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Mega Edition: A First Hand Account Of How Authorities In Florida Fumbled The Epstein Rock (5/15/26)
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Lilly Ann Sanchez played a legally significant but deeply controversial role in the Epstein saga: she was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys and signed key documents related to his immunity deal. In particular, she is listed as attorney for Epstein in...
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what's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this look Back episode, we're going to hear from former Police Chief Michael Ryder of the Palm Beach Police Department. This article was published by NBC News and it was published on September 20th of 2019. The authors of this piece, Sarah Fitzpatrick and Rich Shapiro. Former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Ryder spent years trying to convince state and federal prosecutors in Florida to bring serious charges against Jeffrey Epstein. Now the retired lawman wants to tackle a new mission to persuade lawmakers to take action to prevent the next Jeffrey Epstein from perverting the criminal justice system. Now, Michael Ryder was one of the only good guys, if there were any good guys, if you will, in the whole entire Epstein saga. This guy listened to what these girls said, compiled a whole bunch of evidence, and then turned that evidence over to the prosecutors. Now once the prosecutors have that evidence, it's up to them to do the right thing with it. Right? It's up to them to make sure that they get indictments. And then after they get the indictment, it's up to them to make sure that these people are convicted. So they failed the prosecutors in Florida, failed the police officers in Palm beach who worked this case originally. They did great work. The investigators were all over this. They compiled all kinds of evidence. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, it was the prosecutors once again who decided not to pursue it. Epstein found every loophole. Rider told NBC News as part of a months long Dateline investigation. I want some system in the future that this can't happen again. He's not wrong. One of the ongoing conversations we've had about these people, all of them is how they navigate loopholes, how they navigate technicalities, and somehow harness them always to work in their favor. Now I guess that's what they were put into these laws for in the first place, right? So the rich people can navigate them and not get in trouble when they're the ones who get slapped with them. Like we said previously several times, it's like when you have a computer programmer who creates software, they leave themselves a little back door so they can access it, right? Same thing here. They know that the small folk us are going to be the ones who have to live up to these laws, not them, not their friends. Ryder said he believes the state and federal prosecutors handling of the Epstein case amounts to the worst failure of the criminal justice system and in modern times. Look, he's not wrong. It's the reason we're still talking about this right now. It's that impactful, it's that important about how the, the, the criminal justice system is conducted moving forward. We need something that provides equitable law for everybody. If you're a girl from the quote unquote other side of the tracks and you say you were abused by a rich and powerful man and there's evidence to back that up, you should be listened to. And for way too long these guys had all of their loopholes, all of their technicalities and they were able to navigate the criminal justice system by using those and harnessing the relationships that they built with the other so called elite. And it amounted to get out of jail free cards. The story begins in March of 2005 when the Palm Beach Police Department received a call from the distraught mother of a 14 year old girl. Now imagine being the cop on the other of the other end of that phone call. Yeah, this is the Palm Beach Police Department, Sergeant Stanton speaking. Oh my God. My daughter has been abused by. Okay, hold on ma', am, slow down. And then you start processing the details and the name that's being dropped and all of a sudden, you know, right away you have yourself a big problem. Because when rich people are accused of stuff like this, they automatically strike back and there's, you know, problems for the people who bring this stuff up. So I'm sure the cops weren't too happy to hear the name Jeffrey Epstein. But what I will say about the Palm Beach Police Department, they didn't shy away from it. They did their job, they did their duty. The woman Ryder recalled said her underage daughter was having sex with an adult who lives in a mansion in Palm Beach. Palm beach police detectives immediately launched an Investigation, Yeah, that's probably the right thing to do. You got some guy living in a mansion and he's having a relationship with a 14 year old girl. It probably a good idea to launch an investigation. And I don't care who that person is in the mansion, I don't care if it is the most famous person in the world. You can't be abusing children. Okay, so the Palm Beach Police Department, they started going hard. And if you know the story well, you know that they really were kicking in some doors and asking some very uncomfortable questions. Do you think it's just a shock, just a coincidence that this got kicked away to the feds and then back down to the state level? They wanted it to look like, ah, yeah, we're going to take action, we're going to kick it up to the feds. But really they never had any intention of the feds prosecuting this case. They said this is credible, this is believable, said Ryder, speaking in his first in depth TV interview. Our sense just from sitting in the room with the first survivor was that this is something we've absolutely got to get on. So right from jump street, the Palm Beach Police Department knew that this was something way bigger. And Michael Ryder, the chief here, he didn't spare any expenses, right? He, he was all over this. He had his investigators looking into it, chasing down leads and what they uncovered. What they found was terrifying. The interview with the initial young girl led to another and another. I have no problem telling you everything that I know, one of the girls told the police in a videotaped interview obtained by NBC News. Another told police that Epstein pulled out this vibrator thing and he pulled down my panties. Now remember, they only listened to had one girl speak in front of the grand jury. Why, if all of these girls came forward with all of these credible allegations, why only have the one girl speak in front of the grand jury? That does not make sense. The investigators were immediately struck by the consistency of the accounts. Raider writer said the stories were all the same. He said they all could describe the house in detail. They could describe what happened and they didn't know each other. It wasn't like all these girls got together and said, all right, we're gonna take down Jeffrey Epstein, the guy who lives in the mansion down the block. Nobody even knew who Epstein really was at this point. He wasn't a celebrity. So that whole line of thinking has always been garbage to me. These were just young kids, high school kids, younger in some cases. But the detectives also observed that the Accounts weren't perfectly aligned. That would have been a red flag that the stories were coordinate, were coordinated, writers said. The investigators also noting noted something else of significance. Many of the survivors didn't know each other, so there was little chance that they would have come together to concoct false allegations. And that, of course, was the bedrock of Epstein's defense. Right? This is all fake.
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I'm like a piggy bank, blah, blah, blah, blah. Within those first few weeks, the investigation was already bearing fruit. We realized this was basically a way of life for Epstein, Ryder said. And it didn't take long to realize that a lot of people were involved in this. And this was a very prolific sexual predator. Now listen to what the, the chief of police is saying here, okay? And this is what I always tell you to do. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to Joe Schmo who has the other podcast. Listen to what these policemen say. Listen to what these investigators say. Listen to what the survivors say. There were a lot of people that were involved in this. This was a very prolific sexual predator. This, that's not someone making up a story. That's not some guy who just got involved in the case yesterday. That's Michael Ryder, the man who investigated this as the police chief in Palm beach who blew this open. He even knows how much more and how deeper this goes. Detectives picked through Epstein's trash and discovered incriminating messages on scraps of paper documenting phone calls. She is wondering if 2:30 is okay. She needs to stay in school. Red one. Imagine. And whoever took that note down is another piece of shit. What do you mean she needs to stay in school? Why are any school age girls calling Jeffrey Epstein in the first place? The note, it was clear to police were about massages and sex, Ryder said. And it, it just wasn't phone messages. Ryder said Epstein had flowers delivered to one of the survivors who was in a performance, a performance at her high school, congratulating her at the end of the performance. Now imagine how brazen you must be. This high school age girl that you're sexually abusing, she has this high school performance and you send her flowers. Now I know if I was the dad of that girl, there would be problems, conversations would be had. This dirty son of a was so brazen in his behavior, so brazen in his activity, that he would send flowers to a girl after her performance. NBC News has spoken with nearly two dozen women who allege that Epstein didn't operate alone. Ryder said the investigation identified adult women who had sexual contact with underage girls and in some cases performed sexual battery on children. This was a financially successful, smart, capable, well networked and well financed individual who built an organization organization around him that supported his criminal enterprise, ryder said. Now if you're wondering why I always talk about RICO and how this isn't a RICO case, folks, what more do you need? I mean, honestly and again, this is another reason why I've chosen the format that I have chosen to follow along with these articles. That way everything is uniformed. It's not me making this stuff up right? Or oh, this is just a guess by me. This is from curating all of these articles and following all of this evidence and listening to what the key players had to say. For me, survivors, lawyers and the law enforcement agents on the ground. Not the jerk offs in the back room, not the Acostas of the world, guys like Michael Ryder. And when you listen to what they have to say, it is rather obvious that this was a criminal enterprise that should have been ricoed and everybody involved should have seen a prison cell. But as the months wore on with police building their case, odd things began to happen when detectives armed with a search warrant entered his home with a video camera, what they found made them suspect he had been tipped off. The place had been cleaned up, Ryder said it wasn't completely devoid of evidence, but a computer that contained all of the home surveillance camera footage was gone and all the wires were left hanging there, Ryder said. So they did a dump and pump, came in, ripped everything out real quick, all of the monitoring equipment because somebody in the government tipped them off. One of their buddies. But nah, Jeffrey Epstein wasn't connected. He wasn't an asset. After six months of investigation, Ryder said the local police department noticed a shift in attitude from the state prosecutors. Ryder said the prosecutors told him the witnesses were not credible. The prosecutors, rider said, suddenly seemed dismissive of the case and were uncooperative in approving critical investigative techniques that hindered the Palm Beach Police Department's investigation. No shit. No shit. They were. These guys were working behind the scenes with Epstein's lawyers to make sure this went nowhere. Or at the very least make sure Epstein got just a little smack on the ass. No real jail time. 13 months in a stockade? Are you kidding me right now? I've had punishments from my parents that were worse than that. Epstein, who had a massive bankroll and extensive connections, had assembled a high powered team of lawyers, including Kenneth Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Jack Goldberger and Jay Lefkowitz. Around this time, Ryder said, the investigation took another strange turn. Epstein's defense team seemed to know details about the probe before they were made public. Whoa, what do you know? Just take your pick from Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Jack Goldberger, or Jay Lefkowitz about who could have manipulated their influence, their relationships behind the scenes to turn it into something like this. Folks, we talk about it all the time. When you go to Harvard and you get your law degree and then you're practicing law and people aren't really paying you because you went to Harvard per se, they're paying you because now you have access to all of the other scoundrels who went to Harvard. So you have inside connections. You have access, and that's what you're paying for. When you get a high profile lawyer, your lawyers are going out to eat and dinner and who knows what else with these prosecutors down here in Florida, at least and at the federal level, when we're talking about Mukazi and the others, and then we wonder why Epstein doesn't get punished like the rest of us would. How many of you gotten an invite to go play around the 18 with insert federal official here? We believe that the content of our probable cause affidavit eventually, sometime after we presented it to the state's attorney's office, ended up with the defense attorneys, Ryder said, because minute details that nobody else knew that were in those documents were being refuted and contrary information provided by the defense. This rider said, never happened to me before in my career. And this is a guy again, he's in Palm beach dealing with rich, powerful people. Never in his life has he dealt with something like this, however. But no, continue to tell me that Epstein wasn't getting hooked up, that nobody was there helping him make sure that the walls don't fall in, and then tell me that this wasn't a RICO case. Ryder was so frustrated that he took the unusual step of asking the state attorney, Barry Krisher, to remove himself from the case, citing the office. Highly unusual treatment of the investigation. When that didn't work, the police chief turned his evidence over to the FBI. And you would think, right, The G Men are coming. This is awesome. All right, perfect. The FBI, they're going to save the day. And look, don't get it twisted again, folks. I'm not talking about your average agent that's working his tail off or her tail off to try and keep us safe. There's a lot of those people that are going after some horrible fucking criminals. My problem isn't with them. My problem is with the command structure, the bureaucracy that runs this whole entire monolith. They look at us like we're just numbers, like we don't matter. And as far as, you know, the citizens of this country, and they feel like they've been given the, the charter to do as they wish. And how many times do we see good agents like, or good cops, in this instance like Mike, Mike Ryder get screwed by prosecutors and these federal minions at the Department of Justice? Those are the people I have a problem with, not the rank and file. And they said, this is an easy case. This is a horrific situation. We'll put him away for the rest of his life. Ryder recalled. That's what the U.S. attorney, Assistant U.S. attorney told us as well. But Ryder's renewed enthusiasm didn't last long. In time, it became clear that the federal probe was stalling. Though he believes the FBI agents were invested in the case, Ryder arranged to meet face to face with the prosecutor in charge of the case, US Attorney Alex I have no spine. Bitch ass Acosta. Acosta would go on to be named U.S. labor Secretary under President Donald Trump. Another brilliant move by old Trumpy, huh? Alex Acosta. I mean, you don't have this conversation with him and then even if you do, you still go through with it. There's not a better person in the whole entire country that could have been Labor Secretary, huh? But I have to say this. I'm thankful that Trump, in a weird way, put him there. Because if Alex Acosta wasn't in this position and there weren't, you know, a bit of politicism happening around this, we probably would have never had the second arrest of Epstein, because would Julie Brown really been as interested if this didn't have the political bend to it, if it wasn't a Trump appointee? A, again, maybe, I don't know. I'm, I, I, we, we, we can't tell one way or the other. The, the, the future was what it was. But I have a funny feeling that if it wasn't for Trump appointing Alex Acosta as Labor Secretary in a weird way, we would have never been at the point we are now. The Conversation writer said did not get off to a promising start. He basically said in a very measured manner that the defense in the case has successfully delayed and frustrated their investigation and their prosecution of the case. Ryder said. So when's the last time the federal government has been frustrated and had their case delayed? Zero chance. It doesn't happen unless they want it to happen. But Ryder left Acosta's office hoping for the best. And after the prosecutor told him they were moving forward with the investigation, I left that meeting thinking this guy hopefully is going to do his job, ryder said. It didn't turn out the way Ryder had hoped. In 2007, Acosta made the decision not to charge Epstein in federal court. Instead, he sent the case back to the local prosecutors. Now again, I don't think this was Acosta on his own. You can't make this decision. And as a mid level bureaucrat, this was a decision that was made on high and Acosta was just the trigger man. Ryder was crushed. The same office that seemingly refused to pursue Epstein aggressively was now back in charge. And again, you could say, oh this is a coincidence. It's just, you know, the way things happen sometimes. But there sure are a lot of coincidences a around Jeffrey Epstein isn't there. The cameras, the missing emails, all of this nonsense. At what point is it not coincidence and is it just what it is? Acosta agreed to sign a non prosecution deal that ended the federal sex crimes investigation and spared Epstein the prospect of serving several years in prison. Instead, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges for soliciting a minor for prostitution and served 13 months at Palm Beach County Jail. Epstein was also required to register as a sex offender and pay his restitution to his survivors. Eh, didn't have to register in New Mexico, huh? I've never seen anything like it, ryder said. It was extremely unusual and disappointing. Ryder said he believes the result would have been different had the victims been underage boys. That would have shocked the census more. Ryder said somehow this hits in a different place, that they were young women on the way to being women and he's not really wrong about that. How many people have set these girls up as prostitutes or why do they keep coming back the brain dead narrative that they wanted this to happen. You know the same folks that will say, oh well she was wearing a miniskirt. So way more nuanced than that. When you have all of the different things that went in to grooming these girls and normalizing all of this, it's a whole different ball game. But he's not wrong. Boys would have really shocked the emotions and shocked the senses. Epstein was released from jail in the summer of 2009, the case seen behind him until 2018 when when the Miami Herald published an expose highlighting the government's kid glove treating of a man accused of preying on dozens of underage girls, Acosta defended the way his office handled what he described as a complicated case we believe we proceeded appropriately, acosta said during a July 2019 press conference. We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail. So you mean to tell me the federal government couldn't have done that? You, if you really wanted to see, and again, let me back up, you might want to see him go to jail. We want to see him go to prison. Okay. And you not running the federal charges, you and your bosses taking the step back that made sure that Epstein was never going to federal prison. But Acosta resigned as li oh, excuse me. Acosta defended the way his office handled what he described as a complicated case. We believed we proceeded appropriately, acosta said during a July 2019 press conference. We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail. But Acosta resigned as labor secretary two days later amid mounting criticism. Krisher, the former state attorney, didn't return a request for comment from MDC News, but he released a statement in July defending his office and pushing back against Acosta, suggesting that state prosecutors were driving the case. Nobody wants to take responsibility ever, right? It's always somebody else's fault. It's always someone else who did something wrong. In reality, the feds up and the state up. If Mr. Acosta was truly concerned with the state's case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved Forward with the 53 page indictment that his own office once drafted, Krisher said. Epstein was arrested on fresh charges in July. New York federal prosecutors charged him with sex trafficking and conspiracy in a case that featured similar allegations to those a decade earlier. Never far enough, right? How, again, how isn't this rico, considering not what I said to you, but what Michael Ryder laid out to you just previously in this article? Epstein pleaded not guilty, but he committed suicide in his federal jail cell last month. The death left Ryder thinking about the survivors and their lost chance to see him held accountable. I feel so badly for the survivors, ryder said. I realize that there's a catharsis in confronting Epstein and they'll never have that opportunity. Buddy hopes that the entirety of the case will lead to systemic change. The criminal justice system needs to learn from this and make sure it can't happen again, said Ryder, who still lives in Palm beach, where he runs a security consulting firm. Ryder wants to see legislation that bars minors from being labeled as prostitutes in the justice system. He also called on Florida lawmakers to close loopholes that allow people like Epstein to get away with misdemeanors for child sex crimes. I mean, is he wrong? Does a Does a, a cop, a former cop, have to call for this? Why wouldn't our politicians, the ones who make the laws, do it, do it themselves? Oh, they're the ones who put this law on the books. Oh, that's right. If you look at the first dozen victims and their accounts of what happened to them, it's clear to me he was coached by a lawyer on how to only commit a misdemeanor. Ryder said, if you're a member of the legislature and, and you're listening to this right now, fix this. It needs to be fixed. And I'm guessing that lawyer, I don't have proof of this, but I'm guessing it was Darren Indyke. Ryder also delivered a message to all of those girls whose lives were upended by a middle aged sexual predator with endless resources available to him. I don't have any contact with the survivors and if they're listening now, I'm embarrassed for the way the criminal justice system treated them back then in Florida, Ryder said. But I want them to know that not every part of the system failed them. We did our job in Palm beach and at the Palm Beach Police Department and everything that happens here should lead to in the future if any of these things happen again to some other victim, that the system won't fail them. And I'd like to believe that, but man, I have a hard time believing it. Folks. I am very cynical about our justice system and as you all know, and the more I see, the more cynical I become. So while I hope that Michael Riders plea will find its way to the ears of our legislators, for some reason I still have my doubts. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U c c I@protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter at bo b b y underscore Capuci. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the Jeffrey Epstein Show. I'm your host Bobby Capucci and this is a morning update. We're going to talk a little bit more about the report that the prosecutors showed to the survivors on Thursday. And coming out of that report we have another bit of information that is absolutely ridiculous. And it just goes to show that the Department of Justice itself is a shit show. These people, they don't, they don't give a about anything. All they care about is increasing their power and pushing whatever sort of political narrative that their bosses inject in Their stupid heads. We have a report that one of Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys dated one of the prosecutors in the trial. So how in the world can anyone look at this and think that these gals got a fair shake? The survivors got absolutely screwed by the prosecutors in Florida and the federal prosecutors as a whole. And now let's remember what we're talking about here in the first case. We're talking about young high school girls from Palm beach mostly. And this scumbag was able to just walk and skate and get off. And you mean to tell me that we're just supposed to ignore all of his connections? We're supposed to ignore all of the relationships that his lawyers have had, no pun intended. And we're just supposed to ignore the fact that he was so close to such a power broker like Bill Clinton. Now, remember, we're talking about 2008 still. Bill Clinton was still a big time power player on the scene, and Hillary Clinton was getting ready to have a job in Barack Obama's administration. These are very, very powerful people that were close to Jeffrey Epstein. And at every turn, he was able to gain the system and he was able to be afforded a certain set of rights and favors that normal people would never, ever, ever, ever be afforded if they were caught up in the same circumstances. And the new information here about one of his attorneys dating a prosecutor is just. It's just more nonsense. To add to the top of the nonsense mountain, how in the hell is a prosecutor who dated one of his attorneys not recused from the case? How is this person even still working on the case? And how does the Department of Justice find in their shitty internal review that just a couple of mistakes were made? Now, I don't think the Department of Justice expected the. The outcry over their information that they released.
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I don't think that they expected there to be this much of a blowback. But what they need to understand is people have had enough. And we're no longer going to just sit by silently while the Department of Justice drags its feet and does not pursue the people that need to be pursued. We'll be here every single day. We'll be talking about it. We'll be raising hell. And they're not going to be able to ignore us. One voice, sure.
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Millions of us.
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Impossibility. So we just have to keep the pressure on and we have to keep asking these kinds of questions. How the hell is a prosecutor who is supposedly going after Jeffrey Epstein, how is he not recusing himself or being replaced by his superiors, knowing that he had a relationship with one of Epstein's lawyers. It is ridiculous that this guy was not recused. All right, so our article today is from the New York Post headline, Epstein's attorney dated the prosecutor in trial where he got a sweetheart deal. I mean, how is that not
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upon by the Department of Justice as something that is just unbelievably unacceptable? You can't have this guy as one of the prosecutors while at the same time dating one of Epstein's lawyers. There's no.
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What do you think?
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There's no conflict of interest there. How do we know that this dude isn't throwing sweetheart deals? Many of men have fallen under the spell of a beautiful woman. This article was posted. Excuse me, authored by Paula Frolique. It was a sweetheart deal that has baffled the world. How in 2008, Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser felony prostitution charge, register as a sex offender, and serve just 13 months in a county jail where he could come and go during the day despite several underage survivors testifying he raped them.
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So right off the bat, you say
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to yourself, what in the hell? This guy scored this sweetheart deal while at the same time one of the prosecutors was dating one of his attorneys.
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Right on the.
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Right off the bat, that looks bad. And that's before you even add in all of the other stuff, right? So again, all these little nuggets, all these little pieces of information, all of these little puzzle pieces, when they're fitted together, they start. They start to draw a much darker picture than if we were just looking at these things as one offs, right?
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Every.
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Look, one offs happen in shit, in cases, right? Every now and then there's a coincidence. But this case is littered with all sorts of shit that is just completely and utterly backwards. The Department of Justice has been almost complicit in all of this, in my opinion. And there needs to be some repercussions for people who are involved. I have. I'm very. I'm very strong in that belief. It's now been revealed that one of Epstein's defense attorneys previously dated one of the top prosecutors on the deal. I don't even. Honestly, I don't even know what to say about that right now. It's just so. It's. It's so sad, I guess I should say, that the Department of Justice has sat on this information for 10 years. They've known this stuff for 10 years, and it's just coming out now. They're an embarrassment. And Bill Barr is the biggest embarrassment of all. I know A lot of you out there listening are, you know, under the impression that Bill Barr is pursuing people on behalf of justice, and that is not the case. Bill Barr is a political hack. He's a retread. He's been in Washington, D.C. forever. He is exactly what Trump was talking about when he talked about swamp monsters. But yet somehow, Trump brings bar in. It's all a shell game. I don't trust any of these people. The last politician I trusted was Ron Paul. Lilian Sanchez was a member of Epstein's defense team in 2008 when he was facing a potential federal indictment and life imprisonment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between 1999 and 2007. I mean, I know it's an uncomfortable, uncomfortable question to ask and all, but did this relationship have any sway on
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what Mr. Menshell did?
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Did it have any. Were there any. Was there any pressure by Ms. Sanchez to get a favorable deal for her client? Look, we know that stuff like that occurs. We know that people like Menshell who get caught up in a relationship with a beautiful young woman can easily be manipulated. Now, again, I'm not saying that occurred. I don't know. I wasn't there. I wasn't hanging out with them while they were talking about, you know, whatever it is they're talking about. But I think that when you look at everything that went on in this case, there are so many unanswered questions that we can't leave any avenue unexplored. Sanchez had also dated Matthew Menshell, one of the prosecutors who worked on the plea deal.
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So this.
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This Ms. Sanchez has quite the bit of dating going on in her realm of work. Me, personally, yeah, I don't think it's a good idea to be dipping the old pen in Co. Inc. If you get my drift. And that's in any sort of situation, never mind a job like this where you. You're dealing with serious, serious matters. We're dealing with Jeffrey Epstein, for Lord's sake. And this lady, who is one of his attorneys, is having an affair with a prosecutor and someone involved in the plea deal. How many people is this lady having an affair with? Is it all a coincidence, or was she targeting these people?
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The romance came to light after the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility, opr, issued a report this week slamming the Florida prosecutors for poor judgment and the Pedo Pervs deal. Poor judgment is absolutely a understatement. Okay? Poor judgment. This was dereliction of duty. I got your poor judgment. As Tony Soprano would say. I got your Poor judgment right here in my ass. I mean, are you kidding me right now? Sanchez and Manchel dated in 2003 when they were both employed at the Southern District of Florida's U.S. attorney's office. They later broke up, but never disclosed the relationship while both worked on the Epstein deal. Bam. Right there. That alone should get the deal thrown out. Folks, I'm telling you right now, with all of this stuff that's coming out, the 11th Circuit Court, Circuit appeals court is going to have a field day with this shit. I said earlier that I thought it was a better than good chance that the non prosecution agreement agreement gets overturned. I. I'm accelerating that. I'm saying it's, it's a very good chance at this point because the 11th Circuit Circuit Court of Appeals is going to see all of this information too. They're going to have everything in front of them and they're going to make their decision based on everything that has been presented to them and everything that could be found by their clerks or whatever the hell they have going on. But the point is, this is really bad for the prosecutor's office. And while they might not face sanctions by the Department of Justice, I have a funny feeling the 11th Circuit is going to come down hard with an iron fist on these people. The report says Manel had left the office before the Epstein case was resolved. Menshel told Justice Department investigators during the probe that his relationship with Sanchez had had no impact on his handling of the case.
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Oh yeah, I'm sure had no handling at all.
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You're just. You could never fall to the charms of a woman, huh, Mr. Menschel? You're just better than the rest of us, obviously. Give me a break. We all know that Jeffrey Epstein was running a honey trap. This could have just been another portion of that honey trap. Another way to pierce the veil and get somebody on the inside. What? Where? We don't think that, that Epstein and his people are that devious. Come on, folks. This is exactly what they do. This is in their wheelhouse. So Mr. Menshell here, he should be brought under oath and he should have to talk about what occurred because I have a sneaking suspicion that he has not been too forthright about his tryst with Ms. Sanchez here. Letting a well connected billionaire get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn't poor judgment. It is a disgusting failure. Senator Ben Sasse said in a statement released on Thursday. Americans ought to be enraged. Epstein should be rotting behind bars today. But the just U.S. department failed Epstein survivors at every turn. Well, Mr. Sass, I'm here to report to you, sir.
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The Americans are enraged, and guess what? You're in a position to do something about it. So do you want to become a hero in this story? Do you want to become somebody that both sides of the aisle can look up to, like the old days when we actually. We actually had a political system that worked. If that's who you want to be, Mr. Sasse, now's the time. Step forward, demand hearings, and demand that these people be brought to justice. Epstein was found hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional center in Manhattan last August while awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges. You see how the Post doesn't say, oh, he committed suicide. And if you notice, certain outlets don't come out and say, well, he committed suicide. They'll say, found hanging in his cell or found dead in his cell. And I think that that is good quality journalism because at the end of the day, we don't know what happened in that cell. So to assert that he definitely hung himself or to assert that he was definitely murdered, we just don't have all of those details yet. But it is something that needs to be discussed, obviously. Now, I think that Ben Sasse getting sassy about all of this is a definite good thing. It's a step in the right direction, but they need to be more forceful about it. The Congress, the Senate, they need to come out and they need to take a stand against this shit and let people like Epstein and those who were running this operation behind the scenes, those who were working with Epstein and those who were financing Epstein, that this shit is never going to happen again in this country. And if you took part in this, if you enabled this, if you were involved with Jeffrey Epstein financially, then you are in the crosshairs as well. That is a message that needs to be sent. It needs to be sent strongly and it needs to be sent now. If you'd like to contact me, you could do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U c c I@protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter, Bobby Capucci.
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