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Survivors Speak Out as the DOJ Fumbles the Epstein Document Release
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Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking network and their lawyers have blasted the U.S. Department of Justice over its release of around 3 million documents related to the case, calling the handling shoddy and harmful. Attorneys like Sigrid...
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What's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Over the weekend, the DOJ released roughly 3 million pages of Epstein related documents. And the reason that it took so long for these documents to be released, for them to be compliant with the law, was because they said that they were going through the documents with a fine tooth comb so that they could make sure that the victim's privacy was was respected. Well, lo and behold, we get the documents and they're just littered with names of survivors and people that accused Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, on the flip side of that, they made sure that they protected everybody that was even mentioned as part of Epstein's operation. And that of course, is not what the law calls for. The law calls for transparency. The law calls for the people that were involved to be outed. But the Justice Department has made up their own rules once again and they're doing whatever they want. So they can say that they're in compliance by releasing these files, but they're not. There's literally millions more documents that still need to be released. Now they're going to say that they're privileged, right? Whether it's national security, how that could even be part of this, I have no idea, considering they told us that Epstein was just a lone predator. Or whether it has to do with an ongoing investigation, which is BS as well, considering they've already told us that they weren't investigating this anymore. And obviously they don't care about the privacy of the victims, considering how many victims names were leaked. And when I'm talking about leaked names, I'm talking about the young girls from Florida, names I had never even seen before, which is wild considering how many court documents I've been through. So if I was one of these survivors, I'd be upset too. And in today's episode, that's what we're going to talk about. And to do that, we have an article that was published by the Guardian headline Handling of Epstein files is outrageous says attorney of his sex trafficking survivors. This article was authored by Edward Helmore. Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking operation have reacted to the voluminous and possibly last tranche of government held investigative documents with calls for further accountability for the schemes alleged clients. Put yourself in these women's shoes for a minute. If you can imagine all these years, people ignoring you, nobody listening to what you have to say. And then finally the conversation turns. And then the Justice Department itself continues your trauma, continues to disregard you, continues to call it a hoax. How do you think that makes these women feel? And then of Course, you add to the fact that a lot of these women have never even come forward and now their names are everywhere in these files. I'll tell you what, if I was one of these survivors or married to one of them or their brother or whatever, I would advise them to set up a class action suit and go after the DOJ itself, because this is egregious. It's without question that a significant piece of Epstein and his convicted associate Glenn Maxwell's vast sex trafficking operation was to provide young women and girls to other wealthy and powerful individuals, said Sigrid McCauley, a partner with Boys, Schiller Flexner, a firm representing survivors of the scheme. That practice, McCauley said, gave Epstein and Maxwell control and power over individuals who were implicated in the sex trafficking. Typical compromise. Like we've been telling you for years now, the doj, they have a different scenario, right? Epstein was just some diddler, some guy sitting around downloading all kinds of disgusting videos and, you know, diddling people every now and again. That's really the narrative that they're trying to serve us. Up and up until recently, a lot of people believe that. Well, now the curtains have been drawn back and people have had a look in the room for themselves and people aren't happy with what they're seeing. Macaulay added, those who find themselves entangled in the mire of newly released information no doubt will play the deny and distance card. But that doesn't change the fact that this is exactly how the sex trafficking operation worked. Well, that's always what they're going to do. They're going to look to put as much distance between themselves and Jeffrey Epstein as possible. I call it running the Epstein marathon. Bros out here like Jackie Joyner, Kersey, trying to get away. But that doesn't work anymore, right? We have all the information, we've heard all the stories and. And a lot of the survivors have come out and outed these scumbags so they can try and put some shine on it, they can try and explain it away, but that doesn't change the fact that they were all hanging out with a degenerate son of a. And enjoying his largess. And that goes for all of them, especially the people that were around them after the first conviction. Now, previous to that first conviction, you can make the argument, I don't believe it. But. But you can make the argument, well, I had no idea. I didn't know he was a sick. On the flip side of that, if you were with this dude after 2008, you have no excuse. You're a scumbag yourself. You're a fellow traveler and you should be brought in and put under oath. The comments came after the Trump administration Justice Department on Friday released about 3 million files related to the late financier and and convicted sex offender. Some files were immediately appraised, including references to the correspondence with prominent individuals including multi billionaire business person Elon Musk and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who are at times associated with Epstein but have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Well, I've told you about Howard Lutnick before. I work for the dude when I work for Canter Gaming. Forget it. The whole entire thing was a shit show. And of course it came tumbling down around their ears because they can't keep themselves right, they can't keep themselves correct, they can't do the right thing, they can't be in compliance. And of course, when the music stopped, the only person that was left holding the bag was Mike Colbert, who was the mid level executive manager who was involved in the scheme. Nothing happened to Lutnick, nothing happened to Leomitis. They were able to just go on with their business. And why do you think that happened? Not because they're good guys, but because they have a lot of power, they have a lot of connections, and most importantly, they have a lot of money. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said several categories of pages were withheld from release, including personally identifying information of the victims, victim's medical files, images depicting child sexual abuse, and pages related to ongoing cases. What ongoing cases? We all read the memo. There's nothing to see here. Epstein and Maxwell were operating in a bubble and it was just them. At least that's what the DOJ told us. Yo, I thought Merrick Garland was useless, but boy, this DOJ might be the worst DOJ in the history of the country. And that's saying a whole lot. And when all is said and done, Todd Blanche is going to have to answer for his. I promise you that there's going to be a reckoning, there's going to be hearings, and hopefully there's a special prosecutor that's installed to go after everybody that was involved. And I don't just mean in Epstein's operation at this point, I mean the COVID up too. Because anyone who's involved in this cover up, they're part of the bigger problem. They're part of the systemic abuse and they need to be held accountable as well. Victims attorney Brad Edwards, however, told ABC News that there had been errors in the release that identified victims. We're getting constant calls from victims because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public, have all just been released for public consumption. Edwards said it's literally thousands of mistakes. Look, I don't doubt that I found multiple pages with multiple names that shouldn't have been there, but they sure were able to make sure that they had Leon Black's name hidden. They made sure they had Jess Staley's name hidden, Les Wexner's name, Adriana Ross's name, Sarah Kellen, Vickers name. All of those were hidden, right? Victims attorney Jennifer Freeman said the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files has been a mess from from the start, filled with ham fisted redactions while exposing the identities of survivors. Freeman also alluded to how Friday's release missed a congressionally set deadline that passed in December. She said that the victim survivors and their advocates won't allow the federal government to simply dump a couple million documents and wash their hands of one of the largest law enforcement failures in U. S History. She also accused the justice department of hiding the names of perpetrators while exposing survivors. Well, that's because it's the truth. That's what the DOJ is doing. That's what they've been doing and unfortunately under this out of control regime, I expect them to continue to do so. There's no checks and balances. There's nobody keeping the DOJ in line. There's nobody stepping up and saying, look, enough is enough. You guys are going to face serious consequence here. Instead, they egg them on, right? They give these stupid ass press conferences talking about how the DOJ is in compliance and they're doing the right thing when nothing could be further from the truth. Another attorney, Spencer Kuvin, cited victim testimony that Epstein provided girls to other famous and notable people, usually done so as favors with a hope that that he would get something in return from these people. The recent documents only confirm what the victims have been saying all along, Kuvan said. Separately, A group of 20 Epstein survivors said the document dump served to shield powerful figures but expose those who had been harmed. And this is why the survivors should have been part of this. But instead the DOJ decided they wanted to get in bed with Maxwell instead. Because remember, this has never been about the survivors. Instead, it's about Donald Trump's weak ass ego. That's what the justice departments worry about. Not about the survivors, not about their pain and suffering. That's not important to them. All that's important is what their dear leader wants. The files they said were being sold as transparency. But what they actually did was expose survivors. As survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinized and and re traumatized While Epstein's enablers continue to benefit from secrecy, the statement said. Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous. That position awkwardly aligns with that of Glenn Maxwell, who said in court papers seeking to overturn her late 2021 conviction on sex trafficking charges that a group of 25 alleged accomplices of Epstein made secret settlements with their accusers. Well, that's a fact. This story is filled with NDAs. This story is filled with people who are paid to never talk about what happened. And the truth is, a lot of those women aren't even from America. A lot of those women are from Eastern Europe or from South America, Central America, wherever it might be. So not only do they have the insulation of the NDA, they also have the benefit of these women being from different countries that might not have the resources that are necessary to deal with this sort of thing. You know, we have to keep that in mind, right? Not everybody's culture is the same, and not everybody can come forward and say they were abused. Those papers say none of these men have been prosecuted and. And none has been revealed to Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022. She would have called them as witnesses had she known, the papers added. In the political dimension, bipartisan sponsors of the transparency law that forced the release of the documents sent a formal letter to blanch demanding that they view the unredacted files to ensure Congress is fulfilling its oversight duties. Congress. Congress cannot properly assess the department's handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record, wrote California Democrat Ro Khanna and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie of the U. S. House. Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, his chamber's minority leader, also accused attorney general Pam Bondi of failing to adhere to the law. Every member of this body voted that all the Epstein files should be released, Schumer said on the Senate floor on Friday. We're not satisfied that the law is being complied with. We believe it is not. Well, it's not. And, man, I hate agreeing with Chuck Schumer because he's a just an absolute unit, Another piece of work, another guy who took money from Epstein. But he's not wrong about this because those files are lacking. Now, that doesn't mean that there's nothing in there worthwhile. There is, but it's not the complete record and the law calls for the complete record. And if I have to follow the law, so does the DOJ. On Saturday, Bronx U.S. house Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez posted on Twitter, even with everything in the this Epstein drop, remember, this is a minority of the files. This is still just what they were willing to release. And in violation of the law, which requires release of all files, Pam Bondi's Justice Department is still hiding most of them. We need them all. A Justice Department statement to the ABC News said that it had coordinated closely with victims and their lawyers to ensure that the production of the documents includes necessary redactions. Which victims and which lawyers? Because all the lawyers and victims are coming forward and saying that that never happened. So is the DOJ just lying to us again? I mean, would that shock you? Wouldn't shock me. In fact, I'd be shocked if they told us the truth. At this point, we want to immediately correct any redaction errors that our team may have made, the Justice Department added. So the department has established an email box efta usdoj.gov for for victims to reach us directly to correct redaction concerns when appropriate. Epstein died in federal custody in 2019. Before releasing the files on Friday, Blanche said, I think there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents. There's nothing I can do about that. Yes, there is. You can comply with the law and give us all the documents. You can quit playing games and acting like a fool. You can stop being Glenn Maxwell's buddy and start acting like a deputy Attorney general. That gives a How about we start there, baby Billy? Blanche, I mean, it's obvious that Todd, Blanche, the doj, and everybody involved is lying. And it's obvious that they're holding back the most damaging and damning documents. But the biggest issue here, in my opinion, the most damning issue for the doj, is they took all this time, wasted all that money, and they still didn't get the redactions correct. So do you really think that they were worried about redactions, or do you think they were more concerned with protecting their friends? I'll leave that up to you to decide. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.