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Lesley Groff Grilled Over Epstein’s American Express Travel Records (6/30/26)
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Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant, was questioned by House Oversight lawmakers about Epstein’s use of American Express to book travel for multiple women or girls. CBS reported that Epstein used Amex’s Centurion travel service and a...
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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Now, I know this might come as a surprise to you, but Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell didn't operate this enterprise on their own. They had a lot of help along the way. And one of the people that was most integral to the operation, at least logistically speaking, was Leslie Groff. And one of the vehicles that was used to make these travel arrangements, to book these flights, to get these girls into a position where they can be abused was the American Express black card. And this is exactly why they never wanted to follow the money trail. They know if they follow the money trail, where it ends up and it doesn't end up in a place where you and I are moving on. Instead, if they were to release the money trail and we all saw where all this money was going, where it was coming from, I think that people would take to the streets. And I truly believe that because people are still under the impression that this was just a human trafficking ring. But it was so much more than that. And while of course, the girls and women who were harmed, they were harmed the most and they have the biggest grievance. But that doesn't mean that the rest of us haven't been shit on by these people and haven't been treated badly. And they continue to do it day after day, brazenly. Now, they at least had some shame back in the day and tried to hide their cover ups, but now they're just running one in plain sight, all the while just laughing in your face and giving you double middle fingers. And until we have a look at the financials, I don't think we're ever gonna know just how deep this went and just how many people were involved. So today we have an article from CBS News and the headline, epstein's longtime assistant grilled by U S lawmakers over Amex travel booked for women or girls. This article was authored by Emmett Lyons. U S Lawmakers recently grilled Jeffrey Epstein's longtime assistant, Leslie Groff about Epstein's use of American Express to book travel for multiple women or girls, according to a transcript of her hours long testimony released this week by the House Oversight Committee. And as soon as we wrap up with the Bill Gates transcript, we'll keep it moving right into the Leslie Groff transcript and we'll see what she had to say. But isn't it interesting that none of these people had any idea what was going on? Crazy. CBS News was first to report in February that the late convicted sex offender used Amex top tier Centurion travel service and an Amex black card to arrange hundreds of travel itineraries for women or girls, predominantly from Eastern Europe. And I think that's where the focus should be. I think that there is so much to uncover over in Europe, in South America, in Central America, and I think that if some of those pieces fall into place, maybe we'll get a better idea of just how vast this all was. But we're talking about what, 10, 12 countries at least. How many continents, how many women over the years? That's the real question. Groff, who worked for Epstein for nearly two decades, was a central point person in arranging the bookings with amex. Documents released by the Justice Department earlier this year indicated, yes, she was the go to woman. She was the logistical backbone of the operation when it comes to setting up travel arrangements, you know, doing Epstein's dayto day. And that puts her directly in the crosshairs of a RICO investigation. You see, if this was a real investigation from the start, they would have charged or threatened to charge Leslie Groff in order to get her to roll over on Jeffrey Epstein. But they never even talked to her. They never talked to Les Wexner, they never talked to Sarah Kellen Vickers. So I don't know how much more proof you need that the whole thing was a setup from the jump. And the fact that they never were going to chase RICO at all, it gives away the game. CBS News cannot verify the number of women or girls who receive travel bookings or their ages due to the redaction of names in the files released by the Department of Justice. Well, look, I don't know. I have no idea how many women, what their names were, where they originated from. But I can tell you this. There were literally, literally hundreds to thousands that were abused one way or the other. And if you think it was all by Jeffrey Epstein, congratulations, you're dumb. As in her sworn testimony to the House oversight committee on June 9, Groff said she did not believe she ever arranged travel for girls under the age of 18. According to the transcript released Tuesday, she said that her understanding was the bookings were being arranged for traveling assistance employed by Epstein. Oh, traveling assistance, huh? You don't find it weird that all of his traveling assistants are these younger women? You don't got one male assistant, dude. One guy that you know is part of the crew. It's a tell. Anytime you have one of these disgusting old scumbags that just surrounds themselves with young women, I have questions. And you can double that. When those people look like Jeffrey Epstein. What a goofy ass looking dude. So all the people that are out here talking about, oh, we had no idea. Yeah, all those young women, good looking young women, they decided they just wanted to hang out with Epstein because, you know, hell of a guy, real good guy, that Jeffrey Epstein. Groff denied being aware of any instance in which the purpose of travel was for Epstein or anyone in Epstein's network to engage in sexual activity with the women involved. Well, let's see the paper trail. Let's get some testimony. What are the names of the women? Let's track them down. Oh, wait. The Justice Department said there's nothing left to look at. She was pressed by the House Oversight Committee about whether decoy flights had been arranged for the purpose of obtaining visas for women or girls that were involved. As CBS News reported last month, AMEX had a dedicated relationship manager, Natalia Malatkova, assigned to Epstein's account. And emails in the files released by Justice Department appear to show she was arranging such flights at Grof's request to obtain visas for the women or girls. Immigration fraud, another aspect nobody's talking about. And I'm sure that'll change when they figure out a way to politicize that as well, because that's the only thing they care about. Politicizing this and trying to use it as some kind of weapon a against their enemy. Meanwhile, the whole lot of them are responsible. Every single person who's held office over the last, what, 40 years, you tell me you had no idea. Nobody could have stopped them. Nobody heard any rumors. Nobody decided to walk into justice one day and say, enough is enough. So please, save it. Some of us have been around since the very beginning and your distractions aren't going to work. And one 2016 email exchange, Grof wrote to Molotova, natasha, we need to find a flight that departs Rome and goes to London on the 29th. For this flight should depart around the same time the flights we are holding for redacted rome to Miami, 10:35am no return flights for this flight. This is the decoy flight. She will not really take it, but she needs to show an itinerary for this flight. Fraud, immigration fraud, all over the place. Being helped and propagated by American Express. And folks, if you think American Express is the only culprit in the financial sector, you're missing the whole entire boat. Because the truth is the financial sector, if you're looking for a boogeyman, there it is. No, no, not your local banker, not your, you know, teller down at Wells Fargo. The people that are at the very top. The people that are making money hand over fist no matter the situation. Banking on wars, both ends of it. Banking on tragedies both ends of it. Making off with everybody's wealth in the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom up in history since COVID But sure, let's continue to fight with each other because I'm sure that's what terrifies them. When everybody's at each other's throat arguing about dumb shit, these motherfuckers are able to continue with the heist, no repercussions, nobody ever going to prison, and they just move on to the next tragedy that they're gonna milk.
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Ahora Masco Lowe's. Ye vacada projekto al sigente niver. When asked whether the purpose of the flight was to obtain visa, Graf's attorney Michael Bauchner told the committee, with all due respect, there is no indication that it was to obtain a visa. This woman wanted to take a flight to visit Mr. Epstein. She did not want to tell her parents that she was going to take this flight. She wanted to keep the flight that was taking her to London and have a different flight though take her really to see Mr. Epstein, Groff told lawmakers I don't know why she didn't want to tell her parents, but this was not for a visa. Well, somebody that doesn't know much. Leslie Grof seems to know a whole hell of a lot, doesn't she? Well, this wasn't for a visa. Oh, it wasn't, was it? So you do know more than you let on. Leslie Grof needs to be hit with a subpoena. In a December 2012 email exchange, Grof wrote to Molokova, redacted, has an interview with the consulate at 10:30. She needs proof of a hotel stay and air for this meeting. Molotova asked Grof directly whether the woman needed a flight and accommodation reservation only for visa purposes. Yo, the amount of fraud that's going on here is staggering. How much more evidence is needed? It's against AMEX policy, to be honest, she wrote to Groff. But here's the option. Can hold it till tonight. Grof directed Malikova to cancel the fully refundable travel itinerary that was being held and signed off to Molokova. You've been great. A day after alleged consulate appointment took place, the files released by the justice appear to show in an exchange with House Oversight Committee Senior Council Britney Brignac, in which she was asked what the purpose of that particular booking was. Groff replied, I don't know. I think that this was an assistant of Mr. Epstein that wanted to get her visa. The only thing that I facilitated was getting her a ticket and a hotel room reservation. Cool. You're part of the conspiracy now. Now you're part of the RICO case. Now you're going to prison. It looks to me like she needed to get her visa and she was requesting it. And that's it. I was asked to get the ticket. I was dealing with Amex Centurion. That's it. You know, it's like in Game of Thrones when the Lannister boys were killed by Car Stark, and then they arrest everybody that killed them. And there's one guy that's standing there and he says, well, I didn't take part. I didn't kill anybody. I was only watching. And then Robb Stark goes, okay, well, this one was only watching. Hang him last. That's basically the same with Leslie Grof here, right? Well, it wasn't me. I wasn't taking part in the abuse. No, but if it wasn't for the logistics, the abuse couldn't occur. So that puts you smack dab in the middle of a criminal conspiracy. Plus, you were benefiting from it, and you were doing it to further the criminal conspiracy because it benefited you. This is a clear cut case and the fact that there's never been RICO is the biggest tell in history that Jeffrey Epstein was being protected from by the United States government. Not by Israel, not by Russia, not by green men, by our government right here in the United States. When challenged on whether this was an example of a decoy flight, Grof replied no. American Express declined to comment Friday on Grof's testimony and whether the company had carried out enough due diligence on Epstein's account. In February, an American Express spokesperson told CBS News the company strongly condemns abuse, exploitation and human trafficking. We take our legal and regulatory responsibilities seriously, including reporting suspicious activity. Yeah, nothing suspicious about a guy using his AMEX card to move hundreds of Eastern European women from whatever country they're in to America. Especially when that guy's already a sex offender. No big deal here, guys. We have regulations. We terminated his account following federal charges against him and we continuously update our process and controls. We regret having him as a customer, the spokesperson said. Notice it said after his federal charges. So that was in 2019. Again, just to point out that was the plan. Make sure it was state. Make sure it didn't hamper Jeffrey Epstein's ability to do what he was doing for insert government here. And in return for that protection, for him to do whatever he wanted. He played ball with the United States government and gave them information, whatever that information was. But if anyone thinks that American Express is the only financial outlet that was helping Epstein along the way, they're crazy. And if you're wondering why they don't want to follow the money trail, this is why. Because they can't control where it ends up. They can't control the blast radius and most importantly, they wouldn't be able to control the narrative. Alright folks, that's gonna do it for this one. 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