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Mega Edition: How Deutsche Bank Avoided An Epstein Related Trial (6/19/26)
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Deutsche Bank avoided an Epstein-related trial by agreeing in 2023 to pay $75 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of women who said Epstein abused or trafficked them. The plaintiffs alleged that the bank knowingly...
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In news that should come as a shock to nobody, Deutsche bank has been smacked with $150 million penalty for their ties to Jeffrey Epstein. If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, then you know that I have been railing about the financial crimes in this case and I believe that the financial crimes in this case will be the crimes that bring the enablers down. All of their finances are tied up. Everybody Jeffrey Epstein was sending money to or receiving money from or anybody in the organization, well that is all dirty money. And if you receive that money, well, you are now part of this conspiracy and that is how these financial crimes are investigated and that's how they're prosecuted. So at the end of the day, all of these enablers that we're always talking about that were hangers on, you know, people that were receiving money for at from Epstein, you know, going to his parties, had business dealings with them. Not the ones that were engaging in the actual trafficking or the facilitating of the trafficking, but the enablers. The other tier I'm always talking about, those are the people that seen this news today that Deutsche bank got hit with $150 million slap. And those are the people that are panicking because remember when you follow the money you usually end up at a politician. And that's what's happening here it looks like. You know, I've been talking about forensic accountants as well and it certainly seems that there is something going on behind the scenes with where they are starting to trace down these These, these money, these transactions, where they, where they came from and where they went, it is all a huge part of this. And I know for a fact right now that all of these enablers that were involved with Epstein, people like Jess Staley, Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, all of these people that were involved with him financially are really, really not having a good day today. Because this is a big deal. This is a predicate to rico, right? And I don't mean RICO as far as the child trafficking portion of this. I'm talking about financial RICO crimes. These are the crimes that they end up taking down all the Mafioso on, right? Oh, they'll charge him with with murder and conspiracy to commit murder, but they usually end up nailing them on financial crimes. And that's what's going to happen to these, these enablers if this investigation is carried out the correct way. Now, we all know that I'm skeptical of the federal government and I am skeptical of the way they've conducted themselves from the very beginning. I will remain skeptical. But what I am seeing here, like I said a few weeks ago before Maxwell was arrested, remember everybody else was talking about how Maxwell's not going to get arrested, we're not going to get justice, she's in Paris, she has extradition protection, blah, blah, blah, blah. Negative. We are four months away from an election. There is immense pressure on the SDNY to do the right thing in this case. And I'll tell you this much right now, everybody should be scared because we have no idea what the future holds in this country as far as elections go. Right. It could be a whole different ball game in four months. But as of right now, I'm seeing signs that this investigation is actually coming to life, that this investigation is starting to follow the money. And when that occurs and the money is truly followed, you always end up in the office of some scumbag politician who is running some sort of scumbag scheme which inevitably is no good for anybody but them and their few friends. Today's article is from cnbc.com and the headline is Deutsche bank hit with 150 million dollar penalty for relationship to sex offender pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored by Dan Mangan and Jim Forkin. New York State financial regulators said Tuesday that they have slapped Deutsche bank with 150 million dollar penalty for significant compliance failures in the bank's dealings with the accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a now dead investor, as well as with two client banks. Folks, this is, this is such bad news for them. But Such good news for the investigation and for the survivors legal teams. If you don't think that the survivors legal teams are digging into this and looking for every single angle to make sure that every single bit of punishment is dropped on the heads of these people, you are wrong. Now, I don't have any inside information about that, right. Like I don't talk to the lawyers or anything, but you would think, by the way, that they've conducted themselves throughout this whole entire ordeal, how they've had all of their ducks in a row and how everything has been very targeted, that they're certainly keeping a very good eye on this. And this, this kind of ruling most certainly will trickle into the actual criminal portion of this case. The New York State Department of Financial Services said that Deutsche bank, which agreed to the payment under a consent order, failed to property properly monitor account activity conducted on behalf of the registered sex offender, despite ample public information against about Mr. Epstein's earlier criminal conduct. And now remember, previously I talked a lot about regulations, right? Title 31, I talked about SARS. I talked about a little about a little bit about Title 18 and how all of these things are tools that are used by investigators for financial crimes. And it's obvious to anyone paying attention that Deutsche bank was not hitting this guy with suspicious activity requests reports nowhere near at the pace they should have been. Now there might have been one or two that were filed by regulators that might not have been in the know, like as a mistake or something. But we know that Deutsche bank and JP Morgan weren't keeping things up to date in the FinCEN database.
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They're being told that they were facilitating this, they were involved in this. And I don't think 150 million, while it's a good slap in the mouth, I don't think it's good enough. Furthermore, I think that 150 million should not go to the State of New York. That 150 million should be put into the pool, the estate pool, and the survivors should get that as well. The big settlement comes days after Epstein's alleged procure co conspirator all around child molester sick broad Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on federal charges that accuse her of helping him get access to and and groom underage girls so he could sexually abuse them. And this stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum, right? All of this stuff's coming out now because the assault is on. And with Ghislaine Maxwell, the head of the snake, being decapitated you know that the push is coming, so we'll see this kind of thing start to happen more often and probably at a quick clip. The news is fast and heavy right now with this case, and there is a lot of disinformation out there as well. So please be on the lookout for that kind of stuff. Of such nonsense. Nonsense as Dr. Fauci is involved in this case. I mean, come on, really. So there is a lot of disinformation right now, but when you're seeing this real tangent news come out, this news that's applicable to what is going on in this case, you. You just have to smile if you've been following things. I know I have been very, very hard on the federal government. Super hard on them, because it's filled with all sorts of snakes and disgusting people, right? And when it comes to the Department of Justice, forget about it. They're a laughingstock. But every now and then, shit'll go right. All I hope here is that we continue to see progress the way we're seeing lately. And if we. If this is any indication, this settlement, Ghislaine being arrested, Brian Vickers going dark with his social media, then, folks, there is a lot more coming. The question is how much and when. The state said it was the first in for enforcement action by a regulator against financial institutions for dealing with Epstein. Now, remember, Barclays and Jess Staley, who I have been all over, are also getting a good hard look right now, but by financial regulators in London. And with all of this stuff coming forward now, all of the girls that were abused in. In London coming forward, it's going to put immense pressure on the regulators in England to also slap Barclays. And we got to make sure that JP Morgan doesn't escape this because Epstein was with JP Morgan for years and they facilitated so many of his financial transactions. The consent order covers Deutsche Bank's relationship with Epstein and correspondent banking relationships with Dansk Bank, Estonia and FBME Bank. Deutsche bank maintained a relationship with Epstein as well as with related individuals and entities from August 2013 until December of 2018. And remember, 2013 is when JP Morgan jettisoned him. I know it's a coincidence that Jeff Staley had happened to leave at that time. Right. That JP Morgan decided after Jeff Staley, Epstein's top facilitator left that, ah, you know, we're gonna jettison him, we're not gonna work with him anymore, as if that's gonna save everything. As if that's going to make you look better, we're onto you. We know the deal and we're not going to let you get off these disgusting ass financial institutions all got off after the financial meltdown. Nobody went to jail, none of these banksters were ever prosecuted and they just went on with their nonsense. Well now your chickens are coming home to roost as well. And all of these bankers that had financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein and who were dumping money into his accounts and helping him facilitate these transactions, every one of them should be smashed with RICO indictments. What's going on everyone?
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Deutsche bank maintained a relationship with Epstein as well as with related individuals and entities from August 2013 until December of 2018 when the bank ended its dealings with him after the Miami Herald published a series of stories about a federal non prosecution deal that Epstein obtained in 2008 in Florida. And that's such bullshit. Okay look Miami the Miami Herald did good work there is no doubt right? They did good work bringing this story to the forefront. But for these institutions to say they had no idea what was going on until the Miami Herald broke this story. It is so ridiculous that they would think, think that any one of us would believe that when Jeffrey Epstein was getting arrested the first time, it was a pretty big deal and a much bigger deal to these financial institutions that know that they had ties to him. They escaped the guillotine the first time around. This time they are not going to be able to wiggle their way out because they're lap dogs in the legacy media no longer control this narrative. Over time, Deutsche bank handled more than 40 accounts related to Epstein and related people and entities. The Financial Services Department said that because of the bank's oversight failure with Epstein, the bank processed hundreds of transactions totaling millions of dollars. That at the very least should have prompted additional scrutiny in light of Mr. Epstein's history. So basically what they're saying is nobody filed any suspicious activity reports, the FinCEN database was completely neglected and Jeffrey Epstein was given free reign to launder and funnel money through Deutsche Bank. Those transactions include payments to people who were publicly alleged to have Epstein's co conspirators in sexually abusing young women. And settlements totaling more than $7 million. And payments to law firms of more than $6 million for what appear to have been the legal expense of Mr. Epstein and his co conspirators. The department said, well, isn't that nice? The transactions, the payments to people who were publicly alleged to have been part of the conspiracy, that is rico. Okay, what more do they need? These are all RICO predicates. All of these people that received money from Jeffrey Epstein, I don't know how much more clear I need to be, need to be smashed with RICO indictments yesterday. All of this money is connected and it was all derived from ill gotten gains. Nobody knows where Epstein was making his money. He wasn't some mention of stock market, right. He's not the Oracle of Omaha. So where did the money come from? We all know where it came from. We all know it all came from their criminal organization. And then that money was filtered through these banks, laundered, washed up and deposited in one of these front offshore businesses or one of these banks that Epstein opened up with the help of the regulators in places like the Virgin Islands. Rico. Not Uncle Rico, by the way, from Napoleon Dynamite. I am talking the rico. Can we get some please? Other payments were made to Russian models. Payments for women's school tuition, hotel and rent expenses. And consistent with public allegations of prior wrongdoing, payments directly to numerous women with Eastern European surnames. According to the Department. Now I hope that all of these Eastern European women that were abused by him have some sort of way to reach out and get involved in the compensation fund. Because these are the no named women I'm always talking about. Whatever happened to these girls? Where did they go? How did their lives end up? And now that there's a little, a little light at the end of the tunnel for the survivors and there's a couple of bucks coming their way, I think that these unnamed girls should, should get a little peace, right? Because what they went through, I, I don't, I can't even begin to, to try and understand. Imagine coming from one of these war torn Eastern European countries and you come to America and you think everything's going to be good. And you have this great opportunity to become a model and work with some of these agencies and you have an agent now and you're going to be able to send money back to your family. And then you get to America, the shining city on the hill. And you're put into a little apartment where you sleep on the floor. And if you don't go out and turn tricks for these guys, you don't get any money. And all of those dreams and all of those aspirations crushed under the heel of this sick disgusting pervert Jeffrey Epstein and his pal Ghislaine Maxwell. And all of these European girls, the forgotten girls as I like to call them, should come forward and get themselves involved in this settlement process because they, they deserve it as well. All noted were Epstein's periodic suspicious cath cash withdrawals. In total more than eighty eight hundred thousand dollars over approximately four years. The department said now all of those transactions should be marked down on a CTR Title 31 CTRL. Anything over $10,000 and $0.01 must be, must be reported. No if, ands or buts. I don't care how rich you are. I don't care how powerful you are. When you reach the threshold, that amount must be reported. And obviously all of these transactions went under the table. All of these transactions occurred in the months and years after August 2013 when in preparation for Epstein's accounts being shifted to Deutsche Bank, a junior relationship coordinat on the Epstein account prepared a memorandum for a relationship manager at the bank to be sent to the bank's then co head of the Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas Group and the Chief's operating officer of the Wealth Management Americas Unit. The consent order notes. So all of those people who okayed this, they're all in big trouble. Every one of these people need to be investigated. Do they have any personal ties to Epstein? Was Epstein funneling money to them on the side? Were they catching any loot on the come up? If Epstein was steering business their direction, these are all questions that must be asked. That memo contained information about Epstein's prior state sex crime case in Florida, noting he was charged with soliciting an underage prostitute in 2007 and that he served 13 months of his 18 month sentence and that Epstein was accused of paying young women for massages in his Florida home, the consent order said. It also highlights that Mr. Epstein was involved in 17 out of court civil settlements related to his conduct in the 2007 conviction, the consent order said of the memo. In an email to the two bank executives who included the memorandum as an attachment, the relationship manager noted how lucrative the relationship could be, stating estimated flows of 100 to 300 million over time, possibly more with revenue of 2 to 4 million annually over time. The consent order said again, it's all about money for these people, these sick bastards, these banking institutions, these banksters. They don't care about people, they don't care about human beings. They certainly don't care about survivors. So if anybody's shocked that these banksters would be involved with this sort of shit, well, I'm sorry that the red pill had to be so rough for you because we are surrounded by evil, evil people, folks everywhere we turn. In the same email, the bank's relationship manager proposed that all Epstein related accounts be for entities affiliated with Mr. Epstein, not personal accounts, the consent order noted. The order noted that banks are required to have anti money laundering controls in place and that they also required to monitor their customers to prevent them from facilitating criminal activity. They did none of that. The oversight when it comes to these personal banking divisions is lax, basically non existent. Because what's going on is everybody's a bazillion trillionaire and they're all wheeling and dealing. And these managers who, who are in control of these accounts like Jess Staley, all they care about is stacking another couple of million in their in their bankroll. They don't care about being morally correct. They don't care about being compassionate to survivors or to the people that Epstein abused. No way. It's all about those dollars. State Financial Services Superintendent Linda Laswell said in a prepared statement that in each of the cases that are being resolved today, Deutsche bank failed to adequately monitor the activity of customers that the bank itself deemed to be high risk. In the case of Jeffrey Epstein in particular, despite knowing Mr. Epstein's terrible criminal history. The bank's inexcusable failed to detect, inexcusably failed to detect or prevent millions of dollars of suspicious transactions. Lacewell said. This 150 million is not enough. They got to be slapped with much more stringent penalties. The State Financial Services Department said it concluded that Deutsche bank failed to monitor the activities of their bank clients, Dansk Estonia and FBME with respect to their correspondent and dollar clearing business. Dollar clearing business, huh? Sounds like code word for washing money. The department noted that Dansk Estonia is at the center of one of the world's largest money laundering scandals and had control failures that led to large amounts of money being transferred on behalf of Russian oligarchs. Deutsche bank is so wrapped up with so much dirty money from so many corners of the world that it's not even funny. We could do a whole entire day of podcasts on Deutsche bank and their financial crimes over the course of the years long relationship between Deutsche bank and Dansk Estonia. Deutsche bank was repeatedly put on notice of these failings and of the fact that few improvements were undertaken by Dansk Estonia, the department said. Despite the fact that Deutsche bank assigned Dansk Estonia its highest possible risk rating, Deutsche bank failed to take appropriate action to prevent Dansk Estonia from transferring billions of dollars of suspic transactions through Deutsche bank accounts in New York. Wow, this is so significant. This is such an absolute shit show. The regulator also said that Deutsche Bank's relationship with FBME representatives of similar failure to act on red flags from a high risk client that required annual enhanced anti money laundering checks. There you go folks, right there for you to see yourself. They're calling it what it is here. It's buried a little bit in the article, but it's a money laundering scheme. It is most certainly that despite these checks, there was little evidence that FBME improved the quality of its controls over several years, the Financial Services Department said. Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sowing, in an internal communication to all bank staff about the settlement, said today serves as a reminder of how vigilant we must remain. Oh yeah, sure, now let's remain vigilant. Nobody's buying it. Deutsche bank is on the hook and you're not gonna wiggle off this time. And not only marks the anniversary of our compete to win strategy, but also our settlement just announced with the New York Department of Financial Services resolving investigations into our controls and processes in the fight against financial crime. Suing said. Oh boy. If you think that this is over, Mr. Suing, you are not paying attention. He noted that the settlements cover three issues Gante bank, the Federal bank of the Middle east, and our former business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Onboarding the ladders at the latter as a client in 2013 was a critical mistake and should never have happened, the CEO said. Hindsight's 20 20, my man. That's not good enough for me. I certainly will never do any business with your institution, nor will I do business with Barclays. In fact, I like to use local federal credit unions at this point because every one of these banks is absolutely and utterly corrupt. A Dutch A Deutsche bank spokesman said, we acknowledge our error of onboarding Epstein in 2013 and the weaknesses in our processes and have learned from our mistakes and shortcomings. The spokesman said that immediately after Epstein's arrest on child sex trafficking charges in July 2019, the bank contacted law enforcement and offered our full assistance with their investigation. Why did you even take him on as a client in 2013? You knew what he was, you knew what he did and you took him on anyway. Nice try, nice try backtracking here, but we're not gonna let it slide. Questions must be asked and questions must be answered.
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Epstein, 66, died last August in a federal jail in Manhattan from what authorities ruled was a suicide by hanging after being denied bail in his criminal case where he was charged with child trafficking and conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking. The multi millionaire investor was a former friend of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as Britain's Prince Andrew. And that's just the beginning of it with the friends, right? Jeffrey Epstein had quite the the collection of friends, all the pictures on the walls, all the people he hung out with, the people on his plane, the people at his island, the people in New Mexico, etc etc. He also was registered, was a registered sex offender, having pleading pleaded guilty to Florida state charges in 2008, one of which was related to paying for sexual services from an underage girl. Epstein served 13 months in jail in that case. A bit much of the time was free on work release. Last week, Maxwell was arrested on federal charges while holed up at a one million dollar getaway in New Hampshire. Prosecutors in New York say that in the mid-90s, Maxwell helped Epstein get access to and groom underage girls so that they could be sexually abused by him and sometimes with her participation. And we know she was very much involved in that. We know she abused a lot of girls. We know what she did to Annie. And she's not going to be able to slither off of this one. She's not going to be able to get out of this one. She's not going to be able to talk her way out of this because guess what? Ghislaine Maxwell is never going to see the light of day again. I know other people feel differently, etc. Etc. But personally I think that Ghislaine Maxwell was used as an asset by the intelligence agencies. She was burned after the whole entire situation with Epstein the second time around and now she has been abandoned and discarded to her fate. That's what I believe, and I don't think she is. She has, she doesn't have the pull anymore to get out. So I believe that she will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Maxwell, 58, was transported by authorities to New York City. Her first court appearance in Manhattan Federal court is set for July 14th. She is currently being held in a federal jail in Brooklyn pending a decision on whether she should be granted. Bailey. Prosecutors want her held without bail, calling her an extreme flight risk and for sure an extreme flight risk. She has connections all over the world. She should not be let out of jail. She should not get bail. She should be forced to sit in there and rot because she is a danger to the community. She is a danger as a flight risk and she has spent way too many days living the high life. It is now time that she begins to understand that that part of her life is over. And the new part of her life, the one that, well, includes a jumpsuit and a jail cell and some solitary confinement, that part of her life has just begun. 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 Bobby Capucci inside of the description
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what's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. On today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit more about the US Virgin Islands and the various lawsuits that are making their way through the system as we speak. And today's article from Inside Edition is pivoting away from the JP Morgan conversation and focusing on the Deutsche bank suit. So let's get into this article from Inside Edition and let's see what the author, Chris Spargo, has come up with. Headline, jeffrey Epstein, rape victim who got $7.4 million after 15 years of abuse, gets trial date and Deutsche bank suit. And once again, the author of this article is Chris Spargo. Details of the woman's settlement, as well as the document she had to sign in order to receive that money have been made public. Due to her ongoing lawsuit against Deutsche bank, the estate of Jeffrey Epstein paid $7.4 million to one of the pedophile's survivors. According to court documents obtained by Inside Digital. Details of the woman's settlement with Epstein's estate, as well as the document she had to sign in order to receive that money have been made public due to her ongoing lawsuit against Deutsche Bank. The woman, identified as Jane Doe number one in court papers, claims in her complaint that Deutsche bank knowingly benefited from participating in a sex trafficking venture. And I don't think there's any doubt at this point that Epstein and his behavior was one of the worst kept secrets within the financial sector. Deutsche bank for their part, denies Jane Doe's allegations and any wrongdoing. A trial date has now been set for September and we also know that in October there is the trial date for J.P. morgan. So we're going to have consecutive months it looks like anyway, with some new information coming out from the start of these trials. From 2003, when Doe was first introduced to Epstein and through her eventual separation from Epstein and his organization 15 years later, Epstein and his co conspirators used extreme measures of force, fraud and coercion to cause Jane Doe number one to engage in commercial sex and to remain obedient to the organization. Doe alleges in her 163 page complaint, having been conditioned that the sexual abuse was normal and knowing that everyone surrounding Epstein, including accountants, lawyers, bankers and other people, were aware of the sex abuse, Jane Doe number one was coerced into a cult like life controlled by Epstein and others to be sexually abused and sexually trafficked. And once again, if you put the pieces together, I think it's relatively obvious who Jane Doe number one might be here. And if that is the case and it is who I think it is, I don't see how the banks are gonna wiggle out of this one. And that's because of all of the intimate knowledge this person would have of the inner workings of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. Now think about it. You're purchased from your parents by Jean Luc Brunel as the middleman. Then you're brought to America and sold to Jeffrey Epstein. And then from there the grooming process begins. And then from that it turns into the normalization process, right? Like she says here. And when you have all of society's heavy hitters hanging out down at Epstein's house and nobody is saying that this is wrong, and not only that, but also engaging in it with Epstein, some of these folks, what's a little 14 year old kid who was sold to Jeffrey Epstein supposed to think? Of course they're going to think. What they're doing is Normal. And that once again brings into focus just how dangerous enabling somebody like Jeffrey Epstein is. The more these movers and shakers validated Jeffrey Epstein's existence, the easier it was for him to carry out his. It's pretty clear what happened here. Finally, after being sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein for 15 years, Doe says she made her escape in 2018. She later alleges that in those years under Epstein's control, the pedophile committed the following sexual offenses. Sexual misconduct as Epstein engaged in sexual intercourse with Jane Doe without her consent. Remember, she was purchased 14 years old. Rape in the first degree as Epstein engaged in sexual intercourse with Jane Doe by forcible compulsion. Criminal sexual act in the first degree as Epstein engaged in oral sexual conduct with Jane Doe by forcible compulsion. Forcible touching as Epstein intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly sexually touched Jane Doe for the purpose of degrading or abusing her or for the purpose of gratifying his own sexual desire. Sexual abuse in the third degree as Epstein inserted a foreign object in the vagina of Jane Doe by forcible compulsion. Aggravated sexual assault in the first degree as Epstein inserted a foreign object in Jane Doe's vagina, causing physical injury by forcible compulsion. And all of this, remember, was happening while she was basically a slave of Epstein. And when we say that about this person, we mean it. When you're bought by somebody at 14 years old and brought to a different country and put into this environment where all of this is normalized, what else should we call you? In the documents, Doe does not say how old she was when she met Epstein, nor does she explain how she made her escape. She sought a settlement from the victim's compensation fund after Epstein's death. Well, that sounds like a no brainer. If she was abused from the time she was 14 years old and purchased by this sick bastard and his pal Jean Luc Brunel, I would think that whatever money she got is probably not enough. Jordana Feldman, the administrator of the fund, said in an August 2021 press release that the fund paid $121 million to more than 135 victims. A little more than $1 million per. Meanwhile, the government got the lion's share of all of this with taxes. It had previously been revealed in court during the federal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell that one victim received $1.5 million from the fund. And a second witness testifying against Epstein's British born Enabler received a $5 million settlement. In exchange for their settlements. The victims were required to sign a five page document. Inside Edition Digital obtained that document which states that in consideration of the settlement amount, the individual releases and forever discharges any current and former principals, officers, directors, stockholders, managers, members, partners, limited partners, trustees, beneficiaries, administrators, agents, employees, attorneys, predecessors, successors, assigns and affiliates, and any entities or individuals who are, have or ever been engaged by, whether as independent contractors or otherwise employed by, or worked in any capacity for Jeffrey E. Epstein and or the Epstein Estate. From any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of actions, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, variances, trespasses, damages and judgments, whether sounding in equity, tort, common law, contract, statute, regulation or otherwise, and whether now existing, hereafter, existing or revived in the future, whatsoever in law, admiralty, equity or otherwise, including without limitation any and all claims or causes of action that arise or may arise from or which otherwise concern acts of sexual abuse or sex traffic by Mr. Epstein. Once signed, the full settlement amount would be wired to the claimant within 15 days. So basically, take your few pennies and shut up. The whole entire settlement fund turned out to be not so great of an idea, in my opinion. Now, of course, people getting made whole and getting taken care of as far as financially for the abuse they suffered is something that should have been done a long time ago. But with hindsight as our guide, it certainly looks like this fund was set up with the hope that after these payments were paid out that all of this would go away. And like usual, their hope was meaning people like Epstein and the people that were participating in Epstein's criminal enterprise and enabling it. They figured, throw a few dollars at this and it's all going to go away. Because that's what history tells us. Rich people can throw money at a problem and it goes away. And that's been the favorite strategy for anybody involved with Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein himself. And we saw it with this fund, that's what it was. The estate knew, the estate knew that they were in jeopardy. They were exposed. So setting the fund up was a good idea for them. And once again, just to reiterate, how is it okay that the government got the lion's share of that money? Deutsche bank unsuccessfully tried to use this settlement agreement to dismiss the case against them in court. Plaintiff's claims are Released by the April 28, 2022 General Release and Settlement agreement that plaintiff entered into with the Epstein estate, which contains a broad release of any and all sex claims, including those related to acts of sexual abuse or sex trafficking by Epstein, against not only Epstein and his estate, but also against a wide array of other individuals and entities, including any entity that was ever engaged by or worked in any capacity for Epstein, Deutsche bank writes as an affirmative defense in their response to Doe's complaint. In exchange for giving that broad release, plaintiff received a substantial settlement payment from the Epstein estate. So in other words, if you want to be cynical about it, the whole entire settlement fund was set up to protect Jeffrey Epstein's buddies, to protect people like this.
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the judge ultimately agreed to dismiss eight of the 12 counts, but four of the claims asserted by Doe are still part of the case. The claim that the defendants knowingly benefited from participating in a sex trafficking venture. The claim that the defendant obstructed enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The claim that the defendants negligently failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent physical harm. The claim that the defendants negligently failed to exercise reasonable care as a banking institution providing non routine banking. The judge also weighed in on how much legal protection in the settlement agreement signed by DO affords Deutsche Bank. Deutsche bank also argues that the settlement agreement was intended to resolve a broad class of claims potentially asserted by DB Jane Doe, including claims against Deutsche Bank, Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in his opinion allowing the case to proceed in trial in September. But this argument is sheer speculation at best and hardly sufficient to meet the high standard of evidence third party beneficiary status. Among the counts dismissed by the court were intentional infliction of emotional distress, participating in a sex trafficking venture, RICO violations and aiding abetting and inducing a sex trafficking venture. So of course they dropped the rico, right? We can't have RICO in this case at all. Not even a cent of it. Not even one little whiff of rico. But rico's good enough for Keith Raynery, rico's good enough for R. Kelly, but not Jeffrey Epstein. What is the difference between Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and Keith Rainieri? They're all rich, right? They all have a bunch of dough. But the one thing that Epstein has that the other two knuckleheads couldn't even dream of is political power, political connections, and of course, protection. So it really shouldn't be a shock that we've never seen a real RICO case or RICO statutes used when it comes to Epstein. But we see it used with Everybody else. In 2020, Deutsche bank, as part of their settlement agreement, agreed to pay a 150 million dollar fine for its dealings with Epstein between 2013 and 2018. After an investigation by the New York Department of Financial Services alleged that bankers overlooked multiple red flags about the pedophile's past and failed to properly monitor how his funds were being distributed. A regulator claimed that very few problematic transactions were ever questioned. And even when they were, they were usually cleared without satisfactory explanation. In that 2020 report, which was obtained by Inside Edition Digital, Deutsche bank did not respond to Inside Digital's request for comment about the allegations made by Jane Doe in court filings. Well, we all know that Deutsche bank is the preferred destination for scumbags worldwide. So is it a shock that they were balling out with Jeffrey Epstein, profiting, making a bunch of dough, all the while piggybacking on Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise. I mean, it's not a shock to me. You know what would be a shock to me? If these financial institutions didn't have these kind of allegations against them because they're filled with absolute scumbags. And the people at the very top when we're talking about these financial institutions, they don't care about anybody. You really think they care about you? Or you feeding your family or you paying your bills? They don't give one single shit. And they continue with their behavior time and time again because there's never ever any real repercussions. It's always some kind of financial fine, a slap on the wrist. And the same old story gets told over and over again. And we're going to see the same thing here. Nobody's going to get in trouble as far as legally, nobody's going to do prison time. Oh, we'll get some apologies and we'll hear about how they're going to fix their internal workings and make sure this never happens again. But the reality is, inside of the financial sector right now as we speak, many, many people as scummy or scummier than Jeffrey Epstein are up to the very same things that Jeffrey Epstein was up to. And these financial institutions are right on board once again going along for the ride. All right folks, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box.
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