The recent release of over three million pages of Jeffrey Epstein investigation documents by the Department of Justice (DOJ) has exposed the extensive network of powerful individuals involved with Epstein, while simultaneously highlighting significant issues with the DOJ's handling of the release, including redaction errors and a lack of transparency.
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Last week, the Department of Justice
finally got around to releasing over
three million pages of records related
to their Jeffrey Epstein investigations.
This massive data dump, which includes
everything from emails to vacation
photos, was intended to be the final
word on a scandal that has lingered over
the global establishment like a
particularly persistent bad smell. The
files read like a who's who of the
people who run the world. We have two US
presidents, a rotating cast of British
and European royals, and almost every
significant name in business, law, and
high finance. Many people who claimed
that they only had tangental
relationships with Epstein were shown to
be a lot closer than they had admitted.
It would appear that the tech elites had
to invent AI chat bots to replace
Epstein. But while he was alive, he
seems to have been the person they
turned to to get their questions
answered. The release of these documents
was once again a total mess. It's worth
noting that unlike Jeffrey Epstein's
parties, to open the files, you had to
confirm that you were over the age of
18. On the first day of the release, the
DOJ website featured a convenient
download all button that allowed
journalists to grab the entire data set
all at once. Once the department
realized that people were actually using
it, that button was removed, replaced by
a system that requires you to download
files one by one. Files have been
appearing and disappearing. If you read
a document and didn't save it, there was
a good chance that when you went back
later, it would be gone. A document
known as EFTA 01667,
which contained a list of unverified FBI
tips about the US president, briefly
became the most famous PDF on the
internet before it was scrubbed from the
site the next morning. As of this
recording, it has not been re-uploaded.
The DOJ later explained that they were
rectifying redaction errors, so maybe
it'll reappear soon. The first big
scandal to break was about Bill Gates,
where we learned about a more practical
side to his relationship with Epstein.
In two frantic, typoritten emails that
Epstein sent to his own inbox in 2013,
he appeared to suggest that Mr. Gates
contracted an STD from Russian girls and
asked Jeffrey to get him antibiotics so
that he could secretly give them to his
then wife Melinda. Epstein also claimed
to have provided aderall to Gates for
his bridge tournaments.
Gates has denied these claims, saying
that they are the work of a disgruntled
liar who was upset at being cut off. If
it's true though, it's a damning
indictment of the way the American
health care system works, where even one
of the wealthiest men in the world
couldn't get a doctor's appointment and
had to go to a convicted sex offender
for his basic health care needs. I
wonder if Warren Buffett, Gates's bridge
partner, found it frustrating having to
listen him talking at a mile a minute
all hopped up on speed. We'll never
know. Despite all of the headlines, this
wasn't by any means a full release. The
DOJ said that they had over 6 million
pages of records, but they've only
handed over about three and a half
million. The missing records include
bank and brokerage records along with
communications with foreign governments
and basically the things that people
were actually looking for. Lawmakers
have pointed out that the law forbids
redacting files just to avoid
reputational harm or due to political
sensitivity. The DOJ seems to have
treated those guidelines as mere suggestions.
suggestions.
The redactions themselves are frankly
bizarre. In many cases, the same
document has been uploaded multiple
times with completely different
redactions each time. We've seen
instances where a case number is blacked
out in one version but visible in
another. And the only thing that was
supposed to be redacted was victim
names. My personal favorite was the
decision in one file to redact the JP
from JP Morgan presumably to protect the
privacy of a multi-billion dollar
investment bank that has been a
household name for over a century. On
top of that, there's the sheer
sloppiness of the work. The New York
Times and the AP found that the
Department of Justice had accidentally
released unredacted photos of victims,
including some who had never come
forward publicly. Once they were
informed about their mistake, they
pulled those files. But it's a bit rich
to hear the government talk about
protecting victims while they're busy
publishing their private photos to a
global audience. while blacking out the
names of Epstein's suspected co-conspirators.
co-conspirators.
The law also stated that every redaction
had to come with a written justification.
justification.
So far, those explanations are nowhere
to be found. Instead, we still have
entire 100page files that are just solid
black blocks. Even for documents held
back for national security purposes, the
DOJ was supposed to provide unclassified
summaries. another requirement that
appears to have been filed in the same
place they keep the download all button.
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Epstein files began with the work of
Marie Vilifana, the original lead
prosecutor, who unlike her superiors,
actually seemed interested in doing her
job. By May 2007, Vilifana had put
together an 82page prosecution memo and
a 53page draft indictment that would
likely have ended Jeffrey Epstein's
crimes and abuse. Vilifana didn't just
focus on the abuse. She followed the
money, broadening the investigation to
include money laundering and the
operation of an unlicensed money
transmitting business. She subpoenaed
Epstein's banks for records about his
financial activity and even contacted
his most important client, the
billionaire Les Wexner, to ask about
their business arrangements. Bloomberg
reports that this sent Epstein into a
total tail spin. He fired off a series
of typoladen emails to his lawyers who
began a campaign to have Vilifana
removed from the case. They argued that
her tactics were unduly invasive, that
she was pursuing baseless claims to
pressure their client into a plea deal
and pressured her supervisors to remove
her and others from the case or throw
the case out altogether. The most
remarkable part of this story isn't that
Epstein tried to stop her. It's that it
worked. Despite the prosecutor warning
her superiors that Epstein was a
continuing threat, she was ordered to
stop her investigation and begin plea negotiations.
negotiations.
The result was the infamous sweetheart
deal overseen by Alex Aosta, which not
only gave Epstein a few months in a
county jail, but also provided blanket
immunity to any potential co-conspirators,
co-conspirators,
essentially turning the US Justice
Department into a private security firm
for Epstein's entire social network. You
might look at this deal and think, well,
I guess this happened because he was
really politically connected. He was
good friends with Bill Clinton at this
point in time. He had visited Clinton in
the White House and they'd been jet
setting around the world for close to a
decade by then. That doesn't really add
up. However, as connected as Epstein
was, he wouldn't have been nearly as
connected as Dennis Hastard was. Hazard
had been a congressman for 20 years and
was the sixth longest serving speaker of
the house in history. By the time FBI
discovered that he was a serial child
monster, the statute of limitations had
run out on his actual crimes. But rather
than giving him a sweetheart deal, the
DOJ used financial technicalities to put
him behind bars in 2015, convicting him
for the way he structured his hush money
payments to his victims. Political
connections don't explain Epstein's
sweetheart deal. There had to be
something more. If political connections
don't explain how Epstein remained
untouchable, maybe we should look at his
more hands-on approach to reputation
management. One of the most famous
stories about Epstein involves Vanity
Fair editor and chief Greatton Carter.
In 2003, while reporter Vicky Ward was
working on a profile of Epstein and
interviewing the Farmer Sisters, who had
first reported Epstein to the FBI in 1996,
1996,
Epstein decided to take the editorial
process into his own hands. Early one
morning, Carter arrived at his office to
find Epstein already there, standing
alone in the reception area. Epstein
reportedly spent that morning and many
subsequent phone calls torturing and
berating Carter, demanding that he
publish nothing about Epstein's
involvement with teenage girls. When the
verbal abuse didn't work, the threats
became more physical. A live bullet was
left on Carter's doorstep in Manhattan,
and shortly after, the severed head of a
dead cat was found in the yard of his
country home. While there was no
evidence that this was done by Epstein,
the message was apparently clear enough
that Vanity Fair decided to scrub the
abuse allegations from the final
article. While this mobstyle
intimidation might have worked on a
journalist, it's not reasonable to
believe that it would have intimidated
the FBI, who around the same time were
busy conducting the largest mafia
takedown in the AY's history. They
rounded up 127 members of the five mob
families in New York. They were hunting
down Whitey Bulier, who they believed
had been involved in 19 murders. It's
hard to believe that the same federal
agents who were unfased by violent
killers, were somehow terrified of a
creepy pedo whose primary method of
intimidation was showing up early for a
meeting and leaving a dead house pet on
a porch. It's not exactly the Godfather.
This leads us to another popular theory
that people have discussed for years,
that Epstein wasn't just a
well-connected predator, but an
intelligence asset. A journalist named
Vicky Ward wrote an article for the
Daily Beast in 2019 which said that Alex
Aosta told investigators that the case
was above his pay grade because Epstein
belonged to intelligence. a claim that
he has since denied. A newly released
gives us a look at why that theory might
have had some weight within the FBI.
This is an FD 1023, a form that the FBI
uses to record information from a
confidential human source. According to
the attorney general's guidelines, a CHS
is someone believed to be providing
useful and credible information. Though
the FBI notes that these reports are
often unverified raw intelligence,
this particular source makes some
staggering claims. They allege that Alan
Dersowitz specifically told Aosta that
Epstein belonged to both US and allied
intelligence services. The document goes
even further claiming that Epstein had
trained as a spy under former Israeli
Prime Minister Ahood Barack. The
document doesn't just implicate Epstein
either. The source claims that Dersuits
himself was co-opted by MSAD and that
MSAD would call Dersuits to debrief him
after his phone calls with Epstein. The
document even manages to implicate the
White House, alleging that Donald Trump
had been compromised by Israel and that
Jared Kushner, a former student of
Durowitz's, was the real brains behind
the operation. Now, we have to take
these claims with a massive grain of
salt. One of the strange things about
this document is that it refers to
previous reports which don't appear to
be included in the files. Based on what
I can find online, a confidential source
can range from a highly placed operative
to someone who just enjoy sharing gossip
on encrypted messaging apps. But the
fact that the FBI was recording these
allegations of foreign influence on US
officials by Israel, Russia, and the UAE
as late as October 2020 shows that the
intelligence angle may not have been
just a conspiracy theory. But without
more information, it's impossible to
know. If you're looking for a reason to
appreciate your own neighbors, even the
ones who practice the drums at 2 in the
morning, you might want to take a look
at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik's
block on the Upper East Side of
Manhattan. Jeffrey Epstein lived right
next door to him in a massive sevenstory
townhouse, and Bill Cosby lived right
across the road. Woody Allen lived just
one street away and was constantly
dropping by Epstein's house with his
wife/daughter to visit. I imagine that
living on a street like that you'd hire
armed guards to bring your kids back and
forth to school. Lutnik recently gave an
interview on a podcast called Podforce
One, describing how he and his wife once
visited Epstein's home for a tour around
the time he moved into the neighborhood,
only to be shown a massage room and hear
a comment so revoling that they decided
in the six to eight steps it took to get
back to their own house that they would
never be in a room with Epstein again.
Lutnik forgot to mention in that
interview that the prior owner of his
house had been Jeffrey Epstein and that
the real estate records show that the
transfer was listed for $10 and other
valuable consideration. Now, this was
back in 1998 when house prices were a
lot lower than they are today. and it
might have been cheap because of the
dodgy neighbors, but it's still a
remarkably good deal for a Manhattan
townhouse. Howard tells a very
compelling story on the podcast of his
moral clarity, but the files suggest
that this wasn't his last runin with
Epstein. The new documents include
emails from 2012 showing Lutnik and his
family planning a visit to Epstein's
private island on their yard. Epstein's
assistant even sent a follow-up email on
Christmas Eve that year saying, "Nice
seeing you." This was four years after
Epstein's guilty plea. Meaning that
Lutnik, who lived right next door, would
have received the mandatory notification
that a registered sex offender was his
neighbor under New York law. Now, in
that neighborhood, those notifications
possibly pile up on your doorstep like
takeout menus. But it's quite a
challenge to maintain the I barely knew
the guy defense when you're sharing a
wall, getting killer real estate deals,
and visiting his island on vacation.
Another piece of neighborhood gossip
that I haven't seen much news about is
found in an FBI email summary document
which contains the allegation that
Lutnik made his money through Ponzi
schemes and money laundering and says
that Epstein sold Lutnik a home for $10
that was worth millions. I've Googled
the name of the man who made that
allegation and didn't find anything.
Now, Woody Allen does show up a lot in
the Epstein files, and it seems that he
and Epstein were good friends and hung
out a lot together. There's no evidence
in there that Allan cheated on his
daughter or anything like that. So, I
suppose that that's good. It shouldn't
necessarily come as a surprise that
Jeffrey Epstein's social ponzi scheme,
as his network is described by the FT,
eventually found its way into the world
of cryptocurrency.
This brings us right back to Jeff's
neighbor, Howard Lutnik. Aside from
being the current US commerce secretary,
Lutnik's firm, Caner Fitzgerald, acts as
the primary custodian for the reserves
of Tether, the world's largest crypto
stable coin. Tether was co-founded by
Brock Pierce, a former child actor from
the Mighty Ducks. Don't worry though,
he's not a child anymore, and he
successfully transitioned into a career
as a crypto mogul. The newly released
files show that Pierce and Epstein were
in regular contact for years, exchanging
emails that jumped between highlevel
investment advice and more social
invitations. In one email from 2018,
Pierce reportedly invited Epstein to
Antigga for a boat trip featuring what
he described as Ukraine's finest. Now,
not wanting to jump to conclusions, I
did a quick Google search and it seems
that Ukraine is most famous for borched.
So, that's probably what Brock was
talking about. I won't lie, it seems
like a terrible idea to eat beetroot
soup on a boat, but it's not illegal,
especially in international waters. It
appears that through Pierce, Epstein
managed to secure a $3 million stake in
the crypto exchange Coinbase back in
2014. This turned out to be one of the
few times Epstein's financial genius
actually resulted in a profit. He sold
half of that stake in 2018 for $15
million, and the remaining half of that
position will have doubled in value
again by the time of Coinbase's IPO.
While the world of crypto was busy out
at sea eating soup, the traditional
banking sector was having a much harder
time explaining its own paperwork. One
of the more interesting parts of this
release is the inclusion of suspicious
activity reports or SRS. These documents
are pretty much never revealed to the
public. I can't think of a prior
example. They aren't entered into
evidence in court and you can't even
access them through a foyer request.
They are submitted by financial
institutions to the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, a bureau of the
Department of the Treasury to report
suspected money laundering, fraud, or
violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. It's
illegal to disclose to the customer that
an S has been filed, a concept known as
tipping off. The files reveal that major
financial institutions were flagging
Epstein's accounts for suspected human
traffing and money laundering long
before his 2019 arrest. Last year, a
British court heard that Jess Staley,
then a top executive at JP Morgan, had
lobbied for the bank to keep Epstein as
a client in 2011 when other executives
considered debanking him over their
human trafficking concerns. The FT
points out that while they were worried
about having him as a client, it wasn't
until 2019 that they finally filed a
suspicious activity report over their
concerns. The 2019 S flagged
transactions with leading Wall Street
figures, including Leon Black, the
co-founder of the private equity group
Apollo Global Management.
People have pointed to an email that
Epstein sent to himself about Bill
Gates, the one I mentioned earlier, as
possible evidence of him bribing his
wealthy friends. But the best example of
using information to leverage a client
that I could see in the files relates to
Leon Black. In 2013, when Black seemed
reluctant to pay an inexplicably large
fee to Epstein, Epstein reminded him,
"Leon, as you're well aware, there's
little I won't do for you, and a great
deal that I've already done, both known
and some things that will need to remain
unknown." Black went on to pay Epstein
over $150 million for tax advice that a
congressional committee later described
as being information that was already in
the public domain or already provided by
Black's lawyers. Black has told the
press through his lawyers that there's
absolutely no truth to any allegations
of misconduct against him. The latest
files show that in the years following
his Florida plea deal, Jeffrey Epstein
and his celebrity friends went to
extraordinary lengths to launder his
reputation. This wasn't just a matter of
hiring a publicist. It was a
multi-million dollar high-tech effort to
convince the world that Jeffrey was
actually a misunderstood Wall Street
renaissance man. The man leading the
digital scrub was a bizarre character
called Al Seckle who described himself
as a popularizer of visual illusions and
a cognitive scientist. In truth, he had
no real qualifications. But he somehow
managed to marry Isabelle Maxwell,
Galain Maxwell's sister and the daughter
of the press baron Robert Maxwell. See
was given the job by Epstein of burying
articles that used pesky words like
pedophile and replacing them with
headlines about Epstein's philanthropic
work and his promotion of scientists. He
wrote to Epstein about how he had hacked
Epstein's Wikipedia page to swap his
arrest mugsh shot for a more dignified
photograph, a move his team described as
an important victory. Seek organized an
event called the Mindhift Conference,
which was supposed to be a highbrow
gathering of Nobel laureates on
Epstein's Island in 2011. If you could
get enough famous scientists to eat soup
on your boat, people might eventually
forget about the 82page prosecution memo
sitting in a drawer in Florida. In a
story full of mysterious endings,
Seckles is one of the strangest. He
seems to have died in France in 2015
after falling or jumping from a cliff
near his home. Because his death
remained unconfirmed by authorities for
some time, rumors have persisted that he
may have faked his own death, which for
a man who made a career out of visual
illusions and cleaning up inconvenient
online footprints would have been the
perfect ending. The scrubbing didn't
stop with Google searches. Steve Bannon,
the former Trump strategist, worked with
Epstein, strategizing and filming a
sympathetic documentary around 2019. The
Department of Justice released about 2
hours of this footage in the files.
Footage which was intended to portray
Epstein as a financial genius who had
simply made one understandable mistake.
According to the files, Bannon even
suggested that Woody Allen could help
edit the film. Epstein's calendar shows
nearly 100 scheduled meetings with
Allen, including trips to a film center
specifically to watch Allen edit. It's a
touching vision of an artistic
collaboration, a populist media fire
brand, and a legendary director teaming
up to help a convicted sex offender
polish his public image. Amusingly, some
people seem to be falling for this
propaganda. You can see quite a few
positive comments under the videos
posted on YouTube. Epstein also received
a lot of helpful advice from his famous
friends about how to deal with his PR
problems. The linguist Nam Chomsky, who
described his weekends with Epstein as
wonderful, advised him in 2019 to simply
ignore the growing press scrutiny. He
characterized the reporting as a form of
hysteria. A take so tonedeaf it suggests
that even the world's most famous
intellectual can lose the plot when
billionaire funded dinners are on the
line. Even the legal advice was
specialized. A protetéé of Alan
Dersowitz is named Mitch Weber, who
later worked in the Trump
administration, emailed Epstein to go
over the legality of transporting a
minor for the purposes of sex to
jurisdictions where the age of consent
was below 18. Katherine Rumler, a former
White House attorney, gave Epstein
advice on what Trump should say if he
was ever asked about his associations
with Epstein. And for the final touch of
peor polish, Sir Richard Branson
reportedly suggested a strategy where
Bill Gates would vouch for Epstein as a
brilliant advisor. The idea was that if
enough people like Gates and Branson
were willing to look past the slip up,
the rest of the world would eventually
do the same. It seems that in Epstein's
circle, due diligence didn't mean
checking for crime. It meant checking if
your friends were famous enough to make
the crimes disappear. Now, while
everyone has been busy talking about the
files, it's worth keeping in mind that
the official position of the US
government is unchanged. The FBI are
saying that their systematic review
revealed no incriminating client list
and that they didn't uncover any
evidence that could predicate an
investigation against uncharged third
parties. It is a remarkably strong
statement, especially since the
Metropolitan Police in London seem to
have looked at the exact same data, but
with redactions and reached a very
different conclusion. Earlier this week,
the Met launched a criminal
investigation into Peter Mandelen for
misconduct in public office, a charge
that in the UK can carry a sentence of
life imprisonment. Mandolson, who was
once the business secretary and a key
architect of the Labor Party, has long
been known as the prince of darkness for
his ability to survive political
scandal. But even for him, this might be
the end of the road. The files revealed
that while Mandolen was a serving
government minister, he was providing
Epstein with realtime insight into
market sensitive UK policy. He sent
emails to Epstein containing
confidential briefings on the 2008
financial crisis, including early
confirmation of a 500 billion euro
bailout and discussions on how the UK's
banker's bonus tax would be designed.
This sort of information could have been
used for insider trading by Epstein. In
one email, Mandlesson even suggested
that the head of JP Morgan should mildly
threaten the UK chancellor over those
rules. The Mandlesson Epstein
relationship had a more personal
financial side to it, too. Bank records
show that Epstein wired £10,000 to
Mandolen's then partner, now husband, to
pay for an osteopathy court. For those
of you outside the UK, an osteopath is
some sort of a witch doctor. In an email
from 2009, Mandolen even reminded
Epstein to label the transfer as a loan
to avoid a gift tax filing. The fallout
from these witch doctor tuition fees has
been total. Mandolson has already
resigned from the Labor Party and the
House of Lords. Prime Minister Kier
Starmer, who appointed Mandlesson as the
UK's ambassador to Washington despite
knowing about the Epstein links, is now
fighting for his political life. This
week, Starmer was forced to apologize to
Epstein victims, admitting that Mandolen
had repeatedly lied about the depth of
his relationship with the financier. The
fallout isn't limited to the UK. In
Slovakia, a former foreign minister and
adviser to the prime minister was forced
to resign this week after file showed
him joking with Epstein about gorgeous
girls in Kiev. In Norway, police have
opened an aggravated corruption
investigation into a former prime
minister looking into whether he
received improper gifts and loans from
Epstein. Even in Turkey, prosecutors
have launched an inquiry into
allegations that children were
trafficked into Epstein's network from
Turkey. It's a striking contrast. In
Europe and Asia, homes are being raided
and senior officials are resigning over
the contents of the files. Meanwhile, in
Washington, law enforcement authorities
are still insisting that there's no
evidence of any wrongdoing. One might
conclude that in the business of
political accountability, the Atlantic
Ocean acts as a very effective filter.
Elon Musk spent years denying any
relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while
using Epstein's name to attack others.
He claimed that the photo of him with
Chileain Maxwell was because she had
photobombed him at a party. He even used
his everything app, which can also be
used for tweets, to claim that Epstein
tried repeatedly to get him to visit the
island, but that Musk had always
refused. The new files tell a very
different story where Elon's name is
mentioned more than a thousand times,
and instead of turning down invitations,
he's begging for them. One of the
funniest entries has Elon emailing
Epstein on Christmas morning. I imagine
as his kids are opening their gifts to
say that he wanted to hit the party
scene and let loose. Specifically noting
that a peaceful island experience is the
opposite of what he was looking for.
Epstein, ever the attentive host, warned
that the ratio on the island might make
Musk's then wife uncomfortable, to which
Musk replied, "Ratio is not a problem."
While Musk has since acknowledged the
emails are genuine, he maintains that
they were misinterpreted and that he
ultimately never set foot on the island
due to logistics. In another email, Musk
seems angry to have been invited to an
event in New York where diplomats would
be present. Epstein calms him down by
saying that there would be no one at his
party over the age of 25 and all are
very cute. After that, we have the
artist formerly known as Prince Andrew,
who at this point, King Charles, must be
booking in for a car tour of Paris's
tunnels. The files reveal that Epstein
was aggressively lobbying his favorite
neighbor, Howard Lutnik, to give Andrew
a job or a lucrative role, providing
introductions at Caner Fitzgerald. It's
quite a look at the unseen mechanics of
power. a royal prince using a convicted
sex offender as a head hunter to get a
job at a grubby Wall Street brokerage.
While Andrew's brother, King Charles,
recently stripped him of his royal
titles and evicted him from his home at
Royal Lodge, the files still suggest
that the rot went deep. Amusingly,
Andrew and Sarah Ferguson seem to have
invited Epstein along with Harvey
Weinstein and Galain Maxwell to their
daughter's 18th birthday. The only thing
I can say about that is that maybe once
girls are over the age of 18, they're
safe around that crew. We've already
seen emails from Andrew asking for
inappropriate friends and photos that
the Department of Justice has finally
released showed the Duke in various
compromising positions. It seems that
whether you're a tech billionaire or a
member of the British royal family,
Jeffrey Epstein was the man who you
turned to when you wanted to find a
party, a job, or a way to make the rules
of normal society simply disappear.
While Jeffrey Epstein was busy trying to
convince the world that he was a
philanthropist, the latest files suggest
that he was also pursuing a much darker,
almost sci-fi obsession, seeding the
world with his own DNA. A bombshell
email from September 2011 sent by Sarah
Ferguson appears to confirm that Epstein
may have actually succeeded in fathering
at least one child. Ferguson wrote to
Epstein saying that she had heard from
the Duke, presumably Prince Andrew, that
Jeffrey had a baby boy. She even
expressed hurt in another email that he
had disappeared and hadn't told her he
was having a baby. The most horrific
piece of evidence is found in a document
It reads like a private diary of a
trauma written by a young victim who
describes being treated not as a person
but as a biological asset. The writer
describes being under the constant
control of Galileain Maxwell. The
document is filled with confusion and
fear. It's really the stuff of
nightmares. I would strongly advise
against reading it. The victim describes
being made to feel like a human
incubator and mentions Epstein's
obsession with a superior gene pool.
Most chillingly, she describes giving
birth and having a child immediately
taken away by a man she refers to as Mr.
M. I only got 10 to 15 minutes to hold
and feed her before they took her. She
writes, "She is mine and I want her
back." This diary, if that's what it is,
includes clippings about child
trafficking and 21st century slavery. It
paints a picture of these people,
Epstein Maxwell, and whoever else was
involved, who viewed other human beings
as mere property to be exploited for
their own insane ends. It's a stark and
horrifying reminder of the misery these
people inflicted on others. I'm really
not sure what to make of that terrible
document. And once again, there's no
evidence in there that I can find
showing that law enforcement
investigated any of its claims. It's
worth adding that Virginia Duffrey in
her postumous memoir told the story of
Epstein and Maxwell pitching a plan for
her to have a baby for them while on
Epstein Island. I've discussed in my
prior videos how a lot of people either
don't want to admit or just can't
believe how awful the people in these
documents are. This seems to be
especially the case when their favorite
politician, celebrity, or tech
billionaire was involved. As I've said
before, this isn't about politics. It's
not about the right and the left. It's
about monstrous people who have done
terrible things. Joe Rogan had a guy on
his show a few days ago called Mike
Benz. I've never heard of him before and
had to Google him, but it seems that
he's big on Twitter and worked for the
US Department of State. Here's a quick
clip about what he had to say.
I don't think that the majority or
anything close to it of of the women
were technically I mean I I think it was largely
largely
>> very young um you know barely legal so
to speak but and I know that there were
cases of underage but I you know I think
>> most of it was just
>> most of it was just very very young but not
not
>> not like 20y old not like type thing and
then yeah remember because this is an
international enterprise and many of the
clients are like
uh you know in countries that don't
necessarily have the same norms about that
that
>> that we do. Um you can very easily see
someone getting involved in that just
because girls juice deals.
>> Now I don't have much time to dig into
this. There's a very good video on a
channel called Too Lazy to Try that
breaks it down, but it's a massive
mischaracterization of what you'll find
with even a casual glance at the Epstein
files. I'm not sure why someone would
want to go on the biggest podcast in the
world to gloss over the horrors of what
Epstein and his co-conspirators got up
to. It's truly revolting. The comment
section of that Joe Rogan podcast tears
this guy apart, but it's really wild at
this point to try and sanitize Epstein
and his accompllices. Children were
horribly abused and some of the
documents that I've seen were absolutely
nightmarish. And this guy seems to
explain it with the phrase, "Girls juice
deals." As I get near the end of this
video, it's worth reminding you of what
an absolute monster Maxwell is,
especially when we know that after her
meeting with Todd Blanch, her prison
accommodations were upgraded, and
there's even talks of her possibly being
pardoned. While she might look like a
nice lady, smiling in all of the photos,
her victims describe how she personally
joined in their abuse and how she
inflicted violence upon them. One
survivor described Maxwell as the person
who opened the door to hell. Just
because someone looks nice and is
wellspoken doesn't mean that they're a
good person. I'll wrap up by telling you
about a very similar but grubier story
from Belgium. The Mark Dutro story. Mark
was an unemployed electrician who
abducted, abused, and murdered his
victims. Like Epstein, he was arrested
for sex crimes early on, and like
Epstein, he was led off easy, serving
just 3 years of a 13-year sentence. He
continued on with his terrible crimes as
soon as he was released. The second time
he was arrested in 1996, he claimed to
be a small part of a much bigger
organization. One of his accompllices
claimed that they had been providing
girls to government officials. Like
Epstein, Mark had unexplained wealth,
too. As an unemployed electrician, he
somehow owned 10 properties and had a
net worth of around 6 million Belgian
Franks. The case was notoriously poorly
investigated. At one point after being
tipped off, the police searched his home
while two kidnapped girls were locked in
the basement. The girls voices were even
heard by the police officers, but they
didn't follow up to work out where they
were coming from. One of the officers
who dropped the ball on these early
leads was later promoted, which did
little to quiet the rumors of a cover
up. Perhaps most inexplicably, DNA
evidence from the crime scenes went
unanalyzed for years. And when the
original prosecutor began making waves
and actually following the leads, he was
pulled from the case and replaced by a
prosecutor with next to no experience.
The public anger in Belgium, where
300,000 people turned out to protest the
mishandling of the case, led to the
complete reorganization of Belgium's law
enforcement agencies. So, what have we
actually learned from three and a half
million pages of raw intelligence,
flight logs, and high society gossip
released in the Epstein files? Well,
depending on who you ask, the answer is
either everything or nothing at all. The
Department of Justice is saying that
this data dump marks the end of the
Epstein scandal and that there's nothing
more to see. Critics and survivor
advocates point out that only about half
of the 6 million files have actually
been released and that the redaction
still need to be explained. When reading
through the victim statements, I'm
somewhat reminded of the famous line
from The Great Gatsby. They were
careless people, Tom and Daisy. They
smashed up things and creatures and then
retreated back into their money or their
vast carelessness or whatever it was
that kept them together and let other
people clean up the mess they had made.
It's a poetic sentiment, but looking
through these documents, carelessness is
a bit too generous. The people
implicated in this case might not have
cared about the victims, but it wasn't
carelessness that built up this vast
crime network that was used to inflict
misery on its victims and defend the perpetrators.
perpetrators.
It's a terrible mistake, too, to confuse
the recent government claims of
transparency for real justice. While the
government points to the volume of
documents released as proof of their
openness, these files weren't given.
They were forced from their grasp by a
mounting surge of public anger. Now, the
people implicated seem to be losing
their patience with the questions
they're being asked. Just this week, a
reporter in the Oval Office asked
President Trump about the survivors
concerns that the redactions are being
used to cover up key names. A valid
question. Instead of addressing it, the
president tore into the journalists.
>> What What did you say? Go ahead.
>> What would you say to the survivors who
feel like they haven't got
>> You are the worst reporter. No wonder
CNN has no ratings because of people
like you. You know, she's a young woman.
I don't think I've ever seen you smile.
I've known you for 10 years. I don't
think I've ever seen a smile in my head. I'm
I'm
>> asking you about survival.
>> You know why? You know why you're not
smiling? Cuz you know you're not telling
the truth.
>> And you're you're a very dishonest
organization and they should be ashamed
of you.
>> Ultimately, the Epstein files aren't
just a collection of names and stories.
They're a map of a world where
accountability is a luxury that only
applies to people without a yacht or a
$10 real estate deal on the Upper East
Side. If you found this video
interesting, you should watch my video
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