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DOJ Memos Reveal Prosecutors Targeted Epstein Survivors Instead of the Predator
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Newly released Justice Department memos from the early federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein show that prosecutors were preoccupied with how Epstein’s lawyers might attack the credibility of the girls who accused him of abuse. The memos described...
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what's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Whenever you hear people try and dismiss what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, one of the first things people point to is the fact that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't charged the first time around with trafficking or anything in the realm that resembles trafficking. So of course people say, well, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't charged with trafficking, he wasn't convicted of trafficking, so how could he be a human trafficker? Well, one of the main reasons that that didn't occur is because it was by design. The state went after their own own witnesses. They destroyed their own witnesses credibility on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein, Barry Krisher, and the rest of them. That's what happened. You really think that a jury would have given a if a kid had a MySpace page talking about drinking and smoking some pot if they were molested by Jeffrey Epstein? This is the kind of we've been dealing with since the very beginning of this. Oh, well, these kids are incredible. They smoked some pot, they drank some beers, they talked about sex. Do you forget being a teenager? I did all of that and I'm sure most of you did too. So does that mean that they couldn't have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein? Does that mean that they had a credibility problem? Well, maybe if it was one person, but what about 40? What about 50? So today we have an article from the New York Post and the headline, jeffrey Epstein accusers had credibility challenges, including past arrests, changing stories, DOJ memos, detail. And we've talked about this countless times. We didn't need the memos for this. It's no secret that they destroyed their own case and their own witnesses and they only brought one girl up. Now they'll tell you it's because they had credibility issues, but that's not really true. Furthermore, does Glenn Maxwell have credibility issues? She sure got some favorable treatment, huh? How about Sammy the Bull Gravano? Or how about Whitey Bulger? Give me a break, okay? They think you're stupid. That's what it comes down to. And of course it gives ammunition to the people that are running cover for the COVID up. And there's plenty of them out there. This article was authored by Samuel Chamberlain and Josh Christensen. South Florida prosecutors pitched the 60 count indictment of Jeffrey Epstein on charges including child prostitution and sex trafficking in the late 2000s, but fretted that their case would be undone by some of the pedophiles alleged victims, according to newly released files. Well, the OIG report says that CEOs, the Child Exploitation unit was completely on board and wanted to go forward and everything was on track to do so until Mukesi and Philippe got involved from Main Justice. And of course that came after a lot of pressure that was put on them by Epstein's legal team. So it wasn't like, you know, there was this gigantic push for this case to go away. In fact, they thought they had enough. And that's basically all the line prosecutors. It was the bosses, the brass that killed it. The justice department made public 20 additional documents related to the disgraced financier Thursday evening, including for the first time, memos laying out the aborted Sunshine State case against Epstein, who died in his Manhattan jail cell in August of 2019 while awaiting trial on separate sex trafficking charges. Yeah, but the first time around they were incredible, right? The second time though, very credible. The idiocy here is just almost unbelievable and it's wild that they believe that anyone is going to believe this. As we said a week ago, the Department of Justice reviewed public allegations that Form 302 interview summary documents originally produced to Glenn Maxwell and discovery of her criminal case were missing from the EFTA Epstein files Transparency Act Library the DOJ posted on X. What we found through extensive review is that a published interview summary, additionally disclosed in a published spreadsheet, had a subsequent document that were coded as duplicative. The DOJ also said after this was brought to our attention, we reviewed the entire batch with similar coding and discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative. Under normal circumstances, I might give you the benefit of the doubt, but here I do not. I think you're lying and I think everything you're saying is bs. Five more documents were prosecution memos, three of which were drafted by the office of then South Florida U. S. Attorney Alex Acosta. Those memos reveal that prosecutors suggested taking Epstein into custody as early as May 2007 and seeking the seizure of his Palm Beach, Florida home and two private jets until Epstein's lawyers started controlling the situation. Have you not been paying attention? That's what happened. Epstein's lawyers got the justice, the brass, and started, you know, pulling levers. That's why he hired the people he did well. You think Ken Starr was just out of the blue? Alan Dershowitz just out of the blue? Lefkowitz out of the blue? Menshell out of the blue? Lily Sanchez out of the blue? Bruce Reinhardt out of the blue? Come on, all these people were working on the case and then they flipped sides to start working for Epstein. Nothing to see here, though. No big deal. However, the documents also outlined the lines of attack that could be used by Epstein's all star legal team to place reasonable doubt in the minds of a potential jury. That is such bs. Can you imagine sitting on a jury and them trying to pitch that to you? And then the prosecution bringing 8, 10 girls up to tell you their story? Which way you gonna lean as a juror? The whole thing is bs, and that's why it makes me so goddamn mad. Top of the list, potential weaknesses was the girl whose parents initially flagged Epstein's proclivities to the Palm Beach Police Department in 2005. Get ready for this. Copies of a MySpace page credited to redacted were provided to the state attorney's office and to our office reads the possible credibility challenges section from a February 2008 version of the prosecuting memo. On that page, redacted states that she's 21 years old, she drinks and has taken drugs, she shoplifts, and she earns 250 grand a year. The MySpace page also shows a picture of redacted red wrestling with her boyfriend and a photograph of a naked girl lying on a beach during her first session with the police. She also minimized what happened with Epstein, denying that he touched her. She was scared. How about the second interview or the third one that we went through? You see, they can't fool us. We've actually read the interviews so they can try and spin it however they want, but I've given it to you uncut, unadulterated, so that when they try their you see it for what it is. The memo then sought to address each of those concerns, noting that the accuser denied the MySpace page was hers, a claim investigators could neither confirm or refute, and adding that prosecutors had secured two experts to testify that sex appused victims minimize what happened to them until they Feel more secure about the interviewer? Well, that's pretty obvious. And we can see Jane Doe warm up to Michelle Pagan as she's talking to her. In the interview, another accuser was flagged for having brought several girls to Epstein's home knowing that they were underage. And she has been given immunity for her testimony, though prosecutors caveat did that she is very straightforward about Epstein's actions and her own, and that members of the federal grand jury had seemed to believe her. I think they're talking about Haley Robson here and her behavior and her activities while in Epstein's clutches. Now, there's a bunch of out there that'll try and tell you that Haley Robson is some kind of gigantic human trafficker. But let's remember that she fell into Epstein's clutches when she was 16. And not only that, she spoke with the police. Not like she was hiding. She wasn't pulling a Nadia Marcinkova. She didn't pull a Leslie Groff or as Sarah Kellen Vickers, she talked to the police. Maybe somebody should let Anna Paulina Luna know that when she's done with her interdimensional demons or whatever the she's up to. A third was mentioned as a credibility risk after an arrest while a juvenile for marijuana possession and shoplifting, while concerns were raised about a fourth accuser over an arrest on drug charges and her dismissal from a retail job at Victoria's Secret for theft. So those are the credibility issues as a juror. Would any of that matter to you if all the evidence was overwhelming? You had the massage pads, I mean, the message pads, you had all the corroborating evidence, you had all the circumstantial stuff we seen, would that really matter to you? It wouldn't to me, because guess what? Even if those girls were doing drugs and having sex and all the rest of it's shoplifting, they can still be abused. They can still be taken advantage of. So stop the. Follow the evidence wherever it goes. The same accuser admittedly has used drugs since becoming involved with Epstein, but she seems to have finished that phase of her life. Prosecutors also noted that her allegations were backed up by phone and financial records indicating Epstein paid her between 350 and 1,000 for sexual favors. Ever think she was using drugs because Epstein was abusing her? That might have something to do with it, right? I mean, you know, correlation and all. In a February 2008 memo, prosecutors noted that a fifth victim had given testimony to a state grand jury during which she exhibited no hostility towards Epstein and said that she testified only because she was subpoenaed to appear. Well, did you ever think that Epstein got to her, reached out to her, paid her, threatened her, threatened her family? Holy shit, man. Her statements are well corroborated by the telephone records, etc. Prosecutors said of this accuser. But as with the other girls, her past is not pristine. If she's underage, it doesn't matter. There's no coercion. Once someone's underage, that's it. You cannot have relations with her. Stupid. You can't traffic her, stupid. You can't coerce her. Stupid. Protective orders in the Southern District of New York and Southern District of Florida had initially prohibited the release of grand jury material in the Epstein and Maxwell cases, a senior DOJ official told the Post on Thursday. Appearing before the House Oversight Committee in September of 2025, Acosta told lawmakers that securing a guilty verdict against Epstein would have been a crapshoot, borrowing the characterization of the case from an officer in the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity section who work briefly on the case. That's not true.
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We know that CEOs was completely on board. Just go back and read the OIG report and again, that's why we do it. What you think I have fun reading all those core documents? Not exactly the greatest time in the world, but it's necessary and I think it's important that all of you know what's going on and not from these people. Telling you directly from the source. That's how you form a real opinion, right? Ultimately, we just wanted the guy to go to jail, he said of a much derided June 2008 non prosecution agreement that saw Epstein serve fewer than 13 months on a state charge of soliciting sex from a minor, with much of that time spent on work release. Very fair deal, very fair. The kind of deal everybody gets, right? Certainly not the deal my family member got. Launched his ass to prison for over six years for illegal gambling. But cool. Jeffrey Epstein, 13 months, gets to go out, do whatever he wants and continue to abuse people while he's under the custody of the state. Hell of a job, guys. Hell of a job. Tell us about credibility issues some more. Though many victims refused to testify, many victims had changing stories. All of us understood why they had changing stories, but they did, and defense counsel would have. Cross examination would have been withering, Acosta added. Many of them had issues in their background. They had the MySpace pages, they had priors that would have been used against them by defense counsel. And that was at a time when, in all candor, defense could be much, much tougher on victims on the stand, said the former u. S. Attorney, who added that he considered the tactics used by Epstein's legal team, which included famed advocate Alan dershowitz and former independent counsel Kenneth starr, skirted the line of professional misconduct. Not skirted the line. They crossed the line many, many times. And Alex Acosta didn't have the courage to stare them down. Instead, he acquiesced to everything that they demanded. And when he didn't acquiesce to one of their requests, they just went over his head with the non prosecution agreement, Acosta said. We put him in jail, he registered as a sex offender, and the victims had an opportunity to recover, and that was a win. Not true. You put him in jail, he kept abusing. Victims had a chance to recover. Which ones point them out? Everybody likes to say victims this, survivors that, which ones? They're not monolithic. These are all different people with unique stories of abuse that they suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. It's not monolithic. Looking at all of this, the ultimate judgment was, do you roll the dice? And if he gets away with it, you're sending a signal to the community that he can get away with it. Such bullshit. You sent that signal to the community by not going hard. That was the signal you sent. Don't give us this bs. You were scared to go after him at trial. Federal prosecutors pursue shit all the time. That's way weaker than this. It wasn't. You didn't have the evidence. You didn't have the courage. That's what it was. A senior DoJ official told reporters that roughly 60,000 documents had been pulled from the Epstein Library and placed back under review to ensure proper redactions of victim images or pornographic material. More than 3.5 million pages of documents have been reviewed by DOJ employees and placed on the library's webpage since President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency act into law last November. Yo, there's no such thing as a perfect victim. All kinds of people can be victimized, even people that have a checkered past. And that doesn't make them liars. That doesn't mean we shouldn't believe them. What we should do is look at all the evidence provided and go from there. But they just skipped all of that and instead decided that it wasn't worth pursuing in federal court, and they just kicked it back down to state because, you know, that's what the federal government always does. So they can talk about credibility issues all they want, but the only credibility issue I see here isn't with the witnesses. It's with the DOJ itself. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box
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