1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,480 Last week, the Department of Justice finally got around to 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,440 releasing over 3,000,000 pages of records related to their 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,960 Jeffrey Epstein investigations. This massive data dump, which 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,320 includes everything from emails to vacation photos, was intended 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,120 to be the final word on a scandal that has lingered over 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,360 the global establishment like a particularly persistent bad 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,960 smell. The files read like a who's who 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,159 of the people who run the world. We have two US presidents, a 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,040 rotating cast of British and European Royals, and almost 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,240 every significant name in business law and high finance. 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,720 Many people who claimed that they only had tangential 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,800 relationships with Epstein were shown to be a lot closer than 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,720 they had admitted. It would appear that the tech 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:55,400 elites had to invent AI chat bots to replace Epstein, but 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,600 while he was alive, he seems to have been the person they turned 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,560 to to get their questions answered. 17 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:05,440 The release of these documents was once again a total mess. 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,000 It's worth noting that unlike Jeffrey Epstein parties, to open 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,960 the files you had to confirm that you were over the age of 20 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:15,680 18. On the first day of the release, 21 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,280 the DOJ website featured a convenient Download All button 22 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,160 that allowed journalists to grab the entire data set all at once. 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,000 Once the department realized that people were actually using 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,040 it, that button was removed, replaced by a system that 25 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,160 requires you to download files 1 by 1. 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,280 Files have been appearing and disappearing. 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,560 If you read a document and didn't save it, there was a good 28 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,600 chance that when you went back later it would be gone. 29 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:52,680 A document known as EFTA 0166067, which contained a list 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:58,040 of unverified FBI tips about the US President, briefly became the 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,640 most famous PDF on the Internet before it was scrubbed from the 32 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,600 site the next morning. As of this recording, it has not 33 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,360 been re uploaded. The DOJ later explained that 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,680 they were rectifying redaction errors, so maybe it'll reappear 35 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,480 soon. The first big scandal to break 36 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,320 was about Bill Gates, where we learned about a more practical 37 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,560 side to his relationship with Epstein. 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,200 In two frantic typo written emails that Epstein sent to his 39 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:33,080 own inbox in 2013, he appeared to suggest that Mister Gates 40 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:38,400 contracted an STD from Russian girls and asked Jeffrey to get 41 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,760 him antibiotics so that he could secretly give them to his then 42 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,080 wife Melinda. Epstein also claimed to have 43 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,960 provided Adderall to Gates for his bridge tournaments. 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,680 Gates has denied these claims, saying that they are the work of 45 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,440 a disgruntled liar who was upset at being cut off. 46 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,040 If it's true, though, it's a damning indictment of the way 47 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,360 the American healthcare system works, where even one of the 48 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,520 wealthiest men in the world couldn't get a doctor's 49 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,560 appointment and had to go to a convicted sex offender for his 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,560 basic healthcare needs. I wonder if Warren Buffett, 51 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,800 Gates's bridge partner, found it frustrating having to listen him 52 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,920 talking at a mile a minute, all hopped up on speed. 53 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,080 We'll never know. Despite all of the headlines, 54 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,360 this wasn't by any means a full release. 55 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,280 The DOJ said that they had over 6,000,000 pages of records, but 56 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,760 they've only handed over about 3 1/2 million. 57 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,320 The missing records include bank and brokerage records, along 58 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,840 with communications with foreign governments and basically the 59 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,520 things that people were actually looking for. 60 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,400 Lawmakers have pointed out that the law forbids redacting files 61 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,120 just to a avoid reputational harm or due to political 62 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,360 sensitivity. The DOJ seems to have treated 63 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,200 those guidelines as mere suggestions. 64 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,880 The redactions themselves are frankly bizarre. 65 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,200 In many cases, the same document has been uploaded multiple times 66 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,360 with completely different redactions each time. 67 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,040 We've seen instances where a case number is blacked out in 68 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,840 one version but visible in another, and the only thing that 69 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:27,200 was supposed to be redacted was victim names. 70 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,600 My personal favorite was the decision in one file to redact 71 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,920 the JP from JP Morgan, presumably to protect the 72 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,080 privacy of a multibillion dollar investment bank that has been a 73 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,560 household name for over a century. 74 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,880 On top of that, there's the sheer sloppiness of the work. 75 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,040 The New York Times and the AP found that the Department of 76 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,680 Justice had accidentally released unredacted photos of 77 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,880 victims, including some who had never come forward publicly. 78 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,800 Once they were informed about their mistake, they pulled those 79 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,440 files. But it's a bit rich to hear the 80 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,840 government talk about protecting victims while they're busy 81 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:12,600 publishing their private photos to a global audience while 82 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,720 blacking out the names of Epstein's suspected Co 83 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,920 conspirators. The law also stated that every 84 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,440 redaction had to come with a written justification. 85 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,320 So far, those explanations are nowhere to be found. 86 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,120 Instead, we still have entire 100 page files that are just 87 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,440 solid black blocks, even for documents held back for national 88 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,200 security purposes. The DOJ was supposed to provide 89 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:43,360 unclassified summaries, another requirement that appeared have 90 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,760 been filed in the same place. They keep the download all 91 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,960 button. This doesn't actually feel like 92 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,840 a true effort of transparency. As a comment on one of my 93 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,480 earlier videos said, Oh no, they're finding needles. 94 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,160 Quick, add more. Hey. 95 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,760 The Epstein files began with the work of Marie Villafana, the 96 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,120 original lead prosecutor, who, unlike her superiors, actually 97 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,320 seemed interested in doing her job. 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:16,320 By May 2007, Villafana had put together an 82 page prosecution 99 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,800 memo and a 53 page draft indictment that would likely 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,160 have ended Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and abuse. 101 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:28,160 Villafana didn't just focus on the abuse. 102 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,840 She followed the money, broadening the investigation to 103 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:36,360 include money laundering and the operation of an unlicensed money 104 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,320 transmitting business. She subpoenaed Epstein's banks 105 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,760 for records about his financial activity and even contacted his 106 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,360 most important client, the billionaire Les Wexner, to ask 107 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,360 about their business arrangements. 108 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,560 Bloomberg reports that this sent Epstein into a total tailspin. 109 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,360 He fired off a series of typo laden emails to his lawyers, who 110 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,360 began a campaign to have Villafana removed from the case. 111 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,000 They argued that her tactics were unduly invasive, that she 112 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,440 was pursuing baseless claims to pressure their client into a 113 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,960 plea deal, and pressured her supervisors to remove her and 114 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,720 others from the case or throw the case out altogether. 115 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:26,280 The most remarkable part of this story isn't that Epstein tried 116 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,520 to stop her, it's that it worked. 117 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,880 Despite the prosecutor warning her superiors that Epstein was a 118 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,120 continuing threat, she was ordered to stop her 119 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,760 investigation and begin plea negotiations. 120 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,640 The result was the infamous sweetheart deal overseen by Alex 121 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,800 Acosta, which not only gave Epstein a few months in a county 122 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,520 jail, but also provided blanket immunity to any potential Co 123 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,880 conspirators, essentially turning the US Justice 124 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,760 Department into a private security firm for Epstein's 125 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,920 entire social network. You might look at this deal and 126 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,160 think, well, I guess this happened because he was really 127 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,080 politically connected. He was good friends with Bill 128 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,560 Clinton at this point in time. He had visited Clinton in the 129 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,760 White House and they've been jet setting around the world for 130 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,600 close to a decade. By that. 131 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,280 That doesn't really add up. However, as connected as Epstein 132 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,640 was, he wouldn't have been nearly as connected as Dennis 133 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,000 Hastert was. Hastert had been a congressman 134 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,200 for 20 years and was the sixth longest serving Speaker of the 135 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,000 House in history. By the time FBI discovered that 136 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,200 he was a serial child molester, the statute of limitations had 137 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,040 run out on his actual crimes. But rather than giving him a 138 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,880 sweetheart deal, the DOJ used financial technicalities to put 139 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,520 him behind bars in 2015, convicting him for the way he 140 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,920 structured his hush money payments to his victims. 141 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,080 Political connections don't explain Epstein's sweetheart 142 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,760 deal. There had to be something more. 143 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,520 If political connections don't explain how Epstein remained 144 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,040 untouchable, maybe we should look at his more hands on 145 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,320 approach to reputation management. 146 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,600 One of the most famous stories about Epstein involves Vanity 147 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,240 Fair editor and chief Graydon Carter. 148 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:28,480 In 2003, while reporter Vicki Ward was working on a profile of 149 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,200 Epstein and interviewing the Farmer sisters who had first 150 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:37,640 reported Epstein to the FBI in 1996, Epstein decided to take 151 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,920 the editorial process into his own hands. 152 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,680 Early one morning, Carter arrived at his office to find 153 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:49,520 Epstein already there, standing alone in the reception area. 154 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,960 Epstein reportedly spent that morning and many subsequent 155 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:58,280 phone calls torturing and berating Carter, demanding that 156 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,200 he published nothing about Epstein's involvement with 157 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,520 teenage girls. When the verbal abuse didn't 158 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,160 work, the threats became more physical. 159 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,160 A live bullet was left on Carter's doorstep in Manhattan, 160 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,080 and shortly after, the severed head of a dead cat was found in 161 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,080 the yard of his country home. While there was no evidence that 162 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,920 this was done by Epstein, the message was apparently clear 163 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:28,000 enough that Vanity Fair decided to scrub the abuse allegations 164 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,600 from the final article. Well, this mob style 165 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,120 intimidation might have worked on a journalist. 166 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,360 It's not reasonable to believe that it would have intimidated 167 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,280 the FBI, who around the same time were busy conducting the 168 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,200 largest mafia takedown in the agency's history. 169 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,120 They rounded up 127 members of the five mob families in New 170 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,400 York. They were hunting down Whitey 171 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,360 Bulger, who they believed had been involved in 19 murders. 172 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,000 It's hard to believe that the same federal agents who were 173 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,440 unfazed by violent killers were somehow terrified of a creepy 174 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,600 pedo whose primary method of intimidation was showing up 175 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,600 early for a meeting and leaving a dead house pet on a porch. 176 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,840 It's not exactly The Godfather. This leads us to another popular 177 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,720 theory that people have discussed for years, that 178 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,640 Epstein wasn't just a well connected predator, but an 179 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,400 intelligence asset. A journalist named Vicki Ward 180 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,240 wrote an article for The Daily Beast in 2019 which said that 181 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,560 Alex Acosta told investigators that the case was above his pay 182 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:42,040 grade because Epstein belonged to intelligence, a claim that he 183 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,200 has since denied. A newly released document file. 184 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:53,720 EFTA 00090314 gives us a look at why that theory might have had 185 00:11:53,720 --> 00:12:00,000 some weight within the FBI. This is an FD1023A form that the 186 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:05,040 FBI uses to record information from a confidential human source 187 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,960 according to the Attorney General's guidelines. 188 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,520 ACHS is someone believed to be providing useful and credible 189 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,920 information. Though the FBI notes that these 190 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,560 reports are often unverified raw intelligence, this particular 191 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:24,440 source makes some staggering claims. 192 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:29,400 They allege that Alan Dershowitz specifically told Acosta that 193 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,320 Epstein belonged to both US and allied intelligence services. 194 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,120 The document goes even further, claiming that Epstein had 195 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,280 trained as a spy under former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud 196 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,400 Barack. The document doesn't just 197 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,000 implicate Epstein either. The source claims that 198 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,440 Dershowitz himself was Co opted by Mossad and that Mossad would 199 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,080 call Dershowitz to debrief him after his phone calls with 200 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,040 Epstein. The document even manages to 201 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,440 implicate the White House, alleging that Donald Trump had 202 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,640 been compromised by Israel and that Jared Kushner, a former 203 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,080 student of Dershowitz's, was the real brains behind the 204 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,440 operation. Now we have to take these claims 205 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,720 with a massive grain of salt. One of the strange things about 206 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,200 this document is that it refers to previous reports, which don't 207 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,280 appear to be included in the files. 208 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:30,240 Based on what I can find online, a confidential source can range 209 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,880 from a highly placed operative to someone who just enjoys 210 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,800 sharing gossip on encrypted messaging apps. 211 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,640 But the fact that the FBI was recording these allegations of 212 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,640 foreign influence on U.S. officials by Israel, Russia and 213 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,960 the UAE as late as October 2020 shows that the intelligence 214 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,680 angle may not have been just a conspiracy theory. 215 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,200 But without more information, it's impossible to know. 216 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,000 If you're looking for a reason to appreciate your own 217 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,320 neighbors, even the ones who practice the drums at 2:00 in 218 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,400 the morning, you might want to take a look at Commerce 219 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,920 Secretary Howard Lutnick's block on the Upper East Side of 220 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,520 Manhattan. Jeffrey Epstein lived right next 221 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,360 door to him in a massive 7 story townhouse and Bill Cosby lived 222 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,600 right across the road. Woody Allen lived just one St. 223 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,920 away and was constantly dropping by Epstein's house with his wife 224 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,720 slash daughter to visit. I imagine that living on a 225 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,280 street like that, you'd hire armed guards to bring your kids 226 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,240 back and forth to school. Lutnick recently gave an 227 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,920 interview on a podcast called Pod Force One, describing how he 228 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,040 and his wife once visited Epstein's home for a tour around 229 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,560 the time he moved into the neighborhood, only to be shown a 230 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,320 massage room and hear a comment so revolting that they decided 231 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,640 in the six to eight steps it took to get back to their own 232 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,720 house that they would never be in a room with Epstein again. 233 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,000 Lutnick forgot to mention in that interview that the prior 234 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,920 owner of his house had been Jeffrey Epstein, and that the 235 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,760 real estate records show that the transfer was listed for $10 236 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,280 and other valuable consideration. 237 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:25,640 Now this was back in 1998 when house prices were a lot lower 238 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,720 than they are today, and it might have been cheap because of 239 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,320 the dodgy neighbors, but it's still a remarkably good deal for 240 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,720 a Manhattan townhouse. Howard tells a very compelling 241 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,920 story on the podcast of his moral clarity, but the files 242 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,680 suggest that this wasn't his last run in with Epstein. 243 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,720 The new documents include emails from 2012 showing Lutnick and 244 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,600 his family planning a visit to Epstein's private island on 245 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,360 their yard. Epstein's assistant even sent a 246 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,640 follow up e-mail on Christmas Eve that year saying nice seeing 247 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,240 you. This was four years after 248 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,160 Epstein guilty plea, meaning that Lutnick, who lived right 249 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,160 next door, would have received the mandatory notification that 250 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,880 a registered sex offender was his neighbor under New York law. 251 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,480 Now in that neighborhood, those notifications possibly pile up 252 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,480 on your doorstep like take out menus, but it's quite a 253 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,920 challenge to maintain that I barely knew the guy defense when 254 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,000 you're sharing a wall, getting killer real estate deals and 255 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,720 visiting his island on vacation. Another piece of neighborhood 256 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:44,000 gossip that I haven't seen much news about is found in an FBI 257 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:51,920 e-mail summary document, EFTA 01648951, which contains the 258 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,800 allegation that Lutnick made his money through Ponzi schemes and 259 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,040 money laundering, and says that Epstein sold Lutnick a home for 260 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,960 $10 that was worth millions. I've googled the name of the man 261 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,319 who made that allegation and didn't find anything. 262 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,599 Now, Woody Allen does show up a lot in the Epstein files, and it 263 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,000 seems that he and Epstein were good friends and hung out a lot 264 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,760 together. There's no evidence in there 265 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,400 that Allen cheated on his daughter or anything like that, 266 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:29,560 so I suppose that that's good. It shouldn't necessarily come as 267 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,480 a surprise that Jeffrey Epstein's social Ponzi scheme, 268 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,800 as his network is described by the FT, eventually found its way 269 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,840 into the world of cryptocurrency. 270 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,920 This brings us right back to Jeff's neighbor, Howard Lutnick. 271 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,080 Aside from being the current US Commerce Secretary, Lutnick's 272 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,400 firm, Cantor Fitzgerald acts as the primary custodian for the 273 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,480 reserves of Tether, the world's largest crypto stable coin. 274 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,840 Heather was Co founded by Brock Pierce, a former child actor 275 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,200 from the Mighty Ducks. Don't worry though, he's not a 276 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:09,320 child anymore and he successfully transitioned into a 277 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:14,000 career as a crypto mogul. The newly released files show 278 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:18,320 that Pearce and Epstein were in regular contact for years, 279 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,240 exchanging emails that jumped between high level investment 280 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,040 advice and more social invitations. 281 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:30,360 In one e-mail from 2018, Pearce reportedly invited Epstein to 282 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:34,360 Antigua for a boat trip featuring what he described as 283 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,000 Ukraine's finest. Now, not wanting to jump to 284 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,920 conclusions, I did a quick Google search and it seems that 285 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,000 Ukraine is most famous for borscht, so that's probably what 286 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,480 Brock was talking about. I won't lie, it seems like a 287 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:54,040 terrible idea to eat beetroot soup on a boat, but it's not 288 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,680 illegal, especially in international waters. 289 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:02,120 It appears that through Pierce, Epstein managed to secure a 290 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:07,520 $3,000,000 stake in the crypto exchange Coinbase back in 2014. 291 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,480 This turned out to be one of the few times Epstein's financial 292 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,560 genius actually resulted in a profit. 293 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:20,280 He sold half of that stake in 2018 for $15 million, and the 294 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,160 remaining half of that position will have doubled in value again 295 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,320 by the time of Coinbase's IPO. While the world of crypto was 296 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,880 busy out at sea eating soup, the traditional banking sector was 297 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,000 having a much harder time explaining its own paperwork. 298 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,520 One of the more interesting parts of this release is the 299 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,760 inclusion of Suspicious Activity Reports, or SAR. 300 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,760 These documents are pretty much never revealed to the public. 301 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,120 I can't think of a prior example. 302 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,800 They aren't entered into evidence in court, and you can't 303 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,600 even access them through a FOIA request. 304 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,080 They are submitted by financial institutions to the Financial 305 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,600 Crimes Enforcement Network Bureau of the Department of the 306 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,920 Treasury to report suspected money laundering, fraud, or 307 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,360 violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. 308 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,240 It's illegal to disclose to the customer. 309 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,040 That an SAR has been filed, a concept known as tipping off. 310 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,800 The files reveal that major financial institutions were 311 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,640 flagging Epstein's accounts for suspected human trafficking and 312 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,560 money laundering long before his 2019 arrest. 313 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,160 Last year, a British court heard that Jess Staley, then a top 314 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,120 executive at JP Morgan, had lobbied for the bank to keep 315 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:46,720 Epstein as a client in 2011 when other executives considered 316 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:52,120 debanking him over their human trafficking concerns. the FT 317 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,520 points out that while they were worried about having him as a 318 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:00,280 client, it wasn't until 2019 that they finally filed A 319 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,560 suspicious activity report over their concerns. 320 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,240 The 2019 SAR flagged transactions with leading Wall 321 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,480 Street figures including Leon Black, the Co founder of the 322 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,640 private equity group Apollo Global Management. 323 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,320 People have pointed to an e-mail that Epstein sent to himself 324 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,840 about Bill Gates, the one I mentioned earlier, as possible 325 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,560 evidence of him bribing his wealthy friends. 326 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,480 But the best example of using information to leverage a client 327 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,080 that I could see in the files relates to Leon Black. 328 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,360 In 2013, when Black seemed reluctant to pay an inexplicably 329 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:42,960 large fee to Epstein, Epstein reminded him. 330 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:47,160 Leon, as you're well aware, there's little I won't do for 331 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,640 you and a great deal that I've already done, both known and 332 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,640 some things that will need to remain unknown. 333 00:21:54,800 --> 00:22:01,200 Black went on to pay Epstein over $150 million for tax advice 334 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,560 that a congressional committee later described as being 335 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:09,160 information that was already in the public domain or already 336 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,560 provided by Black's lawyers. Black has told the press through 337 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,320 his lawyers that there's absolutely no truth to any 338 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,160 allegations of misconduct against him. 339 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,200 The latest files show that in the years following his Florida 340 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,520 plea deal, Jeffrey Epstein and his celebrity friends went to 341 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,760 extraordinary lengths to launder his reputation. 342 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,600 This wasn't just a matter of hiring a publicist, it was a 343 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,400 multi $1,000,000 high tech effort to convince the world 344 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,200 that Jeffrey was actually a misunderstood Wall Street 345 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,960 renaissance man. The man leading the digital 346 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:52,840 scrub was a bizarre character called Al Sekel, who described 347 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,680 himself as a popularizer of visual illusions and a cognitive 348 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,520 scientist. In truth, he had no real 349 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,360 qualifications, but he somehow managed to marry Isabel Maxwell, 350 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,440 Shalane Maxwell's sister and the daughter of the press Baron 351 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,240 Robert Maxwell. Sekel was given the job by 352 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:18,200 Epstein, A burying articles that used pesky words like pedophile 353 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,960 and replacing them with headlines about Epstein 354 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,960 philanthropic work and his promotion of scientists. 355 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:29,320 He wrote to Epstein about how he had hacked Epstein's Wikipedia 356 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,280 page to swap his arrest mug shot for a more dignified photograph, 357 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,920 a move his team described as an important victory. 358 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,880 Segal organized an event called the Mind Shift Conference, which 359 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,640 was supposed to be a highbrow gathering of Nobel laureates on 360 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,800 Epstein's island in 2011. If you could get enough famous 361 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,600 scientists to eat soup on your boat, people might eventually 362 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,000 forget about the 82 page prosecution memo sitting in a 363 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,880 drawer in Florida. In a story full of mysterious 364 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,040 endings, Seckles is one of the strangest. 365 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:12,440 He seems to have died in France in 2015 after falling or jumping 366 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,440 from a Cliff near his home. Because his death remained 367 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,520 unconfirmed by authorities for some time time, rumors have 368 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,640 persisted that he may have faked his own death, which, for a man 369 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,920 who made a career out of visual illusions and cleaning up 370 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,680 inconvenient online footprints, would have been the perfect 371 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,800 ending. The scrubbing didn't stop with 372 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,520 Google searches. Steve Bannon, the former Trump 373 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,920 strategist, worked with Epstein, strategizing and filming A 374 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,480 sympathetic documentary. Around 2019, the Department of 375 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,440 Justice released about two hours of this footage in the files, 376 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,960 footage which was intended to portray Epstein as a financial 377 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,240 genius who had simply made one understandable mistake. 378 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,960 According to the files, Bannon even suggested that Woody Allen 379 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,120 could help edit the film. Epstein's calendar shows nearly 380 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:14,680 100 scheduled meetings with Allen, including trips to a film 381 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,760 centre specifically to watch Allen edit. 382 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,600 It's a touching vision of an artistic collaboration, a 383 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,760 populist media firebrand, and a legendary director teaming up to 384 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,480 help a convicted sex offender Polish his public image. 385 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,680 Amusingly, some people seem to be falling for this propaganda. 386 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,040 You can see quite a few positive comments under the videos posted 387 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,880 on YouTube. Epstein also received a lot of 388 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,600 helpful advice from his famous friends about how to deal with 389 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,640 his PR problems. The linguist Noam Chomsky, who 390 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,320 described his weekends with Epstein as wonderful, advised 391 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:59,600 him in 2019 to simply ignore the growing press scrutiny. 392 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,160 He characterized the reporting as a form of hysteria, a take so 393 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,960 tone deaf it suggests that even the world's most famous 394 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,120 intellectual can lose the plot when billionaire funded dinners 395 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,640 are on the line. Even the legal advice was 396 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,040 specialized. A protege of Alan Dershowitz is 397 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,120 named Mitch Weber, who later worked in the Trump 398 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:26,360 administration, emailed Epstein to go over the legality of 399 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:30,960 transporting a minor for the purposes of sex to jurisdictions 400 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,880 where the age of consent was below 18. 401 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,080 Catherine Ruemmler of former White House attorney gave 402 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,520 Epstein advice on what Trump should say if he was ever asked 403 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,320 about his associations with Epstein. 404 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,920 And for the final touch of PR, Polish Sir Richard Branson 405 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,600 reportedly suggested a strategy where Bill Gates would vouch for 406 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,960 Epstein as a brilliant advisor. The idea was that if enough 407 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,680 people like Gates and Branson were willing to look past the 408 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,440 slip up, the rest of the world would eventually do the same. 409 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,640 It seems that in Epstein's circle, due diligence didn't 410 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,920 mean checking for crime, it meant checking if of your 411 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,080 friends were famous enough to make the crimes disappear. 412 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,080 Now, while everyone has been busy talking about the files, 413 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,760 it's worth keeping in mind that the official position of the US 414 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,800 government is unchanged. The FBI are saying that their 415 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,200 systematic review revealed no incriminating client list and 416 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,880 that they didn't uncover any evidence that could predicate an 417 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,240 investigation against uncharged third parties. 418 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:45,080 It is a remarkably strong statement, especially since the 419 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,960 Metropolitan Police in London seem to have looked at the exact 420 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,160 same data but with reductions, and reached a very different 421 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,480 conclusion. Earlier this week, the Met 422 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,200 launched a criminal investigation into Peter 423 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,760 Mandelson for misconduct in public office, a charge that in 424 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,440 the UK can carry a sentence of life imprisonment. 425 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,840 Mandelson, who was once the business secretary and a key 426 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,600 architect of the Labour Party, has long been known as the 427 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,440 Prince of Darkness for his ability to survive political 428 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,880 scandal. But even for him, this might be 429 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,560 the end of the road. The files reveal that while 430 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,240 Mandelson was a serving government minister, he was 431 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,040 providing Epstein with real time insight into market sensitive UK 432 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,840 policy. He sent emails to Epstein 433 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,720 containing confidential briefings on the 2008 financial 434 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:46,720 crisis, including early confirmation of a €500 billion 435 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,920 bailout and discussions on how the UK's bankers bonus tax would 436 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,760 be designed. This sort of information could 437 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,040 have been used for insider trading by Epstein. 438 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,800 In one e-mail, Mandelson even suggested that the head of JP 439 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,560 Morgan should mildly threatened the UK Chancellor over those 440 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,520 rules. The Mandelson Epstein 441 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,760 relationship had a more personal financial side to it too. 442 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,720 Bank records show that Epstein wired £10,000 to Mandelson's 443 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,280 then partner, now husband, to pay for an osteopathy cord. 444 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,000 For those of you outside the UK, an osteopath is some sort of a 445 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,880 witch doctor. In an e-mail from 2009, 446 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,120 Mandelson even reminded Epstein to label the transfer as a loan 447 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,160 to avoid a gift tax filing. The fallout from these witch 448 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,080 doctor tuition fees has been total. 449 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,200 Mandelson has already resigned from the Labour Party and the 450 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,720 House of Lords. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who 451 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,240 appointed Mandelson as EU KS ambassador to Washington despite 452 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,680 knowing about the Epstein links, is now fighting for his 453 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,800 political life. This week, Starmer was forced to 454 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,160 apologize to Epstein victims, admitting that Mandelson had 455 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,000 repeatedly lied about the depth of of his relationship with the 456 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,440 financier. The fallout isn't limited to the 457 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,440 UK. In Slovakia, a former foreign 458 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,720 minister and advisor to the Prime Minister was forced to 459 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,800 resign this week after file showed him joking with Epstein 460 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:31,560 about gorgeous girls in Kiev. In Norway, police have opened an 461 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,160 aggravated corruption investigation into a former 462 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,880 Prime Minister looking into whether he received improper 463 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,640 gifts and loans from Epstein. Even in Turkey, prosecutors have 464 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,320 launched an inquiry into allegations that children were 465 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,760 trafficked into Epstein's network from Turkey. 466 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,680 It's a striking contrast in Europe and Asia, homes are being 467 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,960 raided and senior officials are resigning over the contents of 468 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,160 the files. Meanwhile, in Washington, law 469 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,800 enforcement authorities are still insisting that there's no 470 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,040 evidence of any wrongdoing. One might conclude that in the 471 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,440 business of political accountability, the Atlantic 472 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,440 Ocean acts as a very effective filter. 473 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:22,120 Elon Musk spent years denying any relationship with Jeffrey 474 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,800 Epstein while using Epstein's name to attack others. 475 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,000 He claimed that the photo of him which Elaine Maxwell was because 476 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,280 she had photo bombed him at a party. 477 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,080 He even used his Everything app, which can also be used for 478 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,880 tweets, to claim that Epstein tried repeatedly to get him to 479 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,880 visit the island, but that Musk had always refused. 480 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,840 The new files tell a very different story, where Elon's 481 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,000 name is mentioned more than 1000 times and instead of turning 482 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 down invitations, he's begging for them. 483 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,440 One of the funniest entries has Elon emailing Epstein on 484 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,920 Christmas morning, I imagine as his kids are opening their 485 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:08,720 gifts, to say that he wanted to hit the party scene and let 486 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,200 loose, specifically noting that a peaceful island experience is 487 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,520 the opposite of what he was looking for. 488 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,200 Epstein, ever the attentive host, warned that the ratio on 489 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,320 the island might make Musk's then wife uncomfortable, to 490 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,760 which Musk replied. Ratio is not a problem. 491 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,760 While Musk has since acknowledged the emails are 492 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:35,000 genuine, he maintains that they were misinterpreted and that he 493 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,800 ultimately never set foot on the island due to logistics. 494 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,520 In another e-mail, Musk seems angry to have been invited to an 495 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,960 event in New York where diplomats would be present. 496 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,160 Epstein calms him down by saying that there would be no one at 497 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,520 his party over the age of 25. And all are very cute. 498 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,440 After that, we have the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, 499 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,200 who at this point King Charles must be booking in for a car 500 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,520 tour of Paris's tunnels. The files reveal that Epstein 501 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,840 was aggressively lobbying his favorite neighbor, Howard 502 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,560 Lutnick, to give Andrew a job or a lucrative role providing 503 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,000 introductions at Cantor Fitzgerald. 504 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,200 It's quite a look at the unseen mechanics of power a royal 505 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,880 Prince using a convicted sex offender as a headhunter to get 506 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,600 a job at a grubby Wall Street brokerage. 507 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,600 While Andrew's brother King Charles recently stripped him of 508 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,440 his royal titles and evicted him from his home at Royal Lodge, 509 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,320 the files still suggest that the rod went deep. 510 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,080 Amusingly, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson seem to have invited 511 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,880 Epstein, along with Harvey Weinstein and Jelaine Maxwell, 512 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,560 to their daughter's 18th birthday. 513 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,160 The only thing I can say about that is that maybe once girls 514 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,320 are over the age of 18, they're safe around that crew. 515 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:07,040 We've already seen emails from Andrew asking for inappropriate 516 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,199 friends, and photos that the Department of Justice has 517 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,159 finally released showed the Duke in various compromising 518 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,400 positions. It seems that whether you're a 519 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,639 tech billionaire or a member of the British royal family, 520 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,480 Jeffrey Epstein was the man who you turned to when you wanted to 521 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:29,440 find a party, a job, or a way to make the rules of normal society 522 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,239 simply disappear. While Jeffrey Epstein was busy 523 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,320 trying to convince the world that he was a philanthropist, 524 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:41,280 the latest files suggest that he was also pursuing a much darker, 525 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:47,159 almost sci-fi obsession, seeding the world with his own DNAA 526 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:52,679 bombshell e-mail from September 2011, sent by Sarah Ferguson 527 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,040 appears to confirm that Epstein may have actually succeeded in 528 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,480 fathering at least one child. Ferguson wrote to Epstein saying 529 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,080 that she had heard from the Duke, presumably Prince Andrew, 530 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,760 that Jeffrey had a baby boy. She even expressed hurt in 531 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,160 another e-mail that he had disappeared and hadn't told her 532 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,280 he was having a baby. The most horrific piece of 533 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,560 evidence is found in a document with the serial number EFTA 534 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:27,280 02731361. It reads like a private diary of 535 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,840 a trauma, written by a young victim who describes being 536 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,840 treated not as a person but as a biological asset. 537 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,160 The writer describes being under the constant control of Jelaine 538 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,800 Maxwell. The document is filled with 539 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,840 confusion and fear. It's really the stuff of 540 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,640 nightmares. I would strongly advise against 541 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,480 reading it. The victim describes being made 542 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,520 to feel like a human incubator and mentions Epstein's obsession 543 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,040 with a superior gene pool. Most chillingly, she describes 544 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,760 giving birth and having a child immediately taken away by a man 545 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:09,320 she refers to as Mr. MI. Only got 10 to 15 minutes to 546 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,800 hold and feed her before they took her, She writes. 547 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,080 She is mine and I want her back. This diary, if that's what it 548 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,320 is, includes clippings about child trafficking and 21st 549 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,560 century slavery. It paints a picture of these 550 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:30,000 people, Epstein, Maxwell, and whoever else was involved, who 551 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,880 viewed other human beings as mere property to be exploited 552 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,520 for their own insane ends. It's a stark and horrifying 553 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,200 reminder of the misery these people inflicted on others. 554 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,000 I'm really not sure what to make of that terrible document. 555 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,600 And once again, there's no evidence in there that I can 556 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,400 find showing that law enforcement investigated any of 557 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,080 its claims. It's worth adding that Virginia 558 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,880 Dufrey, in her posthumous memoir, told the story of 559 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:05,520 Epstein and Maxwell, pitching a plan for her to have a baby for 560 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:10,080 them while on Epstein Island. I've discussed in my prior 561 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,960 videos how a lot of people either don't want to admit or 562 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,760 just can't believe how awful the people in these documents are. 563 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,160 This seems to be especially the case when their favorite 564 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,080 politician, celebrity, or tech billionaire was involved. 565 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,560 As I've said before, this isn't about politics. 566 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,600 It's not about the right and the left. 567 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,160 It's about monstrous people who have done terrible things. 568 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:39,520 Joe Rogan had a guy on his show a few days ago called Mike Benz. 569 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,280 I've never heard from before and had to Google him, but it seems 570 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,760 that he's big on Twitter and worked for the US Department of 571 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,480 State. Here's a quick clip about what 572 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:54,320 he had to say. I don't think that the majority 573 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:58,880 or anything close to it of of the women were technically, I 574 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:04,400 think it was largely very young, you know, barely legal, so to 575 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,960 speak. But and I know that there were 576 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,640 cases of underage, but I, you know, I think most of it, it was 577 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,480 just most of it was just very, very young. 578 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,960 But not, not like 20 year old, not like 13 type thing. 579 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,680 And then, yeah, remember, because this is an international 580 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:25,760 enterprise and many of the clients are like, you know, in 581 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,720 countries that don't necessarily have the same norms about that 582 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,720 that we do, you can very easily see someone getting involved in 583 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:35,840 that just because girls choose deals. 584 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,800 Now I don't have much time to dig into this. 585 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,800 There's a very good video on a channel called Too Lazy to Try 586 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,160 that breaks it down, but it's a massive mischaracterization of 587 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,560 what you'll find with even a casual glance at the Epstein 588 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,680 files. I'm not sure why someone would 589 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,120 want to go on the biggest podcast in the world to gloss 590 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,840 over the horrors of what Epstein and his Co conspirators got up 591 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,240 to. It's truly revolt. 592 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,840 The comments section of that Joe Rogan podcast tears this guy 593 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,400 apart, but it's really wild at this point to try and sanitize 594 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:15,920 Epstein and his accomplices. Children were horribly abused 595 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,400 and some of the documents that I've seen were absolutely 596 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,080 nightmarish and this guy seems to explain it with the phrase. 597 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,280 Girls use deals. As I get near the end of this 598 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,560 video, it's worth reminding you of what an absolute monster 599 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,680 Jelaine Maxwell is, especially when we know that after her 600 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,080 meeting with Todd Blanche, her prison accommodations were 601 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:43,280 upgraded and there's even talks of her possibly being pardoned. 602 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,200 While she might look like a nice lady smiling in all of the 603 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,400 photos, her victims describe how she personally joined in their 604 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,760 abuse and how she inflicted violence upon them. 605 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,440 One survivor described Maxwell as the person who opened the 606 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,000 door to hell. Just because someone looks nice 607 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,160 and is well spoken doesn't mean that they're a good person. 608 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,360 I'll wrap up by telling you about a very similar but 609 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,720 grubbier story from Belgium, the Mark Dutrow story. 610 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,240 Mark was an unemployed electrician who abducted, abused 611 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:24,600 and murdered his victims. Like Epstein, he was arrested 612 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:29,000 for sex crimes early on. And like Epstein, he was let off 613 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,120 easy, serving just three years of a 13 year sentence. 614 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,040 He continued on with his terrible crimes as soon as he 615 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,400 was released. The second time he was arrested 616 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:45,040 in 1996, he claimed to be a small part of a much bigger 617 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,480 organization. One of his accomplices claimed 618 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,960 that they've been providing girls to government officials. 619 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,200 Like Epstein, Mark had unexplained well too. 620 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,520 As an unemployed electrician he somehow owned 10 properties and 621 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:04,000 had a net worth of around 6,000,000 Belgian francs. 622 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,200 The case was notoriously poorly investigated. 623 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,200 At one point after being tipped off, the police searched his 624 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,960 home while two kidnapped girls were locked in the basement. 625 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:20,360 The girls voices were even heard by the police officers, but they 626 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,680 didn't follow up to work out where they were coming from. 627 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,640 One of the officers who dropped the ball on these early leads 628 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,840 was later promoted, which did little to quiet the rumours of a 629 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,920 cover up. Perhaps most inexplicably, DNA 630 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,280 evidence from the crime scenes went unanalyzed for years, and 631 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,600 when the original prosecutor began making waves and actually 632 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,920 following the leads, he was pulled from the case and 633 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,800 replaced by a prosecutor with next to no experience. 634 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,600 The public anger in Belgium, where 300,000 people turned out 635 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,720 to protest the mishandling of the case, led to the complete 636 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:04,640 reorganization of Belgium's law enforcement agencies. 637 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,280 So what have we actually learned from three and a half million 638 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,360 pages of raw intelligence, flight logs and high society 639 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,000 gossip released in the Epstein files? 640 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,920 Well, depending on who you ask, the answer is either everything 641 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,160 or nothing at all. The Department of Justice is 642 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:28,000 saying that this data dump marks the end of the Epstein scandal 643 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,160 and that there's nothing more to see. 644 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,000 Critics and survivor advocates point out that only about half 645 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,520 of the six million files have actually been released and that 646 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,360 the redaction still need to be explained. 647 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,360 When reading through the victim statements, I'm somewhat 648 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,720 reminded of the famous line from The Great Gatsby. 649 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,760 They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. 650 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,640 They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated 651 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,160 back into their money. Or their vast carelessness, or 652 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,240 whatever it was that kept them together and let other people 653 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:07,920 clean up the mess they had made. It's a poetic sentiment, but 654 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,600 looking through these documents, carelessness is a bit too 655 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,400 generous. The people implicated in this 656 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,680 case might not have cared about the victims, but it wasn't 657 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:23,080 carelessness that built up this vast crime network that was used 658 00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,680 to inflict misery on its victims and defend the perpetrators. 659 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,160 It's a terrible mistake, too, to confuse the recent government 660 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,680 claims of transparency for real justice. 661 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,720 While the government points to the volume of documents released 662 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,720 as proof of their openness, these files weren't given. 663 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,560 They were forced from their grasp by a mounting surge of 664 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,360 public anger. Now the people implicated seem 665 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,520 to be losing their patience with the questions they're being 666 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,680 asked. Just this week, a reporter in 667 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,760 the Oval Office asked President Trump about the survivors 668 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,680 concerns that the redactions are being used to cover up key 669 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,920 names. A valid question. 670 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,600 Instead of addressing it, the president tore into the 671 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,120 journalist. What did you say? 672 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,720 What would you what would you say to the survivors who feel 673 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,880 like they haven't? Gotten just worst reporter no 674 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,480 one to see. CNN has no ratings because of 675 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,720 people like you. You know, she's a young woman. 676 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:24,640 I don't think I've ever seen you smile. 677 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,840 I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a 678 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,960 smile. You know why? 679 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,280 You know why you're not smiling? Because you know you're not 680 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,680 telling the truth and you're you're a very dishonest 681 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,840 organization and they should be ashamed of you. 682 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,280 Ultimately, the Epstein files aren't just a collection of 683 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:47,760 names and stories, they're a map of a world where accountability 684 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:52,800 is a luxury that only applies to people without a yacht or a $10 685 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,360 real estate deal on the Upper East Side. 686 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,480 Thanks for tuning into the podcast. 687 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,280 Please share it with your friends if you think that they 688 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,480 might find it interesting. Have a great week and talk to 689 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,080 you again soon. Bye.