Mega Edition: The Epstein OIG Reports Were Meant To Set The Record Straight. They Failed (7/8/26)

Summary

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The Epstein Chronicles – Mega Edition: The Epstein OIG Reports Were Meant To Set The Record Straight. They Failed (7/8/26)

Host: Bobby Capucci
Date: July 8, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this “Mega Edition” episode, Bobby Capucci scrutinizes the long-awaited Inspector General (OIG) report on Jeffrey Epstein’s death and reviews damning articles from CNN and the Miami Herald on institutional failures within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Bobby’s central thesis: Not only have these reports failed to deliver justice or accountability for Epstein’s crimes and suspicious death, but they have also perpetuated the culture of impunity among society’s most powerful players.

“These reports were meant to set the record straight. They failed—utterly.”
—Bobby Capucci [00:00]

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Release of the Inspector General’s Report

• The Report’s Findings:

  • The OIG’s 128-page report concludes that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a result of “multiple failures” by the BOP but asserts there’s “no evidence to contradict the absence of criminality.”
  • Bobby is deeply skeptical: three years for a report that ultimately blames “systemic failure,” absolves criminal intent, and offers little accountability.
  • Missing Evidence: Disputes about the chain of custody for video footage and lack of camera recordings go unanswered.

  “It took three years for you to tell us that everything was above board and it was just a systemic failure. Can we see some video evidence of that?”
  —Bobby Capucci [01:30]

• Contextual Absences:

  • Report doesn’t address why a violent inmate (Nicholas Tartaglioni) was placed with Epstein.
  • Media outlets fail to probe controversial cellmate assignments and omit Tartaglioni’s role.
  • Systemic Problems: After all the procedural errors, “nobody goes to jail,” and changes are still not implemented.

  “If these systemic errors were as bad as you’re saying... shouldn’t they be fixed right away?”
  —Bobby Capucci [10:12]

2. Justice Department’s Internal Review and Accountability Failure

• The Miami Herald Article Breakdown [11:30]:

  • Focuses on the DOJ’s internal review regarding Epstein’s “sweetheart deal” from former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta.
  • Bobby lambasts these reviews as “face-saving exercises” and likens DOJ officials to an untouchable “aristocracy.”
  • Ben Sasse’s Outcry: Senator Ben Sasse emerges as a lone, forceful voice in Congress, condemning the DOJ’s handling.

  “Letting a well-connected billionaire get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn’t poor judgment. It is a disgusting failure.”
  —Senator Ben Sasse, quoted by Bobby [19:35]

• Excuses & Deflections:

  • The OPR (Office of Professional Responsibility) concludes Acosta used poor judgment but committed “no professional wrongdoing.”
  • Survivors were not properly informed or treated with “forthrightness and sensitivity.”
  • The DOJ’s response is labeled by Bobby as a “double-bird to the survivors and to society as a whole.” [16:16]

• Protecting the Untouchable:

  • Bobby repeatedly asks why “every official report mentions Bill Clinton, but nobody goes after him.”
  • On Alan Dershowitz:
    • Dershowitz, allegedly involved in the defense’s strategy to discredit young victims, is called a “real piece of shit. Your podcast sucks, your life sucks. ...We’re just getting started with you, Mr. Dershowitz.” [45:21]

3. Pattern of Elite Protection and Media Evasion

• High-Level Stonewalling:

  • The Justice Department deflects and delays, and every substantive inquiry is “handled internally” with little transparency.
  • “Career prosecutors, AKA Friends of Mukase, Friends of the Court, friends of the Department of Justice. It’s a good old boys’ club, folks, and you’re not invited.” [39:08]

• Failures Impact Survivors Directly:

  • Survivors are left “waiting for answers” and “waiting on justice.”
  • Bobby emphasizes that every girl hurt by Epstein post-sweetheart deal is a direct result of the government’s negligence.

  “If they would have went through with it, Epstein would have never hurt any of those other girls after he was originally charged here. So all of those girls who came in the aftermath... are directly on the shoulders of the Department of Justice.”
  —Bobby Capucci [48:05]

4. Call for Transparency and Public Action

• Demand for Full Disclosure:

  • Bobby echoes Senator Sasse, pressing for full release of OIG and OPR reports—no redactions.
  • Urges listeners to contact their representatives and push for hearings under oath.

  “We want the full report. No redactions, none of your bullshit, none of your f shucky ducky moves.”
  —Bobby Capucci [22:50]

• Systemic Change Needed:

  • Bobby remains pessimistic about real change (“meet the new boss, same as the old boss”), but insists public outcry is the only lever for reform.
  • Highlights how, even after intense media scrutiny and calls for reform, the pattern repeats with each new “event.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Of course, they can't and they won’t…You mean pedophile, right? Jeffrey Epstein.” —Bobby Capucci [01:00]
• “Ask yourselves, folks, why is that the case? Every single official document that comes out mentions Bill Clinton, and yet here we are, Bill Clinton getting a free ride once again.” [25:40]
• “We haven’t even gotten to Virginia’s and the Courtney’s of the world in the Epstein story. These are the young girls from high school that were being brought in through a revolving door in the Palm beach mansion. 13 to 17 years old.” [48:20]
• “Now, mind you... this is the... We’re not... We haven’t even gotten to Virginia’s and the Courtney’s of the world in the Epstein story.” [48:20]
• “How dare you. Sloman wrote in February 2019, apparently referring to a short term Epstein served in the Palm beach jail and settlements paid to some of Epstein's survivors. The op ed was published months later, before Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary.” [33:55]
• “I'm almost tongue tied here. Credibility issues because they smoked pot and they had sex. Breaking news. That’s what teenagers do.” —[46:11]

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Important Timestamps

• [00:00–10:12] — Analysis of the OIG report’s “systemic failures,” introduction of Tartaglioni theory, media’s failure to probe key questions
• [11:30–19:35] — Breakdown of DOJ’s internal review, criticisms of Acosta/OPR, Senator Sasse’s response
• [22:50–25:37] — Bobby’s call for public pressure and Congressional hearings, frustration with political posturing
• [39:08–44:01] — Critique of DOJ “good old boys club,” Allen Dershowitz’s role in discrediting victims
• [48:05–end] — Emotional indictment of the DOJ for failing the survivors, call for continued scrutiny

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Tone & Style

Bobby Capucci’s delivery is candid, relentless, and indignant, demonstrating outrage at institutional failures and deep sympathy for Epstein’s victims. He punctuates his analysis with gallows humor, sarcasm, and direct calls to action, never shying away from naming names or challenging the official narrative.

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Summary Conclusion

This exhaustive episode reveals the continuing rot within the government institutions tasked with justice and oversight in Epstein’s case. Bobby Capucci makes clear that the recently released Inspector General and DOJ reports do little more than “set the record straight” for the bureaucracy while letting the real perpetrators—both within the system and among Epstein’s elite associates—escape accountability. Until public outrage forces transparency and hearings under oath, Bobby warns, survivors (and the public) will continue to wait for real answers and real justice.

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Find Bobby on Twitter: @boby_Capucci

All links and referenced documents: See episode description.

Transcript

[A]

What's up, everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Finally, after three years, the Inspector General has released their report on what happened to Jeffrey Epstein in the lockup where the official narrative says that he died from a suicide. And now, three years and some change after Jeffrey Epstein's death, we finally have access to the this 128 page report by the Inspector General. Now, I think we're going to go through this and we're going to talk about it maybe chapter by chapter, because I think it's very important to get it documented and added to the catalog, at least some of it. Right? And I can't wait to dig in and see what sort of excuses were made for the Justice Department and the shitty way that the whole entire Bureau of Prisons has been managed. But before we dive into the meat and the potatoes of what the actual report has to say, we have an article from CNN talking about the release of this report and how the Justice Department overall failed miserably when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Headline, DOJ issues scathing rebuke of Bureau of Prisons detailing multiple failures that led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide. Well, we can all pack it in, folks. The Inspector General has told us what happened here. And we have to listen to everything the Inspector General has to say. Right, because they don't have any skin in the game for making sure that the government saves face. This article was authored by Holmes Liebrand. And like I said, this article was published by cnn, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General on Tuesday and issued a scathing rebuke of the Bureau of Prisons detailing the multiple failures that led to the death of high profile financier. You mean pedophile, right? Jeffrey Epstein following his arrest in 2019, but found no evidence to contradict the absence of criminality in his death. Of course, it took three years for you to tell us that everything was above board and it was just a systemic failure. Can we see some video evidence of that? Can you explain away why there was no chain of custody when it comes to the video surveillance footage? Of course they can't and they won't. According to the report, the failures that allowed Epstein time to die by suicide in his cell included multiple prison employees failing to conduct rounds and cell searches to check on Epstein. His. His access to extra bed linens which he used to hang himself, and failure to assign Epstein a fellow inmate after he was placed on suicide watch. And I've said from the very beginning, I'm more than willing to believe that Epstein killed himself. But I think he was nudged in that direction. And I think that all started with putting him in that cell with Tartaglioni. Tartaglioni was in there to send a message, and guess what? The message was received. So how did Epstein get access to all of these linens, have access to all of this stuff that these convicts shouldn't have access to? All of that is still not explained. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking minors. Then in August, only 35 days after his arrest, Epstein died by suicide by hanging in his jail cell at New York City's Metropolitan Correctional center, where he was being held, according to New York City's medical examiner. And not to beat a dead horse here, but we know what Dr. Michael Baden had to say about that autopsy. He witnessed it. He was involved in it. And he says that, according to his expertise, that Jeffrey Epstein's hyoid bone being broken the way it was leads him to believe that Jeffrey Epstein was strangled and that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. So what you have are two experts with competing opinions, and it comes down to, at that point, who you believe. And for me, the likeliest scenario has always been that Tartaglioni sent that message. And then Epstein, knowing that he had run out of road, that all of his friends had abandoned him, and that he had been burned by his intelligence contacts, he understood that the writing was now on the wall. So it's very possible that he did kill himself. But I think that he was pushed to do that if he did kill himself by the messaging sent by Tartaglioni when he was put in that jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place. Nobody can explain, and nobody has explained how a man who is accused of four homicides is even put into a jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place. The politically and socially well connected financier, the. They don't even call him a pedophile in this article. Imagine pedophile's death immediately spurned conspiracy theories and significant questioning and intrigue over the circumstances. Well, yeah, what do you expect? A guy like Jeffrey Epstein just happens to die while he's in the custody of the United States government after he has all of this information about people in that government. How come it wasn't El Chapo who died while he was in this jail or any of the other famous people who have been here? It just happens to be Epstein, huh? Along with the coincidence of the surveillance cameras not recording the first alleged attempt and all of the other stuff we've talked about. So all of that is Just a coincidence, huh? And it just happens that Epstein, of all of the people that are held in this lockup, ends up killing himself. And of course, the baked in reasoning why is that? There are systemic problems within the Bureau of Prisons. So they had a built in excuse right away. Oh, the Bureau of Prisons is in shambles. These people can't do their jobs. They can't make sure that these prisoners are protected. Meanwhile, nobody goes to jail. As far as the guards go. What about their bosses? What about the sergeant? Where was the lieutenant? Where was his boss? So they talk about all of this systemic failure and there's no changes made. Nobody goes to jail as far as the people who were involved here. And certainly none of the bureaucrats who are calling the shots are ever going to face any kind of repercussions. The report indicated the Bureau of Prison's failings were troubling not only because they did not safeguard Epstein, but also because they led to numerous questions about the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death and denied Epstein's survivors. Dead justice. Yeah, it sure did that. And it also conveniently protected all of Jeffrey Epstein's buddies. Like Bill Clinton. Two guards on duty that night of Epstein's death later admitted to falsifying records at the time. According to the initial indictment against the two guards on the night of Epstein's suicide, both individuals repeatedly failed to complete the required prisoner's check during the their watch. And it led directly to somebody dying. And both of these guards had their charges dropped. I mean, really? So nobody, when all is said and done, paid the price for these systemic failures. So what the hell was the point of a three year investigation into this that is really uncovering nothing and certainly not holding anybody to account. It took you buffoons three years to come up with this? The guards had entered a deferred prosecution with the Justice Department, agreeing to complete 100 hours of community service and cooperate with the DOJ's inspector general's review. Well, isn't that nice? Somebody dies on your watch and you get some kind of community service. The scrutiny around Epstein's suicide and MCC's failures only intensified after reports revealed Epstein was put on suicide watch. And after he was found in his cell with bruises on his neck, only to be taken off watch a day later. Not one mention of Tartaglioni in this whole entire article. Not one single mention of the fact that Tartaglioni was in that jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein. And all of these outlets do the same thing. They conveniently omit the fact that Epstein was in that jail cell with Tartaglioni. And why do they do that? Why wouldn't they focus more on that and ask more questions as to why a four time loser like Tartaglioni would be in the jail cell with somebody who is as protected and as guarded as an inmate as Jeffrey Epstein. Unless of course, he was placed there on purpose to send a message. And that's what I believe. That's what I've said for quite some time now, and that's exactly where I stand. I think that Tartaglioni was put in that jail cell to send a message to Epstein. And that message was either you do it or we do it. And I think it's interesting that all of these articles really that deal with what happened in that jail, very rarely if ever talk about Tartaglioni. And if you're not even bringing that up, if you're not even talking about that crucial part of the story, it leads me to believe that you really don't have an idea of about what happened here and you're just following along and being spoon fed. Whatever the Inspector General wants you to hear, that's not going to work for me. That's not good enough. And I know it's not good enough for most of you out there either. We want real robust answers and we want to know what happened here. And if it was a systemic failure like they're saying in this report, how come nobody was fired, how come nobody was prosecuted? And if there were no consequences for people doing this, what's going to stop people in the future from doing some like this again? Well, I'll tell you what. Nothing. We're going to get another report sometime in the future after another event like this occurs. And it'll be another repeat performance of what the Inspector General tells us in this report. Meanwhile, no steps are being taken by the federal government or the Bureau of Prisons the fix anything, even with their gigantic bloated budget. So how are you going to tell us there's a bunch of systemic errors but yet not move off of your fat asses to fix anything? If these systemic errors were as bad as you're saying here, Mr. Inspector General, shouldn't they be fixed right away? Shouldn't it be something that is a priority? Because if the issues are that glaring, they need to be dealt with right away. But we haven't seen that, have we? Have we seen an overhaul of the Bureau of Prisons or the doj? Of course not. So what exactly is it that the Inspector General got accomplished with this report? Besides crafting A narrative. And that narrative once again is, look, this was all just systemic and Jeffrey Epstein happened to slip through the cracks. We're really sorry about it, but we're not going to hold anybody accountable. Oh, and by the way, it took us three years to tell you that. So obviously I have some reading ahead of me considering this is a 128 page report. So I'm going to cut it short here and I'm going to dive into that report and see exactly what the Inspector General came up with. All right, everybody, 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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They were talking about the Department of Justice and their piss poor job on their so called internal review. Well, today we're gonna add some more context to that and we're going to jump into the article from the Miami Herald, which is a lot longer than the Daily Mail article that we read yesterday and provides more context as to who the players were, who was being looked at and what the situation overall was. So, like you all know, I am big on context here. So we're going to use this Miami Herald article and we're going to see what else is going on here with this Department of Justice and their piss poor decision to say it was just bad judgment on Acosta's part. Now, I expected this so called internal investigation to turn up exactly what it turned up. Squat. Nothing. Zero. Did we really think that the Justice Department was going to put themselves on blast for the job that they did or the job that they didn't do? I should say. Of course not. It's all about saving face. It's all about COVID your ass. It's no different than the royals over in England. The these people think that they are the ruling class. They think that they're the aristocracy and they rule and lord over us. But that is not the case. And the scuzz at the Department of Justice led by Darth Barr, I cannot wait for all of them to be gone. But then it'll just be a new wave of meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And the wheel just keeps on spinning. It seems like the only person who was really fired up about this was Senator Ben Sasse from Nebraska and he went pretty hard in the paint. He had some pretty strong words and I agree with all of that. But at what point do words turn into action? At what point do these senators start to hold people responsible? So far, I guess we haven't reached that point because nobody has been held responsible. Nobody has lost their jobs. Nobody has even had to face the music when it comes to their shitty job that they did. And this report just goes to smooth things over. That's what this report is. Let's smooth things over. The Justice Department had nothing to do with this.

[A]

Are you kidding?

[B]

This was just a poor bit of judgment on one man's part. Well, that's not going to fly with me. That's not going to cut it. And there is a much deeper problem here than just Acosta. And it goes all the way to the top. Alright, so this article is from the Miami Herald and the authors are Kevin G. Hall J. Weaver and Ben Weider. Former U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta used poor judgment when he chose not to prosecute Palm beach millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on federal sex trafficking charges and instead let him plead guilty to a state offense of soliciting young girls for sex. The Justice Department said Thursday. You know, the only people that are using poor judgment around here is the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice. It's not only using poor decision making and poor judgment, it is absolutely absurd what is occurring within the Department of Justice right now. It is an absolute dumpster fire of a clown show. And Darth Barr should be embarrassed of himself. You know, I'm always talking about vote out the incumbent. Vote out the incumbent. Well, that goes for these lifelong bureaucrats that infest Washington, D.C. as well, people like Bill Barr. It's time to go, buddy. Your services are no longer needed. The Department's Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that Acosta, who served as Labor Secretary in the Trump administration until the scandal over his mishandling of the Epstein case forced him to resign in July 2019, committed no professional wrongdoing and violated no ethics standards. The non prosecution agreement was signed over 10 years earlier when Acosta was U.S. attorney for South Florida. No professional wrongdoing, huh? And not even an ethics violation. So basically, the double birds to the survivors and to society as a whole.

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F you.

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We don't protect girls, we don't protect women. We don't protect anyone who's trafficked. And you guys can all go pound sand. We're the Department of Justice and we have spoken. That's how they conduct themselves. And it's no different than when Barr came stumbling in like a drunkard, talking about, I saw the video with Epstein. You guys don't have anything to worry about. Yeah, okay, sure, buddy. What have you done ever for me to trust you? I'm old enough to remember when I was gaslit by The Bush administration and Bill Barr, big part of all of that as well. Acosta's decision to decline to initiate a federal prosecution of Epstein was within the scope of his authority. And OPR did not find evidence that his decision was based on corruption or other impermissible considerations such as Epstein's wealth, status or associations. A 13 page executive summary of OPR's report says it's just complete and utter garbage and trash. How can anyone look at this and say that everything that happened was above board, that everything that happened was legit? Now, the Department of Justice is a waste of time. We know that they're a waste of space and a waste of air. But like I said last night, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is really where the power is here. And when the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals hears this case and sees all of the nonsense that went into it, I have a really funny feeling, folks, that we're going to be very pleased with the decision that comes out of the 11th Circuit Court. And I think, like I said said last night, that there's a better than good chance that they overturn that non prosecution agreement. And then the wheels come right off of this Department of Justice report. It shows that it's toothless and it shows that the people who were involved in this internal report really didn't do shit. They didn't care. It was all a cover your operation. And I hope beyond hope, that after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals renders its judgment that we can come back and laugh at these idiots at the Department of Justice once again for their stupidity. After the executive summary was released, Acosta, who had long refused to answer the Miami Herald's questions about his actions, issued a two page statement saying it fully debunks allegations that the United States Attorney's office in South Florida improperly cut Epstein a sweetheart deal or purposefully avoided investigating. Investigating potential wrongdoing by various prominent individuals.

[A]

No.

[B]

Okay, we don't believe it. Again, the internal investigations mean squat. How many times are they gonna have internal investigations? And it comes back as a slap on the wrist and it's for both sides of the aisle. The same thing happened with Hillary Clinton. What? Did anyone really think that Hillary Clinton was going to be held accountable for anything that she done? Of course not. These people are never held accountable. And the Attorney General, the Department of justice and all of their good old buddies that they're rubbing elbows and shoulders with on a regular basis are all part of the problem. The Republican senator who requested the review after a Miami Herald investigative series saw it Differently. And look, it's, it's nice to see at least one of these clown senators saying something, bringing this to the forefront. But how about some investigations? As far as committees calling people to testify under oath in front of Congress or in front of the Senate, how come there has been none of that? Letting a well connected billionaire get away with child rape and international sex trafficking isn't poor judgment. It is a disgusting failure. Americans ought to be enraged. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee, said in a statement Thursday afternoon, Jeffrey Epstein should be rotting behind bars today. But the Justice Department failed Epstein's survivors at every turn. Now, Ben Sasse is one of the only people who's really been forceful and forthright when it comes to calling these, these assholes out and the shit job that the Department of Justice did onto the floor. And while I support his enthusiasm here, I'd like to see the words turn into action. And however that has to happen, let's get it going. Who do we have to write to? Ben Sasse. Let us know. Who do we have to put the pressure on to make sure that there's some hearings? Let us know. We're ready and willing. Now, you all know I don't do any nonsensical petition nonsense. That's just not for me. I don't sign petitions. I don't get involved in that nonsense. But if all of us call whoever it is, who's in charge of getting one of these commissions going, well, maybe there'll be some movement because we all know that the government and the Department of Justice, et cetera, et cetera, they don't start doing shit until the public outcry becomes so loud that they can't ignore it anymore. The DOJ's crooked deal with Epstein effectively shut down investigations into his child sex trafficking ring and protected his co conspirators and other states. Justice has not been served. Sass said the full report needs to be released to the public. OPR might have finished its report, but we have an obligation to make sure this never happens again. And he's right, 100%. Release that shit. We want the full report. No redactions, none of your bullshit, none of your f shucky ducky moves. We want the full report. And I want all of the people involved to testify in front of Congress under oath. Sasse, who had pressed the Justice Department for more than three years to investigate the handling of Epstein's charges, demanded that the agency release the report. Although the Department didn't do so, the Miami Herald and its parent company McClatchy obtained a copy on their own. So the that report is included in the article. Obviously when you click on the link, you'll be able to go read this article and follow the hyperlinks to the actual documents so you can check them out for yourself in the full report. OPR concluded that Acosta exercised poor judgment when he failed to make certain that the state intended to, to and would be notify survivors identified through the federal investigation about the state plea hearing. And they didn't. The survivors were left to twist in the wind. The survivors were left to find out on their own about this shit. And once again, they were failed by people who were put into these jobs to protect them. Your job is to protect the citizens of the United States at the Department of Justice and to prosecute those who do us wrong. But instead you protect those that do us wrong and prosecute the rest of us. His decision left victim survivors uninformed about an important proceeding that resolved the federal investigation, an investigation about which the United States Attorney's office had communicated with survivors for months. It also ultimately created the misimpression that the Justice Department intentionally sought to silence the survivors. Misimpression? No, that we got the right impression. And you're not going to change the narrative with your report here and you're

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not going to be able to spin it.

[B]

Bill Barr's henchmen. I mean, it's an absolute joke and a travesty that the Department of Justice would put out this shitbag report and not think that the blowback was going to be severe. Maybe they don't care because they're on their way out and this is one last shit they're gonna take on the desk before they move on with their regular lives and go into private practice and make millions and millions of dollars off of the connections that they established while they were not doing the job that we put them in D.C. to do. And yet we keep sending the incumbents back.

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Woo hoo.

[B]

Joe Biden, he's gonna save us all. The report also contains an intriguing mention of former President Billy Clinton and how his friendship with Epstein might have affected the prosecution. It also paints celebrity attorney Allen I kept my underpants on Dershowitz in unflattering terms. Oh yeah, they have a lot of big words, right, About Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz. Definitely. Oh yeah, we have some information and, you know, it paints them in a bad light, but nobody ever asked them questions. Where's the Miami Herald? Are they showing up at Bill Clinton's office? Are they Pursuing him the way they did Acosta. Every time we turn around, there's a document with Bill Clinton's name in it. But yet nobody is chasing him down to get answers. Nobody's camping out, waiting for him to

[A]

come out of Red Robin to have a talk.

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Ask yourselves, folks, why is that the case? Every single official document that comes out mentions Bill Clinton, and yet here we are, Bill Clinton getting a free ride once again. The summary said the Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates allegations of misconduct by federal prosecutors, had reviewed hundreds of thousands of records, including emails, letters, memos, and investigative materials, and conducted more than 60 interviews of witnesses from FBI case agents to former Deputy Attorney General of the Justice Department. Oh, yeah, I'm sure that they all are rallying around each other to protect the image of the Department of Justice, to protect themselves, to protect any of their wrongdoing, perhaps. I'm so tired of the government circling the wagons whenever the pressure gets put on them. They work for us. It's time we let them know that again. In a statement, the Justice Department said it shared the executive summary of the report with survivors on Thursday and the full report report with a congressional committee. Well, isn't that nice? A congressional committee, huh? They're getting the full report. Are they have enough time to do that? Are they too busy infighting still? And not passing stimulus and not helping American people? What exactly is it that they're doing in Congress, folks? Can anyone tell me what they're doing? Because they're not doing anything that's benefiting our lives, that's for sure. While OPR did not find that the department attorneys engaged in professional misconduct, OPR concluded that the survivors were not treated with the forthrightness and sensitivity expected by the department. The statement said. It's always the same shit, right? Oh, well, they, they. They took it. They had a misstep, but they weren't doing it on purpose. They weren't really trying to help Jeffrey Epstein. It was just a misstep. It was just accident. An accident. Sorry. I don't believe it. Okay? I don't believe it for a second. And an independent agency, independent of the Attorney General's office, the Inspector general, et cetera, et cetera, should really look into what happened in this case. Among the federal prosecutors who avoided being targeted for criticism in the executive summary were Acosta's former top assistant, Jeffrey Sloman, ex criminal chief Matthew Menshel, former case prosecutor Marie Vilafana, who had prepared a sex trafficking indictment against Epstein that was not filed, and her boss, Andrew Laurie. They and Their actions, however, are detailed in the full unreleased report. Why isn't it released to the public? I'm so tired of this shit. It gets released to who? Our representatives. Do you feel like you're represented in Washington, D.C. folks, by your congressman or your senator? That they went there because of foreign money that came from out of your state anyway? Do they represent you or do they represent the party that they belong to? I certainly don't feel represented by either side. I am pleased that the OPR finally has completed its investigation, but I'm dis. But I but am disappointed that has not released the full report so the survivors and the public can have a fuller account recounting of the depth of interference by the U.S. attorney's Office management, Epstein's lawyers that led to patently unjust outcome in the Epstein case. Vilafana, who resigned as a federal prosecutor last year but had remained silent on the matter, said in a statement. So that's pretty damning, huh? She's blaming the U.S. attorney's office and Epstein's lawyers. Everyone's blaming her and the state lawyers. But I'm sure there's plenty of blame to go around. I blame everybody involved. Villafana as well. But why didn't the federal government, federal prosecutor, prosecutors, mukase boys really go in for the throat here? Since when does the state tell the federal government to step aside? That injustice, I believe, was the result of deep, implicit institutional biases that prevented me and the FBI agents who work diligently on this case from holding Mr. Epstein accountable for his crimes. She's throwing the Department of Justice under the bus here. She's saying that it was the Department of Justice's fault that this wasn't prosecuted. And Michael Mukase, who was in charge of the Department of Justice at the time, should take the full brunt of this shit.

[A]

But he won't.

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Sloman, who served as Acosta's first assistant during the Epstein prosecution, declined to comment. In an op ed piece published last year in the Miami Herald, Sloman acknowledged that Epstein deserved harsher punishment than he ended up getting. Oh, isn't that nice of you, Mr. Sloman. We're glad that you could find it in your heart to, you know, open your eyes and see that Epstein screwed literally everybody he's ever been around. And the people of the United States are tired of shit like this. And if you won't hold people accountable, then it's going to be up to us to hold you accountable for not doing your job. And I'm here to tell you Folks, that is exactly where I'm at right now, right this second. You can call me the Coogin against the machine, because I am raging, folks, at these people in power. At the time, Sloman defended Acosta's integrity in handling the case. Our priorities were to make sure Epstein could not hurt anyone else and to compensate Epstein's survivors without re traumatizing them. Well, you failed, all right. He got out of jail and he continued to abuse people. If I was abused by this man after you had already sent him to jail and he signed this plush plea agreement, I would sue the United States government for complicity in this. They should have put him in jail, but yet, because of their negligence, he was let free and he continued on committing his crimes. How dare you. Sloman wrote in February 2019, apparently referring to a short term Epstein served in the Palm beach jail and settlements paid to some of Epstein's survivors. The op ed was published months later, before Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary. The OPR investigation was prompted by the 2018 Miami Herald series Perversion of justice, which renewed interest in the non prosecution agreement. And that's for sure, it did. But isn't the timing a bit funny to you? Where was this investigation prior to 2016? All of a sudden, it became top priority. The executive summary mentions the Miami Herald's reporting numerous times as the reason for the intense public interest. A little low key flexing right here, huh? They've earned it, though. As much as I break their balls for the motivation behind their investigation, it really doesn't matter. Honestly, when all the chips are down, they're the ones who initiated this and kicked it into gear. And for that I am definitely thankful. But don't, you know, piss on my back and tell me it's raining over here. All right, we know your motivations and we know why the the investigation was initiated by the Miami Herald. It mentioned a breakfast meeting between Acosta and one of Epstein's lawyers, Jay Lefkowitz, in October 2007 that was highlighted in the Herald series. OPR did not find evidence establishing that Acosta's breakfast meeting with one of Epstein's defense counsel in October 2017 led to the NPA, which had been signed weeks earlier, or to any other significant decision that benefited Epstein. Okay, how would you know that? What did you have? An interview with Lefkowitz and an interview with Acosta, and they both said everything was above board. We certainly didn't do anything wrong. We were just catching up over some tea and crumpets. Give me a break. So they met and they didn't have any kind of conversations about the case.

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Huh.

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They were talking about their families and the bowling league, I guess, described the meeting as unusual, was flawed. The Herald series, however, described how in the months after the meeting, Epstein's legal team peppered Acosta and his subordinates with emails demanding modifications to the arrangement, citing assurances given at the meeting. And the evidence is there. Okay, so what I'm doing here now is we're just putting it all into context so you get a nice and plush idea about how effed up the Department of Justice is now and then. All right, now remember, the Department of Justice didn't just automatically overnight become shitty when bars showed up, okay? It has been shitty forever. It's shitty now, and it's going to get shittier in the next term, I'm guessing. Emails examined by the Herald show the lawyers wanted survivors not to be informed of the status of negotiations contrary to the Crime Victim Rights act, apparently to ensure there was no interference in the shaping of the deal. Emails and other communications show they also pushed to have the arrangement sealed by a judge so it could not be examined by the survivors or the public. Does this sound like something that's on the up and up with you, or the kind of deal that a pervert, sick ass pedophile like Jeffrey Epstein should get? Of course not. So then you have to accelerate and ask yourself, hmm, why was Jeffrey Epstein getting such a sweetheart deal? What was going on behind the scenes? And they still won't answer those questions. All of that occurred, although the agreement was eventually unsealed. The report also provides answers to who knew about the deal at DOJ headquarters. It outlines how, just after the original deal was hammered out, Epstein's attorneys began going over Acosta's head to lobby headquarters. This is what I've been talking about, guys. Don't get so caught up on Acosta. Of course he's part of it, but he is the fall man. The idiots behind the scenes, the higher ups at the Department of Justice, people like Mukase and Mark Philippe. These are the assholes that signed off on this. These are the assholes that could have stopped it, and these are the assholes that did nothing. In May 2008, letter to Deputy Attorney General Mark Philippe, two of the prominent members of Epstein's legal team, former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr and former U.S. attorney Joe Whitley, suggested that the federal investigation into Epstein was politically motivated because of his close ties to former President Clinton. Again, his close ties to former President Clinton. We had the investigation kicked off by the Miami Herald because Acosta was related to Trump.

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Now, are we ever going to have

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the same sort of investigation kicked into Bill Clinton here? Let's bring them all down, every last one of them. Now that this election's over and Trump is going to be gone, what is the media going to do with itself? Sit around and go back to the old days when they were talking about nonsense? How about the media does something decent here? How about the media looks into Bill Clinton? There's no election ramifications now. There's no worrying about using it the other side, using it politically. Your guy won the race, all right.

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The presidency.

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Now it's time to investigate Bill Clinton. Where's the media at? Are they going to show up, the legacy media? How many reports does Slick Willie need to be mentioned in as being close to Jeffrey Epstein? But yet the cognitive dissonance is real. Like Nancy Pelosi's daughter said, some of our faves are going to be caught up in this. There was little doubt, they wrote, that Acosta's office never would have contemplated a prosecution in this case if Mr. Epstein were just another John. Give me a break. If he was just another John, he would have got buried underneath the jail. Starr, ironically, is best known for his dog, his dogged pursuit of Clinton during his impeachment for lying about his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. Despite those efforts to sway senior Justice Department officials, the report suggests that then Attorney General Mukase had no role in the Epstein case. No, none at all. Mukase didn't know. He had no idea what was going on down in Florida with a high profile guy like Jeffrey Epstein. Even though his office was being lobbied, he had no idea. You kidding? He's above that. Mr. Mukase would never be involved in that. Give me a break. Dude's a war criminal. Like the rest of the Bush administration. The report notes that Mukasey had lunch in Miami with Acosta and other senior managers in the U.S. attorney's office a little over a month. Month before Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty in state court. But that Epstein's case was not discussed at the time. Of course it wasn't. This is why the internal investigation is such a joke, Such bupkiss. They didn't talk about it at all, huh? What was it? Just some old friends catching up. And it just happened to coincide with the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was on trial. Ludicrous at best. The Office of Professional Responsibility is a non partisan division of the justice department formed in 1975 in response to the Watergate scandal and run by career prosecutors. It investigates allegations of professional misconduct by DOJ prosecutors and immigration judges. So it's run by career prosecutors, AKA Friends of Mukase, Friends of the Court, friends of the Department of Justice. It's a. It's a good old boys club, folks, and you're not invited. As the Herald previously reported, and as was acknowledged in its report, the Office of Professional Responsibility previously declined to investigate complaints about the handling of the Epstein case in 2010, citing ongoing litigation involving the survivors now. 2010, huh?

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Remind me, who was the president then?

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Oh, yeah. Barack Obama. Who was his vice president then?

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Oh, yeah.

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Joe Biden and his Office of Professional Responsibility during the time of Biden as vice president and Obama as president, declined to investigate Jeffrey Epstein. Now, what makes you think that Joe Biden is coming in riding on his white horse and he's gonna prosecute this to the fullest? I'm sorry, maybe I'm a cynic, but I'll believe it when I see it. The OPR summary said that Epstein survivors and their attorneys were among those interviewed for the internal investigation, a detail confirmed by one of the lawyers, Spencer Kuvan. The Justice Department's questions, he cautioned, were narrowly focused on the sexual assault in Florida at the time the crimes were committed. It was a time when law. When law did not prescribe serious punishment for those who inappropriately touched victims under the age of consent, which is 18 in Florida. Florida. What a shit show, huh? I mean, beautiful place, lot of great people. Every time I've ever went down there and visited, it's. It's been, you know, fun. But man, oh man, what the hell is wrong with the laws here? Talk about having a set of laws put into place to help the so called members of polite society shit on the rest of us. Merely touching was punished differently than full intercourse, Kuvan said. In the case of my clients, there was no penetration. That law has since been changed. Well, thank God. Kuvan also questioned why the FBI did not dig deeper. They had interviewed enough people to know that Epstein was traveling between New York and New Mexico. So any decent investigator would have looked into whether he was doing this in other states, he said, citing two other locales where Epstein maintained homes. I don't believe the FBI didn't do that. I think the U.S. attorney made a conscious decision to shut the investigation down quickly. And that was Acosta's decision. Yeah, I don't believe that, though. I believe that Acosta is the fall guy. And until I have other evidence that Mukase and Mark Philippe weren't involved in this and didn't put pressure on Acosta. I'm sorry, I can't believe that. Let's be honest, folks. A low level federal prosecutor would be able to have the lateral ability to make that move on his own. I am sorry. The facts just don't add up to that. Epstein survivors are mentioned in another passage in the full report concerning Epstein attorney Allen I kept my underpants on Dershowitz. In it, former Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krisher recalled that Epstein's defense team had brought, brought material seeking to discredit Epstein's accusers and pushing for the state to allow Epstein to plead no contest rather than guilty of possible sex charges.

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So we, we've talked about this.

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He destroyed the credibility of this, of the, the, the victims, right? Oh, they were, they were sexually promiscuous. They drank, they smoked pot. Oh, they smoked weed. They're evil. And they brought this whole profile destroying these girls to the prosecutors. And the prosecutors, instead of defending these girls like they should have just jumped on board. Oh, yeah, these girls are incredible. They're bad witnesses. It's such an absolute travesty of justice. Krisher told OPR that he remembered Dershowitz as overly aggressive, adding that Dershowitz had threatened. We're going to destroy your witnesses. Don't go to court because we're going to destroy those girls. Dershowitz and Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts are currently suing each other for defamation. Now think about how evil you have to be as a scuzzbag like Dershowitz. We're going to destroy your witnesses. Don't go to court because we're going to destroy those girls. These girls were 15, 16 years old, and that's how this bitch ass chump talks. Real tough guy, aren't you, you bully ass punk? Boy, Dershowitz is a real piece of shit. Your podcast sucks, Your life sucks. You can't go to your naked volleyball games anymore. And guess what? We're just getting started with you, Mr. Dershowitz. Mr. Let's destroy these 15 year old girls. That make you feel strong, bro? Make you feel like a tough guy? You're not. Dershowitz didn't deny raising issues about the credibility of Epstein's accusers in conversation with Krisher, but did deny using that language. Yeah, okay, sure. In 55 years of practice, I can say that I have never threatened to destroy a witness. Dershowitz said, I told him that his witnesses were only a handful at a time, at the time, had credibility issues, and that it was our duty as defense lawyers to challenge their credibility. I'm almost tongue tied here. Credibility issues because they smoked pot and they had sex.

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Breaking news.

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That's what teenagers do. Dershowitz said that he wasn't contacted by the authors of the Justice Department report. Of course not. Those are your boys. Those are your homies. Didn't you just go and defend Donald Trump? Why would anyone contact you, Mr. Dershowitz? You bitch ass chump. In the wake of the Herald series about Acosta's handling of the Epstein case, the U.S. attorney's office in New York filed sex trafficking charges against Epstein and arrested him in July 2019, making the same federal case that Acosta's office could have made a decade earlier against the New Yorker who owned a townhouse mansion in Manhattan. The revived case, however, took a shocking detour when the 66 year old was found hanging in his cell in August 2019 under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled a suicide. Now, I like how the Miami Herald hasn't bought into that yet here. Right. Under mysterious circumstances. That is for sure what his death was. Nobody can tell you one way or the other how he died, alright? And anybody who's trying to pump that shit to you is lying to you. And be aware of that shit. Why waste your time with people that are bullshitting you? The original Investigation, more than 10 years ago, found that Epstein paid dozens of girls, many of them underage, cash, to engage in nude massages, masturbation, oral sex and intercourse in his palatial mansion in Palm Beach. The encounters were scheduled by members of his staff, the core Four. Are you ready? I hope you're getting all of your business affairs in order because your time is coming. As a result of his plea in state court, Epstein registered as a sex offender in Florida and agreed to pay damages to 40 female victims ranging in age from 13 to 17. 13 to 17. And those are the girls that Dershowitz says he was going to destroy. Now, mind you, this is the.

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We're not.

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We haven't even gotten to Virginia's and the Courtney's of the world in the Epstein story. These are the young girls from high school that were being brought in through a revolving door in the Palm beach mansion. 13 to 17 years old. How dare these prosecutors, how dare the whole entire government let this occur. As part of the plea agreement negotiated by Acosta's office, Epstein wouldn't be charged in federal court, even though the feds had drawn up a proposed 53 page indictment that carried a potential punishment ranging from a mandatory 10 years in prison. To a life sentence. Think about that. If they would have went through with it, if your government officials would have went through with it, Epstein would have never hurt any of those other girls after he was originally charged here. So all of those girls who came in the aftermath, all of those lives that were ruined are directly on the shoulders of the Department of Justice. Acosta's non prosecution agreement was signed by the financier pedophile and his lawyers in September 2007 and amended through the end of that year. The deal, also immune immunized several of his alleged co conspirators from federal prosecution. The DOJ report criticizes the non prosecution agreement as a flawed mechanism that removed federal control over the case to the state authorities. So that's important. I think that'll come into play with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals as well. This report criticizes the npa. Everybody criticizes it and says it's garbage. So now it's time for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn it. That's what needs to happen. That's how we fix this. That's how justice is served in this case. Because obviously the Department of Justice won't do it themselves. So let's get the courts involved and let's force the issue. Epstein ended up serving just over a year in a Palm beach county stockade while local authorities allowed him during his incarceration to go to work or do whatever he wanted for six days out of every week, returning to the stockade only at night. Now imagine having that sort of ability while you're locked up and you're a guest of the federal government. Sure, go ahead. Do whatever you want, Mr. Epstein. You can wander around, you can go out, you can abuse girls, no problem. We're here for you sir. What would you like? Can I get you a drink maybe you want some Cheez? Its for when you're watching the late night shows. What can we do for you? Make your life easier, you monster. And meanwhile, while Jeffrey Epstein is catching sweetheart deals, while Jeffrey Epstein is living like a prince while he's still in jail, the survivors are left waiting for answers and once again waiting on justice. If you'd like to contact me, you can do [e-mail] that's B O B B Y C A P U c c I protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at boby Underscore Capucci all of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box.