Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Now listen, folks, I know this is gonna
come as a gigantic surprise, But Howard Lutnick hasn't been
telling us the truth about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Now, look,
I know you're all shocked to hear that, considering Howard
Lutnik is such a gray dude and he would never
ever spend any time with Jeffrey Epstein. And he says
it with just like this smile and this glint in
his eye. Meanwhile, old Howard Lutnik over here is engaging
in business deals with Epstein, being friendly with Epstein. Oh yeah,
and did you hear the one about Epstein donating fifty
thousand dollars to a charity dinner that was honoring good
old Howie Lutnick. Well, in this article, you're gonna hear
about that and a lot more. So let's dive into
this article from Mother Jones and let's see what they
have for us and the headline. New details from Epstein
files reveal Lutnik had years long business tie with the
sex offender. Well, it was obvious that he was lying
about his relationship. Did anyone really believe that Howard Lutnick
live right next door to Jeffrey Epstein and he only
went over there one time? Like really? Or how about
that Hillary fundraiser that Epstein was invited to. Let's not
act like he didn't show up or he didn't drop
off a bag. He most certainly did. So the whole
entire narrative that we've gotten from Lutnik about his relationship
with Epstein or the non existence of it, is just
a bunch of bs. Now, look, I'm not gonna sit
here and tell you that Lutnik was involved, you know,
with the day to day activity, but he was certainly
somebody that was adjacent to Jeffrey Epstein and somebody that
had some business dealings with him. The author of this
article is Noah Lanyard. There's more bad news for or
Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnik in the Epstein files. Previously on
reported documents show he hasn't been accurate or perhaps honest
about the extent of his business ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Lutnick has had a big problem since the trove was
released last month. He previously insisted he and his wife
cut ties with Epstein in two thousand and five, after
they moved next door to Epstein's mansion in New York City.
In an interview last year, Lutnick said that Epstein had
given him an uncomfortable tour of his home and that
he vowed he would never be in the room with
that disgusting person ever again until he was How was
that lunch over on the island after he was already convicted?
You gigantic wire? But the file showed that Lutnick and
his family visited Epstein on his private island in twenty twelve,
that Epstein in twenty seventeen donated fifty thousand dollars to
a charity dinner honoring Lutnick, and that the following year
the two communicated about countering an expansion of a neighboring museum.
Which is hilarious because these guys will tell you how
cultured they are, right, Oh, we want this, we want that.
We're here for the arts. Unless there's a museum that
might bring people around their house, then forget it. The
last thing they want is sweaty plebeians running around and
sticking up the neighborhood. Yo. The contempt that these people
have for you is completely overwhelming. Earlier this month, CBS
News revealed more on their connection by reporting that Lutnik
and Epstein each signed the contract in twenty twelve, four
years after Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes, to invest
in a digital ad technology company called Adfin Solutions. The
deal was dated just five days after Lutnick and his
family visited Epstein on his private island. Lutnick signed on
behalf of a limited liability company controlled by counter Fitzgerald,
the investment firm where he served as CEO, and it's
crazy Bro is the CEO of the company here in
Vegas too, Canner Gaming, and it ended up go and
bust because they were in bed with the mafia. You
had the mafia run a book through Canner laying bets
off all kinds of shit, and that was called the
Jersey Boy scandal. And we've talked about that before previously
as well. So it's not like Howard Lutnick is new
to controversy, but he's one of those very powerful people
who always finds a way to definitely navigate their way
through it, and they always come out on the other
end looking better than when they started. Lutnixx Camp has
tried to minimize his involvement with Epstein through their shared
investment in Adfin. A spokesperson for the Commerce Department told
CBS News Secretary Lutnik had limited interaction with mister Epstein
in the presence of his wife and has never been
accused of wrongdoing, and a source close to Lutnik told
the network that Canter was a small minority investor in
the venture. This source added that at the time of
doing the deal, as a minority investor, mister Lutnick would
not have any knowledge of who the other investors were. Well,
he knows now, and he knew previously. So why wasn't
he just honest when the question was asked. I'll tell
you why. Because he thinks you're stupid, and he thinks
that even if this is exposed, nothing's going to happen
to him. Meanwhile, you have Prince Andrew who's literally looking
out a life sentence. Now do I think he's going
to get that? No, but at least there's a threat.
Is there any threat whatsoever for Howard Lutnick? Of course
there's not. There never has been, and unfortunately I doubt
there ever will be. He'll just keep on keeping on.
He'll stay in his position, and even if he gets
fired from the Commerce secretary position, well, he's going to
go home and swim in his money like Scrooge McDuck.
So he's golden no matter what happens. It's the rest
of us that are screwed, literally and figuratively. And by
the way, I have a hard time believing that Howard
Lutnick didn't do due diligence not only on what he
was investing in, but on who he was investing with.
So I find that hard to believe. That's misleading. Emails
and documents in the massive Epstein release not yet reported,
revealed that Lutnik went on to become a prominent figure
in Adfin, not merely a minority investor, and that he
and his company were financially interconnected with Epstein in the
venture for at least six years. They also show that
Canner essentially took over Adfin as Epstein played an investor
role in the struggling firm. It's highly improbable that Lutnik
did not know Epstein was a key shareholder. Yeah, I
find it hard to believe as well. I think it's
a bunch of BS. In fact, the Department of Commerce
did not respond to a request for comment. Kantor Fitzgerald
did not respond to a request for comment. An email
exchange from May twenty eighth, twenty eighteen, HWL. Lutnek's middle
name is William discussing Adfinn with Epstein and a parent
sign that Lutnik was aware of Epstein's involvement in the
company and that he maintained a business relationship with Epstein
far longer than he is acknowledged. So that should be
enough right there for him to be forced out of office.
He lied to the American people. Does that not count anymore?
Does that not matter? I mean, I guess it doesn't.
I guess it doesn't. As long as the person's on
your team, right, it's all good. And that's the kind
of mentality we got to break away from. It doesn't
matter who's guilty of these crimes, it doesn't matter who
is engaging in this bullshit. They should be held accountable.
And I don't just mean when it comes to Ebstein,
I'm talking about in general. If you're going to take
a position that comes with great responseility, you must conduct
yourself correctly and with honor and if you can't do that,
don't take a job representing people. Don't take a job
in the American government. In the emails, the two discussed
adfinn status. Epstein asked HWL, what do you think the
prospects for adfinn R In an email more confidential and
the sole property at counter Fitzgerald LLP and its affiliates replied,
producing revenue. Finally, this is their year, next twelve months.
They need to become economically self sufficient. HWL and Epstein
in these emails also had a friendly discussion about real estate,
including a reference to a property HWL called Pierre. Lutnick
bought the penthouse in the Pierre Hotel in twenty seventeen.
Epstein asked, I can buy my guesthouse. HWL responded, haven't
even picked an architect or a designer yet. Nah. They
weren't close, right, They weren't buddies, just two guys that
happened to live next to each other. Everything else is
just a gigantic coincidence. How dare you think anything else?
You conspiracy theorist. The documents in the Epstein file about
the adfin deal were uncovered by a British whistleblower, who
has asked to remain unidentified. He's a former managing director
at BGC Financial, an affiliate of Canner Fitzgerald, who has
been in employment dispute with BGC in the United States,
claiming he faced retaliation for reporting the financial regulator is
wrongdoing at the firm. Well, I can tell you right
now when they worked in Vegas, when they had Canter Gaming,
they didn't care about stars. I can't tell you how
many stars I filed. They didn't care about any of it.
They cared about making money. That's it, point blank, period,
and they were very clear about that as well. After
he filed whistleblower reports with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
regarding BGC Financial, the CFTC and posed a three million
dollar sanction in twenty nineteen on BGC for numerous supervision,
reporting and record keeping violations all tracks. The Adfin deal
started at the end of twenty twelve with stock purchase
agreement for the firm that both Lutnik and Epstein signed
on behalf of corporate entities. It included a schedule of
purchases for each of the eight investors in the coming year.
In April of twenty thirteen, Epstein, through his Southern Trust Company,
put in five hundred thousand. In July, he invested another
one hundred and twenty five thousand. As part of that investment,
Lutnik invested three hundred and fifty thousand through CVA FHLLC.
The parent company for his firm was Kener Fitzgerald. By
March twenty seventeen, Epstein's investments and ADFIN would be up
to eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars according to
his own records. So this is another reason they didn't
use RICO, because if they recoed Epstein, all these people
would get caught up, just like I've told you, and
you don't have to be a financial genius to figure
that out. If you received ill gotten gains during this
time from Epstein, congratulations, your bitch ass is part of
the case. And it would be nice if somebody in
Congress would ask about RICO. At the end of twenty thirteen,
LATINX Company became more deeply involved in ADFIN when it
loaned the company two million. Epstein was one of three
non cantor shareholders who had to approve the loan and
he did signing an agreement that was also signed by
a counter official who served as CFO of cv A
FH one. So it's indisputable. Okay, they were in business together,
they were friendly. He was going to the island, and
Lutnik lied, I'm not going to play games here and
be like, oh he was loose with the truth. No,
he lied, and the whole entire purpose was to keep
the American people from knowing the actual depths of his
relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. In January of twenty fourteen, David Mitchell,
a real estate developer and another investor in the company,
emailed Epstein to share additional details about the funding from Canner.
Because of the loan, Canner was now in a position
to gain a board seat at Adfin, Mitchell wrote. But
Mitchell also reminded Epstein that he, Epstein and a founder
of Adfin could work together as a group could block
certain actions of the company. In short, Lutnik's company was
gaining a larger stake in Adfin, but Epstein would remain
an influential investor in the firm. Mitchell did not respond
to a request for comment. Nobody's going to respond. That's
been the mo because they know there's nothing they can
say that makes any of this okay. Epstein continued to
keep an eye on the investment. In one twenty fourteen
email to an unidentified recipient, he called the firm, which
was offering technology to track digital ads, very tomorrow and
noted it would be a great internship. By July twenty fifteen,
according to an archive page of Adfin's website, Lutnik was
listed as one of five board members and investors at
the company. Epstein was not cited on the list, though
he had retained his shares in the firm. In February
of twenty sixteen, Mitchell sent a letter to Adfin investors
informing them that Cantor was investing another one point seventy
five million in the company and that the shares that
you purchased a number of years ago will be diluted.
He wrote, personally, I feel very badly that this happened,
as I introduced you to this investment to co invest
alongside me. A chart accompanying the letter noted that Epstein's
holdings in the firm would decrease from eight point eight
percent of the shares to five point six percent. Well
that doesn't shock me either. Canner Gaming still ows me
five thousand shares as part of a compensation package for
me accepting a management job with their company. Breaking news
nobody got any shares. An addendum to the letter from
Mitchell said that Canner would control the board of directors
in Lutnik would join the board. Cantor will effectively control
decision making power at the board and stockholder level, it noted,
adding that Adfin will be majority owned by Canner. In
February of twenty eighteen, Adfin asked Epstein's Southern Trust would
be interested in additional investment in the firm alongside a
new injection of funds from Cantor, but Epstein wanted out.
He emailed his accountant, Richard Kahn, and said, you can
tell them we are a seller at cost eight seventy
five and we are out, a reference to his investment
of eight hundred and seventy five thousand in the firm.
At the time, Epstein was the third largest investor in Adfin. So, yeah,
Lutnick knew him. Okay, that confirms it. Lutnick isn't in
this business and not knowing what's going on. Kahn expressed
Epstein's interest in selling his Adfin shares. In an email
to the company's CEO, he added, can you please communicate
this to existing investors, which would have included Lutnik and
Cantor nothing happened right away. Six weeks later, Adfin ceo
wrote Cohn, sorry for the delay. We were trying to
get a response from Howard and Jonathan on your ask,
but there is apparently no interest at this time on
the sale of your interest. After that, Mitchell told Epstein
there was an offer for one hundred thousand for Epstein shares.
He added, I need to get them up to a
rational number that at least gets you back your investment.
Epstein replied, okay, I can wait. We have eight hundred
and seventy five in On May twentieth, twenty eighteen, Lutnick
contacted Epstein and asked if he was aware that a
renovation of the Frick Collection on the Upper East Side
would block our park views. He added, what should we
do about it? Time is of the essence. Epstein's assistant
wrote back that Epstein was not aware. Thank you for
letting us know. Imagine these two disgusting scumbags. Oh, we
can't see the park anymore. Imagine that's the kind of
problem you have. God forbid, I can't see the park.
And furthermore, Jeffrey Epstein probably shouldn't live near a park,
never mind see one. The same day, Epstein wrote an
email saying, tell your lawyer that Darren, my lawyer will
contact him. In response, the HWL account replied, meeting is
tomorrow morning, presumably referring to a meeting about the proposed museum.
That was the day when Epstein directly asked HWL about
the prospects for Adfinn, and HWL provided an optimistic assessment,
noting that it was finally producing revenue, adding that this
is their year that was not to be. Adfinn was
shut down in October twenty nineteen, three months after Epstein
was arrested on federal sex crime charges and two months
after he died in prison. So can we just cut
the crap please. It's obvious that Howard Lutnik was a
lot closer to Jeffrey Epstein than he let on, and
it's gross that he's still the Commerce secretary in this country.
I mean, just look over in the UK. I mean,
not only was Prince Andrew arrested, but Peter Mandelsson just
got arrested today as well. Meanwhile, here in America, we
can't even get rid of Howard Lutnik. And if you
were wondering why the administration was so worried about these
files coming out and why they were doing everything in
their power to make sure that didn't occur, well now
you know. And if they let this stuff out and
it's this embarrassing, I can only imagine what else they
have that they don't want you to see. So that's
why it's important that we keep demanding that the federal government,
the DOJ does as the law commands it to do,
because I have a funny feeling that Howard Lutnik isn't
the only one that hasn't been honest with us about
their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. All right, folks, that's going
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