Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Leon Black paid out over sixty two million dollars to
the US Virgin Islands after he was subpoenaed, And considering
that we're going through a lot of those subpoenas right
now from the US Virgin Islands, I thought it would
be the perfect time to revisit the fact that for
some unknown reason Leon Black came out of the pocket
to the tune of sixty two million. Now, what the
hell was he up to down in the USVII that's
gonna cost him sixty two million dollars? My guess is
none of it's good. But the real sad part about
all of this is this is the story that we're
always told, right, oh, well, so and so did this
or that or the other thing. It's very vague about
what they might have done, and then they buy their
way out of it with a settlement. Now, imagine if
it was you who was in trouble for something like this.
And I know the vast majority of you would never
ever be caught up in something like this, But do
you think that you'd be able to get out of
it if you don't have any money? It's all about
the money, right, And if you can pay sixty two
million dollars to the government of the Virgin Islands, well
chances are you're gonna steer clear of any kind of trouble.
You're gonna steer clear of any kind of issues. And unfortunately,
you're going to remain under the radar when it comes
to the overall narrative of what Jeffrey Epstein was up to.
And that's the whole entire goal here, to make it
just speculation, to make it just allegation. And the one
remedy to all of that is depositions. They all know
that at deposition time, the bullshit's over. So that's why
they do everything in their power to avoid getting to
that point. And that's certainly why Leon Black paid out
sixty two million dollars. And that's why I said the
USVII with their subpoenas, was extorting people. That's all it
was was extortion. That has nothing to do with law
and order, has nothing to do with the fact that
they're trying to bring people to justice. They were trying
to find a way that they could justify going after
all of this money, and they came up with this scheme,
this plot that said that the USVII overall was a
victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Now, for those of you who've
been following the story, you know that that's absurd as
it comes. If anything, the USVII was victimizing the survivors
of Jeffrey Epstein. So the whole entire narrative that they
pitched was straight up trash from the jump, and the
fact that they were able to extract all this money
from hard knows people like Leon Black that will fight
things tooth and nail inside of a court tells you
everything you need to know. Leon Black just packed up
his tent and went home, didn't even bother trying to
fight it. So you can take from that whatever you want.
But from where I'm sitting, certainly not looking good for
mister Leon Black. Today's article is from the Daily Mail
and the headline leon Black paid US Virgin Islands sixty
two million dollar settlement after being issued this subpoena asking
for all his communications with Jeffrey Epstein, Darren Endyke and
Richard Kahn, and the actual subpoena itself. Will get to
that tomorrow, will get it added to the catalog This
article was authored by Jen Smith. Billionaire Epstein associate Leon Black,
paid the US Virgin Islands sixty two million dollars in
twenty twenty one after being asked for all of his
communications with a late pedophile and his right hand men,
along with photos of his trips to Epstein's island. Dailymail
dot Com can reveal. So this dude was being pressed
for all this information and instead of giving it all up, well,
I'll just buy my way out of it. Must be nice,
Must be nice to just buy your way out of
whatever you want, whenever you want to do it. Because
that's what this is. Let's just call it what it is.
He effectively paid thev off so they wouldn't go after him. Now,
he did it in a legal manner. I'm not saying
that anything here was illegal. It's not. But it's a
problem with the system itself. And there should be no
NDAs and certainly no non prosecution agreements with people like Epstein,
and if there is, they should go back and proactively
look to get them off the books. Does anyone in
their right mind really think that Jeffrey Epstein was honest
during the profit session. Does anyone really believe that so
the second you're not honest during the profit session, everything
gets thrown out. I mean, I know that AOC doesn't
believe that RICO is a thing, but I'm here to
tell you it is. The Caribbean investigators also wanted to
know about Black Zone trips to Little Saint James Epstein's
private island, where the late financier pedophile is said to
have abused countless girls and allegedly handled them off to
his friends too. Yeah. Well, I don't know if there's
any allegedly there. I think we could say allegedly about
who involved, but as far as what happened the actual
pattern of abuse, no allegedly there. We all know the deal.
We all know what happened, and we all know how
pervasive it was. Black ended up settling, agreeing in January
to pay sixty two and a half million dollars to
make it go away. The settlement was first reported by
New York Times this week. Black's representatives have insisted that
it does not indicate complicity in Epstein's crimes or even
knowledge of it. Now, just to be clear, this article
came out back in January, once the Titan of the
finance industry, Black stepped down in shame from his firm
Apollo in twenty twenty one after his deep ties to
Epstein were revealed. He paid Epstein one hundred and fifty
eight million over the course of five years between twenty
twelve and twenty seventeen, after Epstein had been convicted of
soliciting prostitution from children and palm beach. Imagine this dude
knew that Jeffrey Epstein was out here diddling kids because
that's what he went to jail for, and still was
willing to give him one hundred and fifty eight million
dollars after Epstein was already a convicted sex offender. I
don't want to hear shit from Leon Black. Oh I
had no idea what was going on. Yes you did.
You had every idea in the world, and in fact,
I'll take it a step further, you knew a lot more. Now,
can I prove that? Unfortunately I can't, but I think
that the sixty two and a half million dollar payment
is a pretty good tell. Black insists the payments were
for estate planning and tax advice, and that Hugh was
given for advice by Epstein, whose professional credentials barely touched
his own And that's so crazy to me. And I've
said this from Jump Street. Anyone who knows about Apollo
Global knows that they're one of the biggest and top
investment firms hedges around. And these guys are not the
kind of group that's out here looking for the advice
of anybody else, Jeffrey Epstein or otherwise. So all of
a suddenly, on Black needs to go to the guru
Jeffrey Epstein to the tune of one hundred and fifty
eight million. Yeah, I don't buy it, Okay, not for
one single second. There is no amount of advice on
this planet that's worth one hundred and fifty eight million dollars.
The Senate Finance Committee is now investigating whether Black were
They're reported eleven million dollars owes taxes on those payments. Oh,
you and I would owe taxes on them. Go ahead
and go and sell something on eBay. You owe tax
on that. But Leon Black paying out three hundred million,
paying out six hundred million, paying out sixty million, No
big deal. Black was a pillar of the New York
High Society as a chairman of the Museum of Modern
Art and husband to theater producer Deborah Black. The pair
remain married and have four children, even though he was
cheating on her, even though he had a gumaud on
the side. Even though that same gumaud, guzel Ganieva, has
made some horrible claims about him, even though his wife
was sick at the time he was cheating on her.
Good old Leon Black, the captain of Industry, mister Amoma,
mister New York City Highlfe himself. Black has also been
sued in Manhattan Federal Court by a Jane Doe, who
claims that he raped her in two thousand and two
when she was sixteen at Epstein's house. Now in her thirties,
she is too old to file acclaim against him with
the New York Police Department, even in light of New
York states stretched historic child abuse statute limitations. The woman
is autistic and has mosaic down syndrome, a condition that
has only manifested internally and has no physical symptoms. She
described in graphic detail how Black allegedly raped her on
a massage table at Epstein's mansion after sodomizing her with
sex toys and making her bleed. She claims he threw
her to the ground after the assault, calling her a whore.
The woman's attorney, Jean Christiansen, described in the filing how
she had been allegedly trafficked to Epstein and Glene Maxwell,
now in prison for her part in the sex trafficking
operationation by a mystery couple named only as Elizabeth and Charlie.
She says the girl had been given to them by
her unsuspecting parents, then was subjected to horrific sexual and
physical abuse. And we know that several of these lawsuits
against Leon Black have been thrown out, whether on merit
or because Leon Black is just too powerful. Either way,
going after a man like Leon Black, you better come
prepared because not only is he a downright scoundrel, he's
gonna bring in the big guns and he has enough
money to litigate you from here to San Janad. The
lawsuit describes shocking and twisted tactics allegedly used by Golaane
to win the child's trust. The girl's attorneys claimed Golaane
called her beautiful darling and compared her to a doll,
lauding her with praise whenever she pleased Epstein sexually, and
even clapping after the first time she made him ejaculate.
Maxwell has long denied the many alex against her from
a number of women. She remains in prison, serving a
twenty year prison sentence for her crimes, but she is
the only person in Epstein's orbit to have been sent
down for what is described as a worldwide pedophile ring.
And not to digress too far, but come on, all
of these people involved, all of these people named in
court documents, how is it that only maxwells in prison?
Epstein killed himself in jail, allegedly in twenty nineteen while
awaiting trial. Black's attorneys have strenuously denied the most recent
lawsuit filed by Jane Doe. They say he is never
before even met the girl who claims he raped her.
And you know, the question still remains that I asked
in the beginning of the episode, what the hell has
this guy given Jeffrey Epstein one hundred and fifty eight
million dollars for? And furthermore, how is it that the
USVII is just going to let him get off with
a payout, unless, of course, the USVII has been bullshitting
you all for all this time when they say they
care about justice, because the optics and their actions tell
us that it's not about justice, and in fact, just
like the estate, it's all about money. And just like
with the financial institutions and with Leon Black, when it
comes to the USVII, it's profits over people, all right, folks,
that's going to do it for this one. All of
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