Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Whenever the subject of Jeffrey Epstein comes up,
there are a lot of people who claim to have
knowledge of what he was up to and the sort
of shit that he was involved in. But I think
one of the people that knew him the best was
Steve Hoffenberg, and that's because they were business partners at
Tower Financial, and according to mister Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein was
the one that was running the Ponzi scheme that Hoffenberg
ended up going to prison for. And it was at
that point with the Tower of Financial scheme collapsing, where
a lot of people believe that Jeffrey Epstein was first
introduced to the FBI and that's how he got onto
their radar, and then from there, obviously it was all downhill.
But considering the opaque nature of Jeffrey Epstein's behavior and
what he was up to, I think it's important to
go to the source and hear from people that knew
him the best. It's one thing to hear it secondhand
from people that talk to somebody who knew him. It's
a whole lass other thing to hear it from the source. Itself.
So today we have an article from the Daily Mail,
and this article was first published back in July of
twenty twenty one headline Ponzi schemer who was conned out
of one hundred million by Jeffrey Epstein suggests dead pedophile
billionaire was a spy who moved in intelligent circles and
was introduced to Glenn Maxwell's father Robert by a British
arms dealer. And of course that British arms dealer is
none other than Douglas Lease. The author of this article
is Emily Crane, a Ponzi schemer who says he was
conned out of one hundred million by Jeffrey Epstein. Claims
the dead pedophile moved in intelligent circles and was introduced
to Glenn Maxwell's father Robert by a British arms dealer.
And we have heard this time and time again, and
Steve Hoffenberg just reinforced what people were already talking about.
And I can tell you with confidence that Steve really
believed this. I spoke with Steve multiple times before he
passed away, and there was no doubt that I believe
what Steve had to say about Jeffrey Epstein. Now does
that make Steve Hoffenberg a great guy or somebody that
wasn't up to no good. Of course not. But two
things can be true at the same time, right, And
if you want to now a criminal, you're going to
have to listen to what other criminals have to say.
The claims made by Stephen Hoffenberg, who's a former business
partner of Epstein, were published by Rolling Stone on Thursday.
Hoffenberg served eighteen years in prison after pleading guilty back
in ninety five for a bilking investors out of more
than four hundred and fifty million dollars when he was
running Towers Financial. Epstein worked for Hoffenberg at Towers Financial
as a paid consultant in the eighties, and according to Hoffenberg,
the whole entire thing was Epstein's baby. Jeffrey Epstein came
up with a plan, came up with a plot, and
was the man that was making everything move, and Steve
Hoffenberg ended up taking the fall, and Jeffrey Epstein ended
up working as a CIA informant, asset, whatever you want
to call it. But let's not split hairs here. The
fact is Jeffrey Epstein was an asset for multiple governments,
but mainly the United States government, at least that's where
his origins began. Now we all know that he was
a free agent and he was willing to work for
whoever was offering up the right amount of money, right.
I mean, we're seeing new reports now about how Epstein
was brokering deals behind the scenes with Israel and UAE.
So this man was not just some loan predator. Was
not some guy sitting around having a wank watching disgusting videos.
Now I'm sure he was doing that too, but he
was much more than that. And I think that's the
point that a lot of people are still missing when
they're talking about this story. He made the claims about
Epstein in an interview with British journalist Vicky Ward back
in two thousand and two while he was serving that
prison sentence in Massachusetts. And it's crazy that Steve Hoffenberg
was the only one who went down for that, considering
Jeffrey Epstein was so deeply ensconced in that you would
think that he would have been one of the top targets, right,
somebody that would have been sitting in a cell right
next to mister Hoffenberg. But somehow Jeffrey Epstein never ended
up sitting in any cells. Instead, he ended up sitting
in the White House and palaces around the world. Among
the allegations that he made was at Epstein ran in
intelligence circles and that one of his mentors was British
defence contractor named Douglas Lease. Facts. We've already talked about this.
We've talked about Jeffrey Epstein in the gun running. We've
talked about Jeffrey Epstein and the infrastructure that was built
using the same template that was used for Iran Contra.
And these are a lot of the same people that
you see pop up Lese, who died in twenty eleven,
was an arms dealer, according to Hoffenberg. Lisa's son denies that,
but did say that his father was a mentor to
Epstein back in the eighties. Oh yeah, he wasn't an
arms dealer though. No, he wasn't running around with Ann Koshogi.
He wasn't selling all kinds of weapons to anybody that
was looking to buy them. No, that never happened. Hoffenberg,
who also claimed to know Lease, alleged the defense contractor
introduced Epstein to Glenn Maxwell's late father, Robert Maxwell. Aristocratic
Europeans and people in the arms business. Four separate sources,
ranging from former arms dealers to expies, said that Epstein
went on to work for various governments, including the Israelis
through his arms dealing work, according to Wards Rolling Stone Report.
And this is where it gets conflated, right, There's a
lot of people out there that want to act like
Jeffrey Epstein was strictly working for the Israeli government and
that's not the case. Now, does that absolve the Israeli
government for everything Epstein was up to on their behalf,
of course not. But we have to call the balls
and strikes for what they are. And unfortunately, Jeffrey Epstein
is a monster of Frankenstein, of American creation, and this
Frankenstein was farmed out from there. Look, Epstein had no
problem working for anybody, whether it be the Russians, whether
it be the UAE, whether it be the Saudi's, Israelis, America,
whoever was paying wherever he thought he could get a foothold.
And I can tell you without a doubt that all
the sources that I've talked to, including our good buddy
Agent X, has said the same thing about Jeffrey Epstein.
Douglas Lees and what was going on as far as
the people he was around in the infrastructure that he
was building. Ward, who has a documentary coming out about Glaine,
reports that Robert Maxwell introduced Epstein to Israeli leaders and
used him as part of an influence campaign. Robert Maxwell
was a disgraced British newspaper baron, notorious fraudster who died
in suspicious circumstances after falling off his mega yacht in
nineteen ninety one. After his death, he was revealed to
have stolen six hundred and twenty three million from employee
pension funds. And I have my doubts about Robert Maxwell
falling off the boat while he was having a whiz.
That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I think that
it's more likely that something happened to him as far
as external forces, if you get my drift. Not only
did he burn a bunch of people for all this money,
but he was deeply, deeply involved in all kinds of
intelligence all over the world. And while I'll be the
first one to tell you that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't some
kind of secret man spy, Robert Maxwell certainly was, and
there is no doubt about that. It's long been claimed
that Robert Maxwell was a Masad spy, but it has
never been proven. Uh what where was he buried again? Oh? Yeah,
the Mount of Olives or whatever it's called where they
bury their spies. Come on, man, See this is the problem.
Nobody ever wants to be honest. Everybody wants to protect
whatever sort of side that they're on, even if that
comes at the cost of truth. And I'm so tired
of it. Me. I'm not on any one side but yours.
Fuck all these people. We're in this shit together, folks.
None of these people are coming to save us. None
of these people care about us. None of these people
that you fight about on a regular basis are coming
to save you. And the sooner everybody realizes that, the better.
Hoffenberg claimed Epstein had told him that he worked with
Robert Maxwell on various projects, including solving his debt issues.
He also alleged that Epstein told him he was involved
in national security issues through his work with Robert Maxwell
and Lease. Oh there is no doubt. And this is
another reason that they're so reticent to give us these files.
Imagine if we got all the files, every last one
of them, unredacted, what they would say. And I don't
just be in the ones that the Justice Department allegedly has.
I'm talking about the ones that are hidden somewhere in Langley.
How about we get those files. Hoffenberg claims the work
involved black mail influenced trading trading information at a level
that is very serious and dangerous. When asked back in
two thousand and two, Epstein reportedly denied having ever met
Lease or Robert Maxwell. Well, of course he's not going
to tell you about his crew. The real people that
were the engine These are the people that help him
set up the template. They were the ones who showed
him the proper way to hide the money, how to
manage it, what strings to pull, who to talk to internationally.
And they're the ones who opened the door when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein's entrance into the world of intelligence
and compromont. People who know Epstein and Glaine have claimed
in court documents that they met after her father's death,
but an investigative podcast released last year claimed that Glaine
was introduced to Epstein by her father in nineteen eighty eight,
three years before he died. And I think that's probably
the likeliest scenario, right I can't you know tell you
for sure one hundred percent, But when you look at
the genesis here, that seems like the most likely scenario.
Gland went on to become Epstein's alleged madam you mean,
co conspirator, fellow child abuser, general, all around scumbag and
bipuedal serpent right, and has since been charged with procuring
fourteen age girls for Epstein to sexually abuse between nineteen
ninety four and two thousand and four. Maxwell was arrested
in July last year and has pleaded not guilty to
the charges. Epstein killed himself in prison, allegedly, and it
wasn't in prison, it was jail in twenty nineteen, awaiting
trial on sex trafficking charges dating back almost twenty years.
After being released from prison in twenty fifteen, Hoffenberg filed
a lawsuit against Epstein, alleging that the billionaire pedal file
was involved in the same Ponzi scheme that landed him
in jail. Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein fleeced him for one
hun undred million dollars while working for him, and that
the billionaire pedophile worked with US prosecutors against them. And
so when you hear me talk about Jeffrey Epstein flipped.
This is what I mean. We have it from multiple
sources that he was working with the government in one
capacity or another, and the only thing refuting that is
the government itself. So I don't know about you, but
I don't exactly find the government at this point to
be a reliable narrator. So the whole trust me bro
process that they expect me to follow is just not
going to work and keeping it a whole lass buck.
I don't believe a single word that this government says.
I mean, I'm skeptical most times of every administration, but
this administration they've done nothing but lie when it comes
to Jeffrey Epstein. Then again, considering the history of Jeffrey
Epstein of this investigation, why in the hell should we
expect anything less. All right, folks, that's going to do
it for this one, and over the rest of today
and into tomorrow, we're going to finish up that alex
Acosta OIG interview. Because I'll tell you what, after reading
that and actually looking at it, seeing the receipts for
myself and not a summary, there is no doubt that
the fix was in And I have no idea how
anyone who reads those documents doesn't see it, especially considering
how much he was leaning on people like Menchell, who
turned out to be in Jeffrey Epstein's pocket. So we're
going to continue down that rabbit hole and see where
it leads us, and then after that's completed, we'll be
diving into some more unsealed files. But until then, that's
going to do it for this one. All of the
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