1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,799 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:08,560 Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest de fews that we 3 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:11,400 see when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the so 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:17,079 called investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates are these 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:22,039 internal investigations that are led by Jeffrey Epstein's friends. And 6 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,800 when it comes to the SDNY and the man that 7 00:00:24,879 --> 00:00:28,359 leads the SDNY, Jay Clayton, could the conflict of interest 8 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:33,920 be any more apparent? Let us recall that before taking 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,399 this job at the SDNY, this dude was working for 10 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:42,280 Apollo Global, you know, Leon Black's company, and he was 11 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:45,280 very close and is very close to a lot of 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,399 the people that were in that world. So this is 13 00:00:49,439 --> 00:00:52,200 the guy that we're gonna have investigate these people. It 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,159 doesn't really inspire much confidence in what's going on. And 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,399 when you have a situation that is just rife with 16 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,040 all kinds of corruption as it is, the last thing 17 00:01:05,079 --> 00:01:08,799 you want to do as an institution is add to 18 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:11,840 the problem. But when it comes to this DOJ and 19 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,159 this administration, they don't care. And that's because they really 20 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,439 believe that they're going to make this go away. That's 21 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,280 what they think but they're wrong. Today, we have an 22 00:01:24,359 --> 00:01:29,239 article from The Jacobin and the headline the Epstein class 23 00:01:29,719 --> 00:01:36,799 investigates itself. This article was authored by Freddie Brewster. The 24 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:40,480 investment portfolio of the Interim US Attorney for the Southern 25 00:01:40,519 --> 00:01:44,560 District of New York shows financial stakes and Epstein's associated 26 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:50,640 financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands 27 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,200 to win big from his own investigations, like on what 28 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,040 planet is that okay? And since when is that something 29 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:03,879 that is acceptable in America? Jay Clayton, a top federal 30 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,719 prosecutor leading investigations into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Venezuelan president 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,439 Nicholas Madoro, and Major Wall Street Banks, holds more than 32 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,560 one point six million in investments in companies with a 33 00:02:18,599 --> 00:02:22,960 potential financial stake in those same matters, according to ethics 34 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:27,159 disclosures reviewed by The lever Well, it's obvious that there's 35 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:30,000 a problem here, but it's not going to be addressed. 36 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:31,960 Just like the rest of this stuff, they don't care. 37 00:02:33,199 --> 00:02:36,039 There is nothing that's going to force their hand, so 38 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:40,080 they're just going to roll with it, and especially right 39 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,840 now with their shiny new object that everybody's focusing on, 40 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:47,319 which is the war in Iran. They're going to keep 41 00:02:47,319 --> 00:02:50,759 going as far as they can with the Epstein cover up. 42 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,479 And what did the Clintons used to say, never let 43 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,560 a good crisis go to waste, Right, So there's no 44 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,680 doubt that the Trump administration is going to use what's 45 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:06,120 going on in Iran to help cover up what's happening here. Clayton, 46 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,639 President Trump's pick to run the Justice Department's top dog 47 00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:13,280 Southern District of New York office, owns stake in multiple 48 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,319 oil and gas companies that stand to benefit from Venezuela's 49 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,479 regime change, as well as Wall Street banks and financial 50 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,280 firms currently under investigation by Congress over their ties to Epstein. 51 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,639 And this is the guy leading the dance. I'm sure 52 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,879 that really inspires a lot of confidence in everybody out there. 53 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,759 I know it doesn't me. You know that Jay Clayton's 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,159 gonna do the right thing. He's never going to bend 55 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:43,960 and try and help his buddies. He's never going to 56 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,240 try and help his boss, Donald Trump. Right, that wouldn't 57 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,520 be ethical. And everybody in this administration is above and 58 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,639 beyond approach, Right, How dare you criticize anybody in the 59 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:04,759 most transparent administration of all time. The disclosure show Clayton 60 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,800 has more than one million in financial holdings and in 61 00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,520 private equity giant Apollo Global Management, where he served as 62 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,000 board chairman until his Justice Department appointment. And that right 63 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,439 there should set off all kinds of alarm bells. And 64 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,600 if you were wondering how somebody like Leon Black has 65 00:04:22,639 --> 00:04:27,879 avoided real trouble here, this is how when everybody that's 66 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:32,160 in control of the DOJ and the government is your 67 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:36,120 friend or your buddy or a fellow traveler, you're gonna 68 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,000 get hooked up. And let's not forget that Ben Black 69 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:44,720 is part of the administration. Leon Black's son j Clayton, 70 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,519 has a very personal interest in seeing the Epstein story 71 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,519 as a cabin doff story involving mysterious who could have 72 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,920 ever known it villain, rather than the story of interconnected 73 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,160 a moral elites. It appears to be two impartial people, 74 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,639 said Jeff how, executive director of the government watchdog group 75 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:07,120 Revolving to a Project. And I don't think I've met 76 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,759 one single person, regular person who doesn't see what's going 77 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,600 on here and doesn't see just how screwed up things 78 00:05:15,639 --> 00:05:17,959 really are behind the scenes when it comes to the 79 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:22,800 so called masters of the universe. Because even if you 80 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,519 don't believe that this was some vast human trafficking enterprise, 81 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,839 how can you deny the rest of it? How can 82 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,360 you deny the stuff with the paper trail, How can 83 00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,759 you deny the obvious corruption. Well, if you're a serious person, 84 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,439 you can't because it all goes hand in hand, and 85 00:05:39,519 --> 00:05:41,160 when you start to get a lay of the land, 86 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,680 it looks like all these people were put in place 87 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,319 for that specific reason, right, the loyal soldiers, Todd Blanche, 88 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,199 Jay Clayton, Pam Bondy, Cash Patel, all people that are 89 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:56,160 going to play ball with what the administration wants them 90 00:05:56,199 --> 00:05:59,360 to do, and not only that, but rally around those decisions, 91 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:02,800 like there the right decisions to make. When anybody who's 92 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,040 not being biased and is taking a neutral approach understands 93 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,759 that what they're doing is just furthering the cover up, 94 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:13,879 that's a really paralyzing bias to bring to the role 95 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,439 of prosecutor. Houser added, we should want professional skeptics to 96 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:23,360 serve our prosecutors, not the credulous. And I think that's 97 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,040 correct too. Why do we have to have all your 98 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,480 buddies everywhere in the government. Isn't that just a form 99 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,959 of DEI? That's really what it comes down to. Are 100 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,920 you really going to try and tell me that Jay 101 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:39,120 Clayton is the most qualified person for that position in 102 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,639 the whole country, or that Todd Baby Billy Blanches, or 103 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,399 that Pambondi is, or that Cash Patil is. We all 104 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,600 know the answer to that, and the answer is no. Clayton, 105 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,439 a former corporate attorney with no prosecutorial experience and Trump's 106 00:06:56,439 --> 00:07:00,600 former Securities and Exchange Commission chair, served as chairchairman of 107 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,399 Apollo's board of directors from twenty twenty one intil April 108 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,639 of twenty twenty five, when Trump selected him to be 109 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:11,160 interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. 110 00:07:12,079 --> 00:07:15,040 Clayton was never confirmed to the position by the Senate, 111 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,519 but in a rare move, a panel of judges appointed 112 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,439 him to the position until the Senate confirmation candidate can 113 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,959 take over. Oh, isn't that nice. It's just such a joke, 114 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,360 Like it's honestly a joke. The whole entire thing that 115 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:33,480 we're seeing here play out in front of us. The 116 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:38,319 political theater surrounding. This is so disgusting that it's almost 117 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:44,199 hard to put it into words. Seven months after Clayton 118 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,759 assumed his Justice Department position, amid a public pressure campaign 119 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:51,519 urging the Justice Department to release the so called Epstein files, 120 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,720 US Attorney General Pambondi tasked him with investigating people and 121 00:07:56,839 --> 00:08:00,920 institutions tied to Epstein. According to Trump, that list should 122 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:06,279 include former President Bill Clinton, former Obama administration advisor Larry Summers, 123 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,360 billionaire tech founder and Democratic Party funder Reied Hoffman and 124 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,879 Wall Street Bank JP Morgan, Chase Funny, leaves out Leon Black, 125 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,759 leaves out jess Day, leaves out all of his buddies, 126 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,759 leaves out himself. But everybody else who is his enemy, 127 00:08:23,079 --> 00:08:26,639 well they should all be targeted. What kind of moron 128 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,319 talks like that? I mean, even if you have a 129 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,200 case that's being built and you're talking like that, you're 130 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,360 gonna end up getting that case thrown out. Imagine if 131 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:39,080 a lawyer was talking like this, a prosecutor, I mean, 132 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,600 the defense team would be filing motions the second the 133 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,639 words came out of their mouth. And if any kind 134 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,039 of investigations ever initiated against any of those people, they're 135 00:08:49,039 --> 00:08:51,279 going to claim that they're being targeted and it'll just 136 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,480 get thrown out anyway. But the truth is there was 137 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:57,960 never gonna be any kind of investigation into anybody, Democrats 138 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:00,960 or otherwise. So Donald Trump was just shooting his mouth 139 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,440 off like usual. Clayton has also been assigned to spearhead 140 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:10,200 the redactions of victims personally identifiable information in the trove 141 00:09:10,279 --> 00:09:14,840 of Epstein investigation records the Justice Department began releasing on 142 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:18,919 January thirtieth. The process has proved to be a debacle 143 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,720 due to failures that left email addresses and nude photos 144 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:27,159 of potential victims unredacted, plus the name of a victim 145 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,639 in another high profile sex trafficking case recently prosecuted by 146 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,080 Clayton's office. The SDNY is like Monty Python meets a 147 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,200 Reno nine one one. Talk about a bunch of morons 148 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:46,960 who's running this shit? The Trailer Park Boys. On January third, 149 00:09:47,159 --> 00:09:51,440 the Justice Department released its indictment against Madero, which included 150 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:56,600 Clayton's signature. That indictment has drawn criticism after the Justice 151 00:09:56,639 --> 00:10:00,919 Department dropped certain claims and revised portions after submitting it 152 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,320 to the court. The indictment alleges that for more than 153 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,799 twenty years, Maduro led a narco terrorism ring that imported 154 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:12,279 tons of cocaine into the United States. Clayton is the 155 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:17,120 top federal prosecutor overseeing the government's case. Well at the time, 156 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,159 when they were trying to say it was about fentanyl, 157 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,879 that was obviously a bunch of bullshit. The vast majority 158 00:10:23,879 --> 00:10:26,440 of fenyl or a precursor that comes into the country 159 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,559 is coming in through Mexico. Now cocaine, no doubt, certainly 160 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,360 coming from Venezuela. It's a transit point. But when we're 161 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,840 talking about fentyl, Venezuela had nothing to do with fentyl whatsoever. 162 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,360 So that was an obvious lie. If they would have 163 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,559 just said cocaine, okay, cool, believable. Still stupid, but believable. 164 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:51,840 And of course you're going to see that reflected in 165 00:10:51,879 --> 00:10:54,480 the indictment, and I'm sure that it's going to be 166 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,759 superseded a couple of more times before Maduro ends up 167 00:10:57,799 --> 00:11:04,080 going to trial. According to the Office of Government Ethics disclosures, 168 00:11:04,159 --> 00:11:08,200 Clayton still maintained significant investments in many of the companies 169 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,000 involved in his office's work. That includes between one point 170 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,799 five million and six million worth of Apollo holdings, between 171 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,039 fifteen thousand and fifty thousand in JP, Morgan, Chase and 172 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,759 Bank of America stock, and between one thousand and fifteen 173 00:11:23,799 --> 00:11:27,200 thousand in Bank of New York, Mellon and City Group stock. 174 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,600 The Justice Department has not announced any criminal prosecutions of 175 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,919 banks tied to Epstein, but Congress is investigating one point 176 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:41,639 five billion in suspicious financial transactions tied to Epstein, sex 177 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:47,360 trafficking crimes and disco conspirators that allegedly flowed through Deutsche Bank, 178 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:51,600 JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Bank of New York Mellon. 179 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,720 City Bank is among the institution Senators have called on 180 00:11:56,759 --> 00:12:01,200 the Treasury Department to investigate over suspicious activities relating to 181 00:12:01,279 --> 00:12:06,279 Jeffrey Epstein and dissociates. What's more, Clayton holds between nineteen 182 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,240 thousand and one hundred and ten thousand in Chevron, Conico, Phillips, 183 00:12:10,399 --> 00:12:15,679 Exon Mobil, Phillip sixty six, and Valero Energy stock, oil 184 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,799 companies with a potential financial stake in Venezuela's future oil production. 185 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:24,759 He also owns between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand 186 00:12:24,799 --> 00:12:28,080 dollars worth of stock in the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, 187 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:32,840 which also stands to gain from Venezuelan oil production thanks 188 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:37,080 to its six percent steak in Chevron. Clayton's portfolio also 189 00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:41,399 includes between one million and five million in unvested American 190 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:44,879 Express stock, between one hundred thousand and two hundred and 191 00:12:44,879 --> 00:12:49,240 fifty thousand in Google parent company Alphabet stock, and between 192 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,200 one hundred thousand and two hundred and fifty thousand in 193 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,600 Amazon stock, among other holdings. Federal ethics and conflict of 194 00:12:57,639 --> 00:13:01,960 interest rules which apply to Justice Department employees barre prosecutors 195 00:13:02,159 --> 00:13:06,200 from taking official action in a particular matter involving any 196 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,399 entity in which you or someone whose interests are imputed 197 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:13,120 to you have a financial interest. So Clayton should just 198 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,279 recuse himself from all of this. In fact, he should 199 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,679 go back to being a corporate lawyer. He is in 200 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:23,840 over his head, one thousand percent over his head. Those 201 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:28,120 rules also bar prosecutors from participating in cases involving any 202 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:31,320 person for whom you have served within the last year 203 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:37,840 as officer, director, trustee, general, partner, agent, attorney, consultant, contractor, 204 00:13:38,279 --> 00:13:42,480 or employee. The Justice Department declined to comment on whether 205 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,559 Clayton plans to recuse himself from Epstein or of Venezuela 206 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,080 related matters. No way, he was put here for this reason. 207 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,799 He is not going to recuse himself. Well, you think 208 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:59,480 this DOJ has honor. During his time at Apollo, Clayton 209 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,159 helps s caere the company through a public relations quagmire 210 00:14:02,399 --> 00:14:07,159 regarding Apollo's co founder and former CEO, Leon Black, and 211 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:12,360 his personal and business connections to Epstein. Apollo appointed Clayton 212 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:15,879 chairman after Black resigned from the position in March of 213 00:14:15,919 --> 00:14:19,200 twenty twenty one, amid scrutiny over his Epstein ties and 214 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:23,240 sexual harassment allegations made against them. Several but not all, 215 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,480 of the related suits have been dropped, and Black has 216 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:31,519 denied the allegations. Yeah, well, good luck denying those. Good luck, 217 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:35,679 Leon Black, because from what I've seen from those court filings, 218 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,960 sure's a lot of smoke there. In January twenty twenty 219 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:44,919 one regulatory filing, Apollo disclosed an internal investigation into Black 220 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:48,039 and the firm's relationship with Epstein, as well as the 221 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,840 letter Black issued to investors, both of which stated Apollo 222 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,360 had no formal business ties to Epstein and that only 223 00:14:55,399 --> 00:14:59,840 Black himself consulted with Epstein on business related issues. As 224 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:04,039 of if Black wasn't Apollo and Apollo wasn't Black, you 225 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,879 can't separate the two. Now they'll say you can, but 226 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:13,240 you can't. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. Due 227 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:16,480 to the new Epstein Files revelations, Apollo's claims are now 228 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:19,519 facing legal scrutiny in the US District Court for the 229 00:15:19,559 --> 00:15:23,960 Southern District of New York, Clayton's jurisdiction. While his office 230 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:26,960 is not directly involved in the case, the matter could 231 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,200 put pressure on him to include his former employer among 232 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,519 the people and institutions tied to Epstein that he's charged 233 00:15:33,759 --> 00:15:39,720 with investigating. January thirtieth, Epstein Files release contained documents detailing 234 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:44,840 multiple emails between Epstein, current Apollo CEO Mark Rowan, and 235 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:50,159 other Apollo executives between twenty thirteen and March twenty sixteen, 236 00:15:50,799 --> 00:15:54,559 long after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor. 237 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:56,879 And again, this is where the timelines come in, right. 238 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:01,279 There's no excuse here, and Mark Rowan should be embarrassed. 239 00:16:02,399 --> 00:16:04,600 He came out and said he had no contact with Epstein, 240 00:16:04,679 --> 00:16:10,399 there weren't friends, blah blah blah, another lie. In response 241 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,840 to a group of Apollo shareholders filed a lawsuit on 242 00:16:13,879 --> 00:16:16,919 March second in the Southern District of New York alleging 243 00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:21,159 that Apollo, Black and Rowan were directly or indirectly involved 244 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,799 in drafting, producing, reviewing, or disseminating the false and misleading 245 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,480 statements and information that was submitted to shareholders in the 246 00:16:29,519 --> 00:16:34,320 twenty twenty one regulatory filing. Yeah, they lied one thousand 247 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,519 percent without a doubt. And the crazy thing is, there's 248 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:44,000 all kinds of teachers' unions and different funds that are 249 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,080 being managed by Apollo Global, So this is just the 250 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:54,840 beginning of the trouble for them. Additionally, two major teachers' 251 00:16:54,879 --> 00:16:59,080 unions are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate 252 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,919 what they call miss claims made in the regulatory filing. 253 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,519 Were troubled by Apollo's seeming inability to be forthcoming about 254 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:11,000 the extent to which Epstein was a personal, social, and 255 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,440 professional associate of the firm and its partners. The American 256 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,839 Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors 257 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,599 wrote in a letter to the Commission, Well, that's funny 258 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:28,640 considering how many professors were on Epstein's tea. That's a 259 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,119 bit ironic. No, we don't know exactly what motivates that 260 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,519 lack of candor, but it should be investigated. Well, that's true, 261 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,279 It most certainly should. Do you really think Jay Clayton's 262 00:17:39,279 --> 00:17:42,279 going to be the guy to do it. Apollo did 263 00:17:42,279 --> 00:17:44,880 not respond to a request for comment, but in a 264 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,640 February eighteen statement, Apollo said there's nothing new in the 265 00:17:48,799 --> 00:17:52,240 Justice Department Epstein documents and that despite the flurry of 266 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:56,359 coverage and certain constituents pushing their own agendas, the facts 267 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:01,160 remain the same. Do they though? Do they really? And 268 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:05,000 even if they do, the problem for Apollo is we've 269 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:08,559 never seen the real facts. What we saw was a 270 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:14,440 water down report by Deckert. That's all we saw. Still. 271 00:18:14,559 --> 00:18:18,119 Chris Tobe, an investment advisor and litigation expert for public 272 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,400 pension funds representing workers, said Clayton's Apollo holdings are a 273 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,759 clear conflict of interest and that he should resign. There 274 00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:28,279 are just too many conflicts here, Tobe told the Lever 275 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,519 and I agree with that one hundred percent. And I've 276 00:18:31,559 --> 00:18:33,799 been saying this for a while. I don't think Jay 277 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,240 Clayton should have this job. There's way too much conflict 278 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,720 of interest going on, and I don't know how anyone 279 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,039 could have any faith that Jay Clayton's going to do 280 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:45,440 the right thing, especially considering how terrible they did when 281 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,599 it comes to curating the Epstein files for release. So 282 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:51,759 I certainly have my doubts about Jay Clayton and about 283 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:55,119 how neutral he can be when he's pursuing his duty 284 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,240 as the head honcho of the SDNY. So we're going 285 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:02,200 to keep an eye on these cases and see what 286 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:05,079 happens as they continue to make their way through court, 287 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,640 and when we have some more information on them, we'll 288 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,359 get it added to the catalog. 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