Jeffrey Epstein/Affair

 Jeffrey Epstein/Affair(Deep event)

Exposed by	John Dougan
Interest of	Nick Bryant, MintPress News, Amazing Polly, Larry Sanger, The Last American Vagabond, Whitney Webb

The Epstein Affair is centered upon the figure of Jeffrey Epstein, but involves large swathes of associates whose role continues to be minimised by commercially-controlled media.

Background

Jeffrey Epstein was set up as a billionaire financier. A convicted pedophile and sex-addict himself, he hosted lavish parties and arranged for sexual blackmail among high powered friends who used his services. Unconfirmed rumours suggest that he was employed by the Mossad.

After a brief relationship, Ghislaine Maxwell is widely reported to have become a key part of his sex trafficking operation and a recruiter of underage girls. Robert David Steele amongst other voices alleges that both Ghislaine and her father, Robert Maxwell worked for Mossad.

Epstein's Properties

Jeffrey Epstein held numerous properties throughout the United States and the US Virgin Islands where he participated in human trafficking and participated in sex acts with minors. It has been alleged that he was gifted his NY Townhouse (valued at $77 million and the largest in the city) by Leslie Wexner for a sum of $0. He also owns Zorro Ranch in New Mexico and two islands, Little St. James and Great St. James.

In January 2019, a massive fire was documented taking place on the southwest corner of Epstein's Little St. James. During 2019, there have been extensive renovations taking place on the island since then, including the "renovations" of several underground "bunkers" that are built into the hillside around Epstein's alleged "temple" It has been reported that new construction has been started on the island of Great St. James.

First exposure

Jeffrey Epstein and his attorney Alan Dershowitz

In 2008 Epstein arranged a plea deal after being arrested for soliciting a minor for sexual contact. His defense lawyers Jay Lefkowitz‎ (and Alan Dershowitz?) agreed a deal with Alexander Acosta which gave a blanket exemption to any associates of Epstein in the affair.

2019 Ruling

In February 2019 "a federal judge ruled that the prosecutors working the case broke the law by not notifying Epstein's victims that they were cutting him a plea deal."

After this, former associates moved to distance themselves from Epstein.

2019 Arrest

Epstein was arrested on 6 July 2019 and was charged with sex trafficking conspiracy of minors by the federal government.

Epstein's legal team aggressively pushed to allow their client to stay on house arrest pending trial at his New York townhouse, pledging up to $559 million as collateral to guarantee his cooperation].

Epstein was denied bail pending trial. He was held Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.

"Apparent Suicide"

One comment, reportedly posted to 4Chan 10 minutes before Epstein's death had been publicly announced, was suggesting a body swap had taken place.

The most supine commercially-controlled media outlets hurried to echo the official narrative of an "apparent suicide", without detailing what circumstances gave the appearance of suicide. This was in sharp contrast with independent voices which tended to express high levels of disbelief at the suicide narrative. On 12 August the BBC termed dissent from the official narrative as "wild speculation", concluding with an apparently unrelated quote from Jim Sciutto that "Remember this is about... partisan politics. When I was [there]... folks didn't trust authorities so assumed a plot behind every event." Again on 12 August, CNN referred to it as an "apparent suicide". USA Today wrote on 15 August that "The prison officials who took Jeffrey Epstein off his suicide watch prematurely, relegating him to almost certain death, did not do the prison system and how it handles mental health emergencies any favors. "

"Reported Suicide"

Independent media regarded the claim with scepticism, even disbelief.Russ Baker urged on 10 August that A Little Skepticism is Warranted about the suicide narrative.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
2021	“If powerful males having sex with underage girls is not a problem—if there’s no need to identify & prosecute them—then why hold #GhislaineMaxwell responsible for trafficking? If her actions were reprehensible, then what’s the excuse for not punishing the other criminals involved?”	Dinesh D'Souza	December 2021
2023	“Former V.I. Attorney General Denise George, who successfully sued the estate of Jeffrey Epstein and then was summarily fired by Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. in December, has broken her silence in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times Magazine. In it, she hints that a run for governor may be in her future. The interview — published Saturday by the Sunday Times, a 600,000-plus circulation newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — is the first time George has spoken of her efforts to bring Epstein and his alleged accomplices to account, and the fallout from that endeavor. George, who was widely lauded when she won a $105 million lawsuit against the Epstein estate in November — believed to be the largest monetary settlement in the history of the territory — subsequently filed suit for $190 million against his onetime bank, JPMorgan Chase, on Dec. 27 in Manhattan federal court, alleging violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Bryan fired George four days later, on New Year’s Eve, saying nothing at first but later admitting that he was “blindsided” by the lawsuit that has opened V.I. officials to scrutiny for their dealings with Epstein. That includes Bryan himself, who approved Epstein’s lucrative Economic Development Authority benefits when he was head of the EDA board and has been deposed by JPMorgan’s attorneys, along with a host of other territory officials.”	Sian Cobb	September 2023
Alexander Acosta	“I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone”	Alexander Acosta
Joseph Recarey	“There were really just two people willing to risk their careers to go after Epstein: Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter and Detective Joseph Recarey... In their first media interviews about the case, Reiter and Recarey revealed new details about the investigation, and how they were, in their view, pressured by then-Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer to downgrade the case to a misdemeanor or drop it altogether.”	Julie Brown Joseph Recarey	3 December 2018
Whitney Webb	“Epstein was involved in a lot of things, and not only with underage females. Delving into all the publicly available material on Epstein, investigative journalist Whitney Webb needed two volumes to trace Epstein’s complex and mysterious career. She meticulously reconstructs the elaborate nebula of his connections to the world not just of finance, but also of espionage and crime. Her two volumes were published last year with the title, “One Nation Under Blackmail.” Given all the chatter the WSJ’s articles have generated, at breakfast this morning I thought it appropriate to raise the question not so much of Epstein’s story itself, but of the way the press responds to the public’s need for information. After reminding Chad of the context, I shared these thoughts with Chad. “The Journal appears to confirm, though only partially and obliquely, much of what Webb has described. Because of the implications — including the inevitable embarassment for people who have carefully crafted their public image of respectability — the Journal should either release the documents or, as Wikileaks was wont to do, share them with a number of serious newspapers to ensure a minimum level of objectivity and transparency. This story and all its implications are of vital interest to the public in a democracy. What, apart from the commercial interest of owning a scoop, explains the Wall Street Journal’s reluctance to do so?””	Whitney Webb Peter Isackson	May 2023

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