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Mega Edition: The DOJ Jeffrey Epstein And The CVRA Deception Aimed At Survivors (5/4/26)
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The Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) was meant to guarantee Epstein’s survivors a voice in the legal process, but in practice their rights were ignored during the 2007–2008 non-prosecution agreement between Epstein’s legal team and federal prosecutors...
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That's why the zebra searches for you. Comparing over 100 insurance companies to find savings no one else can Compare. Today@thezebra.com who's ready for the trust fall? What's up, everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. In our last episode, we were talking about how the whole entire situation down in Florida is absolute garbage and how Palm beach and Florida in general cleared everybody who was involved of all of that garbage. Well, once again, we're gonna go back in time, hop in the DeLorean and head back to 2016. And back in 2016, well, the lawyers for Epstein survivors were not told of the sweetheart deal that Epstein received. So right there, that alone should be enough to elicit the absolute rage of the investigators in Florida. But the investigators down in Florida, folks, I'm just going to be very upfront with you. They were more concerned about covering the asses of their buddies of the state and of all of the broken ass institutions rather than holding people accountable for their bullshit. Oh, we can't ruin precedent. Oh, we can't go back and look at other cases these prosecutors worked on. It's such a joke, and it's honestly offensive the way that these governments conduct themselves, these local governments, federal government. Enough is enough. There needs to be some accountability and there needs to be some sort of investigative body that comes in and looks at these investigations from a federal standpoint because you can't expect people who work together, who are colleagues, to investigate each other and do it the right way. I don't want to hear about, oh, they're impartial, they're investigators. No, they're human beings. And human beings are susceptible to all kinds of nonsense. So I, I want a full and robust investigation from a federal level. How about that gets initiated by the Senate or Congress. You think they could fit that in while they're out here playing, you know, political touch ass, you know, things that actually affect the people. That'd be nice every once in a while, right? Instead of them arguing and fighting like the Undertaker versus the Million Dollar man, you know, in WWE back in the day. Because that's what it all is, political theater. This is the kind of shit that they should be going into, digging into Congress and the Senate. How did this all happen and how are we going to fix it? Instead all we get are platitudes and nonsense and the same shit continues to happen. Then for the grand finale of injustice, you get this report from Florida talking about, oh yeah, everything was on the up and up here. There was nothing that went wrong. Meanwhile, there's mountains of receipts that say, can the complete opposite. So today, once again, we're going to look at how the Florida prosecution and how the prosecution overall failed these survivors. This article is from NBC News. Headline Lawyers Survivors not told of sweetheart deal for for Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers for two teen survivors of Palm beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein say 30 or more alleged survivors weren't told of his lenient plea deal. So that right there alone should be enough to make people lose their jobs. And we have what, five, six, seven fuck ups by Florida and the Florida officials throughout this whole thing. But none of them are enough for the FDLE to come back and say, oh yeah, people need to have their heads roll here. Instead it's a cover up operation. Oh, we have a black eye. Instead of telling everybody how we got the black eye, let's just put some makeup on it. This article was Originally published on February 12th of 2016 and the author is Tom Winter. Prosecutors arranged a sweetheart deal for jet set sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but never bothered to tell more than 30 of the billionaires, alleged survivors about the agreement, say lawyers for two of the girls. And we know that this is the case now. This is not even disputable. There's no dispute about this. The girls were not told that this deal was being signed and that Epstein was getting off basically. So right there they violated the, the Victims Rights act, meaning the prosecution. So how can it be on the up and up. The financier. You mean the pedophile who partied with young women? Partied with young women at his Palm beach mansion. You mean raped young women at his Palm beach mansion. Listen to the way they were reporting this guy in 2016. As if he was just this big party guy and people were coming to his house, and they just happened to be a little bit young. I mean, really. Epstein pleaded guilty in a federally brokered deal in 2008 to a state count of soliciting an underage prostitute. So much wrong with that. How can an underage girl be a prostitute? And how is it that he only gets nailed with one count? But everything's on the up and up in Florida, folks. Just trust them. He served 13 months of an 18 month sentence. Prosecutors said in court papers filed at the time that he may have had as many as 40 survivors. There is good reason to believe that if the prosecutors had exposed their dealings to. To scrutiny by Jane Doe number one, Jane Doe number two, and other survivors says a motion filed earlier this week, they would not have reached such a sweetheart plea deal as. And that's why they weren't told. What do you think we're stupid? The prosecutors down there didn't tell these girls because they were pressed by Dershowitz and Starr and the rest of those clowns not to do so. So they didn't tell the survivors. They stepped all over the c. The crva, and then they act like nothing's wrong, like they're absolutely in the clear here. Well, I have to tell you, you are not. I don't care that Florida launched this investigation. It's time for a real robust investigation into the investigation. How about that? Jane does number one and two were 14 and 13 at the time of the abuse. Epstein, 55 at the time of his plea, served his sentence in the county jail. Imagine, 13 and 14 years old, and this cocksucker only gets a couple of days in jail. Basically what it ended up being. Yeah, but everything's on the up and up, folks. How dare you ask Florida what they're doing down here? Work release allowed him to spend most of his days at his office and nights behind bars. He then served a year of probation and was registered as a sex offender. Look, he didn't even have to check in, okay? Not in New York and not anywhere else. And forget about New Mexico. Dude could have lived across the street from a school and it wouldn't matter. He didn't have to be on the registry there. Remember attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, who called Epstein's agreement one of the most extraordinarily lenient plea deal arrangements in modern history, represent Jane does 1 and 2 and filed a federal civil lawsuit in 2008 asking that the agreement be vacated. I mean, it is literally one of the most egregious things I have ever seen. Now, granted, I'm not some legal scholar who follows this sort of thing, but you should not get a plea deal like this if you're a man like Epstein. I know that's breaking news and all, but this guy should have served his full term. See, what happens is you give him this plea deal, and because he's such a sick bastard who was broken right from the jump, he was never going to stop, and he kept molesting girls when he should have been in your custody. So whose fault is that? Florida. The motion they filed this week requested summary judgment prior to any trial and on the grounds that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims Rights act of 2004 by failing to inform the survivors of the deal. They most certainly did. And Judge Mara even said the same thing. So how is it that Florida can come out and with such confidence and such pizzazz, act like they had this great long investigation and they uncovered everything there was to uncover when they really didn't uncover diddly squat? According to the cvra, a crime victim in a federal case has the right to reasonable, accurate and timely notice of. Of any public court proceeding or any parole proceeding involving the crime, the right not to be excluded from any such public proceeding, and the right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain. Epstein's deal included a non prosecution agreement for any federal charges and a guilty plea in a state courtroom to a state charge. State prosecutors added a second charge of procuring, to which Epstein was also pleaded guilty. So nobody told them. And that right there is against the law. So how is it that the Florida investigation can come out and say everything's on the up and up? They think we forgot? Do they think we're stupid? Do they think we have memory loss? I mean, I know I took a couple of whacks to the head growing up playing football and shit, but come on. Wes Oliver, a law professor at Duquesne University, said he believes that based on Edwards and Castle's motion and its citations, that the CVRA may have been violated by prosecutors if the alleged survivors were not informed that Epstein would be making a public plea. And we know now that that is the case. So again, we're just talking about this to reiterate Here to drive home the point that shit down in Florida is not all fixed, that you know, we've come to a conclusion down here. Hell no, we haven't. And things need to be looked at once again. Oliver, however, notes that while the motions asked for finding that the survivors were wronged by the government, it is not at all clear there could be a remedy for this wrong. Yes, there is. Get rid of the plea deal. That's the remedy for the wrong. But unfortunately, all of these Harvard trained lawyers and Harvard trained judges, they're all homies. This statute only creates rights, said Oliver, but provides no method to sanction the violation of those rights. He also said that asking to have the agreement set aside would be an uphill battle, to put it mildly, since prosecutors have the right to make a deal and do not have to inform the alleged victims of their negotiations or obtain their consent to the pleas terms. Of course not, because that's how it's set up so that they can do whatever they want whenever they want to do it. Notice that regular folks, they don't ever get this plea deal. They don't ever get the hookup. But Epstein does, right? Oh, okay. In this case, that Oliver, the real question is whether there is any remedy available and should be addressed first. This motion really puts the cart before the horse. The FBI, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida, and an attorney for Jeffrey Epstein did not immediately respond to requests for comment. So folks, as you can see, this has been going on for years and years and years now and there's never been any proper remedy and there's never going to be a proper remedy unless we demand it. My hope is, and I know it's a. A long shot, but I hope that after these contentious elections are done the that maybe we'll get some people in D.C. that actually want to do the people's work. And I think a good place to start would be hearings and all sorts of investigation into what went down in Florida, in New York, in New Mexico and everywhere else. Jeffrey Epstein abused people. All right, folks, that's going to do it for me. 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. O B B Y Capucci the link that I discussed can be found in the description box. What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Today we're going to hop in the Time machine folks, and jump back to 2020 and we're going to talk about how the federal prosecutors completely dropped the ball when they gave out this plea deal. Now of course, we've talked about this a lot here on the podcast, but it is such a disgusting thing that they did, these prosecutors that it's worth talking about once again. So today we have an article from the Daily Mail. Like I said, 2020. The author of this article is, let's see, Daniel Bates. Most people would rather assemble a 300 piece cabinet than search for insurance. That's why the zebra searches for you. Comparing over 100 insurance companies to find savings no one else can Compare. 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That all of a sudden they don't even know what they're doing? Seems like they know what they're doing with everybody else. Look at the, look at the conviction rate in federal prison. I mean, come on, all of a sudden they forget how to prosecute cases when it has to do with basically a political grenade. Then all of a sudden they have no idea how to do their job anymore and they don't even know how to write up plea agreements. That's basically what they're saying. How can you make such an error, such a monumental error and nobody ever paid for it? Remember that folks, There was no people getting fired. Nobody lost pensions over this. None of it. Just ah, I guess we made a mistake. Well, when you're in a position such as this and you're a prosecutor, you're a high level member of the Department of Justice, you can't make a mistake like this and just shrug your shoulders and say, we'll do better next time. There has to be repercussions. And there never was. Federal prosecutors who agreed to Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart plea deal were played so well by the pedophile's lawyers, they didn't even realize they were giving immunity to Ghislaine Maxwell. An explosive new report reveals the prosecutors from the Southern District of Florida thought they were only giving legal protection to four female Epstein associates. They later admitted that it never dawned on them the immunity clause was also designed to protect Maxwell, who was accused of being Epstein's chief recruiter. And we all know now, not only accused, convicted. So these prosecutors are going to act like they had no idea that Maxwell was going to be under this umbrella, which is very, very difficult for me to believe. Epstein's lawyers persuaded them to use language so loose. It. It could also apply to the British socialite human trafficker who is due to stand trial next year for allegedly procuring girls as young as 14. For him. The stunning blunder features in a report by the Department of Justice's internal watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility, which has not been released in full. But DailyMail.com has seen a copy. Of course it hasn't been released in full. Why would they. These guys really, really messed up down there. And their screw up, their refusal to stand up to Jeffrey Epstein has caused so much extra pain that it's not even. It's not even funny. These people could have stopped Epstein a very long time ago and instead gave him a sweetheart deal that not only let him continue on his path of abuse, but let his co conspirators get off scot free. It reveals in unprecedented details the errors that led to Epstein serving just 15 months in jail in 2007, despite the FBI identifying dozens of potential victims. Among the other revelations is that the SDFL failed to obtain Epstein's computers and surveillance tapes from inside his houses, even though they could have proved he was in possession of child pornography. Well, we know that Epstein was tipped off. We've heard that from his. His bodyguard said that. Other people have said that. And then we also have seen Khan, Indyke and others leaving Epstein's houses with bags full of stuff. What happened to all of that? The feds aren't interested in finding out what's on those hard drives. And you see why we gotta keep talking about it, don't you? These people really think that everyone's just gonna sit back and accept the nonsense that went on here, but nobody's gonna accept it. Anymore. And what it does, it shines a spotlight on how prevalent these problems are throughout the whole entire justice system. The prosecutor in charge of the case thought that the material would have put this case completely to bed and given them evidence to put Epstein away for years. An attorney working for Epstein had a prior relationship with one of the prosecutors and told him to do us a solid favor and get his boss to suggest giving Epstein just two years in jail. The report said a senior prosecutor was so cozy with Epstein's lawyer, Jay Lefkowitz, he told him he enjoyed working with him and that Mr. Epstein was fortunate to have such excellent representation. Boy, isn't that nice. How do the prosecutors treat normal people? How do you think the prosecutors would treat you? But since Mr. Lefkowitz has such a cozy relationship with the prosecutor, Lefkowitz being Epstein's lawyer, well, you know, things are different. And again, it just goes to show you what we always talk about here. You're not paying for the lawyer for what he knows. You're paying for those relationships. And there's a reason that Jeffrey Epstein's legal team was chock full of people who have all kinds of, you know, long standing relationships with those in power. Lefkowitz Star Dershowitz look, it, it wasn't an accident that this legal team was put together. The OPR report was commissioned by Attorney General William Barr in early 2019 after the Miami Herald's devastating investigation into Epstein's plea deal called Perversion of Justice. And this always bothered me as well. Why did it take a, a, a news article to come out to make the Department of Justice get interested here? They had all of the evidence, more than Julie K. Brown ever had, and they were never interested before. Oh, what? Now that there's a public outcry? Oh, we better do something. We better act like we're doing something. But the reality is this. They sat on this shit for how long? They could have stopped Epstein a long time ago, and they chose not to. Journalists began their inquiries after the U.S. attorney who signed off on Epstein's agreement, Alex Acosta, was appointed by Donald Trump as his Labor Secretary, meaning he would be in charge of US Government policy on human trafficking. It is such an obscene joke that this man was appointed. An absolutely obscene joke. Alexandra Acosta is a spaghetti back, no spine having scoundrel just like the rest of them. With that said, this dude didn't have the power to make this decision. Come on. The series of stories helped lead to Epstein's arrest in August last year. And he hanged Himself allegedly in prison while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Acosta was was forced to resign. The OPR report was designed to look into whether or not any of the prosecutors engaged in corruption or professional misconduct. The report concludes that did not happen, partly because the bar was that prosecutors intentionally or recklessly violated a clear and unambiguous standard. Just lawyer speak, a way out for the prosecutors. The federal government knows that they'd have big time egg on their face if they found any wrongdoing here with the prosecutors. So what they'll say is, oh, mistakes were made. But it doesn't, it doesn't hit home right what they're saying here. It's just more kicking the can down the road. No one taking responsibility, no one being held responsible. However, the 350 pages, it digs up profound and disturbing questions about the handling of the case. The most troubling is the handling of the immunity clause in the non prosecution agreement, the deal Epstein signed to make the federal charges disappear. Instead, he would plead guilty in state court to two felony prostitution charges, be sentenced to 18 months in jail, and register as a sex offender. Unless you go to the fantastic state of New Mexico where you don't have to register as a sex offender or where you can go hang out at your ranch, keep bringing girls in, hang out with your transhumanist friends, talk about seeding the planet with your sperm. You know, typical Saturday night. Under the immunity clause, which was suggested by Epstein's lawyers who haggled repeatedly over the language, four women were also given protection from prosecution. They were Sarah Kellen, who, who was allegedly one of the main recruiters. Nadia Martinkova, an alleged sex slave, Adriana Ross, one of his associates, and Leslie Groff, who is said to have been his New York based assistant. All the women have subsequently denied any wrongdoing and some have said they are victims. Yeah, I'm not buying it. Okay, Nadia Marcinkova, that's about as far as it goes for me. That's as far as victims go with these ladies. Nadia is the end of it because Adriana Ross, grown ass woman. Leslie Groff, grown ass woman. Sarah Kellen, grown ass woman. And we all know the story about Nadia sold to Epstein as a child. Whole different ball game in my opinion. But the fact that these people were given this immunity is just mind boggling to me. You know, it's bad enough that Epstein was able to get off on this soft ass deal. You add this to it and it's just a monstrosity of a bad deal. All the women have Subsequently denied any wrongdoing and some have said they are victims. The final language of the immunity clause was the United States agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co conspirator of Epstein, including but but not limited to the four women. Now you tell me who else gets a deal like that? Any potential co conspirator. That means unnamed potential coconspirators, folks. Okay, so anyone who might be involved and then the four women. How in the hell do you get the federal government to agree to that deal? I have seen the federal government go after people with way less evidence and, and not cut any kind of sweetheart deal. Pursue it all the way to the very end. They had a mountain's worth of evidence here and instead they decide to plea out. That never happens with the federal government. So we're going to need some answers. And the bullshit answers that you have given us thus far, that's not going to work. The wording was loose enough that it applied to Maxwell Epstein's former girlfriend, co conspirator who, who his survivors have claimed ran his sex trafficking operation. She's been convicted for that. She has denied the allegations against her. Well, that's okay. You can deny all you want, but the facts don't bear out yet. Jeffrey Sloman, the first assistant U.S. attorney in the SDFL told the OPR that it never occurred to him that the reference to potential co conspirators was directed toward any of the high profile individuals who were at the time or subsequently linked. Oh no. Who was it for? His mom and his dad. So Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? Jeffrey Sloman man, what is going on down in Florida? Certainly one of the few states in this country I'm not moving to. Ann Marie Vilafana, the Assistant US Attorney who was in charge of the case, said that apart from the four named women, they had not much evidence on any other potential co conspirator. She said so we wouldn't be prosecuting anybody else, so we. Why not include it? I just don't think that there was anybody that it would cover. Oh no, not at all. Marie Vilafana. And remember, they tried to make her out as some kind of hero, right? Tried to make her out as somebody who tried to fight the system to get these prosecutions. If that was the case, she would have went all the way. Meaning losing her job over it, becoming a whistleblower, speaking out about how bad all of this is. But instead she went along with it with the rest of them. She conceded to the OPR that she did not catch the fact that it could be read as broadly as people have since read it. Vilafana said that at the time she told a colleague, I don't think it hurts us. These are the people that are tasked with protecting your children. These are the people that are tasked with sending scumbags to prison. And you wonder why the whole entire country has become a cesspool. These people don't want to do their jobs. Vilafana told the OPR that Epstein's lawyers told her that he wanted to make sure that he's the only one who takes the blame for what happened. Vilafana and her colleagues believed Epstein's conduct was his own dirty little secret and appear to have missed the fact that Maxwell was his alleged top lieutenant. They didn't miss, in my opinion. They ignored it. Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers completely coerced them, completely gave them the runaround and completely showed them what it means to be a high profile lawyer. Because these prosecutors, either A, they're terrible at their job and they should be fired, or B, they went right along with Epstein's lawyers and were dog walked the whole entire time, which means that they're not competent enough to have the, to have the positions anyway. Her reasoning is clouded by the fact that she admits the FBI were aware of Epstein's longtime relationship with a close female friend who was a well known socialite co conspirator, which appears to mean Maxwell. Vilafana said they didn't have any specific evidence against her, but they had already spoken to one victim who implicated her. But the conduct was not in Florida. Vilafana told opr, we considered Epstein to be the top of the food chain and we wouldn't have been interested in prosecuting anyone else. Imagine that. This is your federal government, folks. And coming on the heels of tax day yesterday, when I wrote the government a nice fat fucking check, by the way, nice to know that it's going to pay. People like this, people that don't even know what they're doing, maybe it's going to drop some bombs on innocent people in Yemen as well. Boy, it makes me feel great about paying that big fat chunk yesterday. It's a joke, ok? People like this Villafana, they get up there and then they, they say this sort of stuff like people should believe it. How did the OPR actually buy this? The report says she did not consider the possibility, possibility that Epstein might be trying to protect other unnamed individuals. And no one, including the FBI case agents, raised that concern. That's such a lie. Michael Ryder the police chief who referred this to the FBI had those concerns, brought those concerns up, and that was the whole reason it ended up on the desk of the feds, and the feds punted it back to Acosta and the state, so don't give me that. Sloman agreed and in retrospect, understood the non prosecution provision, which was designed to protect Epstein's 4 assistance. And it never dawned on him that it would. It was intended to shield anyone else. The report said so because he didn't figure it out. He shouldn't be held accountable for being part of this. Isn't it your job to make sure deals like this don't happen? The horrible irony is that not only did Maxwell slip through the net, but she could use the very same NPA for her defense at her upcoming trial. Before Epstein killed himself, allegedly, his lawyers argued that the deal with the SDFL was part of a global agreement with the US Government and he couldn't be prosecuted twice. Maxwell may do the same. Well, we know that that didn't work out for her, because what the prosecutors did is they updated their charges, right? They used charges in New York, they used charges elsewhere, but they were different from the first ones that were prosecuted. Among the other details in the report is the extraordinary revelation that the prosecution failed to obtain the computers removed from Epstein's Palm beach mansion prior to them being raided by the Palm Beach Police Department. Mysteriously, all the computers, including those with records of surveillance cameras, had been removed by the time officers arrived. Oh, I wonder how that happened. I'm sure nobody tipped Epstein off. I. I'm sure his. His high profile lawyers had nothing to do with that. I mean, are you kidding me right now? I'm pretty sure that they. They swooped up all of El Chapo's computers. Pretty sure they got all of John Gotti's information. But somehow, when you arrest Epstein, you don't have raids at all of his properties at the same time. That doesn't make any sense. Gives him time to get rid of evidence. Gives them time to destroy what? Or maybe that was just your goal to give him the amount of time he needed to get rid of the evidence that would have cooked your homies. The report says that Villafana, who. The new. Who had possession of the computer equipment and the tapes. It does not say who they could have provided additional victims and given powerful visual evidence of a large number of. Of the girls Epstein victimized. The report says Vilafana made repeated efforts to get the computers from Epstein's lawyers, but they blocked her and her superiors did not pursue this. Okay, yeah, that. That all sounds normal. So we don't need the computers, huh? Seems like that's the first thing everybody goes to get. Let's get them computers. Let's get that cell phone. But in this case, no big deal. Ah, we don't need the computers. We'll let Epstein's lawyers have them. The report says that this evidence was relevant and potentially critical, and says that it could have led to evidence of Epstein transmitting child pornography images across state lines. A serious federal crime. Vilafana told the opr. If the evidence had been what we suspected it was, it would have put this case completely to bed. It would also have completely defeated all of these arguments about interstate nexus. Man, these guys really fumbled the ball, and they let Epstein off the hook. And then you wonder why people sit around and say that, you know, the government officials are in on it, that they had skin in the game. That's why they were making sure all of this was obfuscated and hidden from public light. In its most withering section, the report says it was clear Epstein did not want the contents of his computers disclosed. Nothing in the available record reveals that the USAO benefited from abandoning pursuit of this evidence when they did. Instead, the USAO agreed to postpone and ultimately to abandon its efforts to obtain evidence that could have significantly changed Acosta's decision to resolve the federal investigation with a state guilty plea or lead to additional significant federal charges. By agreeing to postpone the litigation, the USAO gave away leverage that might have caused the defense to come to an agreement much earlier and on terms more favorable to the government. The USAO ultimately agreed to a term in the plea deal that permanently ended the government's ability to obtain possible evidence of significant crimes, and did so with apparently little serious consideration of. Of the potential cost. Here's what they thought. They thought that this would all go away. Epstein would get arrested, and that would be the end of it. Nobody. Nobody would ever talk about it again, and it would go down in the annals of history as just another sick dude. Well, they were wrong. The survivors took it to social media, and we all know what happened then. So their little deal here that they thought was going to remain private is now public, and I don't know how many times we have to talk about it. There needs to be something done here. Got all these people running around talking about how great Desantis is. Well, show us how great you are, Mr. DeSantis. Take action. Hold people accountable. This is your state, right? Let's see you do something. The issue with the computers was not the only instance where Vilafana felt blocked by. By her male superiors. Look, I don't. I don't buy any of that. She could have become a whistleblower, man. She didn't do it. And trying to punt the blame to other people. I'm not a big fan of that. The report paints her as one of the few voices within the department calling for Epstein to be arrested as soon as possible. She told OPR that she was in a hurry to lock up Epstein because child sex offenders don't stop until they're behind bars. But she butted heads with Matthew Menschel, the chief of the Criminal division for sdfl. In a blunt email to her, he said, if you want to work major cases in the district, you must understand and accept the fact that there is a chain of command, something you disregard with great regularity, and that's important right there. Not just for the Vilafauna story here, but to show you that Acosta wasn't acting on his own. There is a chain of command, and Acosta wasn't the be all, end all, that's for sure. When Epstein signed the plea deal, one of Vilafana's colleagues told her the case only resolved with the filthy rich bad guy going to jail. Because of your dedication and determination. She said, after all the hell they put me through, I don't feel like celebrating 18 months. He should be spending 18 years in jail. Well, Ms. Vilafana, why didn't you come out and be more vocal about that publicly? I understand that you have a career to worry about, but sometimes things are more important. While Vilafana maintained a combative stance with Epstein's attorneys when she could, some of her male colleagues were far cozier with them. Andrew Laurie, deputy chief of the Criminal division at the time, appeared to get on well with Lefkowitz, one of Epstein's dream team of lawyers, which also included Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, who wrote the impeachment investigation of Bill Clinton. When Lefkowitz emailed Lori to ask for his help to stop details about their negotiations being leaked, he told him, I have enjoyed working with you on this matter. Lori replied, I enjoyed it as well. Mr. Epstein was fortunate to have such excellent representation. Really? So you guys are homies? Gonna go out and get a steak afterward and yuck it up about how you stuck it to these young girls? Pieces of that was not the. That was not the only such connection between the prosecution and the defense. And Epstein's lawyer, Lilian Sanchez, Briefly had a relationship with Menshell in 2003 when they worked, when they both worked at the SDFL. But there's nothing to miss here, folks. There's nothing to see. There's no ties here. Nobody should be held responsible. All this stuff we're talking about, all these alleged errors in judgment and, and no one held responsible. The report says that in 2018, Vilafana claimed that the idea of Epstein serving a two year jail sentence was done as a favor to Sanchez. She wrote in an email. Months or possibly years later, I asked former first assistant Jeff Sloman where the two year figure came from. He said that lilian Sanchez asked Mr. Menshel to do her a solid and convince Mr. Acosta to offer two years. Sloman told OPR that he could not recall making such a remark. Menchel said he couldn't recall how the two year figure came about and said his prior relationship with Sanchez played no part in his decision making. So we should just listen to him, huh? I mean, I don't understand how any of this is even, how any of this even worked out like this. There are way too many things here that are not on the up and up. And the authorities in Florida, they didn't step in, they didn't say, all right, hold on, we need to have a, an even deeper look. How about a grand jury? They love to have grand juries all the time. How about we get a grand jury going here and get some people subpoenaed, federal prosecutors and others, and see what kind of backroom deal was had here? Because it's obvious something was agreed upon in the back room. Despite turning up fresh evidence about the, the investigation, the OPR was still unable to explain why Acosta decided on such a lenient sentence for Epstein. The report says he appeared to be trying to find middle ground between what Epstein would have got in the. If the case was handled by federal prosecutors from the start, potentially decades in jail, and what he would be getting in state court, which amounted to. To a slap on the wrists. In a scathing passage, the report says that Acosta's reasoning was untethered to any articulate, reasonable basis. As a result, he drew up a plea deal that was too difficult to administer, leaving Epstein free to manipulate the conditions of his sentence to his own advantage. It was by design. That was how it was designed. Right? And again, we could talk about Acosta till the cows come home, folks, but the fact is this. He had a boss. He. He's a middle manager, and he didn't make this call on his own. So let's be fired up about Acosta, but let's not forget that it's his bosses who signed off on this. And as the, you know, things move forward in the case and, you know, we, we see Maxwell sentencing getting ready to come to light, you have to ask yourself how much pain and suffering could have been stopped and ended if the prosecutors in Florida simply did their jobs. All right, folks, that's gonna 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 can also find me on Twitter at B O B b y/cap ucci. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box. As for me, well, I'll be back later on. So I hope all of you have a great evening.