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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. Leon Black the walking definition of a billionaire

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with buyer's remorse. Every time this guy opens his mouth

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about Epstein, you can practically hear his lawyers whispering, don't

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say anything real. His excuses are so weak they should

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be on a ventilator. I didn't know what Jeffrey was doing.

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Oh really, you cut bro checks totally one hundred and

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fifty eight million for financial advice. At that price, Epstein

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better have been predicting lottery numbers, curing cancer, and building

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a fucking time machine. But Leon, well, he was just

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paying off a predator and pretending it was all consulting.

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It's the kind of lie that sounds rehearsed because it's

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been focus grouped by every damage controlled PR firm in Manhattan.

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Leon acts like he accidentally tripped and fell into a

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decade long friendship with a child trafficker. Oops, my bad.

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I thought he was just eccentric. Yeah, sure, because nothing

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instacraam's normal, Like a guy who pled guilty to abusing

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miners and still gets invited to your Hampton's barbecue. We're

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not talking about some random aquaintance from your charity gala.

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This was your buddy, your go to guy. You're a

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personal fixer in the shadows. You didn't just know who

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Epstein was, Leon, You invested in who he was. You

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bankrolled the monster because he made you money, Federigo, and

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gave you access to the kind of power games you

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could never get in the daylight. You knew that Epstein

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wasn't clean, but you didn't care because he was useful.

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And now that it's blown up, you want to pretend

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that you were blindsided. Please, You knew exactly what kind

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of animal he was. You just didn't care until it

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threatened your stock price. And now when the heat's on,

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suddenly you're the victim. Oh I was duped. I feel betrayed.

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Spare me, bro. You weren't duped. You were complicit. You're

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not some old, poor sap who got hustled by a

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smooth talking con artist. You were part of the same circle,

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jerking each other off with power, money and offshore accounts.

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And that's what really keeps you up at night, doesn't it, Leon.

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Not the guilt, not the victims, not the disgusting things

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that happened under your nose. It's the fear that Epstein

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took the wrong files to the grave and someone somewhere

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has copies. These billionaires think that they can always pr

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their way out of damn near anything. Leon's probably in

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a conference room right now, surrounded by image consultants debating

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whether to wear a navy tie or a remorseful shade

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of gray for his next apology interview. They'll tell him

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to look tired, sound humble, and say mistake instead of crime.

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But no matter how many crocodile tears he squeezes out,

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you can't pr your way out of that kind of filth.

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You can't airbrush your soul, Leon. The stink of Epstein

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doesn't wash off. It seeps into your bones, your business deals,

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your foundation dinners, your obituaries. So yeah, Leon, cry about

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how you were deceived, give us that sad billionaire routine.

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Talk about how you're rebuilding trust and focusing on philanthropy.

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Nobody's buying it. You weren't deceived. You were delighted. You

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liked what Epstein could do for you until it stopped

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being profitable. You enjoyed the proximity to the darkness because

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it made you feel untouchable and now that it's all

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gone to hell, you're just another coward in a beatpoke suit,

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hiding behind lawyers in pr handlers, pretending ignorance is innocence

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while the rest of us are trying not to vomit.

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Because here's the ugly truth. Guys like Leon Black didn't

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get where they are by being naive. They got where

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they are by knowing exactly what they're doing. They built

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empires out of moral compromise and then act shocked when

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the walls start bleeding. Epstein wasn't some isolated freak in

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their world. He was part of the infrastructure, and Leon

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he was one of the contractors. Now he might get

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on TV trying to act like you just found out

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the guy was a monster. Well news slash Leon, The

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rest of us figured it out years ago, right about

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the time you were still cutting in checks. So drink

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up that fake humility, pal may your little I learned

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the hard lesson speeches to people who don't know better,

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because in the court of public decency, the one that

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still exists outside your Manhattan bubble, you've already been convicted.

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No appeal, no settlement, no spin, Just another rich man exposed,

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another coward trying to rewrite his sins as mistakes. And

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you know what, Leon, We're not buying that bullshit anymore.

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Today's article is from the New York Post and the

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headline Jeffrey Epstein sent nasty emails to billionaire Leon Black,

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demanding millions per year before arrest. This article was authored

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by Catherine don Levy. Jeffrey Epstein sent a barrage of

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nasty emails to his cash cow billionaire Leon Black, pressuring

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him to fork over millions of dollars per year to

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keep his lavish lifestyle afloat. Oh yeah, that's exactly what

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it was about. Had nothing to do with the business

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they were engaging in, right. Epstein was just looking for

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Leon Black to fund his life because that's what Leon

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Black and Apollo Global does. That's what they're known for.

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Who's buying this shit? This is just like with a

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less wextern nonsense. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein was stealing money from me. No,

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he wasn't all part of the cover. I believe this

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is part of that whole entire scheme. To be honest

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with you, the disgraced financier in sex trafficker warned that

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Black's financial advisors and retarded children had created a really

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dangerous mess by attempting to plug the flow of cash.

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According to emails obtained by The New York Times, Black's

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retarded children Do you mean the dude that's working for

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the Trump administration. Well, that certainly tracks. I never want

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to have any more uncomfortable money moments with you. I

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find it very distasteful, Epstein wrote in a November twenty

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fifteen email to the Apollo Global Management founder. These guys

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were so intertwined when it comes to finances that it's

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not even funny. Imagine acting like you had no idea

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what somebody was up to as you're dolen out one

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hundred and fifty eight hundred and sixty eight million dollars

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to them. Do you really think anyone's believing that shit?

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Anyone's buying it? Nobody's buying it. Nobody. So to be clear,

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my terms are as follows. I will only work the

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usual forty million per year. It needs to be paid

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twenty five million upon signing an agreement five million every

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two months thereafter four or six months i e. March,

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May and June. This can begin. If I'm able in January,

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I will immediately stop work if the payment is not received,

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he wrote, According to the outlet, that doesn't look like

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a threatening email. To me, sounds like a guy that's

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in business with somebody who wants to get paid. What

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you think Leon Black's paying all his bills. These people

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don't get rich by doling out money. I don't know

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how many times I have to say it. Do people

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really think that these ultra rich people are truly altruistic,

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that they want to give all this money away, that

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they care about you. They don't. And when we're talking

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about guys like Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black, they don't

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care about anything but money and power. The emails to

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Black by Epstein in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen illustrates

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the strong relationship between the two men, who were close

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friends as well as business associates. Well, no doubt about it.

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I mean, I don't think that we need any more

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confirmation about how close these dudes were. They were very,

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very close, and I'm not just talking about business. They

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were friends, just like Jeffrey Epstein and Just Daily were friends,

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just like Jeffrey Epstein and Mary Ardose were friends, just

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like Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Dubin were friends. We can

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go on and on and on. When it comes to

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the financial sector. The whole last lot of these people

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are corrupt, every last one of them. Black seventy four

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employed Epstein as his wealth management advisor, who offered guidance

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on everything from taxes to the billionaire's world art collection.

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You mean where he goes to stash his money that

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he doesn't pay taxes on. That's real nice, huh. As

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we're all cutting checks to the government, whether it's in

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April or October. Mister Leon Black just buys another three

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billion dollar art piece and stashes it somewhere. It'll continue

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to gain wealth, right, it'll increase in value. But Leon

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Black can't paying taxes on any of it. So what

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advice was Epstein actually giving him? Was he giving them

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advice on how to launder money? Sounds like a good

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bet to me. For his services, Epstein was paid by

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Black to the tune of more than one hundred and

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fifty million dollars over the years, even after he was

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busted in two thousand and four for molesting a teenage

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girl and a fence that put him on the sex

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offender or registry. That doesn't matter. Do you think these

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people care if you're a diddler. There are only two

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sins to these people, being powerless and being without any money.

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Besides that, everything's all good. There are no sins to

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these people. Remember your kids, you you're nothing more than

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a pawn on the chess board. They're going to move

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you however they want, whether it's war, whether it's fighting

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with your neighbors, looking for the boogeyman under your bed.

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As long as you're not focused on them, that's all

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they really care about. Black quickly became Epstein's primary source

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of income, but by twenty sixteen, it was clear that

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the billionaire was reluctant to keep the money flowing. According

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to the Times, that is so incorrect. The Times needs

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to do better. Jeffrey Epstein had money coming in from

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all sorts of clandestine sources that we have no idea about.

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The leon Black money. Well, that was for him to say, hey,

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look I'm getting some money coming in. Right, this is

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what I do. I'm a money manager. But do you

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really think that's what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. This man

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was stashing money, he was hiding it, he was recovering it,

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and he was engaged in all kinds of money laundering,

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all kinds. And I can say that very, very confidently.

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I've spoken with people that work at fince In or

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worked at Fincein, and they've said the same thing. People

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knew what was up, they were being told not to

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act on it. So you can make pretend that there's

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no cover up, you can make pretend that there hasn't

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been a cover up, but there is. And what we're

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living through right now is the end stage of that

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cover up. And that's why it looks so messy and

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why it looks so broken, because people are not buying it,

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so they're accelerating all of the propaganda, right, all of

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the bullshit, Oh it's fake, it's a hoax, it wasn't real, this, that,

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the other thing. But what we're seeing here is the

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very end stages of a cover up. And what I

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say in stages, I don't mean it's gonna end tomorrow,

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but I mean we're entering that phase right one way

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or the other. It's either gonna go away forever as

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far as the authorities are concerned, or it's gonna get

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blown wide the fuck open. But to sit here and

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act like Leon Black was Jeffrey Epstein's main source of

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income is pretty wild. That's when Epstein threw a tantrum

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across dozens of emails that he fired off through his

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personal assistant, a battle that lasted several months, the outlet reported.

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In one Epstein called Black's other financial advisors a waste

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of money in space. In another, he claimed the team

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he had created a really dangerous mess. Epstein even reiled

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on Black's children, who he called retarded, for supposedly making

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a mess of his estate. Epstein eventually offered a concession

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after months of relentless money grabbing, telling Black, of course,

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any non financial issues, I am always there for you

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and will continue to be the best friend that I can. Look.

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Money rules the world, folks, And if you think these

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people have friends, you're crazy. Look how they treat each other.

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You think they care about you, All that carrying on

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they do, all those press conferences, all the political theater

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we're seeing now, all of these people really truly despise you.

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That's what it comes down to. And that goes for

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our politicians as well. You think they respect you, they

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respect what you want. They're way too busy sitting on

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the internet and talking shit like a bunch of tweens

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to actually get anything done. So if you're waiting for

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them to save you, I got bad news. The same

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people that they're acting like they're going to hold accountable

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are the same people that are keeping the lights on.

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The Times did not view any returning emails written by Black,

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but the pressure campaign appeared to work. Black continued to

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feed millions in fees and loans to Ebstein for the

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next several years, until the perverted financier was arrested in

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twenty nineteen for his decades long sex trafficking schemes. I

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thought it was a hoax. I thought it never happened.

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Isn't that what we were told? Black was pushed out

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of Apollo in twenty twenty one for his ties to Epstein,

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which date as far back as nineteen ninety And I'd

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like to say that we had a lot to do

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with that, not me, but everybody in general pushing for

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him to be fired. Not that it did much right,

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walked away with a big fat bag. Apollo still went

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on to buy the Sands Corporation so perform, but at

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least a step in the right direction. The Wall Street

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genius denied any knowledge of Epstein's illicit behavior, but was

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accused of dipping his toe into the debauch world. So

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the Wall Street genius needed help from Epstein to manage

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his money. Sounds legit. One woman who sued Black for

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allegedly raping her in Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, a case she

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eventually dropped. Another former girlfriend filed a lawsuit claiming the

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billionaire sexually assaulted her, and Black turned to his wealth

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manager for advice about paying her millions of dollars to

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keep it quiet. According to court records and one of

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the many emails obtained by the Times, that suit was

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dismissed by a judge who ruled a woman could not

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pursue the case after she received nine and a half

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million from Black as part of a non disclosure agreement

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that followed their six year relationship. If you need to

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have an NDA for your relationship, chances are you're a

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dirt bag. I just don't get it an NDA. Here's

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an idea. Just be a decent person, Be honest and

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be decent. Is that too hard? I guess it is.

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Black also allegedly wired hundreds of thousands of dollars to

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at least three women who were associated with mister Epstein

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for unknown reasons unknown. Huh, well, I wonder why he

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sent that money. I'm sure that they just had a conversation, right,

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They're just hanging out talking about this or that. Nothing

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untowards happened, because nothing like that ever happened in Epstein's orbit.

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Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Black, asserted that all payments

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from Black to Epstein were purely for legitimate tax and

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estate planning services, as proven by an outside law firm

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hired by Apollo to review the pair's relationship, the good

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old infamous Decert Report. Did anybody believe that nonsense? I

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most certainly didn't. And if he didn't do anything, why

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was he pushed out of Apollo? After an exhaustive investigation

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more than four years ago? The Decert law firm can

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included that mister Black paid Epstein only for tax and

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estate planning advice that saved him and his family billions

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of dollars. To imply that Epstein somehow had influence over

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mister Black is false and patently absurd. Indeed, it was

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mister Black who fired Epstein because he was disruptive and

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believed the fees for his services were excessive. Estrich said

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in a statement to the Post, what an absolute bunch

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of hooey. That's the equivalent of getting caught cheating, and

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then when your girlfriend or your boyfriend asked you what happened,

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You're like, see what had happened? Was? The Decorate report

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also found that mister Black had no knowledge of Epstein's

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criminal activities. Mister Black has never abused a woman in

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his life. Any such suggestion is false. With Clay, a

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spokesman for Black, emphasized, the billionaire very much regrets ever

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making payments to Epstein. Well, he regrets being outed. I

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doubt he regretted it at the time, or he wouldn't

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have done it right. So let's cut the acleon. Nobody's

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buying your hallmark redemption story. You can cry on CNBC

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all you want talking about how you didn't know, how

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you trusted the wrong man, how you reflected deeply on

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your ethical responsibilities. You don't get to play the victim

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after cutting one hundred and fifty eight million dollars worth

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of checks to the most notorious predator of our time.

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You don't get to shrug off decades of complicity like

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it was a bad stock pick. You made your bed

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and it's lined with the same silk sheets Epstein used

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to lure girls into hell. You say you didn't know.

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Come on, man, the whole damn world knew. We all

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read the headlines. You had Google, you had lawyers, you

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had private investigators. You probably had the NSA on speed dial.

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But you want us to believe you, the Wall Street Wizard,

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the king of due diligence, somehow missed the part where

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your buddy was flying around with miners on a jet

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nicknamed Lolita Express. Come on, Leon, you didn't miss it.

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You ignored it because it was convenient, because it was profitable,

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because in your world consequences or for other people. Now

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you're out here talking about moving forward and rebuilding trust,

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rebuilding what exactly you torched it? You vaporized it. You

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buried whatever integrity you had next to Epstein's secrets. And

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the worst part, you still think you can charm your

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way out of it, like a public apology is going

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to erase the smell, like a few million in charity

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donations will make us all forget. You bankrolled the devil

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and called it business. Let me make it simple for you, Leon,

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Your excuses are as dead as your credibility. You were

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part of the rod. You' fed the system that protected Epstein,

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empowered them, and then pretended to mourn when it collapsed.

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You can't unring that bell, you can't wash off that stain.

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It's permanent, etched into your legacy, branded across every headline

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that'll follow you to your grave. So go ahead, keep

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polishing the lie, keep pretending the rest of us are

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too dumb to see through it. But deep down you

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know the truth, the one money can't bury and pr

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can't rewrite. You weren't a victim of Jeffrey Epstein. You

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were as reflection. And every time you open your mouth

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to explain, all we hear is the sound of guilt

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dressed up in a silk suit, still thinking it can

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bluff its way out of hell. Well, bad news, Leon,

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We're here to call that bluff. All of the information

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that goes with this episode can be found in the

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description box.