1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,319 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:03,319 --> 00:00:08,080 Epstein Chronicles. Some things really are a stranger than fiction, 3 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:11,839 and this is one of those moments where reality doesn't 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,519 just tell on itself, it practically confesses in broad daylight. 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,960 Back in twenty nineteen, while Jeffrey Epstein was still being 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 treated like a closed chapter and an administrative inconvenience by 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,239 the federal government, one reporter refused to let the rot 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,920 stay buried. Julie K. Brown didn't just write a story. 9 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:35,960 She detonated a long delayed reckoning. She exposed a decade 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,799 of prosecutorial cowardice, backroom deal making, and institutional malpractice so 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,560 obvious it humiliated the very agency's task with enforcing the law. 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,920 And here's the part that should make your stomach not up. 13 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,920 The federal response was an urgency accountability, or a full 14 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:58,000 throated reopening of everything they'd buried. It was surveillance, it 15 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:02,240 was paperwork. It was the Wyatt bureaucratic act of opening 16 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,239 a case file on the journalist who exposed them. Let 17 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:09,400 that sink in, because this is the moment where the 18 00:01:09,439 --> 00:01:12,480 mass slips. Instead of racing to re examine the non 19 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:16,319 prosecution agreement that never should have existed. Instead of scrambling 20 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:19,760 to explain how a serial sex trafficker was shielded for years, 21 00:01:20,239 --> 00:01:24,239 instead of dragging Epstein's enablers into interview rooms under oath, 22 00:01:24,879 --> 00:01:28,400 the machinery of the federal government pivoted towards monitoring the 23 00:01:28,439 --> 00:01:31,920 person who made them look incompetent at best and canplicit 24 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:35,599 at worst. And look, that's not an accident, that's not 25 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,439 some rogue office freelancing on its own time. That's the 26 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,319 bureaucracy moving slowly. That's instinct. That's the system protecting itself 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,079 before it ever thinks about protecting victims. And anyone who 28 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:52,400 has spent real time covering federal misconduct, corruption, or institutional 29 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:56,159 failure will tell you this straight. This move is as 30 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,200 old as the playbook itself. When institutions fail catastrophically, they 31 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,000 don't look inward first. They look outward for threats to 32 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,319 their authority and their reputation. And let's be brutally honest 33 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,120 about something else here, because pretending otherwise insults the intelligence 34 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,479 of anyone paying attention. If they opened the file on 35 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:19,240 Julie K. Brown, they almost certainly opened files on others too. 36 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,280 Journalists researchers, independent voices, people who gained traction, built audiences, 37 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:29,120 and refused to shut up or accept the fairy tale. 38 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:32,080 And I don't think that's paranoia. I just think that 39 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,639 comes from us learning the hard way. We've been told 40 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,240 over and over that Jeffrey Epstein was a lone predator, 41 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,159 some isolated aberration who slipped through the cracks. Yet the 42 00:02:41,159 --> 00:02:44,759 federal government mobilized its attention not against the network that 43 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:48,159 sustained them, not against the facilitators who met his life 44 00:02:48,199 --> 00:02:53,360 and crimes possible, but against scrutiny itself. And we all 45 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,840 know that that behavior does not happen in clean cases. 46 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,719 It happens in compromised ones. It happens when exposure is 47 00:02:59,759 --> 00:03:02,680 more aerous to the institutions than the crime ever was. 48 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,479 This is how cover ups actually work in the real world. 49 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:10,479 They're not just built from sealed documents, deferred prosecutions, and 50 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:15,159 missing indictments. They're built from intimidation, quiet monitoring, and the 51 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:18,039 unspoken message that anyone who pulls too hard on the 52 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,520 thread might find the spotlight turn back on them. It 53 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,719 just becomes another brick in the wall, a wall constructed 54 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,719 not just to keep secrets in but to keep accountability out. 55 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:33,360 And when you stack this behavior alongside everything else we've 56 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,919 already known about the Epstein case, it stops looking like coincidence, 57 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,479 it starts looking like strategy. So when people ask why 58 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,719 distrust of the DOJ and the FBI runs so deep 59 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:48,680 in the Epstein story, this is exactly why. When the 60 00:03:48,719 --> 00:03:52,159 story finally breaks, when the public finally sees what survivors 61 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,199 have been screaming about for years, and the system's first 62 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,479 instinct is to monitor the messenger instead of dismantling the 63 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:01,479 machine that enable the crime. Time that tells you everything 64 00:04:01,479 --> 00:04:04,599 you need to know about priorities. It tells you who 65 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:07,280 the system is designed to protect and who it's willing 66 00:04:07,319 --> 00:04:10,919 to sacrifice to preserve itself. And with that firmly a mind, 67 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,800 let's dig into the independence reporting because what it reveals 68 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,480 isn't just disturbing or uncomfortable. It's damning in a way 69 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,959 that the federal government still hasn't come close to answering for. 70 00:04:24,399 --> 00:04:27,839 Today's article was published by The Independent, and the headline 71 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,639 why was the DOJ tracking an investigative journalist who covers Epstein? 72 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,319 DEM's demand answers, Yeah, guess what sort of the rest 73 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:42,680 of us. This article was authored by Joe Summerland. Democrats 74 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,399 on the House Oversight Committee have demanded answers from the 75 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:48,959 Department of Justice after details of a flight taken by 76 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,120 an investigative journalist well known for covering Jeffrey Epstein turned 77 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:59,399 up in the Pedophiles files. I mean imagine being Julie K. Brown, Like, 78 00:04:59,519 --> 00:05:01,639 what did she do that was so wrong that the 79 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,800 government would open a file on her and investigate her? 80 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:07,319 Don't you think the right way to do it would 81 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,279 be to contact Julie K. Brown and say to her, Hey, look, 82 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:14,240 we saw your report and we are interested in what's 83 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,439 going on, and we want to take a look at 84 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:18,519 everything you have if you're willing to share it with 85 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,480 us so that we can open a case file and 86 00:05:21,519 --> 00:05:25,680 get this going. But you'd have to have some accountability 87 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,680 to do that. You'd have to be willing to deal 88 00:05:27,759 --> 00:05:31,040 with the screw ups over the years and come correct 89 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,759 and tell the American people what's what. And they're not 90 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,959 willing to do that. They're not willing to tell you 91 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,079 the truth, and that should terrify you. Miami Herald reporter 92 00:05:43,199 --> 00:05:46,120 Julie K. Brown, author of the book Perversion of Justice, 93 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,920 which was published in twenty twenty posted on X Sunday. 94 00:05:50,199 --> 00:05:52,600 Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why 95 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:56,839 an American Airlines booking information and flights in July twenty 96 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,439 nineteen are part of the Epstein files as the flight 97 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,839 itinerary includes my maiden name and I did book this flight? 98 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,920 Why was the DOJ monitoring me? And again, that's a 99 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,560 great question, and it's a legitimate one, and the DOJ 100 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,680 should be forced to answer that question. The FBI has 101 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,199 time to open up all these case files, they should 102 00:06:18,199 --> 00:06:21,439 have time to arrest Jeffrey Epstein's co conspirators as well, right, 103 00:06:22,439 --> 00:06:24,040 I mean, they have all this time on their hands, 104 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,839 obviously going after somebody like Julie K. Brown. And like 105 00:06:27,879 --> 00:06:29,759 I've told you from the jump, don't get it twisted. 106 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:32,160 I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that Julie K. 107 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:34,879 Brown is the only one who broke this story open. 108 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:39,399 Before Julie K. Brown was even involved, you had Brad Edwards, 109 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,800 you had Virginia, you had Maria, you had Brittany Henderson, 110 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,360 you had Spencer Covin, everybody that was involved on the ground. 111 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,160 But Julie K. Brown most certainly amplified the story and 112 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:53,480 brought it to the masses. And what was her reward 113 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:57,040 for that? Hey, we'll throw you on a list. Very american. 114 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,000 Isn't it just very american to throw people on lists 115 00:07:00,319 --> 00:07:02,759 and follow their movement and see what they're up to 116 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,120 because you don't like their reporting. Absolutely disgusting. And here's 117 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,079 an idea, and try and stick with me. Don't be 118 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,680 corrupt and you don't have to worry about people blowing 119 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,000 your shit up. Why is it so difficult for these 120 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,160 politicians and these bureaucrats just to do the right thing. 121 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,480 You're being paid a ton of money, getting great hours, 122 00:07:22,519 --> 00:07:25,279 great benefit package, and your only job is not to 123 00:07:25,319 --> 00:07:27,480 be a jerk off. And the vast majority of these 124 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,319 people can't even accomplish that. And these are the people 125 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,079 that are going to stop major attacks on the country 126 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:36,720 by terrorist organizations and what have you. Boy, I'm sure 127 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,839 going to sleep great tonight. Brown also addressed the matter 128 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:43,279 in a post on Substack in which she said she 129 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,920 had expected to see her name in the Epstein files 130 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:49,279 because of her reporting, but added, what I didn't expect 131 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:52,279 was to see an American Airlines flight record from twenty 132 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:55,160 nineteen with my full name on them. And including my 133 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,480 maiden name, which I don't use professionally. It's an unusual name, 134 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:02,839 so it's clear to me and the DOJ needs to 135 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:06,199 answer for this. This is ridiculous. Her ex message was 136 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,480 reposted by the official Oversight DEM's account with the comment 137 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,959 the Department of Justice needs to explain why travel information 138 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,519 and booking itineraries for a journalist or in the Epstein files. 139 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,879 I mean, it's unbelievable. I don't even know what else 140 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,720 to say. It's very rare that I'm out of loss 141 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,480 for words, But when you look at situations like this, 142 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,439 words don't really do it justice. It's so disgusting to me, 143 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:34,519 and it's so negligent that it's not even funny. Anybody 144 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,320 who's making these decisions to follow around somebody like Julie K. 145 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,799 Brown because of her reporting on a story like this, 146 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:43,960 that person needs to be fired. And frankly, if I'm 147 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:47,159 Julie K. Brown, I'm thinking about filing a lawsuit, a 148 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,840 civil rights lawsuit here, because this is just unbelievable. I'll 149 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,120 tell you right now. I find out that I'm being 150 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,799 surveiled by the federal government or they're following my movements, 151 00:08:57,919 --> 00:09:00,440 I'm suing them. So if they're listening, I hope they're 152 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,840 a ready because also the shit out of you, believe it. 153 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,200 It's about time somebody stands up to these people and 154 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,120 tells them enough is enough. Do your fucking job. Stop 155 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:13,519 acting like the goon squad. The Independent has contacted the 156 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,279 DOJ for comment. The near unanimous passage of the Epstein 157 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,639 Files Transparency Act through Congress in November set in motion 158 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,039 a thirty day deadline for the DOJ to publish all 159 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,159 of its past investigative material on Epstein, the billionaire pedophile 160 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,480 and sex trafficker who died by suicide in New York 161 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,039 City jail in August of twenty nineteen while awaiting trial. 162 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,759 President Donald Trump signed off on a bill after months 163 00:09:39,799 --> 00:09:43,159 of pressure to release the information, as he had previously 164 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,320 promised his supporters he would and admit persistent questions about 165 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,960 his past friendship with Epstein, which he said ended long 166 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,360 before it became fashionable in two thousand and four. Trump 167 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,799 has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to 168 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,360 the financier, and anyone's appearance in the files not be 169 00:10:00,399 --> 00:10:04,360 interpreted as evidence of guilt. Well, that's true too. We 170 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,840 have to be honest about everything, and the best way 171 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,759 to do that, like I've said before, is to be 172 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,519 as precise as possible. Does it look like the DOJ 173 00:10:14,039 --> 00:10:16,679 is being as precise as possible when they're going after 174 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:21,000 Julie K. Brown? Certainly seems like they have their priorities 175 00:10:21,039 --> 00:10:26,919 a bit flipped. The DOJ duly published a significant tranch 176 00:10:26,919 --> 00:10:31,039 of Epstein documents and photographs on December nineteenth, in compliance 177 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,399 with the Act. Still, they were found to be incomplete, 178 00:10:34,879 --> 00:10:38,200 lacking in context, and not presented in a searchable format, 179 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:41,919 as the original bill had expressly stipulated. Well, to the 180 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,480 DOJ's credit, they fix that. The search bar does work now, 181 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,159 so if you put in certain words, you'll get back 182 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,360 the documentation that relates to those words, and it has 183 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,480 been helpful in me navigating through those files. So at 184 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,440 least the DOJ has went back and fixed that, because 185 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,159 that was a big deal Without that search function, forget it. 186 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:04,320 There's so many of those files it's hard to make 187 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,919 heads or tails of what's going on, so that's why 188 00:11:06,919 --> 00:11:10,399 they had to all be in a searchable format. A second, 189 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,200 even larger batch of files was posted on the department's 190 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,159 website on December twenty third, two days before Christmas, leaving 191 00:11:17,159 --> 00:11:21,039 interested parties scrambling to comb through the almost thirty thousand 192 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:24,759 pages released. And obviously I haven't even made a dent 193 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,639 in all of that. I've been focusing a lot on 194 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:31,039 the murder or death of Jeffrey Epstein inside the jail, 195 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,600 and a lot more on the internal conversations that were 196 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:38,080 being had by the staff. And boy, is it revealing 197 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,240 not to digress too far here, but over five staff members, 198 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:47,279 five guards refuse to speak to the FBI or the 199 00:11:47,279 --> 00:11:52,440 OIG inspectors about Jeffrey Epstein's death. And I'm going to 200 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,080 go a bit deeper on that later on. I'm working 201 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,759 on a little something right now to try and put 202 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:58,879 that all into focus and make it a little bit 203 00:11:58,919 --> 00:12:03,279 more digestible. But man, there's a lot going on right now, 204 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:05,799 and I'm doing my best to stay on top of everything. 205 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,120 But boy, there's a lot. And also, while we're talking 206 00:12:09,159 --> 00:12:11,519 about that, if you've sent me an email over the 207 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,720 past three weeks and I haven't responded yet, don't worry. 208 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,240 I'm going to get to it, I promise you. But 209 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,559 with the holidays here and all this information piling on 210 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,240 top of us, remember I'm a one man operation, so 211 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:27,080 as I'm trying to create content and edit and all 212 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,519 the rest of it, I have to go through the 213 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,840 emails and still go through those files. So I'm trying 214 00:12:31,879 --> 00:12:36,080 to prioritize the content over everything else. And as far 215 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,480 as emails go, like I said, I'm going to get 216 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,519 to those over the next few days. So by the 217 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:44,480 first of the year, I should have those emails answered. 218 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,320 If you've sent them to me, and if you've sent 219 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:50,679 me emails with files attached, they go straight to my quarantine, 220 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,080 So I have to go in there and manually look 221 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,360 at those, and I'm going to do that over the 222 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:58,000 next few days as well, So just bear with me, 223 00:12:58,759 --> 00:13:02,759 all right. Back to the story. Brown is credited with 224 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,159 helping to reopen the case against Epstein after the mysterious 225 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:09,240 financier was allowed to plead guilty to two state level 226 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,480 prostitution offenses in two thousand and eight as part of 227 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:15,720 a plea deal with Florida prosecutors that saw a escape 228 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:21,840 more serious federal charges, which was an absolute travesty of justice. 229 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,039 We won't go too far deep down that rabbit hole 230 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,360 because we have plenty of times before, but that NPA 231 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:31,919 is the nexus for all of this, and if the 232 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,120 DOJ really meant business, that NPA would go away. The 233 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,440 Miami Herald began publishing a series of Brown's reports in 234 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,399 November of twenty eighteen that saw her identify eighty potential 235 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,200 victims of Epstein's sexual abuse, some of whom were as 236 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,360 young as thirteen when the abuse took place, and speak 237 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,759 to eight individuals about their experiences. Epstein was eventually rearrested 238 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:00,879 and charged again in July twenty nineteen, chain of events 239 00:14:00,919 --> 00:14:04,519 that also saw then Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta resign, 240 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,759 given that he had been the US Attorney for the 241 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:10,799 Southern District of Florida at the time the pedophiles plea 242 00:14:10,879 --> 00:14:14,519 deal was agreed. The deal not only shielded Epstein himself 243 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:20,240 from further prosecution, but also protected his co conspirators. Now 244 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:22,480 imagine John Gott you got a deal like that, or 245 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,919 El Chappo or insert criminal here. But Jeffrey Epstein, no 246 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,879 big deal. Hook him up. Now, Julie K. Brown being 247 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:34,480 followed by the government. Nothing good about that. And everybody 248 00:14:34,519 --> 00:14:37,720 should be enraged because when you chop it up, what 249 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:40,080 it shows you is that the DOJ was more worried 250 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:45,320 about the story getting out than actually pursuing justice. And 251 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,279 if they were worried about things getting out, then well 252 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:51,120 it tells you everything you need to know about their 253 00:14:51,159 --> 00:14:54,720 behavior now. So, like usual, we'll keep an eye on 254 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:58,639 things and we'll see where this all goes. All of 255 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:02,039 the information that goes with this episode can be found 256 00:15:02,399 --> 00:15:03,600 in the description box.