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Mega Edition: The DOJ Jeffrey Epstein And The CVRA Deception Aimed At Survivors (5/2/26) · 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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In our last episode, we were talking about how the
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whole entire situation down in Florida is absolute garbage and
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how Palm Beach and Florida in general cleared everybody who
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was involved of all of that garbage. Well, once again,
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we're going to go back in time, hop in the
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DeLorean and head back to twenty and sixteen and back
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in twenty sixteen. Well, the lawyers for Epstein survivors were
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not told of the sweetheart deal that Epstein received, So
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right there, that alone should be enough to elicit the
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absolute rage of the investigators in Florida. But the investigators
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down in Florida, folks, I'm just going to be very
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upfront with you, they were more concerned about covering the
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asses of their buddies, of the state and of all
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of the broken ass institutions, rather than holding people accountable
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for their bullshit. Oh we can't ruin precedent. Oh we
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can't go back and look at other cases these prosecutors
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worked on. It's such a joke and it's honestly offensive
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the way that these governments conduct themselves, these local governments,
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federal government. Enough is enough. There needs to be some accountability,
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and there needs to be some sort of investigative body
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that comes in and looks at these investigations from a
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federal standpoint, because you can't expect people who work together,
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who are colleagues, to investigate each other and do it
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the right way. I don't want to hear about, oh,
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they're impartial, they're investigators. No, they're human beings, and human
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beings are susceptible to all kinds of nonsense. So I
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want a full and robust investigation from a federal level.
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How about that gets initiated by the Senator Congress. You
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think they could fit that in while they're out here
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playing you know, political touch asks, you know things that
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actually affect the people, that'd be nice every once in
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a while, right, instead of them arguing and fighting like
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the undertaker versus the million dollar man you know in
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WWE back in the day. Because that's what it all is,
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political theater. This is the kind of shit that they
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should be going into, digging into Congress and the Senate.
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How did this all happen and how are we going
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to fix it? Instead, all we get are platitudes and
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nonsense and the same shit continues to happen. Then, for
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the grand finale of Injustice, you get this report from
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Florida talking about, oh yeah, everything was on the up
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and up here, there was nothing that went wrong. Meanwhile,
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there's mountains of receipts that say the completely opposite. So today,
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once again, we're gonna look at how the Florida prosecution
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and how the prosecution overall failed these survivors. This article
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is from NBC News headline Lawyers survivors not told of
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sweetheart deal for Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers for two teen survivors
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of Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein say thirty or more
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alleged survivors weren't told of his lenient plea deal. So
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that right there alone should be enough to make people
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lose their jobs. And we have what five six, seven
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fuck ups by Florida and the Florida officials throughout this
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whole thing, but none of them are enough for the
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FDL to come back and say, oh yeah, people need
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to have their heads roll here. Instead, it's a cover
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up operation. Oh we have a black eye. Instead of
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telling everybody how we got the black eye, let's just
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put some makeup on it. This article was originally published
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on February twelfth of two thousand and sixteen, and the
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author is Tom Winter. Prosecutors arranged a sweetheart deal for
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jet set sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but never bothered to
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tell more than thirty of the billionaires alleged survivors about
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the agreement, say lawyers for two of the girls, and
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we know that this is the case. Now, this is
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not even disputable. There's no dispute about this. The girls
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were not told that this deal was being signed and
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that Epstein was getting off basically, so right there, they
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violated the Victim's Rights Act, meaning the prosecution. So how
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can it be on the up and up the financier,
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you mean, the pedophile who partied with young women, partied
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with young women at his Palm Beach mansion, you mean,
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raped young women at his Palm Beach mansion. Listen to
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the way they were reporting this guy in twenty sixteen,
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as if he was just this big party guy and
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people were coming to his house and they just happened
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to be a little bit young. I mean, really, Epstein
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pleaded guilty in a federally broken deal in two thousand
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and eight to a state count of soliciting an underage prostitute.
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So much wrong with that? How can an underage girl
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be a prostitute? And how is it that he only
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gets nailed with one count? But everything's on the up
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and up in Florida. Folks, just trust them. He served
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thirteen months of an eighteen month sentence. Prosecutors said in
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court papers filed at the time that he may have
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had as many as forty survivors. There is good reason
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to believe that if the prosecutors had exposed their dealings
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to scrutiny by Jane Doe number one, Jane Doe number
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two and other survivors, says emotion filed earlier this week,
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they would not have reached such a sweetheart plea deal.
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And that's why they weren't told. What do you think
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we're stupid? The prosecutors down there didn't tell these girls
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because they were pressed by Dershowitz and Star and the
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rest of those clowns not to do so. So they
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didn't tell the survivors. They stepped all over the CRVA
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and then they act like nothing's wrong, like they're absolutely
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in the clear here. Well, I have to tell you
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you are not. I don't care that Florida launched this investigation.
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It's time for a real robust investigation into the investigation.
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How about that Jane Does Number one and two were
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fourteen and thirteen at the time of the abuse. Epstein,
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fifty five at the time of his plea, served a
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sentence in the county jail. Imagine thirteen and fourteen years old,
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and this cocksucker only gets a couple of days in jail,
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basically what it ended up being. Yeah, but everything's on
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the up and up, folks. How dare you ask Florida
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what they're doing down here? Work release allowed him to
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spend most of his days at his office and nights
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behind bars. He then served a year of probation and
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was registered as a sex offender. Look, he didn't even
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have to check in. Okay, not in New York and
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not anywhere else, and forget about New Mexico. Dude could
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have lived across the street from a school and it
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wouldn't matter. He didn't have to be on the registry there.
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Remember attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassel, who called Epstein's
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agreement one of the most extraordinarily lenient plea deal arrangements
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in modern history. Represent Jane Does one and two and
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filed a federal civil lawsuit in two thousand and eight
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asking that the agreement be vacated. I mean, it is
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literally one of the most egregious things I have ever seen. Now,
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granted I'm not some legal scholar who follows this sort
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of thing, but you should not get a plea deal
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like this if you're a man like Epstein. I know
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that's breaking news in all but this guy should have
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served his full term. See what happens is you give
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him this plea deal, and because he's such a sick
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bastard who was broken right from the jump, he was
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never gonna stop, and he kept molesting girls when he
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should have been in your custody. So whose fault is that? Florida.
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The motion they filed this week requested some rey judgment
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prior to any trial, and on the grounds that prosecutors
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violated the Crime Victim's Rights Act of two thousand and
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four by failing to inform the survivors of the deal.
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They most certainly did, and Judge Marra even said the
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same thing. So how is it that Florida can come
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out and with such confidence and such pizazz act like
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they had this great long investigation and they uncovered everything
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there was to uncover, When they really didn't uncover. Did
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Lee squat? According to the CVRA, a crime victim in
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a federal case has the right to reasonable, accurate, and
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timely notice of any public court proceeding or any parole
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proceeding involving the crime, not to be excluded from any
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such public proceeding, and the right to be informed in
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a timely manner of any plea bargain. Epstein's deal included
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a non prosecution agreement for any federal charges and a
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guilty plea in a state courtroom to a state charge.
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State prosecutors added a second charge of procuring, to which
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Epstein also pleaded guilty. So nobody told them and that
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that right there is against the law. So how is
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it that the Florida investigation can come out and say
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everything's on the up and up? They think we forgot?
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Do they think we're stupid? Do they think we have
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memory loss? I mean, I know I took a couple
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of wax to the head growing up playing football and shit,
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But come on. Wes Oliver, a law professor at Duquanne
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University said he believes that, based on Edwards in Castle's
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motion and its citations, that the CVRA may have been
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violated by prosecutors if the alleged survivors were not informed
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that Epstein would be making a public plea. And we
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know now that that is the case. So again, we're
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just talking about this to reiterate here, to drive home
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the point that shit down in Florida is not all fixed.
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That you know we've come to a conclusion down here.
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Hell no, we haven't, and things need to be looked
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at once again. Oliver, however, notes that while the motions
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ask for finding that the survivors were wronged by the government,
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it is not at all clear there could be a
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remedy for this wrong Yes, there is get rid of
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the plea deal. That's the remedy for the wrong But
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unfortunately all of these have a train Luis and have
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a trained judges. They're all homies. This statute only creates rights,
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said Oliver, but provides no method to sanction the violation
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of those rights. He also said that asking to have
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the agreement set aside would be an uphill battle, to
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put it mildly, since prosecutors have a right to make
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a deal and do not have to inform the alleged
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victims of their negotiations or obtain their consent to the
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pleas terms. Of course not, because that's how it's set up,
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so that they can do whatever they want, whenever they
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want to do it. Notice that regular folks, they don't
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ever get this plea deal, They don't ever get the hookup.
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But Epstein does. Right, Oh okay, in this case, said Oliver,
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the real question is whether there is any remedy available
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and should be addressed first. This motion really puts the
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cart before the horse. The FBI, the US Attorney's Office
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for the Southern District of Florida, and an attorney for
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Jeffrey Epstein did not immediately respond to requests for comment. So, folks,
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as you can see, this has been going on for
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years and years and years now, and there's never been
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any proper remedy and there's never going to be a
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proper remedy unless we demand it. My hope is, and
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I know it's a long shot, but I hope that
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after these contentious elections done, that maybe we'll get some
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people in DC that actually want to do the people's work,
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and I think a good place to start would be
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hearings and all sorts of investigation into what went down
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in Florida, in New York, in New Mexico and everywhere
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else Jeffrey Epstein abused people. All Right, folks, that's gonna
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do it for me. If you'd like to contact me,
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you can do that at Bobby Kapucci at ProtonMail dot com.
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cap u Cci. The link that I discussed can be
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found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
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back to the Epstein Chronicles. Today, we're gonna hop in
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the time machine, folks and jump back to twenty twenty,
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and we're going to talk about how the federal prosecutors
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completely drop the ball when they gave out this plea deal. Now,
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of course, we've talked about this a lot here on
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the podcast, but it is such a disgusting thing that
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they did, these prosecutors, that it's worth talking about once again.
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So today we have an article from the Daily Mail.
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Like I said, twenty twenty, the author of this article
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is let's see Daniel Bates headline how sloppy federal prosecutors
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who agreed to Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart plea deal were played
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so well by the pedophiles lawyers they didn't even realize
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they were giving immunity to Gleann Maxwell. New report claims,
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does anyone really believe that these prosecutors are that bad
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at their job? Huh that all of a sudden they
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don't even know what they're doing. Seems like they know
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what they're doing with everybody else. Look at the conviction
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rate in a federal prison. I mean, come on, all
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of a sudden, they forget how to prosecute cases when
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it has to do with basically a political grenade. Then
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all of a sudden, they have no idea how to
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do their job anymore, and they don't even know how
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to write up plea agreements. That's basically what they're saying.
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How can you make such an error, such a monumental error,
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and nobody ever paid for it? Remember that, folks, There
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was no people getting fired, nobody lost pensions over this,
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none of it. I guess we made a mistake. Well,
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when you're in a position such as this and you're
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a prosecutor, you're a high level member of the Department
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of Justice. You can't make a mistake like this and
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just shrug your shoulders and say we'll do better next time.
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There has to be repercussions, and there never was. Federal
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prosecutors who agreed to Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart plea deal were
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laid so well by the pedophiles lawyers they didn't even
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realize they were giving immunity to Glaine Maxwell. An explosive
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new report reveals the prosecutors from the Southern District of
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Florida thought they were only giving legal protection to four
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female Epstein associates. They later admitted that it never dawned
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on them. The immunity clause was also designed to protect Maxwell,
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who was accused of being Epstein's chief recruiter. And we
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all know now not only accused, convicted. So these prosecutors
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are going to act like they had no idea that
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Maxwell was going to be under this umbrella, which is
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very very difficult for me to believe. Epstein's lawyers persuaded
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them to use language so loose it could also apply
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to the British socialite human trafficker who was due to
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stand trial next year for allegedly procuring girls as young
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as fourteen for him. The stunning blunder features in a
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report by the Department of Justice's internal watchdog, the Office
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of Professional Responsibility OPR, which has not been released in full,
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but dailymail dot Com has seen a copy. Of course,
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it hasn't been released in full. Why would they These
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guys really really messed up down there, and their screw up,
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their refusal to stand up to Jeffrey Epstein has caused
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so much extra pain that it's not even it's not
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even funny. These people could have stopped Epstein a very
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long time ago, and instead gave him a sweetheart deal
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that not only let him continue on his path of abuse,
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but let his co conspirators get off scot free. It
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reveals in unprecedented details the errors that led to Epstein
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serving just fifteen months in jail in two thousand and seven,
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despite the FBI identified by dozens of potential victims. Among
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the other revelations is that the SDFL failed to obtain
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Epstein's computers and surveillance tapes from inside his houses, even
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though they could have proved he was in possession of
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child pornography. Well, we know that Epstein was tipped off.
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We've heard that from his bodyguard said that. Other people
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have said that. And then we also have seen con
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Indyke and others leaving Epstein's houses with bags full of stuff.
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What happened to all of that shit? The Feds aren't
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interested in finding out what's on those hard drives. And
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you see why we got to keep talking about it,
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don't you. These people really think that everyone's just gonna
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sit back and accept the nonsense that went on here.
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But nobody's gonna accept it anymore. And what it does,
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it shines a spotlight on how prevalent these problems are
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throughout the whole entire justice system. The prosecutor in charge
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of the case thought that the material would have put
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this case completely to bed and given them evidence to
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put Epstein away for years. An attorney working for Epstein
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had a prior relationship with one of the prosecutors and
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told him to do us a solid favor and get
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his boss to suggest giving Epstein just two years in jail.
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The report said. A senior prosecutor was so cozy with
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Epstein's lawyer, Jay Lefkowitz, he told him he enjoyed working
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with him, and that mister Epstein was fortunate to have
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such excellent representation. Boy, isn't that nice? How did the
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prosecutors treat normal people? How do you think the prosecutors
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would treat you? But since mister Lefkowitz has such a
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cozy relationship with the prosecutor, Lefkowitz being Epstein's lawyer, well
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you know, things are different. And again it just goes
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to show you what we always talk about here. You're
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not paying for the lawyer for what he knows. You're
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paying for those relationships. And there's a reason that Jeffrey
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Epstein's legal team was chock full of people who have
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all kinds of you know, long standing relationships with those
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in power, Left Kowitz, star Dershowitz. Look, it wasn't an
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accident that this legal team was put together. The OPR
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report was commissioned by Attorney General William Barr in early
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twenty nineteen after the Miami Heralds devastating investigation into Epstein's
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plea deal called perversion of justice. And this always bothered
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me as well. Why did it take a news article
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to come out to make the Department of Justice get
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interested here. They had all of the evidence, more than
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Julie K. Brown ever had, and they were never interested before.
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Oh what now that there's a public outcry, Oh, we
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better do something better, act like we're doing something. But
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the reality is this. They sat on this shit for
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how long? They could have stopped Epstein a long time ago,
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and they chose not to. Journalists began their inquiries after
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the US attorney who signed off on Epstein's agreement, alex Acosta,
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was appointed by Donald Trump as his Labor Secretary, meaning
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he would be in charge of US government policy on
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human trafficking. It is such an obscene joke that this
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man was appointed, an absolutely obscene joke. Alexander Acosta is
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a spaghetti back, no spine having scoundrel, just like the
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rest of them. With that said, this dude didn't have
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the power to make this decision come on. The series
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of stories helped lead to Epstein's arrest in August last year,
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and he hanged himself allegedly in prison while awaiting trial
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on sex trafficking charges. Usta was forced to resign. The
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OPR report was designed to look into whether or not
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any of the prosecutors engaged in corruption or professional misconduct.
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The report concludes that did not happen, partly because the
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bar was that prosecutors intentionally or recklessly violated a clear
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and unambiguous standard. Just lawyers speak away out for the prosecutors.
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The federal government knows that it would. They'd have big
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time egg on their face if they found any wrongdoing
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here with the prosecutors. So what they'll say is, oh,
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mistakes were made. But it doesn't. It doesn't hit home
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right what they're saying here. It's just more kicking the
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can down the road, no one taking responsibility, no one
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being held responsible. However, the three hundred and fifty pages
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it digs up profound and disturbing questions about the handling
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of the case. The most troubling is the handling of
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the immunity clause in the non prosecution agreement, the deal
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Epstein signed to make the federal charges disappear. Instead, he
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would plead guilty in state court to two felony prostitution charges,
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be sentenced to eighteen months in jail, and register as
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a sex offender, unless you go to the fantastic state
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of New Mexico, where you don't have to register as
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a sex offender. Where you can go, hang out at
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your ranch, keep bringing girls in, hang out with your
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transhumanist friends, talk about seating the planet with your sperm.
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You know, typical Saturday night. Under the immunity clause, which
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was suggested by Epstein's lawyers, who haggled repeatedly over the language.
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Four women were also given protection from prosecution. They were
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Sarah Kellen, who was allegedly one of the main recruiters,
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Nadia Martinkova and alleged sex slave, Adriana Ross, one of
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his associates, and Leslie Groff, who is said to have
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been his New York based assistant. All the women have
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subsequently denied any wrongdoing, and some have said they are victims. Yeah,
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I'm not buying it, Okay, Nadia Marsenkova, That's about as
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far as it goes for me. That's as far as
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victims go with these ladies. Nadia is the end of
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it because Adriana Ross grown ass woman, Leslie Groff, grown
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ass woman, Sarah Kellen, grown ass woman, and we all
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know the story about Nadia sold to Epstein as a child.
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Whole different ballgame in my opinion. But the fact that
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these people were given this immunity is just mind boggling
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to me. You know, it's bad enough that Epstein was
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able to get off on this soft ass deal. You
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add this to it, and it's just a monstrousity of
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a bad deal. All the women have subsequently denied any wrongdoing,
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and some have said they are victims. The final language
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of the immunity clause was, the United States agrees that
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it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential
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co conspirator of Epstein, including, but not limited to, the
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four women. Now you tell me who else gets a
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deal like that, any potential co conspirator. That means unnamed
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potential co conspirators, folks. Okay, so anyone who might be involved,
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and then the four women, How in the hell do
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you get the federal government to agree to that deal.
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I have seen the federal government go after people with
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way less evidence and not cut any kind of sweetheart deal,
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pursue it all the way to the very end. They
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had a mountains worth of evidence here, and instead they
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just decide to plea out. That never happens with the
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federal government. So we're going to need some answers, and
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the bullshit answers that you have given us thus far.
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That's not going to work. The wording was loose enough
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that it applied to Maxwell Epstein's former girlfriend co conspirator, who,
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with survivors, have claimed ran his sex trafficking operation. She's
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been convicted for that. She has denied the allegations against her. Well,
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that's okay. You can deny all you want, but the
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facts don't bear out yet. Jeffrey Sloman, the first assistant
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US attorney in the SDFL, told the OPR that it
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never occurred to him that the reference to potential co
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conspirators was directed toward any of the high profile individuals
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who were at the time or subsequently linked. Oh no,
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who was it for his mom and his dad? Santa
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Claus the Easter Bunny. Jeffrey Sloman, Man, what is going
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on down in Florida? Certainly one of the few states
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in this country. I'm not moving to Anne Marie Villafana,
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the assistant US attorney who was in charge of the case,
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said that apart from the four named women, they had
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not much evidence on any other potential co conspirator. She said,
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so we wouldn't be prosecuting anybody else, so why not
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include it. I just don't think that there was anybody
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that it would cover. Oh no, not at all, Marie
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Villa Fauna. And remember, they tried to make her out
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as some kind of hero, right, tried to make her
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out as somebody who tried to fight the system to
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get these prosecutions. If that was the case, she would
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have went all the way, meaning losing her job over it,
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becoming a whistleblower speaking out about how bad all of
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this is. But instead she went along with it with
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the rest of them. She conceded to the OPR that
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she did not catch the fact that it could be
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read as broadly as people have since read it. Villa
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Fauna said that at the time, she told a colleague,
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I don't think it hurts us. These are the people
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that are tasked with protecting your children. These are the
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people that are tasked with sending scumbags to prison. And
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you wonder why the whole entire country has become a cesspool.
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These people don't want to do their jobs. Villa Fauna
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told the OPR that Epstein's lawyers told her that he
27:10
wanted to make sure that he's the only one who
27:12
takes the blame for what happened. Villa Fauna and her
27:15
colleagues believed Epstein's conduct was his own dirty little secret
27:19
and appear to have missed the fact that Maxwell was
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his alleged top lieutenant. They didn't misshit, my opinion, they
27:25
ignored it. Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers completely coerced them, completely gave
27:30
them the run around, and completely showed them what it
27:34
means to be a high profile lawyer. Because these prosecutors
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either a they're terrible at their job and they should
27:42
be fired, or B they went right along with Epstein's
27:46
lawyers and were dog walked the whole entire time, which
27:48
means that they're not competent enough to have the positions anyway.
27:57
Her reasoning is clouded by the fact that she admits
28:00
the FBI were aware of Epstein's longtime relationship with a
28:04
close female friend who was a well known socialite co conspirator,
28:09
which appears to me and Maxwell. Villa Fanna said they
28:11
didn't have any specific evidence against her, but they had
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already spoken to one victim who implicated her, but the
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conduct was not in Florida. Villa Fanna told OPR. We
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considered Epstein to be the top of the food chain
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and we wouldn't have been interested in prosecuting anyone else.
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Imagine that this is your federal government, folks, and coming
28:32
on the heels of tax day yesterday, when I wrote
28:35
the government a nice fat fucking check. By the way,
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nice to know that it's going to pay people like this,
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people that don't even know what they're doing. Maybe it's
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going to drop some bombs on innocent people in Yemen
28:45
as well. Boy, makes me feel great about paying that
28:48
big fat chunk yesterday. It's a joke, Okay, people like
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this Villa Fauna. They get up there and then they
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say this sort of stuff like people should believe it.
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How did the OPR actually buy this shit? The report
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says she did not consider the possibility possibility that Epstein
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might be trying to protect other unnamed individuals, and no one,
29:15
including the FBI case agents, raised that concern. That's such
29:19
a lie. Michael Ryder, the police chief who referred this
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to the FBI, had those concerns, brought those concerns up,
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and that was the whole reason it ended up on
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the desk of the FEDS, and the FEDS punted it
29:32
back to Acosta and the state. So don't give me
29:35
that bullshit. Sloman agreed and in retrospect understood the non
29:42
prosecution provision was designed to protect Epstein's for assistance, and
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it never dawned on him that it would. It was
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intended to shield anyone else. The report said, so because
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he didn't figure it out, he shouldn't be held accountable
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for being part of this. Isn't it your job to
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make sure deals like this don't happen. The horrible irony
30:04
is that not only did Maxwell slip through the net,
30:06
but she could use the very same NPA for her
30:09
defense at her upcoming trial. Before Epstein killed himself allegedly,
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his lawyers argued that the deal with the SDFL was
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part of a global agreement with the US government, and
30:20
he couldn't be prosecuted twice. Maxwell may do the same. Well,
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we know that that didn't work out for her, because
30:26
what the prosecutors did is they updated their charges. Right,
30:30
they used charges in New York, they used charges elsewhere,
30:33
but they were different from the first ones that were prosecuted.
30:38
Among the other details in the report is the extraordinary
30:42
revelation that the prosecution failed to obtain the computers removed
30:46
from Epstein's pom Beach mansion prior to them being raided
30:49
by the pom Beach Police Department. Mysteriously, all the computers,
30:54
including those with records of surveillance cameras, had been removed
30:58
by the time officers around. Oh, I wonder how that happened.
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I'm sure nobody tipped Epstein off. I'm sure his high
31:05
profile lawyers had nothing to do with that. I mean,
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are you kidding me right now? I'm pretty sure that
31:13
they swooped up all of El Choppo's computers, pretty sure
31:17
they got all of John Gotti's information. But somehow, when
31:21
you arrest Epstein, you don't have raids at all of
31:24
his properties at the same time. That doesn't make any sense.
31:28
Gives them time to get rid of evidence, gives them
31:30
time to destroy shit. Or maybe that was just your goal,
31:33
to give him the amount of time he needed to
31:34
get rid of the evidence that would have cooked your homies.
31:43
The report says that Villa Fauna who knew who had
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possession of the computer equipment and the tapes. It does
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not say who they could have provided additional victims and
31:52
given powerful visual evidence of a large number of the
31:56
girls Epstein victimized, the report says phil Fauna made repeated
32:01
efforts to get the computers from Epstein's lawyers, but they
32:04
blocked her and her superiors did not pursue this. Okay, yeah,
32:09
that all sounds normal. So we don't need the computers. Huh.
32:12
Seems like that's the first thing everybody goes to get.
32:15
Let's get them computers, let's get that cell phone. But
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in this case, no big deal. Ah, we don't need
32:21
the computers. We'll let Epstein's lawyers have them. The report
32:26
says that this evidence was relevant and potentially critical, and
32:30
says that it could have led to evidence of Epstein
32:33
transmitting child pornogre images across state lines, a serious federal crime.
32:39
Phila Fauna told the OPR if the evidence had been
32:42
what we suspected it was, it would have put this
32:44
case completely to bed. It would also have completely defeated
32:48
all of these arguments about interstate and nexus. Man, these
32:52
guys really fumbled the ball and they let Epstein off
32:55
the hook. And then you wonder why people sit around
32:58
and say that, you know, the government officials are in
33:01
on it, that they had skin in the game. That's
33:05
why they were making sure all of this was obfuscated
33:08
and hidden from public light. In its most withering section,
33:14
the report says it was clear Epstein did not want
33:18
the contents of his computers disclosed. Nothing in the available
33:22
record reveals that the USAO prosecution benefited from abandoning pursuit
33:27
of this evidence when they did. Instead, the USAO agreed
33:32
to postpone and ultimately to abandon its efforts to obtain
33:36
evidence that could have significantly changed the costa's decision to
33:40
resolve the federal investigation with a state guilty plea or
33:44
lead to additional significant federal charges. By agreeing to postpone
33:49
the litigation, the USAO gave away leverage that might have
33:53
caused the defense to come to an agreement much earlier
33:57
and on terms more favorable to the government. The USAO
34:01
ultimately agreed to a term in the plea deal that
34:04
permanently ended the government's ability to obtain possible evidence of
34:08
significant crimes, and did so with apparently little serious consideration
34:14
of the potential cost. Here's what they thought. They thought
34:17
that this would all go away. Epstein would get arrested
34:19
and that would be the end of it. Nobody would
34:22
ever talk about it again, and it would go down
34:25
in the annals of history as just another sick dude.
34:28
Well they were wrong. The survivors took it to social
34:31
media and we all know what happened then. So their
34:34
little deal here that they thought was going to remain
34:38
private is now public. And I don't know how many
34:41
times we have to talk about it. There needs to
34:43
be something done here. Got all these people running around
34:46
talking about how great DeSantis is. Well show us how
34:49
great you are, mister DeSantis, take action, hold people accountable.
34:55
This is your state, right, Let's see you do something.
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The issue with the computers was not the only instance
35:03
where Villa Fanna felt blocked by her male superiors. Look,
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I don't buy any of that. She could have become
35:09
a whistleblower man, she didn't do it, and trying to
35:13
punk the blame to other people. I'm not a big
35:16
fan of that. The report Painter has one of the
35:18
few voices within the department calling for Epstein to be
35:21
arrested as soon as possible. She told OPR that she
35:25
was in a hurry to lock up Epstein because child
35:27
sex offenders don't stop until they're behind bars. But she
35:31
butted heads with Matthew Menchell, the chief of the Criminal
35:34
Division for SDFL. In a blunt email to her, he said,
35:39
if you want to work major cases in the district,
35:41
you must understand and accept the fact that there is
35:44
a chain of command, something you'd disregard with great regularity.
35:48
And that's important right there, not just for the Villa
35:51
Fauna story here, but to show you that Acosta wasn't
35:55
acting on his own. There is a chain of command,
35:57
and a Costa wasn't the be all end all, that's
35:59
for sure. When Epstein signed the plea deal, one of
36:04
Villa Fanna's colleagues told her the case only resolved with
36:08
the filthy, rich bad guy going to jail because of
36:10
your dedication and determination. She said, after all the hell
36:14
they put me through, I don't feel like celebrating eighteen months.
36:17
He should be spending eighteen years in jail. Well, miss Villafana,
36:21
why didn't you come out and be more vocal about
36:23
that publicly? I understand that you have a career to
36:26
worry about, but sometimes things are more important. While Villa
36:31
Fauna maintained a combative stance with Epstein's attorneys when she could,
36:35
some of her male colleagues were far cozier with them.
36:39
Andrew Loriie, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division at the time,
36:42
appeared to get on well with Lefkowitz, one of Epstein's
36:45
dream team of lawyers, which also included Alan Dershowitz and
36:49
Ken Starr, who wrote the impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton.
36:53
When Lefkowitz emailed Laurie to ask for his help to
36:56
stop details about their negotiations being leaked, he told them,
36:59
I haven't enjoyed working with you on this matter. Laurie replied,
37:03
I enjoyed it as well. Mister Epstein was fortunate to
37:06
have such excellent representation. Really, so you guys are homies,
37:10
Gonna go out and get a stake afterward and yuck
37:12
it up about how you stuck it to these young
37:14
girls pieces of shit. That was not the That was
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not the only such connection between the prosecution and the defense.
37:22
And Epstein's lawyer, Lilyanne Sanchez briefly had a relationship with
37:26
Menchel in two thousand and three when they both worked
37:30
at the SDFL. But there's nothing to miss here, folks,
37:34
there's nothing to see. There's no ties here. Nobody should
37:36
be held responsible all this stuff we're talking about, all
37:40
these alleged errors in judgment, and no one held responsible.
37:44
The report says that in twenty eighteen, Villa Fauna claimed
37:48
that the idea of Epstein serving a two year jail
37:50
sentence was done as a favor to Sanchez. She wrote
37:54
an email months or possibly years later. I asked former
37:57
first assistant Jeff Sloman where the two year a figure
38:00
came from. He said that Lillian Sanchez asked mister Minchell
38:04
to do her a solid and convince mister Acosta to
38:07
offer two years. Slowman told OPR that he could not
38:11
recall making such a remark. Menchell said he couldn't recall
38:15
how the two year figure came about, and said his
38:17
prior relationship with Sanchez played no part in his decision making,
38:21
so we should just listen to him. Huh. I mean,
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I don't understand how any of this is even how
38:27
any of this even worked out like this. There are
38:30
way too many things here that are not on the
38:33
up and up. And the authorities in Florida, they didn't
38:39
step in. They didn't say, all right, hold on, we
38:41
need to have an even deeper look. How about a
38:44
grand jury. They love to have grand jury's all the time.
38:46
How about we get a grand jury, going here and
38:48
get some people subpoenad federal prosecutors and others, and see
38:53
what kind of a backroom deal was had here, because
38:56
it's obvious something was agreed upon in the back room.
39:02
Despite turning up fresh evidence about the investigation, the OPR
39:06
was still unable to explain why Acosta decided on such
39:10
a lenient sentence for Epstein. The report says he appeared
39:13
to be trying to find middle ground between what Epstein
39:16
would have got in if the case was handled by
39:18
federal prosecutors from the start, potentially decades in jail, and
39:23
what he would be getting in state court, which amounted
39:25
to a slap on the wrists. In a scathing passage,
39:29
the report says that Acosta's reasoning was untethered to any articulate,
39:33
reasonable basis. As a result, he drew up a plea
39:37
deal that was too difficult to administer, leaving Epstein free
39:41
to manipulate the conditions of his sentence to his own advantage.
39:45
It was by design, that was how it was designed. Right,
39:50
And again, we could talk about Acosta till the cows
39:53
come home, folks, but the fact is this, he had
39:55
a boss. He's a middle manager, and he didn't make
39:57
this call on his own. Oh, let's be fired up
40:01
about Acosta, but let's not forget that it's as bosses
40:04
who signed off on this and as the you know,
40:08
things move forward in the case, and you know, we
40:11
see maxwell sentencing getting ready to come to light. You
40:15
have to ask yourself how much pain and suffering could
40:18
have been stopped and ended if the prosecutors in Florida
40:24
simply did their jobs. All right, folks, that's gonna do
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