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Mega Edition: The Florida Court Documents Are Unsealed (5/31/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in
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Jeffrey Epstein and his behavior as of late, and that
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renewed interest seems to be focused on the island. And
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while the island is a big part of the story,
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it's not the only part of this story. In fact,
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I would contend that what happened in Florida during the
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first go round behind closed doors in the grand jury
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room is more important and will tell us more than
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anything we're ever going to get in the documents that
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are about to be released due to the defamation suit
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between Virginia and Glenn Maxwell. Because those are the documents
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that are about to come out, it's part of the
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continuous unsealing process that Judge Presca has been engaged in.
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So it's not like there's going to be these new
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bombshell names that are being released to people. And I
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think some folks are under the impression that they're about
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to get some kind of master list that's gonna tell
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them everybody who was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and
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what all of these people were up to. Meanwhile, the
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focus or at least some of the focus should be
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on what's going on here in Palm Beach and the
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battle to get these grand jury records unsealed, because that'll
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get us right to the heart of all of the corruption,
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all of the bullshit that was going on behind the scenes,
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and how the state prosecutor is down in Florida some
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their nose that justice and instead help Jeffrey Epstein. And
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if you're truly interested in justice in this case and
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not just scoring political points, then that's something that you
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want to see happen, because the very step of getting
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justice is people getting exposed for their bullshit behavior. And
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if we get a look at these grand jury documents,
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we will be for the first time getting an unadulterated
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look at what happened down there. And like any other mystery,
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like any other puzzle that needs to be solved, you
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have to start at the beginning. And if you really
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want justice in this case, and you really want to
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make sure people are held accountable, we'll get these grand
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jury documents unsealed. Today we have an article from the
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Miami Herald and the headline public has a right to
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know lawmakers seek to open Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records.
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This article was authored by Carol Marvin Miller. Frustrated by
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several feled attempts to pry open the records from a
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Palm Beach County grand jury that examined the activities of
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Jeffrey Epstein and then charged him only with minor offenses,
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two lawmakers have filed legislation to force the document release.
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The two Florida legislators, both from Palm Beach County, though
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members of opposing political parties, have introduced a bill that
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would make it possible to loosen the grip of grand
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jury secrecy in the Epstein case without weakening state laws
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that protect the confidentiality of grand jury proceedings. Look, the
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grand jury proceedings, I get it. They have to be
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private for the most part. And fine, I understand, I
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don't like it, but that's the way the systems set up.
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But there's no good reason why these grand jury documents,
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when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, who's already deceased, shouldn't
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be released to the public. Considering Judge Presca has already
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deemed it necessary to release all of the documents from
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the defamation case, and we have seen several other judges
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release documents from this case as well. So why is
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the government being so resistant? What is it that the
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State of Florida to hide when it comes to these documents.
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The proposed legislation was introduced by State Senator Tino Polski,
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a Boca Raton Democrat. Representative Peggy Gossit Sideman, a freshman
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Republican from Highland Beach, sponsored the bill in the House
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of Representatives. At the moment, the bill has not been
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assigned to committees in either chamber, and legislative staff members
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have yet to weigh in on it. I love how
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the staffers get to weigh in on it. Right. If
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I was ever a politician and I had some staffer
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come up to me and say, hey, you know what,
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I don't think this is a good bill for a
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B or C reason, I tell them to go get
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stuffed and go answer some phones. I'm not here working
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for staffers, and these senators and these congressmen and women
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who do that are the worst of the worst. Polski,
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who was an attorney and mediator, said the bill was
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narrowly tailored to free up the record of testimony before
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the Epstein grand without jeopardizing the confidentiality of grand jury
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testimony in other proceedings. We saw this down in Kentucky
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with Breonna Taylor. They released the grand jury documents in
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that case as well. And I think that the public's
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interest here outweighs any secrecy that the state can try
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and put up on a pedestal and say they need
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to have to protect other cases moving forward, especially if
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this is tailored in a narrow manner like miss Polski
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is saying here. Polski introduced the legislation at the request
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of Joseph Abruzzo, a former lawmaker who has served as
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Palm Beach County's Clerk of Courts since January of twenty
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twenty one. Abruzzo has been looking for a way to
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make public the Epstein grand jury record, Polski said, but
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has been hampered by state law. Well. Abruzzo has been
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one of the hurdles along the way. I guess he's
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starting to come around now, but I'll believe it when
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I see it. There are a lot of questions about
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how this case was handled a long time ago, Pulsky said.
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None of the players are involved anymore. This bill would
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not be doing any damage to court officials formally involved
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in the case, or the sanctity of grand jury testimony.
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The hell it wouldn't. There was so much corruption going
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on down here, and we're not just talking about from Epstein.
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We're talking about from all of these people who let
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him get away with it. A brus O, Polsky said,
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wants to release it. This would give him the tools
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to get the transparency that he'd like to see, and
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certainly we know the media would like to see, and
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the general public. It's not even that we would like
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to see. We're entitled to it. At this point. There
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is so much nonsense surrounding this case and so much
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bullshit that they should be falling all over themselves to
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provide clarity. You want to stop people from saying, oh,
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Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Well, vied some evidence to
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show people that he did indeed kill himself. But up
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till now, it's the whole rigamarole of oh, just trust us.
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You're gonna have to believe us, and if history tells
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us anything, it's that we should not believe you. In
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a prepared statement, A Bruzo said, both the Florida Statutes
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and the Florida Court's rules of procedure are very clear
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about what my office can or cannot release related to
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any case, whether it's a simple divorce case or high
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profile case like the Epstein case. This carefully crafted bill
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would allow my office to release the Epstein records if
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a judge orders their release, without affecting other grand jury
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cases in Florida and without upending our state's court system.
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A Bruso added, and the court system in Florida is
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absolutely fubar, and you have some of the wildest judges
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going down here in Florida that just do whatever the
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hell they want. In twenty eighteen, The Miami Herald reported
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that Epstein, a multi millionaire financier pedophile, had operated a
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cult like network of underage girls who had been coerced
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to have sex with them, either at his Palm Beach
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waterfront mansion or at other Epstein properties in Manhattan, New Mexico,
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or his private island compound in the US Virgin Islands.
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The Herald series called Perversion of Justice, documented how Epstein
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used money and connections to shield himself from meaningful criminal liability.
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And if you're really interested in justice here, like I've
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been saying from the beginning. Then these grand jury documents
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are where we're going to start, and from there there
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should be a RICO case that's dropped on every last
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one of these dirty, rotten bastards who accepted any money
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from Jeffrey Epstein or were in business with them in
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any other manner, because you know, they were receiving ill
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gotten game. And if it's good enough for my family
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members and good enough for your family members, then why
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is it that Jeffrey Epstein, Jess Staley, Leon Black, Glenn Dubin,
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and the rest of these scoundrels, why is it that
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they get away with it? A Palm Beach County grand
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jury returned to charge of solicitation of prostitution, an extremely
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minor offense compared to what had been alleged against Epstein,
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whose attorneys then negotiated a deal that resulted in him
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pleading guilty in two thousand and eight and serving thirteen
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months in that county's jail. Owing to an extraordinarily generous
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work release arrangement. Epstein served much of that time at
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his luxurious office in West Palm Beach, where he was
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also not abiding by his parole and probation. We've done
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that episode already the Palm Beach Parole Office they got
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rid of the paper trail of Epstein. There's no files there.
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So why is it that everything that has to do
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with Jeffrey Epstein, when it comes to files or videos,
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it just happens to disappear. It just happens to go away.
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I guess it's all just a coincidence, right. Media outlets,
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including The Herald and the Palm Beach Post, have sought
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for years to gain the release of witness testimony before
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the grand jury. Critics of the plea deal, which was
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executed when Barry Krisher was pom Beach's county top prosecutor,
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long have wondered whether damning testimony was withheld from the
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grand jury, or whether prosecutors soft souled the seriousness of
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Epstein's conduct. We know that only one girl was brought
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up in front of the grand jury, and we also
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know that Barry Krisher's office acted as a surrogate basically
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for Jeffrey Epstein and attacked his own witness. That's right,
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the prosecutors attacked their own witness. This girl who was
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brought up to tell her story about what happened to
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her at the hands of that monstrous ass fucker Jeffrey Epstein.
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After the Herald's publication of perversion of justice, federal prosecutors
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in New York revived an investigation into Epstein, and he
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was arrested. He was awaiting trial in New York when
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he was found hanged in his cell in August of
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twenty nineteen. The death was ruled a suicide. Gallainne Maxwell,
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a one time girlfriend, co conspirator, general all around scusbag,
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fellow child abuser, and bipudle serpent, accused of procuring and
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scheduling girls for Epstein, was arrested on charges of abetting
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his behavior. She was convicted in December of twenty twenty
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one of sex trafficking and sentenced the following year to
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twenty years, and now she's appealing that sentence using Harvey
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Weinstein's lawyer Go Figure. In a statement to The Herald,
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Palm Beach County's current state attorney, Dave Ehrenberg, said Friday,
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his office will not oppose the bill. Our office supports transparency,
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which is why three years ago we posted all the
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public records from the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein online.
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These public records can be accessed through our website. Aaron
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Berg said the case occurred several years and multiple state
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attorney administrations before I took office in twenty thirteen. Aaron
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Berg added, I have never seen or had access to
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Epstein grand jury documents, as the State Attorney's office has
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never possessed them. I applaud Clerk Bruso for his push
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for transparency. I will continue to have no objection to
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the Clerk's release of the Epstein grand jury records. Well,
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let's get going with it, all right, enough is enough,
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Let's get those records out here, and let's trim the fat.
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Let's know what's true, what's not true, what's bullshit, and
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what's not bullshit. Because my goal has always been to
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swim through that bullshit, to get to the clarity and
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get to the truth. Gossit Siedman said she was eager
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to sponsor the bill in the state House after Polski
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approached her with the idea. Gossit Seedman had worked as
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a journalist and public relations consultant for many years before
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running for office in Highland Beach, and said she believed
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strongly in the government in the Sunshine. I thought this
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was an opportunity to seek the truth and uphold the
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public's right to know what really happened almost twenty years
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ago in Palm Beach County. Gossette Sideman said of the
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Epstein case, this bill provides a chance for legislators to
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set a pathway for other officials to seek our truth
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and justice and transparency. Gossi Sideman said, who wants another
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Jeffrey Epstein? Nobody? She added, the public has a right
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to know, hallelujah. But the problem is we have had
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several politicians throughout the years talk the same kind of
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bullshit and then never do anything about it. Now. I'm
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not saying that's gonna happen here this time around, because
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I don't know. I hope it doesn't, and I hope
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we get access to these files because the story they'll tell,
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I guarantee you will knock your socks off way worse
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than what's going to be. And the documents that get
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released as part of the dump from Judge Presca, there's
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a lot being made about those documents, and a lot
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of the people pushing that sort of nonsense they have
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ulterior motives. There's a lot of folks out there with
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fifty eighty one hundred thousand followers on Twitter who I
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have never even seen or heard of talking about the
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Epstein case, and now all of a sudden, there's some
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kind of authority and there's a list coming out all
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of a sudden. I mean, it's just it's all bananas
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to me. And if you really want to know the
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really real the court documents, that's where it's all gonna
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be at. Read the court documents and listen to what
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the survivors say. All the other shit is noise in
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my opinion. So hopefully we get these records and we
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can go through them ourselves, cut out the middleman, and
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try and get to the bottom of what the hell
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happened down in Palm Beach. All right, folks, that's going
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to do it for this one. All of the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the
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Epstein Chronicles. On today's episode, we're going to talk about
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the Grand Jerry documents from Palm Beach and how they
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are one step closer now to being unsealed. And those
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Grand Jerry documents are going to tell us a whole
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hell of a lot about Jeffrey Epstein's first prosecution. Remember,
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they chose to go to the grand jury to get
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that prosecution. They wanted all of this behind closed doors.
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What was the prosecution hiding and why did they want
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to slam dunk such as this to be conducted behind
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closed doors? And then remember they only had one witness
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come and give testimony. You can literally get a ham
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sandwich indicted in front of a grand jury, and yet
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these do nods they couldn't figure it out. One of
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the most prolific molesters in the history of our country
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and these idiots couldn't figure out a way to really
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nail him to the wall. So was it because they're
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just bad at their job? Or was it because Jeffrey
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Epstein had so many contacts and so many friends in
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high places. I think that the release of the grand
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jury documents, while it won't answer all of those questions,
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it certainly will give us some insight into what was
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going on in that grand jury room that should have
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never been a situation that was in front of a
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grand jury. Something like this needs to see the light
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of day. Remember, transparency breeds trust, and there hasn't been
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any transparency throughout this whole entire thing, And you wonder
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why there's a bunch of knuckleheads running around talking about
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all sorts of crazy shit when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
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I mean, I've heard it all, folks, I have heard
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it all, and I just shake my head and keep
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it moving. I don't have time to deal with all
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of that. If other people want to talk about that,
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that's up to them. But really, I don't even blame
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people who talk about conspiracies here. I blame the government.
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They can nip all this shit in the bud if
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they just be transparent, but they refuse to do it.
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So why are they not being transparent? And why do
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they want to do everything behind closed doors? Today's article
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is from WPBF and the headline Epstein grand jury documents
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one step closer to being unsealed and you know when
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they get unsealed, we'll be reading them live here on air.
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A bill sponsored by Palm Beach County legislators to unseal
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grand jury documents in Jeffrey Epstein's case unanimously passed its
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first committee. Stop good on Florida, and good on all
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of these policymakers to understand that This is bigger than politics.
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There were people from all over the political sphere when
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it comes to Jeffrey Epstein trying to enrich themselves. Sure,
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some had more contact with them and deeper ties, but
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there were people from every walk of political life in
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bed with this scumbag. This article was authored by Taylor Hernandez.
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A bill sponsored by Palm Beach County legislators to unseal
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grand jury documents in Jeffrey Epstein's case unanimously passed its
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first committee stop. The Florida House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted
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eighteen to zero to send the legislation on to the
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second of three committee stops before it would move to
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the full House. Now, imagine being the person that signs
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off against this. Yeah, you know what, I don't think
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we should have Jeffrey Epstein's documents released the public. The
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second someone says that or votes that way, right away,
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I'm digging into them, and I'm thinking and under the
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impression that they had some ties to Jeffrey Epstein somewhere
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down the road. Because no right thinking person, no reasonable person,
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would object to these documents being presented to the public
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and a little bit of transparency being shown here The legislation,
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sponsored by Boca Ratan Representative Peggy Gossit Sideman, would create
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a narrowly tailored exception to Florida's grand jury rules. Look,
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you can't release all of the grand jury documents for
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every case, right, but this is a case that happened
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how long ago. There's no national security secrets here. So
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if you have to craft a special bill for this
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to occur, then that's what you do. You've had over
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fifteen years to figure this shit out. I would think
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that you guys would have it all locked in by now.
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While grand juries do not vote on innocent versus guilt,
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the proceedings are secret and documents are sealed for the
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protection of witnesses. My personal opinion is that grand juries
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in general are a sham. I don't think that there
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should ever be a court in session where the defendant
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doesn't have representation. Things can go south quickly. You've seen
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some of the yahoos who are the foremans of these juries,
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some of these knuckleheads, and the saying is true. A
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grand jury will indict a ham sandwich, and that's because
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they're only getting one side of the story, and as
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far as the witness goes well, you can redact that,
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you can seal that, but the story must be told.
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In this case, we are seeking testimony from someone who
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is deceased and someone in a situation which involved miners.
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Seedman said, there should be no discussion, no debate, no anything.
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But here we are, all these years later, all of
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this grand standing, and still no movement. These grand Jerry
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documents should have been released, literally a long time ago,
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the second they were asked for, the second they were
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requested by the media down here in Palm Beach, those
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documents should have been handed over. We the people have
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a right to know what's going on in these courtrooms.
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And if people want to trust and just shrug their
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shoulders and think the government's doing the right thing all
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the time, that's fine. But me personally, I just don't
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believe it, and I don't trust them. I've had my
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own experiences with the federal government. I've seen the way
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they go after people. I see the way they treat people.
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And do you notice everybody else gets a purp walk, right,
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Epstein never got a purp walk. They made sure to
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raid my grandfather's pad when all of his neighbors would
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be home. That way, they could maximize the embarrassment. But
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when you're Jeffrey Epstein or somebody like that, no way.
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The last thing they're going to do is embarrass one
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of their buddies. Somebody has to still pay the bills,
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right though it does not mention him by name, This
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legislation would only apply in Epstein's case. I think that's fine.
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It should be a case by case basis. I don't
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want to hear this shit. Oh we can't release this
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or we can't release that. Who says you can't release it?
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Aren't you the lawmakers? Aren't you the ones making the law.
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So what are you talking about right now? With the
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whole I can't release it, Go change the law, amend it,
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and let's get cracking. It certainly seemed not only appropriate,
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but something that needed to be done. Seedman said, Then
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we can maybe look at other grand jury things down
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the road, and maybe there should be more public's right
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to know one hundred per cent. It would provide a
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path for Palm Beach County Clerk Joseph Abruzzo to release
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the records. A Bruso released a statement in support of
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the legislation that reads, in part, I strongly believe that
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changing the law to allow this limited release of grand
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jury records with the judge's order is the best course
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of action. Everybody's on board at this point, So if
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it doesn't get released, then you know for sure the
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fix is in. And whoever makes that call, boy, I'd
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like to have a chat with him right here on
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this podcast. State Attorney Dave Arenberg sent this statement to
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WBPF twenty five News today. Our office supports transparency, which
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is why three years ago we posted all the public
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records from the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein online.
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They did do that. These public records can be accessed
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through our website. The case occurred several years and multiple
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state attorney administrations before I took office in twenty thirteen.
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I have never seen or had access to Epstein's grand
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jury documents, as the State Attorney's office has never possessed them.
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I applaud Clerk Abruso for his push for transparency. I
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will continue to have no objection to the Clerk's release
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of the Epstein Grand Joe documents. So that's huge. Having
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Arenberg sign off on it as well. That's a big step, folks,
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A big step for transparency, and while we might not
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ever get the prosecutions that this case so deserves, at
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least we're going to get to embarrass these scumbags who
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thought that they were going to be able to run
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for the hills. But guess what the North remembers. An
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identical piece of legislation sponsored by Boca Ratan Senator Tino Polski,
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is set to start moving through the Senate on Tuesday.
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So they have two pieces of legislation making their way
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through the Senate and the House and through all of
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these committee stops, and both of the bills have to
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do with these Grand Jerry documents finally being released. And
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I'll tell you what, I'm super pumped about the fact
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that we might get a look at these I've wanted
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to look at these Grand Jerry documents ever since I
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started looking at this case overall. And as we all
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know at this point, the court documents are a blueprint
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to finding out the information that you're looking for. And
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when it comes to the grand jury down in Palm
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Beach when Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested, there are so
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many questions, and for all of these years, so few answers,
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So anytime we can get more transparency here. You know
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that I'm on board. So we'll see what happens. We'll
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keep our eye on it like usual, and when we
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get some movement one way or the other, and especially
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when they get released, we'll have them here on the
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podcast and we'll go through them together. All right, everybody
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that's going to do it for this one. All of
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the information that goes with the episode can be found
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in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to
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another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So the Department of
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Justice is going to get their wish and some of
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these grand jury materials that have to do with Jeffrey
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Epstein and Glenn Maxwell down in Florida will be released.
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Now we don't know exactly when that will occur, but
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we know that the deadline is December nineteenth, so I'm
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guessing between sometime and now. We're going to get a
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look at these things. So today we have an article
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from the AP which is very short, and then after
26:11
the article, I'm gonna dive into what I think about
26:14
the release and where it ends up. So let's dive
26:18
into that article. And like I said, this article was
26:21
published by AP and the headline, grand jury transcripts from
26:25
abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released. This article was
26:31
authored by Bridget Brown, Michael Warren, Curtis Yee, Noel Clark,
26:38
and Peter Orsey. And considering this is like three paragraphs long,
26:42
what did each one of them do? A paragraph? A
26:46
federal judge Friday gave the Justice Department permission to release
26:49
transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse
26:53
of underage girls in Florida, a case that ultimately ended
26:56
without any federal charges being filed against them. Millionaire sex
27:00
offender US District Judge Rodney Smith set a recently passed
27:05
federal law ordering the release of records related to the cases,
27:08
overrode a federal rule prohibiting the release of matters before
27:12
a grand jury. The law, signed last month by President
27:16
Donald Trump, compels a Justice Department, FBI, and federal prosecutors
27:21
to release later this month the vast trova material they
27:24
have amassed during the investigations into Epstein. When the documents
27:29
will be released is unknown. The government had asked the
27:31
court for permission to include the usually secret grand jury
27:35
records in the files that are required to make public
27:38
under the new federal law known as the Epstein Files
27:41
Transparency Act. The Justice Department hasn't set a timetable for
27:45
when it plans to start releasing information, but the law
27:48
set a deadline of December nineteenth. All right, So that's
27:52
the article. Here's what I think. This ruling from Judge
27:55
Rodney Smith is one of those moments that feels quiet
27:58
on paper but allowed on in the kind of legal
28:01
move that doesn't scream headline drama, but hums with long
28:04
term consequences. The DOJ asked for the Epstein and Maxwell
28:08
grand jury documents out of Florida, almost certainly expecting the
28:12
usual slow walk, the usual procedural fog, the usual careful
28:16
nodding toward precedent while nothing actually happens. Instead, Smith essentially
28:21
said the ground rules have changed, and pretending otherwise is dishonest.
28:26
Congress rewrote the landscape with the Epstein Bill, and that
28:29
legislation now matters. It overrides the old reflexive secrecy surrounding
28:34
grand jury material in this specific context, and that alone
28:38
makes this ruling a genuine inflection point, whether the DOJ
28:41
likes it or not. For decades, grand jury secrecy has
28:44
been the government's favorite bunker, a reenforced place where uncomfortable
28:48
stories are stored and quietly forgotten. It's where institutional embarrassment
28:52
goes to hibernate under layers of legal jargon and solemn
28:55
warnings about process. It's also where accountability goes to suffocate.
29:01
So when a judge openly acknowledges that Congress deliberately carved
29:04
out an exception for Epstein related material, it's not just
29:08
a technical ruling. It's a visible crack in a wall
29:11
that's been cemented since the days when federal power operated
29:15
with near total deference and zero public oversight. And what
29:19
makes this especially interesting and frankly funny in a dark way,
29:23
is how badly timed it is for the DOJ themselves.
29:26
They were very clearly angling for delay, for more time
29:30
for another procedural off ramp. And as I've told you
29:33
a million times, delay is the oldest trick in the
29:35
institutional survival playbook. You don't say no, you say later,
29:39
and then you keep saying it until the public attention
29:41
shifts somewhere else. Judge Smith didn't play along. He moved
29:45
the chess piece forward when the DOJ hoped the board
29:48
would stay frozen. Now the DOJ has to reckon with
29:51
the possibility that whatever lives inside those grand jury records
29:55
doesn't just reinforce Epstein's guilt but highlights government failure in
29:59
vivid detail. Well, this isn't about convicting a dead man.
30:03
It's about exposing the systems that failed while he was
30:06
very much alive and operating freely. And that kind of
30:10
exposure does in fade with time, it compounds. But hold up,
30:14
let me pump the brakes real quick and slow down
30:16
a bit, because expectations are already getting overheated online, like
30:20
people thinking this is going to be a cinematic reveal.
30:24
There is a growing assumption that these documents will be explosive,
30:28
that names will pour out, that everything will finally snap
30:31
into place history suggest otherwise. Grand jury transcripts are often
30:36
a procedural messy, incomplete, and deeply frustrating. They reflect decisions
30:42
already made behind the scenes, not the full truth that
30:45
people imagine exists somewhere waiting to be discovered. That doesn't
30:50
mean they're worthless, far from it. The value here lies
30:53
in context, not fireworks. The power of these documents will
30:56
come from seeing what questions were asked, which ones weren't,
31:00
and how aggressively or passively evidence was treated. If anything
31:05
damaging emerges, it'll be revealed through tone and omission, not
31:08
through shocking admissions. And this is where the danger for
31:12
the DOJ really lives, not in some salacious detail, but
31:16
in the exposure of indifference, timidity, or institutional cowardice. It's
31:21
one thing to issue a statement saying resources were limited
31:24
or priorities differed. It's another thing to have transcript showing
31:27
opportunities ignored, leads deflected, or victims treated like inconveniences. There's
31:34
also a heavy irony here that should not be missed.
31:37
The DOJ wanted control over timing, framing, and optics. That
31:41
control is now slipping. Once a cord acknowledges that secrecy
31:44
is no longer absolute, every attempt to resist disclosure starts
31:48
to look like obstruction, and in the Epstein context, the
31:51
public has been trained by experience to interpret resistance as concealment.
31:56
People also need to understand this isn't just about Epstein
32:00
and Maxwell in isolation. These documents sit inside a much
32:03
larger pattern where elite defendants are buffered from consequences and
32:07
ways regular people never are. The story being told here
32:11
is structural, not individual. Epstein didn't succeed because he was clever.
32:16
He succeeded because the system made room for him. So
32:20
when these documents are unsealed, I suspect we'll see a
32:23
lot of prosecutorial caution disguised as professionalism. You'll see careful language,
32:29
narrowed scopes, jurisdictional hedges, and endless justifications for an action,
32:34
all technically defensible, but also all hollow when weighed against
32:39
the scale of the harm that was allowed to continue.
32:42
And there's also very real potential for blowback against the FBI, specifically,
32:46
if the grand jury material shows evidence that agents sat
32:49
on information, under prioritized victims, or slow walked referrals. That's
32:54
another serious blow to an institution that's already bleeding credibility.
32:59
The Epstein has become a cultural stress test, and federal
33:02
law enforcement keeps failing it. Transparency, though, remains the correct
33:07
position always even when it's uncomfortable. Especially when it's uncomfortable,
33:13
you don't repair trust by insisting people calm down or
33:16
wait patiently while the same institutions explain themselves. Again, trust
33:20
is rebuilt through visibility, not messaging. And look, Judge Smith
33:24
deserves credit for recognizing that this moment is fundamentally different.
33:29
Congress didn't pass the Epstein bill is a symbolic gesture.
33:32
They passed it because the normal safeguards and procedures didn't
33:35
protect anyone who mattered. Ignoring that intent would have been
33:39
judicial negligence wrapped and restrained. And let's be honest, if
33:43
the DOJ truly believe these documents would make them look
33:46
competent or diligent, they wouldn't have sought this delay. They'd
33:50
be welcoming disclosure. The hesitation speaks, volumes Silence is a message,
33:55
especially in a case like this. And now, look, this
33:59
doesn't mean that every prosecutor involved acted maliciously or with
34:03
ill intent. Bureaucracies don't require villains to produce disastrous outcomes.
34:08
They thrive on inertia, risk avoidance, and protecting careers over people.
34:13
Epstein didn't break the system. He used it exactly as
34:17
it was built to be used. And what this ruling does,
34:20
more than anything else, is forced the system to look
34:23
at itself without filters, no curated summaries, no selectively released excerpts,
34:29
just record showing how justice was approached when it actually mattered. Now,
34:34
of course, people that are looking for shock and spectacle
34:37
might walk away underwhelmed. People looking for accountability will not.
34:41
Accountability tends to be slow, deeply, unflattering, and procedural, And
34:46
this ruling sends a warning shot beyond Epstein. It tells
34:49
federal institutions that Congress can and will intervene when secrecy
34:53
becomes a shield for failure. That pressed it in is
34:56
bigger than this case, and it shouldn't be ignored because
35:00
at the end of the day, this isn't about feeding curiosity.
35:03
It's about record. History is written from documents, not from
35:07
press conferences. For years, the DJ benefited from controlling the
35:10
paper trail. That grip just loosened. So yes, let the
35:15
documents come out. Let them be mundane, damning, confusing, and depressing.
35:20
Let professionals and the public scar through them without a
35:23
babysitter and narrating what they're allowed to think. If the
35:26
DOJ ends up looking bad, that's not injustice, that's consequence.
35:31
Because I think I speak for everybody who's following along
35:34
when I say that we've had enough narrative management in
35:36
this case. Enough promises of future accountability enough fog. If
35:41
this ruling pushes us even slightly closer to understanding how
35:45
something this disgusting was allowed to persist in plain sight,
35:48
then it's overdue. Now. I'd caution about popping the champagne
35:52
right now, but the transparency party is finally starting, even
35:57
if it's years late and morally mandatory. The DOJ won't
36:00
be judged by what Epstein did, but by what they
36:03
didn't do. That's the reckoning hiding in the transcripts, and
36:08
it's why resistance came so fast and so quietly. Exposure
36:11
doesn't need the theatrics. What it needs is records. Transparency
36:16
is not going to heal anything on its own. It's
36:18
not gonna bring relief, and it's not going to undo
36:20
the harm, but it does strip away the last excuses.
36:24
Once the facts republic, the pretending has to stop, the
36:28
miss collapse. The press releases aged like milk, so let
36:32
it land, Let the lawyers spin and the agency squirm.
36:35
Let the documents speak in their own, dull, devastating way.
36:39
Accountability rarely arrives with fireworks. Most of the time it
36:43
shows up his paperwork everyone prayed would stay sealed. All
36:48
of the information that goes with this episode can be
36:51
found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
36:54
back to the Epstein Chronicles. Now that we've all had
36:58
a chance to take a look or list to the
37:01
new grand jury transcripts that have been released, I think
37:04
it's time for some commentary. And boy, oh boy, do
37:07
I have a few things to say now. According to
37:11
the judge who released these documents, he called Jeffrey Epstein
37:15
the most infamous pedophile in American history, and I agree
37:19
with that wholeheartedly. It's unfortunate, however, that the authorities in
37:23
Florida during this first prosecution felt a completely different way.
37:28
And they can say whatever they want. They can try
37:30
and rewrite history, they can make pretend that everything was
37:34
on the up and up, everything was all good. And
37:37
to slam that point home, they had the OIG Report
37:40
into the NPA, because you know, that did so much good.
37:44
Unlike most other people, we've actually been through that report
37:47
from front to back, so all of you are hip
37:50
to what's going on, and that is the whole entire
37:53
point of going through the court documents, so that you
37:57
folks have a complete understanding of what's going on. If
38:00
you're looking for little three minute blurbs here. That's not
38:03
what we do. We dive into these topics and its
38:07
long form. And if you're not willing to put in
38:10
the legwork, then you're never going to understand what the
38:13
hell's going on. And honestly, that was the genius of
38:16
the whole entire operation by Epstein and his people. They
38:19
made it so complex, they made it so wrapped up
38:23
within itself and within actual institutions, that it's very, very
38:28
difficult to try and unfurl what happened here. And if
38:32
you don't have all the information, forget it. This isn
38:35
a scratch the surface story where you can watch a
38:38
fifteen minute show on CNN or something and understand what's
38:42
going on, not if you truly want to understand what's
38:45
going on anyway. So for those of you who have
38:48
been here rock and wh me for all these years,
38:50
you get it. You understand exactly what's going on now.
38:53
And considering the avalanche of emails I've received lately, the
38:57
vast majority of you are not happy about what went down.
39:01
And the sad part is the real thumb in the
39:03
eye is that nobody's ever going to be held accountable.
39:06
What do you think Krisher and Bellohovelik and the rest
39:09
of them are going to be held responsible now twenty
39:12
years later, twenty something years later, It's just not feasible. Now,
39:17
if I was in charge, it would be I would
39:19
find a way. Oh, they find a way to figure
39:22
everything else out, right, If they're looking to get you,
39:24
they'll figure it out. But when it's one of their buddies,
39:27
when it's someone in the system, well they can't do that,
39:30
can they. They just have to make pretend that, oh, well,
39:33
it was negligent, but it wasn't on purpose. It had
39:36
nothing to do with the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was
39:39
well connected. I mean this, dude, if you go through
39:42
the NPA report like we did, it tells you right
39:45
in that report that Epstein's lawyers were meeting with the
39:48
top dogs from the DOJ, And then that report has
39:51
the audacity to go on and say that it had
39:53
nothing to do with how things went as if alex'
39:56
acosta is making these decisions on his own. And I
39:59
think I think that the more documents that are released,
40:02
the more it's apparent that that's what went down. And
40:05
I've been saying that from the very beginning. This all
40:08
cracked off because Julie K. Brown wanted to look into
40:11
Acosta because he got hired by Trump. Then from there,
40:15
obviously it balloomed. But why did it stop at alex Acosta?
40:19
Why didn't Julie K. Brown keep going all the way
40:21
up to the top to where this originated, especially after
40:24
seeing the documents. The NPA was signed by the Deputy
40:28
Attorney General Mark Philippe. So what you think that Mukasey
40:32
had nothing to do with that? That just happened in
40:34
a vacuum. Those guys make those decisions. These bureaucrats, stop it.
40:39
That is not how this works. And anybody who tells
40:41
you that that's how the bureaucracy works, they don't know
40:44
what they're talking about. So, for me, the biggest takeaway
40:47
from these documents when they drop, they act as receipts
40:50
and they just back up everything that I've been telling
40:53
you folks for all these years. And guess what I
40:56
stand on my work. And whereas other people want to
40:58
rush to get information, I'm more interested in making sure
41:02
I'm getting out the right information. So with that said,
41:06
let's dive into this article from CBS News and let's
41:09
see what they have for us headline. Florida judge calls
41:12
Epstein the most infamous pedophile in American history following transcript's release. Well, yeah, dude,
41:19
was point blank period, nothing to conversate about. There. Bro's
41:23
out here doing shit that is just unspeakable. And what
41:28
you've been privy to, the information you've heard is just
41:31
the tip of the iceberg. I know people don't want
41:33
to hear it, people don't want to listen to that,
41:35
but it's the truth. You know, how many unnamed women
41:38
and girls are out there, mainly from different countries, who
41:41
are taken advantage of by these scumbags. As for an
41:44
author of this article, there isn't one listed, so I'm
41:47
guessing it's staff. A Florida judge released Monday afternoon the
41:51
transcripts of a two thousand and six grand jury investigation
41:55
that looked into the sex trafficking and rape allegations made
41:58
against the late million and financier you mean, pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
42:03
The investigation was the first of many by law enforcement
42:07
over the past two decades into Epstein's rape and sex
42:10
trafficking of teenagers and how his ties to the rich
42:13
and powerful seemed to have allowed him to avoid prison
42:16
or serious jail term over a decade. Not seem to
42:20
That's exactly what went down. Look, there's a reason why
42:24
somebody like r Kelly gets hit with Rico. There is
42:27
a reason why ray Neery gets hit with Rico. There's
42:30
a reason why young thug gets hit with Rico. And
42:33
there is a reason why Jeffrey Epstein does not. And
42:37
that reason is Epstein and his finances are intertwined with
42:41
all of these politicians and bankers. So if you hit
42:44
him with Rico, everybody gets pulled in. They couldn't have that,
42:47
could they. They couldn't have you know, just how deep
42:50
all of this went because their faves might be exposed,
42:53
you know, like Stacey Plaskett. The investigations uncovered Epstein's close
42:57
ties to former President Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew, as
43:01
well as his once friendly relationship with former President Donald Trump,
43:05
and numerous others of wealth and influence who have denied
43:08
doing anything criminal or improper and not been charged. Well, yeah,
43:13
because it's okay to just hang out with a pedophile
43:15
because everybody in your friend group would look at you
43:18
and be like, ah, you know, what you just didn't know,
43:21
breaking news. Everybody knew. Okay, stop the bullshit circuit. Judge
43:25
Luis Delgado's release of approximately one hundred and fifty pages
43:29
Monday came as a surprise since there was scheduled hearings
43:33
next week over unsealing the graphic testimony. Governor Ron DeSantis
43:37
had signed a bill in February allowing the release on
43:40
Monday or any time thereafter that Delgata ordered. Florida grand
43:44
jury transcripts are usually kept secret forever, but the bill
43:48
created an exemption for cases like Epstein's. And the whole
43:51
reason they went to the grand jury is so that
43:53
they could do this, so that they could hide what
43:55
they did as far as their work product from all
43:58
of us. Now, look, if this is a call her crime,
44:01
or this dude got nailed for DUI or something and
44:04
he's flexing and he's using his connections, I expect that
44:07
to happen. And in fact, I just shake my head
44:10
and keep it moving. That's the way it works. When
44:12
you're powerful, you have money, you have connections. You can
44:15
get off on some shit. This shouldn't be something that
44:17
you're getting off on because you have connections, because you
44:20
have friends who are in powerful positions, or because you
44:23
have money, bro, you hurt little kids, point blank, period.
44:27
The sentencing should be severe. But instead, if you're Jeffrey
44:31
Epstein down in Florida, you get to do whatever you want.
44:33
And not only that, but you get this non prosecution
44:36
agreement that saved Sarah Kelln Vickers. Everybody talks about Sarah
44:40
Kelln Vickers, this Sarah Kelln Vickers that, but basically all
44:44
of her crimes that she committed allegedly happened in Florida,
44:48
and that NPA protects anyone who was up the bullshit
44:51
down in Florida. Notice that they charge Glenn Maxwell in
44:54
New York. And it's amazing to me, all these years later,
44:57
people still don't understand how any of this works. They
45:00
must not be listening to this podcast because at this
45:03
point all of you are experts. The transcript showed that
45:06
the grand jury heard testimony that Epstein, who was then
45:09
in his forties, had raped teenage girls as young as
45:12
fourteen at his Pombage mansion, often paying them so he
45:16
could commit statutory rape or assault. The teenagers testified and
45:20
told detectives they were also paid cash or rented cards
45:24
if they found the more girls, and the audacity of
45:26
the prosecutors and those people sitting on the grand jury
45:30
to attack those girls the way they did it was absurd.
45:33
Imagine going after your own witnesses like that. I mean,
45:37
there has to be some kind of punishment, or at
45:39
the very least, this has to be taught in the
45:42
curriculum of what not to do. The details in the
45:46
record will be outrageous to decent people. Delgado wrote in
45:49
his order, the testimony taken by their grand jury concerns
45:52
activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape. All of the
45:56
conduct that issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal. And
46:00
that's a judge saying that, okay, and not me. That's
46:03
not me and my big mouth just yappin'. That's what
46:06
everybody who's ever got to look at this has had
46:08
to say. But somehow, some way, everybody involved hasn't been arrested,
46:12
everybody involved hasn't been taken down. And once again, we'll
46:17
have to circle back, like the Press secretary loves to say,
46:21
and get back to the very beginning, and this is
46:24
where it all started. This is the genesis, folks. The
46:28
fact that he was able to get off here really
46:30
told to tell for the future. And if you're not
46:33
going to arrest this guy for raping fourteen year olds,
46:36
what are you going to arrest him for. In two
46:38
thousand and eight, Epstein cut a deal with South Florida
46:41
federal prosecutors that allowed him to escape more severe federal
46:45
charges and instead plead guilty to state charges of procuring
46:48
a person under eighteen for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution.
46:53
Imagine one of your friends showed up and this is
46:55
what they got nailed for, and you're like, ah, you
46:57
know what, come over to Thanksgiving dinner. I got news
47:00
for you. There's a lot I can forgive. In fact,
47:03
I have friends that have done time for murder. I've
47:06
forgiven them. When it comes to this, Nope, can't forgive it. Sorry.
47:11
If you're hurting children, you're hurting women, If you're a
47:13
deviant sexual abuser, there is no fixing you. There's no rehabilitation,
47:18
there's no extenuating circumstances. You're just a sick fuck and
47:21
you need to be dealt with. And if we don't
47:23
have any helicopters or a volcanoes available, how about we
47:27
get a wood ship already. He was sentenced to one
47:29
and a half years in the Palm Beach County jail system,
47:32
during which he was allowed to go to his office
47:34
almost daily, an office that didn't exist, by the way,
47:37
until he was arrested, so keep that in mind. As
47:40
part of a work release program followed by a year
47:42
of house arrest, he was required to register as a
47:45
sex offender. Not New Mexico, he wasn't. And as far
47:49
as his house arrest, not the same cond of house
47:51
arrest you or I would have. That's for goddamn sure,
47:54
And it's amazing all these years later, the legacy media
47:57
still doesn't get it. They still do not understand this story.
48:02
Criticism of the deal resulted in the twenty nineteen resignation
48:06
of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who was the US
48:09
Attorney for South Florida in two thousand and eight and
48:12
signed off on the deal. While he put his name
48:15
to it, did he really sign off on the deal? Though?
48:18
And I think that's something that Julie K. Brown needs
48:20
to answer for, like she needs to go back and reevaluate,
48:24
or maybe she's just trying to protect people. Maybe that's it.
48:27
I don't know, but you would think that if you're
48:29
gonna go this far and you're going to unearth what
48:32
a Costa was up to, you would keep it going
48:34
all the way up the chain because we all know
48:36
that middle managers, well they're just middle managers. They're not
48:39
people out here making these decisions. And if it was
48:42
a Costa who made the decisions, why was Dershowitz star
48:46
and left Court having dinners in shit with Mukasey and
48:49
other hanchos at the DOJ. What were they talking about
48:52
their golf swing, talking about the next big soiree at
48:56
the Builderberg conference? Or were they formulating a plan to
49:00
make sure that they get their guy, Jeffrey Epstein off
49:03
and keep their hands clean while doing it. I'll let
49:06
you figure that out. A twenty twenty Justice Department investigation
49:10
concluded that Acosta used poor judgment in his handling of
49:14
the Epstein prosecution, but it didn't rise to the level
49:17
of professional misconduct. Well it didn't. I know, people don't
49:20
like to hear that. And Acosta is a worm. There
49:23
is no doubt bro is an absolute coward. But to
49:26
act like he's the man here, the guy that deserves
49:29
all the criticism, all the scorn is letting the people
49:32
who really had this all in motion off the hook.
49:35
And if you want to do that to score political points,
49:38
that's on you. I refuse to do it. Alex Acosta
49:42
is just a small piece to all of this. If
49:45
you really want to be mad at people, you need
49:47
to go to the people that were in charge at
49:48
the DJ at the time, and that's Michael Mukasey and
49:51
Mark Philippe. Those two dudes were at the sticks, they
49:54
were at the controls, and for me, that's where the
49:57
responsibility falls. The chief prosecutor in the Epstein case, former
50:02
pom Beach County State Attorney Barry Krusher, did not immediately
50:06
respond Monday to email and voicemail seeking comment about the transcripts.
50:10
Current pom Beach County State Attorney Dave Ehrenberg, who has
50:14
not involved in the investigation, said in a statement that
50:17
he is glad the records have been released. He said
50:19
he had not yet read the transcripts, so he cannot
50:22
comment on whether Krisher should have pursued a tougher prosecution
50:25
of Epstein. How is it that you haven't read those
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transcripts yet they come out down in your district? Probably
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a good idea to take a look at them. Brad Edwards,
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an attorney for many of the victims, said in a
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statement that the transcripts show that Krisher's office took the
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case to the grand jury with an agenda to return minimal,
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if any, criminal charges against Jeffrey Epstein. A fraction of
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the evidence was presented in a misleading way, and the
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office portrayed the victims as criminals. He said, It's so
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sad the number of victims Epstein was able to abuse
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because the state carried water for him when they had
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a chance to put them away. Bingo one thousand percent.
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If somebody would have listened, if somebody would have done
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their job, well, Jeffrey Epstein would have went on to
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abuse as many girls as he did. But since the
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State of Florida and the Department of Justice had other ideas,
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here we are, and if I was one of these survivors,
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you better believe I'd be suing the Department of Justice.
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Epstein's estate is paying one hundred and fifty five million
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in restitution to more than one hundred and twenty five victims.
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According to the transcripts. Palm Beach Police Detective Joe Riccari
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testified in July two thousand and six that the initial
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investigation began when a woman reported in March two thousand
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and five that her stepdaughter, who was in high school
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at the time, said she received three hundred dollars in
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exchange for sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach.
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Racari testified another teenager, whose name was redacted in the transcript,
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told detectives that she was seventeen years old when she
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was approached by a friend who said she could make
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two hundred dollars by providing a massage at epstein home.
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At the house, when Epstein tried touching her, she told
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him she was uncomfortable. He then told her that he
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would pay her two hundred dollars if she brought girls
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to the house. He told her the younger, the better.
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Raccari said over time, she brought six friends to Epstein's house,
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including a fourteen year old, and likened herself to Hollywood
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Madam Heidi Flie. In October two thousand and five interviews,
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racar You recounted when she brought over a twenty three
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year old friend, Epstein told her that the friend was
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too old. The more you did the more money you made,
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the detective said, the teen told him she explained that
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there was going to be a massage or some possible touching,
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and you would have to provide the massage, either topless
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or naked. Another teen testified she visited Epstein's house hundreds
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of times in the early two thousands, starting when she
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was sixteen. She testified that Epstein paid her two hundred
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dollars each time she gave him a massage while naked,
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rented her a car, and gave her one thousand dollars
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the time that he raped her, because you know, that
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makes it all better, That makes her a prostitute, and
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it makes it not rat That's basically what these prosecutors say,
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and that's certainly the beat that Epstein was dancing to.
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A two thousand and five police search of Epstein's mansion
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found evidence supporting the girl's testimony. Also, Epstein's houseman told
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detectives that the teenagers who came to the mansion were
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very young, too young to be at massus. Epstein in
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twenty eighteen was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in
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New York, where he also had a mansion that was
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a scene of abuse after The Miami Herald published a
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series of articles that renewed public attention to the case,
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including interviews with some of the victims who had been
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pursuing civil lawsuits against him. Epstein was sixty six when
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he killed himself in a New York City jail cell
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in August twenty nineteen. Federal officials say Delgado in his
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order wrote that the transcript show why Epstein was the
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most infamous pedophile in American history. For almost twenty years,
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the story of how Jeffrey Epstein victimized some of the
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Beach County's most vulnerable has been the subject of much
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anger and has at times diminished the public's perception of
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the criminal justice system. Delgado wrote, at times, no, all
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the time. I don't know how anyone can look at
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what happened down in Florida and not be pissed off,
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because all of it is a travesty. Imagine if this
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was your kid. Imagine if these were kids that were
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from a family with money, none of this would have
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ever happened. The person responsible would already be in jail.
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But since these girls were vulnerable, since they came from
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you know, poor backgrounds or whatever. Ah, who cares at
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the time, that's what they thought. Well, they could have
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never imagined that all this time later, that everybody cares now,
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and not only do we care now that we have
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the receipts to back up what we thought. I think
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it's time that the hammer gets brought down on all
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of the prosecutors that were involved in this abomination. Now.
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I doubt that's going to occur, but that's what should happen.
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You really think a guy like Barry Krisher or a
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Bellohovlik should be sitting around and collecting their you know,
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retirement that's being paid by the state taxpayer after they
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were derelict in their duty. So I doubt that there's
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going to be a lever to get pulled to fix that.
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But we all know that they shouldn't be drawing a
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pension at this point, considering what happened here, I would
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say that that should be the least of the penalties
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that they get hit with. But unfortunately, if I take
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a shit in my hand and put everything I want
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in the other hand, well what am I going to
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have more of at the end of the day. So
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with that in mind, the battle continues. But this episode
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has come to an end. All of the information that
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