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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.

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Jess Day has been under fire now for quite some time,

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but one group that has avoided any sort of collateral

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damage up to this point is certainly Barclays. You know,

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the company, the bank that hired him after he was

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sitting around sucking on Epstein's teat for all of those years. Yeah,

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that group. And after years of feeling like I've been

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screaming from the mountaintop into the wind, finally Barclays is

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catching some flak here as well. How are you going

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to hire this dude and then protect him throughout the

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whole entire pandemic and then act like you have nothing

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to answer for? And I'm not just talking about from

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a regulation standpoint. What else were they hiding about jess Daily?

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What else did their investigation uncover? We're never going to

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know because it was an internal investigation and they're not

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obligated to share those findings with us. The whole entire

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idea behind internal investigations for companies in general is to

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make it look like they did nothing wrong. That's what

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they're trying to do. It's just like when you go

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to the human resources department at your job. They're not

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there for you. Their role is to protect the company.

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So today we have an article from the Guardian and

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the headline Barclays should face questions over former chief and Epstein.

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The author of this article is Rupert Neat the Barclays

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Board should face questions about his decision to back former

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bosses Daily despite his connections with the convicted sex offender

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Jeffrey Epstein. A leading corporate governance service, has said, are

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any of these regulatory boards or government services ever going

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to have any teeth in their reports and call for

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people to go to prison? Because we never see that

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in the financial sector. How often do you see one

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of these bankers get their asses tossed in prison? Very rarely,

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and when they do, it's because they've been sacrificed by

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the other masters of the universe. Institutional Shareholder Services told

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investors and Barclays that questions can be posed now about

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the board's judgment in continuing to support Stay between twenty

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nineteen and twenty twenty one, when he was the subject

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of regulatory investigations into the nature of his relationship with

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a disgraced financier you mean pedophile, And now it's okay,

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now we can have an investigation. It wasn't okay though,

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when he was the chairman of the board and he

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was sitting there guiding Barclays through the pandemic, right, because

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it's all about securing that bag profits over people at

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every step when we're talking about the financial sector. While

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it is accepted that the board could only act on

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the information available to it at the time, there are

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questions over the judgment exercise during the period, Iss said

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on Monday, given the particularly disturbing nature of the charges

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against Epstein and their potential for reputational damage to the company.

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And not only that, remember, Jess Staley has also now

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been accused in one of these lawsuits by a anonymous accuser,

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saying that he was taking part in some of the abuse.

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He was there the whole thing. So where previously Staley

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was considered just a financial enabler, he is something completely

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different as of now, at least according to the allegations.

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Despite his reservations, Iss recommended shareholders vote in favor of

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re electing all Barclay's directors at its annual general meeting

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on May third. The Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential

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Regulation Authority began investigating the nature of Staley's relationship with

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Epstein and the truthfulness with which state he described it

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in twenty nineteen. Look, he didn't describe it in truth

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at all. He lied about it because if he told

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the truth, forget it. Even the scuzzballs over at Barclays

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wouldn't be able to whitewash it. But if you just

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tell him a little bit and hope that it all

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blows over, well everything's gonna be all good. And Staley

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and all of these scuzzballs, they were all banking on

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the fact that Epstein had already been arrested once, he's

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not gonna get arrested again, so we can, you know,

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move behind the scenes with him with a modicum of privacy.

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That's what they were thinking. But what they didn't plan

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for was this whole entire thing getting blown the fuck

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out of the water via social media and other avenues.

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So now dudes left holding the bag and everybody's pointing

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the finger at Jess Staley. When the investigations became public

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in February of twenty twenty, the Barclays board said it

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believes that mister Staley has been sufficiently parent with the

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company as regards the nature and extent of his relationship

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with mister Epstein. It said Staley retained its full confidence,

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not full confidence. Remember, we had several different people who

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were not down with Jess Staley being on the board.

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Chiefly among them was Edward Bramson, and he led a

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scorched earth campaign to get rid of Jess Staley. Staley

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quit Barclays in November of twenty twenty one after a

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prelim report by the two regulators suggested that he had

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mischaracterized his relationship with Epstein. Staley has said he plans

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to contest the preliminary findings by bringing the case to

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the FCA's Regulatory Decision Committee. The findings have not been

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made public, so we don't know what the full report

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has inside of it, and we probably never will. Remember,

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this is a company and they initiated this report on

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their own, and whatever the government watchdogs forget it, we're

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not going to be privy to that either. But these

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investigations that are initiated by companies or by the government

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very rarely, if ever, do those kinds of investigation expose

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anything that we're not already aware of. Staley has since

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been named in a US lawsuit that accuses him of

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personally observing the sexual abuse of young women by Epstein.

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Staley denies the allegations made in a lawsuit against JP Morgan,

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where Staley was chief executive of its exclusive private bank

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and had Epstein as a client. And it was a

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lot more than just him being a client. It was

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the relationship that the two of them had, and the

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fact that Jeffrey Epstein was obviously involved in all kinds

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of financial malseasons how much of those ill gotten gains

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was moved through the doors at JP Morgan. Meanwhile, these

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boobs are out here talking about you need to report

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every six hundred dollars you make on Etsy, and you'll

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wonder why people are fired up, and guys like Jess

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Staley continuously get away with their bullshit. And I'm talking

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about real bullshit. Meanwhile, people like you and I continue

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to bear the brunt of all of their nonsense while

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at the same time watching all of our wealth get

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transferred up. Two lawsuits and at JP Morgan claimed Staley

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personally visited young girls at Epstein's apartments and exchanged one

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two hundred emails with the late financier pedophile that included

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photos of young women in seductive poses and referring to

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women by the names of Disney princesses. So why would

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they be doing that? What is the logical reasoning behind

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calling women Disney princesses. Well, when you're talking about Epstein,

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keep in mind that he also used the word massage's

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code word for sex. So you really think he's talking

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about Disney princesses here, or are these two scoundrels talking

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about something much more devious. My guess is it has

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something to do with women that were purchased in places

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like Eastern Europe for the explicit purpose of being abused

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and being trafficked. They'd say to them, look, you come over,

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you be a model. And that's where Jean Luke Brunel

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came in. He was the one that would go out

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and recruit these girls in places like Eastern Europe and

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the whole thing ho lo oie. I am Jean Lous

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brunelm helf from the modeling agency. I want you to

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come to my house. Can you imagine this disgusting scumbag

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pitching the whole modeling thing to these girls in these

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developing and war torn countries and then bringing them to America,

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putting them in the House on sixty six, and abusing them.

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Because that's what happened, That's exactly what happened in New York,

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right under the nose of the SDNY and under the

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New York State Prosecutor's office. Where was Cyvance? Where was

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pret Bajara? Where were all of these clowns that get

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up there on their ivory towers and preach to us.

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Where were they when Epstein and his buddies were doing

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all of this right under their noses. JP Morgan has

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countered that the lawsuits are misplaced and without merit, adding

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that the plaintiffs have made troubling allegations concerning the conduct

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of our former employee, and if true, he should be

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held responsible for his actions. So they're saying, look, he

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was an employee, he did all of this on his own,

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and he was the reason that Epstein was here. We

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know that's bullshit. We know that Jeff Staley, for as

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powerful as he was, wasn't calling all of the shots

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at JP Morgan. He had bosses. I'm looking at you,

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Jamie Diamond. So all of these people are not culpable,

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they're not held responsible for what their employees do, or

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what their company does, because down here in the trenches

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where the rest of us live, the buck has to

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stop somewhere. The US Bank is also suing Staley, saying

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that he should be made liable for any penalties the

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US Bank may face as a result of the outrageous

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alleged conduct. Barclay said that's in Staley resigned it had

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received no material new evidence from authorities to challenge the

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findings of a regulatory investigation into how Staley characterized his

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relationship with Epstein. Staley's lawyers have dismissed allegations that he

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hid what he knew about the late disgraced financier as

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slanderous and false. Well we're gonna see soon, aren't we.

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We're gonna see who's lying and who's not. Because once

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things get going and we get to Discovery, the rubber's

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gonna meet the road, and all of Jeff Staley's nonsense, well,

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he's gonna have to back it up. The question is

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will he be able to do that? All Right? Everybody

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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the

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