1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,679 Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. 2 00:00:05,719 --> 00:00:08,240 In this episode, we're gonna pick up where we left 3 00:00:08,279 --> 00:00:14,000 off in the Insider article talking about Stacey Plaskett. The 4 00:00:14,039 --> 00:00:19,640 author of this article is Jacob shamsy In Plasket won, 5 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,440 defeating the well known Malone by just seven hundred and 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,480 thirty seven votes. One local news organization called it one 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,440 of the biggest upsets in Virgin Island's politics. It wasn't 8 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:35,079 until a month later that Plaskett and Epstein met for 9 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:39,200 the first time in person. Introduced by Erica Kellerhall's, a 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,119 local lawyer, they had a meeting on September fifth. According 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,200 to copies of Epstein's schedules obtained by Insider through a 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,240 Freedom of Information Act request, Plaskett was expected to coast 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,240 a victory in the general election. The local Democratic Party 14 00:00:56,479 --> 00:01:00,000 has a firm grip on the territory's politics since nineteen 15 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:03,240 eighty one, the Virgin Islands has only once sent a 16 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,439 non Democrat to Congress. So who is there to blame 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,799 down here? There's no evil person down here, right, no boogeyman. 18 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,280 So there needs to be some self reflection when it 19 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:20,400 comes to these revelations that we hear that involve people 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,640 like Stacy Plasket. You can't talk out of one side 21 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,159 of your mouth about how Stacy Plasket is this courageous 22 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,200 warrior or this great politician who cares about our democracy, 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,439 and then out of the same side of your mouth 24 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,079 talk about you care about these survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. 25 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:40,200 Because that bullshit is not going to work anymore. It's 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,560 time that those kinds of folks are called out for 27 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,519 their bullshit because they're certainly part of the problem. And 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,040 if you're part of the problem, you better get ready 29 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:50,799 to catch that smoke, because my days of being polite 30 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,760 are long over. Nonetheless, DeJong pushed for more money to 31 00:01:54,799 --> 00:01:57,599 support Plasket. If she was going to cruise the victory, 32 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,159 why would she need more money. In October twenty fourteen, 33 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:06,400 she wrote an email to Epstein memorializing a thirteen thousand 34 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:11,120 dollars donation to a Democratic Party operation in Plasket support 35 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,319 from the Southern Trust Company. Hi, Jeffrey, I'm confirming with 36 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,800 you that STC will send thirteen thousand dollars to the 37 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,479 Democratic Party for the benefit of Stacy Plaskett. Degen wrote, 38 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:26,879 this is a gigantic scandal folks, and it needs to 39 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,159 be investigated and explored, and if there's criminal charges, those 40 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,039 need to be slapped on people as well. She's getting 41 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,000 money from Southern Trust. Really we know that's a money 42 00:02:37,039 --> 00:02:40,879 laundering operation. And then you'll wonder why there's no RICO. 43 00:02:41,039 --> 00:02:44,039 Once again, I hate to bring it up, but if 44 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,000 you take a look at this, how is it not 45 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,319 a RICO case? This is as clear as day. It's 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,240 just like going after the death penalty for Brian Kolberger. 47 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,639 That is as clear as day. Just like anything Epstein 48 00:02:55,719 --> 00:02:58,560 was up to should have been RICO. All of the 49 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:03,639 predicates were met, but somehow RICO was never enacted. JP 50 00:03:03,759 --> 00:03:06,879 Morgan and the US Virgin Islands blame each other for 51 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:12,840 Epstein escaping justice. Plasket's deposition and the emails between Epstein 52 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,759 and de Jong have been produced in litigation between the 53 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,280 US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan chase over who bears 54 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,639 responsibility for letting Epstein Ronald Muck. A compensation program funded 55 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,000 by his estate found he sexually abused more than one 56 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:33,080 hundred girls before his death, and there's a lot more 57 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,120 than that. Unfortunately, those are just the girls that came forward. 58 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,360 I just received an email from somebody who says that 59 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,400 they were also abused by Epstein and that they never 60 00:03:42,479 --> 00:03:45,479 received any compensation because they were scared to come forward. 61 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,159 So I'm sure there are a ton of women out 62 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:51,039 there who are going through that same exact deal, who, 63 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,960 for whatever reasons, have decided that they don't want to 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,280 come forward and relive this nightmare. The US Virgin Islands 65 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,560 government sued JP Morgan in December in a New York 66 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:05,360 federal court, alleging the bank pulled the levers of Epstein's 67 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,439 sex trafficking operation and ignored numerous red flags. Epstein had 68 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:15,080 bank with JP Morgan for decades, using entities like Southern 69 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,040 Trust Company to transport girls and pay them for their silence. 70 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,279 The US Virgin Islands has alleged the criminal trial of 71 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:27,800 Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate and one time girlfriend and 72 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,759 co conspirator and fellow child abuser and all around scusbag 73 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,120 and that I mentioned by Pudle Serpent in twenty twenty one, 74 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:38,439 had already shed some light on how Epstein used as 75 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:43,480 JP Morgan accounts. One bank official testified about documents showing 76 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,199 that Epstein gave Maxwell at least thirty point seven million 77 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,120 dollars between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and seven. 78 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:56,399 Part of that compensation was for helicopter pilot lessons. Witnesses 79 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,439 testified that after passengers from Epstein's plane are arrived on 80 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,480 Saint Thomas, Maxwell flew passengers from the airport there to 81 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,399 his private island of Little Saint James, which locals nicknamed 82 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:12,000 pedophile Island. If the locals are nicknaming that, how are 83 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,959 the politicians going to say they had no idea what 84 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,279 was going on? And how did they expect anyone to 85 00:05:17,319 --> 00:05:20,439 believe them? And if you do believe them, then maybe, 86 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:24,800 just maybe you're part of the problem. Another trial witness 87 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,639 testified that one of Epstein's jets, which prosecutors said he 88 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:31,240 used the traffic girls for sex, was owned by a 89 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,879 company called Hyperion Air, which was incorporated through you guessed it, 90 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,879 JP Morgan. The trial Jerry convicted Maxwell on charges that 91 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,680 she traffic girls to Epstein for sex and sexually abused 92 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,000 them herself. She's serving a twenty year prison sentence and 93 00:05:50,079 --> 00:05:53,160 it's too short. She should be serving a five hundred 94 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,720 and twenty year prison sentence for the bullshit she was 95 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,040 up to. Documents obtained by the US Virgin Islands in 96 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,040 the case show deep ties between Epstein and top JP 97 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,639 Morgan officials, including Mary Urdos, who's widely considered to be 98 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:13,319 second in line to Jamie Diamond's CEO post. Epstein's main 99 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,480 contact at JP Morgan was Jess Staley, the head of 100 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,759 private banking who later became the CEO of Barclays Bank, 101 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,519 only to step down in twenty twenty one following a 102 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,480 UK government investigation into is Epstein ties he should have 103 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:33,240 never been hired at Barclays in the first place. They 104 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,920 act like they didn't know who he was or what 105 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,759 he was up to. It's such bs. Just go and 106 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,519 look at what Edward Bramson had to say at the 107 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:45,319 very beginning. And Bramson is a gigantic shareholder with Barclays 108 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:48,319 who has a board seat. He wanted nothing to do 109 00:06:48,639 --> 00:06:52,319 with Jess Staley's disgusting ass. JP Morgan's defense in the 110 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:56,480 lawsuit has basically been I'm rubber your glue. Whatever you 111 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,319 say bounces off me and sticks to you. Well, it's 112 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,480 kind of true though, right. Both sides here do hold 113 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,199 a lot of responsibility for the bullshit that went down, 114 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,959 and both sides should be held accountable. The Virgin Islands 115 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:14,000 had access to the same information about Epstein, but did 116 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,279 nothing to stop them. JP Morgan is said in filings, 117 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,439 if anything, the US Virgin Islands government was in Epstein's thrall. 118 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:28,199 JP Morgan has argued authorities exercise practically no oversight when 119 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:31,160 Epstein brought girls to his island, even though he was 120 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:34,319 a registered sex offender. Lawyers for the bank have said 121 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:38,959 the Virgin Islands government JP Morgan said, got greedy after 122 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,920 already reaching a settlement with Epstein's estate last year. And 123 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:46,639 I agree with that one thousand percent. Why would they 124 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:49,079 try and get more money here? Do they really believe 125 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,519 they're entitled the hundreds of millions of dollars for setting 126 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,000 the table and helping this man pray on these girls. 127 00:07:56,319 --> 00:07:59,000 It can only be greed that would have them putting 128 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:03,279 themselves in the crossfire once again here, Because now people 129 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:05,839 are starting to ask the question that I've been asking 130 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:09,079 for a very long time, how the US Virgin Islands 131 00:08:09,319 --> 00:08:12,959 is entitled to anything when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's money. 132 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,639 Having sought and obtained more than one hundred million dollars 133 00:08:16,639 --> 00:08:20,879 from Jeffrey Epstein's estate and businesses for damages caused by 134 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:24,680 his sex trafficking crimes. The United States Virgin Islands now 135 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:28,879 cast farther afield for deeper pockets. Lawyers for JP Morgan 136 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,120 wrote in a filing, the sad part is all of 137 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,440 these pockets that they're looking for happened to be the survivors. 138 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,759 Where do you think the money would go? If the 139 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:40,759 US Virgin Islands would just stop their bullshit, it would 140 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:43,679 go to the survivors where it deserves to go. But no, 141 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:48,360 the island that sent Stacey Plaskett to Washington, d C. 142 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,759 To go and cause havoc after she is hanging out 143 00:08:51,759 --> 00:08:55,919 with mister petophile himself. Well, they want more money and 144 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,960 they want to be paid on the back end of 145 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,440 their bullshit as well as dipping in on the front end. 146 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,480 Is this a local government or are we talking about 147 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:10,679 a mafia here? This same organization, which the US Virgin 148 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:15,000 Island says was actually Epstein's vehicle for sex trafficking, was 149 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:19,240 managed by none other than DeJong. JP Morgan is said 150 00:09:19,399 --> 00:09:23,360 in court documents. The litigation has already caused some fallout 151 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,639 in the US Virgin Islands political sphere. Denise George, the 152 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,759 Attorney General, who secured one hundred and five million dollars 153 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:35,679 settlement with Epstein's estate, was fired by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. 154 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:40,000 Several days after she brought the JP Morgan lawsuit. Brian 155 00:09:40,159 --> 00:09:43,320 wanted to be kept apprized of the lawsuit status. The 156 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:48,720 New York Times reported an unusual expectation for any elected official. Yeah, 157 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,360 because his name was all over the Epstein bullshit. I mean, 158 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:54,600 am I the only one that's seeing the forest through 159 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,200 the trees here? I can't be. I know you out 160 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,120 there listening your hip, you know what's going on here. 161 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:04,039 But it seems like the legacy media is still trying 162 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,159 to play catch up. JP Morgan has already agreed to 163 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,840 pay two hundred and ninety million dollars to settle a 164 00:10:10,879 --> 00:10:14,639 separate class action lawsuit brought by one of Epstein's victims 165 00:10:14,879 --> 00:10:18,960 filed around the same time as the US Virgin Islands lawsuit, 166 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,720 as did Deutsche Bank, to the tune of seventy five million. 167 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,600 But the litigation between the US Virgin Islands and JP 168 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:30,519 Morgan is moving full steam ahead with no indication of 169 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,559 a settlement in the works. US District Judge Jed Raykoff 170 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,879 has pushed the parties to move incredibly quickly, with a 171 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:42,480 trial scheduled for October. Court filings show the depths of 172 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,759 Epstein's political connections. Part of the Epstein story is how 173 00:10:47,039 --> 00:10:51,039 a sex offender and serial rapist he moved freely among 174 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,360 powerful people such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew. 175 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,120 Less clear is how he pulled levers of power. The 176 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:01,639 court record showed so that at least in the US 177 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,799 Virgin Islands he exerted influence with little friction. And it 178 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,320 wasn't just in the US Virgin Islands. Let's go and 179 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,879 look at New Mexico next, and let's see what kind 180 00:11:11,879 --> 00:11:14,799 of bullshit was going on there. The records dredged up 181 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:19,120 by JP Morgan appeared damning. Epstein practically had the entire 182 00:11:19,159 --> 00:11:22,759 government in his pocket, threw DeJong and received three hundred 183 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:26,440 million dollars in tax incentives over a nineteen year span. 184 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,440 JP Morgan has said, let that sink in for a minute, folks, Okay, 185 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,919 Miss Stacy Plaskett and the rest of them, they have 186 00:11:34,039 --> 00:11:37,919 some nerve telling anybody else that their scummy, considering what 187 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,840 went on under their watch, and not only that, but 188 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:44,360 with their help and their support. You know that's saying 189 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:49,039 about glass houses and all right. Plasket's connections to Epstein 190 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,240 drew some attention in twenty nineteen after federal prosecutors charged 191 00:11:53,279 --> 00:11:57,679 them with trafficking girls for sex. After initially refusing to 192 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:02,039 return his campaign contributions, Blasket later said she would donate 193 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,720 the funds to Virgin Islands organizations that work with women 194 00:12:06,039 --> 00:12:10,080 and children. I am uncomfortable having received money from someone 195 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:13,799 who has been accused of these egregious actions multiple times, 196 00:12:14,039 --> 00:12:17,360 Plasket set at the time, Yeah, okay, sure, but you 197 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,279 took the money and you knew what he was. He 198 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:22,080 was already a sex offender. We're talking about right before 199 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,759 he was arrested the second time. So she can go 200 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,919 back and try and revise history, but the facts are 201 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,960 going to be what the facts are. Since she joined 202 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,960 Congress in twenty fifteen, Plasket star has risen during Trump's 203 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,799 second impeachment. She served as an impeachment manager. In the 204 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:44,240 current congressional term, Plasket serves as a counterweight to Republicans 205 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,519 on the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of 206 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,600 the Federal Government, blasting what she sees as right wing 207 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:56,159 efforts to undermine the rule of law. Yeah, how about 208 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,960 this for undermining the rule of law taking money from 209 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,799 a convicted pedophile, well, then using that money in an 210 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:05,320 uncontested primary to win your seat. Why don't we talk 211 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,200 about that, Stacy Plaskett. How about we have a talk 212 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,200 about what you did down in the Virgin Islands before 213 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,000 we talk about how you're some kind of arbiter of 214 00:13:14,039 --> 00:13:16,679 truth or some kind of person who is going to 215 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,240 hold others responsible. How about you start with yourself and 216 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:22,840 the other politicians on the island at the time that 217 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:26,279 Epstein was active. Until you do that, I don't want 218 00:13:26,279 --> 00:13:29,559 to hear shit from you. De Jong's connections and advice 219 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,639 for Epstein went well beyond just helping out Plasket. In emails, 220 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:38,039 she drew detailed pictures of the US Virgin Islands political landscape, 221 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,279 explaining how Epstein could curry favor with candidates at different 222 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,360 points in each election cycle. In one election, Epstein outright 223 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:49,320 asked DeJong for a list of people he should vote for. 224 00:13:49,919 --> 00:13:54,519 The frankness is startling. In a twenty fifteen email, de 225 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:59,759 Jong suggested putting one politician on some sort of monthly retainer. 226 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:03,279 This is what you will get for his loyalty and access, 227 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,639 she wrote. Epstein later gave that politician ten thousand dollars 228 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:11,279 to consult on changing the name of one of Epstein's islands. 229 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:15,159 A J. P. Morgan filing said the financier pedal file 230 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,120 did not change the name of either of his islands. 231 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,039 So all this money that was being spread around, they'll 232 00:14:21,039 --> 00:14:23,679 say it's for this or that, but the reality is 233 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:27,399 this money was being spread around to keep the criminal 234 00:14:27,559 --> 00:14:31,240 enterprise chuggin right along, and that would have never been 235 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:34,919 possible without the complicity of these officials down in the 236 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,440 US Virgin Islands. At de Jong's direction, Epstein doled out 237 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:44,399 money freely to John Dejong's political allies. JP Morgan wrote. 238 00:14:44,799 --> 00:14:48,799 Emails submitted as exhibits show Epstein agreed to spend ten 239 00:14:48,799 --> 00:14:53,039 thousand dollars for the inauguration committee of Governor Kenneth Mapp 240 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,039 in twenty fourteen and forked over seventy five thousand for 241 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:02,799 maps PAC in twenty sixteen. Cecile DeJong solicited twenty five 242 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:08,159 thousand for the twenty nineteen gubernatorial inauguration of Brian who 243 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,480 later fired the attorney general who brought the lawsuit against 244 00:15:11,559 --> 00:15:15,120 JP Morgan. The politicians down in the US Virgin Islands 245 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,639 were living their life like we were back in the 246 00:15:17,639 --> 00:15:20,879 old days, and this was Tammany Hall, like they could 247 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:23,279 just do whatever they want, get in bed with Bill 248 00:15:23,399 --> 00:15:26,399 the Butcher, you know, whatever it is, and there's gonna 249 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,120 be no repercussions. Well, I'm here to tell you the 250 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:33,000 repercussions are coming, and I hope that those repercussions mean 251 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,120 that US Virgin Islands is going to get sued by 252 00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:40,279 these survivors as well. Not one single dollar should go 253 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:45,159 to the US Virgin Islands. When John DeJong was governor, 254 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,320 Epstein seemed to see the US Virgin Islands as one 255 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:53,200 big financial instrument. Epstein asked Cecile DeJong in a typo 256 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:58,320 filled February twenty seventeen email, the VA government is desperate 257 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,320 for cash. Does John know of any asset they might 258 00:16:01,399 --> 00:16:05,639 have that I can use as collateral islands, et cetera. Yes, 259 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:09,519 John said there are properties. She responded, appearing to refer 260 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,679 to her husband. How much do you need to collateralize? 261 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,320 Epstein found Dejong's connections helpful in other ways. In twenty fifteen, 262 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:21,559 she helped fast track a dental license in the Territory 263 00:16:21,879 --> 00:16:25,440 for Carina Shuliac, Epstein's girlfriend at the time of his 264 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:28,360 death and the last person he spoke to on the 265 00:16:28,399 --> 00:16:32,559 phone before he died. In twenty thirteen, she arranged student 266 00:16:32,679 --> 00:16:35,840 visas for two women Epstein wanted to bring to one 267 00:16:35,879 --> 00:16:38,919 of his islands. When Epstein was slow to offer the 268 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,200 details she needed to register them in a class for 269 00:16:42,279 --> 00:16:45,960 English as a second language speaker, Dejeang rushed them. They 270 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,960 are structuring the class around the lady, she told them. 271 00:16:49,159 --> 00:16:53,919 Shortly before Thanksgiving. In twenty twelve, De Jong facilitated Epstein's 272 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,799 purchase of seventy eight turkeys for every employee of the 273 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,480 Saint Thomas Customs Office, the agency responsible for checking everyone 274 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,240 who arrived on his private planes. No big deal, no 275 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,359 big deal at all, just a guy being nice supplying 276 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,240 some turkeys to the neighborhood. Earlier that year, the US 277 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,559 Virgin Islands passed a bill updating its sex offender laws 278 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,640 that Epstein was unhappy with. Dejan and Epstein had tried 279 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,920 to stop it from happening. In twenty eleven, she showed 280 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,000 him draft bills, asking this is the suggested language. Will 281 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:31,279 it work for you? Imagine having the audacity to run 282 00:17:31,319 --> 00:17:34,200 it by the sex offender if the sex offender laws 283 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:38,359 work for him. The pedophile had some suggestions. He said. 284 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,799 He wanted to make sure some files would be kept 285 00:17:40,839 --> 00:17:44,440 secret lest they be accessible by the press. Oh, you 286 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,559 don't have to worry about that, Jeffy, the press all 287 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,359 loves you. He also wanted to make sure he could 288 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,960 easily get away on his private jet. We should add 289 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,720 out of the country for more than seven days, otherwise 290 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,319 I could not go on a trip to Tortola. At 291 00:17:58,319 --> 00:18:02,519 the last minute, Epstein wrote, God forbid, the diddler can't 292 00:18:02,519 --> 00:18:05,839 go to Tortola when he wants to go. Meanwhile, the 293 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:08,599 rest of us are saving for two years to take 294 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,240 our families to Disney World. So I'm not feeling too 295 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:14,079 much empathy for mister Didler over here, who can't go 296 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,480 to Tortola whenever he wants. You want to travel freely, 297 00:18:17,759 --> 00:18:20,240 You don't want to check in. Here's an idea, don't 298 00:18:20,279 --> 00:18:23,799 rape kids. When the final version of the bill passed, 299 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,880 DeJong offered Epstein some comfort the new child sex offender 300 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,759 law wasn't exactly what Epstein wanted. JP Morgan has said 301 00:18:32,319 --> 00:18:36,119 they had been assured by lawmakers. DeJong suggested that things 302 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,319 would be different. I know this was a horrible week 303 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,400 and I'm really sorry about how things panned out. Not 304 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:46,119 being able to take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. 305 00:18:46,319 --> 00:18:49,880 DeJong wrote, However, all is not lost and we will 306 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,759 figure something out by coming up with a game plan 307 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,720 to get around these obstacles. So, folks, look, there's a 308 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,319 big problem here that needs to be addressed, and that 309 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,720 problem is Stacy Plaskett and the rest of the Democratic 310 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:06,359 Party down here in the US Virgin Islands that was 311 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,799 using Jeffrey Epstein as their personal piggybank. Is anyone going 312 00:19:10,839 --> 00:19:12,759 to answer for that? Or are we just gonna get 313 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:17,319 more stupid ass, canned responses and more denials. The bad 314 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,960 news for them, though, is We're not going to accept that, 315 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:22,440 and there needs to be a real look at what 316 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:25,000 happened here. There needs to be a real look at 317 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,559 who was involved with Epstein down in the Virgin Islands. 318 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,240 And if I was a survivor, I'd be putting together 319 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:36,160 a lawsuit right now as we speak against the US 320 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,559 Virgin Islands. And as far as Stacey Plasket goes, I 321 00:19:39,559 --> 00:19:42,200 don't want to hear anything about her courage or about 322 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,799 her being a visionary or anything like that. All I 323 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:50,079 want from Stacy Plaskett is some real concrete answers about 324 00:19:50,079 --> 00:19:53,839 her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. All Right, folks, that's gonna 325 00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:56,240 do it for this one. All of the information that 326 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:59,640 goes with the episode can be found in the description box.