Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
In this episode, we're gonna pick up where we left
off in the Insider article talking about Stacey Plaskett. The
author of this article is Jacob shamsy In Plasket won,
defeating the well known Malone by just seven hundred and
thirty seven votes. One local news organization called it one
of the biggest upsets in Virgin Island's politics. It wasn't
until a month later that Plaskett and Epstein met for
the first time in person. Introduced by Erica Kellerhall's, a
local lawyer, they had a meeting on September fifth. According
to copies of Epstein's schedules obtained by Insider through a
Freedom of Information Act request, Plaskett was expected to coast
a victory in the general election. The local Democratic Party
has a firm grip on the territory's politics since nineteen
eighty one, the Virgin Islands has only once sent a
non Democrat to Congress. So who is there to blame
down here? There's no evil person down here, right, no boogeyman.
So there needs to be some self reflection when it
comes to these revelations that we hear that involve people
like Stacy Plasket. You can't talk out of one side
of your mouth about how Stacy Plasket is this courageous
warrior or this great politician who cares about our democracy,
and then out of the same side of your mouth
talk about you care about these survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.
Because that bullshit is not going to work anymore. It's
time that those kinds of folks are called out for
their bullshit because they're certainly part of the problem. And
if you're part of the problem, you better get ready
to catch that smoke, because my days of being polite
are long over. Nonetheless, DeJong pushed for more money to
support Plasket. If she was going to cruise the victory,
why would she need more money. In October twenty fourteen,
she wrote an email to Epstein memorializing a thirteen thousand
dollars donation to a Democratic Party operation in Plasket support
from the Southern Trust Company. Hi, Jeffrey, I'm confirming with
you that STC will send thirteen thousand dollars to the
Democratic Party for the benefit of Stacy Plaskett. Degen wrote,
this is a gigantic scandal folks, and it needs to
be investigated and explored, and if there's criminal charges, those
need to be slapped on people as well. She's getting
money from Southern Trust. Really we know that's a money
laundering operation. And then you'll wonder why there's no RICO.
Once again, I hate to bring it up, but if
you take a look at this, how is it not
a RICO case? This is as clear as day. It's
just like going after the death penalty for Brian Kolberger.
That is as clear as day. Just like anything Epstein
was up to should have been RICO. All of the
predicates were met, but somehow RICO was never enacted. JP
Morgan and the US Virgin Islands blame each other for
Epstein escaping justice. Plasket's deposition and the emails between Epstein
and de Jong have been produced in litigation between the
US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan chase over who bears
responsibility for letting Epstein Ronald Muck. A compensation program funded
by his estate found he sexually abused more than one
hundred girls before his death, and there's a lot more
than that. Unfortunately, those are just the girls that came forward.
I just received an email from somebody who says that
they were also abused by Epstein and that they never
received any compensation because they were scared to come forward.
So I'm sure there are a ton of women out
there who are going through that same exact deal, who,
for whatever reasons, have decided that they don't want to
come forward and relive this nightmare. The US Virgin Islands
government sued JP Morgan in December in a New York
federal court, alleging the bank pulled the levers of Epstein's
sex trafficking operation and ignored numerous red flags. Epstein had
bank with JP Morgan for decades, using entities like Southern
Trust Company to transport girls and pay them for their silence.
The US Virgin Islands has alleged the criminal trial of
Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate and one time girlfriend and
co conspirator and fellow child abuser and all around scusbag
and that I mentioned by Pudle Serpent in twenty twenty one,
had already shed some light on how Epstein used as
JP Morgan accounts. One bank official testified about documents showing
that Epstein gave Maxwell at least thirty point seven million
dollars between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and seven.
Part of that compensation was for helicopter pilot lessons. Witnesses
testified that after passengers from Epstein's plane are arrived on
Saint Thomas, Maxwell flew passengers from the airport there to
his private island of Little Saint James, which locals nicknamed
pedophile Island. If the locals are nicknaming that, how are
the politicians going to say they had no idea what
was going on? And how did they expect anyone to
believe them? And if you do believe them, then maybe,
just maybe you're part of the problem. Another trial witness
testified that one of Epstein's jets, which prosecutors said he
used the traffic girls for sex, was owned by a
company called Hyperion Air, which was incorporated through you guessed it,
JP Morgan. The trial Jerry convicted Maxwell on charges that
she traffic girls to Epstein for sex and sexually abused
them herself. She's serving a twenty year prison sentence and
it's too short. She should be serving a five hundred
and twenty year prison sentence for the bullshit she was
up to. Documents obtained by the US Virgin Islands in
the case show deep ties between Epstein and top JP
Morgan officials, including Mary Urdos, who's widely considered to be
second in line to Jamie Diamond's CEO post. Epstein's main
contact at JP Morgan was Jess Staley, the head of
private banking who later became the CEO of Barclays Bank,
only to step down in twenty twenty one following a
UK government investigation into is Epstein ties he should have
never been hired at Barclays in the first place. They
act like they didn't know who he was or what
he was up to. It's such bs. Just go and
look at what Edward Bramson had to say at the
very beginning. And Bramson is a gigantic shareholder with Barclays
who has a board seat. He wanted nothing to do
with Jess Staley's disgusting ass. JP Morgan's defense in the
lawsuit has basically been I'm rubber your glue. Whatever you
say bounces off me and sticks to you. Well, it's
kind of true though, right. Both sides here do hold
a lot of responsibility for the bullshit that went down,
and both sides should be held accountable. The Virgin Islands
had access to the same information about Epstein, but did
nothing to stop them. JP Morgan is said in filings,
if anything, the US Virgin Islands government was in Epstein's thrall.
JP Morgan has argued authorities exercise practically no oversight when
Epstein brought girls to his island, even though he was
a registered sex offender. Lawyers for the bank have said
the Virgin Islands government JP Morgan said, got greedy after
already reaching a settlement with Epstein's estate last year. And
I agree with that one thousand percent. Why would they
try and get more money here? Do they really believe
they're entitled the hundreds of millions of dollars for setting
the table and helping this man pray on these girls.
It can only be greed that would have them putting
themselves in the crossfire once again here, Because now people
are starting to ask the question that I've been asking
for a very long time, how the US Virgin Islands
is entitled to anything when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's money.
Having sought and obtained more than one hundred million dollars
from Jeffrey Epstein's estate and businesses for damages caused by
his sex trafficking crimes. The United States Virgin Islands now
cast farther afield for deeper pockets. Lawyers for JP Morgan
wrote in a filing, the sad part is all of
these pockets that they're looking for happened to be the survivors.
Where do you think the money would go? If the
US Virgin Islands would just stop their bullshit, it would
go to the survivors where it deserves to go. But no,
the island that sent Stacey Plaskett to Washington, d C.
To go and cause havoc after she is hanging out
with mister petophile himself. Well, they want more money and
they want to be paid on the back end of
their bullshit as well as dipping in on the front end.
Is this a local government or are we talking about
a mafia here? This same organization, which the US Virgin
Island says was actually Epstein's vehicle for sex trafficking, was
managed by none other than DeJong. JP Morgan is said
in court documents. The litigation has already caused some fallout
in the US Virgin Islands political sphere. Denise George, the
Attorney General, who secured one hundred and five million dollars
settlement with Epstein's estate, was fired by Governor Albert Bryan Jr.
Several days after she brought the JP Morgan lawsuit. Brian
wanted to be kept apprized of the lawsuit status. The
New York Times reported an unusual expectation for any elected official. Yeah,
because his name was all over the Epstein bullshit. I mean,
am I the only one that's seeing the forest through
the trees here? I can't be. I know you out
there listening your hip, you know what's going on here.
But it seems like the legacy media is still trying
to play catch up. JP Morgan has already agreed to
pay two hundred and ninety million dollars to settle a
separate class action lawsuit brought by one of Epstein's victims
filed around the same time as the US Virgin Islands lawsuit,
as did Deutsche Bank, to the tune of seventy five million.
But the litigation between the US Virgin Islands and JP
Morgan is moving full steam ahead with no indication of
a settlement in the works. US District Judge Jed Raykoff
has pushed the parties to move incredibly quickly, with a
trial scheduled for October. Court filings show the depths of
Epstein's political connections. Part of the Epstein story is how
a sex offender and serial rapist he moved freely among
powerful people such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.
Less clear is how he pulled levers of power. The
court record showed so that at least in the US
Virgin Islands he exerted influence with little friction. And it
wasn't just in the US Virgin Islands. Let's go and
look at New Mexico next, and let's see what kind
of bullshit was going on there. The records dredged up
by JP Morgan appeared damning. Epstein practically had the entire
government in his pocket, threw DeJong and received three hundred
million dollars in tax incentives over a nineteen year span.
JP Morgan has said, let that sink in for a minute, folks, Okay,
Miss Stacy Plaskett and the rest of them, they have
some nerve telling anybody else that their scummy, considering what
went on under their watch, and not only that, but
with their help and their support. You know that's saying
about glass houses and all right. Plasket's connections to Epstein
drew some attention in twenty nineteen after federal prosecutors charged
them with trafficking girls for sex. After initially refusing to
return his campaign contributions, Blasket later said she would donate
the funds to Virgin Islands organizations that work with women
and children. I am uncomfortable having received money from someone
who has been accused of these egregious actions multiple times,
Plasket set at the time, Yeah, okay, sure, but you
took the money and you knew what he was. He
was already a sex offender. We're talking about right before
he was arrested the second time. So she can go
back and try and revise history, but the facts are
going to be what the facts are. Since she joined
Congress in twenty fifteen, Plasket star has risen during Trump's
second impeachment. She served as an impeachment manager. In the
current congressional term, Plasket serves as a counterweight to Republicans
on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of
the Federal Government, blasting what she sees as right wing
efforts to undermine the rule of law. Yeah, how about
this for undermining the rule of law taking money from
a convicted pedophile, well, then using that money in an
uncontested primary to win your seat. Why don't we talk
about that, Stacy Plaskett. How about we have a talk
about what you did down in the Virgin Islands before
we talk about how you're some kind of arbiter of
truth or some kind of person who is going to
hold others responsible. How about you start with yourself and
the other politicians on the island at the time that
Epstein was active. Until you do that, I don't want
to hear shit from you. De Jong's connections and advice
for Epstein went well beyond just helping out Plasket. In emails,
she drew detailed pictures of the US Virgin Islands political landscape,
explaining how Epstein could curry favor with candidates at different
points in each election cycle. In one election, Epstein outright
asked DeJong for a list of people he should vote for.
The frankness is startling. In a twenty fifteen email, de
Jong suggested putting one politician on some sort of monthly retainer.
This is what you will get for his loyalty and access,
she wrote. Epstein later gave that politician ten thousand dollars
to consult on changing the name of one of Epstein's islands.
A J. P. Morgan filing said the financier pedal file
did not change the name of either of his islands.
So all this money that was being spread around, they'll
say it's for this or that, but the reality is
this money was being spread around to keep the criminal
enterprise chuggin right along, and that would have never been
possible without the complicity of these officials down in the
US Virgin Islands. At de Jong's direction, Epstein doled out
money freely to John Dejong's political allies. JP Morgan wrote.
Emails submitted as exhibits show Epstein agreed to spend ten
thousand dollars for the inauguration committee of Governor Kenneth Mapp
in twenty fourteen and forked over seventy five thousand for
maps PAC in twenty sixteen. Cecile DeJong solicited twenty five
thousand for the twenty nineteen gubernatorial inauguration of Brian who
later fired the attorney general who brought the lawsuit against
JP Morgan. The politicians down in the US Virgin Islands
were living their life like we were back in the
old days, and this was Tammany Hall, like they could
just do whatever they want, get in bed with Bill
the Butcher, you know, whatever it is, and there's gonna
be no repercussions. Well, I'm here to tell you the
repercussions are coming, and I hope that those repercussions mean
that US Virgin Islands is going to get sued by
these survivors as well. Not one single dollar should go
to the US Virgin Islands. When John DeJong was governor,
Epstein seemed to see the US Virgin Islands as one
big financial instrument. Epstein asked Cecile DeJong in a typo
filled February twenty seventeen email, the VA government is desperate
for cash. Does John know of any asset they might
have that I can use as collateral islands, et cetera. Yes,
John said there are properties. She responded, appearing to refer
to her husband. How much do you need to collateralize?
Epstein found Dejong's connections helpful in other ways. In twenty fifteen,
she helped fast track a dental license in the Territory
for Carina Shuliac, Epstein's girlfriend at the time of his
death and the last person he spoke to on the
phone before he died. In twenty thirteen, she arranged student
visas for two women Epstein wanted to bring to one
of his islands. When Epstein was slow to offer the
details she needed to register them in a class for
English as a second language speaker, Dejeang rushed them. They
are structuring the class around the lady, she told them.
Shortly before Thanksgiving. In twenty twelve, De Jong facilitated Epstein's
purchase of seventy eight turkeys for every employee of the
Saint Thomas Customs Office, the agency responsible for checking everyone
who arrived on his private planes. No big deal, no
big deal at all, just a guy being nice supplying
some turkeys to the neighborhood. Earlier that year, the US
Virgin Islands passed a bill updating its sex offender laws
that Epstein was unhappy with. Dejan and Epstein had tried
to stop it from happening. In twenty eleven, she showed
him draft bills, asking this is the suggested language. Will
it work for you? Imagine having the audacity to run
it by the sex offender if the sex offender laws
work for him. The pedophile had some suggestions. He said.
He wanted to make sure some files would be kept
secret lest they be accessible by the press. Oh, you
don't have to worry about that, Jeffy, the press all
loves you. He also wanted to make sure he could
easily get away on his private jet. We should add
out of the country for more than seven days, otherwise
I could not go on a trip to Tortola. At
the last minute, Epstein wrote, God forbid, the diddler can't
go to Tortola when he wants to go. Meanwhile, the
rest of us are saving for two years to take
our families to Disney World. So I'm not feeling too
much empathy for mister Didler over here, who can't go
to Tortola whenever he wants. You want to travel freely,
You don't want to check in. Here's an idea, don't
rape kids. When the final version of the bill passed,
DeJong offered Epstein some comfort the new child sex offender
law wasn't exactly what Epstein wanted. JP Morgan has said
they had been assured by lawmakers. DeJong suggested that things
would be different. I know this was a horrible week
and I'm really sorry about how things panned out. Not
being able to take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating.
DeJong wrote, However, all is not lost and we will
figure something out by coming up with a game plan
to get around these obstacles. So, folks, look, there's a
big problem here that needs to be addressed, and that
problem is Stacy Plaskett and the rest of the Democratic
Party down here in the US Virgin Islands that was
using Jeffrey Epstein as their personal piggybank. Is anyone going
to answer for that? Or are we just gonna get
more stupid ass, canned responses and more denials. The bad
news for them, though, is We're not going to accept that,
and there needs to be a real look at what
happened here. There needs to be a real look at
who was involved with Epstein down in the Virgin Islands.
And if I was a survivor, I'd be putting together
a lawsuit right now as we speak against the US
Virgin Islands. And as far as Stacey Plasket goes, I
don't want to hear anything about her courage or about
her being a visionary or anything like that. All I
want from Stacy Plaskett is some real concrete answers about
her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. All Right, folks, that's gonna
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