Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. As the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein continues to
expand in Europe, a Swiss bank that is owned by
the Rothschild family has been searched by French investigators as
they dig into allegations of corruption involving a French diplomat
and in the documents that was linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
And look, as far as I'm concerned, if you want
to find the real culprits, the real people that enable
Jeffrey Epstein, well you're on the right path because, in
my opinion, it was a financial sector. I've been very
clear about that from the very beginning. It's always the
people that are paying the bills. And if you follow
the money, inevitably it's going to end up in some
banker's office, right, especially when we're talking about somebody like
Epstein and the things he was involved in. And look,
we're not talking about speculation. How many banks have paid
through the ears. We're talking about close to a billion
dollars in settlement money when it comes to crimes that
were committed by Jeffrey Epstein while the banks either looked
away or were implicit, and that goes for all the
banks around the world, not just here in America, but
the financial sector as a whole. Whether it's a dirtbag
like Jeffrey Epstein or some cartel boss, they don't care
all they care abouts the returns. So today we have
an article from The Independent and the headline Paris offices
a Swiss bank searched by authorities an Epstein related probe.
This article was authored by Matthew Rosemain and McKinney Brice.
The Paris offices, a Swiss bank Edmund the Rothschild were
searched by French investigators as part of an investigation into
alleged corruption involving a French diplomat named and documents linked
to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Officials said on Tuesday. Meanwhile,
Howard Lutnick is still living his best life. Huh. It's
absolutely embarrassing. I have no idea how a guy like
Howard Lutnick still has his job considering all of the
fallout that we've seen around the world. For Howard Lutnick
to still be in the position that he's in goes
directly to the heart of just how rotten things are
in America right now. I remember when I was a
kid growing up, if you even had an allegation like
this attached to you, your whole entire political life was over.
Now they're just wearing it as a badge of honor.
I mean, this rotten son of a bitch Lutnick. He
just laughs every single time Epstein's name's brought up, right,
like it's no big deal, Like, you know, what are
you guys even talking about? Ah, this is just a big,
gigantic hoax. It's all over blown. And that's why I
lied about it. Oh, I lied to you about it
because it's no big deal. And look, don't worry. I
brought all my kids with me to the island, as
if that makes it any better. Imagine bringing your kids
to a convicted sex offenders island. And then you get
defensive when people ask you about it, like, buddy, look,
you're the Commerce secretary, why did you have your kids
on Jeffrey Epstein's island? And furthermore, why did you feel
it necessary to lie about it? That's really the big
problem here, Not so much you went to the island.
That's gross, but there's nothing criminal there. The fact is
that he's a liar, and it fits the pattern for
the rest of this administration. Unfortunately. Now they'll tell you
that they're the most transparent administration in the history of
the world, but the truth is they're the biggest liars.
For Breece. Aiden's name appeared more than two hundred documents
released by the US Justice Department. Aiden was a middle
ranking French diplomat who was seconded to the United Nations
from two thousand and six to twenty thirteen and later
worked at the Bank. Well, we know that Epstein had
a lot of ties to the UN certainly, something that
he cultivated for a very long time, also to the CFR,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission, because
wherever power could be found, that's where Jeffrey Epstein would
be hanging out. The dude was the biggest parasite, maybe
in the history of parasites. These include emails that he
alleged to have sent Epstein between twenty ten and twenty
sixteen from his personal and UN accounts. And it's always
the same story, right, Oh, well, we weren't really friends.
We were just you know, talking about business. We were
talking about whatever it might be, but it certainly wasn't
a personal relationship. And then we find out that he
was not only sending emails to the un account or
the French account email account, but to the guy's personal account.
So how many people do you work with that you
send emails to their personal account if you're not friendly
with them. Now, of course you're going to send them
work emails right on the work email account outlook, whatever
it might be. But I'm sure you're not popping into
their you know, proton mailbox or their Gmail box and
sending them shit if you're not friends. So all these
people that want to act like they weren't friends with
Jeffrey Epstein, act like they weren't paling around with them,
like they weren't accepting as so called generosity, they're lying
they most certainly were. And I find it incredibly scrumptious
that the emails are coming out now and proving it, because,
like I always tell you, it's one thing for me
to tell you, hey, look, this is what's going on,
this is what they're saying, this is the kind of
people that we're dealing with, And it's a whole ass
other thing for you to see it yourself. Some of
the emails that were reviewed by Reuters show the transfer
of UN Security Council briefings and other confidential documents to
Epstein during that period. Same shit with Mandelssohn and the
same shit with Andrew. So for the people out there
that don't think that Epstein was collecting confidential information from sources,
what do you say to this? What do you say
to mandelssh What do you say to Prince Andrew? So?
Now we have three examples of that occurring. Is it
still just a coincidence or is it a pattern? Now
you all know what I think. It's certainly not a coincidence.
It's a pattern. And Jeffrey Epstein's whole goal was to
get as much information as possible because once you get
to the level that these people are at, that's what
the currency is information and whoever has the best information
is going to come out on top, whether it's financially
or otherwise. Aiden has denied wrongdoing, and his lawyer did
not immediately respond to requests for The French Foreign Ministry
said it had completed an administrative investigation, performing about thirty interviews.
The ministry said all current and former staff members who
had been summoned to its investigation had cooperated, adding that
it was available to judicial authorities and was considering disciplinary proceedings. Well,
that would be new, considering the financial sector never gets
in trouble for anything, so it would be nice if
they started to have to feel some consequences for their actions,
you know, like the rest of us. The search was
carried out on Friday in the presence of Arianne d Rothschild,
the Swiss Bank's boss. A source close to the bank's
head Edmund de Rothschild was cooperating fully with the justice
system in the investigation led by the financial prosecutor, the
same source said, adding that an internal inquiry had been
launched as soon as suspicions emerged concerning the former employee
who worked at the bank from two thousand fourteen two
twenty sixteen O. A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment. Well,
Epstein had a lot of connections to the house of
Rothschild and to this bank, so I'm not shocked to
see that this bank was raided over in France. Now,
what's going to come of it? We have no idea,
right nobody knows, but at least it's a good first step.
And certainly a lot more than the Trump administration's doing.
The investigations being led by officers from france Central Office
against Corruption and Financial and tax Offenses, who questioned Aiden
in a voluntary interview in late February. The French Financial
Prosecutor's Office said it was investigating accusations of passive corruption
of a foreign official and complicity in that crime, targeting
Aiden in particular. When asked if it was looking into
Epstein links with Geneva based Edmund of the Rothschild, Swiss
financial regulator FINMA said it can considered all reliable information
in its supervision and conducted in depth reviews when in
doubt about the integrity of business activities. Oh yeah, that's
exactly what the Swiss are known for, right, being tough
on bankers. If we're relying on the Swiss to do
anything here, we're in big trouble. Now. Look, Switzerland's a
great place, certainly beautiful, and I'm sure it's a great
place to live. But when we're talking about holding banks accountable,
holding the financial sector accountable, Switzerland doesn't even enter the conversation.
And there's a reason that so many people bank over
in Switzerland, right, So I'm not exactly confident that they're
going to be involved in any kind of regulatory process
here or involved in blowing the doors open when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. Swiss federal prosecutors
did not immediately respond to a request for a comment
on whether they were also investigating. A spokesperson for the
Geneva prosecutor's office declined to comment on whether any measures
were taken in the city. Arian De Rothschild also appeared
in the files released by the US Justice Department in January,
which showed that she kept a year's long personal correspondence
with Epstein before his twenty nineteen arrest. After the files
were released, a spokesperson for the bank said that Epstein
was a business acquaintance of Dorothschild from twenty thirteen to
twenty nineteen. Doroths Child had no knowledge of Epstein's conduct,
The spokesperson said, of course, not everybody had amnesia. Nobody
saw a thing, and as bankers, they certainly had no idea.
So look, I think the big takeaway here is that
we're just scratching the surface of what Epstein was up to,
not only in America but over in Europe. So Like usual,
we'll keep an eye on all of it and when
we have some more information, we'll update the catalog. All
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