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The Epstein Chronicles
Epstein’s Banking Empire: A Deeper, Darker Network Than Anyone Admitted
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The Wall Street Journal has uncovered that Epstein maintained accounts with more than 20 banks even in the years leading up to his 2019 death—among them, Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and FirstBank Puerto Rico. The documents show Epstein moved at least $60...
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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. If anybody is responsible for the collective misery of the world, it's the financial sector. These slime balls were tripping over each other to get a seat at Epstein's table. Because God forbid they miss another dollar. They'll tell you that they had no idea what he was up to. Like the yachts, the private islands, the shady foundations and. And the swarm of underage girls around him were just quirky lifestyle choices. Yeah, okay, they were lining up, smiling, shaking hands and cashing checks because money talks. And in that world, morality walks. Meanwhile, those same institutions are the ones strangling the rest of us. They treat working people like ATMs they can kick when they're low on cash. Miss a credit card payment, boom. 30% interest, late fees stack like bricks. Credit rating tanked, so you can't even finance a toaster. Take out a mortgage, they own you for 30 years, bleeding you dry every single month. And don't even get me started with student loans. Half this country's paying rent to the government and Wall street just for the privilege of trying to get ahead. Mafia level rackets dressed up in business suits. But Epstein, that guy? Well, he was a client. He got the red carpet treatment. Private wealth management, exclusive investments. Don't worry about the details, sir. We'll handle it all. They bend over backwards for a literal predator while the rest of us can't even get a bank to approve a car loan without offering up our soul and firstborn as collateral. It's the biggest joke in the world. The people funding and protecting a pervert also happen to be the ones keeping your paycheck on a leash. And you know what the cherry on top is? They call it wealth transfer. Sounds so clean, so clinical. But what it really means is these pigs have built a system where money flows one direction only. Up. They rake it in from overdraft fees, interest rates, balloon payments and fine print. And they laugh their way into executive dinners with guys like Epstein. Guys who were nothing but walking dollar signs to them. They knew exactly who he was and they didn't care. Why would they? He wasn't some middle class schmuck trying to keep the lights on. He was their Meal ticket. So yeah, forgive me if I don't buy the we had no idea routine. These hedge funds and banks are like mob bosses in three piece suits. Oh, they'll fund predators, enable criminals, destroy families, and then turn around and lecture the rest of us about responsibility. Responsibility? The only responsibility they care about is keeping their champagne glasses full while. While the rest of us are out here deciding between paying rent or buying groceries. That's the scam. That's the joke. That is a cynical truth. And no matter what they tell you, Epstein was not some lone wolf. They all fed at the trough with him. And when the house of cards came crashing down, not one of them went down with him. Funny how that works, huh? Today's article is from the Wall Street Journal. And the headline, the Wall Street Firms that Kept Ties with Jeffrey Epstein and until the End. This article was authored by Khadija Safdar. Jeffrey Epstein never got kicked out of the Wall Street VIP club. Epstein's banking and investment activities in the years before his 2019 death were more widespread than previously known, including accounts at several banks as well as large transactions with well known hedge funds. According to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter. And this is what I've been telling you for a long time. Up until this point, the banks have taken most of the criticism when it comes to Epstein. But let's not forget the hedge funds. All the other people that were helping him move money, helping him stash money, helping him protect his fortune that was built on ill gotten gains. And it's something I've talked about for a very long time. I mean, just take a look at Glenn Dubin and Highbridge Capital. The whole entire point of Glenn Dubin selling Highbridge to JP Morgan was because Jeffrey Epstein facilitated the whole deal. Epstein was the middleman. And if you think that was the only hedge fund that Epstein was involved in, think again. Epstein's estate has turned over to Congress a list of more than 20 banks that held accounts for Epstein and entities related to him. According to people familiar with the matter. The House Oversight Committee is expected to subpoena banks for their records. Some of the people said, look, this is where it gets dangerous for Epstein's friends. If this is a real investigation, which I have my doubts about, then following the money is exactly how you get to pay dirt. You're never going to nail these people when it comes to human trafficking or anything like that. If you want to get them, you're going to have to go after the money the same way you went after Al Capone. Because if you think Al Capone was protected, wait until you get a load of people like Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein or Epstein Related Entities had accounts with several of those banks in his later years, including Wells Fargo, TD Banks and First bank of Puerto Rico, according to those people. JPMorgan Chase has said it closed Epstein's accounts in 2013 and Deutsche bank said it cut him off the in 2018. Today, JP Morgan and Deutsche bank are the only banks that have been scrutinized by regulators and sued by survivors over their ties to Epstein. And I've been advising for years to go after these other financial institutions, the hedge funds, these other banks, other people that were involved. Go after them all. The documents reviewed by the Journal show that in the years before he died, Epstein moved more then $60 million into Honeycomb Partners, an investment fund, received $13.5 million from a hedge fund run by Paul Tudor Jones and sold $15 million worth of private company shares to crypto investor Blockchain Capital. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors to engage in prostitution under a deal with prosecutors. His activities set off compliance concerns at JP Morgan, but he remained a prize client until 2013. Then he moved many of his accounts to Deutsche bank, the oligarch's favorite bank. Has Deutsche bank ever met a scumbag degenerate they haven't wanted to do business with? I mean, we're talking about a rogues gallery of people who have had accounts with Deutsche bank from every oligarch you can imagine to the cartels, to Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, these people are smashing you with a 30% finance rate for a credit card. JP Morgan and Deutsche bank have said they regret their relationships with Epstein and have settled civil lawsuits brought by Epstein survivors without admitting wrongdoing. And that's the rub, right? They can buy their way out. All these people can, all these institutions can. And, and then that gives them the COVID Oh look, these girls just wanted payouts. No, that's the only kind of restitution they were going to get. They know they're not going to get justice, so what are they supposed to do? And unfortunately, that's the way the system set up, right? Rich people like this can hide behind their bank accounts and pay people off to go away and then they'll just do it again. And when they get caught, when they get outed, other buddies are just like, oh, we had no idea what was going on. Well, we had no clue. So and so was such a scumbag Epstein had bank accounts associated with a complex web of entities that he used for his personal and business activities, including sending payments to women, managing his real estate and running his financial advisory business. Financial advisory business, huh? Can we see the client list? That's a client list that exists, has one or two clients on it, but it's a list that exists. Lets see that. A spokesman for TD bank said a council by Epstein's lawyer and accountant were closed and relationships terminated in 2019. A spokesman for First Bank Puerto Rico said Epstein was a legacy relationship that was acquired when the bank purchased Chase Banking operations in the US Virgin Islands in 2002. A spokesman for Wells Fargo declined to comment. Oh, I am sure they did. Can you imagine how these roaches are scrambling in the back room trying to get rid of information, dump documents? Having a sex crime conviction alone wouldn't necessarily disqualify someone from a banking service. Banks use many factors to evaluate the legal and reputational risk of retaining clients and are required to monitor suspicious activity such as frequent cash withdrawals. Hedge funds and VC firms face lighter regulation than banks and don't typically have access to transaction activity. The documents reviewed by the Journal show that Epstein transferred at least $60 million to Honeycomb Partners between 2016 and 2019, including $20 million in March of 2019. The firm is run by David Faisal, who was a star portfolio manager at Steve Cohen's 72 hedge fund before he left in 2015. Fezell recently told clients that he was returning their money, saying he saw fewer investment opportunities. Fizel and a lawyer for Honeycomb didn't reply to requests for comment. And look, get used to that. None of these people are going to reply. Why would they? It's only going to make things worse for them so they'll just shut up and wait for us all to get over it. A spokesman for Tudor Investments said said one of Epstein's entities invested in its Tudor's Future Fund in 2001 and redeemed its investment in 2014. He said Jones, the billionaire investor and senior tutor personnel, didn't know Epstein personally and didn't have any direct communication or other business with him. Again, the whole amnesia routine. Does anyone believe it? Does anyone really believe they have no idea who they're doing business with? That they have no idea who's bringing in millions of Blockchain was co Founded in 2013 by Brock Pierce, a serial entrepreneur and chair of the Bitcoin foundation, to invest in startups or crypto tokens. A spokesman for Blockchain said Three of its funds purchased stakes in private companies from Epstein in 2018, but he wasn't an investor in its fund. Peirce said he left the firm in 2017. Yo, the Epstein rot runs so deep that it's almost hard to quantify, especially when we're talking about inside of the financial sector. And this is something I've been trying to hammer home to you folks for a very, very long time. If you're looking for a boogeyman, it's not under your bed, it's not your neighbor, it's the guy that's giving you a 30% rate on your loan. That's the boogeyman. The documents also show that Epstein transferred about 38 million into Boothbay funds between 2014 and 2017 and received about 10 million in January 2017 from one of them. Boothbay was founded in 2011 and is run by investor Ari Glass. A spokesman for Boothbay said the fund had no relationship with Epstein beyond its limited partner interest and upon his 2019 arrest subjected him to a compulsory redemption. And, and if that's the case, you can't get too mad at Boothbay, right? They found out what he was and they dipped. That's how everybody should be conducting themselves. The problem is they didn't. The documents also confirm some of Epstein's transactions that have been previously reported with well known associates. Including tens of millions of dollars in transfers from private equity billionaire Leon Black, one of Epstein's financial clients. More than 20 million that Epstein invested in Valor Ventures, a VC firm anchored by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. And 25 million that Epstein received from the Rothschilds banking family. Oh, I can see the conspiracy people going nuts with that one. I'm sure I'm going to get some of those Illuminati emails now. And guess what? You're not wrong for being suspicious. Villar met Epstein just once in 2014 at a time when when he was a well known advisor to world leaders, a top university and philanthropic organizations, a spokesman said. And he was also child molester. Convicted, but sure, let's say that all the other people were friends with him, right? It's like when you were a kid, hey mom, Johnny's going to jump off a building. Well, you're not going. But Johnny's mom said I could. I'm not Johnny's mom. That kind of deal, right? For me, I don't care what anybody else is saying or doing. The fact that Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted child molester should be a full stop for everybody involved. But it wasn't. So here we are. Valor hopes that the eventual distribution of these investments can be put to positive use by helping victims move forward with their lives. The New York Times previously reported on Epstein's investment in Valor. Black has said that he paid Epstein estate planning and tax advice. In 2021, a law firm hired by the Apollo Global Management Board found that Black paid Epstein $158 million for work performed from 2012 to 2017. Now say it with me folks. He was already a child molester. No problem for Leon Black though. Let's piece this dude off. 158 million. The Journal previously reported that Ariane D. Rothschild negotiated a 25 million dollar consulting contract with Epstein in 2015 to provide services to the bank. Spokespeople for Black and Rothschild declined to comment. Of course they did, because it's all true. That's what we're left with, right? Oh, well, I'm not going to comment on it. I'm just going to hide. Okay, fine. I think it's all true then. The documents also reveal some payments to known Epstein associates that haven't previously been reported. Joy Ito $1 million. Epstein paid the former MIT Media Lab director about $1 million in 2014 and 2015 and received nearly 500,000 from him in 2015, the documents show. In April of 2015, Epstein also sent 1 million to Neoteny 3, an investment fund Ito created that year. Ito resigned from his MIT role in 2019, apologized for his association with Epstein and said he would return the money Epstein invested into the fund. Ito didn't respond to requests for comment. And that's exactly what I'm talking about. These people have had ample time to come forward and say, oh look, I looked at my books and I had more money from Epstein than I thought. But they don't do it, do they? They wait until they get called out and then of course it's, I had no idea. You know, I wasn't friends with them. I never took any money. Don't believe your eyes. Believe what I tell you, Terry. Rod Larson. 250G's Epstein transferred 250000 to the Norwegian diplomat in December of 2015, the documents show. Rod Larson resigned in 2020 from the International Peace Institute after he acknowledged he received 130 thousand dollar personal loan from Epstein in 2013. Imagine. 130 thousand dollar personal loan. Anybody out there want to hook your boy up? 130,000 dollar personal loan from someone you hardly know? Huh? Okay. A lawyer for Rod Larson said he had no comment. Alan Dershowitz, 85,000. On March 21, 2016, Epstein paid $85,000 to Alan Dershowitz, 20. Consulting. The attorney said it was an overdue payment from representing Epstein in the 2000s during his plea negotiations. He thought it was a terrible deal and he fired me, the lawyer said. All part of the plan, huh? All part of the COVID up. All right, Jeffy. I'll get you this deal, and then afterwards you fire me and it'll be that smokescreen we're looking for. From 2003 to 2013, Epstein paid 46 law firms and litigation related entities and. And among those the top paid was Dershowitz, who received $4 million during that period, court documents show. But I thought he fired you. I thought you weren't friends. Everything Dershowitz says about his relationship with Epstein I find questionable. Dershowitz said that he collected an hourly fee for his work on the 2008 plea deal and that he was Epstein's longest serving lawyer on the matter. He said that he used the sum in part to pay lawyers, researchers, travel, and other expenses over four years. I think I made about $3 million myself, he said. A cool 3 million, huh? Okay. Sultan Ahmed bin Suleim, 6,200 bucks. On July 18, 2017, the Dubai businessman paid Epstein $6,200, the document show, and a day later, Epstein paid Bin Suleiman the same amount. The longtime chief executive of DP World, a ports operator, was scheduled to visit Epstein's townhouse between 2011 and 2014, the Journal previously reported. The sultan and his spokesman didn't respond to requests for comment. Larry Summers, $1,232.25. In November of 2014, Epstein paid $1,232 and and 25 cents to LH Summers Economic Consulting, a spokeswoman said. Summers said the payment was a travel reimbursement for a group meeting in New York City. The former treasury secretary, who had more than a dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein from 2013 through 2016, said in 2023 that he deeply regrets his contact with Epstein after his conviction. Oh, I'm sure after the conviction, but previous, it was game on, huh? When you guys were all riding high on the hog with Bill Clinton, everything was great. But when you got outed, then it became the marathon. We have no idea. We weren't his friend. I never took anything from him. Meanwhile, the truth is right here in black and white for everybody to see. And once you see it, there's no going back. You can't pretend that it's not happening or that it didn't happen that these people that are in control of basically the world were not only palling around with this dude, but in a lot of cases, enabling them, and in some cases, even aiding and abetting. And some of them, unfortunately, were taking part in the abuse, according to survivors and witness reports. So for all the people out there that are always looking for these lists, why don't we start with the names that we have and then go from there? All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.