Transcript
A (0:02)
Welcome to the Tara Palmeri Show. As you can see behind me, I am on the road, but I felt that I needed to jump back on and come back in with a report because I just saw how much engagement we saw across the Internet and from people all over the place for the latest investigation that I broke on the Red Letter. It is my substack newsletter. You can go to tarapaul mary.com and you can see all of my investigations there. And as you'll see, I've got Abby Baker on the line with me. And Abby is my star researcher and reporter. And the two of us worked on this piece together where we explained how the deciding vote on the Jeffrey Epstein bill, the one that would release the files in the Senate, had a very close connection to Jeffrey Epstein through Glenn Maxwell. So Abby and I, since we did this reporting, we're going to break it all down. But I think for first, we should probably explain to everyone how we even came across this story and how we were even notified of these connections that Senator Murkowski, the deciding Vote, a Republican woman from Alaska, how we found out that she had these very close connections with Glenn Maxwell, her husband, and a very wealthy donor in Alaska and the publisher of the Alaska Dispatch. So, Abby, maybe you could take it away here and let everyone know how we. How we found out about all of this.
B (1:37)
Yeah. Who knew in Alaska there was. We were going to find all of this. Yeah, it was one of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Margie Marika. Yeah, Marika Church.
A (1:50)
That's okay. She's got a hard name to pronounce. I know.
B (1:54)
I know. She was doing her own research. I think just because, you know, she and other victims have been, you know, let down in a way by the doj, by Trump, by Congress. They were all in Washington the other week holding a press conference to express their distrust in the system and how things have gone so far. So, yeah, she did a little digging, and we were able to take that and kind of run with it. We found, obviously, pictures and lots of different connections with Dylan's husband, Scott Borgeson, which a lot of people don't even know that she had a husband or this partner. But, yeah, the Murkowski connection started, I believe, in 2009.
A (2:43)
Yep.
B (2:43)
We want to double check.
A (2:45)
I will look at that right now. We're gonna. It's very convoluted. So we. I have all of the. The pictures and the story right here because we want to make sure we are relaying our story the right way because it is a very tangled Web of connections. But yes, the first time Borgeson and Murkowski that we know of, that they Met was in 2009 when they both testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. This was in favor of the Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would expand Alaskan territory. And it would, it would allow Alaska to have more territory in the Arctic region where Alaska is obviously based. And for every, for context, Scott Borgeson, who was not Glenn Maxwell's husband at the time, but he was a rising star in Arctic maritime investments. He has this company that, that does data on shipping and he had a lot of done a lot of research papers. He had a naval background and he had a big interest in the Arctic Circle. And we know for a fact that they spoke at this Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. The Senator then published an article about this on her website. I had an opportunity when Senator Clinton was before our committee at the beginning of the year for confirmation to bring up the issues of the Arctic, to bring up the issue of ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. We look at the Arctic up there and once you go offshore, there's no clear definition as to where those boundaries are. Lots of issues of priority, but one where I think the committee can really take leadership is ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. There are also, I think, a lot of reasons to believe that the Arctic. And Sarah Murkowski, I think of part point out some of these, that there is cause for concern. There's unclear jurisdiction and blurred lines of sovereignty, not just in terms of potential continental shelf overlap, but also in terms of the application law of the Sea Treaty to Northwest Passage Northern Sea route. The article, the treaty that pertains to ice covered waters, Article 234, disputed maritime boundary lines, including with our neighbor and largest trading part of Canada and Russia, I think particularly leaves reason for concern. But then they continue to appear together at a number of different events. From 2011 to 2012, they appeared at the Arctic Imperative Summit, then the center for American Progress event. Scott Borgeson in 2016 moderated a conversation with Murkowski at the Council on Foreign Relations. It's very prestigious, by the way, and you can see the two of them on the screen together. And so they obviously clearly knew each other very well. And Scott Borgeson and Elisa Markowski had a lot of the same business interests because her interest is expanding the economy of her state, Alaska. That helps her constituents, Alaskans. So they both stood to profit from these Arctic shipping routes. And, and it's an issue central to Murkowski's constituencies. Now, the thing that is so crucial about these dates. Well, first of all, 2016 is long after people knew about Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein and the fact that she was associated with Jeffrey Epstein and the horrors that happened. And she had gone through a really terrible defamation case with Virginia Giuffre. She lost that case. She was accused of perjury. She owed her millions and millions of dollars. She continued to stay in touch with Jeffrey Epstein through all this time, as we've seen through emails. But yet Ghislaine Maxwell at this time used her nonprofit, Terra Mar, you know, to. To launder her name. And, you know, that was her way of cleaning up her reputation after being so closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein. So she. She really needed the Circle, that she was a part of this Arctic Circle to do that. And she actually met her husband, Scott Borgeson, through this at one of the events, the Arctic. The inaugural Arctic Circle event, where her husband, Scott Borgeson was a speaker and where. And where Lisa Murkowski beamed in, as well as a speaker from via video. Abby, do you want to take it away with a little bit more? I know this is a lot to follow, so I feel like I'm probably missing something.