1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,320 Epstein Chronicles. One of the things that really gets me going, 3 00:00:07,719 --> 00:00:10,839 and there's many, obviously when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein, 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,880 but I think one of the most egregious situations when 5 00:00:13,919 --> 00:00:17,920 we're talking about this disgusting derelict is what happened down 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,440 in Florida and his soul called punishment in the state. 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,519 In a story that's riddled with a whole bunch of 8 00:00:24,559 --> 00:00:27,600 what the fuck moments, the way Jeffrey Epstein was handled 9 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:31,960 during and after his sentence down in Florida certainly ranks 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,679 near the top. And let me tell you, the deeper 11 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:36,679 that you go into what happened down there, the more 12 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:38,960 you're going to realize that it wasn't just in competence, 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,759 it was complicity. The way the Florida officials handled that 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,320 monster's first prosecution was an abomination from the start to 15 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:49,320 the finish. It's the kind of thing that makes regular 16 00:00:49,359 --> 00:00:52,359 folks like us wonder if justice even exists for people 17 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,399 who don't have a private jet and invitations to dine 18 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:58,640 with billionaires. Now, you read through the paperwork and it's 19 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:01,679 like a bad joke that never ends. Every single person 20 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:03,799 in a position to stop them just kind of shrugged 21 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:07,519 their shoulders and said, ha, not my problem. The guy 22 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,640 had more protection than a casino vault, and the people 23 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,239 who were supposed to be enforcing the law were tripping 24 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,560 over themselves to make sure that his bitch ass stayed comfortable. 25 00:01:16,719 --> 00:01:18,200 And you know what I'm going to say next. Right, 26 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,079 for the rest of us, one wrong move and they 27 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:24,920 throw the book at you. But for Epstein, Florida, they 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,200 rolled out the red carpet. And we have to start 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,680 with Barry Krisher, right, the Palm Beach State Attorney. The 30 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:34,239 guy had Epstein dead to rights. Police had done the 31 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,359 hard work, Interviews were stacked, victims were coming forward, evidence 32 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:41,799 was air tight. But what does Grisher do? He punted, 33 00:01:42,079 --> 00:01:44,560 He handed the ball off to the Feds instead of 34 00:01:44,599 --> 00:01:47,159 filing the charges that were right in front of his face. 35 00:01:48,599 --> 00:01:51,280 It's like the man forgot what his job title. Even men, 36 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:55,239 state attorney doesn't mean state protector of billionaires. But that's 37 00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:58,560 how he acted. You had the local cops risking their 38 00:01:58,599 --> 00:02:02,799 necks putting together a bullet proofcase, and this guy basically says, Nah, 39 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:05,560 this one's way too politically hot. Why don't we kick 40 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:08,719 this one to the feds. Now, look, chrisher didn't just 41 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,800 drop the ball. Bro tried to bury it. And when 42 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,560 the Feds came in, it wasn't because he wanted justice. 43 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,680 It was because he wanted to wash his hands of it. 44 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:21,280 And of course that leads us to the sweetheart deal 45 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,719 right that came out of this circus. Epstein gets thirteen 46 00:02:24,759 --> 00:02:28,039 months in a cushy County facility work release, privileges his 47 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,680 own private wing, and daily chauffeur rides to his office 48 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:34,840 like it's some kind of wellness retreat instead of a sentence. 49 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,479 Who the hell gets a set up like that after 50 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,800 abusing minors? You were me, Bro, we'd be locked up 51 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,719 at ADX so tight we'd forget what fucking daylight looked like. 52 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,000 But Lord of the egg dick, mister Epstein, He's allowed 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,159 to leave his cell six days a week, twelve hours 54 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:53,039 a day, under the supposed supervision of the state. This 55 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,360 dude got to live his life like nothing had happened, 56 00:02:55,479 --> 00:02:58,479 while his victims were left trying to piece themselves back together. 57 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,759 And the deal was oh shady that you could practically 58 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:04,400 see the fingerprints of every politician and lawyer who had 59 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:07,599 something to lose if he started talking. It was less 60 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:09,840 of a sentence and more of a shield, a golden 61 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:12,879 parachute for a man who should have been buried under 62 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,840 the prison. And the dereliction of duty didn't stop there. 63 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:19,120 The State probation department, the same folks who were supposed 64 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,159 to be watching them, let him do whatever the hell 65 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:24,080 he wanted. He was supposed to be on probation, but 66 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:27,520 he was hosting guests, flying private, meeting young women, and 67 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:32,479 living like the punishment was just a suggestion, multiple violations, 68 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,319 zero consequences. The probation officers acted like they worked for 69 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,680 him instead of the state. According to them, Jeffrey Epstein 70 00:03:40,759 --> 00:03:43,840 was all compliance this and approve activity that, even though 71 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,800 the man was doing everything short of running another trafficking 72 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,800 ring right under their noses. And as usual, the system 73 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:53,159 bent at the altar of money and power, and Epstein 74 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,199 was its high priest. Look, the entire setup was a 75 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,840 mockery of what probation is supposed to mean. Supervision please, 76 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,560 These dudes were his errand boys. The whole work release 77 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:07,039 thing was just an insult to every victim who had 78 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:10,479 ever had to fight for justice. Palm Beach County Sheriff 79 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,840 Rick Bradshaw's office is in on it too. They approved 80 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:17,319 Epstein's little field trips, let his chauffeur pick him up 81 00:04:17,319 --> 00:04:20,079 from jail like was a valet service, and look the 82 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,199 other way while he ran his operation out of an 83 00:04:22,199 --> 00:04:24,839 office that should have been raided. Now you tell me 84 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,360 what kind of sheriff signs off on something like that 85 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:31,839 with a straight face. Bradshaw's office literally had deputies checking 86 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,879 on Epstein at his quote unquote office, and even then 87 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:38,920 the log show barely any visits. The man was out here, 88 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,639 free as a bird, laughing at the whole system, and 89 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,399 the Sheriff's department was pretending to play along. It's as 90 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:47,519 if the whole county decided that they were more afraid 91 00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:51,319 of Epstein's lawyers than they were ashamed of enabling them. 92 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,079 And look, we have to be honest. Every single level 93 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:57,079 of that system felled on purpose, and that left the 94 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,839 men and women on the ground, the detectives who built 95 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,000 the case furious because they knew what they had. But 96 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,959 once the moneymen and political connections came knocking, the tone 97 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,879 change fast. All of a sudden, prosecutors went soft, probation 98 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,199 officers went blind, and the so called justice system became 99 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,439 a joke with a luxury tag on it. When those 100 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,160 detectives saw Epstein's getting by, they knew they'd been sold out. 101 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,439 They'd gone after a monster, and after their own bosses 102 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,240 turned around and handed that monster a pillow and a mint. 103 00:05:27,079 --> 00:05:30,319 You can practically feel the moral collapse in these reports. 104 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:32,879 They knew the game was rigged. It's not that they 105 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,600 lost the case, it's that the case was never allowed 106 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:39,560 to win. And let's not forget that Epstein kept abusing 107 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:43,399 even while supposedly under supervision. Victims have said he was 108 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:47,000 still grooming and trafficking during his so called sentence. Think 109 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,639 about that. The guy was literally committing crimes while on 110 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,759 probation for the same crimes, and the state, the probation officers, 111 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,959 the prosecutors, nobody did a damn thing. Either they were 112 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:02,399 too scared to act or too comfortable to care. And 113 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,959 that's the scary part, because it shows that once you 114 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,279 reach a certain level of wealth, even your punishment becomes optional. 115 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,560 Epstein turned his probation into a joke, and everyone involved 116 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,680 became the punchline, including you and me. This gigantic douche 117 00:06:16,759 --> 00:06:18,800 could have been wearing a neon sign that said I'm 118 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,040 still doing it, and they'd had found a way to 119 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:24,399 call it reform. And look, the paper trail shows it too. 120 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:30,560 Probation violation reports, buried complaints from victims ignored. Epstein didn't 121 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,439 slip through the cracks. The cracks were carved out for him. 122 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,639 He had an entire system willing to bend over backward 123 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,560 to make sure he could keep living his double life. 124 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,560 You read the files, and it's like a bureaucratic magic trick. 125 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:47,120 Every piece of damning evidence just disappears. Every rule gets rewritten, 126 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:50,800 every warning gets softened until it's meaningless. And it's not 127 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,199 that nobody knew, it's that everybody chose not to know. 128 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:57,160 And that's the worst part. They didn't miss the red 129 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,079 flags they painted over them. And Krisher, the guy had 130 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:04,240 the nerve to publicly criticized alex Acosta later on when 131 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,879 the federal deal came to light. That's rich Krisher was 132 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,040 the one who washed his hands of the case. First, 133 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:12,319 he could have filed the charges, He could have gone 134 00:07:12,319 --> 00:07:15,360 after Epstein under Florida law, but he didn't. Instead, he 135 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:18,160 tried to stretch the clock, and that led to the 136 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:20,720 Feds coming in. And it was only after the federal 137 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:23,120 government decided to kick it back down to the state 138 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:28,279 that Krisher decided to do his job. And when the 139 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:30,920 heat finally came, he tried to rewrite history like he'd 140 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,079 been the hero all along. It's the kind of revisionism 141 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,879 that makes you want to throw your remote through the 142 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,240 TV when you see these guys getting interviewed. They know 143 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:42,279 what they did. They know exactly when they decided to 144 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:46,439 stop being prosecutors and start being protectors. And look, it's 145 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:49,360 not just corruption, right, it's the blueprint of the cover up. 146 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:52,279 That followed Epstein all the way to New York, Florida 147 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:54,720 was a test run. They learned there that all it 148 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,240 takes is a few friendly prosecutors, a sheriff with selective eyesight, 149 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,920 and a system that folds when power walks in the door. 150 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:04,720 Every trick that came later, the sealed deals, the hidden names, 151 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:08,000 the quiet favors, it all started right there in Palm Beach. 152 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,839 That's where Epstein learned that the law could be bent 153 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,199 with enough cash and connections. For Jeffrey Epstein, that was 154 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:19,160 never a loophole, it was the whole business model. And 155 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,199 look the arrogance of it all is enough to choke 156 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:27,240 an elephant. Epstein flaunted his probation, rubbed elbows with the elites, 157 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:29,439 and acted like the law was just another thing he 158 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:33,919 could buy. And in Florida he did. He bought time, silence, 159 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,799 and protection. He made a mockery of every single principle 160 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,840 the justice system claims to stand for. It's one thing 161 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,279 to commit a crime, It's another to rub a system's 162 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,399 face in it and have that system say thank you 163 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,480 on the way out. Bro walked out of County jail 164 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:51,039 every day with a grin because he knew the people 165 00:08:51,159 --> 00:08:54,399 who should have stopped him never would. The arrogance didn't 166 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:59,440 come from nowhere, folks, breaking news, It came from experience. Meanwhile, 167 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:04,480 the Vics, the survivors, teenage girls mostly from working class families, 168 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,000 got left in the dust. They watched the man who 169 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,840 abused them walk free, smiling, untouchable Florida told them their 170 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,759 pain didn't matter as much as his money. How do 171 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:16,840 you ever come back from that kind of betrayal? These 172 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,720 girls went to the cops thinking someone would listen, that 173 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,000 the law would protect them. Instead, they got told, in 174 00:09:23,039 --> 00:09:26,120 so many words, sorry, sweetheart, he's too rich for jail. 175 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,320 That's the kind of trauma that comes with a government seal, 176 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,000 and those officials still have the nerve to act like 177 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:35,840 they did their best. And even years later, when reporters 178 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:38,879 finally started digging and the truth started to come out, 179 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 those same Florida officials tried to spin it. We didn't know, 180 00:09:42,039 --> 00:09:46,679 they said, we followed procedure. Spare me. The only procedure 181 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:49,279 they followed was how they could protect their buddy Epstein. 182 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,559 If a regular guy from west poonm Beach had done 183 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,000 a fraction of what Epstein did, you already know he'd 184 00:09:56,039 --> 00:09:59,399 be buried under the jail. You don't quote unquote not know. 185 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,159 When someone like Epstein is running circles around your probation office, 186 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:06,240 you know, you just don't care, because if you cared, 187 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,039 you'd have stopped them. You'd have locked him down, revoked 188 00:10:09,039 --> 00:10:12,279 his privileges, and made an example of him. But they didn't. 189 00:10:12,639 --> 00:10:14,960 They just let them roll. And if you think that 190 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,120 the probation system was any better, you have another thing coming. 191 00:10:19,799 --> 00:10:25,720 Travel restrictions ignored, curfew violations ignored, illegal contact with miners ignored. 192 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,840 At one point, even managed to travel to New York 193 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,480 and the Virgin Islands while supposedly on intensive supervision. Yeah, 194 00:10:33,519 --> 00:10:38,600 real intensive. The guy was globe trotting on probation. They 195 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,679 weren't watching him, they were covering for him. The whole 196 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:45,000 probation system in that case should have been investigated top 197 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:49,120 to bottom, because whatever that was, it wasn'tjustice, more like 198 00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:52,399 a concierge service for a predator with some cash. And 199 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,000 you know, it's almost poetic in a sick way. Florida, 200 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,679 the place has always bragged about being tough on crime, 201 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,480 suddenly turned into club med for a predator when the 202 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,200 right name showed up on the paperwork, and they did 203 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,879 it with a straight face. The same place that used 204 00:11:06,919 --> 00:11:08,600 to throw you in jail for a dime bag of 205 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:13,159 weed gave Epstein a personalized daily limo ride to work. 206 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,639 You can't even make this stuff up. It's like beyond hypocrisy, 207 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:20,960 deep festering rot that's been sitting there in the system 208 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,799 for decades, and this case just dragged it into the sunlight. 209 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:26,759 And of course every time the truth peaks through, they 210 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:30,399 blame somebody else, the Feds, the judges, the clerks, the paperwork, 211 00:11:30,639 --> 00:11:33,679 but deep down they all know the truth. They were 212 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,000 the first Domino without the Florida deal, Epstein wouldn't have 213 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,759 had another decade to keep up his crimes. They gave 214 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,120 him time, cover and legitimacy. They handed him a second 215 00:11:44,159 --> 00:11:46,879 act when they handed him the sweetheart deal. They weren't 216 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:49,320 just letting one man off. They were paving the road 217 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:52,759 for every predator with influence to think, hey, maybe I 218 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:54,720 can get away with it too. And you know, it 219 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:56,759 should shock us that not a single one of these 220 00:11:56,759 --> 00:12:02,399 Florida officials ever faced accountability, but unfortunately we expect it. 221 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,120 Krisher retired with honors. The sheriff kept his badge, The 222 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,600 probation officers kept their pensions. Tell me how that's justice. 223 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,000 Tell me how you square that with the idea that 224 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:16,480 no one is above the law, Because apparently some people are. 225 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:20,320 Epstein proved it, and Florida helped them do it. Every 226 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,039 time one of those officials collects their retirement check, it's 227 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:26,120 a reminder that failure has no price tag when it's 228 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,679 wrapped in power, and the whole thing stinks to high heaven, 229 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,440 and it's not just incompetence. Florida had the chance to 230 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,519 stop Epstein dead in his tracks, and instead they greased 231 00:12:36,519 --> 00:12:39,960 the rails for his next move. You can't look at 232 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,399 the timeline, the paperwork and the decisions made and still 233 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,200 pretend it was just bad judgment. It wasn't. It was 234 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,399 a choice. They chose comfort over courage, silence over truth, 235 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:54,919 and wealth over justice, and the result was yours of 236 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,080 continued abuse that could have been prevented if anyone in 237 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,480 that chain had the guts to do their job. So 238 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:03,960 when people say that the cover up started at the top, 239 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,759 make him him pause. It started right there in Palm Beach, 240 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,360 with a da who didn't want to ruffle rich feathers 241 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,360 and a system that values money over morality. That's where 242 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,559 this nightmare really took root. Epstein didn't find a loophole. 243 00:13:17,759 --> 00:13:21,360 He found a network, a willing, smiling, handshaking network of 244 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:24,000 people in power who looked the other way because it 245 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:27,080 was easier than doing what was right. And that's why 246 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,480 this story still burns like it happened yesterday, because Florida 247 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:33,960 didn't just fail justice, they poisoned it. And every single 248 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,399 one of those officials in Florida should be called out, 249 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,000 named and shamed for what they did or didn't do. 250 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,320 And it's just another reminder. And when it comes to Epstein, 251 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:46,720 that power always protects itself, always has and always will. 252 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,519 The survivors definitely deserved better than silence. The public definitely 253 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,600 deserved better than the lies. And if Florida had done 254 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,679 its job back then, maybe Epstein never would have had 255 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,559 the chance to do what he did later. They didn't, 256 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:03,519 and that's why the stain will never wash out of 257 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,919 their history. And you know what really drives it home, 258 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,879 the smug silence. Not one of them has ever stood 259 00:14:08,919 --> 00:14:11,679 up and said we blew it, not once. No apologies, 260 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,120 no accountability, Just a bunch of lawyers and bureaucrats hiding 261 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,679 behind technicalities while pretending they didn't have blood on their hands. Oh, 262 00:14:19,679 --> 00:14:22,159 they'll talk about procedure like it's a shield, like the 263 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,320 rules themselves are to blame instead of the cowards not 264 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,399 enforcing them. But procedure didn't give Epstein' special treatment. People did. 265 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,360 People with titles and salaries funded by taxpayers like us, 266 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:37,039 People who decided that doing nothing was safer than doing 267 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,919 what was right. It's the kind of moral cowardice that 268 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,320 doesn't just ruin one case, it rots the foundation of 269 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,000 the whole system. And what really gnaws at me is 270 00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:48,679 that they all got to walk away and rebuild their reputations. 271 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:51,600 Krisher went on to live his nice, quiet life. Bradshaw 272 00:14:51,679 --> 00:14:54,440 kept shaking hands and posing for photos. The rest of 273 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,000 them melted back into the background like they hadn't been 274 00:14:57,039 --> 00:14:59,960 part of one of the most disgusting failures of justice 275 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:03,960 in modern history. And the survivors, well, they're the ones 276 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,799 who never got to walk away. They live with this 277 00:15:06,879 --> 00:15:09,639 memory every day, the one where they realize that the 278 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:12,360 cops down in Florida believe them, but the system didn't. 279 00:15:12,759 --> 00:15:15,639 The state failed them, not just once, but over and 280 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:19,639 over again. And that failure has a face, It has names, 281 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,120 and it has consequences that's stretched all the way to 282 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,120 New York, the Virgin Islands and beyond. Every time I 283 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:29,480 hear someone from Florida politics or law enforcement pat themselves 284 00:15:29,559 --> 00:15:31,799 on the back about how things are different now, I 285 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,360 want to laugh and scream at the same time. Different 286 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,639 Now nobody's paid for it, nobody's even lost a pension. 287 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,919 Until those people are held accountable, it's no different. It's 288 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,919 just quieter. The same system still exists, it's just learned 289 00:15:44,919 --> 00:15:47,600 to hide its corruption a little bit better. The lesson 290 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,679 that Florida taught the rest of the country was clear. 291 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,000 If you're powerful enough, you don't need to avoid the law. 292 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,679 You can just buy it wholesale. So yeah, when I 293 00:15:55,679 --> 00:15:58,320 think about Florida's role in the whole saga, I don't 294 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,480 see palm trees or beaches. I see rot, deep, festering rot. 295 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,559 I see the moment where justice died quietly in a 296 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:08,480 courthouse and nobody cared because the man in the hot 297 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,919 seat had money and power. I see a bunch of 298 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:14,279 so called officials who smiled, shook hands, and pretended not 299 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,399 to hear the screams. Florida had the chance to be 300 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,039 a place where it ended, and instead it became the 301 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,600 place where it began. And until those names are dragged 302 00:16:23,639 --> 00:16:27,039 into the sunlight, every judge, every sheriff, every prosecutor who 303 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,879 played a part. Florida is not just where Epstein got 304 00:16:29,879 --> 00:16:32,480 away with it. It's where the cover up was born. 305 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,480 All of the information that goes with this episode can 306 00:16:36,519 --> 00:16:38,399 be found in the description box.