile
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  de Jong's mouth, not one single word. In a deposition
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  unsealed as part of a sex trafficking case brought by
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  the USVII government against JP Morgan, DeJong defended Epstein's practice
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  of giving a turkey to everyone who worked in the
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  customs office at Saint Thomas, the capital of the territory.
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  I mean, what is he Christopher Malta Santi in the
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  Sopranos when they're giving out the turkeys for Thanksgiving. This
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  is the kind of shit that organized criminals do. They
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  give out their turkeys for Thanksgiving, they try and get
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  the local community on their side. Meanwhile they're pillaging the community.
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  They're hurting the children, and an Epstein's case, a whole
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  lot worse. So, yeah, go on with your bad self
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  and enjoy your turkeys, because I'm pretty sure that the
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  girls that are getting molested they didn't have anything to
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  give thanks for. Epstein appeared to be currying favor with
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  offers who would have seen him arriving with young women,
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  but DeJong said it was more like giving a gift
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  to a doorman. Oh yeah, that's exactly what it was,
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  because the doorman has the ability to arrest you. The
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  way they try and conflate things and just shrug them
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  off is absurd to me, and the fact that people
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  let him get away with it on a regular basis
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  is even more absurd. Her comments came in a deposition
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  in the case where the USVII claims that JP Morgan
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  turned a blind eye to epstein sex trafficking operation. Epstein,
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  who was a JP Morgan customer between nineteen ninety eight
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  and twenty thirteen, owned two private islands in the territory
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  and abused multiple underage women there and women of age.
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  Let's not forget them. Just because you're of age doesn't
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  mean it's okay to get abused or trafficked. The USVII
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  is seeking more than one hundred and ninety million dollars
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  in restitution from the Bank, which denies the charges and
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  accuses the USVII government of its own blindness when it
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  came to Epstein. Among the claims already made by JP
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  Morgan is that DeJong ran Epstein's business operations for several years,
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  including when her husband, John Dejon was the governor of
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  the USVII. Yeah, there is no conflict of interest there.
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  There's nothing to see here, folks. There's no corruption. Jeffrey
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  Epstein was never being protected by any political figures. The
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  Bank has said that DeJong was paid two hundred thousand
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  dollars in salary and bonuses in two thousand and seven,
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  the year that her husband took office. You think that
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  was all for her or do you think a little
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  bit of that was for her husband, who was the
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  governor to wet his beak. In the deposition, DeJong said
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  she was getting a knee replacement in twenty seventeen and
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  spoke to Epstein's assistant Leslie Groff, about staying at one
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  of his properties. So Leslie grops another one. I don't
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  care what she or her lawyer says. She was still
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  working for this disgusting animal in twenty seventeen when everybody
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  knew what he was. So she can take her apologies,
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  she can take her denials, and she can stuff them.
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  While the apartment is not identified, Epstein and his brother
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  owned a building in the Upper east Side where his
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  friends in some victims stayed, described in his infamous Black
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  Book of Contacts as the apartment for models, more like
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  the feeding ground for his sick desires, more like the
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  place where he would send these girls out to be trafficked.
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  Is that what you're talking about? In twenty seventeen, Epstein
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  had been out of prison for nearly a decade, having
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  served fifteen months in prison for soliciting miners for prostitution.
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  If you want to call it that, hanging out all
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  day at your office only a reporting back to go
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  to sleep. If you want to call that serving prison time,
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  I mean, I guess, But where I'm from, that's certainly
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  not the case. I can promise you that all my
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  friends which have been many, and my relatives, which have
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  been a few who have been to prison have not
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  been treated in this manner. And none of them, by
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  the way, have been there for hurting little children or
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  trafficking human beings. Under the terms of his release, he
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  had to become a registered sex offender, including in the USVII,
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  DeJong said, So, I asked mister Epstein if I could
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  stay there, because I had to stay there for my
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  initial rehab and my postop. You don't have enough money
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  for an airbnb? What about a hotel? What about just
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  staying with your daughter? None of it jibs. None of
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  it makes sense, and I don't believe a word of it.
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  And also the apartment was like six blocks from the
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  hospital for surgery. So I flew up first time, stayed
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  with my daughter, did my pre opt, then went to
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  the apartment, had my surgery, and stayed there. I've had
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  some hard complications, so I was there a little bit
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  longer than normal. In its response, the USVII said that
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  the Jong was no longer the first lady when she
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  stated at Epstein's and that the point was not material
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  to the case. Yes it is. It shows history, right.
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  She didn't just show up there out of the blue
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  and say, hey, mister Epstein, can I stay at your house?
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  They were friends, they had a relationship. She worked for them,
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  So there's no way that the judge is going to
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  look at this and throw it out as immaterial. Dejean
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  claimed that she vaguely remembered Epstein giving turkeys to all
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  the customs officers in the USVII. Being in the good
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  books of these officers would have been critical to Abstein,
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  given he was transporting sex slaves into and out of
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  the USVII on an almost weekly basis. It's the same
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  reason any crime boss gives anything to the police, and
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  that reason is so that they get favorable treatment when
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  it comes to their bullshit ass crimes. Asked if she
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  thought that such gifts were okay, DeJong said yeah. She said, well,
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  down here, people usually give gifts to people at Department
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  of Finance, they give you know, they give gifts to
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  people who they normally interact with on a regular basis.
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  You know. It's similar to you know, when you you know,
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  my brother in law lives in a building where everybody
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  gives gifts to the doorman. You know. So that's where
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  I was thinking I had no reason to think anything
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  untoward was happening. I mean, wow, who believes this bullshit?
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  I doubt she even believes it. The attorney asking the
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  questions for JP Morgan responded, sure, but you would recognize
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  that customs officials are not like the doorman in your building.
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  They're law enforcement officers, right. Dejong's answers was not included
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  in the extract of the deposition. In previous filings in
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  the case, JP Morgan claim that Epstein paid the tuition
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  fees for Dejong's children to curry with her and her husband. Well,
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  that'll do it. With as expensive as college is. You
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  know it cost a few bucks. The bank claim that
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  she explicitly advised Epstein on how to buy control of
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  the USVII political class. She also allegedly helped them to
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  get visas to bring victims to his island. According to
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  court documents, de Jong was a ready partner in helping
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  Epstein to freely transport and exploit young women, it was claimed.
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  A USVII spokeswoman said that these claims mischaracterize Epstein's interactions
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  with the territory to distract and shift blame away from
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  its role in facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's Hain's crimes. No, you're
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  all culpable, And now the US Virgin Islands is doing
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  the I'm in danger dance because they know that they're
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  being exposed. JP Morgan has already settled a similar lawsuit
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  brought by an unnamed woman called Jane Doe, for two
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  hundred and ninety million dollars. Deutsche Bank has also settled
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  its own Epstein sex trafficking lawsuit for ninety million. The
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  USVII case is due to go to trial in New
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  York in October, and this is certainly one you can
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  expect to go to trial. They're not gonna settle, So
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  we're gonna get revved up and starting October first, we're
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  gonna be covering this trial day in and day out,
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  and until then, obviously we're gonna keep an eye on
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  things and see what develops, all right, folks, that's gonna
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  do it from a rainy and wet Las Vegas, Nevada
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  and all of the information that goes with this episode
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