1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Disition, skating plus welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Oh 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:06,719 so you want to talk about more corruption at the 3 00:00:06,799 --> 00:00:10,400 FBI when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, Well, I got 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,400 you covered, because that's what we're going to do again 5 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:17,480 on this episode. The fact that this man was protected 6 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:20,960 for so long by who knows who? All right, I 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,719 won't speculate, but who knows who. Somebody was protecting him 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:26,399 and the fact that he was able to do what 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,000 he was able to do for so long proves that point. 10 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:32,920 There's a lot of people out there that will try 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,840 and act like Epstein wasn't some sort of informant for 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,439 the government, and I find that laughable at best. And 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,240 if you have information or evidence that can prove that, 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,640 I'd love to see it. But there is evidence to 15 00:00:47,679 --> 00:00:50,840 the contrary that Jeffrey Epstein certainly was at the very 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,039 least an informant for the federal government, the FBI, the CIA. Whoever, 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,359 how do you not go to jail for the Tower 18 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:02,159 Ponzi Schi? How do you not go to jail during 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,400 Bears and Sterns? How do you not go to jail 20 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,760 for molesting a bunch of little girls? Unless you're being 21 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,480 protected by some powerful ass people. And why do those 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,439 people protect you, Well, it's not because they're nice. It's 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,959 not because they decided one day that they're going to 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,079 be the patron of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was giving them 25 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:25,159 something back, right, compromant, blackmail, videotape, surveillance, all of it, 26 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,760 all of the stuff that the FBI said they seized 27 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:31,599 that we have no idea where it is now, what 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,719 was on those hard drives? What sort of video information 29 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:38,719 do they have? And they're sitting on Anyone who is 30 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,439 in those videos at the very least should be brought 31 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:45,280 in and deposed, right, But for some reason that's not 32 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:48,519 the case. In fact, their work was so shoddy that 33 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,359 when the FBI first rated Jeffrey Epstein's house, they didn't 34 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,120 even take the hard drives with them. They left them there. 35 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,760 And then well, of course Richard Concoms takes those hard drives, 36 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,120 leaves with them for a few days, and who knows 37 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,879 what happens to them. Now, I'm not saying he erased 38 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,799 anything or but I don't know what he did. Nobody does. 39 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,039 That's why there's a chain of custody. But it sure 40 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,520 seems that the chain of custody is never respected when 41 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,000 it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. So instead of writing your 42 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:22,479 pieces on conspiracy, why don't you dig in deep and 43 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,319 ask some of these government officials why they flubbed the 44 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:27,960 ball so bad for so many years when it comes 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,240 to Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't want to just hear 46 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,960 about Acosta anymore. That's him, straight up bullshit. Sure Acosta 47 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:37,639 has his blame in this. He has no backbone. He's 48 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,800 a coward. He should have stood up to his bosses 49 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,039 and said, I will not take part in this deal. 50 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,319 He didn't do any of that. But if you think 51 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,199 Acosta made that decision on his own, I don't know 52 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:50,280 what to tell you, because that comes from on high, folks. 53 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:55,960 That comes from Justice Department Central and Mukasey was the 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,199 man in charge at the time. You never hear his 55 00:02:58,319 --> 00:03:02,520 name brought up, do you. Today? We have an article 56 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:08,479 from Coastal Network headline Jeffrey Epstein and corruption in the 57 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,879 FBI and US court system. This article was published November 58 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,280 fourth of twenty twenty. Jeffrey Epstein, a high profile individual 59 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:24,439 evaded serious charges in the US government. Jeffrey Epstein, a 60 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,039 hedge funge manager pedophile with many high profile acquaintances, which 61 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:32,039 was charged with sex trafficking of miners last year after 62 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:35,000 luring young girls to his Palm Beach mansion. For years. 63 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,919 As someone with seemingly unlimited power and influence, Epstein somehow 64 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:44,560 evaded serious charges from the government until twenty nineteen, with 65 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:48,080 accusations dating back to the early two thousands. Now you 66 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:50,599 show me another person who has been able to so 67 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,919 deftly avoid the federal government for so long, with so 68 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,560 many charges hanging over their head. Bro John Gotti couldn't 69 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,000 do it right. God's dance was interrupted. Paul Castelano. We 70 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,039 can go on and on of powerful mafioso who was 71 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,520 brought down by the federal government. But Jeffrey Epstein has 72 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,120 so much power, has so much reach, that he's able 73 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,240 to operate his disgusting business for all of these years. 74 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,000 The Epstein case brings the state of corruption in the 75 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,800 FBI and US justice system to light. Many questions have 76 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:28,120 arisen regarding how the case was handled by the FBI 77 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:31,560 and how the sweetheart deal was made. Epstein, who died 78 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,920 by a suspected suicide allegedly in twenty nineteen, was finally 79 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,079 charged by Florida prosecutors in two thousand and eight when 80 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:41,360 he pleaded guilty, they might as well have just gave 81 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:44,240 him a slap on the wrist. Right, Listen, folks, we 82 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,319 gave Jeffrey Epstein a good stern talking to and he's 83 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:51,279 not gonna do what he did ever again. Meanwhile, he 84 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,560 continued to do it after his arrest, after his release, 85 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,839 and while he was out on work release. So please 86 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:02,959 save the bullshit for somebody that's buying it. I have 87 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,920 had my fill of the cover up here. Corruption in 88 00:05:08,959 --> 00:05:12,279 the US system enabled Epstein to walk free free years. 89 00:05:13,199 --> 00:05:16,720 Jeffrey Epstein's case depicts deep corruption in the US court system. 90 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:20,639 After being accused of trafficking and abusing young girls, Epstein 91 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,439 was merely given an eighteen month sentence a slap on 92 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,439 the wrist for such a heinous crime. Not only did 93 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:30,560 Epstein receive a lenient sentence of solicitation of prostitution as 94 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,879 part of the sweetheart deal, but he only served thirteen months, 95 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,720 during which he was free much of the time on 96 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:39,120 work release. And while he was out on work release, 97 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,879 according to reports, he was abusing people. So while the 98 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,959 US government was supposed to be watching him, he was 99 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,600 abusing people. Now we see the lawsuit from the gymnasts 100 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,360 against the federal government and the FBI because of Larry Nasser. 101 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,000 I would love to see the same thing here, because 102 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,319 the FBI, the government, they really flow it, They really 103 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,240 really flubbed it, and they shouldn't be given any quarter 104 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:11,000 when it comes to this situation. Alexandra Acosta, the US 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,319 Attorney in Miami at the time, is one of the 106 00:06:13,399 --> 00:06:16,399 key figures who mishandled the Epstein case and granted the 107 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:20,199 sweetheart deal. Acosta's office broke the law by not disclosing 108 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:23,519 the deal to survivors. Oh, I thought the court said 109 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,240 something different. Oh, nobody broke the law here. It was improper, 110 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,720 but the law wasn't broken. You notice how the court 111 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,480 never holds itself responsible, although, hold, you're responsible. You out 112 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:36,399 there with a dimebag of weed in one of these 113 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:39,600 repressive ass states, you're gonna go to jail. But these 114 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,720 dudes can lie and run operations where they're covering for 115 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,319 pedophiles and it's all good. He had the power to 116 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,160 lock Epstein away for life, yet allowed the sex offender 117 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,199 to roam free for another decade, and I agree with that. 118 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,399 He was part of the problem. But the real problem 119 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:56,120 for me goes all the way to the top to 120 00:06:56,199 --> 00:07:00,199 the DOJ. A guy like Acosta isn't making a decision 121 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:05,519 like this in a vacuum. In the summer of twenty nineteen, 122 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,680 Epstein was arrested in charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors. 123 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:13,560 Acosta was not the only official that seemed to be 124 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,759 in Epstein's corner. The office of the New York District 125 00:07:16,759 --> 00:07:20,399 Attorney Cyrus Vance argued that Epstein's status as a sex 126 00:07:20,399 --> 00:07:24,160 offender can be reduced. How about that, get old Cyrus 127 00:07:24,279 --> 00:07:27,319 Vance from the New York Prosecutor's office. You know the 128 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,279 big mouths who run around and who talk about how 129 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:33,639 they're you know, these proper people, and how everybody else 130 00:07:33,759 --> 00:07:36,759 is an insurrectionist or this or that or the other thing. 131 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:41,279 You know, all the divisive rhetoric that they like to use. Meanwhile, 132 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:44,959 it's convenient for them to forget that Epstein was active 133 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,079 right under their noses for decades and these people didn't 134 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,519 do shit about it. So how about you answer for that, 135 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,360 mister Cyrus Vance. How about you answer for that all 136 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:58,839 of you over at the SDNY and at the New 137 00:07:58,879 --> 00:08:05,079 York Attorney's office sid Epstein's defenders, a Costa and Vance, 138 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,720 are in the public realm and should be held accountable 139 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:11,480 for their leniency. At least eighty teenagers, most between the 140 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,000 ages of thirteen and sixteen when abused, came forward with 141 00:08:15,079 --> 00:08:18,839 similar stories of being lured to Epstein's mansion. Yet both 142 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:22,399 Acosta and Vance chose to ignore survivors and side with 143 00:08:22,439 --> 00:08:25,560 a predator simply because he had money and the power 144 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,800 of influence, and he was being protected by some pretty 145 00:08:28,879 --> 00:08:34,960 powerful people. Acosta said about intelligence himself, So who from 146 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,039 intelligence was involved here? Let's get Costa deposed, put them 147 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,399 on the bench, Let's see what's up. What intelligence agencies 148 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,840 approached you. But we can't even get that. And instead 149 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,600 of people from NPR these other outlets digging deeper into 150 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,320 why things are being hidden from the public, instead they 151 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,080 try and attack people in the public. Does that sound 152 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,000 like the proper way to go about it if you're 153 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:03,679 looking for the truth corruption in the prison system. On 154 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,919 August tenth, twenty nineteen, Epstein was found dead in as 155 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,120 jail cell. The forensic report showed the cause of death 156 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,559 is suicide, though many people are skeptical and don't believe 157 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,720 that Epstein killed himself. Ultimately, two jail guards at the 158 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:22,039 Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan were charged with falsifying records. 159 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,600 The two guards initially claimed to have done their nightly rounds, 160 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,600 but footage suggests otherwise, and they confess to messing up 161 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,679 the circumstances surrounding the suicide. And how jail guards did 162 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,519 not notice has been a source of conspiracy theories and suspicion. Well, 163 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,320 you can end all of it by being transparent. That's 164 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,480 how you end conspiracy theory with transparency in truth. But 165 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:48,759 when there's a lack of that from the federal government, 166 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,440 people are left to come up with their own stories, 167 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,039 their own, you know, reasons for why things happened. And 168 00:09:56,159 --> 00:09:59,360 of course there's drifters out there that will play on people, 169 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,559 they'll play on their biases, and they'll come up with 170 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,639 all kinds of wild conspiracy theories. There's no doubt that happens. 171 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,799 But if you're going to talk about conspiracy theory and 172 00:10:08,879 --> 00:10:11,519 people who are pitching them, then speak directly to the 173 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,200 people who are out here pitching conspiracy theories. Don't malign 174 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,120 a whole community of concerned citizens who are demanding justice, 175 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:28,080 an end to trial and co conspirators. Though Epstein's death 176 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,080 brings an end to the case, it is not the 177 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,679 end of the investigations. Epstein's may main co conspirator, His 178 00:10:34,799 --> 00:10:38,799 longtime girlfriend, Glainne Maxwell, was recently arrested for her role 179 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,320 in the sex trafficking of miners, and we know the 180 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:43,600 story of her now she's in prison for twenty years. 181 00:10:44,799 --> 00:10:48,240 Other prominent figures who mingled with Epstein and Maxwell are 182 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:53,000 also under scrutiny. A survivor accuses Prince Andrew of sex 183 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:55,720 with miners and says that Epstein trafficked many of the 184 00:10:55,799 --> 00:11:01,240 underage girls to have sex with prominent men. Other politicians 185 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:04,679 and celebrities who socialize with Epstein are also under the 186 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,639 public i including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, 187 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:13,200 and Woody Allen, to name a few. The Epstein cor 188 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,399 corruption saga is not over for those who are involved 189 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,559 need to be held accountable so justice can be brought 190 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:23,360 to the survivors. Now that sounds like a tune, I'd 191 00:11:23,399 --> 00:11:25,519 like to dance to a little bit of justice in 192 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,480 a world, in a world filled with injustice, sounds like 193 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:32,480 a pretty good time to me, all right, folks, that's 194 00:11:32,519 --> 00:11:34,519 gonna do it for this episode. If you'd like to 195 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,360 contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapouchi at 196 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,480 proton mail dot com. That's b O b b Y 197 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,840 c A. P u Cci at ProtonMail dot com. You 198 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:47,799 can also find me on Twitter at bo bb y 199 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,200 Underscore c. A. P u Cci. The link that I 200 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:56,200 discussed can be found in the description box. Our article 201 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,080 today is from the from Law and Crime. This article 202 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,600 is from September two, twenty one, twoenty and nineteen, headline 203 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,240 former Epstein work release guard destroyed PbSO records are the 204 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:15,840 smoking gun. This article was authored by Jerry Lamb. And 205 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,200 again I'm adding a little more meat to that bone, right, 206 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:20,879 some more context to what we've been talking about down 207 00:12:20,919 --> 00:12:23,039 in Palm Beach, and to give you a little bit 208 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:26,039 more of an idea on why I think that it's 209 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,279 going to be a huge focus in this case as 210 00:12:29,279 --> 00:12:35,399 we move forward, and especially especially if the Eleventh Circuit 211 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,360 Court of Appeals overturns the whole thing, then it is 212 00:12:39,519 --> 00:12:44,000 game on for sure. But as of right now, I 213 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:49,000 truly believe that the Public Corruptions Unit has Florida directly 214 00:12:49,039 --> 00:12:54,960 in their crosshairs. A West Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy 215 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,480 on Friday divulged first hand information relating to Jeffrey Epstein's 216 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:03,720 contra vircial work release program. The deputy who spoke to 217 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:08,519 WPTV on the condition of anonymity is the first PBS 218 00:13:08,519 --> 00:13:12,639 so the deputy to speak out about the office's special 219 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:17,519 treatment of the now deceased Epstein. Okay, So if this 220 00:13:17,799 --> 00:13:22,120 person spoke out to the paper right is speaking out 221 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,799 to the media on the condition of anonymity, You would 222 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,159 think that if the Public Corruptions Unit is digging in here, 223 00:13:29,399 --> 00:13:31,879 that they are going to try and track down whoever 224 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:34,679 this person is or others like this person who have 225 00:13:34,799 --> 00:13:37,759 firsthand knowledge and get them to go on the record 226 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,919 about what occurred, because it's obvious here that the law 227 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,360 was broken. It is obvious here that the victims' rights 228 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:49,159 were not respected, and it is also obvious here that 229 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,480 more people besides the ones that have been discussed at length, 230 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:59,960 like Acosta, need to be brought to account here. Okay, 231 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,440 and when we're talking about Florida, Barry Krisher is the 232 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,399 first person that comes to my mind. When you go 233 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,039 against the grain, if you rock the boat, if you 234 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,440 raise your voice about something that you don't think is 235 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,679 on the up and up. The sheriff's office is very vindictive, 236 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,639 the deputy told Contact five. And I've heard a lot 237 00:14:22,679 --> 00:14:25,720 of that about Palm Beach. I've heard that there is 238 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:30,519 a lot of that kind of behavior and thought process 239 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,720 amongst the rank and file, that it's not a good 240 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,320 idea to rock the boat down there, and you should 241 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,279 just do what you're told. And that seems to be 242 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,600 pretty prevalent in sources that I've spoke with who were 243 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:47,679 involved in law enforcement, who were tasked with chasing down 244 00:14:47,759 --> 00:14:50,919 Jeffrey Epstein. When I was in New Mexico and I 245 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,840 spoke to one of my sources, an ex law enforcement agent, 246 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,840 they were of the same mind. They were so disillusioned 247 00:14:59,159 --> 00:15:01,759 with how things were going and with how people like 248 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,919 Jeffrey Epstein and his rich cohorts were able to finesse 249 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:11,200 local politicians and state politicians that they decided to give 250 00:15:11,279 --> 00:15:15,799 up their lifelong dream of being a law enforcement agent 251 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:21,840 after over a decade pursuing it. That's how disillusioned they 252 00:15:21,879 --> 00:15:24,840 were with what was going on. And you see that 253 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,559 with a lot of these ex police officers or people 254 00:15:28,559 --> 00:15:32,080 who speak out who were involved with the Jeffrey Epstein case. 255 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,840 They just they ran into roadblock after roadblock after roadblock, 256 00:15:36,879 --> 00:15:39,720 trying to prosecute this guy, trying to get this guy 257 00:15:39,799 --> 00:15:45,480 behind bars in a manner that is fitting for somebody 258 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,440 that is as big of a predator and as big 259 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,360 of a danger to the community as he was. And 260 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,440 you see it with a lot of these guards that 261 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:57,000 speak off the record, a lot of these cops that 262 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:02,240 speak off the record, and it's always the same, and 263 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:07,200 that story is you cannot go after the political donor class. 264 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:10,320 It's like they're their own class of people, right. These 265 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,480 big wigs, these bagmen, these people that are spending money 266 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,120 hand over fist on politics. These are the sort of 267 00:16:18,159 --> 00:16:21,159 people that you just cannot go after in these investigations. 268 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,240 And that's what I heard from the sources that I've 269 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:28,600 talked to, and what you see here from these types 270 00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:31,840 of articles where we hear from people who were directly 271 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,000 involved in what was going on and how it was 272 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:42,159 almost impossible for them to do their job correctly. The 273 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,279 deputy then described Epstein's two thousand and eight in two 274 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,360 thousand and nine work release program a privilege he was 275 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,200 able to attain despite pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from 276 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,440 a minor as being in clear violation of protocol which 277 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,000 called for deputies to have eyes on Epstein at all times. 278 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,879 And again, this goes into what I'm talking about with 279 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,240 the Public Corruptions Unit. If they weren't doing their job 280 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,359 and they let Epstein roam around free and he was 281 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:14,440 allowed to abuse traffic, whatever have you, then I think 282 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:19,799 that that would definitely be the sort of thing that 283 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:22,559 the Public Corruptions Unit would want to take a look at. Right, 284 00:17:25,759 --> 00:17:28,480 for starters, when you signed up for that detail, it 285 00:17:28,519 --> 00:17:32,640 was a plane closed detail, and that almost never ever happens. 286 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,680 The deputy said, we were told to follow his vehicle 287 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,799 and our own sheriffs issued vehicle. I was told when 288 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:41,039 he went to his house to stay in the driveway. 289 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,400 I don't know what happened behind closed doors when he 290 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,799 went in the house and allegedly had lunch. You know, 291 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,960 he could have been doing anything during that timeframe. That 292 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,720 is one of the reasons I stopped working the detail. 293 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,759 And again, if you're one of these rank and file 294 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:58,519 police officers, right, I mean, your job is hard enough 295 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,599 before everything that has just started to occur in this country, 296 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:08,319 now forget it. So you can't you have your superiors 297 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:10,920 telling you to sit sit in the driveway. You don't 298 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,160 know what's going on in the house. Anyone could be there. 299 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,319 What people, What if a girl was brought there before 300 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,359 you guys got got there. What if he had that 301 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,039 all set up with his procures and his groomers, and 302 00:18:20,079 --> 00:18:23,160 there's a deputy in the front while Jeffrey Epstein is 303 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,240 abusing a girl in the back. That's out of the 304 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,640 realm of possibility with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm sorry, folks, it 305 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:34,519 is not. And these cops, I mean, imagine being this guy. 306 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,079 Your superiors are like, all right, we need you to 307 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,440 watch Epstein, but here are all your rules, and they 308 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,759 give you a rule book that's from the the from 309 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:46,640 the floor to the ceiling high. It's just absurd. The 310 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,599 whole entire case surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is absurd. Everything about 311 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:55,160 the way they try to try to quote unquote prosecute 312 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,319 him the first time around is absurd, and the reactions 313 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:03,400 from those involved are most assuredly absurd when they are 314 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:09,160 called out on their behavior. When asked too, Epstein consorted 315 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,279 with while working the deputy said the majority of people 316 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,440 he remembered seeing were twenty year old females in well 317 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:18,079 dressed business attire. Well, I don't know how you could 318 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:20,720 tell their twenty year old females. I guess maybe as 319 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:24,720 a cop you have a better idea. I guess maybe 320 00:19:24,759 --> 00:19:27,079 from looking at people's ideas. I don't know. I'm not 321 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,359 good at that age stuff. When I was young, I 322 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,720 worked at a casino here in Las Vegas called Treasure Island, 323 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,160 and they used to have this midway down there where 324 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,720 they had all of these like carnival type games, and 325 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:41,519 they used to have this weight guessing game, and you 326 00:19:41,519 --> 00:19:44,119 would have to guess people's weight, guess their age, the 327 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,359 whole nine And I was absolutely atrocious at it. I 328 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,599 cannot tell you how many stuffed animals I ended up 329 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:54,960 giving away on that stupid game, so much so that 330 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:59,440 they moved me to a different game. So that goes 331 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,279 to tell you show you how good I am at 332 00:20:02,319 --> 00:20:05,400 guessing people's ages. I'm just terrible at it. So maybe 333 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,519 this cop is a little bit better than I am. 334 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,559 But I really don't know how you can tell how 335 00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:15,599 old somebody is these days. I thought it was strange 336 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,440 that besides me myself and mister Epstein. We were the 337 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,319 only males in the office. I remember I took note 338 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,720 of it mentally. The deputy said, what else was unusual 339 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:27,880 about it was the fact that he was allowed to 340 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,880 leave the office and go to his residence to have lunch. 341 00:20:31,559 --> 00:20:35,039 I've never ever been to a detail where that was 342 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:38,799 allowed to happen. So again, these people who put this 343 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:45,440 in place, all right, the prosecutors, Dershowitz, left Court Star 344 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,319 and the rest of them all need to be held 345 00:20:50,319 --> 00:20:55,480 to account. Why did Jeffrey Epstein get special privileges that 346 00:20:55,759 --> 00:20:59,640 other inmates did not have, and who was the one 347 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,039 who initiated it and then who put it into play? 348 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,799 Those are the questions that you would think the Public 349 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:14,720 Corruptions Unit are mulling about. Right now. Multiple women have 350 00:21:14,759 --> 00:21:17,519 filed lawsuits alleging that they were flown from New York 351 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,759 to Palm Beach and forced to have sex with Epstein 352 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,519 during his work release hours. Right there, That alone should 353 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:28,880 make the State of Florida conplicit. And the girls who 354 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,599 were abused when supposedly this animal was under wraps and underguard, 355 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,039 they should sue the State of Florida. The prosecutors and 356 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:40,440 I would go after Dershowitz too. I don't know if 357 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,319 that would work out or whatever, but I'd go after 358 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,319 all of those people because they all helped facilitate this abuse, 359 00:21:47,079 --> 00:21:50,960 even after they knew what Jeffrey Epstein was. How dare 360 00:21:51,039 --> 00:21:54,240 you let this guy out on work release? How dare 361 00:21:54,319 --> 00:21:58,000 you not bury him underneath the prison and get rid 362 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:05,079 of the keys. The deputy further told Contact five he 363 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,039 and others were mainly supposed to just sit in front 364 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:10,759 of Epstein's property and just log the names of any 365 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:14,880 person who came or left the office. However, when Contact 366 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,839 five requested a copy of the logs kept by deputies 367 00:22:17,839 --> 00:22:23,640 guarding Epstein, PbSO spokeswoman Terry Barbera confirmed that the records 368 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,319 were get ready for this folks, destroyed according to their 369 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:34,440 public records schedule. Isn't that just convenient, missus Barbera. The 370 00:22:34,559 --> 00:22:40,720 records are destroyed, the video is destroyed, everything's destroyed. You 371 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,599 know what's really destroyed, the official narrative. That's what's really destroyed. 372 00:22:44,839 --> 00:22:49,279 It is quite obvious that their official narrative is was 373 00:22:49,599 --> 00:22:57,279 and always will be straight up garbage. Jeffrey Epstein was 374 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,839 protected by the Prosecutor's Office and not only that, because 375 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:08,440 of that protection, they helped facilitate the abuse of every 376 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:13,400 single girl who was abused while he was supposedly under 377 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:20,319 their watch. And they must answer for that. That sounds 378 00:23:20,319 --> 00:23:22,799 like the smoking gun right there, said the deputy about 379 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:27,359 the destruction of the records. That is highly suspect, especially 380 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,039 with the sheriff's office where they keep records of everything. 381 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,200 And in this day and age with computers and what 382 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,519 trilobyte memory sticks and all this other jazz, you don't 383 00:23:39,599 --> 00:23:43,240 need to destroy no records. Everything that is of public 384 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:50,599 concern should be stored and saved. Destroying public records, what 385 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,240 a bunch of garbage. It must be nice to have 386 00:23:53,279 --> 00:23:55,799 that to fall back on. Yeah, you know we had 387 00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:58,519 that stuff, but Joe on his lunch break just put 388 00:23:58,519 --> 00:24:00,680 that in the shredder ten minutes and it's before you 389 00:24:00,759 --> 00:24:04,720 got here. What a coincidence? Are these people for real? 390 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,799 How is it that we have been asleep at the 391 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:12,640 wheel for so long? Folks, my fellow Americans, how is 392 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,319 it that we have not held these people to account? 393 00:24:16,319 --> 00:24:19,799 I don't know about you, but the days of letting 394 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:23,440 this shit slide, the days of not paying attention to 395 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:28,559 what these scumbags are up to those days are long over. 396 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,759 In an email to the news outlet, Barbara said any 397 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:38,759 such allegations were false. The allegations you were depicting below 398 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,960 are factually untrue and or inaccurate. Due to the ongoing 399 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,480 criminal investigation that is being completed by FDLE, no other 400 00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:52,200 response regarding these allegations will be given by the sheriff 401 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:56,480 or the PbSO. Further, your email will be forwarded to 402 00:24:56,559 --> 00:25:00,720 the FDLE for further investigation into the deputies Alley negations. 403 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,519 I just love it. I love it. I love it. 404 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,319 Due to the ongoing criminal investigation, we're not telling you shit. 405 00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,400 How often do they use that as an excuse? That's 406 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,279 another thing that needs to be addressed with all of 407 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:16,319 this criminal reform we're talking about. Okay, I don't want 408 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,359 to hear that bs anymore. Oh, Well, this is under investigation, 409 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:22,160 so we can't give you any information about it. Well, 410 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,799 it's really easy for the government to initiate an investigation 411 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,319 to keep the information from the public, isn't it. And 412 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,480 we have already established we can't trust the jackanapes that 413 00:25:35,599 --> 00:25:37,759 run our government, can we? And I don't just mean 414 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:42,119 this administration, folks, Okay, I'm talking about all of them collectively. 415 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:50,440 So why would we believe anything that Miss Barbara has 416 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:56,559 to tell us about procedure or otherwise when it comes 417 00:25:56,599 --> 00:26:00,440 to the shit show that is the Jeffrey Epstein case. 418 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,400 And if anybody is going to be looked at through 419 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,359 the microscope and have a nice bright light shine directly 420 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:18,480 on them from the Public Corruptions Unit, I think that 421 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:24,519 the perfect destination would be Palm Beach. If you'd like 422 00:26:24,559 --> 00:26:26,680 to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapucci 423 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:31,640 at ProtonMail dot com. That's Bobby c ap u Cci 424 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,079 at ProtonMail dot com. You can also find me on 425 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:41,240 Twitter at Bobby Underscore cap u CCI's up, everyone, and 426 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:46,680 welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this look back episode, 427 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:50,759 we're going to hear from former police Chief Michael Rider 428 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:57,759 of the Palmbeach Police Department. This article was published by 429 00:26:58,079 --> 00:27:03,240 NBC News and was published on September twentieth of two 430 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:09,200 thousand and nineteen. The authors of this piece, Sarah Fitzpatrick 431 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:15,799 and Rich ship Hero. Former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael 432 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:20,400 Ryder spent years trying to convince state and federal prosecutors 433 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:25,880 in Florida to bring serious charges against Jeffrey Epstein. Now, 434 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:29,400 the retired lawman wants to tackle a new mission to 435 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,799 persuade lawmakers to take action to prevent the next Jeffrey 436 00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:39,519 Epstein from perverting the criminal justice system. Now, Michael Ryder 437 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:42,720 was one of the only good guys, if there were 438 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,880 any good guys, if you will, in the whole entire 439 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,839 Epstein saga. This guy listened to what these girls said, 440 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,160 compiled a whole bunch of evidence, and then turn that 441 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,160 evidence over to the prosecutors. Now, once the prosecutors have 442 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,000 that evidence, it's up to them to do their right 443 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,960 thing with it. Right. It's up to them to make 444 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,759 sure that they get indictments. And then after they get 445 00:28:04,799 --> 00:28:07,279 the indictment, it's up to them to make sure that 446 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:13,000 these people are convicted. So they failed. The prosecutors in 447 00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:16,920 Florida failed. The police officers in Palm Beach who worked 448 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,759 this case originally, they did great work. The investigators were 449 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:24,960 all over this. They compiled all kinds of evidence. When 450 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,279 it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, it was the prosecutors once 451 00:28:28,319 --> 00:28:36,640 again who decided not to pursue it. Epstein found every loophole, 452 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,960 writer told NBC News as part of a month's long 453 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:44,079 Dateline investigation. I want some system in the future that 454 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,960 this can't happen again. He's not wrong. One of the 455 00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:52,039 ongoing conversations we've had about these people, all of them, 456 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:57,440 is how they navigate loopholes, how they navigate technicalities and 457 00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:01,559 somehow harness them always to work in their favor. Now, 458 00:29:01,599 --> 00:29:04,079 I guess that's what they were put into these laws 459 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,720 for in the first place, right, so the rich people 460 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:10,079 can navigate them and not get in trouble when they're 461 00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:12,559 the ones who gets slapped with them. Like we said 462 00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:15,759 previously several times, it's like when you have a computer 463 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,519 programmer who creates software, they leave themselves a little back 464 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:23,240 door so they can access it, right, same thing here. 465 00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:27,839 They know that the small folk us are going to 466 00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:30,559 be the ones who have to live up to these laws, 467 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:35,920 not them, not their friends. Writers said he believes the 468 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,160 state and federal prosecutors handling of the Epstein case amounts 469 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,440 to the worst failure of the criminal justice system in 470 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,400 modern times. Look, he's not wrong. It's the reason we're 471 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,599 still talking about this right now. It's that impactful, it's 472 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,839 that important about how the criminal justice system is conducted 473 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:02,240 moving forward, we need something that at provides equitable law 474 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,640 for everybody. If you're a girl from the quote unquote 475 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:10,440 other side of the tracks and you say you were 476 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,319 abused by a rich and powerful man and there's evidence 477 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,920 to back that up, you should be listened to. And 478 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:21,240 for way too long, these guys had all of their loopholes, 479 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,960 all of their technicalities, and they were able to navigate 480 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:29,240 the criminal justice system by using those and harnessing the 481 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:32,480 relationships that they built with the other so called elite, 482 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,480 and it amounted to get out of jail free cards. 483 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,319 The story begins in March of two thousand and five 484 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,720 when the Palm Beach Police Department received a call from 485 00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:49,039 the distraught mother of a fourteen year old girl. Now 486 00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:51,279 imagine being the cop on the other of the other 487 00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:54,160 end of that phone call. Uh yeah, this is the 488 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,279 Palm Beach Police Department, Sergeant Stanton speaking, Oh my god, 489 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:02,000 my daughters, he's been abused by Okay, hold on, man, 490 00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:05,680 slow down. And then you start processing the details and 491 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,079 the name that's being dropped, and all of a sudden, 492 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:11,559 you know right away you have yourself a big problem. 493 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,359 Because when rich people are accused of stuff like this, 494 00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:19,400 they automatically strike back, and there's you know, problems for 495 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,160 the people who bring this stuff up. So I'm sure 496 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,400 the cops weren't too happy to hear the name Jeffrey Epstein. 497 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:28,920 But what I will say about the Palm Beach Police Department, 498 00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:31,720 they didn't shy away from it. They did their job. 499 00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:38,079 They did their duty. The woman writer recalled said her 500 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,279 underage daughter was having sex with an adult who lives 501 00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:44,839 in a mansion in Palm Beach. Palm Beach police detectives 502 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,839 immediately launched an investigation. Yeah, that's probably the right thing 503 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,680 to do. You got some guy living in a mansion 504 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,079 and he's having a relationship with a fourteen year old girl. 505 00:31:56,799 --> 00:31:59,839 It's probably a good idea to launch an investigation. I 506 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,400 don't care who that person is in the mansion. I 507 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,599 don't care if it is the most famous person in 508 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:14,160 the world. You can't be abusing children. Okay, So the 509 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,279 Palm Beach Police Department, they started going hard, and if 510 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:20,119 you know the story, well, you know that they really 511 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:24,319 were kicking in some doors and asking some very uncomfortable questions. 512 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:27,920 Do you think it's just a shock, just a coincidence 513 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,599 that this got kicked away to the FEDS and then 514 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,799 back down to the state level. They wanted it to 515 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:37,880 look like, oh yeah, we're gonna take action, We're gonna 516 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,319 kick it up to the feds, but really they never 517 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:49,839 had any intention of the FEDS prosecuting this case. They said, 518 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,359 this is credible, this is believable, said Ryder, speaking in 519 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,960 his first in depth TV interview. Our sense, just from 520 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,680 sitting in the room with the first survivor was that 521 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,319 this is something we've absolutely got to get on. So 522 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,279 right from Jump Street, the Palm Beach Police Department knew 523 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:11,039 that this was something way bigger. And Michael Ryder, the 524 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,960 chief here, he didn't spare any expenses, right, He was 525 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,480 all over this. He had his investigators looking into it, 526 00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:22,319 chasing down leads, and what they uncovered, what they found 527 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:27,880 was terrifying. The interview with the initial young girl led 528 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:31,799 to another and another. I have no problem telling you 529 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,000 everything that I know, one of the girls told the 530 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,599 police in a videotaped interview obtained by NBC News. Another 531 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,880 told police that Epstein pulled out this vibrator thing and 532 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,079 he pulled down my panties. Now, remember they only listened 533 00:33:45,119 --> 00:33:47,319 to had one girl speak in front of the grand jury. 534 00:33:47,599 --> 00:33:50,559 Why if all of these girls came forward with all 535 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,119 of these credible allegations, why only have the one girl 536 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,960 speak in front of the grand jury. That does not 537 00:33:57,119 --> 00:34:03,000 make sense. Investigators were immediately struck by the consistency of 538 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:07,000 the accounts. Writer said. The stories were all the same. 539 00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:10,119 He said, they all could describe the house in detail, 540 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,400 they could describe what happened, and they didn't know each other. 541 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,039 It wasn't like all these girls got together and said, 542 00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:18,599 all right, we're gonna take down Jeffrey Epstein, the guy 543 00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:21,800 who lives in the mansion down the block. Nobody even 544 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,280 knew wo Epstein really was at this point. He wasn't 545 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,559 a celebrity, So that whole line of thinking has always 546 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:31,360 been garbage to me. These were just young kids, high 547 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:38,599 school kids, younger in some cases. But the detectives also 548 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:42,480 observed that the accounts weren't perfectly aligned. That would have 549 00:34:42,519 --> 00:34:46,159 been a red flag that the stories were coordinated. Were coordinated, 550 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:51,920 writer said, The investigators noted something else of significance. Many 551 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,400 of the survivors didn't know each other, so there was 552 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:57,559 little chance that they would have come together to concoct 553 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,679 false allegations. And that, of course, was the bedrock of 554 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,159 Epstein's defense. Right, this is all fake. Everyone's looking for 555 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:15,320 a payday. I'm like a piggy bank. Blah blah, blah blah. 556 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,519 Within those first few weeks, the investigation was already bearing fruit. 557 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,159 We realized this was basically a way of life for Epstein, 558 00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:26,199 writer said. And it didn't take long to realize that 559 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,719 a lot of people were involved in this. This was 560 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,480 a very prolific sexual predator. Now, listen to what the 561 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,239 chief of police is saying here. Okay, and this is 562 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,719 what I always tell you to do. Don't listen to me, 563 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:40,800 don't listen to Joe Schmoe who has the other podcast. 564 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,079 Listen to what these policemen say. Listen to what these 565 00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:50,199 investigators say, Listen to what the survivors say. There were 566 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,480 a lot of people that were involved in this. This 567 00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:56,440 was a very prolific sexual predator. That's not someone making 568 00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:59,639 up a story. That's not some guy who just got 569 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,639 involve the case yesterday. That's Michael Ryder, the man who 570 00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:06,639 investigated this as the police chief in Palm Beach, who 571 00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:09,960 blew this shit open. He even knows how much more 572 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:16,599 and how deeper this goes. Detectives picked through Epstein's trash 573 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:21,840 and discovered incriminating messages on scraps of paper documenting phone calls. 574 00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:24,880 She is wondering if two thirty is okay? She needs 575 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,079 to stay in school? Read one. Imagine and whoever took 576 00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:31,079 that note down is another piece of shit. What do 577 00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:34,199 you mean she needs to stay in school? Why are 578 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,599 any school age girls calling Jeffrey Epstein in the first place? 579 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,360 The note it was clear to police. Where about massages 580 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,360 and sex? Writers said? And it just wasn't phone messages? 581 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,400 Rider said. Epstein had flowers delivered to one of the 582 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,599 survivors who was in a performance of performance at her 583 00:36:53,639 --> 00:36:57,119 high school, congratulating her at the end of the performance. Now, 584 00:36:57,159 --> 00:37:00,000 imagine how brazen you must be this high school age 585 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:03,760 girl that you're sexually abusing. She has this high school 586 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:09,480 performance and you send her flowers. Now, I know if 587 00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:14,880 I was the dad of that girl, there would be problems, conversations. 588 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,519 Who would be had this dirty son of a bitch 589 00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:23,559 was so brazen in his behavior, so brazen in his activity, 590 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,880 that he would send flowers to a girl after her performance. 591 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,239 NBC News has spoken with nearly two dozen women who 592 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,840 alleged that Epstein didn't operate alone. Writer said, the investigation 593 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,920 identified adult women who had sexual contact with underage girls 594 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:47,039 and in some cases performed sexual battery on children. This 595 00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:51,960 was a financially successful, smart capable, well networked, and well 596 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,199 financed individual who built an organization around him that supported 597 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,840 his criminal enterprise. Writer said, Now, if you're wondering why 598 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,320 I always talk about Rico and how this isn't a 599 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,840 Rico case, folks, what more do you need? I mean, honestly, 600 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,239 and again, this is another reason why I've chosen the 601 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,920 format that I have chosen to follow along with these articles. 602 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:20,360 That way, everything is uniformed. It's not me making this 603 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,639 stuff up right, or oh this is just a guess 604 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:26,760 by me. This is from curating all of these articles 605 00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:30,119 and following all of this evidence and listening to what 606 00:38:30,159 --> 00:38:34,719 the key players had to say for me, survivors, lawyers, 607 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,800 and the law enforcement agents on the ground, not the 608 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,800 jerk offs in the back room, not the accostas of 609 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,840 the world, guys like Michael Ryder, And when you listen 610 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,880 to what they have to say, it is rather obvious 611 00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:49,800 that this was a criminal enterprise that should have been 612 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,039 ricoed and everybody involved should have seen a prison cell. 613 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,199 But as the months wore on with police building their case, 614 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,440 things began to happen. When detectives armed with a search 615 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,440 warrant entered his home with a video camera. What they 616 00:39:06,519 --> 00:39:09,719 found made them suspect he had been tipped off. The 617 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,280 place had been cleaned up. Writers said it wasn't completely 618 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,480 devoid of evidence, but a computer that contained all of 619 00:39:16,519 --> 00:39:20,119 the home surveillance camera footage was gone and all the 620 00:39:20,159 --> 00:39:22,760 wires were left hanging there. A rider said, so they 621 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,639 did a dump and pump came in, ripped everything out 622 00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:29,599 real quick, all of the monitoring equipment because somebody in 623 00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:32,480 the government tipped them off, one of their buddies. But nah, 624 00:39:32,559 --> 00:39:40,119 Jeffrey Epstein wasn't connected. He wasn't an asset. After six 625 00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:44,039 months of investigation, Riders said, the local police department noticed 626 00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:47,760 the shift in attitude from the state prosecutors. Riders said 627 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,119 the prosecutors told him the witnesses were not credible. The prosecutors, 628 00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:56,119 writer said, suddenly seemed dismissive of the case and were 629 00:39:56,199 --> 00:40:00,840 uncooperative in approving critical investigative techniques that hindered the Palm 630 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,440 Beach Police Department's investigation. No shit, no shit, they were. 631 00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:09,159 These guys were working behind the scenes with Epstein's lawyers 632 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,079 to make sure this went nowhere, or at the very least, 633 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:15,280 make sure Epstein got just a little smack on the ass. 634 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:20,800 No real jail time, thirteen months in a stockade. Are 635 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,719 you kidding me? Right now? I've had punishments for my 636 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:30,440 parents that were worse than that. Epstein, who had a 637 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,679 massive bankroll and extensive connections, had assembled a high powered 638 00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:40,159 team of lawyers, including Kenneth's Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Jack Goldberger, 639 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:45,320 and Jay Lefkowitz. Around this time, Ryder said the investigation 640 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:50,000 took another strange turn. Epstein's defense team seemed to know 641 00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:53,719 details about the probe before they were made public. Wha, 642 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,440 what do you know? Just take your pick from Ken Starr, 643 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,719 Alan Dershowitz, Jack Goldberger, or Quitz about who could have 644 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,000 manipulated their influence, their relationships behind the scenes to turn 645 00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:08,519 it into something like this. Folks, we talk about it 646 00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:11,639 all the time. When you go to Harvard and you 647 00:41:11,639 --> 00:41:14,920 get your law degree and then you're practicing law. People 648 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,519 aren't really paying you because you went to Harvard, per se, 649 00:41:18,679 --> 00:41:21,000 They're paying you because now you have access to all 650 00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:23,519 of the other scoundrels who went to Harvard, so you 651 00:41:23,559 --> 00:41:26,679 have inside connections, You have access, and that's what you're 652 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,119 paying for when you get a high profile lawyer. Your 653 00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:31,679 lawyers are going out to eat dinner, and who knows 654 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,239 what else with these prosecutors down here in Florida at least, 655 00:41:35,679 --> 00:41:39,280 and at the federal level when we're talking about Mukesy 656 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,159 and the others, And then we wonder why Epstein doesn't 657 00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,679 get punished like the rest of us would. How many 658 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,719 of you gotten an invite to go play around to 659 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:54,760 eighteen with insert federal official here. We believe that the 660 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,760 content of our probable cause Affidavid eventually, sometime after we 661 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,039 presented it to the States Attorney's office, ended up with 662 00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:06,119 the defense. Attorney's writer said, because minute details that nobody 663 00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:09,840 else knew that were in those documents were being refuted 664 00:42:10,079 --> 00:42:14,639 and contrary information provided by the defense, this writer said, 665 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,199 never happened to me before in my career. And this 666 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,639 is a guy again, he's in Palm Beach dealing with rich, 667 00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:23,239 powerful people. Never in his life as he dealt with 668 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,119 something like this, however, but no, continue to tell me 669 00:42:27,159 --> 00:42:30,280 that Epstein wasn't getting hooked up, that nobody was there 670 00:42:30,679 --> 00:42:33,400 helping him make sure that the walls don't fall in, 671 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,920 and then tell me that this wasn't a Rico case. 672 00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:42,000 Rider was so frustrated that he took the unusual step 673 00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:45,320 of asking the state Attorney, Barry Krisher, to remove himself 674 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,400 from the case, citing the office highly unusual treatment of 675 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,079 the investigation. When that didn't work, the police chief turned 676 00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:57,119 his evidence over to the FBI, and you would think, right, 677 00:42:57,159 --> 00:42:59,719 the g men are coming. This is awesome, all right, perfect, 678 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,800 They're going to save the day. And look, don't get 679 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,039 it twisted again, folks. I'm not talking about your average 680 00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:09,960 agent that's working his tailoff or her tailoff to try 681 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,039 and keep us safe. There's a lot of those people 682 00:43:12,199 --> 00:43:16,920 that are going after some horrible fucking criminals. My problem 683 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,239 isn't with them. My problem is with the command structure, 684 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:26,199 the bureaucracy that runs this whole entire monolith. They look 685 00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,199 at us like we're just numbers, like we don't matter 686 00:43:29,639 --> 00:43:31,800 as far as you know, the citizens of this country, 687 00:43:32,039 --> 00:43:35,639 and they feel like they've been given the charter to 688 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:40,199 do as they wish. And how many times do we 689 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,280 see good agents like or good cops in this instance, 690 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:47,599 like Mike Ryder gets screwed by prosecutors and these federal 691 00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:51,320 minions at the Department of Justice, those are the people 692 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,400 I have a problem with, not the rank and file. 693 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,239 And they said, this is an easy case. This is 694 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,840 a horrific situation. We'll put him away for the rest 695 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,159 of his life. Writer recalled, that's what the US attorney 696 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,400 assistant US attorney told us as well. But writers renewed 697 00:44:10,519 --> 00:44:14,760 enthusiasm didn't last long. In time, it became clear that 698 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,239 the federal probe was stalling. Though he believes the FBI 699 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,960 agents were invested in the case, Writer arranged to meet 700 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,639 face to face with the prosecutor in charge of the case, 701 00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:28,960 US attorney Alex I have no spine, bitch, ass Acosta. 702 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,840 Acosta would go on to be named US Labor Secretary 703 00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:38,760 under President Donald Trump. Another brilliant move by old trumpy Huh, 704 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,079 Alex Acosta. I mean, you don't have this conversation with him, 705 00:44:42,159 --> 00:44:45,440 and then even if you do, you still go through 706 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,599 with it. There's not a better person in the whole 707 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,840 entire country that could have been Labor secretary. Huh. But 708 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,960 I have to say this I'm thankful that Trump, in 709 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,679 a weird way put him there, because if alex Acosta 710 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,880 wasn't in this position, and there weren't, uh, you know 711 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,440 so a bit of politicism happening around this, we probably 712 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,000 would have never had the second arrest of Epstein, because 713 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:11,360 would Julie Brown really been as interested if this didn't 714 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,920 have the political been to it, if it wasn't a 715 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:19,559 Trump appointee. Again, maybe I don't know. We can't tell 716 00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:22,760 one way or the other. The future was what it was, 717 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,079 But I have a funny feeling that if it wasn't 718 00:45:27,119 --> 00:45:32,079 for Trump appointing alex Acosta as Labor Secretary in a 719 00:45:32,119 --> 00:45:34,119 weird way, we would have never been at the point 720 00:45:34,159 --> 00:45:39,599 we are now. The conversation writer said did not get 721 00:45:39,639 --> 00:45:42,559 off to a promising start. He basically said in a 722 00:45:42,639 --> 00:45:45,239 very measured manner that the defense in the case has 723 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,400 successfully delayed and frustrated their investigation and their prosecution of 724 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,840 the case. Writer said, so, when's the last time the 725 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:58,639 federal government has been frustrated and had their case delayed? 726 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,320 Zero chance? It doesn't have unless they wanted to happen. 727 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,000 But Rider left Acosta's office hoping for the best. After 728 00:46:08,039 --> 00:46:11,599 the prosecutor told him they were moving forward with the investigation. 729 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,239 I left that meeting thinking, this guy hopefully is going 730 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,360 to do his job. Writer said, it didn't turn out 731 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,079 the way a rider had hoped. In two thousand and seven, 732 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:26,039 Acosta made the decision not to charge Epstein in federal court. Instead, 733 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,840 he sent the case back to the local prosecutors. Now, again, 734 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,760 I don't think this was a costa on his own. 735 00:46:32,079 --> 00:46:35,599 You can't make this decision as a mid level bureaucrat. 736 00:46:36,039 --> 00:46:38,760 This was a decision that was made on high and 737 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:45,280 Acosta was just the trigger man. Ryder was crushed. The 738 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:50,679 same office that seemingly refused to pursue Epstein aggressively was 739 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:54,239 now back in charge. And again you could say, oh, 740 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,840 this is a coincidence. It's just you know, the way 741 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,719 things happen sometimes. But there sure are a lot of 742 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:05,480 coincidences around Jeffrey Epstein. Isn't there the cameras, the missing emails, 743 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:11,239 all of this nonsense. At what point is it not coincidence? 744 00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:17,079 And is it just what it is? Acosta agreed to 745 00:47:17,119 --> 00:47:20,440 sign a non prosecution deal that ended the federal sex 746 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,920 crimes investigation and spared Epstein the prospect of serving several 747 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,800 years in prison. Instead, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges 748 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,800 for soliciting a minor for prostitution and served thirteen months 749 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,800 at Palm Beach County Jail. Epstein was also required to 750 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,159 register as a sex offender and pay his restitution to 751 00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:46,559 his survivors. Eh didn't have to register in New Mexico. Huh, 752 00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,079 I've never seen anything like it, Ryder said. It was 753 00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:53,960 extremely unusual and disappointing. Rider said he believes the result 754 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,639 would have been different had the victims been under age 755 00:47:56,639 --> 00:47:59,880 boys that would have shocked the senses more. Writer said, 756 00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:02,840 somehow this hits in a different place, that they were 757 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,920 young women on the way to being women, And he's 758 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,920 not really wrong about that. Yeah, how many people have 759 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,719 set these girls up as prostitutes? Or why do they 760 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,840 keep coming back the brain dead narrative that they wanted 761 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,519 this to happen? You know, the same folks that will say, oh, well, 762 00:48:19,559 --> 00:48:24,840 she was wearing a mini skirt, so way more nuanced 763 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,239 than that. When you have all of the different things 764 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,800 that went in to grooming these girls and normalizing all 765 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,840 of this, it's a whole different ballgame. But he's not wrong. 766 00:48:34,079 --> 00:48:37,400 Boys would have really shocked the emotions and shocked the senses. 767 00:48:41,599 --> 00:48:43,800 Epstein was released from jail in the summer of two 768 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,000 thousand and nine. The case scene behind him until twenty 769 00:48:47,119 --> 00:48:51,039 and eighteen, when The Miami Herald published an expose highlighting 770 00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:54,320 the government's kid glove treating of a man accused of 771 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,039 praying on dozens of underage girls. Acosta defended the way 772 00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:02,679 his office handled he described as a complicated case. We 773 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,800 believe we proceeded appropriately, Acosta said during a July twenty 774 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,000 nineteen press conference. We did what we did because we 775 00:49:11,079 --> 00:49:13,360 wanted to see Epstein go to jail. So you mean 776 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,400 to tell me the federal government couldn't have done that 777 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,280 if you really wanted to see and again, let me 778 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,519 back up, you might want to see him go to jail. 779 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:23,639 We want to see him go to prison, okay, And 780 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,639 you not running the federal charges, you and your bosses 781 00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,079 taking the step back that made sure that Epstein was 782 00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:35,079 never going to federal prison. But Acosta resigned as litt 783 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:40,400 oh excuse me. Acosta defended the way his office handled 784 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,039 what he described as a complicated case. We believed we 785 00:49:44,079 --> 00:49:48,559 proceeded appropriately, Acosta said during a July twenty nineteen press conference. 786 00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,960 We did what we did because we wanted to see 787 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,280 Epstein go to jail. But Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary 788 00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:00,000 two days later amid mounting criticism. Krisher, the former state attorney. 789 00:50:00,159 --> 00:50:03,039 He didn't return a request for comment from MDC News, 790 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,400 but he relates a statement in July defending his office 791 00:50:07,599 --> 00:50:11,920 and pushing back against Acosta, suggesting that state prosecutors were 792 00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:15,800 driving the case. Nobody wants to take responsibility ever, right. 793 00:50:16,079 --> 00:50:19,920 It's always somebody else's fault. It's always someone else who 794 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:25,039 did something wrong. In reality, the Feds fucked up and 795 00:50:25,119 --> 00:50:31,920 the state fucked up. If mister Acosta was truly concerned 796 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,760 with the state's case and felt he had to rescue 797 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,199 the matter, he would have moved forward with the fifty 798 00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,800 three page indictment that his own office once drafted. Chrisher 799 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,760 said Epstein was arrested on fresh charges in July. New 800 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,559 York federal prosecutors charged him with its sex trafficking and 801 00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:53,440 conspiracy in a case that featured similar allegations to those 802 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,119 a decade earlier. Never far enough, right, How again, how 803 00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,639 isn't this rico considering not what I said to you, 804 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,719 but what Michael Ryder laid out to you just previously 805 00:51:04,119 --> 00:51:08,960 in this article. Epstein pleaded not guilty, but he committed 806 00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,920 suicide in his federal jail cell last month. The death 807 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,280 left Rider thinking about the survivors and their lost chance 808 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,599 to see him held accountable. I feel so badly for 809 00:51:19,679 --> 00:51:23,199 the survivor's, writer said, I realize that there's a catharsis 810 00:51:23,199 --> 00:51:27,079 in confronting Epstein, and they'll never have that opportunity. But 811 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,440 he hopes that the entirety of the case will lead 812 00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:33,320 to systemic change. The criminal justice system needs to learn 813 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,639 from this and make sure it can't happen again, said Ryder, 814 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,519 who still lives in Palm Beach where he runs a 815 00:51:39,519 --> 00:51:43,800 security consulting firm. Rider wants to see legislation that bars 816 00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,119 miners from being labeled as prostitutes in the justice system. 817 00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,559 He also called on Florida lawmakers to close loopholes that 818 00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:54,840 allow people like Epstein to get away with misdemeanors for 819 00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,719 child sex crimes. I mean, is he wrong? Does a 820 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,960 cop a former cop have to call for this? Why 821 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,840 wouldn't our politicians, the ones who make the laws, do 822 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,760 it themselves. Oh, they're the ones who put this law 823 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:12,199 on the books. Oh, that's right. If you look at 824 00:52:12,199 --> 00:52:15,039 the first dozen victims and their accounts of what happened 825 00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:17,440 to them, it's clear to me he was coached by 826 00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:21,159 a lawyer on how to only commit a misdemeanor. Writer said, 827 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,440 if you're a member of the legislature and you're listening 828 00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,480 to this right now, fix this. It needs to be fixed. 829 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,280 And I'm guessing that lawyer. I don't have proof of this, 830 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,239 but I'm guessing it was Darren Endyke. Writer also delivered 831 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,480 a message to all of those girls whose lives were 832 00:52:37,559 --> 00:52:41,519 upended by a middle aged sexual predator with endless resources 833 00:52:41,559 --> 00:52:45,360 available to him. I don't have any contact with the survivors, 834 00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:48,159 and if they're listening now, I'm embarrassed for the way 835 00:52:48,199 --> 00:52:51,400 the criminal justice system treated them back then and Florida 836 00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,239 writer said, but I want them to know that not 837 00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,719 every part of the system failed them. We did our 838 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,000 job in Palm Beach and at the Palm Beach Police Department, 839 00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,559 and everything that happens here should lead to in the future, 840 00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,039 if any of these things happen again to some other victim, 841 00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,159 that the system won't fail them. And I'd like to 842 00:53:11,199 --> 00:53:14,400 believe that, but man, I have a hard time believing it, Folks. 843 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,880 I am very cynical about our justice system, as you 844 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:23,760 all know, and the more I see, the more cynical 845 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,199 I become. So. While I hope that Michael Ryder's plea 846 00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:30,800 will find its way to the ears of our legislators, 847 00:53:32,119 --> 00:53:36,400 for some reason, I still have my doubts. If you'd 848 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,280 like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby 849 00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,320 Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com. That's bo b b Y 850 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:47,119 c ap u Cci at ProtonMail dot com. You can 851 00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:52,760 also find me on Twitter at Bobby Underscore c ap 852 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,800 u Cci. The link that we discussed can be found 853 00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:58,199 in the description box.