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

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Leon Black paid out over sixty two million dollars to

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the US Virgin Islands after he was subpoenaed, And considering

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that we're going through a lot of those subpoenas right

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now from the US Virgin Islands, I thought it would

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be the perfect time to revisit the fact that for

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some unknown reason Leon Black came out of the pocket

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to the tune of sixty two million. Now, what the

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hell was he up to down in the USVII that's

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gonna cost him sixty two million dollars? My guess is

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none of it's good. But the real sad part about

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all of this is this is the story that we're

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always told, right, oh, well, so and so did this

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or that or the other thing. It's very vague about

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what they might have done, and then they buy their

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way out of it with a settlement. Now, imagine if

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it was you who was in trouble for something like this.

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And I know the vast majority of you would never

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ever be caught up in something like this, But do

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you think that you'd be able to get out of

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it if you don't have any money? It's all about

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the money, right, And if you can pay sixty two

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million dollars to the government of the Virgin Islands, well

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chances are you're gonna steer clear of any kind of trouble.

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You're gonna steer clear of any kind of issues. And unfortunately,

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you're going to remain under the radar when it comes

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to the overall narrative of what Jeffrey Epstein was up to.

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And that's the whole entire goal here, to make it

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just speculation, to make it just allegation. And the one

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remedy to all of that is depositions. They all know

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that at deposition time, the bullshit's over. So that's why

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they do everything in their power to avoid getting to

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that point. And that's certainly why Leon Black paid out

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sixty two million dollars. And that's why I said the

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USVII with their subpoenas, was extorting people. That's all it

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was was extortion. That has nothing to do with law

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and order, has nothing to do with the fact that

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they're trying to bring people to justice. They were trying

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to find a way that they could justify going after

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all of this money, and they came up with this scheme,

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this plot that said that the USVII overall was a

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victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Now, for those of you who've

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been following the story, you know that that's absurd as

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it comes. If anything, the USVII was victimizing the survivors

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of Jeffrey Epstein. So the whole entire narrative that they

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pitched was straight up trash from the jump, and the

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fact that they were able to extract all this money

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from hard knows people like Leon Black that will fight

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things tooth and nail inside of a court tells you

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everything you need to know. Leon Black just packed up

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his tent and went home, didn't even bother trying to

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fight it. So you can take from that whatever you want.

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But from where I'm sitting, certainly not looking good for

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mister Leon Black. Today's article is from the Daily Mail

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and the headline leon Black paid US Virgin Islands sixty

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two million dollar settlement after being issued this subpoena asking

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for all his communications with Jeffrey Epstein, Darren Endyke and

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Richard Kahn, and the actual subpoena itself. Will get to

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that tomorrow, will get it added to the catalog This

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article was authored by Jen Smith. Billionaire Epstein associate Leon Black,

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paid the US Virgin Islands sixty two million dollars in

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twenty twenty one after being asked for all of his

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communications with a late pedophile and his right hand men,

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along with photos of his trips to Epstein's island. Dailymail

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dot Com can reveal. So this dude was being pressed

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for all this information and instead of giving it all up, well,

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I'll just buy my way out of it. Must be nice,

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Must be nice to just buy your way out of

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whatever you want, whenever you want to do it. Because

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that's what this is. Let's just call it what it is.

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He effectively paid thev off so they wouldn't go after him. Now,

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he did it in a legal manner. I'm not saying

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that anything here was illegal. It's not. But it's a

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problem with the system itself. And there should be no

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NDAs and certainly no non prosecution agreements with people like Epstein,

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and if there is, they should go back and proactively

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look to get them off the books. Does anyone in

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their right mind really think that Jeffrey Epstein was honest

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during the profit session. Does anyone really believe that so

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the second you're not honest during the profit session, everything

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gets thrown out. I mean, I know that AOC doesn't

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believe that RICO is a thing, but I'm here to

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tell you it is. The Caribbean investigators also wanted to

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know about Black Zone trips to Little Saint James Epstein's

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private island, where the late financier pedophile is said to

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have abused countless girls and allegedly handled them off to

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his friends too. Yeah. Well, I don't know if there's

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any allegedly there. I think we could say allegedly about

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who involved, but as far as what happened the actual

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pattern of abuse, no allegedly there. We all know the deal.

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We all know what happened, and we all know how

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pervasive it was. Black ended up settling, agreeing in January

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to pay sixty two and a half million dollars to

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make it go away. The settlement was first reported by

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New York Times this week. Black's representatives have insisted that

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it does not indicate complicity in Epstein's crimes or even

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knowledge of it. Now, just to be clear, this article

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came out back in January, once the Titan of the

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finance industry, Black stepped down in shame from his firm

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Apollo in twenty twenty one after his deep ties to

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Epstein were revealed. He paid Epstein one hundred and fifty

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eight million over the course of five years between twenty

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twelve and twenty seventeen, after Epstein had been convicted of

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soliciting prostitution from children and palm beach. Imagine this dude

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knew that Jeffrey Epstein was out here diddling kids because

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that's what he went to jail for, and still was

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willing to give him one hundred and fifty eight million

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dollars after Epstein was already a convicted sex offender. I

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don't want to hear shit from Leon Black. Oh I

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had no idea what was going on. Yes you did.

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You had every idea in the world, and in fact,

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I'll take it a step further, you knew a lot more. Now,

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can I prove that? Unfortunately I can't, but I think

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that the sixty two and a half million dollar payment

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is a pretty good tell. Black insists the payments were

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for estate planning and tax advice, and that Hugh was

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given for advice by Epstein, whose professional credentials barely touched

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his own And that's so crazy to me. And I've

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said this from Jump Street. Anyone who knows about Apollo

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Global knows that they're one of the biggest and top

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investment firms hedges around. And these guys are not the

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kind of group that's out here looking for the advice

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of anybody else, Jeffrey Epstein or otherwise. So all of

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a suddenly, on Black needs to go to the guru

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Jeffrey Epstein to the tune of one hundred and fifty

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eight million. Yeah, I don't buy it, Okay, not for

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one single second. There is no amount of advice on

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this planet that's worth one hundred and fifty eight million dollars.

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The Senate Finance Committee is now investigating whether Black were

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They're reported eleven million dollars owes taxes on those payments. Oh,

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you and I would owe taxes on them. Go ahead

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and go and sell something on eBay. You owe tax

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on that. But Leon Black paying out three hundred million,

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paying out six hundred million, paying out sixty million, No

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big deal. Black was a pillar of the New York

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High Society as a chairman of the Museum of Modern

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Art and husband to theater producer Deborah Black. The pair

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remain married and have four children, even though he was

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cheating on her, even though he had a gumaud on

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the side. Even though that same gumaud, guzel Ganieva, has

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made some horrible claims about him, even though his wife

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was sick at the time he was cheating on her.

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Good old Leon Black, the captain of Industry, mister Amoma,

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mister New York City Highlfe himself. Black has also been

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sued in Manhattan Federal Court by a Jane Doe, who

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claims that he raped her in two thousand and two

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when she was sixteen at Epstein's house. Now in her thirties,

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she is too old to file acclaim against him with

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the New York Police Department, even in light of New

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York states stretched historic child abuse statute limitations. The woman

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is autistic and has mosaic down syndrome, a condition that

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has only manifested internally and has no physical symptoms. She

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described in graphic detail how Black allegedly raped her on

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a massage table at Epstein's mansion after sodomizing her with

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sex toys and making her bleed. She claims he threw

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her to the ground after the assault, calling her a whore.

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The woman's attorney, Jean Christiansen, described in the filing how

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she had been allegedly trafficked to Epstein and Glene Maxwell,

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now in prison for her part in the sex trafficking

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operationation by a mystery couple named only as Elizabeth and Charlie.

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She says the girl had been given to them by

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her unsuspecting parents, then was subjected to horrific sexual and

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physical abuse. And we know that several of these lawsuits

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against Leon Black have been thrown out, whether on merit

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or because Leon Black is just too powerful. Either way,

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going after a man like Leon Black, you better come

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prepared because not only is he a downright scoundrel, he's

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gonna bring in the big guns and he has enough

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money to litigate you from here to San Janad. The

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lawsuit describes shocking and twisted tactics allegedly used by Golaane

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to win the child's trust. The girl's attorneys claimed Golaane

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called her beautiful darling and compared her to a doll,

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lauding her with praise whenever she pleased Epstein sexually, and

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even clapping after the first time she made him ejaculate.

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Maxwell has long denied the many alex against her from

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a number of women. She remains in prison, serving a

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twenty year prison sentence for her crimes, but she is

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the only person in Epstein's orbit to have been sent

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down for what is described as a worldwide pedophile ring.

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And not to digress too far, but come on, all

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of these people involved, all of these people named in

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court documents, how is it that only maxwells in prison?

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Epstein killed himself in jail, allegedly in twenty nineteen while

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awaiting trial. Black's attorneys have strenuously denied the most recent

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lawsuit filed by Jane Doe. They say he is never

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before even met the girl who claims he raped her.

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And you know, the question still remains that I asked

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in the beginning of the episode, what the hell has

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this guy given Jeffrey Epstein one hundred and fifty eight

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million dollars for? And furthermore, how is it that the

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USVII is just going to let him get off with

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a payout, unless, of course, the USVII has been bullshitting

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you all for all this time when they say they

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care about justice, because the optics and their actions tell

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us that it's not about justice, and in fact, just

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like the estate, it's all about money. And just like

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with the financial institutions and with Leon Black, when it

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comes to the USVII, it's profits over people, all right, folks,

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that's going to do it for this one. All of

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the information that goes with this episode can be found

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in the description box.