1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,839 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:02,839 --> 00:00:07,519 Epstein Chronicles. Whenever the subject of Jeffrey Epstein comes up, 3 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:09,640 there are a lot of people who claim to have 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,800 knowledge of what he was up to and the sort 5 00:00:12,839 --> 00:00:15,160 of shit that he was involved in. But I think 6 00:00:15,199 --> 00:00:17,760 one of the people that knew him the best was 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,199 Steve Hoffenberg, and that's because they were business partners at 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:27,879 Tower Financial, and according to mister Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein was 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,800 the one that was running the Ponzi scheme that Hoffenberg 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,320 ended up going to prison for. And it was at 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,840 that point with the Tower of Financial scheme collapsing, where 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,159 a lot of people believe that Jeffrey Epstein was first 13 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,520 introduced to the FBI and that's how he got onto 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,679 their radar, and then from there, obviously it was all downhill. 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,479 But considering the opaque nature of Jeffrey Epstein's behavior and 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,960 what he was up to, I think it's important to 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,479 go to the source and hear from people that knew 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,159 him the best. It's one thing to hear it secondhand 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,280 from people that talk to somebody who knew him. It's 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,920 a whole lass other thing to hear it from the source. Itself. 21 00:01:05,599 --> 00:01:08,120 So today we have an article from the Daily Mail, 22 00:01:08,599 --> 00:01:12,159 and this article was first published back in July of 23 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:17,359 twenty twenty one headline Ponzi schemer who was conned out 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,640 of one hundred million by Jeffrey Epstein suggests dead pedophile 25 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,719 billionaire was a spy who moved in intelligent circles and 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,680 was introduced to Glenn Maxwell's father Robert by a British 27 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:31,879 arms dealer. And of course that British arms dealer is 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,760 none other than Douglas Lease. The author of this article 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,959 is Emily Crane, a Ponzi schemer who says he was 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,959 conned out of one hundred million by Jeffrey Epstein. Claims 31 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,640 the dead pedophile moved in intelligent circles and was introduced 32 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,079 to Glenn Maxwell's father Robert by a British arms dealer. 33 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:52,560 And we have heard this time and time again, and 34 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,480 Steve Hoffenberg just reinforced what people were already talking about. 35 00:01:57,359 --> 00:01:59,560 And I can tell you with confidence that Steve really 36 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,040 believed this. I spoke with Steve multiple times before he 37 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:07,359 passed away, and there was no doubt that I believe 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,240 what Steve had to say about Jeffrey Epstein. Now does 39 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,159 that make Steve Hoffenberg a great guy or somebody that 40 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,159 wasn't up to no good. Of course not. But two 41 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:19,800 things can be true at the same time, right, And 42 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,639 if you want to now a criminal, you're going to 43 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,800 have to listen to what other criminals have to say. 44 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 The claims made by Stephen Hoffenberg, who's a former business 45 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,520 partner of Epstein, were published by Rolling Stone on Thursday. 46 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:34,919 Hoffenberg served eighteen years in prison after pleading guilty back 47 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,000 in ninety five for a bilking investors out of more 48 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,319 than four hundred and fifty million dollars when he was 49 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,479 running Towers Financial. Epstein worked for Hoffenberg at Towers Financial 50 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,599 as a paid consultant in the eighties, and according to Hoffenberg, 51 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:54,400 the whole entire thing was Epstein's baby. Jeffrey Epstein came 52 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:57,080 up with a plan, came up with a plot, and 53 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,680 was the man that was making everything move, and Steve 54 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,520 Hoffenberg ended up taking the fall, and Jeffrey Epstein ended 55 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:08,599 up working as a CIA informant, asset, whatever you want 56 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:12,280 to call it. But let's not split hairs here. The 57 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:16,080 fact is Jeffrey Epstein was an asset for multiple governments, 58 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,439 but mainly the United States government, at least that's where 59 00:03:19,439 --> 00:03:22,479 his origins began. Now we all know that he was 60 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,759 a free agent and he was willing to work for 61 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,800 whoever was offering up the right amount of money, right. 62 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:31,240 I mean, we're seeing new reports now about how Epstein 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:36,199 was brokering deals behind the scenes with Israel and UAE. 64 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:38,879 So this man was not just some loan predator. Was 65 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:43,199 not some guy sitting around having a wank watching disgusting videos. 66 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:45,400 Now I'm sure he was doing that too, but he 67 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:48,039 was much more than that. And I think that's the 68 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,360 point that a lot of people are still missing when 69 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,879 they're talking about this story. He made the claims about 70 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:57,759 Epstein in an interview with British journalist Vicky Ward back 71 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,879 in two thousand and two while he was serving that 72 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,800 prison sentence in Massachusetts. And it's crazy that Steve Hoffenberg 73 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:07,840 was the only one who went down for that, considering 74 00:04:07,919 --> 00:04:11,280 Jeffrey Epstein was so deeply ensconced in that you would 75 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:13,520 think that he would have been one of the top targets, right, 76 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,519 somebody that would have been sitting in a cell right 77 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,040 next to mister Hoffenberg. But somehow Jeffrey Epstein never ended 78 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,319 up sitting in any cells. Instead, he ended up sitting 79 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,879 in the White House and palaces around the world. Among 80 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,959 the allegations that he made was at Epstein ran in 81 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:34,079 intelligence circles and that one of his mentors was British 82 00:04:34,079 --> 00:04:38,720 defence contractor named Douglas Lease. Facts. We've already talked about this. 83 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:42,079 We've talked about Jeffrey Epstein in the gun running. We've 84 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:45,639 talked about Jeffrey Epstein and the infrastructure that was built 85 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:49,439 using the same template that was used for Iran Contra. 86 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,600 And these are a lot of the same people that 87 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:57,439 you see pop up Lese, who died in twenty eleven, 88 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,000 was an arms dealer, according to Hoffenberg. Lisa's son denies that, 89 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:04,839 but did say that his father was a mentor to 90 00:05:04,879 --> 00:05:07,360 Epstein back in the eighties. Oh yeah, he wasn't an 91 00:05:07,439 --> 00:05:12,000 arms dealer though. No, he wasn't running around with Ann Koshogi. 92 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:15,959 He wasn't selling all kinds of weapons to anybody that 93 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:21,160 was looking to buy them. No, that never happened. Hoffenberg, 94 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:24,360 who also claimed to know Lease, alleged the defense contractor 95 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:29,240 introduced Epstein to Glenn Maxwell's late father, Robert Maxwell. Aristocratic 96 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,600 Europeans and people in the arms business. Four separate sources, 97 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,120 ranging from former arms dealers to expies, said that Epstein 98 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,519 went on to work for various governments, including the Israelis 99 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,879 through his arms dealing work, according to Wards Rolling Stone Report. 100 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,319 And this is where it gets conflated, right, There's a 101 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:49,759 lot of people out there that want to act like 102 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,560 Jeffrey Epstein was strictly working for the Israeli government and 103 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,879 that's not the case. Now, does that absolve the Israeli 104 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:59,680 government for everything Epstein was up to on their behalf, 105 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,079 of course not. But we have to call the balls 106 00:06:03,079 --> 00:06:07,279 and strikes for what they are. And unfortunately, Jeffrey Epstein 107 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:11,240 is a monster of Frankenstein, of American creation, and this 108 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,879 Frankenstein was farmed out from there. Look, Epstein had no 109 00:06:14,959 --> 00:06:18,240 problem working for anybody, whether it be the Russians, whether 110 00:06:18,319 --> 00:06:22,079 it be the UAE, whether it be the Saudi's, Israelis, America, 111 00:06:22,399 --> 00:06:26,639 whoever was paying wherever he thought he could get a foothold. 112 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:29,360 And I can tell you without a doubt that all 113 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,120 the sources that I've talked to, including our good buddy 114 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,240 Agent X, has said the same thing about Jeffrey Epstein. 115 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,199 Douglas Lees and what was going on as far as 116 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,600 the people he was around in the infrastructure that he 117 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,920 was building. Ward, who has a documentary coming out about Glaine, 118 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,959 reports that Robert Maxwell introduced Epstein to Israeli leaders and 119 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:57,240 used him as part of an influence campaign. Robert Maxwell 120 00:06:57,639 --> 00:07:01,519 was a disgraced British newspaper baron, notorious fraudster who died 121 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,240 in suspicious circumstances after falling off his mega yacht in 122 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:09,040 nineteen ninety one. After his death, he was revealed to 123 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:11,959 have stolen six hundred and twenty three million from employee 124 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:15,879 pension funds. And I have my doubts about Robert Maxwell 125 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:18,399 falling off the boat while he was having a whiz. 126 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:23,160 That seems a bit ridiculous to me. I think that 127 00:07:23,199 --> 00:07:26,199 it's more likely that something happened to him as far 128 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:30,920 as external forces, if you get my drift. Not only 129 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:33,040 did he burn a bunch of people for all this money, 130 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:36,680 but he was deeply, deeply involved in all kinds of 131 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,600 intelligence all over the world. And while I'll be the 132 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,800 first one to tell you that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't some 133 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:48,160 kind of secret man spy, Robert Maxwell certainly was, and 134 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:50,879 there is no doubt about that. It's long been claimed 135 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:53,439 that Robert Maxwell was a Masad spy, but it has 136 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,680 never been proven. Uh what where was he buried again? Oh? Yeah, 137 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:59,680 the Mount of Olives or whatever it's called where they 138 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,759 bury their spies. Come on, man, See this is the problem. 139 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,839 Nobody ever wants to be honest. Everybody wants to protect 140 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:09,360 whatever sort of side that they're on, even if that 141 00:08:09,399 --> 00:08:11,920 comes at the cost of truth. And I'm so tired 142 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:14,480 of it. Me. I'm not on any one side but yours. 143 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,519 Fuck all these people. We're in this shit together, folks. 144 00:08:17,519 --> 00:08:19,319 None of these people are coming to save us. None 145 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,600 of these people care about us. None of these people 146 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:24,160 that you fight about on a regular basis are coming 147 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,319 to save you. And the sooner everybody realizes that, the better. 148 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,279 Hoffenberg claimed Epstein had told him that he worked with 149 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,559 Robert Maxwell on various projects, including solving his debt issues. 150 00:08:36,279 --> 00:08:38,960 He also alleged that Epstein told him he was involved 151 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,519 in national security issues through his work with Robert Maxwell 152 00:08:42,759 --> 00:08:46,559 and Lease. Oh there is no doubt. And this is 153 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,679 another reason that they're so reticent to give us these files. 154 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,200 Imagine if we got all the files, every last one 155 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,240 of them, unredacted, what they would say. And I don't 156 00:08:56,279 --> 00:08:59,200 just be in the ones that the Justice Department allegedly has. 157 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,519 I'm talking about the ones that are hidden somewhere in Langley. 158 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,679 How about we get those files. Hoffenberg claims the work 159 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,320 involved black mail influenced trading trading information at a level 160 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,799 that is very serious and dangerous. When asked back in 161 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,519 two thousand and two, Epstein reportedly denied having ever met 162 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,320 Lease or Robert Maxwell. Well, of course he's not going 163 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,279 to tell you about his crew. The real people that 164 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,320 were the engine These are the people that help him 165 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,720 set up the template. They were the ones who showed 166 00:09:29,759 --> 00:09:32,080 him the proper way to hide the money, how to 167 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,919 manage it, what strings to pull, who to talk to internationally. 168 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,879 And they're the ones who opened the door when it 169 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,440 comes to Jeffrey Epstein's entrance into the world of intelligence 170 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,919 and compromont. People who know Epstein and Glaine have claimed 171 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:48,000 in court documents that they met after her father's death, 172 00:09:48,519 --> 00:09:52,960 but an investigative podcast released last year claimed that Glaine 173 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:56,879 was introduced to Epstein by her father in nineteen eighty eight, 174 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,960 three years before he died. And I think that's probably 175 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,720 the likeliest scenario, right I can't you know tell you 176 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:06,679 for sure one hundred percent, But when you look at 177 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,759 the genesis here, that seems like the most likely scenario. 178 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,039 Gland went on to become Epstein's alleged madam you mean, 179 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:18,279 co conspirator, fellow child abuser, general, all around scumbag and 180 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:22,080 bipuedal serpent right, and has since been charged with procuring 181 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,960 fourteen age girls for Epstein to sexually abuse between nineteen 182 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:30,080 ninety four and two thousand and four. Maxwell was arrested 183 00:10:30,159 --> 00:10:33,000 in July last year and has pleaded not guilty to 184 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:36,919 the charges. Epstein killed himself in prison, allegedly, and it 185 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,240 wasn't in prison, it was jail in twenty nineteen, awaiting 186 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:44,279 trial on sex trafficking charges dating back almost twenty years. 187 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,000 After being released from prison in twenty fifteen, Hoffenberg filed 188 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,679 a lawsuit against Epstein, alleging that the billionaire pedal file 189 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:55,639 was involved in the same Ponzi scheme that landed him 190 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:59,759 in jail. Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein fleeced him for one 191 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:02,679 hun undred million dollars while working for him, and that 192 00:11:02,759 --> 00:11:07,200 the billionaire pedophile worked with US prosecutors against them. And 193 00:11:07,279 --> 00:11:09,759 so when you hear me talk about Jeffrey Epstein flipped. 194 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:13,120 This is what I mean. We have it from multiple 195 00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:15,879 sources that he was working with the government in one 196 00:11:15,919 --> 00:11:19,799 capacity or another, and the only thing refuting that is 197 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,200 the government itself. So I don't know about you, but 198 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:25,799 I don't exactly find the government at this point to 199 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,559 be a reliable narrator. So the whole trust me bro 200 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,559 process that they expect me to follow is just not 201 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:34,240 going to work and keeping it a whole lass buck. 202 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,519 I don't believe a single word that this government says. 203 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:42,080 I mean, I'm skeptical most times of every administration, but 204 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,399 this administration they've done nothing but lie when it comes 205 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,320 to Jeffrey Epstein. Then again, considering the history of Jeffrey 206 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,159 Epstein of this investigation, why in the hell should we 207 00:11:53,279 --> 00:11:57,679 expect anything less. All right, folks, that's going to do 208 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,200 it for this one, and over the rest of today 209 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,159 and into tomorrow, we're going to finish up that alex 210 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:08,080 Acosta OIG interview. Because I'll tell you what, after reading 211 00:12:08,159 --> 00:12:10,720 that and actually looking at it, seeing the receipts for 212 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,000 myself and not a summary, there is no doubt that 213 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,480 the fix was in And I have no idea how 214 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:20,720 anyone who reads those documents doesn't see it, especially considering 215 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:23,080 how much he was leaning on people like Menchell, who 216 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,679 turned out to be in Jeffrey Epstein's pocket. So we're 217 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,159 going to continue down that rabbit hole and see where 218 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,919 it leads us, and then after that's completed, we'll be 219 00:12:32,039 --> 00:12:36,000 diving into some more unsealed files. But until then, that's 220 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,799 going to do it for this one. 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