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Jeffrey Epstein Was Already Convicted—So Why Did Prince Andrew’s Security Team Miss It? (4/24/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Well, folks, nobody knew anything. Nobody had any idea.
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  And considering that Jeffrey Epstein's conviction was a quote unquote
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  local matter, how could Prince Andrew's Protection Service know anything
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  about it. It's not like the internet was around back
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  then in two thousand and eight. I mean, how the
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  hell could they ever find out that the guy that
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  they're charged with protecting is going to hang out with
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  a convicted pedophile. I mean, what do you guys expect
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  this Protection service to actually do their job and vet
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  the people that their charge is hanging out with. Come on,
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  you're asking for way too much. The Prince does what
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  the Prince wants to do. And in my opinion, all
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  of these senior protection officers knew exactly what Epstein was.
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  What are they going to do? Tell Andrew no quote
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  to his mom, Hey look your son, he's hanging out
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  with a creep, and not only a creep, but somebody
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  who prays on children. And the Queen would have been like, yeah,
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  I know, big deal, protect him. And that's what they did.
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  And according to Scott Hammer, who served as a senior
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  protection officer of the Royal Family. They had no whole
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  idea that Epstein was a convicted pedophile. Now, if you
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  believe that, I have some fantastic beachfront property right here
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  in Las Vegas for you. This article was published by
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  LBC and the headline Andrews's protection team did not know
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  Epstein was convicted pedophile during New York trip, officer claims.
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  This article was authored by Andy Hughes, speaking out for
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  the first time. Scott Hammer, who served as senior protection
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  officer for the Royal Family, told LBC that the former
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  prince close protection team could not have been expected to
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  have been aware of Epstein's local conviction when he met
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  the disgraced financier in twenty ten. Stop it stop trying
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  to protect the protection team. They knew exactly what Epstein was.
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  They didn't care. They all knew that the Queen was
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  okay with it. So if the Queen's okay with it,
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  why would they care. And now that the nuclear fallout
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  is raining down around them, everybody scrambling. Wasn't our fault.
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  We didn't know. I had nothing to do with it.
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  Epstein was jailed in two thousand and eight after admitting
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  soliciting sex from girls as young as fourteen, but nobody
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  knew it was localized. Go and try and pull up
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  some articles from newspapers back in two thousand and eight,
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  and you'll see that it wasn't localized. I mean, Prince
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  Andrew himself was sending emails back and forth about it.
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  In December twenty ten, after the billionaire was released from
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  prison jail, you mean, close protection officers from the Metropolitan
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  Police accompanied that then Prince Andrew to Manhattan. During the visit,
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  an infamous photo emerged of Andrew and Depstein walking together
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  in Central Park. And remember the whole idea was Andrew
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  was going over there to break up with Epstein, tell
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  him he couldn't be his friend anymore. But the Protection
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  Service had no idea. Nobody knew, nobody had any idea
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  what was going on. In an interview with Emily Maitliss
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  on BBC Newsnight in twenty nineteen, Andrew claimed he traveled
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  to the US to personally terminate their friendship. Eyewitnesses reported
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  young women were seen entering and leaving Epstein's property during
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  that period. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and allegations
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  of sexual misconduct. Well, he's such a solid dude that
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  we should give him the benefit of the doubt, right,
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  I mean, when you're as honest as Andrew is, how
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  could anyone not believe you? This guy for real? And
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  anybody that believes Andrew boy, I gotta tell you, go
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  get your brain checked. Mister Hammer told the Crime Agents podcast.
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  I suspect that for most of his protection team at
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  the time, Jeffrey Epstein would have just been one of
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  the people that he was connected with. They probably wouldn't
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  have known who he was at the time. My understanding
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  is a conviction was in a court in Florida, Like,
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  what does that mean? You don't have an understanding of
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  what's going on here? If that's your understanding, a conviction
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  in Florida is a conviction. What it has to be
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  a federal conviction for his protection service to care. Come on,
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  who believes that? So basically, mister Hammer here is lying.
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  That's my position. I don't think he's telling the truth. Now,
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  how do we prove that? You can? But I don't
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  believe what he's saying. Sorry, I'm not buying it. There's
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  no way that a protection team had no idea what
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  Epstein was. You had the itinerary of the prince. You
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  didn't google Jeffrey Epstein's name, of course you did. And
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  the fact that he'd get up here and and say
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  that they didn't, that's a big problem. This is not
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  taking anything away from it. But you know that was localized,
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  it wouldn't have been a national issue. I think so
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  the officers might not have been aware of that. Given
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  it's a local court decision. They were aware, they didn't care.
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  Just tell the truth, mister Hammer. Why are you trying
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  to protect the officers? Still? Those days should be over.
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  But of course there's a cover up going on in
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  England as well, and it's connected to the cover up
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  in America and the cover up elsewhere. Every single place
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  Jeffrey Epstein went people were abused, And the sooner people
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  just accept that fact, the closer we're going to be
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  to real transparency and hopefully some justice. If the principal
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  was conducting their business, the protection officer's business is to
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  wrap security around that. Is it against the law to
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  meet a convicted pedophile? No, it's not. Is it a
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  moral yes? He just gave the story away right there?
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  Is it illegal? No? I knew? Okay, they didn't care.
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  And anybody that's on this protection team that acts like
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  they didn't know who Epstein was should never protect anybody ever. Again,
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  you didn't do your due diligence, a basic check on
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  who your guy's going to meet. How do you know
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  there's no security risk? How do you know there's nothing
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  you have to look out for. How do you know
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  it's not a honey trap to catch your dude up.
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  Maybe they should have looked Jeffrey Epstein up. Huh so,
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  as long as the officers are working within the law.
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  But again, at that time, I don't think that they
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  would have known who Jeffrey Epstein was. Every single person
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  that's involved in the Epstein matter, when it comes to
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  an official position, all they care about is CIA cover
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  your ass. That's it. Not justice, not moving the story forward,
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  but how can I protect myself? The revelations come after
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  LBC revealed in February that some members of the Close
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  Protection Unit may have turned a blind eye to what
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  they want missed on Epstein's private island, Little Saint James
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  mister Hammer, who did not accompany Andrew when he visited
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  the Caribbean island on at least two occasions, said he
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  never saw anything illegal while protecting Andrew, but that it's
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  not the job of protection officer to be the moral police.
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  Given away the story, do you really think that Andrew
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  wasn't engaging in debauchery. Let's not forget about the orgy
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  that he allegedly took part in on that island. Now,
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  did the protection officer see the actual act? Probably not.
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  Did they see the lead up? Most certainly, on one
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  occasion in two thousand and two, the protection officer escorted
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  Andrew to a house in London where Glene Maxwell was present.
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  I don't think for one minute that any protection officer
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  saw anything that was illegal that would have been flagged up.
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  He added to who the Queen, the Met Police department,
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  who covered for Andrew for all these years. You know,
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  these people just can't help themselves. They have to lie,
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  They have to do everything in their power to help
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  advance the cover up. There's not an honest person amongst them.
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  He said that there were people on both sides of
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  the Protection on the Minstrel and the Special Branch and
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  Royalty Unit who I would say probably were over familiar
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  or who had been around a long long time and
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  maybe thought, you know, they were part of the furniture,
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  and they were part of the principal's team rather than
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  the MET. So what he's saying is that there were
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  people on Andrew's team that were more loyal to Andrew
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  than they were to the MET or the country. That's
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  the translation, and that's a big problem. So which people
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  were more loyal to Andrew? That's what the investigation needs
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  to find out. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said
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  the MET is identifying and contacting former and serving officers
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  who may have worked closely in protection capacity with Andrew
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  mount Batan Windsor. They've been asked to consider a care
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  whether anything they saw or heard during that period of
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  service may be relevant to our ongoing reviews, and to
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  share any information that could assist us. While we were
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  aware of the extensive media reporting and commentary about this matter,
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  as of today, no new criminal allegations have been made
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  to the MET regarding sexual offenses said to have occurred
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  within our jurisdiction. What happened when those allegations were made though, Oh,
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  that's right, you swept them under the rug. You protected
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  Prince Andrew, and it seems to me that that protection
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  is still here. Now it's not out of loyalty anymore,
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  but it's because of mutually assured destruction. Because the Protection
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  Service certainly knows a lot more than they're letting on.
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  We continue to urge anyone with new or irrelevant information
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  to come forward. All allegations will be taken seriously, and
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  as with any matter, any information received will be assessed
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  and investigated where appropriate. The action outlined above is independent
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  of investigations or assessment work being carried out by other forces.
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  We're working with the National Coordination Group, which has been
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  set up to bring together affected forces to ensure consistency
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  of approach, including access to appropriate expertise and guidance. Whatever
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  that means more bureaucratic nonsense. But does anyone out there
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  really believe that these Protection officers weren't aware of who
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  Jeffrey Epstein was or the kind of bullshit he was
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  getting into. And if that's the case, they should have
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  never been protection officers in the first place. I mean,
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  you have rappers out here doing OPO research on people
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  on other blocks, but the Protection Service for Prince Andrew
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  isn't doing OPO research on Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, I
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  have a very hard time believing that considering who we're
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  dealing with, considering the level of protection that somebody like
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  Andrew was afforded, does anyone out there truly believe that
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  they didn't know who Epstein was? Me some emails and
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  let me know. All the information that goes with this
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  episode can be found in the description box.