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Mega Edition: Prince Andrew And The Unsavory Relationships He Fostered (9/24/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to spend too much time monologuing this evening considering we're
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Speaker 1: all aware at this point about Prince Andrew and his
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Speaker 1: newest problem with this Turkish fraudster. Now this episode is
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Speaker 1: going to add a little more context, going to talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit more about the relationship here, and then
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Speaker 1: at the end we're going to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: about Fergie and her refusal to give back the 225,000
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Speaker 1: pounds that she received. So, why don't we just jump
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Speaker 1: right into this article this evening from the Daily Mail,
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Speaker 1: and let's see what Stephen Wynne Davies, Jamie Phillips, and
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Speaker 1: Martin Robinson have come up with. Headline, Prince Andrew told
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Speaker 1: bankers to call his Buckingham Palace office if they were
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Speaker 1: concerned over 750,000 pound payment From alleged fraudster. To call
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Speaker 1: my Buckingham Palace office, huh? Well, that's nice. Imagine being
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Speaker 1: able to just say, hey, call the royal office to
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Speaker 1: check on what I have going on. Don't have to
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Speaker 1: take any personal responsibility, none of that. Ah, just call
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Speaker 1: the palace. Prince Andrew told bankers to call his Buckingham
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Speaker 1: Palace office if they were concerned over a £ 750, 000 payment
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Speaker 1: from an alleged fraudster. The Duke of York received payments
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Speaker 1: of more than £ 1 million from Selman Turk after they
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Speaker 1: met through the Duke's gun smuggler friend, Tariq Katooni, who
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Speaker 1: attended Fergie's surprise 60th birthday bash and Eugenie's wedding. The
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Speaker 1: payments included a £ 750, 000 wedding gift to Princess Beatrice. Now,
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Speaker 1: Sounds like someone who's pretty close to the family, huh?
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Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like just a plus one or somebody who
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Speaker 1: is on the outskirts. Obviously, him and Andrew have a
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Speaker 1: pretty deep relationship. Obviously, they're pretty close. And that shouldn't
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Speaker 1: shock anybody that Andrew is associating with the scum of
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Speaker 1: the scum, considering, well, fellow travelers and all. According to
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Speaker 1: the Telegraph, Mr. Turk told officials, looking into the $ 750, 000 payment,
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Speaker 1: that Prince Andrew had authorized him to pass on the
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Speaker 1: details of palace aides. Mr. Katooni has previously boasted of
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Speaker 1: his influence over the Duke and attended the wedding of
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew's daughter, Princess Eugenie, in 2018. Now look, man.
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Speaker 1: How many types of relationships is this guy going to
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Speaker 1: get engaged in that are at this level, meaning people
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Speaker 1: who are moving in a funky manner? I don't know
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Speaker 1: about you folks, but I don't know any gun runners
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Speaker 1: or child molesters or abusers or anything like that. But
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Speaker 1: somehow Prince Andrew finds himself surrounded by these kinds of
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Speaker 1: people on an everyday basis, everywhere he goes, it seems.
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Speaker 1: He just happens to attract these kind of people. No
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Speaker 1: good people want to be around Andrew. Well, yeah, it
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Speaker 1: certainly seems the case. And again, it goes back to
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Speaker 1: the whole fellow traveler thing. The convicted smuggler is also
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Speaker 1: understood to have previously helped broker secret meetings for the
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Speaker 1: Duke with the late dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, and once told
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Speaker 1: undercover reporters he played a key role in the release
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Speaker 1: of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdulbaset Almagri. Now that's nice, huh?
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Speaker 1: Hell of a guy. Get that dude released. I mean,
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Speaker 1: for real? Do we forget what the Lockerbie bombing looked like?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm old enough to remember that. So you
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Speaker 1: got this guy working as a go-between to get the
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Speaker 1: bomber freed. And at the same time, he's over there
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Speaker 1: with Prince Andrew ingratiating himself to Prince Andrew. And Lord
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Speaker 1: knows what kind of manipulation he has going on, what
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Speaker 1: sort of blackmail he might have over Andrew. Again, I
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Speaker 1: don't know that for sure. But when you're dealing with
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Speaker 1: information brokers and you're dealing with people on this sort
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Speaker 1: of playing field, It is no holes barred, no gloves required.
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Speaker 1: Catooney introduced Andrew to Selman Turk, 35, in the early
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Speaker 1: summer of 2019, before the pair became friendly and shared
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Speaker 1: dinners at the alleged fraudster's South Kensington home. It previously
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Speaker 1: emerged that Fergie's surprise 60th birthday party. Which took place
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Speaker 1: just months after their introduction. Was partially funded by Mr. Turk.
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Speaker 1: The Sunday Telegraph reported. Now we talked about this yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And how Mr. Turk was involved with all of this stuff.
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Speaker 1: And the question we asked then. And it's a question
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Speaker 1: I'll ask now. For what reason? What was Mr. Turk
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Speaker 1: receiving in return? My guess is. He was getting the
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Speaker 1: favor of Prince Andrew. And Prince Andrew was, you know,
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Speaker 1: manipulating things that he could in favor of Mr. Turk.
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Speaker 1: That's the only logical explanation here. We know that Mr.
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Speaker 1: Turk wasn't doing it out of the kindness of his heart.
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Speaker 1: None of these people do that. They don't just show
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Speaker 1: up when you're sick or something and say, hey, here's
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Speaker 1: a million bucks. Everything is an enigma wrapped in a
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Speaker 1: conundrum with these people. And months later, Mr. Turk and
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Speaker 1: Katooni took a selfie photograph together during a visit to
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Speaker 1: what appears to be Frogmore House, the Royal Residence in Windsor,
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Speaker 1: Great Park, in February 2020. Look, they've had them all
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Speaker 1: there at the Royal Residence, huh? Gun runners, child molesters,
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Speaker 1: human traffickers, rapists, the whole nine. Hell of a place.
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Speaker 1: Since their introduction less than three years ago, Mr. Turk
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Speaker 1: is alleged to have made payments totaling 1.1 million pounds
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Speaker 1: to Andrew, of 250,000 pounds to Sarah, and 25,000 pounds
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Speaker 1: to Princess Eugenie. Of the sum allegedly paid to the princess, 15,000
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Speaker 1: had been listed as a birthday gift, but it is
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Speaker 1: understood to have actually been used to pay for the
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Speaker 1: surprise party. So Prince Andrew's out here you know, manipulating
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Speaker 1: his relationships and getting people to pay for his daughter's
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Speaker 1: birthday party, right? She's a princess. You need other people
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Speaker 1: to pay for her birthday party? Maybe if you weren't
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Speaker 1: such a scumbag, maybe if you weren't up to your
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Speaker 1: neck in sexual assault allegations, you'd have a couple of
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Speaker 1: bucks to spread around for your kid's birthday party. But instead,
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Speaker 1: you have to get money from a gunrunner, a fraudster, However,
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Speaker 1: it is alleged that this money was stolen by Mr.
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Speaker 1: Turk from Turkish millionaires Nebahat Eviap Izbelin, who had entrusted
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Speaker 1: him with helping her move 87 million out of Turkey
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Speaker 1: as she attempted to avoid political persecution. So Prince Andrew,
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Speaker 1: scumbag ass, is getting money from a lady who is
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Speaker 1: being politically persecuted on the grift. Now, Andrew, he'll say
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Speaker 1: he had no idea about any of this. I thought
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Speaker 1: the money was on the up and up. I thought
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Speaker 1: that Mr. Turk, the notorious gunrunner and scumbag, was a
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Speaker 1: legitimate man, and I was just doing the honorable thing
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Speaker 1: and hanging out with him. Prince Andrew and his family
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Speaker 1: have been named in the high court battle, the Telegraph reported.
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Speaker 1: The complex case is ongoing, no trial has taken place,
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Speaker 1: and the allegations have not yet been resolved. Mr. Turk
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Speaker 1: denies all allegations of wrongdoing. In preliminary hearings, it was
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Speaker 1: alleged substantial sums were paid to the Duke and Duchess
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Speaker 1: of York, but there has been no suggestion that they
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Speaker 1: have any involvement in the allegations. Isn't that nice? You
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Speaker 1: can receive a bunch of stolen money and it's no
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Speaker 1: big deal. Oh, we didn't know. So maybe that's what
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Speaker 1: everybody should say who gets caught up in a RICO case. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I had no idea where this money came from. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know that this was ill-gotten gains. You mean to
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Speaker 1: tell me that the money that Prince Andrew received from Mr. Turk...
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Speaker 1: wasn't from ill-gotten gains. Mr. Turk didn't get this money
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Speaker 1: from manipulating relationships or from gun running or a bevy
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Speaker 1: of other illegal activities that I'm sure he was involved in.
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Speaker 1: The party was attended by the likes of Ellie Goulding,
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Speaker 1: Robbie Williams, and Julian Fellows. Princess Eugenie has said she
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Speaker 1: believed the payments to be gifts from family friends to
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Speaker 1: assist with the cost of the surprise bash. Here's an idea.
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Speaker 1: If you don't have the money to throw a bash
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Speaker 1: for your daughter, then you should probably roll it back
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Speaker 1: and not make it a bash. Or go to your mom,
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Speaker 1: the queen. She's willing to give you money to pay
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Speaker 1: for sexual assault allegations. Pretty sure she'd pay for her
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Speaker 1: granddaughter's little soiree here. Unless, of course, it wasn't about
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Speaker 1: the money. And it was about building the relationship. We
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Speaker 1: all know how Prince Andrew rolls, folks. And we all
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Speaker 1: know that he likes to have his hands in the
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Speaker 1: pockets of many scumbags. In a statement she said in
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Speaker 1: early October 2019, I had received a call from our
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Speaker 1: family friend saying that he wanted to make a financial
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Speaker 1: contribution towards my mother's birthday party to assist with the
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Speaker 1: catering costs. I suggested that any contribution could be made
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Speaker 1: directly to the caterers, but in the event provided my
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Speaker 1: account details to which two payments were made, totaling £ 25, 000,
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Speaker 1: which I then transferred on to the company organizing my
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Speaker 1: mother's party. So again, these rich people can't even pay
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Speaker 1: for their own parties. You people are richer than God himself.
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Speaker 1: And you're out here cavorting with people like Mr. Turk
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Speaker 1: all because you're so damn greedy. That's what it comes
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Speaker 1: down to, greed. Prince Andrew can pay all this money, 16,000 pounds, 20,000 pounds,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, to go watch a golf game. You
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Speaker 1: can't come up with the money to throw your little
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Speaker 1: soiree here? Katooni was among 100 guests at the party
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Speaker 1: and enjoyed regular access to Andrew with photographs showing the
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Speaker 1: Duke sitting near him at the event. Andrew first became
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Speaker 1: involved with Katooni in 2005, the same year he was
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Speaker 1: caught trying to smuggle a submachine gun from the Netherlands
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Speaker 1: to France. Kaituni has previously demonstrated his willingness to trade
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Speaker 1: on their friendship and has claimed he could influence Andrew
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Speaker 1: into backing commercial projects. Well, that's going to be worthless
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Speaker 1: from here on out, right? I mean, Andrew has no
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Speaker 1: more say. So that's a wasted relationship. All of that
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Speaker 1: money that Kytuny and Turk used to try and lather
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Speaker 1: up Mr. Prince Andrew here, all going to waste. Spice
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Speaker 1: up your love life. The Libyan once gave Eugenie's sister
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Speaker 1: Beatrice an $ 18, 000 diamond necklace. months before the Duke allegedly
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Speaker 1: lobbied a British company on his behalf. Sure looks like
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Speaker 1: pay for play to me. Sure looks like nepotism to me.
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Speaker 1: But what do I know? I'm just some guy sitting
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Speaker 1: in his studio, running in his fat yap. Mr. Turk
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Speaker 1: currently lives in a multi-million pound flat in a prestigious
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Speaker 1: Mayfair property owned by the Queen. I mean, that's just
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Speaker 1: a coincidence, right? That the Queen owns the spot that
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Speaker 1: this dude's living in has nothing to do with the
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Speaker 1: relationship he has with Andrew, huh? How many of us
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Speaker 1: out there can afford to live in a spot owned
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Speaker 1: by the queen? I'm guessing not too many of us.
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Speaker 1: But it's crazy to think that there's all of these ties,
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Speaker 1: all of these connections, and Prince Andrew would still be
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Speaker 1: out here acting like, oh, I don't know who this
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Speaker 1: guy is. He just gave me some money. Just like
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Speaker 1: you didn't know who Virginia Roberts was, right, Mr. Prince Andrew?
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Speaker 1: He is understood to have been introduced to Caetani in
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Speaker 1: early 2019, before then meeting Andrew for the first time
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Speaker 1: in May or June, later the same year. Mr. Turk, Caetani,
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Speaker 1: and the Duke subsequently met on at least two occasions,
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Speaker 1: including a dinner with potential investors at the alleged fraudsters'
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Speaker 1: South Kensington home in West London in December of 2019.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine all the grift that was going on there? Boy,
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Speaker 1: to be a roach in the rushes and to have
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Speaker 1: access to that conversation with all of these morons. The
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Speaker 1: only time Andrew and Mr. Turk have been pictured together
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Speaker 1: in public was when the latter won an award at
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Speaker 1: the Duke of York's Dragon Den-style competition, Pitchat Palace, in
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Speaker 1: November of 2019. In a video posted to the Pitch
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Speaker 1: Palace Twitter account, he outlined how he was creating a
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Speaker 1: new consumer-focused digital bank aimed at millennials named Heyman AI. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so basically what this fraudster is saying is that he's
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Speaker 1: creating a bank aimed at millennials to pilfer your wealth.
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Speaker 1: Because this guy is an obvious fraudster, a scumbag, and
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Speaker 1: certainly not somebody I'd be comfortable putting my money with.
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Speaker 1: I mean, for real, you're starting a bank, bro? The
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Speaker 1: next evening, Heyman AI won the People's Choice Award, and
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Speaker 1: he was photographed shaking hands with the Duke who hosted
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Speaker 1: the event. But days later, Mr. Turk told an official
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Speaker 1: from Ms. Isbellen's private bank that the $ 750, 000 payment was
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Speaker 1: a wedding gift. In court documents, Ms. Isbellen, who also
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Speaker 1: attended the Pitch at Palace event, has suggested the transfer
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Speaker 1: could be connected to the award Mr. Turk won that evening.
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Speaker 1: The prince has since repaid the cash after she alleged
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Speaker 1: it was a scam. A spokeswoman for the Duke of
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Speaker 1: York said, we will not be commenting on an ongoing
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Speaker 1: legal matter. So since he paid the money back, it's
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Speaker 1: all good. There's no, you know, no penalties for it
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Speaker 1: for accepting stolen money or stolen goods. Maybe I should
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Speaker 1: just run a fence shop out of my garage. And
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Speaker 1: when the cops come, I could just say, oh, I
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Speaker 1: had no idea any of this was stolen. I'll just
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Speaker 1: pay the money back. I wonder how far that would
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Speaker 1: get me. I'm guessing it would get me right into
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Speaker 1: a fucking jail cell. Sarah Ferguson has no plans to
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Speaker 1: hand back the £ 225, 000 as it was a fee for
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Speaker 1: her work as a brand ambassador for a green energy firm,
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Speaker 1: sources say. What a bunch of hot air. The Duchess
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Speaker 1: of York does not plan to repay the £ 225, 000 she
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Speaker 1: received from the company of Selman Turk, whom she regarded
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Speaker 1: as a perfectly bonafide banker, it is understood. Perfectly bonafide, huh? Sure,
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Speaker 1: just like Jeffrey Epstein, hell of a guy, another person
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Speaker 1: who lent you money. I mean, what's next? Who's going
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Speaker 1: to lend her money next? Does she have a connection
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Speaker 1: to Bin Laden's estate, perhaps? Maybe she can go get
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Speaker 1: some money from, you know, insert scumbag here, because she
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Speaker 1: has a list of people who she's gotten money from
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Speaker 1: who are absolute pieces of shit. Sarah got the payment
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Speaker 1: from Alphabet Capital Limited, which the high court heard was
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Speaker 1: a fraudulent front for apparent money laundering. In legal documents
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Speaker 1: before the court, Turk is claimed to be a con
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Speaker 1: man who set up Alphabet to move dirty money around
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Speaker 1: the world. He denies the allegation. You know, it's funny
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Speaker 1: because London is a hub for money laundering. It's a
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Speaker 1: huge place to wash dirty money. And I wasn't even
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Speaker 1: aware of that really until a few years ago when
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Speaker 1: we first started digging into this. But the deeper you
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Speaker 1: dive and the more you look at it, New York
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Speaker 1: and London both are just filled with absolute scumbags. The
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Speaker 1: Duchess has not issued any statement about the money she received,
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Speaker 1: but sources close to her have offered an explanation. They
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Speaker 1: say it relates to her work as a brand ambassador
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Speaker 1: for U.S. green energy company Pegasus Group Holdings. 225,000 pounds
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Speaker 1: for Fergie to be a brand ambassador? Are they hiring?
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Speaker 1: I'm looking to be a brand ambassador. I'll take half
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Speaker 1: that dough. Turk was suggested as someone who would take
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Speaker 1: on the debts and pay the Duchess in full, with
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Speaker 1: Pegasus then paying him in installments. Insiders say she knew
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Speaker 1: Turk through the Duke and regarded him as a banker
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Speaker 1: and a perfectly bona fide person to deal with. A
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Speaker 1: spokesman for Sarah said the Duchess was completely unaware of
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Speaker 1: the allegations that have since emerged against Mr. Turk. She
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Speaker 1: is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.
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Speaker 1: Pegasus was unavailable for comment. Well, if she was really concerned,
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Speaker 1: don't you think she'd be giving that money back? Don't
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Speaker 1: you think she'd be falling over herself to try and
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Speaker 1: make people whole? Because obviously that money was stolen from somewhere.
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Speaker 1: That's how this works. A grifter like Mr. Turk, you
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Speaker 1: know he's ganking this money from somewhere. So now, you're
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Speaker 1: in possession of ill-gotten gains. And if we lived in
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Speaker 1: a world with any justice, if we lived in a
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Speaker 1: world where people like you were held accountable, you would
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Speaker 1: be in big trouble for that. But unfortunately, that's not
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Speaker 1: the reality we live in. We live in a reality
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Speaker 1: where these people can do whatever they want, but you
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Speaker 1: and I, well, we have to play by the rules
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Speaker 1: that they make. And on and on the wheel turns, folks.
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Speaker 1: The question is, when are the spokes going to break?
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Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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Speaker 1: at bobbycapucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can
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Speaker 1: also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. What's up, everyone,
18:06
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Hope everybody's had
18:11
Speaker 1: a great weekend so far. And hopefully you're all enjoying
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Speaker 1: your Sunday. Prince Andrew continues to be an absolute embarrassment
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Speaker 1: to not only the UK, to not only the royal family,
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Speaker 1: but to humanity as a whole. And it seems the
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Speaker 1: only person who doesn't realize what an embarrassment this dude is,
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Speaker 1: is his mother, the queen. And while the queen has
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Speaker 1: enjoyed a bit of plot armor throughout this whole entire deal,
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Speaker 1: meaning her reign, it is time now that people are
18:49
Speaker 1: starting to call her out because of the situation with
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew. And you're starting to see it more in newspapers.
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Speaker 1: You're starting to see it more with pundits. And you're
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Speaker 1: going to see a lot more of it moving forward
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Speaker 1: because people in general are not willing to just look
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Speaker 1: the other way anymore. You know, extraordinary circumstances call for
19:11
Speaker 1: extraordinary action, and we have not seen any of that
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Speaker 1: from the royal family, and it's going to continue to
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Speaker 1: drag them down. And there's an article today, well, it
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Speaker 1: was from yesterday, but the article is from The Guardian,
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Speaker 1: and the author... Catherine Bennett goes into it a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and she talks about how if the Queen can't, you know,
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Speaker 1: see the forest through the trees, basically, and realize it's
19:35
Speaker 1: time to pack it in with Andrew, perhaps maybe she
19:38
Speaker 1: should retire as well. Now, probably not a bad idea.
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Speaker 1: 95 years old, you've done enough, Queen. 70 years on
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Speaker 1: the throne, long reign. Time to pack it in and
19:51
Speaker 1: go and enjoy your ducks or whatever it is retired
19:55
Speaker 1: kings and queens do. But out here, trying to refurbish
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Speaker 1: Andrew's image is not a good look for anybody, and
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Speaker 1: especially for the queen. We've talked about it a bunch already.
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Speaker 1: The monarchy isn't on stable ground. It's not like, you know,
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Speaker 1: they've solidified their reign here and they're looking at a
20:17
Speaker 1: thousand years of Windsor rule. That's not what we're looking
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Speaker 1: at here. They've already been entangled with drama. They've already
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Speaker 1: been entangled with other nonsense. And now you add all
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Speaker 1: of this on top of it, plus what's going on
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Speaker 1: with the fraud and the Turkish gun runners. Come on, man.
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Speaker 1: So it's time for the queen to either get out
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Speaker 1: of the way, meaning retire, or to show a little
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Speaker 1: bit of backbone and stop trying to refurbish the image
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Speaker 1: of her son, Uncle Touchy. All right, this article is
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Speaker 1: from The Guardian. And like I said, the author is
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Speaker 1: Catherine Bennett. Headline, if you can't see the problem with Andrew, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: perhaps it's time to hang up the crown. Now, let's
21:08
Speaker 1: just pause to reflect real quick. How often do you
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Speaker 1: hear people like people, you know, like Catherine Bennett saying
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Speaker 1: things like this, you know, subjects over in England in
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Speaker 1: one of these big papers? It's not something you see
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of, at least not in the past.
21:23
Speaker 1: But again, people are not very happy with what's going on.
21:29
Speaker 1: People are not very happy with the so-called elite. And
21:32
Speaker 1: people are starting to wake up in mass from the
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Speaker 1: grand hypnosis we've all been afflicted with. And they're starting
21:41
Speaker 1: to ask questions about the way things are ordered, how
21:44
Speaker 1: things work, and why things are the way they are.
21:48
Speaker 1: Because how often are we going to have people like
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew shoved down our throat and just forced to
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Speaker 1: accept him? It's six weeks since Prince Andrew settled out
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Speaker 1: of court with his accuser, Virginia Roberts, for a sum
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Speaker 1: estimated at £ 12 million. Cheap at the price, it was suggested.
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Speaker 1: if the money, source unexplained, prevented sexual assault charges and
22:13
Speaker 1: a public trial, ruining his mother's platinum jubilee. And again,
22:17
Speaker 1: I find it obscene. The whole, oh, it's about the jubilee,
22:21
Speaker 1: it's about the celebration. You know what? The queen should
22:23
Speaker 1: have a little bit of honor here and say to herself,
22:26
Speaker 1: you know what? Having Andrew around is probably not a
22:30
Speaker 1: good idea considering I didn't say a word throughout this
22:33
Speaker 1: whole thing to support these girls, these women. And now
22:37
Speaker 1: you just double down on it? By bringing Uncle Touchy out?
22:44
Speaker 1: Whatever's left to be ruined, that is, after mixed results
22:47
Speaker 1: from Cambridge's vintage-inspired Caribbean visit, in which only Kate's elaborate
22:53
Speaker 1: wardrobe signaled that anything had changed since 1953. Yikes, pretty rough.
22:59
Speaker 1: Going pretty hard here on the royal family, but it's
23:01
Speaker 1: the truth, right? Why are... the English, the Royals, in
23:06
Speaker 1: charge of anything that's going on in a place like
23:09
Speaker 1: Jamaica or in the Caribbean. I don't understand. I really
23:13
Speaker 1: don't understand it. And the same goes for places in America,
23:17
Speaker 1: even places like Hawaii. If they want to have a
23:19
Speaker 1: referendum and they want to become their own sovereign state,
23:22
Speaker 1: hey man, I'm all for it. Let the people decide.
23:27
Speaker 1: Since Andrew testified in the settlement to a hitherto unsuspected
23:31
Speaker 1: concern for victims of sex trafficking, along with a newfound
23:35
Speaker 1: regret for knowing Jeffrey Epstein, the deal was also welcomed
23:40
Speaker 1: as a victory for Robert's fellow survivors. A lawyer for
23:43
Speaker 1: Sarah Ransom, one of those abused by Epstein, called the
23:46
Speaker 1: settlement a banner day. survivors had been heard and were
23:51
Speaker 1: no longer silenced. It's the truth. Finally, they had a
23:55
Speaker 1: little bit of restitution, right? A little bit of slap
23:58
Speaker 1: back for the scumbags who hurt them. Now, again, it's
24:02
Speaker 1: not perfect. Not everybody who is involved here has been indicted. Hell,
24:08
Speaker 1: nobody has really. But seeing Ghislaine Maxwell up there is
24:12
Speaker 1: a big victory for them. one of the figureheads of
24:15
Speaker 1: the organization, the number two in the organization, getting popped,
24:19
Speaker 1: it's definitely a victory. But having the queen drag this
24:23
Speaker 1: fool up there and shove him in everyone's face, talk
24:27
Speaker 1: about regression. These women, probably unfamiliar with correct form concerning
24:35
Speaker 1: the titled associates of known sex offenders... could not have
24:38
Speaker 1: anticipated that Andrew's discomfiture would be strictly temporary, basically saying, well,
24:44
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks is good enough punishment for Andrew,
24:47
Speaker 1: but now he's back on the scene. A prince who
24:51
Speaker 1: is no longer HRH, owing to some serious sexual allegations,
24:56
Speaker 1: should still, as newly demonstrated by the UK's foremost role models,
25:00
Speaker 1: be seen at formal events and addressed dukely as Your Grace. Boy,
25:05
Speaker 1: she's going hard on the Queen and the Royals here
25:08
Speaker 1: with this mockery and sarcasm. And she should. Everybody should.
25:13
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for it. You could have left Prince
25:16
Speaker 1: Andrew at home. You didn't need to bring him out
25:18
Speaker 1: there and put him in the forefront. Should one bow?
25:26
Speaker 1: A nod is usually acceptable where a prince has been
25:29
Speaker 1: unable to account, as with Andrew. for a photograph of
25:33
Speaker 1: him pawing a teenage girl with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background.
25:37
Speaker 1: Following a period of reflection, a month is ample, Current
25:41
Speaker 1: protocol requires a monarch's son previously accused of sexual assault
25:45
Speaker 1: to take precedence in royal ceremonials over siblings who have
25:49
Speaker 1: never associated with a known sex offender. Charles's favorites, Jimmy
25:53
Speaker 1: Saville and Lawrence Vanderpost, were only posthumously unmasked. See, again, look,
25:59
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time, right? We know that Jimmy
26:02
Speaker 1: Saville was a sick bastard. We know that he had
26:06
Speaker 1: access to children he should not have had access to.
26:09
Speaker 1: And we also know that he had the favor of Charles. See,
26:15
Speaker 1: the royal family was able to skate when it came
26:18
Speaker 1: to Mr. Jimmy, right? Social media wasn't around then. So
26:23
Speaker 1: those boys that were being hurt by him, they didn't
26:25
Speaker 1: have a voice. They didn't have surrogates on social media
26:29
Speaker 1: to take their story and run with it. But nowadays,
26:33
Speaker 1: that's The royals, they can't depend on that, right? Because
26:38
Speaker 1: people like you and I, we're not going to sit
26:39
Speaker 1: around and be gaslighted by these people. Zero chance. We're
26:43
Speaker 1: taking a look from afar, and I'll tell you what,
26:47
Speaker 1: none of us like what we see. As the Queen's
26:51
Speaker 1: escort at Prince Philip's memorial service, Andrew duly enjoyed a
26:55
Speaker 1: central role. received by a reverential clerics and a trumpet fanfare,
27:00
Speaker 1: then serenaded to a front seat by less valued siblings
27:04
Speaker 1: and relations. If only a prior engagement in New York's
27:08
Speaker 1: Metropolitan Detention Center had not obliged Ghislaine to send regrets,
27:13
Speaker 1: it could have been just like old times. Imagine Ghislaine
27:16
Speaker 1: back at the party with them, Jeffrey Epstein accompanying them. Boy,
27:20
Speaker 1: the band would be back together. And while the author
27:25
Speaker 1: is using scorching mockery here and scorching sarcasm, we're at
27:30
Speaker 1: the point where that is needed when we're dealing with
27:33
Speaker 1: these people. They should be scorned. They should be mocked.
27:36
Speaker 1: And they should be hit with a heavy amount of sarcasm.
27:44
Speaker 1: As a massive public affront to Roberts and the other
27:47
Speaker 1: women raped by Andrew's friend Epstein, the event could hardly, however,
27:51
Speaker 1: have been surpassed. After being silenced for years by their abusers, allies,
27:57
Speaker 1: the women last week saw the memorial to Prince Philip Double,
28:00
Speaker 1: as dictated by Andrew's leading role, as a further denial
28:04
Speaker 1: of their existence. Juliet Bryant, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, said,
28:10
Speaker 1: It's not just an insult to the victims. It's a
28:12
Speaker 1: complete insult towards humanity. She's not wrong. She's not wrong.
28:17
Speaker 1: We talked about this. And when she said it, she
28:21
Speaker 1: is not wrong. because what he did, what they did,
28:23
Speaker 1: what they're all doing, is an absolute affront to humanity.
28:29
Speaker 1: How dare you put this dude front and center, after
28:32
Speaker 1: everything we know. The deep public respect and affection for
28:37
Speaker 1: the Queen, with an added tenderness that comes of seeing
28:40
Speaker 1: her look, often tired, small and alone, meant that this
28:44
Speaker 1: perverse choreography was received where, she was concerned, less with
28:48
Speaker 1: disapproval than with incredulity. How could this dutiful woman, one
28:56
Speaker 1: of the UK's dwindling emblems of national probity, have allowed
29:00
Speaker 1: her greedy, notoriously brutish son to reinvent her husband's memorial
29:05
Speaker 1: service as a rehabilitation opportunity? She should have been one
29:09
Speaker 1: of the country's last protections against epidemic Matt Hancock syndrome,
29:14
Speaker 1: the pathological inability to feel shame. Look, this is who
29:19
Speaker 1: the royal family always has been. They're just being unmasked
29:22
Speaker 1: now for the world to see it. And I know
29:25
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that don't want to accept
29:27
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. And that reality is the
29:32
Speaker 1: royal family is just another group, another collection of so-called
29:37
Speaker 1: elites that do not give one single... fuck about any
29:41
Speaker 1: of you. It's possible that the queen never saw the
29:46
Speaker 1: seedy photo. Is the one person who still believes Andrew's
29:50
Speaker 1: news night codswallop? That he can't sweat, always wears ties,
29:55
Speaker 1: stayed at Epstein's to show leadership. Maybe he was addressing
29:59
Speaker 1: mummy all along. My judgment was probably colored by my
30:03
Speaker 1: tendency to be too honorable, but that's just the way
30:06
Speaker 1: it is. Look, this guy should have been slapped down
30:10
Speaker 1: from his position a long, long time ago. But the
30:15
Speaker 1: queen has refused to do anything. She has refused to
30:19
Speaker 1: take action. And now bringing him front and center, she's
30:22
Speaker 1: basically saying that she believes what he had to say
30:25
Speaker 1: and that he didn't do what Virginia accused him of doing.
30:30
Speaker 1: Now let that soak in for a minute. The monarch
30:32
Speaker 1: feels that way, huh? The monarch thinks it's a good
30:35
Speaker 1: idea to bring this dude out there front and center.
30:41
Speaker 1: As much as her admirers would welcome any relief from
30:44
Speaker 1: the cognitive dissonance, this explanation, since it requires a credulity
30:49
Speaker 1: alarming in a head of state, obviously requires the queen
30:52
Speaker 1: to step down. If she believes Andrew, what would she
30:56
Speaker 1: not believe from Boris Johnson? Ha ha ha. boy got
31:00
Speaker 1: to get that little a little shtick in at the
31:02
Speaker 1: end there huh i'm guessing boris johnson is not one
31:05
Speaker 1: of the most favored people over the pond right about
31:09
Speaker 1: now more likely though given her involvement in andrew's earlier
31:13
Speaker 1: demotion the queen was acquainted with the accusations and with
31:18
Speaker 1: andrew's reasons for not repeating in a courtroom his newsnight
31:22
Speaker 1: line i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady
31:26
Speaker 1: His accelerated redemption came after she witnessed, like everyone else,
31:31
Speaker 1: Andrew dodging court papers, Andrew's lawyers, after they'd failed on technicalities,
31:36
Speaker 1: resorting to insinuations about his accuser's greed, morals, and false memory. Look,
31:42
Speaker 1: it was always a game of technicalities and loopholes. That's
31:45
Speaker 1: how these people roll. They know that they can't win
31:48
Speaker 1: in court. They don't have the evidence to back up
31:51
Speaker 1: their bullshit, so how are they going to win in court?
31:54
Speaker 1: Especially when They're not going up against normal folks. They're
31:57
Speaker 1: going up against other high-profile attorneys who have resources and power.
32:09
Speaker 1: Roberts was even accused of being the harmful one for
32:12
Speaker 1: somehow diverting attention from those who have actually perpetrated sexual
32:16
Speaker 1: offenses against minors. Only on reaching settlement did Andrew say
32:21
Speaker 1: she'd suffered as an established victim of abuse and regret,
32:25
Speaker 1: as he'd previously refused to do so, his association with Epstein. Look, man, again,
32:32
Speaker 1: I'll say this till I'm blue in the face. He's
32:34
Speaker 1: not sorry about what happened. He's sorry that he got caught.
32:38
Speaker 1: The Queen presumably knew all of this, and with a
32:41
Speaker 1: wide choice of children and grandchildren for Memorial Plus One's,
32:46
Speaker 1: picked the son who once facilitated a loan for his
32:49
Speaker 1: ex-wife from a sex offender, the son who once sold
32:52
Speaker 1: a house for £ 3 million above the asking price. Days
32:56
Speaker 1: after the memorial, the names of Andrew and his ex-wife
33:00
Speaker 1: would again come up in a bewildering fraud case involving
33:04
Speaker 1: a £ 750, 000 wedding gift and a Turkish woman's passport. We've
33:10
Speaker 1: talked about this quite a bit the last couple of days,
33:12
Speaker 1: and it's worth mentioning. It's worth talking about and it's
33:16
Speaker 1: worth investigating. What is his involvement here? And to act
33:19
Speaker 1: like he had no idea about this money, it's too
33:22
Speaker 1: much for me to accept. To judge by last week,
33:29
Speaker 1: the family might have saved the 12 million pounds it
33:32
Speaker 1: spent rescuing the Jubilee from Andrew. If he could be
33:35
Speaker 1: irreplaceable at Phillips Memorial, despite advice, then every Jubilee event
33:40
Speaker 1: must still be at risk. Actually... If he'd defended himself
33:44
Speaker 1: in court, then returned to non-royal obscurity, it might have
33:48
Speaker 1: done less damage than his Westminster Abbey performance, acting as
33:52
Speaker 1: if open invitations to the massage-addicted Epstein households were the
33:57
Speaker 1: kind of things that could happen to any pious Anglican. Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
34:03
Speaker 1: Blastin' this dude. And it's the truth. This guy, if
34:09
Speaker 1: he would have defended himself in court and would have
34:12
Speaker 1: brought some receipts to the table, wouldn't have been as
34:15
Speaker 1: shunned as he is now. But the problem is this, folks,
34:18
Speaker 1: he couldn't do that. He had no receipts to bring
34:20
Speaker 1: to the table. Whether the Queen is too blinded by
34:25
Speaker 1: her affections to recognize the impact of Andrew's unbanishing, or
34:31
Speaker 1: she knows and doesn't care, they're both reasons to retire
34:34
Speaker 1: before he causes her further trouble. It might seem a
34:37
Speaker 1: poor reward for the years of service, even a cruel
34:41
Speaker 1: and unusual punishment, but she has certainly earned the right
34:45
Speaker 1: at 95 to spend more time with her favorite son,
34:48
Speaker 1: enjoying the conversation that made him such a treasured guest
34:52
Speaker 1: in any home owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Yikes. So basically,
34:57
Speaker 1: this article is calling for the Queen to hang up
35:00
Speaker 1: the crown and saying she's no longer capable of administering
35:04
Speaker 1: her duties. And frankly, folks, your boy agrees. All right,
35:11
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this update. Obviously, more
35:14
Speaker 1: on the way. You all know the deal by now.
35:18
Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
35:19
Speaker 1: at bobbycappucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can
35:29
Speaker 1: also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The
35:36
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35:38
Speaker 1: the description box. All right, folks, until later on, hope
35:42
Speaker 1: all of you have a great night. Small business. What's up, everyone,
35:46
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Today, we're going
35:50
Speaker 1: to hop back across the pond, folks, and we're going
35:52
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more about Prince Andrew and
35:55
Speaker 1: some of his associations. Now, they always say, right, you
35:59
Speaker 1: are the company that you keep. And if that's the case,
36:02
Speaker 1: then Prince Andrew is certainly one of the scummiest smarmy
36:06
Speaker 1: as sons of bitches going because he wasn't only just
36:09
Speaker 1: palling around with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell the dude
36:13
Speaker 1: was hanging out with gun runners financial scumbags people who
36:18
Speaker 1: were involved in the diamond game you name it and
36:21
Speaker 1: this dude was hanging out with people who were involved
36:24
Speaker 1: in it yet he'll run around and he'll tell you
36:27
Speaker 1: about what an honorable man he is what a great
36:30
Speaker 1: guy he is imagine squandering all of your power and
36:35
Speaker 1: all of your privilege by hanging out with scumbag people
36:39
Speaker 1: such as this? And think about it. Did he really
36:43
Speaker 1: need to do that? He was already wealthy. He already
36:46
Speaker 1: had status. It comes down to greed and wanting more.
36:51
Speaker 1: People like this have never been told no in their life.
36:54
Speaker 1: They have never been admonished for their behavior. They have
36:57
Speaker 1: never been told anything that is off of what they
37:01
Speaker 1: want to do. And then, when the real world hits them,
37:05
Speaker 1: boy oh boy, are they in for a surprise. The
37:09
Speaker 1: bad news is, it's very rare that they have a
37:12
Speaker 1: meeting with the real world. In Prince Andrew's case, at least,
37:16
Speaker 1: he is certainly getting a up-close-and-personal look at it. Because
37:22
Speaker 1: while he is not in jeopardy at this point of
37:25
Speaker 1: being criminally processed, he is not welcomed in civilized society.
37:33
Speaker 1: I don't think that there's any quarter of society at
37:35
Speaker 1: this point that would welcome him. Perhaps the so-called elite
37:39
Speaker 1: in New York, because remember, the only sin to them
37:43
Speaker 1: is being broke. But besides that, I don't think anybody
37:47
Speaker 1: in the world wants to see this dude show up
37:50
Speaker 1: or wants to associate with this dude at this point.
37:54
Speaker 1: And he has nobody to blame but himself. Remember, he
37:58
Speaker 1: could have been anywhere with anyone doing anything. But he
38:02
Speaker 1: chose to associate with Jeffrey Epstein. He chose to break
38:06
Speaker 1: bread with Ghislaine Maxwell. And he also chose to put
38:10
Speaker 1: himself in those sorts of positions. So I feel zero
38:14
Speaker 1: empathy for him, zero sympathy for him, and in fact,
38:18
Speaker 1: I find him to be one of the biggest scumballs going.
38:23
Speaker 1: And in today's article from The Sun, we're going to
38:25
Speaker 1: talk about some of those other associations that Prince Andrew had.
38:29
Speaker 1: So let's jump into this article, like I said, from
38:32
Speaker 1: the sun, and let's see what author Anthony Blair has
38:36
Speaker 1: to say. Headline, blood money, arms dealers, 18,000 pound diamonds,
38:42
Speaker 1: glam models, and Gaddafi dinners. Prince Andrew's bizarre links to
38:47
Speaker 1: Libya's tyrannical regime. Now isn't that nice? Always something you
38:53
Speaker 1: want to be involved with, right? Not only are you
38:55
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's erstwhile companion... But you're also friends with Gaddafi
39:00
Speaker 1: and his son and the Libyan generals and the rest
39:04
Speaker 1: of the psychopaths that were running the country. Fantastic group
39:08
Speaker 1: of friends that you chose there, Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew
39:14
Speaker 1: had three meetings with brutal Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi and
39:19
Speaker 1: enjoyed a long-term friendship with a convicted gun smuggler. It
39:22
Speaker 1: shouldn't shock anybody. Look, let's be very clear, okay? Countries
39:27
Speaker 1: in the West, like the United States... the UK, France,
39:32
Speaker 1: they're always involved with these gun smugglers, with these arms dealers,
39:37
Speaker 1: because they can't do things on the books, right? It
39:40
Speaker 1: has to be done through black ops. So they have
39:44
Speaker 1: these gun runners, they have these arms dealers that they
39:47
Speaker 1: work closely with who do things off of the books.
39:52
Speaker 1: And Prince Andrew and the rest of these people, they
39:55
Speaker 1: associate with guys like this on a regular basis. And
39:59
Speaker 1: it's funny that they talk about Libya and Prince Andrew
40:02
Speaker 1: having such a relationship here considering the rat line that
40:05
Speaker 1: was set up in Libya to help run guns into Syria.
40:09
Speaker 1: That's for a different podcast for a different day. But
40:12
Speaker 1: you see all of the connections, right? And you see
40:15
Speaker 1: how all of these people are intertwined. The Duke of
40:20
Speaker 1: York's bizarre ties to the North African country would eventually
40:24
Speaker 1: bring his prized role as UK trade envoy crashing down
40:28
Speaker 1: around his royal ears. And even then, he escaped without
40:32
Speaker 1: really being fazed. Oh, they took away my honorific. Ha
40:36
Speaker 1: ha ha, I'll still go hang out at Jeffrey Epstein's.
40:39
Speaker 1: It's such a joke. And the way that they've punished
40:44
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew in the past, that was a joke too.
40:47
Speaker 1: And it just emboldened him to continue on the path,
40:51
Speaker 1: to continue on doing what he was doing, associating with
40:54
Speaker 1: who he was associating with, because he knew there were
40:57
Speaker 1: no repercussions. his links to the former Gaddafi regime have
41:06
Speaker 1: come under further scrutiny in the wake of the mystery
41:09
Speaker 1: over Andrew's money. And again, it really comes down to
41:12
Speaker 1: that always, doesn't it? Follow the money. And when you
41:15
Speaker 1: follow the money, you're usually ending up in some politician's office.
41:21
Speaker 1: In this case, these politicians were, you know, people running
41:24
Speaker 1: the regime over in Libya. Royal finances expert David McClure
41:30
Speaker 1: has said Andrew's private wealth remains shrouded in mystery 15
41:34
Speaker 1: to 20 years after questions were first raised about his lifestyle. Now,
41:40
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say here is speculation completely on
41:42
Speaker 1: my part, okay? But we know that everybody that Prince
41:46
Speaker 1: Andrew was associating with in Maxwell and Epstein's circle were,
41:51
Speaker 1: let us say, engaging in the money game. So does
41:57
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, Have money stashed offshore? Does he have some
42:02
Speaker 1: kind of LLC or someplace where he's hiding this money? Again,
42:06
Speaker 1: I have no idea if that's the case. But if
42:09
Speaker 1: history bears out, then that's certainly a possibility. Because all
42:14
Speaker 1: of these other people that he was associating with, people
42:17
Speaker 1: like Epstein, people like Maxwell, obviously the rest of the
42:20
Speaker 1: people in the financial sector, they don't have their money
42:24
Speaker 1: parked in a bank like me or you do. They're
42:27
Speaker 1: trying to avoid paying fees on it, paying taxes on it,
42:30
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. So it would make sense,
42:34
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion anyway, that Prince Andrew would
42:37
Speaker 1: be playing the same kind of games. Now, is that
42:41
Speaker 1: a fact? Obviously, I don't have any evidence to prove that.
42:44
Speaker 1: But it just makes sense, considering all that we know
42:48
Speaker 1: of his associations with these other types of people and
42:51
Speaker 1: the way these kinds of people do business. Meanwhile, former
42:57
Speaker 1: Lib Dem MP Norman Baker said, Andrew has accumulated a
43:02
Speaker 1: lot of money over the years that we don't know about.
43:05
Speaker 1: He went on, he has clearly been getting money from
43:07
Speaker 1: elsewhere for decades. So that raises the question, what was
43:11
Speaker 1: he getting that money for? Nothing is free, folks. You
43:14
Speaker 1: all know that. Nobody shows up on your doorstep with
43:18
Speaker 1: a sack full of dough and says, here's some money
43:20
Speaker 1: just because I'm feeling good about myself today. So where
43:24
Speaker 1: did this money come from, and why was he getting
43:27
Speaker 1: this money? Obviously, they were paying money to him, extra
43:30
Speaker 1: money to him, for access, right? Access to the queen,
43:33
Speaker 1: access to the royals, whatever it might be. But that's
43:38
Speaker 1: why they were in business with Andrew. It wasn't because
43:41
Speaker 1: he's this great trade minister, and he's working out all
43:44
Speaker 1: of these great deals that benefit the country and everybody else.
43:48
Speaker 1: It's because they knew that he could be bought. They
43:51
Speaker 1: knew that a few dollars would sway him in whatever
43:54
Speaker 1: direction they wanted him to sway. David also pointed out
44:02
Speaker 1: Andrew is alleged to have worked as a door opener
44:04
Speaker 1: for foreign banks in a number of countries around the
44:07
Speaker 1: world for years. And we've seen the shit show with
44:10
Speaker 1: the banks and recently with Credit Suisse on top of it.
44:13
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that soon as well and
44:15
Speaker 1: talk about that because it was a huge deal. As
44:18
Speaker 1: far as the financial portion goes. But these banks. For
44:22
Speaker 1: how long. Have been involved in this kind of thing.
44:25
Speaker 1: Since the very inception of banks. It's insane. It's crazy.
44:33
Speaker 1: And someone like Andrew, that's exactly what he was used for.
44:36
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here's some money to live your lavish lifestyle
44:39
Speaker 1: so you can jet set around and hang out with
44:40
Speaker 1: beautiful women. But we're going to need you to open
44:43
Speaker 1: some doors to these banks. And then after you open
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Speaker 1: these doors, we're going to engage in a fuck ton
44:47
Speaker 1: of money laundering. Andrew's links to Libya date back around
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Speaker 1: 20 years when the dude visited an arms fair in
44:56
Speaker 1: Jordan with his new equerry, Robert Olney. We all know
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Speaker 1: that name because he was somebody that Virginia Roberts' legal
45:05
Speaker 1: team wanted to depose in the civil suit. So it
45:11
Speaker 1: shows you right here how close he obviously was. He's
45:13
Speaker 1: traveling with him to Jordan, you know, right-hand man type
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Speaker 1: of shit. So it makes sense that Virginia's team wanted
45:19
Speaker 1: to talk to him. A number of countries, including Libya,
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Speaker 1: came to buy weapons from the British Army and British
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Speaker 1: arms companies. In 2005, Andrew was first introduced to Libyan
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Speaker 1: gun smuggler Tariq Khatuni, formerly married to glamorous Dutch supermodel
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Speaker 1: Lisa Van Goinga, by an unnamed Middle Eastern sheik. I mean,
45:45
Speaker 1: it's insane. It's really crazy that... more people don't understand
45:50
Speaker 1: what's going on here, and how these backroom deals are negotiated,
45:54
Speaker 1: and how all of these shitbag regimes are basically propped
45:58
Speaker 1: up by the countries in the West. And then, if
46:01
Speaker 1: they don't play ball, well, it's time for the Arab
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Speaker 1: Spring then, right? It's time for some regime change. In Katooni,
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Speaker 1: who has U.S. citizenship, would later brag of his influence
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Speaker 1: over the Duke of York and help set up secret
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Speaker 1: meetings with Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. So that's nice, right?
46:23
Speaker 1: He got Gaddafi all set up. He's linked in with Gaddafi.
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Speaker 1: He's breaking bread with him. What does Prince Andrew have
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Speaker 1: to do with an arms smuggler? You're a trade minister.
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Speaker 1: You're not part of the military industrial complex. What are
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Speaker 1: you doing breaking bread with these people? You know what
46:39
Speaker 1: he was doing. Fattening his pockets. Shoving money in his
46:43
Speaker 1: pockets with both hands. Because he's a greedy grifter, that's why.
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Speaker 1: All he ever had to offer was his access. Never
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Speaker 1: anything he could offer himself, just to open a few
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Speaker 1: doors for other people. And that's exactly what he was
46:56
Speaker 1: doing for people like this. In 2005, the same year
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Speaker 1: Andrew met Cotuni, the prince's new pal was convicted of
47:05
Speaker 1: smuggling a submachine gun into France. So if you're smuggling
47:09
Speaker 1: a submachine gun into France... chances are there's probably box
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Speaker 1: upon box of weapons that you're smuggling in as well.
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Speaker 1: All of these arms dealers, they're pretty scummy people, folks.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And Andrew breaking bread with them,
47:26
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you the kind of person
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Speaker 1: he is, and that's the point of this episode. Just
47:30
Speaker 1: more building that profile, more context, so you can make
47:34
Speaker 1: a proper decision when you're looking at this guy and
47:37
Speaker 1: trying to decide if he's a scumbag or if he's not.
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Speaker 1: Cotuni spent several years on remand in a Paris jail
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Speaker 1: for smuggling the gun before he was given a two-month
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Speaker 1: suspended sentence and fined € 10, 000 a year later. He has
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Speaker 1: since claimed, somewhat bizarrely, that he was never convicted and
47:55
Speaker 1: the crimes were committed by another man who shares his name.
47:59
Speaker 1: These people all live in an alternate reality. They all
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Speaker 1: think that nothing bad could ever happen to them because
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Speaker 1: they're part of the elite, the so-called elite. And you
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Speaker 1: got guys like this Katooni dude who is bragging about
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Speaker 1: their influence over Andrew while breaking bread at Gaddafi's table.
48:19
Speaker 1: It just, how does that look good? And how can
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Speaker 1: Prince Andrew even explain that? None of this seemed to
48:29
Speaker 1: bother Andrew, who enjoyed a four-day holiday in Tunisia with
48:32
Speaker 1: Ketouni in November 2008, shortly before visiting Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli.
48:38
Speaker 1: So even after the dude was sentenced, just like with
48:40
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew had no problem hanging out with him. Again,
48:44
Speaker 1: it shows you the profile of who this man is.
48:47
Speaker 1: It shows you the way his brain works. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: care that these people are convicted felons. He doesn't care
48:53
Speaker 1: what they were convicted of. He cares about how their
48:56
Speaker 1: friendship with him can elevate his position, can make him
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Speaker 1: a few more bucks and open a door or two
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Speaker 1: for him maybe so that in the end he can
49:05
Speaker 1: make a few more bucks. Remember, that's what it was
49:07
Speaker 1: all about for Prince Andrew. He could never have enough, right?
49:12
Speaker 1: His jet-setting life. More money. So he'd make a deal
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Speaker 1: with anybody. He didn't give a shit. Prince Andrew lost
49:20
Speaker 1: his trade role. Before Prince Andrew lost his trade role,
49:24
Speaker 1: Cotuni was invited to Princess Beatrice's 21st birthday party in
49:28
Speaker 1: Spain in August of 2009, where he also gave her
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Speaker 1: a diamond pendant worth 18,000 pounds. Imagine that. Oh, this
49:37
Speaker 1: is just my associate that I hung out with a
49:39
Speaker 1: couple of times, sweetheart. Here's an 18,000 pound diamond necklace
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Speaker 1: from him, though. These people live in a completely different
49:49
Speaker 1: reality than us folks. He is pictured at the party
49:54
Speaker 1: with Katooni and a bevy of glamorous women. and Andrew's
49:58
Speaker 1: ties to Libya go even deeper. In July 2007, he
50:02
Speaker 1: attended a lavish party thrown by an unnamed Libyan businessman
50:06
Speaker 1: in the French resort of Saint-Tropez, where he was snapped
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Speaker 1: dancing wildly with U.S. socialite Chris von Aspen. Now, we
50:13
Speaker 1: talked about that party already. We're not going to revisit that.
50:16
Speaker 1: But it sure is pretty odd for somebody who says
50:19
Speaker 1: they're not into public displays of affection, huh? For him
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Speaker 1: to be out here partying, hugging it up, rubbing on people...
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Speaker 1: A year later in July 2008, he was pictured dancing
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Speaker 1: with Libyan model Nadia Bojna at another party in Saint-Tropez,
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Speaker 1: this one thrown by French wine tycoon Claude A. You
50:39
Speaker 1: see how he has all of these connections with all
50:42
Speaker 1: of these people and all of these places of power? Again,
50:45
Speaker 1: do you think that these people wanted to hang out
50:47
Speaker 1: with Prince Andrew because he was such a cool, solid
50:50
Speaker 1: dude that brought so much to the table and the conversation?
50:54
Speaker 1: They wanted access, and he was willing to give it.
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Speaker 1: The first known time Andrew visited Libya was November 2007,
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Speaker 1: where he waited three days for a meeting with Gaddafi,
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Speaker 1: but faced an embarrassing snub. However, he did get to
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Speaker 1: meet the oil-rich country's prime minister, as well as business leaders, politicians,
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Speaker 1: and most importantly, the president's son, Saif Gaddafi. Now, I'm
51:20
Speaker 1: guessing that good old Muammar was busy with his world
51:25
Speaker 1: plans of takeover and how to continue his reign of
51:29
Speaker 1: terror and didn't have any time for Prince Andrew's bitch ass.
51:34
Speaker 1: Ermias Zandi, as he was known, racked up a cost
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Speaker 1: to the taxpayer of more than £ 50, 000 in the course
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Speaker 1: of his two-week visit to North Africa, including £ 32, 600 on
51:43
Speaker 1: flights and £ 20, 000 on hotels. Must be nice. Must be
51:51
Speaker 1: nice to have the English people picking up your bills,
51:54
Speaker 1: travel around the world, hang out with dictators, lunatics, psychopaths.
51:59
Speaker 1: No problem. English people, pick up the tab. You know,
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Speaker 1: you show up and you're like, yeah, this guy behind me,
52:05
Speaker 1: he's paying. Finally, in the summer of 2008, Andrew was
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Speaker 1: granted an audience with the brutal dictator when he made
52:13
Speaker 1: an unscheduled trip to Tunisia as a guest of the
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Speaker 1: Tunisian despot's son-in-law, Saker El Matari. The notoriously corrupt Materi's father-in-law,
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Speaker 1: President Zayn Ben Ali, was overthrown in a coup in
52:26
Speaker 1: January 2011. And again, that's back to the Arab Spring.
52:32
Speaker 1: And I could talk about the Arab Spring for days.
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Speaker 1: So we won't digress off the path here. But let's
52:42
Speaker 1: not talk about it like it was this great thing, okay?
52:45
Speaker 1: Now that you can save on cock... Terry fled Tunisia
52:48
Speaker 1: following the revolution and was later convicted of corruption in
52:51
Speaker 1: absentia by a court in his home country. In June 2011,
52:56
Speaker 1: he was first sentenced, along with his wife Layla, to
53:00
Speaker 1: 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.
53:06
Speaker 1: Fantastic company that Prince Andrew was keeping, huh? I don't
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Speaker 1: know about you, but I don't know one arms dealer.
53:12
Speaker 1: I don't know one child molester. I don't know one
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Speaker 1: sex offender. Prince Andrew sure had a way to gravitate
53:21
Speaker 1: towards them, no? Weeks later, he was convicted of possessing
53:26
Speaker 1: illegal drugs and weapons and given 15 years in jail.
53:30
Speaker 1: In June 2012, he was given a life sentence in
53:33
Speaker 1: absentia by a military court over the killing of protesters
53:37
Speaker 1: during the revolutions. At Metairie's home, the queen's favorite son
53:41
Speaker 1: attended a gala dinner in honor of Gaddafi, who was
53:45
Speaker 1: on an official visit. They sure love these kind of dinners.
53:49
Speaker 1: Reports say Andrew greeted the dictator warmly, and the pair
53:52
Speaker 1: spoke for more than 15 minutes. Oh, I'm sure they
53:55
Speaker 1: had a lot to talk about. I'm sure Prince Andrew
53:58
Speaker 1: was weaseling his way in, and in return, Gaddafi was
54:01
Speaker 1: getting all kinds of concessions from this boob of a royal,
54:04
Speaker 1: the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family. Three months later,
54:09
Speaker 1: Andrew found himself back in Libya, where this time he
54:11
Speaker 1: made a private visit to see Gaddafi. He would return
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Speaker 1: in early 2009, staying in Tripoli's five-star Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel.
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Speaker 1: Must be nice. You know, why worry about the taxpayers' dollars?
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Speaker 1: I'll go stay at this five-star hotel. All good. A
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Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace spokesperson said at the time, Andrew has only
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Speaker 1: met Colonel Gaddafi officially once. But there may have been
54:38
Speaker 1: private occasions because it is the Duke's job to develop
54:41
Speaker 1: long-term relations with key individuals. But it is always for
54:46
Speaker 1: the betterment of the British interests. That's the only reason
54:48
Speaker 1: he's doing it. He works extremely hard at the behest
54:52
Speaker 1: of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of UK companies.
54:56
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what a bunch of drivel, garbage BS.
55:01
Speaker 1: He was there advancing your rights and your future there,
55:05
Speaker 1: citizens of the UK. What an absolute joke. You were
55:10
Speaker 1: there advancing your own interests, trying to get some more
55:13
Speaker 1: money for your own pockets. You don't give a damn
55:16
Speaker 1: about the people. The Sun Online has approached Saker El-Materi
55:23
Speaker 1: and Tariq Qatuni for comment. Andrew's association with the Gaddafi
55:27
Speaker 1: family allegedly saw him court the dictator's favorite son, Saif al-Islam,
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Speaker 1: according to the list. The Duke hosted Gaddafi's son at
55:37
Speaker 1: a reception at Buckingham Palace. Well, why not? I mean, Maxwell, Epstein,
55:42
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein, Gaddafi's son. I mean, why don't you just
55:47
Speaker 1: invite the Taliban, invite Al-Qaeda, invite, insert scumbag group here,
55:52
Speaker 1: and let's just finish the circle off. Saif would later
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Speaker 1: face charges of crimes against humanity in the aftermath of
56:04
Speaker 1: Gaddafi's overthrow in a bloody coup in 2011. That same year,
56:09
Speaker 1: pressure over Andrew's various ties to dictators around the world
56:13
Speaker 1: would see his role as UK trade envoy brought to
56:16
Speaker 1: an end. Look, right after the statement made about how
56:19
Speaker 1: Andrew's doing the people's work, he loses the envoy job?
56:24
Speaker 1: It's because he was scumming around, folks. He was fattening
56:27
Speaker 1: his pockets. eating at the trough while everybody else was starving.
56:35
Speaker 1: Calling for the Duke to lose his role, Labor MP
56:37
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant told the House of Commons, Isn't it especially
56:41
Speaker 1: difficult to explain the behavior of the Special Ambassador for Trade,
56:45
Speaker 1: who is not only a close friend of Saif Gaddafi,
56:48
Speaker 1: but is also a close friend of a convicted Libyan
56:50
Speaker 1: gun smuggler, Tarek Khatuni? I mean, it's just unbelievable. He
56:55
Speaker 1: had all of these associations. It was like a blinking
56:58
Speaker 1: red light, and nobody was paying attention. Or, more likely,
57:02
Speaker 1: everybody was just ignoring it. But despite the disgrace, Andrew
57:07
Speaker 1: continued his association with Cattoni, now 58, and even invited
57:12
Speaker 1: him to Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank. Isn't that nice?
57:17
Speaker 1: Hell of a guy that Prince Andrew's still associating with.
57:20
Speaker 1: Was he wearing his honorable kit when he invited him over?
57:24
Speaker 1: In October 2018, he attended both the private ceremony at St.
57:28
Speaker 1: George's Chapel in Windsor, as well as the later black
57:32
Speaker 1: tie reception. For his part, Cattoni boasted of his influence
57:36
Speaker 1: over the Duke of York and told undercover reporters he
57:40
Speaker 1: had played a key role in securing the release of
57:42
Speaker 1: Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abel de Bassat al-Megrahi in August of 2009.
57:50
Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace has always played down Andrew's friendship with Katooni,
57:54
Speaker 1: who also spent a year in prison in Tunisia for
57:56
Speaker 1: drug possession, describing him simply as a contact. So it's
58:01
Speaker 1: just a contact. I mean, I don't really know him
58:03
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I mean, you know. It's such
58:06
Speaker 1: a joke. I'm so tired of people like Prince Andrew,
58:09
Speaker 1: and it's nice to see the curtains get pulled back
58:12
Speaker 1: on this clown. Because it's been a long time coming.
58:15
Speaker 1: He's been grifting and using the people of the UK
58:18
Speaker 1: for way too long. And it's very nice to see
58:22
Speaker 1: the sun shine in and expose this dude for the
58:26
Speaker 1: absolute scoundrel that he is. All right, folks, that's going
58:31
Speaker 1: to do it for this morning's episode. As usual, context
58:35
Speaker 1: episodes on their way. And then tonight we'll be back
58:38
Speaker 1: to wrap up the day's news. If you'd like to
58:41
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