The basic outline of the Epstein scandal is well-established. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, Epstein found wealthy patrons, first the CEO of Bear Stearns, Andrew Greenberg, and then the founder-owner of The Limited, Leslie Wexner, who valued his combination of skill, moral depravity and ruthlessness in the early years of the financialization of the US economy.
Epstein became known as a man who could make money from cleverly crafted swindling, first as a securities trader, then as the personal financial manager for Wexner’s billion-dollar fortune.
Epstein built his own fortune in the process, ultimately buying the largest mansion in Manhattan—sold to him by Wexner—as well as a Palm Beach estate, a huge ranch in New Mexico, and a private island in the US Virgin Islands.
He hosted parties that attracted billionaires, bankers, CEOs, former presidents, senators and governors. His connections extended through both capitalist parties, Republicans as well as Democrats.
In gaining access to these layers, he also learned their sordid proclivities, particularly those which coincided with his own: the sexual abuse of underage girls. His (literal) partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of British media billionaire Robert Maxwell, served as his chief recruiting officer, luring young girls, particularly from the poorest sections of the working class, with promises of money, clothes, shoes and perfume.
One victim told the Miami Herald, “Jeffrey preyed on girls who were in a bad way, girls who were basically homeless. He went after girls who he thought no one would listen to and he was right.”
The newspaper, which published the first major exposure of Epstein, added, “Most of the girls came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care. Some had experienced troubles that belied their ages: They had parents and friends who committed suicide; mothers abused by husbands and boyfriends; fathers who molested and beat them.”
Epstein’s sex-trafficking enterprise served the psycho-sexual demands of wealthy and powerful men, who in turn protected his operations and blocked any serious criminal investigation.
Even in 2007, when Epstein pled guilty to soliciting the prostitution of a minor—a serious felony for which anyone else would have been locked up for years—the US attorney for South Florida, Alexander Acosta, made a backroom deal that allowed him to freely manage his business ventures from a luxury jail wing that Epstein paid for himself.
The plea agreement assured that none of Epstein’s clients, who were not named, would be prosecuted for their use of his sex-trafficking services.
Ten years later, Donald Trump would appoint Acosta to head the Department of Labor in his first term, a position from which he was forced to resign when Epstein was again arrested in July 2019 on sex-trafficking charges.
FBI reports identified more than 1,000 young women and girls as victims of Epstein.
Yet not a single American client of Epstein has been named, let alone prosecuted.
Only one foreign client, Britain’s Prince Andrew, was compelled to sign a civil settlement with Virginia Giuffre, whom Epstein procured for him at age 17 (while she was working at Mar-a-Lago). Giuffre, who named other men as abusers who were never prosecuted, committed suicide in April of this year.
When Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in August 2019, supposedly having hanged himself while prison guards failed to check on him for hours, it was not just Donald Trump who could breathe a sigh of relief.
There were hundreds of powerful figures in the US ruling class who felt the same way. There was a universal desire to cover up both Epstein’s sordid enterprise and the circumstances of his death.
This sentiment found expression in the pages of the New York Times. The leading US newspaper assiduously promoted uncorroborated and generally baseless charges of sexual abuse in the #MeToo campaign, which became a means of witch-hunting actors, musicians and other cultural figures. But in the case of Epstein, the Times now denounced “conspiracy theories” about his murder and showed no interest in tracing his clientele in the ruling class.
Meanwhile, not 1 percent of the facts about the depraved criminal enterprise that is the Epstein scandal has yet come out.
Particular attention should be given to the reports that Epstein had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States or Israel, or both, and that information he gathered from his sex-trafficking operation was used for the purposes of blackmail in the interest of these agencies.
Of course, Epstein is a scammer. It says in the Jewish Talmud that it is OK to steal from a Gentile. It also says Gentiles are not actually humans, but rather beasts in human form, meant to serve the Jew. The Jews actually believe this stupid bullshit.
Actually it's you you stooopid Gentile, who believes that demonic created stew of lies. Tell me, pal (not talkin bout PalLie stine here!) have you even bothered to find a Talmud and read it yourself, or a Jewish person to educate you on this tripe? No, because you hate God and His people, of whom you know nothing about. Now get out of here and go to your Q anonsense sites!
BIG GOV Crime Corruption Cover Up$ no one take$ about or Exposed IT All in on IT Stupid Sheeple Apathic What can they do about IT Has gone on for $O many year$ Big Buck$
What's the surprise here.. Epstein started as a Junior Trader at BearSterns and WITHIN 4 YEARS he was at PARTNER LEVEL doing 'creative' things for extreme-wealth people and their institutions so they avoided taxation and other laws of multiple countries... including for Uncle Sam... creating finance entities that he himself had signing authorities over, all of those would generate lots of transaction activity I would expect...no possibility of blackmail in those...
and his services in that regard for the USA were so well known to POTUS Clinton, that ol Slick Willy felt no anxiety when in the isolated reaches of Epstein' island so that he felt at ease venturing without any Secret Service team.. ttyl
Many idiotic Democrats still do not understand that brazen St. Obama lies led to Trump victory.
St. Obama was always the top of my suspects about the source of immense Russia-gate hoax -- he suddenly expelled, for no rhyme or reason, at the end of his administration, 35 (thirty-five) Russian diplomats and -- in incredibly brutal manner.
And — one of many direct results of that brazenly manufactured Russia-gate fraud are million++ dead in Ukraine - slaughter of two beautiful and closely related Slavic nations in “entirely unprovoked” war.
Certainly, a well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize — one cannot despise St. Obama enough.
I'm a little suspicious of Wyden & feel he might be a little disingenuous, he's Jwwish & I'd be surprised if he's not beholden to AIPAC & the Zionist overlords of our government, a.k.a., our Z.O.G.
Spielberg, set the hook, bigly event at the beginning of the story, then frame by frame, like Trump’s big picture frames story in the White House, ending with everyone looking at chains leading into the ceiling, build the story. Alfonse Capone, in Alcatraz for tax evasion, in most Trump rally stories. Beginning of the week Genius Act is DoA. Take a tour of Alcatraz. Sign Genius Act killing BRICS and putting ban in CBDC into law. Withdraw from GoreBully Lawfare PlanDemic Gimmick WHO-UN plan to over throw US sovereignty. Announce criminal investigations into Comey, Brennen, Powell and Schiff. Declassify proof Obama, Kerry, Rice, McCabe, Biden, Brennen and Clapper committed Treason. Fire Comey’s prosecutor daughter and put Grand Jury Epstein files publicity in the hands of a judge. Destroy CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, USAID. Expose two Indian $Billionaires funding ICE riots and VISA frauds. AutoPen Joe reveals. Refer FauXi for criminal investigation. Remove chemicals from food. Alligator Alcatraz. Attend AI center opening highlighting need for trade schools. Attend World Cup soccer FIFA.
Which is why JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $75 million dollars to the US Virgin Isl.s to drop the case and fire the lead prosecutor. $75 million for $1,1 billion seems like a fair trade to me.
I really appreciate these Top 10 summary posts. Thank you VF.
My pleasure. It's what I'm here for!
I would want somebody to provide a summary for me too if I didn't have the time.
Super good synopsis!
Thanks for honing in on more important topics of the day..all in one place.
Glad to be of help, Barbara!
Chris Hedge had this interview yesterday on how they blackmail people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8
The basic outline of the Epstein scandal is well-established. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, Epstein found wealthy patrons, first the CEO of Bear Stearns, Andrew Greenberg, and then the founder-owner of The Limited, Leslie Wexner, who valued his combination of skill, moral depravity and ruthlessness in the early years of the financialization of the US economy.
Epstein became known as a man who could make money from cleverly crafted swindling, first as a securities trader, then as the personal financial manager for Wexner’s billion-dollar fortune.
Epstein built his own fortune in the process, ultimately buying the largest mansion in Manhattan—sold to him by Wexner—as well as a Palm Beach estate, a huge ranch in New Mexico, and a private island in the US Virgin Islands.
He hosted parties that attracted billionaires, bankers, CEOs, former presidents, senators and governors. His connections extended through both capitalist parties, Republicans as well as Democrats.
In gaining access to these layers, he also learned their sordid proclivities, particularly those which coincided with his own: the sexual abuse of underage girls. His (literal) partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of British media billionaire Robert Maxwell, served as his chief recruiting officer, luring young girls, particularly from the poorest sections of the working class, with promises of money, clothes, shoes and perfume.
One victim told the Miami Herald, “Jeffrey preyed on girls who were in a bad way, girls who were basically homeless. He went after girls who he thought no one would listen to and he was right.”
The newspaper, which published the first major exposure of Epstein, added, “Most of the girls came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care. Some had experienced troubles that belied their ages: They had parents and friends who committed suicide; mothers abused by husbands and boyfriends; fathers who molested and beat them.”
Epstein’s sex-trafficking enterprise served the psycho-sexual demands of wealthy and powerful men, who in turn protected his operations and blocked any serious criminal investigation.
Even in 2007, when Epstein pled guilty to soliciting the prostitution of a minor—a serious felony for which anyone else would have been locked up for years—the US attorney for South Florida, Alexander Acosta, made a backroom deal that allowed him to freely manage his business ventures from a luxury jail wing that Epstein paid for himself.
The plea agreement assured that none of Epstein’s clients, who were not named, would be prosecuted for their use of his sex-trafficking services.
Ten years later, Donald Trump would appoint Acosta to head the Department of Labor in his first term, a position from which he was forced to resign when Epstein was again arrested in July 2019 on sex-trafficking charges.
FBI reports identified more than 1,000 young women and girls as victims of Epstein.
Yet not a single American client of Epstein has been named, let alone prosecuted.
Only one foreign client, Britain’s Prince Andrew, was compelled to sign a civil settlement with Virginia Giuffre, whom Epstein procured for him at age 17 (while she was working at Mar-a-Lago). Giuffre, who named other men as abusers who were never prosecuted, committed suicide in April of this year.
When Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in August 2019, supposedly having hanged himself while prison guards failed to check on him for hours, it was not just Donald Trump who could breathe a sigh of relief.
There were hundreds of powerful figures in the US ruling class who felt the same way. There was a universal desire to cover up both Epstein’s sordid enterprise and the circumstances of his death.
This sentiment found expression in the pages of the New York Times. The leading US newspaper assiduously promoted uncorroborated and generally baseless charges of sexual abuse in the #MeToo campaign, which became a means of witch-hunting actors, musicians and other cultural figures. But in the case of Epstein, the Times now denounced “conspiracy theories” about his murder and showed no interest in tracing his clientele in the ruling class.
Meanwhile, not 1 percent of the facts about the depraved criminal enterprise that is the Epstein scandal has yet come out.
Particular attention should be given to the reports that Epstein had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States or Israel, or both, and that information he gathered from his sex-trafficking operation was used for the purposes of blackmail in the interest of these agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJhKli-dmk
Of course, Epstein is a scammer. It says in the Jewish Talmud that it is OK to steal from a Gentile. It also says Gentiles are not actually humans, but rather beasts in human form, meant to serve the Jew. The Jews actually believe this stupid bullshit.
Actually it's you you stooopid Gentile, who believes that demonic created stew of lies. Tell me, pal (not talkin bout PalLie stine here!) have you even bothered to find a Talmud and read it yourself, or a Jewish person to educate you on this tripe? No, because you hate God and His people, of whom you know nothing about. Now get out of here and go to your Q anonsense sites!
Have you read the Talmud? It’s sick and disgusting and explains WHY some jews act the way they do.
Yes we can See the stupid bullshit and their inhuman doings.
BIG GOV Crime Corruption Cover Up$ no one take$ about or Exposed IT All in on IT Stupid Sheeple Apathic What can they do about IT Has gone on for $O many year$ Big Buck$
It’s obviously the Jews. They are behind everything.
What's the surprise here.. Epstein started as a Junior Trader at BearSterns and WITHIN 4 YEARS he was at PARTNER LEVEL doing 'creative' things for extreme-wealth people and their institutions so they avoided taxation and other laws of multiple countries... including for Uncle Sam... creating finance entities that he himself had signing authorities over, all of those would generate lots of transaction activity I would expect...no possibility of blackmail in those...
and his services in that regard for the USA were so well known to POTUS Clinton, that ol Slick Willy felt no anxiety when in the isolated reaches of Epstein' island so that he felt at ease venturing without any Secret Service team.. ttyl
Quite the day.
Obviously Epstein didn’t get the memo. It was all a hoax. 😆😆
Well, just to piss them off I’m going for the century mark. Start buying candles.
Many idiotic Democrats still do not understand that brazen St. Obama lies led to Trump victory.
St. Obama was always the top of my suspects about the source of immense Russia-gate hoax -- he suddenly expelled, for no rhyme or reason, at the end of his administration, 35 (thirty-five) Russian diplomats and -- in incredibly brutal manner.
And — one of many direct results of that brazenly manufactured Russia-gate fraud are million++ dead in Ukraine - slaughter of two beautiful and closely related Slavic nations in “entirely unprovoked” war.
Certainly, a well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize — one cannot despise St. Obama enough.
I'm a little suspicious of Wyden & feel he might be a little disingenuous, he's Jwwish & I'd be surprised if he's not beholden to AIPAC & the Zionist overlords of our government, a.k.a., our Z.O.G.
Why is trump going so hard after Thomas massie?
Spielberg, set the hook, bigly event at the beginning of the story, then frame by frame, like Trump’s big picture frames story in the White House, ending with everyone looking at chains leading into the ceiling, build the story. Alfonse Capone, in Alcatraz for tax evasion, in most Trump rally stories. Beginning of the week Genius Act is DoA. Take a tour of Alcatraz. Sign Genius Act killing BRICS and putting ban in CBDC into law. Withdraw from GoreBully Lawfare PlanDemic Gimmick WHO-UN plan to over throw US sovereignty. Announce criminal investigations into Comey, Brennen, Powell and Schiff. Declassify proof Obama, Kerry, Rice, McCabe, Biden, Brennen and Clapper committed Treason. Fire Comey’s prosecutor daughter and put Grand Jury Epstein files publicity in the hands of a judge. Destroy CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, USAID. Expose two Indian $Billionaires funding ICE riots and VISA frauds. AutoPen Joe reveals. Refer FauXi for criminal investigation. Remove chemicals from food. Alligator Alcatraz. Attend AI center opening highlighting need for trade schools. Attend World Cup soccer FIFA.
And Sunday is the beginning of Shark Week. 🍿🍿🍿
Which is why JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $75 million dollars to the US Virgin Isl.s to drop the case and fire the lead prosecutor. $75 million for $1,1 billion seems like a fair trade to me.
Reverend Epstein is sitting on a beach somewhere in Tel Aviv hanging out with young women.