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Mega Edition: How New York And Florida Failed The Survivors (6/15/26)
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Florida failed Epstein’s survivors at nearly every level. Palm Beach police built a serious case showing that Epstein had sexually abused numerous underage girls, yet state prosecutors reduced the matter to charges that treated his conduct more like...
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Bobby Capucci
What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. When I talk about corruption surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, his prosecution or lack of prosecution, and his criminal enterprise, it's not like I'm just pulling this right out of the air. All you have to do is take the time to do the deep dive and all of the information is right there for you. It wasn't just the federal government who failed these survivors. It was also several different local governments. We've talked a lot about Florida, we've talked a lot about Balderas over in New Mexico. But New York and the state prosecutors most assuredly failed these survivors as well. In fact, I would take it a step further and say in New York, it's even more, more of a transgression considering this was happening right under their noses. You mean to tell me they weren't getting any whispers about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to in their office? I know that's a damn lie because the survivors themselves were telling them about what Epstein was up to. So they really have no leg to stand on here acting like they didn't know who Epstein was or what he was. They most certainly did. And the, the, the truth of the matter is they just didn't care. Because if they really wanted to go after him, if they really wanted to get Jeffrey Epstein, as we've established in the previous articles, the prosecution agreement in Florida, it meant nothing. In New York, they did not want to go after him. And I, we can debate the reasoning why they didn't want to go after him. I, I obviously have my own opinions and I'm sure a lot of other people out there have their own opinions, but for me, it seems to be very simple. The idea of exposing all of this is the last thing the authorities wanted to do. So why go after it with the gusto that they should? Instead, they'll give you some low hanging fruit. Maxwell will get arrested. Jeffrey Epstein got arrested. But that was going to be the end of it, right? We're never going to hear anything else about what went on, and at least not in the Maxwell trial, if Epstein would have stood trial, I think we would have got a lot more about the inner workings of the machine. Perhaps. But with Maxwell, I don't think the juice was worth the squeeze for the government or her. And the government knew that they had to give a hunk of meat to the people. At this point, they had no other choice. But for all of these years, Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were protected. And they used the precedent of, of that stupid ass non prosecution agreement as the basis of that protection. I've said that was ridiculous from jump street and I'll continue to say that. Do you really think if it was a Mafioso who was living in New York and, you know, had a, a non prosecution agreement in Florida, that that would stop the government from going after him in New York? Of course it wouldn't. But that Mafioso doesn't have the same government ties that Maxwell and Epstein does or did. So he can't rock the boat as much. So let's go after him. And unfortunately, that's just the way I see it. Maybe I'm being cynical, but the federal government and these local governments, their behavior has led me down this path. I didn't just wake up one morning and say, ah, you know what? Everybody screwed up here. Article after article, report after report, cataloging all of the screw ups here, all of the irregular irregularities here, and we're just going to chalk it all up to coincidence. Well, we're not going to do that here on this podcast. We'll save that for other people. Today we have an article from Vox headline, the state of New York protected Jeffrey Epstein, not his survivors. A Manhattan prosecutor asked for Epstein to receive the lowest level sex offender status, and Epstein never checked in with New York City police as required by law. Now, remember the Khalif Browder story? Okay, Khalif Browder, 16 years old, gets arrested for allegedly stealing someone's backpack that he said he never stole. And this kid ends up sitting on Rikers island for what, 900 days or something? Meanwhile, Jeffrey Epstein is running a human trafficking ring, molesting girls, raping girls, being involved in money laundering, being involved in election finance, rigging, you name it. And he doesn't even have to check in with the police. Yeah, there's equitable justice. This article was authored by Jane Coton. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta has faced criticism for making a sweetheart deal with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that cut a serious prison sentence on sex trafficking charges down to just 13 months in a private wing of a Palm Beach Jail. You know, Palm beach is a shithole, folks. Breaking news. If you didn't know that Palm beach is a shithole and it's filled with a bunch of undesirable characters. But he is not the only criminal justice official who failed. Epstein survivors. Acosta held a press conference in Washington Wednesday, aiming to defend himself from critics such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has called on him to resign over his role in creating the deal. You know, it's funny, Nancy Pelosi had a lot to say when she wanted Acosta to resign. It was a big deal then, right? So it's not a big deal anymore. Where's Nancy Pelosi coming out and defending these girls, defending these survivors and demanding justice? He claimed it was the best outcome available at the time because juries were less sensitive to accusations of sexual assault in a pre me too era and also blamed local law enforcement officials. Well, the pre me too era stuff, I don't, I don't buy that. Okay? If you're a disgusting sick predator, you were getting nailed as a disgusting sick predator. This wasn't a case that he said, she said. This was a case of a evidence of mountain high, as high as Mount Everest. And it was federal officials that didn't want to do anything. They didn't have the willpower to do it. Not that they didn't have the capability. They didn't have the willpower. And to blame it on potential jurors is absolute garbagio. But local officials, particularly, particularly those in New York, do in fact have serious questions to answer about the handling of Epstein's case. A New York prosecutor tried to keep Epstein from being registered as a high level sex offender. And the NYPD looked the other way when he didn't show up to court mandated check ins required by his sex offender status and did so for eight years. And then you wonder why there was no chain of custody with any of the evidence. You see what I mean, folks? This is all a big ass joke to them. Meanwhile, this has real life consequences for people marginalized, people who have been forgotten about, who have been pushed to the side and who have been trampled over year after year, day after day by shitty ass prosecutors, elected officials and do nothing lawmen. The story of Jeffrey Epstein isn't about Donald Trump or Bill Clinton. It's the story of a wealthy serial sexual predator who got away with his crimes for decades with the assistance of a bipartisan cadre of powerful allies, including the offices that are supposed to prosecute such crimes. Folks, I don't Know how many times I have to slam this one home? One thing that we should all be aligned on is getting rid of Jeffrey Epstein and a shitty criminal enterprise because both sides of the aisle were providing him support, both sides of the aisle were getting money from him, and both sides of the aisle were rubbing shoulders with him. And both sides of the aisle had ample chances to take him down and neither of them did. So don't come at me with any, okay? The proof is in the pudding and the gaslighting, the, you know, the what about isms. That shit dies on arrival on this podcast. I have no time for it and no patience for it. Take that what about ism and shove it. Because guess what? The whole entire political class, which there never should have been a political class, by the way, is corrupt from the top down. And the people that get out there and they're all fired up about re electing these incumbents who haven't made our lives better and in fact have just made them worse. I'll never understand it and I will never. Let me be very clear. I will never be bullied into voting for one side or the other because, oh, you have to defend democracy. What sort of BS tagline is that? Defend democracy. Defend it from who? Can I get a full on accounting of who I'm defending democracy from? Because to me it looks like democracy is being eroded from the top down. The Manhattan District Attorney's office tried to help Jeffrey Epstein based on a mistaken interpretation. In 2011, a prosecutor from the Manhattan's District Attorney's office made an extraordinary argument before the Manhattan Supreme Court during a hearing over Epstein, who had pleaded guilty to charges in Florida of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution in 2008. Again, you cannot be a child and be a prostitute. Children can't consent. As reported by the New York Times, the prosecutor, Jennifer Gaffney, asked a judge to reduce Mr. Epstein's sex offender status to the lowest possible classification, which would have limited the personal information available to the public and would have kept him from being listed on a registry of sex offenders for life. Now, why would Jennifer Gaffney argue for that? Anyone have any quality reason why a prosecutor would be trying to argue in favor of that? Unless, of course, that prosecutor or or their office has ulterior motives. Justice Ruth Pickholtz denied the request and expressed incredulity that the District Attorney's office would argue in support of a man accused of sexually molesting dozens of teenage girls in Florida. So why would the New York Prosecutor's office argue in favor of this. And let's remember, this is the same office that showed a whole bunch of love to guys like Harvey Weinstein. I have to tell you, I'm a little overwhelmed because I have never seen a prosecutor's office do anything like this. The judge told Ms. Gaffney. So once again, folks, look, I'm not just pulling out of the air, right? I'm not just making up reasons to be mad about the behavior of the SDNY or the New York Prosecutor's Office. There are legitimate criticisms here that need to be on display. But your fourth estate, the legacy media, has failed you once again. And instead would rather set this up so that you're all fighting with each other, even over Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. That's their goal. Have all of us fighting with each other so we're not focused on the overall picture. And I'll tell you what, I am not falling for it. This effort was not just surprising. It directly contradicted the New York Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders evaluation of Epstein, whom the board viewed as a high risk sex offender for his actions in Florida. Manhattan's District Attorney Cyrus Vance said later that the request to lower Epstein's sex offender status was a mistake, saying in a briefing that summer, in reaching that conclusion, the people apparently relied on a combination of a mistaken interpretation of the governing legal standards and certain secondhand information about the Florida case. Such what happened was he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Cyrus Vance, and then he had to make an excuse about it. Disgusting all the way around. And you would think again, all the time it takes for all of these people with these stupid ass conspiracy theory articles trying to paint people with brushes, you would think they, if they put some time into it and really looked at what was going on, they'd understand that this wasn't a conspiracy theory, that this was a criminal conspiracy. In fact, Vance's office was under investigation last year by the State of New York for his decision to not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein on allegations of sexual misconduct, despite recordings of Weinstein admitting to groping a woman before that inquiry was paused. And in 2012, Vance dropped an investigation into Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. For allegedly misleading condo buyers, reportedly after receiving a visit from Donald Trump's personal attorney, Mark Kasowitz. Look, we all know that Donald Trump had his hands deeply, deeply in the real estate market. And we all know about the corruption in the real estate market. That's why when everybody was so gung ho and going after Donald Trump as president. I said, you guys are missing the mark going the Russia route. There's nothing there. What you should be doing is going after the financials that have to do with all of the developments. Because if you really want to catch a billionaire and you want to make it stick, you'll go after financial crimes. That's the only way to get these people. Folks, haven't you been paying attention? Nothing else sticks, only financial crimes.
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Bobby Capucci
As a sex offender, Epstein was supposed to check in with the nypd. But he didn't. According to the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services, registered sex offenders have several basic obligations, including Report annually where they live by signing and and returning an annual verification form to DCJS within 10 days after receiving it. Notify DCJS in writing of a new address no later than 10 days after moving. Report in person to a local agency to have a current photograph taken every three years Level one and two offenders or every year Level three offenders, notify DCJS in writing of any institution of higher education that they are attending, enrolled, living or employed. Any change in status must be reported to DCJS no later than 10 days after the change. Provide in writing Internet service providers, Internet screen names and email accounts. Level 3 offenders and offenders with the sexual predator designation must personally verify their addresses every 90 days with law enforcement. Law enforcement may at that Time Photograph Level 3 offenders if that offender's appearance has changed. But Epstein, a Level 3 registered sex offender, didn't fulfill his obligation under these rules, something that would result in normal offenders being sent to prison. For example, he was supposed to register his address in person every 90 days beginning in 2011, meaning that he should have reported his address in person 34 times. He never did so again. Is the problem out here, people bringing this shit up? Or is the problem that this all happened and nobody wants to really report on it? A report by the New York Post found that Epstein never checked in with the NYPD and never verified his address as the law stipulates. At the very least, his team certainly knew about this requirement. At the same hearing where a Manhattan prosecutor attempted to get Epstein a sex offender's status lowered, Judge Pickholtz said point blank that that Epstein would need to register in person with law enforcement every 90 days. The NYPD cop assigned to monitor Epstein has repeatedly complained to Vance's sex sex crimes unit that Epstein wasn't in compliance, according to a source familiar with the matter. But prosecutors told the cop to merely send Epstein a letter reminding him of his reporting requirement. Now, would that happen for anybody else? And it just again shines a spotlight that the rank and file, for the most part, want to do the right thing, meaning the police, meaning the FBI. But their bosses are the problem. Guys like Cyrus Vance and these unelected bureaucrats that get in the way. Instead of registering every 90 days as a Level 3 sex offender, Epstein attended movie premieres and hosted dinner parties for the rich and famous, all the while allegedly building a home treasure trove of pornographic material featuring very young women with CDs bearing handwritten labels like miscellaneous nudes 1 and girl pics nudes. And the entities tasked with protecting the public from Epstein did nothing. So that's Vox saying it, not Fox News. This isn't, you know, coming from Breitbart or good old Tucker Carlson. This is a problem, folks, and it needs to be addressed. This is the real problem. You want to talk about issues you want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. The real problem is that we were failed at every step of the way by the federal government, by state governments, and by local governments. And none of them have been forced to take accountability for what has happened. Each and every time their behavior has been glossed over by the court has been glossed over by a prosecutor, and it's all been good. Well, guess what? Nothing about this case is good. And everything about it is garbage. And the way it was prosecuted has been garbage since day one, and it still hasn't changed. So if you're wondering why I'm so critical of all of the bodies who were involved in this, meaning at the top of the food chain, here's another example to why. 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 B O B b y/cap ucci. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. When I talk about these law enforcement agencies and the fact that they knew what Jeffrey Epstein was and what he was doing. It's because there is a ton of evidence that points us in that direction. There is article after article, court document after court document that states that everybody was aware of what was going on. And while people in society can get away with the whole, oh, I had no idea. If you worked for the DA's office or the prosecutor's office for the state of New York and you let this go on for all of these years, what does that say about you? And especially considering if we look at the overall scope of what was going on as far as predators right under their noses, you had Weinstein, you had Jeffrey Epstein, so many different people that were able to just operate for years. And the DA's office, Cy Vance and his friends act like they had no idea. It defies logic, it defies reason. And frankly, I just don't believe it. If we didn't have all of the evidence to the contrary, I'd be more inclined to listen to what these folks had to say. But we know that all of this evidence has been provided. We have court document, I mean, we have ream after ream of evidence in this case. And when you go through it all and you put it all together, the picture that it paints is not one that is very impressive from the point of law enforcement. There's no other way to say it, there's no way to sugarcoat that. And frankly folks, none of these people are above reproach. If you are hired or you were elected to do a job and you do not do that job, you are a failure. There's no, oh, this one was in my way or that one was in my way. You have been elected, you have been put in a position because people believe that you can help, that you can change things. And if you don't do that, you're a failure. And the prosecutors in all of these districts where Jeffrey Epstein was active for all of these years, I'll just come out and say it since nobody else wants to. They all failed. They all failed these survivors, they failed their communities and they failed the nation overall. You don't think this is a big black eye for the whole country when you have all of these so called elite involved in something like this. But we all know that the best way to get to the bottom of something, the best way to disinfect something is, is to shine a whole bunch of sunshine on it. And that's what we're going to keep doing. We're going to keep talking about all of these people that sugarcoated what happened. We're going to keep talking about all of these people who pull the curtains down. And we're going to keep challenging these false narratives that keep popping up. Today we have an article from the New York Post. This article was Originally published on April 11th of 2019. The authors of this article are Susan Edelman and Rebecca Rosenberg. The Manhattan DA's office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's depravity when a prosecutor inexplicitly argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing. The Post has learned now they said in the aftermath of this that, that it was a mistake by their prosecutor to make this argument, which I find to be absolutely ridiculous. You mean to tell me that your prosecutor had no idea what they were doing? And furthermore, if that's the case, why wasn't this handled by a more senior prosecutor? Isn't this a, a, a serious matter, a very important matter that should have been handled by Cy Vance himself? But we never saw that. We never saw them take the time to really dig in here and ask yourself why that is. Well, when you're talking about somebody who's rubbing shoulders with the so called elite, breaking bread with all the Cy Vance's donors, and you tell me how there's not going to be a pressure campaign to keep Epstein out of trouble and then the, the audacity to get up there and argue that this isn't a violent, disgusting offender, a level three offender, and try and argue that he's a level one offender is just beyond the pale for me. And there's no amount of apologizing or coming in to clean up the spilled milk that's going to fix it. The damage has already been done. And the sad part is there has been no repercussions for anybody who has been involved in this in advance of the hearing. Then Deputy Chief of Sex Crimes Jennifer Gaffney had been given a confidential state assessment that deemed Epstein to be highly dangerous and highly likely to keep preying on young girls. The DA's office admitted in its own appellate brief eight months after the hearing. So you have access to all of these files? You have access to all of this information. I don't want to hear, oh, I made a mistake. You're not the sales lady at Nordstrom who gave me the wrong, you know, size pair of pants. You are a prosecutor prosecuting crimes against children. You can't be wrong. And if you are wrong. You need to rectify it ASAP or own up to it. But that's the biggest problem I have here, folks, right? These people never own up to it. If they make a mistake, they do something untowards, it gets swept under the rug and it gets buried in investigations. So how are we ever going to fix anything? How are we ever supposed to hold these people to to the level that we should hold them if their superiors are always protecting them and sweeping this shit under the rug?
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Bobby Capucci
The brief has been sealed since 2011, but the post obtained it Thursday after suing to get it unsealed. So the New York Post has done a really good job as far as covering this stuff, and they're one of the few publications that have been on this for quite some time now. I've been very critical of the New York Times, of the Washington Post, and I'll remain critical of those outlets. I feel like they've lost their way and they're more in the business of dividing than they are in the business of educating at this point, or at least opening the door for you to walk through to educate yourself. Because really, that's what it should be, right? You hear about these news stories that the news is telling you about all the different things happening around the world. You get interested in it. Now you have the ability to research this stuff yourself, take a look at a bunch of different outlets and that's what the media should be. But instead what they try and do is they try and educate you. And I'm using air quotes here, basically they try and indoctrinate you, right? If you don't believe this way, well, you're not. You're against democracy. Or if you believe this way, then you're a communist or whatever they might try and do. The reality is this, they shouldn't be doing it. Their job is to tell you the news, not to tell you how to think. It describes the state's assessment finding that Epstein should be monitored in New York as a level 3 offender reserved for the most dangerous. That is exactly what he was the the most dangerous of sex offenders because remember, his proclivities never stopped this guy. What do you think, he just woke up one morning and said, that's it. I don't want underage girls anymore. When you're sick like this, you're wired wrong. And Jeffrey Epstein is the epitome of all of it. In making its assessment, the New York State Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders evaluated the sworn, corroborated accounts of numerous young girls who had been lured into Epstein's Palm Beach, Florida compound in 2005 and 2006. It's disgusting that they would even have to go to Florida to look at this. Why didn't you have your own case going on in New York City? We know that he was using fertile hunting grounds, right, to look for new biles. Their words, not mine. So why are you going down to Florida when your own backyard is covered in Manure? Girls aged 14 to 17 were also recruited and paid 200 to a thousand dollars to give Epstein erotic massages that included sexual contact, intercourse, and rape. Palm beach cops found Epstein pleaded guilty in Palm beach to abusing just one of these young victims and was required to register as a sex offender in New York since he had an Upper east side home. But when you know people, and then you have people like Cy vance running the DA's office in New York, you're going to get treated differently. And that's just how it is. Manhattan prosecutors were aware the State Board had assigned Epstein a risk assessment of 130, a number that is solidly above the 110 qualifying number for level three, with absolutely no basis for downward departure, the the brief notes. Nevertheless, Gaffney argued that he should be labeled a level level one offender, the least restrictive, which would have kept him off the online database. You mean to tell me that Jeffrey Epstein shouldn't be on the online database? You know, when you go on there and you search for diddlers, you mean to tell me Epstein shouldn't be in that database? If you look at diddler in the, in the dictionary, there's a picture of Jeffrey Epstein. So, yeah, he should be in the database. Ms. Gaffney. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholtz sided with the board and against Gaffney in designated designating Epstein a level three offender. Epstein appealed, and the DA's change of heart brief, agreeing that Epstein deserved the highest level of monitoring, was filed in opposition to that appeal. So if, if it wasn't for this judge, Judge Ruth Pickholes, Epstein would have been a level one offender in New York City. Think about that for a minute, and then you tell me that I'm off base here. The Appellate division ultimately upheld that Epstein be monitored as a level three offender, and he remains on the registry. But he never checked in. He never had to check in. He never did anything that he was supposed to do. None of those stipulations were met. Our prosecutor made a mistake. Danny Frost, a spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr. Told the Post in December when news broke that Epstein, sweetheart, Palm beach deal, had buried evidence he had allegedly abused some 80 girls and young women. Reached late Thursday, Frost declined to say who above Gaffney might have approved her decision to go easy on Epstein. Vance's office has insisted that he was unaware of the sex offender registry hearing at the time. Nobody knew, okay? The office didn't know. The boss didn't know. And just like Acosta, Gaffney was out here acting rogue. She went off on her own and decided to do this. Does anyone really believe that Gaffney could not immediately be reached for comment? Yeah, I don't doubt it. Probably not a good look for Ms. Gaffney here. But once again, folks, it goes to show you, the way that this was handled was straight up garbage. And all of these prosecutors who want to get on Twitter and in different places and talk about how great their offices were and how much of a great job they did, well, if you were in any of these districts while Jeffrey Epstein was active and your office is arguing for him to be a level one offender and not level three, you, my friend, and your compatriots have all failed. And when we're talking about Cy Vance and we're talking about the pursuit of disgusting sexual crimes, in my opinion, they failed miserably. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this episode. If you would like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's b o b b y capu cci protonmail.com you can also find me on Twitter at Bobby Capuci. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box. And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. As we have all found out, in the years since Jeffrey Epstein first popped up on the radar, the whole entire investigation into him from day one has been complete garbage. And in today's article, we're gonna talk about that once again and how the Florida feds knew of New York victim and Epstein's indictment 11 years earlier. But of course, down in Florida, they couldn't be bothered to really throw the book at this guy. In fact, they had to bend over backwards to make sure he had a great life still. So let's just dive right into this article from ABC News and let's see what's up. This article was Originally published on February 20th of 2020. Headline Exclusive. Florida feds knew of New York victim and Epstein indictment 11 years earlier. Before her testimony could be secured, Epstein cemented a controversial deal. I know, it's just a coincidence, right? Has nothing to do with the fact that Epstein had some of the most high profile lawyers in the world. Had nothing to do with the fact that prosecutors jumped ship, left the prosecutor's office to go work for Epstein in the middle of the trial. Had nothing to do with that, huh? He's just one of the luckiest guys ever. And he had the greatest legal minds to ever walk the earth working for him. Is that what you want me to believe? Because I don't. Okay. The whole entire thing was trash from day one. And the fact that the prosecution down in Florida let this dude steamroll them the way he did, it's an utter embarrassment. And you would think that the state of Florida would want to fix that, but so far we haven't seen any movement towards that direction. A woman whose allegations of childhood sex abuse in New York were central to last year's indictment of Jeffrey Epstein was questioned by the FBI and subpoenaed for testimony by federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago in connection with his first federal investigation into Epstein's alleged child sex trafficking, according to court documents and multiple sources familiar with the events. But the woman, who was 19 at the time of her initial contact with federal agents in 2008, did not appear before a grand jury in West Palm beach as the subpoena commanded. And only one person, in fact, ended up appearing in front of that grand jury. And they absolutely destroyed the witness who did appear. Oh, she was on MySpace, she was drinking, she was partying, and she even kissed a boy. That sort of. Before her testimony could be secured. And Epstein cemented a controversial and one secret non prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney's office in Miami by pleading guilty to two state prostitution charges for which he was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail. Now, look, first of all, there should never be something called a secret agreement between the government and any citizen. We have a right to see that. What does that even mean, a secret agreement? We're talking about a level three sex offender here and you're engaging in secret agreements. Yeah, okay, that sounds like a good idea. The woman's account could have helped prosecutors strengthen an already expansive case against Epstein by potentially unraveling an alleged network of child sexual abuse at his Manhattan residence that mirrored what had been uncovered at his home in Palm Beach. But with the deal done, the federal grand jury was suspended, the investigation halted, and the subpoena to the woman ultimately withdrawn. So she never even got to tell her story. And then fast forward to future. And it was her allegations that led to this. So what was going on down in Florida? Why were they so against having people come forward and tell about what they know in front of this grand jury? Why has that been such a issue down here in Florida from the very beginning? What are they so scared of? And why did Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers get to massage the situation into such a favorable one for him? Nobody has ever answered that question, okay? And until somebody does, we're going to continue to bring these articles up and drop these breadcrumbs for you to follow so you can see just how much of a disaster this all was. And the galling part, folks, is what has been done to change it so it doesn't happen again? Nothing. Not a thing. I certainly think that with the FBI's capabilities, even back then, they could have unraveled the entire network from New York to Paris to New Mexico, said Spencer Kuvan, a West Palm beach attorney who represented three of Epstein's survivors during the original federal investigation in Florida. The potential was always there. The government shut this thing down and pled this thing out before going through and talking to probably more than half the women who were involved in this whole thing. Had they conducted a full investigation and taken their time, this would have been a whole different story. And I don't think he's wrong. They didn't do this investigation correctly from the very beginning, and that's why it's so enraging. It's not like they made one misstep and they were like, you know what? We have to. We have to fix this. It was misstep after misstep after misstep that all went in the favor of a disgusting pedophile. It wasn't until nearly 11 years later, when federal prosecutors in New York quietly opened a new investigation into Epstein, that the woman was again contacted by authorities seeking details of her alleged years of sexual abuse by the multi millionaire pedophile identified in last year's indictments as minor victim number one. She is the only alleged victim from New York whose allegations are specifically detailed in the charges, a strong indicator of her importance to the investigation. Now, keep in mind, in Florida, they decided they didn't want to hear from her. But yet her strong allegations were the ones that really backbone this whole entire second prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. According to the allegations contained in the indictment, the woman claimed she was initially recruited in 2002 at age 14 to provide massages to Epstein at his palatial Manhattan townhouse, and she ultimately suffered sexual abuse that escalated over a period of years. Epstein allegedly enlisted one or more of his employees to schedule appointments with the girl and also encouraged, enticed, and paid the teenager, whose family was in dire financial straits, to bring other young girls to engage in sex acts with them. Now, this is a story we have heard from the very beginning here, and this is a story that the prosecutors were hearing and the police from the very start. Yet they shrugged their shoulders and decided to give this guy a plea deal instead. The woman, now 31, filed a civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate following his arrest and his death by apparent suicide in a federal detention center last August, alleging that Epstein's abuse has forever scarred her and altered her life. The lawsuit, filed under a pseudonym, makes no mention of her prior contact with federal authorities, but it does lay out in harrowing detail the breadth of the abuse she allegedly endured as a vulnerable young girl. Her experience with Epstein fit within what is known to have been a common pattern for the abuser, the complaint said. He would find vulnerable young girls who needed money and slowly test their boundaries, first asking them to remove their own clothing and massage him. And then, over time, he would escalate his conduct, touching them in ways that would become more invasive, violent, and painful. As these children grew to rely financially on Epstein, he would only cause them more and more harm. And that's how this works. Once you get somebody locked in and you have somebody who is dependent on you and you have them groomed to think that what's going on is the norm, then there's really nothing that you can't get them to do. And when you're talking about opulence like Epstein had, how far of a stretch is it to think that a 13, 14, 15 year old girl would be wowed by that, awed by that, and want to do whatever somebody like Epstein wanted them to do because it was normalized by the other adults that were already at the house.
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An attorney representing the woman, whose identity is known to ABC News but is being withheld to protect her privacy, declined to comment for this report. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York also declined to comment. Marie Vilafana, the former federal prosecutor in Florida who led the U.S. attorney's office investigation of Epstein and prepared a draft 53 page indictment against him, is said to be heartbroken over the outcome of the initial investigation, according to sources familiar with the investigation. She also declined to comment, but her attorney, Ty Kelly, issued this statement on her behalf. Now look, I've never been a fan of Marie Vilafana and the fact that she tried to sugarcoat her involvement here. If you really wanted to be somebody who's a trailblazer, somebody who shows that they cared, then you would have put it all on the line. That means your job, your career, all of it. But none of these people did that. They just went along to get along, including Mr. Slinky Spine Bitch ass Alexander Acosta, by the way. Because the Department of Justice has declined to waive privilege over the Epstein matter, Ms. Vilafana is prohibited from discussing this matter and her opinions on the outcome in greater detail, the statement reads. If the department were to waive the privilege, she she believes it would provide a fuller and more accurate picture of how she handled this matter and how she advocated for victims at every turn. So again, they use the shroud of secrecy and the shield of that is that, oh, we have the Epstein investigation still ongoing. Well, can we get some arrests then? Are we going to see some movement? The FBI agent's first visit with a woman in New York in the early spring of 2008 came at a particularly sensitive time in the federal investigation, which was being overseen by R. Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida. Several months earlier, In September of 2007, Epstein had signed a deal with Acosta's office, which would shelve a potential federal indictment for multiple child sex crimes that had been under investigation by the FBI and and Acosta's prosecutors for more than a year. Now we know that it wasn't Acosta who did this on his own. Just to reiterate that in exchange, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two comparatively minor prostitution charges in a Florida state court register as a sex offender and pay restitution to dozens of alleged victims of his abuse in Florida. No alleged anymore, right? And they're not victims, they're now survivors. It's just downright unjust, said Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor and senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News. The deal does not match the significance of the evidence in the case. It does not. And anyone who thinks it does is smoking mushrooms for breakfast. Under the terms of the agreement, Epstein was required to use the best efforts to enter his guilty plea and be sentenced not later than October 26th of 2007. But not long after the ink was dry on the agreement, disputes arose between Epstein's legal team and the prosecutors over the interpretation of the restitution clauses in the deal, resulting in months long delay in finalizing the terms, according to court records. In a lawsuit against the Justice Department by survivors who challenged the agreement. It's so sad that that these survivors would even have to bring a lawsuit against the Department of Justice. I mean, for real, if anybody should be doing their job when it comes to sexual assault, you would think it would be the Justice Department, but I guess not. After an amended deal was agreed upon In December of 2007, Epstein was granted even more time for his legal team to appeal to higher levels of the justice department in Washington, D.C. challenging the premise of the federal investigation and certain aspects of the non prosecution agreement. In court filings responding to the victim's lawsuit against the justice department in 2017, Vilafano wrote that after the signing of the agreement, Epstein made several attempts to avoid having to perform the obligations he had undertaken and as a result, her office continued to proceed as though a trial of Epstein was still a possibility. The investigation continued up until the day that Epstein entered his state court guilty plea, Vilafana wrote. Yeah, well, nothing came of it though, did it? You can have your investigation all you want, but what did it turn into? Bupkis. It was during that period of delay and uncertainty that the FBI paid its visits to the young woman in New York. It's not clear what she said to the agents, but after the meeting she placed a call to an associate of Epstein looking for guidance on how to proceed, according to sources familiar with the situation. And Epstein then provided an attorney to represent the woman in discussions with federal prosecutors who are pressing for her testimony before a grand jury. Huh, I wonder who that attorney was. We'll have to look into that a little bit more, but I have a few guesses as the date of a potential grand jury appearance for the woman approached with all of his appeals to the Justice Department. Having been turned away, Epstein scheduled a hearing in Palm beach county and finally entered the required guilty plea on June 30th of 2008, nine months after signing the deal with the federal government. No one can say for sure whether the prospect of this woman testifying was. Was a factor in the timing of Epstein's plea or know with certainty what would have happened if she had testified. But she is yet another young woman who suffered in silence while Epstein walked free. And that's really the whole entire story, isn't it? All of these poor women who had to get abused and treated like this by this guy, had to sit there and watch him live this life of opulence while their lives were in ruins. She never received a high school education. She suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression. Her complaint says her severe emotional injuries manifest in a myriad of ways. She often finds herself crying. She is unable to form healthy emotional relationships with men. She often cannot sleep through the night or fall asleep at all. She has panic attacks and. And she is constantly afraid of her young for her young daughter. You know, folks, it just again solidifies the fact, for me anyway, that this whole entire process has been straight garbage. And the way they went about it, not only was it illegal, according to a judge, but it was completely wrong. And the fact that there's been nobody held responsible for all of this is just mind blowing to me. So we'll continue to hammer this point home and we'll continue to add articles like this to the catalog so you can get a full picture of what's going on here. All right folks, that's going to do it for this episode. 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 you can also find me on Twitter at B o b b y/cap ucci. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box.
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