Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Speaker 1: The lawsuit between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan
Speaker 1: has evolved into an absolute backyard brawl, with both sides
Speaker 1: lobbing salvo after salvo at the other side, hoping to
Speaker 1: damage the credibility of their opponent in this high stakes lawsuit.
Speaker 1: And if the US Virgin Islands thought that JP Morgan
Speaker 1: wasn't going to fight back, they made a critical mistake
Speaker 1: because JP Morgan is not going to write a check
Speaker 1: to the US Virgin Islands without at the very least
Speaker 1: exacting their price in blood, if you will, meaning they're
Speaker 1: going to expose everything that they say the Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: was involved in in hopes to destroy their credibility inside
Speaker 1: of that courtroom. And that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: JP Morgan understands that they're already on the hook for
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety million dollars. You really think they
Speaker 1: want to have another payout here? Of course not. So
Speaker 1: they're looking at all of the facts, and their high
Speaker 1: profile lawyers are certainly looking at all of the facts.
Speaker 1: And if we can find this information, do you really
Speaker 1: think that the JP Morgan legal teams can't come up
Speaker 1: with it. Not only have they turned up this information,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that they've turned up a whole bunch more.
Speaker 1: And it looks to me that JP Morgan plans to
Speaker 1: release each one of these dumps in a calculated strike.
Speaker 1: Today we have an article from lawn crime dot com
Speaker 1: and the headline will it work for you?
Speaker 2: Ex?
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands first lady allegedly ran suggested language for sex
Speaker 1: offender law by Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by
Speaker 1: Adam Klasfeld. So that's nice, Huh. You're in charge of
Speaker 1: writing the sex offender's law for the US Virgin Islands,
Speaker 1: and before you write the law, you're like self, you
Speaker 1: know what I need to do. I need to get
Speaker 1: in contact with Jeffrey Epstein and see what he has
Speaker 1: to say about the language in this law. How could
Speaker 1: you not sue the US Virgin Islands knowing all of this?
Speaker 1: If I was a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, I would
Speaker 1: be out a lawyer yesterday trying to get a lawsuit
Speaker 1: going against the US Virgin Islands using the same principles
Speaker 1: and basics that were used against JP Morgan. Especially learning
Speaker 1: stuff like this, If you have somebody who is the
Speaker 1: first Lady of the US Virgin Islands and she's also
Speaker 1: working for Epstein and then at the very same time
Speaker 1: manipulating language in the sex offender's law. You mean to
Speaker 1: tell me that somebody shouldn't be held culpable for that,
Speaker 1: because that law itself, right there is a big deal.
Speaker 1: Right if you're writing a favorable law for sex offenders,
Speaker 1: how can you tell me that you're a victim, meaning
Speaker 1: the island When it comes to somebody like Epstein setting
Speaker 1: up shop in a place that's favorable to them. You
Speaker 1: set the tone, you set the scenario, You set the stage,
Speaker 1: and Epstein just swooped in. So before you start coming
Speaker 1: with your hand out talking about your ode anything else.
Speaker 1: The whole entire US Virgin Islands leadership structure, and anyone
Speaker 1: thinking that they should get some money should sit down
Speaker 1: and reevaluate their strategy, because I think the gravy train
Speaker 1: is about to come off the tracks. Three years after
Speaker 1: pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution of a minor, Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 1: had the ear of the wife of the then Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands governor in attempting to craft sex offender legislation that
Speaker 1: wouldn't put too much of a crimp in his lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Another reason why he chose New Mexico as well. Remember
Speaker 1: everything that Epstein did, he was thinking a few steps ahead,
Speaker 1: especially when we're talking about the legal system, and he
Speaker 1: had all of this set up in a manner where
Speaker 1: it was beneficial to him if he ever got caught.
Speaker 1: Grease the right palms now, so later on down the
Speaker 1: road they owe me a favor. That's one of the
Speaker 1: latest scorching allegations in a legal brief filed by JP
Speaker 1: Morgan Chase, which is trying to turn and the tables
Speaker 1: on the Virgin Islands government. And I am here for it.
Speaker 1: It is about time that the US Virgin Islands government
Speaker 1: was called out. I feel like I'm the only person
Speaker 1: that's been doing this for a few years now. And look,
Speaker 1: it's not because I have a bone to pick with
Speaker 1: the US Virgin Islands in general, but wrong is wrong,
Speaker 1: and until you start holding some people accountable in your
Speaker 1: own backyard, I don't want to hear about how you're
Speaker 1: a victim or how restitution needs to be paid to
Speaker 1: the US Virgin Islands. In fact, I think it's the
Speaker 1: other way around. If anyone's getting restitution, it should be
Speaker 1: those survivors from the US Virgin Islands. Since late last year,
Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands has tried to hold the behemoth financial
Speaker 1: institution liable for knowingly profiting from Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy.
Speaker 1: JP Morgan's most potent defense against the allegations has been
Speaker 1: a counter offensive, the latest of which reveals alleged communications
Speaker 1: between Epstein and former Virgin Island First Lady Cecil DeJong
Speaker 1: from twenty and eleven. Look, they were close, There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: This is all documented stuff that we've been talking about
Speaker 1: four years now. The only question is what is inside
Speaker 1: of those documents. We've never had access to the emails.
Speaker 1: We knew they existed, and we knew that the conversations
Speaker 1: were had. This just confirms it with some receipts. And
Speaker 1: that's because JP Morgan, like the article says here, is
Speaker 1: on accounter offensive and the US Virgin Islands, for their part,
Speaker 1: are used to steamrolling people when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Epstein situation, especially with the way they were handling the estate.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: JP Morgan is in Epstein's estate and the legal team
Speaker 1: that JP Morgan has on hand is a lot more
Speaker 1: powerful than anything the Epstein Estate could ever imagine of deploying.
Speaker 1: And that's why you see this insane amount of pushback
Speaker 1: from JP Morgan, Whereas the estate they just took it
Speaker 1: in the pants and said, you know what, let's settle
Speaker 1: and keep it moving. They knew they were going to
Speaker 1: pay that money out one way or the other, and
Speaker 1: the estate didn't care if they paid the US Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands or those survivors, as long as they were off
Speaker 1: the hook.
Speaker 2: That may.
Speaker 1: The Virgin Islands legislature considered amending sex offender monitoring laws,
Speaker 1: and the Bank quoted DeJong running the proposed language by Epstein.
Speaker 1: This is the suggested language. Will it work for you?
Speaker 1: DeJong wrote, According to the brief, we should add out
Speaker 1: of the country for more than seven days. Otherwise I
Speaker 1: could not go for a day trip to Tortola. At
Speaker 1: the last minute, the sex offender allegedly replied, referring to
Speaker 1: the largest isle on the British Virgin Islands. Imagine that's
Speaker 1: what he's worried about. I can't go to Tortola after
Speaker 1: decades of raping and ruining people's lives. This is what
Speaker 1: is paled down in the US Virgin Islands and him
Speaker 1: or chatting about and we're not talking about just some lady.
Speaker 1: We're talking about somebody who was at the very levers
Speaker 1: of power. And this person thinks it's a good idea
Speaker 1: to ask a convicted sex offender what they think about
Speaker 1: the new sex offender law or the language within that law.
Speaker 1: Epstein also fretted the statute's transparency provisions could make certain
Speaker 1: information accessible by the press. According to the filing, well,
Speaker 1: no worries there. The press wasn't interested in covering what
Speaker 1: Epstein was doing at the time. Althy'll go back now
Speaker 1: and there'll be some revisionist history and these outlets act
Speaker 1: like they've been at the forefront. But I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you they haven't been. DeJong allegedly responded that she
Speaker 1: didn't want to email back and forth before describing the
Speaker 1: hurried timetable for the legislation. And you know why she
Speaker 1: didn't want to email, right, she didn't want a paper trail.
Speaker 1: Of course, she didn't want to email back and forth.
Speaker 1: She's smart enough to know that the person she's talking
Speaker 1: to is not exactly the citizen of the year. JP
Speaker 1: Morgan claims that the then Virgin Island's first Lady wasn't
Speaker 1: just an ally of Epstein, but a paid manager of
Speaker 1: his Virgin Island companies, receiving a salary, bonuses and other benefits.
Speaker 1: Epstein and his then personal attorney, Marie Ya Hodge also
Speaker 1: lobbied the Virgin Islands Department of Justice and the Attorney
Speaker 1: General's Office, with apparently disappointing results for the wealthy sex offender.
Speaker 1: According to the filing, So even though Epstein had a
Speaker 1: lot of people working on his behalf down in the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands, not everybody was in on it. Not
Speaker 1: every politician was willing to just give this guy a
Speaker 1: blank pass to do whatever he wanted. But unfortunately there
Speaker 1: were enough down there who were willing to do that,
Speaker 1: and that in turn led to Jeffrey Epstein being able
Speaker 1: to pretty much do whatever he wanted within the territory.
Speaker 1: I know this was a horrible week and I'm really
Speaker 1: sorry about how things panned out, DeJong apologized to Epstein
Speaker 1: after the law's passage in June of twenty eleven. Not
Speaker 1: being able to take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. However,
Speaker 1: all is not lost and we will figure something out
Speaker 1: by coming up with a game plan to get around
Speaker 1: these obstacles. So she's basically saying, we're gonna come up
Speaker 1: with a game plan to get around these new sex
Speaker 1: offender laws here on the island. That way they don't
Speaker 1: apply to you. And keep in mind while we're talking
Speaker 1: about this, that this island that these people represented ended
Speaker 1: up with one hundred and five million dollars after this
Speaker 1: woman was here talking about we're gonna come up with
Speaker 1: a plan to avoid the sex offender laws. You really
Speaker 1: think that the US Virgin Islands should get one single dollar?
Speaker 1: And if the answer is yes to that, please shoot
Speaker 1: me some email and explain to me why they shouldn't
Speaker 1: be liable and instead why they should be collecting another bag.
Speaker 1: That plan, JP Morgan says involved getting then Virgin Island
Speaker 1: senators involved to facilitate Epstein's easy travel too and from
Speaker 1: the territory. Huh, Senators. I wonder Stacy Plas get involved
Speaker 1: in that. Is anyone ever gonna call her out either?
Speaker 1: I doubt it, but somebody should considering her ties to
Speaker 1: Epstein and then the BS response we got from her,
Speaker 1: I would love to see JP Morgan really push the
Speaker 1: envelope here and take them to court all the way
Speaker 1: to discovery and then call everybody in that way. Everybody
Speaker 1: has to go under oath, and if people are lying,
Speaker 1: perhaps there'll be some consequences. JP Morgan has fought tenaciously
Speaker 1: to rid itself of liabilities and the torrent of bad
Speaker 1: press that came with it associated with Epstein's name. The
Speaker 1: bank reached a two hundred and ninety million dollars settlement
Speaker 1: to resolve a class action lawsuit filed anonymously by an
Speaker 1: Epstein survivor, averting a potentially embarrassing trial that would have
Speaker 1: put the alleged conduct of JP Morgan executives under the
Speaker 1: public layer. Attorney Brad Edwards, known for his representation of
Speaker 1: Epstein's survivors, credited assistance from the Virgin Islands government for
Speaker 1: helping to reach that deal. Okay, that's fine and well,
Speaker 1: but I still don't trust them and I don't understand
Speaker 1: how Brad Edwards doesn't see the forest through the trees here.
Speaker 1: You would think that a lawyer would be all over this, right,
Speaker 1: let me get another bag, let me secure some more due. Oh,
Speaker 1: the information and support the US Virgin Islands and its
Speaker 1: legal team provided to the survivors was enormously valuable, and
Speaker 1: we recognize the importance of the government's continued litigation against
Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase to prevent future crimes. Edward said in
Speaker 1: a statement, Yeah, that doesn't hit too well for me.
Speaker 1: In fact, I find that statement a bit ridiculous. Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's no way that anyone's going to stop doing what
Speaker 1: they're doing because they have to pay a fine. How
Speaker 1: about sending some people to jail. How about holding these
Speaker 1: politicians accountable for the decision they made to get into
Speaker 1: bed with a slimy ass snake like Jeffrey Epstein. Instead,
Speaker 1: it seems like people are just willing to let them
Speaker 1: get off. Well, I'm here to tell you that's never
Speaker 1: gonna happen on this podcast. I'm never gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and tell you that the US Virgin Islands has the
Speaker 1: right of it, because they do not. What they're doing
Speaker 1: here is absolutely wrong and disgusting. Now, look, I'm all
Speaker 1: for going after the bank and holding them liable, but
Speaker 1: the fact that they're trying to do it for financial
Speaker 1: benefit and financial benefit alone is really gross, especially considering
Speaker 1: what they were up to themselves, And for me, that
Speaker 1: seals the deal as them being liable and as a institution,
Speaker 1: if you will, that played a crucial role in Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein's criminal enterprise, keeping it moving for decades. The Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands Attorney General's Office, for its part, has held firm
Speaker 1: and has announced no intention to settle its case before
Speaker 1: a trial in October. The government has described the bank's
Speaker 1: hyperbolic conspiracy theories about the Virgin Islands as an effort
Speaker 1: to distract and deflect, asking Senior US District Judge Jed
Speaker 1: Rakoff to strike the intimations of hypocrisy as an affirmative defense.
Speaker 1: Venetia of Alasquez, a spokesperson for the Virgin Islands AG,
Speaker 1: sounded a similar note in a statement. JP Morgan Chase
Speaker 1: has cherry picked and mischaracterized Epstein's interactions with US Virgin
Speaker 1: Island officials and residents in an attempt to distract and
Speaker 1: shift blame away from its role in facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's
Speaker 1: Hanus crimes. Velasquez said, and while there's truth to that,
Speaker 1: that doesn't do away with the fact that what they're
Speaker 1: saying is true. How many times do we have to
Speaker 1: go back in the time machine and pull up an
Speaker 1: article from twenty twenty or twenty nineteen talking about the
Speaker 1: complicity of the US Virgin Islands with Jeffrey Epstein. JP
Speaker 1: Morgan Chase seeks to attack the people of the Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands for not discovering the very information that bank executives
Speaker 1: refuse to share. Nobody's attacking the people of the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands. The elected officials, don't try and conflate the issue.
Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase had a legal responsibility to report the
Speaker 1: evidence in its possession of Epstein's human trafficking. It failed
Speaker 1: to do so, and it should be held accountable for
Speaker 1: violating the law. Correct me if I'm wrong, But does
Speaker 1: in the USA US Virgin Islands have subpoena power? Don't
Speaker 1: they have the power to enter or not enter into
Speaker 1: any deal with anybody they choose to. Well, what's the
Speaker 1: answer for their behavior?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: If JP Morgan could have stopped Jeffrey Epstein and they
Speaker 1: could have, well what does that say about the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands who had the power of the law and
Speaker 1: the United States government on their side and they fail
Speaker 1: to act. So save the what about ism and get
Speaker 1: ready to feel the pain. JP Morgan insists that its
Speaker 1: arguments are legitimate telling. Lee usvi's motion seeks to strike
Speaker 1: only those specific defenses that threaten to expose its relationship
Speaker 1: with Epstein. The Bank's attorney, Felicia Ellsworth noted in her
Speaker 1: brief the former governor's first lady is hardly the only
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands official identified in JP Morgan's brief. The bank
Speaker 1: is also alleged that Epstein had close ties with current
Speaker 1: Governor Albert Bryan, who fired ex Virgin Island's Attorney General
Speaker 1: Denise George, the prosecut who first filed the case against
Speaker 1: JP Morgan. Former sex trafficking prosecutor Mitchell Epner suspects that
Speaker 1: if a federal judge finds JP Morgan's claims about the
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands fair game for trial, the Bank will use
Speaker 1: the information to draw the government to the negotiation table.
Speaker 1: It's a standard in litigation to use the process to
Speaker 1: disincentivize the opponent to continue, said Epner, who's now a
Speaker 1: partner at Rottenberg Littmann Rich PC. If unsuccessful in that effort,
Speaker 1: the trial will begin on October twenty third, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: And I think the wildcard here is going to be
Speaker 1: if one of the survivors or several of the survivors
Speaker 1: decide that they want to get involved and sue the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands on top of it, because I think
Speaker 1: that's certainly a possibility, especially considering we haven't heard from
Speaker 1: anywhere near all of the survivors yet, so I won't
Speaker 1: be shocked if moving on in the future, we hear
Speaker 1: that the survivors or a survivor has sued the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands as well, And if that happens, the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands has nobody to blame but themselves. They should
Speaker 1: have took their one hundred and five million and kept
Speaker 1: it moving, but no, they needed more, and now that
Speaker 1: greed threatens to expose them for what JP Morgan's asserting
Speaker 1: is their role in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this one. All of the
Speaker 1: information that goes with the episode can be found in
Speaker 1: the description box Cash Fevers. What's up, everyone, and Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Epstein Chronicles. As the battle between JP
Speaker 1: Morgan and the US Virgin Islands continues to rage, JP
Speaker 1: Morgan is now blasting the US Virgin Islands and saying
Speaker 1: that they were complicit in helping Jeffrey Epstein facilitate his
Speaker 1: criminal enterprise. And guess what, JP Morgan is not wrong
Speaker 1: here as bad as the sins of the financial sector
Speaker 1: were and are. You had government officials down in the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands taken all kinds of money from Epstein,
Speaker 1: taken all kinds of favors from Epstein, and then after
Speaker 1: those favors are done, Epstein turns around and gets all
Speaker 1: kinds of tax breaks, all sorts of benefits, and the
Speaker 1: key he gets privacy because he knows that nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: check in on him. Nobody down there gives a shit,
Speaker 1: So why would anyone in a position of power have
Speaker 1: anything to say about what Epstein's doing, especially if he's
Speaker 1: buttering everybody's bread. So JP Morgan, they're calling the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands out on their bullshit, and honestly, I think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. I've said it from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: If I was one of these girls who was assaulted
Speaker 1: by Epstein on this island, I would sue the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands for negligence as well. Didn't they get one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million dollars already from the estate Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you have girls out here who were abused who didn't
Speaker 1: get one single dollar. And while the US Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: is pilfering this money and pillaging all the funds that
Speaker 1: should be going to girls who were abused, they're wrapping
Speaker 1: it in the flag of justice. Meanwhile, not one single
Speaker 1: criminal complaint has been filed in the US Virgin Islands.
Speaker 1: Today's article is from CNBC and the headline JP Morgan
Speaker 1: Chase blast US Virgin Islands as complicit in Jeffrey Epstein's
Speaker 1: sex trafficking. This article was authored by Dan Mangen. JP
Speaker 1: Morgan Chase, in a court filing on Tuesday, called the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands complicit in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein,
Speaker 1: saying the sex predator gave high ranking officials their money,
Speaker 1: advice and favors in exchange for looking the other way
Speaker 1: when he trafficked young women to be abused on his
Speaker 1: island get away. Pretty powerful accusations, right. The sad part
Speaker 1: is these accusations are true, and it's all documented. We
Speaker 1: know about the relationships that Jeffrey Epstein had on this island.
Speaker 1: We know oh that he was donating money and spreading
Speaker 1: it around and we also know because of these donations,
Speaker 1: because of him spreading around money, he was given preferential
Speaker 1: treatment on the island, including all sorts of tax breaks.
Speaker 1: And if the US Virgin Islands is so gung ho
Speaker 1: on getting money, why would they be giving people like
Speaker 1: Epstein billionaires and millionaires tax breaks in the first place.
Speaker 1: For two decades and for long after JPMC exited Epstein
Speaker 1: as a client, the entity that most directly failed to
Speaker 1: protect public safety and most actively facilitated and benefited from
Speaker 1: Epstein's continued criminal activity was the plaintiff in this case,
Speaker 1: the USVII government itself. The bank said in the Manhattan
Speaker 1: Federal Court filing, you know two things can be true
Speaker 1: at once, right, and in this case, that's certainly what
Speaker 1: we're seeing. A the bank facilitated Epstein, no doubt about it,
Speaker 1: zero doubts about the fact that the financial sector was
Speaker 1: holding Epstein's dick throughout this whole entire thing. And there's
Speaker 1: also no doubt that the US Virgin Islands also filed
Speaker 1: these girls. And now they're over here with their hands
Speaker 1: in the cookie jar, hoping to extract some more sweets.
Speaker 1: I mean, one hundred and twenty five million wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep going and let's take every last dollar
Speaker 1: that's in that estate so that we can do what
Speaker 1: with it. Give it to the government of the USVII
Speaker 1: so they can waste it on bullshit. Meanwhile, like I said,
Speaker 1: how many girls that are nameless, that never came out
Speaker 1: in public, that have never talked about what happened aren't
Speaker 1: gonna get one single dollar in restitution for what they
Speaker 1: went through. That number is literally in the hundreds. Rather
Speaker 1: than stop him, they helped them, JP Morgan said, citing
Speaker 1: millions of dollars in tax incentives and other benefits the
Speaker 1: territory gave Epstein. That claim comes as JP Morgan defends
Speaker 1: itself against a civil lawsuit by the Virgin Islands, which
Speaker 1: alleges that the bank knowingly enabled Epstein sex trafficking and
Speaker 1: benefited from it when he was a customer from nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight through twenty thirteen. They all benefited from it.
Speaker 1: And now that it's time to answer before the man, Well,
Speaker 1: it's everybody else's fault, and everybody else was the one
Speaker 1: who was a key component for what Epstein had going on.
Speaker 1: But the reality is all of these people were key components,
Speaker 1: and none of this could have taken place if people
Speaker 1: like this didn't play ball. But the fact is people
Speaker 1: are greedy, The fact is government officials and bureaucrats are corrupt,
Speaker 1: And the fact is people like Jeffrey Epstein know that
Speaker 1: and utilize it to their benefit. A spokesman for the
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands Attorney General's Office told CNBC on Tuesday, JP
Speaker 1: Morgan Chase facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and should be held
Speaker 1: accountable for violating the law. They should, and so should you.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You're not holding anyone accountable. You're
Speaker 1: holding people financially accountable. But how many of these people
Speaker 1: are going to jail? How many criminal cases has the
Speaker 1: USBI brought against any of these people? Oh, I can
Speaker 1: tell you the answer is zero. So all of the
Speaker 1: grand standing and the whoing and the hawing about justice,
Speaker 1: it's all bs. It's just nothing more than a vehicle
Speaker 1: for them to use to further their own ambitions of
Speaker 1: getting a few more bucks. This is an obvious attempt
Speaker 1: to shift blame away from JP Morgan Chase, which had
Speaker 1: a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession
Speaker 1: of Epstein's human trafficking and failed to do so. The
Speaker 1: spokesman said, you know what's so crazy about that that
Speaker 1: all the way up until Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, he was
Speaker 1: bringing girls into the Virgin Islands.
Speaker 2: How do we know that?
Speaker 1: Well, people who worked at the airport talked about it.
Speaker 1: They were very candid about what Epstein was up too,
Speaker 1: and the fact that little girls were getting off those planes.
Speaker 1: So where were all the customs agents down in the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands? Where was the police force, Where was
Speaker 1: the Special Task Force to deal with human trafficking? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, there were nowhere to be found. And they're
Speaker 1: the ones who have subpoena power. They're the ones who
Speaker 1: can arrescue. So all of the claims about anyone else
Speaker 1: stepping up and stopping Jeffrey Epstein, that's a bunch of
Speaker 1: bullshit in my opinion. The bank's filing on Tuesday asked
Speaker 1: Judge Jed Raykoff to deny a motion by the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands that would preclude JP Morgan from raising certain
Speaker 1: so called affirmative defenses to the lawsuit. Usvii's motion seeks
Speaker 1: to strike only those specific defenses that threatened to expose
Speaker 1: its relationship with Epstein. The filing said, look, they're not
Speaker 1: wrong here, and I'll tell you what the USVII is
Speaker 1: playing with fire. If I was one of these survivors,
Speaker 1: I'd be starting a lawsuit against the US Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: to get restitution, especially if I got abused there. So
Speaker 1: you mean to tell me I get abused on your
Speaker 1: island under your watch, but somehow you pocket one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five million and I get un goats. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's gonna go over well. In a footnote, the filing
Speaker 1: said the Virgin Islands had three governors over the past
Speaker 1: sixteen years, John DeJong, Kenneth Mapp, and current Governor Albert
Speaker 1: Bryan Jr. As detailed here in Epstein had close ties
Speaker 1: to each of them. That footnote said, and that is
Speaker 1: not a lie either. All of those people had ties
Speaker 1: to Epstein, money connections, the whole thing. And all of
Speaker 1: these local bureaucrats that are now showing up to the
Speaker 1: party talking about justice needs to be served after they've
Speaker 1: been filling their pockets with Epstein's plunder.
Speaker 2: Are some of the biggest goofballs.
Speaker 1: Going and they should be exposed for their bullshit Earlier Tuesday,
Speaker 1: another court filing for the first time revealed that Brian
Speaker 1: is scheduled to be deposed June sixth for the lawsuit.
Speaker 1: A source familiar with the situation told CNBC that JP
Speaker 1: Morgan requested the deposition of Brian, who has been governor
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen. Well, this is a trap from mister Bryan,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, and he better be very, very
Speaker 1: careful he doesn't talk himself straight into a perjury charge. J. P. Morgan,
Speaker 1: CEO of Jamie Diamond, is scheduled to be deposed in
Speaker 1: the suit Friday. In New York, Raykoff last week authorized
Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands to serve as subpoena for Tesla's CEO
Speaker 1: Elon Musk on his electric car company, seeking documents that
Speaker 1: Musk may have showing any communications involving him, Epstein and
Speaker 1: JP Morgan. That subpoena is based on suspicion by the
Speaker 1: territory that Epstein may have referred Musk or tried to
Speaker 1: refer him to the bank as a client. Epstein, a
Speaker 1: former friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, maintained a
Speaker 1: home on a private island in the territory where he
Speaker 1: sexually abused many young women over the years, he used
Speaker 1: money from his JP Morgan accounts to pay women and
Speaker 1: fly them there. In its filing Tuesday, JP Morgan noted
Speaker 1: that when Epstein was released from a Florida jail after
Speaker 1: pleading guilty to procuring a minor for sex, he tried
Speaker 1: to arrange for his parole to be transferred from the
Speaker 1: state to the Virgin Islands, where he registered as a
Speaker 1: sex offender. He also maintained his primary residence in the territory,
Speaker 1: which put him under USVII law enforcements, direct jurisdiction and supervision.
Speaker 1: The filing said, remember, as bad as JP Morgan is,
Speaker 1: and they're bad as hell, they didn't have the power
Speaker 1: to arrest Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't have the power to
Speaker 1: seize his bank account. They didn't have the power to
Speaker 1: step in and drop some RICO indictments on them. But
Speaker 1: the US Virgin Islands did. Why didn't they do that?
Speaker 1: Why didn't they step up and stop Jeffrey Epstein from
Speaker 1: doing what he was doing. That's really the only question
Speaker 1: that should be asked. I don't care about all of
Speaker 1: the other bullshit. I don't care about them whitewashing it
Speaker 1: and I don't care about them trying to make excuses.
Speaker 1: The fact is they helped Epstein, they furthered his criminal enterprise,
Speaker 1: and not only that, they profited from it. So now
Speaker 1: not only did they profit from the crimes, they're going
Speaker 1: to profit when it's time for restitution, even though they
Speaker 1: never held anyone responsible. So how in the hell is
Speaker 1: the US Virgin Islands entitled to any money here whatsoever?
Speaker 1: Can somebody please explain that to me? The bank alleges
Speaker 1: there was a decades long quid pro quo between Epstein
Speaker 1: and the USVII government that took three forms. Yes yes, yes, First,
Speaker 1: high ranking USVII officials spent years courting and gladly accepting
Speaker 1: Epstein's influence in the forms of gifts, favors, and political donations,
Speaker 1: the filing said. Second, in exchange, USVII granted Epstein preferential
Speaker 1: treatment in the form of more than redacted amount million
Speaker 1: in tax incentives, among other benefits. Third, and most troubling,
Speaker 1: USVII protected Epstein, fostering the perfect conditions for Epstein's criminal
Speaker 1: conduct to continue undetected. The problem is it wasn't undetected.
Speaker 1: You knew about it too. JP Morgan don't act like
Speaker 1: you had no idea. You're both culpable. So it's like
Speaker 1: watching the Taliban and al Qaeda argue about.
Speaker 2: Who's right here.
Speaker 1: Basically, specifically, the filing says, Epstein supported the candidacy of
Speaker 1: Stacy Plaskett, the Virgin Islands delegate to the US House
Speaker 1: of Representatives, after she worked for the USVII Economic Development Authority,
Speaker 1: which awarded Epstein massive tax benefits. Plaskett also worked at
Speaker 1: a law firm that represented him in business affairs, The
Speaker 1: filing says, and keep in mind, Stacey Plaskett, she had
Speaker 1: a very prominent position during the January sixth committee. Right,
Speaker 1: So how is it that all like this who had
Speaker 1: such ties to Epstein is getting such a prominent position. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because nobody in the Congress or
Speaker 1: the Senate gives one single fuck about what Epstein did
Speaker 1: not unless they can use it politically to hit one
Speaker 1: of their enemies over the head with Besides that, the
Speaker 1: people who were affected, the fact that they were laundering money,
Speaker 1: the fact that the most powerful people in our society
Speaker 1: were hanging out with this dude, none of that matters.
Speaker 1: Epstein and his employees donated more than thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to Plaskets congressional races, according to the Bank.
Speaker 2: So no Julie K.
Speaker 1: Brown article no hard charging journalist wants to dive in
Speaker 1: to Stacey Plaskett and her relationship with Epstein. Oh I
Speaker 1: wonder why could that have something to do with Once again,
Speaker 1: circling back to the comment made by Nancy Pelosi's daughter,
Speaker 1: some of our faives are going to get caught up
Speaker 1: in this. I feel like the same kind of dive
Speaker 1: that was done on Acosta should be done here. And
Speaker 1: if the legac media was serious about their shit, they'd
Speaker 1: be doing it.
Speaker 2: But they're not.
Speaker 1: They're more interested in dividing you with carefully curated and
Speaker 1: crafted wedge issues. The filing said that Epstein's primary conduit
Speaker 1: for spreading the money and influence through Virgin Island's government
Speaker 1: was then First Lady Cecialed du Jong, the wife of
Speaker 1: former Governor de Jong, who served from two thousand and
Speaker 1: seven through twenty fifteen, and despite her public role and
Speaker 1: official duties, First Lady de Jong managed Epstein's USVII based companies,
Speaker 1: receiving from Epstein a salary, bonuses and other benefits. The
Speaker 1: filing said Now, remember this is the first lady of
Speaker 1: the island. Okay, her dude was the governor, the man,
Speaker 1: the top dog on the island, and she was packing
Speaker 1: her purse full of Epstein's money. And the USVII wants
Speaker 1: to talk about other people being complicit. Take a look
Speaker 1: in the mirror. Much of the details of the claims
Speaker 1: related to Cecile DeJong are redacted in the filing, but
Speaker 1: in one section, the bank says that in addition to
Speaker 1: working for his companies, she extensively lobbied on his behalf
Speaker 1: with government officials, including the governor. Yeah, there's no conflict
Speaker 1: of interest there. Everything's on the up and up. In
Speaker 1: another heavily redacted section, the filing says the Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: aided Epstein's criminal activity. The specific allegations as to how
Speaker 1: the government did that is blacked out. Well, by letting
Speaker 1: them operate taking money to look the other way. We
Speaker 1: all know how this scam works, and it's been going
Speaker 1: on forever. You go to an impoverished nation or a
Speaker 1: nation that's having some issues financially, you bring a bunch
Speaker 1: of money and you start spreading that money around to
Speaker 1: the local officials, and before you know it. Everybody wants
Speaker 1: to play ball, and now you have a bunch of
Speaker 1: government officials on the payroll who are corrupt, and you
Speaker 1: can do whatever you want. And that's basically what Epstein
Speaker 1: had going on down here. In another heavily redacted section,
Speaker 1: the filing says the Virgin Islands aided Epstein's criminal activity.
Speaker 1: The specific allegations as to how the government did that
Speaker 1: is blacked out, almost completely redacted. Is a section of
Speaker 1: the filing entitled, Epstein exerted influence over usvis sex offender
Speaker 1: legislation and received lax monitoring. And unfortunately that was the story.
Speaker 1: Wherever Epstein was right lax monitoring, he caught a deal.
Speaker 1: Everybody hooked them up. You had sy Vance's office, the
Speaker 1: Prosecutor's office in New York arguing that Jeffrey Epstein shouldn't
Speaker 1: be classified as a dangerous pedophile. So that just tells
Speaker 1: you everything you need to know about the connections this
Speaker 1: idiot had. In one redacted section, the bank's lawyers wrote,
Speaker 1: while the USVII did conduct site visits of Epstein's residences,
Speaker 1: those inspections.
Speaker 2: Were cursory at best.
Speaker 1: Despite the direct infusions of lucrative tax incentives redacted and
Speaker 1: lacks enforcement. Epstein still could not freely transport and exploit
Speaker 1: young women without assistance from the USVI government officials. Look,
Speaker 1: these are very very serious allegations, but allegations that I
Speaker 1: think have legs. There's no way Epstein could do this
Speaker 1: without the help of these corrupt officials on the island
Speaker 1: point blank period. In exchange for Epstein's cash and gifts,
Speaker 1: USVII made life easy for him. The filing said. The
Speaker 1: government mitigated any burdens from his sex offender status, and
Speaker 1: it made sure that no one asked too many questions
Speaker 1: about his transport and keeping of young girls on his island.
Speaker 1: The lawsuit against J. P. Morgan was filed in late
Speaker 1: December by then Virgin Island's Attorney General Denise George, who
Speaker 1: a month earlier had obtained a one hundred and five
Speaker 1: million dollar settlement from Epstein's estate. It is absurd, its obscene,
Speaker 1: and and they should be forced to pay all that
Speaker 1: money back, but pay it to these survivors, and not
Speaker 1: only pay that money back, but compounded with interest as well,
Speaker 1: because they basically stole from girls that were abused by Epstein.
Speaker 1: You really think the USVII had damages done to it.
Speaker 1: They were the ones helping this dude out, so I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear shit from them. And I've been
Speaker 1: saying this for how long now. I'm shocked that took
Speaker 1: this long for JP Morgan and their lawyers to jump
Speaker 1: on board and start pointing the finger at the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands because these dudes are culpable and they're certainly complicit.
Speaker 1: Days after she filed that suit, Brian fire George, who
Speaker 1: had been Attorney General for four years. The governor fired George,
Speaker 1: reportedly because she failed to alert him that she planned
Speaker 1: to sue JP Morgan, which is the largest bank in
Speaker 1: the United States. Despite George's firing, the Virgin Islands has
Speaker 1: continued to aggressively pursue its litigation against the bank. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: there was another in a series of private telephone conferences
Speaker 1: with Raykoff over the case. A public docket entry summarized
Speaker 1: the outcome of that conference, which included lawyers for the
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands, JP Morgan, former JP Morgan executives, Jess Staley,
Speaker 1: and an Epstein accuser who has a separate, similar lawsuit
Speaker 1: pending against the bank. JP Morgan is trying to shift
Speaker 1: any legal liability it may have in the suit to Staley,
Speaker 1: who was a point of contact for Epstein at the bank,
Speaker 1: and that's bullshit as well, JP Morgan. They have to
Speaker 1: suffer Jess Staley. He has to pay the price, and
Speaker 1: so should the US Virgin Islands. But instead all the
Speaker 1: USVII has done here is profit. The deposition of Albert
Speaker 1: Bryant Junior is ordered to proceed on June sixth, the
Speaker 1: docket entry says. The entry also says that all parties
Speaker 1: other than JP Morgan are ordered to contact former officers
Speaker 1: and directors of JP Morgan only through council. CNBC requested
Speaker 1: comment from lawyers for the Virgin Islands and from JP
Speaker 1: Morgan about the conference on Tuesday. Epstein, sixty six, died
Speaker 1: by suicide, apparently in a Manhattan jail in August of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a month after he was arrested and charged
Speaker 1: in Manhattan federal court with child sex trafficking. Epstein pleaded
Speaker 1: guilty in two thousand and eight to a Florida state
Speaker 1: charge of soliciting sex from an underage girl and was
Speaker 1: sentenced to thirteen months in jail. His prior criminal case
Speaker 1: and Stinton jail which were known to JP Morgan at
Speaker 1: the time, came in the middle of his tenure as
Speaker 1: a customer of the bank, where he maintained accounts from
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight until the bank severed its relationship with
Speaker 1: him in twenty thirteen. Epstein became a customer of Deutsche
Speaker 1: Bank after that. Deutsche Bank last week agreed to settle
Speaker 1: a Manhattan federal court lawsuit filed by another Epstein accuser
Speaker 1: who alleged that bank enabled and benefit from his sex trafficking.
Speaker 1: Deutsche Bank will pay Epstein victims seventy five million in
Speaker 1: that deal. Now, seventy five million dollars. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of money, isn't it. Well, how is it that the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands gets more than that? Nobody can explain
Speaker 1: that to me. Deutsche Bank in twenty twenty agreed to
Speaker 1: pay one hundred and fifty million dollar fine to New
Speaker 1: York's financial regulators for its dealings with Epstein and other issues.
Speaker 1: We acknowledge our error onboarding Epstein in twenty thirteen and
Speaker 1: the weaknesses in our processes, and have learned from our
Speaker 1: mistakes and our shortcomings, bank spokesman Dylan Riddle said last week. Yeah, Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys learned a real hard lesson considering
Speaker 1: nobody ever went to jail and not one dollar came
Speaker 1: out of your own pocket. But the whole USVII thing
Speaker 1: from the jump has been laughable to me. As you
Speaker 1: all know, it's well documented. How many episodes do I
Speaker 1: have in the catalog where I'm going on and on
Speaker 1: and on about the read shown by the US Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands And it's not in the pursuit of justice. They've
Speaker 1: wrapped it in that flag, but it's not in the
Speaker 1: pursuit of justice. It's in the pursuit of greed. Mass
Speaker 1: is justice, and it's about time somebody called them out
Speaker 1: on it. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: this one. All of the information that goes with the
Speaker 1: episode can be found in the description box.
Speaker 2: Dude, you have a rive.
Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Speaker 1: As the lawsuit between JP Morgan and the United States
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands continues to work its way through the system,
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of allegations fired off from
Speaker 1: both sides, and in the latest salvo, JP Morgan's really
Speaker 1: taking off the gloves and letting loose as far as
Speaker 1: the allegations that they're making, and these allegations that they're
Speaker 1: making for those of you who might not have been
Speaker 1: following this story for a while, they're all true and
Speaker 1: there are years and years of receipts that back.
Speaker 2: It all up.
Speaker 1: So today we have an article from lawn Crime talking
Speaker 1: more about the corruption down in the US Virgin Islands
Speaker 1: and how the US Virgin Islands is now being called
Speaker 1: on the carpet for their hypocrisy. Today's article is from
Speaker 1: lawn Crime and the headline Jeffrey Epstein had close ties
Speaker 1: to Virgin Islands governor who fired crusading attorney general behind
Speaker 1: JP Morgan's suit. According to documents, this article was authored
Speaker 1: by Adam Klasfeld and the crusading ag that was fired
Speaker 1: none other than Denise George, the architect of the one
Speaker 1: hundred and five million dollar pilfering from the Epstein estate.
Speaker 1: So I don't know about crusading ag, more like another
Speaker 1: ag who's trying to enrich her buddies, because if she
Speaker 1: was worried about justice, she would have went after all
Speaker 1: of these people in the Virgin Islands who were helping
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, who were complicit in setting them up with charities,
Speaker 1: setting them up with all this other bullshit. But no,
Speaker 1: they didn't do that, did they. It was all civil.
Speaker 1: It was all about trying to get some money. And
Speaker 1: if things were as vile down here in the Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands as the US Virgin Islands is contending, don't you
Speaker 1: think that some people that helped Epstein down here at
Speaker 1: the metal level setting up businesses and whatnot should go
Speaker 1: to jail or go to prison. But we didn't hear
Speaker 1: that from Denise George, not once, so you can spare
Speaker 1: me with the whole crusading Attorney general nonsense. I don't
Speaker 1: buy that for a minute. Jeffrey Epstein had close ties
Speaker 1: to the sitting US Virgin Islands governor who fired the
Speaker 1: crusading Attorney general behind a lawsuit accusing JP Morgan Chase
Speaker 1: of knowingly profiting from sex trafficking. A court filing alleges
Speaker 1: JP Morgan has tried to deflect claims that it was
Speaker 1: complicit in Epstein's crimes by pointing the finger back at
Speaker 1: one of its accusers, the Virgin Islands government. And look,
Speaker 1: two things can be right at the same time. I'm
Speaker 1: not sitting here saying that JP Morgan shouldn't be held responsible.
Speaker 2: They should.
Speaker 1: But for the US Virgin Islands to play this game
Speaker 1: of everybody else's culpable and where not is just looney
Speaker 1: tunes to me, considering that this was all taking place
Speaker 1: at least this part of the conversation in their territory.
Speaker 1: Who had subpoena power down there, who could go and
Speaker 1: arrest people, who could draw a warrant and kicking a door?
Speaker 1: Certainly not JP Morgan. So where was the US Virgin
Speaker 1: Island government when all of this was going down. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, there were profiting on the backside of Epstein's bullshit.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week, JP Morgan filed a heavily redacted document
Speaker 1: claiming the Virgin Islands government actively facilitated and benefited from
Speaker 1: Epstein's continued criminal activity. Look, there is nothing incorrect about that,
Speaker 1: And as you all know, I hate JP Morgan, I
Speaker 1: hate the financial sector overall. So I'm not sitting here
Speaker 1: and trying to prop them up. But the facts, the facts,
Speaker 1: two things can be right at once, and in this
Speaker 1: case I see them as both being right, and that
Speaker 1: means JP Morgan and the US Virgin Islands are culpable,
Speaker 1: pretty simple. From where I'm sitting. On Thursday, broad swaths
Speaker 1: of redactions were lifted from the document, including black lines
Speaker 1: shielding passages about sitting Governor Albert Bryan. The USVII had
Speaker 1: three governors over the last sixteen years, John DeJong two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven to twenty fifteen, Kenneth Mapp twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen, and Albert Bryan twenty nineteen to the present.
Speaker 1: A footnote of the document notes, as detailed here in
Speaker 1: Epstein had close ties to each of them. So how
Speaker 1: do you get away from that? Right, every single one
Speaker 1: of these governors, every one of these big time politicians
Speaker 1: down in the US Virgin Islands was connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: And now when the rug gets pulled out from underneath
Speaker 1: everybody and it's time to pay the price, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the US Virgin Islands is also crying about
Speaker 1: being a victim. Because if you break it down, what's
Speaker 1: happening here with the US Virgin Islands is they've profited
Speaker 1: on both ends. They profited on the criminal conduct of
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, and then on the back end of that
Speaker 1: they set themselves up as a victim, and they profited
Speaker 1: from the estate money that should have went to the survivors.
Speaker 1: Money that should have went to survivors that haven't even
Speaker 1: come forward yet. But here we are with the US
Speaker 1: Virgin Islands pocketing one hundred and five million dollars and
Speaker 1: for what facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit. Boy, that's a nice reward.
Speaker 1: Certain unsealed passages describe donations either solicited by or to Brian.
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, the now current USVII Governor Albert Bryant
Speaker 1: facilitated donations by Epstein to usvii's schools and little leagues
Speaker 1: one of those line states. And remember Stacy Plaskett still
Speaker 1: going to visit Epstein all the way up to twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen at the townhouse. She's confirmed that herself. So she
Speaker 1: was there obviously to try and get these funds for
Speaker 1: the US Virgin Islands. And they didn't care that Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein was a registered sex offender.
Speaker 2: What do they care? Nobody cared?
Speaker 1: And you know how I know that because their actions
Speaker 1: speak much louder than their words ever could. Before being
Speaker 1: arrested for sex trafficking, Epstein routinely placed donations to cultivate
Speaker 1: an image of a wealthy philanthropist and often, prosecutors say,
Speaker 1: to gain access to young victims. Is now convicted accomplice
Speaker 1: Glene Maxwell's trial turned up evidence of Epstein's donation to
Speaker 1: Interlocan School of the Arts, a summer camp where Epstein
Speaker 1: met an anonymous fourteen year old victim who testified under
Speaker 1: the pseudonym Jane. And I don't think Maxwell's trial is
Speaker 1: the one that revealed that we were all talking about
Speaker 1: Interlocan School for quite some time. And you have to
Speaker 1: remember that even before Maxwell's trial popped up, there was
Speaker 1: a bunch of court documents out there floating around. There
Speaker 1: was a bunch of commentary from these survivors that just
Speaker 1: hadn't hit the mainstream legacy media, and once the survivors
Speaker 1: took their story to social media, well we see what
Speaker 1: happened in the aftermath of that. JP Morgan's filing contains
Speaker 1: few details about the charitable causes in which Brian allegedly
Speaker 1: sought to insert Epstein, but there are a few clues.
Speaker 1: One exhibit is described as showing Governor Bryan's suggestions for
Speaker 1: which schools Epstein should donate fifty thousand dollars. Another exhibit
Speaker 1: states Albert Bryan asked that the thirty thousand dollars go
Speaker 1: to VI Little League, and this is what they do,
Speaker 1: and this is what they've always done. And remember this
Speaker 1: was all after Epstein was already a registered sex offender.
Speaker 1: So none of these people have that excuse to fall
Speaker 1: back on, and certainly not Stacy Plaski. You would think
Speaker 1: that she'd be under way more pressure here for her
Speaker 1: relationship with Epstein, considering all of her nonsense, all of
Speaker 1: her carrying on. I would think that at some point
Speaker 1: this lady's going to have to answer some hard questions
Speaker 1: about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But unfortunately, like we know,
Speaker 1: the legacy media loves to protect their faves. A third
Speaker 1: describes a discussion of a twenty five thousand dollars private
Speaker 1: gift to current Governor Bryan's inaugural committee.
Speaker 2: Oh well, isn't that nice?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Epstein was just doing it out of
Speaker 1: the kindness of his hard folks. It had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with quid pro quo, It had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with hooking up these politicians down in the US Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands hoping that on the backside, he gets something in return,
Speaker 1: and what did he get in return? Protection able to
Speaker 1: maneuver financially basically, however, he wants tax breaks out the wazoo.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the US Virgin Islands, they're a victim here.
Speaker 1: Days after ex Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George sue
Speaker 1: JP Morgan over its relatetionationship with Epstein, Brian fired her
Speaker 1: without explanation. Local press reported that George hadn't informed Brian
Speaker 1: about the lawsuit before filing it, but the Governor's office
Speaker 1: downplayed any connection between the two events. George was replaced
Speaker 1: by her deputy, Carol Thomas Jacobs, and the AG's post
Speaker 1: is currently under the stewardship of Ariel K. Smith, whom
Speaker 1: Brian nominated in April. Gives you confidence down there, huh.
Speaker 1: There is zero oversight in places like this, and when
Speaker 1: you have all of these people complicit the way we
Speaker 1: see them complicit here, very easy for a guy like
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein to operate, and not only operate, but the flourish.
Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the governor didn't immediately respond to an
Speaker 1: email requesting comment. Another part of the document details former
Speaker 1: First Lady cecialed Dejong's alleged role in tweaking the Virgin
Speaker 1: Island sex offender legislation to Epstein's liking. Not only do
Speaker 1: you have this happen happening with her working towards getting
Speaker 1: the sex offender registry buttoned up for Epstein, you had
Speaker 1: the New York prosecutors and I'll keep saying this, arguing
Speaker 1: on Epstein's behalf that he wasn't going to be a
Speaker 1: repeat offender, that he was a level one offender, not
Speaker 1: a Level three offender. Can anyone explain that? Has anyone
Speaker 1: really asked the New York Prosecutor's office what they were
Speaker 1: up to and why they were making that argument considering
Speaker 1: who we were dealing with, of course not Let's hear
Speaker 1: some more about.
Speaker 2: Alex Acosta airline credit.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you want me to do at the
Speaker 1: hearing tomorrow? Dejen wrote to Epstein before the passage of
Speaker 1: the legislation. According to the document, I am going to
Speaker 1: try to find out if anyone from Justice has been
Speaker 1: asked to testify again on Monday. JP Morgan claims that
Speaker 1: Epstein's personal attorney, Maria Hodge, exchanged emails and phone calls
Speaker 1: with the Territory's Department of Justice and Attorney General about
Speaker 1: changes to the bill, which ultimately weren't to with satisfaction.
Speaker 1: Imagine being a child molester, a sex offender and still
Speaker 1: calling the shots down here the way he was. So
Speaker 1: don't tell me about the US Virgin Islands getting any
Speaker 1: more money. One hundred and five million isn't enough, I
Speaker 1: guess not, because their greed is once again showing here,
Speaker 1: but this time they might pay for it first, Lady DeJong,
Speaker 1: the bank says, offered Epstein comfort. I know this was
Speaker 1: a horrible week, and I'm really sorry about how things
Speaker 1: panned out, she allegedly wrote. Not being able to take
Speaker 1: someone out their word is incredibly frustrating. However, all is
Speaker 1: not lost, and we will figure something out by coming
Speaker 1: up with a game plan to get around these obstacles.
Speaker 1: In other words, we'll come up with a game plan
Speaker 1: to get around the laws that were put on the
Speaker 1: books because you're a child molester. But don't worry, we'll
Speaker 1: get around that because I'm married to mister DeJong here
Speaker 1: and I can do whatever I want. So my question is,
Speaker 1: where's the rage brigade?
Speaker 2: Oh? That's right.
Speaker 1: They only show up when it's convenient to them and
Speaker 1: their political narratives. JP Morgan claims that DeJong delivered by
Speaker 1: crafting a plan to travel from and to the Virgin
Speaker 1: Islands with the help of then local politicians. So here's
Speaker 1: the facts, folks. Okay, they're all culpable, JP Morgan, Virgin Islands,
Speaker 1: all of those politicians that were in office, that were
Speaker 1: in bed with Epstein, all of them, they're all culpable.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be interested to see how this
Speaker 1: gets responded to by the US Virgin Islands moving forward
Speaker 1: here with their next court filing, because you know they're
Speaker 1: going to respond to this. And honestly, the US Virgin Islands,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, has really stepped in it here. I
Speaker 1: don't think they expected a full frontal as salt the
Speaker 1: way they're getting it from JP Morgan. I don't think
Speaker 1: they expected them to turn the tables the way they have.
Speaker 1: And I think that the US Virgin Islands has now
Speaker 1: been caught flat foot because for years their buddies in
Speaker 1: the legacy media didn't really dig into this story. I mean,
Speaker 1: a mad and stacy plasket up there yelling and screaming
Speaker 1: from an ivory tower about this that or the other thing. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: she's paling around with Jeffrey Epstein. Give me a break already.
Speaker 1: So now the ball's in the court of the legacy media.
Speaker 1: Are they going to do their job or are they
Speaker 1: going to continue to whitewash their faves participation in Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Epstein's criminal enterprise? All right, folks, that's going to do
Speaker 1: it for this one. All of the information that goes
Speaker 1: with the episode can be found in the description box.