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How Jeffrey Epstein Allegedly Used Elite Financial Services to Move Women (5/13/26)
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Newly released emails and financial records show that Jeffrey Epstein’s office relied heavily on the ultra-exclusive American Express Centurion “Black Card” program to quietly arrange travel for dozens of women, many of them from Eastern Europe, while...
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what's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the epstein chronicles the criminal empire that was being run by jeffrey epstein had a lot of armor and a lot of protection and of course that's how he was able to do what he did for so long but that suit of armor that they wrapped themselves in has a weak spot and that weak spot has to do with the finances and that's because unlike witnesses the money trail never forgets and when it comes to epstein and what epstein was up to that's one of the areas that was never really explored which is crazy to think about considering just how much this guy was involved in clandestine business dealings and look it's not like the doj didn't know they had all the information we had plus more so when the doj acts like they didn't have the information or they had no idea what epstein was up to or or what epstein was they're lying but besides the doj i think the biggest culprit in this whole thing is the financial sector because without the financial sector there's no widespread human trafficking operation you have to have a bank that's willing to play ball right and when it comes to jeffrey epstein he had plenty of banks and other financial institutions the that were willing to do just that and one of those companies one of those financial institutions that was utilized by jeffrey epstein was none other than american express today's article was originally published in bloomberg but we're taking a look at it at watoday dot com headline epstein's black amex how he secretly moved women around with invite only credit cards this article was authored by max abelson peter guest and jeff kao jeffrey epstein's office set a rule for its special team inside american express spending on trips for young women and others had to be kept a secret even from his inner circle so people at american express were playing ball keep that in mind and then ask yourself how this is not a rico case i'll tell you what epstein's lucky his last name didn't end in a vowel because if he was italian he would have ended up underneath the prison i mean this case was made for rico after a flight confirmation went out to multiple people in twenty seventeen epstein's longtime assistant leslie groff who is not accused of any wrongdoing really okay sent a message to the relationship manager for his invite only black card officially known as centurion please help take all email addresses out of our account so the survivors should sue american express pretty simple every single institution that played a part that enabled jeffrey epstein with provable evidence backing that up should be held accountable just like jp morgan was just like deutsche bank was and just like bank of america was without these banks epstein cannot do what he did and that's not speculation that's not me thinking that that's the case that's the case she explained that jeffrey was livid because he's extremely private and doesn't want any flight confirmation sent out to anyone but me that's not true he wanted to make sure everything was locked in he wanted to make sure everything was hidden and in order for that to happen he had to limit the amount of prying eyes that were looking at these you know itineraries and the fact that american express would play ball with them it just tells you everything you need to know do you think american express would do the same for you for years epstein's office relied on american express to arrange trips not just for the disgraced financier who pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution but for dozens of women often eastern european his centurion relationship manager also booked and canceled trips that were never meant to be taken a move aimed at helping the women obtain visas according to emails released by the department of justice just right here alone we have two predicates of rico immigration fraud wire fraud and i'm sure a prosecutor out there could get way more creative and hit him with a bunch of other crimes as well the documents offer a window into the uppermost tier of consumer finance where the wealthiest clients are paired with dedicated handlers who anticipate needs and handle an array of requests in the centurion program reserved for american express biggest spenders relationship managers play highly personalized roles as travel agents problem solvers and door openers and now co conspirators because that's what you are don't tell me you had no idea what was going on they did they did it anyway and why because epstein had a bunch of money and that's really what it comes down to when you chop away all the fat for epstein the discretion and service that came with the card provided a ready made infrastructure for arranging travel for women more than a hundred of them have accused him of abuse and several have said they were flown by various means to epstein's properties in the us europe and the caribbean he was arrested on charges of sex trafficking in july of twenty nineteen and died in federal custody the next month well at least they said died here not killed himself it always cracks me up when they're definitively sure that epstein killed himself i love to see that evidence that was more than a decade after epstein pleaded guilty to sex offenses in a florida state court in two thousand eight in between his money and connections bought some of the most luxurious help the financial system has to offer sparing him from the struggles facing the millions of people who leave prison and jails each year well look epstein was never going to have money problems the money that was on the books that we know about that was only a portion of it do you really think a guy like jeffrey epstein didn't have money stashed in places that we have no idea about he most certainly did and as far as who has access to that stuff i don't know somebody does somebody knows where it is along with an array of billionaires lawyers executives advisers and co conspirators epstein used one of consumer capitalism's icons of exclusivity and excess to keep his machine moving the booking patterns and fake itineraries are the kind of requests that should have raised red flags said two experts in human trafficking who asked not to be named discussing legally sensitive matters why wouldn't they want to be named that's so weird you're not working for the company or whatever why don't you want your name out there but that said they're not wrong it should have raised a bunch of red flags and it didn't and the question is why who was ignoring it who was supposed to be monitoring it who was supposed to be reporting it and unfortunately we still don't have those answers and in my opinion that's by design an american express spokesperson said the company terminated epstein's account after the federal charges against him and regrets having him as a customer american express strongly condemns abuse exploitation and human trafficking the spokesperson said in a statement adding that the company continuously updates its process and controls we take our legal and regulatory responsibilities seriously including reporting and suspicious activity well not seriously enough if epstein was able to do what he did for as long as he did probably not a great flex to talk about how your regulatory system is so great seems to me that it's anything but epstein a cardholder since nineteen seventy seven was a lucrative customer at times he spent at a clip of more than one million per year statements show likely generating tens of thousands of dollars of fees for american express he had centurion from at least two thousand four according to the public files by two thousand six there were eight gold cards counting additional users and a platinum to go with it his account was up to three centurions in twenty twelve and as many as nine in twenty seventeen a message to prosecutors from american express after epstein's arrest in twenty nineteen tallied centurions a platinum golds a blue cash card and business cards including plum and gold one of his account centurion cards was in the name of selena dubin the daughter of his billionaire friend glenn and eva anderson dubin according to a twenty eighteen statement that's since been more fully redacted corinna schuliak epstein's girlfriend had a card with a sixty thousand dollars monthly spending limit and remember there's no allegations about ch abusing anybody or anything like that but i think she has a story to tell and i think that what she does know could be crucial she's the last person that epstein ever talked to allegedly on the phone so we should probably hear from her right i mean i would think that congress would want to hear what she has to say more than one hundred thousand of spending detailed on epstein centurion statement from june and december of twenty twenty twelve ranges from quotian to decadent a locksmith plumbing supplies cabs chocolate movie tickets match dot com vivian westwood and the ritzy manhattan restaurant per se in twenty eighteen he had eleven point two million reward points even after giving a million to an associate the spending on selena dubin's card included flights juice a cheese shop a delivery a fitness studio and eleven madison park hampton's pop up a representative for the dubins and a lawyer for schuliac both declined to comment well that's not shocking what do they have to gain by commenting at this point right that just opens the door for people to start asking more questions and if you haven't figured it out yet that's the last thing any of these people want the main contact at american express for epstein's office was natalia molokova a centurion relationship manager from russia according to her email she's based outside atlanta and had once worked at a visa agency in the city messages to molotova weren't returned american express declined to comment or to say whether she was still employed by the company or if not when she left well i have a good idea hit these mfers with a rico case more than a dozen american express colleagues helped arrange flights zigzagging moscow miami minsk new york st petersburg west palm beach warsaw and beyond groff was clear about who was in charge jeffrey now like the girls to depart tuesday november twenty second evening she wrote about one trip for another she requested an itinerary for girls which with price tags whatever that means and of course jeffrey was in charge talk about a slow served up pitch when it comes to a rico case and the government decides not to jump on it but sure let's charge diddy with rico the emails don't show groff explaining why many of the women were traveling though in several cases she said they were arranging trips to to obtain visas roth declined to answer questions for this story her lawyer said she never witnessed anything illegal no she just took part in logistics she just took part in bringing these girls to jeffrey epstein like for real that's like driving the getaway car after a robbery and somebody gets murdered and then you claim you had nothing to do with it homie you drove the car what are you even talking about right now grof asked to arrange a fully refundable trip for an eastern european model just before christmas of twenty twelve telling molotova to move fast so the woman could get an itinerary for an interview with the consulate grof told her to book anything for any hotel we don't care how much or what it's like explaining that the model was would alter the dates herself on the reservation to match the air she knows how to do it with word so this malikova was working with them she was their inside source at american express and in my opinion she should be investigated and if there's crimes here she should be charged molotova had a question and an offer does she need the reservation only only for the visa purpose it's against mx policy to be honest she wrote back but here is the option we can hold it till tonight after the scheduled appointment grof told molokova to cancel the trip she added you have been great molotova it appears was also willing to help when grof told her to find a flight just for show from rome to london around the same time as another from rome to miami this is a decoy flight epstein's assistant told her in january of twenty sixteen she will not really take it but needs to show an itinerary for this flight molokava center options that march when chuliak told grof she needed a quick trip reservation to bring to a visa appointment epstein's assistant simply forwarded the note to molokova it became routine in march of twenty eighteen molokova asked if she could cancel flights booked for a canadian visa so look this lady was right in the middle of all of it this is immigration fraud folks right here in real time the question is what's going to be done about it epstein's office also got help from more than ten american express support staff members half a dozen travel counselors and a colleague named kathy whom olakova considered great she helped with a flight that was reserved so one woman could get her visa and another trip that grof said was for the girls though she clarified that one was over twenty five other co workers helped epstein's office book flights for women from lithuania and russia according to public documents yeah big time lone predator huh one guy doing all this stuff anybody who's saying that is a liar and they shouldn't be listened to all kinds of companies aim to please important customers though holders of the black card are welcomed into one of the most special clubs in finance once they make it even if their lifestyles seem extraordinary relationship managers are there to enable not question according to one former american express employee who asked not to be named speaking about internal company matters it's not uncommon for centurion cardholders to use relationship managers as personal assistants the person said while relationship managers are trained on spotting risky or illegal behavior and have an obligation to report suspicious activity their job is to keep the client happy the person said for epstein's office privacy was paramount information on one trip went out further than it was supposed to in early twenty sixteen according to a note asking molokova to to investigate her response could be a glitch but that may a ticket for epstein himself was sent around too widely please can you make it stop grof told her only send tickets to me molotova apologized no problem grof answered but sometimes i don't want all these people to know about tickets on purchasing so really good to get this fixed yeah everything was secret everything was hidden and that's because she knew it was illegal i don't know how much more clear i need to be it happened again in september a year later a flight confirmation for someone else made its way to shuliak triggering the please help message one of the reasons for groff's alarm was for upcoming travel i'm petrified that all these tickets we have coming up this week from russia to paris will somehow resurface and get emailed to someone in the our list of emails she wrote i know you understand this is truly a gigantic issue yeah she understands all right cause she's part of it she understands because she's getting paid epstein was irritated she told molokova who offered to ease his mood with sixty thousand points we do value mister epstein's business molokova rotograph and your hard work the emails show a polite relationship between epstein's office and molotova or her american express colleagues the subjects range from oral surgery to kidney donation coffee the world cup dance competitions and vacations in russia and disney world i feel guilty when you have a complicated request and i'm not here molotova told grof at the end of twenty fifteen aww how cute isn't that nice and you know what's so crazy the fbi the doj the never investigated any of this i wonder why and when grof asked in twenty seventeen for a ticket for moscow to paris malikova wished her a happy international women's day and taught her its history and that phrase equivalent in russia it came from europe politically active women so say you're russian girls s eight marta they will know grof thanked her good to know and noted i work with plenty of russians yeah traffic girls women that have been stolen basically arranging the itineraries often required long exchanges in september of twenty eighteen they worked to arrange a trip for a woman in eastern europe after much back and forth grof asked if her office changed flights more than any of molokova's other clients yes molotova road but you still are the best most understanding and patient i love you look this lady she's part of the criminal enterprise i'm sorry but she is and in my opinion she should be investigated epstein remained a customer until his arrest from march through june twenty nineteen his account racked up more than two and a half million of spending much of it for a card connected to a business named for his private island five days after epstein was taken into custody by federal agents american express travel sent an itinerary to shuliac for a business class flight from new york to warsaw and then on to minsk enjoy your trip it said folks this is exactly what i've been telling you about the financial sector and the fact that there has never been a real investigation into the financial side of this is just crazy and with senator wyden trying to go after the money trail i wonder if this is going to pop up so we'll keep an eye on this and we'll see what comes of it but i think it really proves the point about what epstein was up to and just how vast this network really was and why all the talk about a lone predator is nothing but nonsense all the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box