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0:00In 2005, the Palm Beach Police
0:02Department in Florida received a phone
0:04call from the mother of a 14-year-old
0:06girl who claimed that she was really
0:09assaulted by a man named Jeffrey
0:11Epstein.
0:12>> It was an incident that occurred maybe
0:14like three or three and a half weeks ago
0:15with one of my stepdaughters. She had
0:16over $300 on her. After asking her and
0:19asking her and asking her what was going
0:20on, found out that they went to Palm
0:22Beach Police Department's house and they
0:24started out by giving the gentleman a
0:26massage and he pays them if he likes
0:28them and he thinks that they're pretty
0:30enough, he keeps them around to do other
0:32things.
0:32>> Over the next few months, dozens of
0:34girls came forward sharing similar
0:36stories. After a year-long
0:38investigation, Palm Beach Police had a
0:40mountain of evidence and were convinced
0:43they had a slam-dunk case. Jeffrey was
0:46going to go away for a long, long time.
0:49But he didn't. Despite all the evidence,
0:52Jeffrey was sentenced to a measly 13
0:54months in a minimum-security prison with
0:56a 12-hour work release. And it gets
1:00worse. The [music] prosecutor in charge
1:02of the case, Alex Acosta, made a secret
1:05deal with Jeff's lawyers guaranteeing
1:07him immunity from federal prosecution.
1:09Years later, Acosta reportedly said, "I
1:12was told Epstein belonged to
1:14intelligence and to leave it alone. So,
1:16I guess the question of the century is
1:19was Epstein an intelligence asset?
1:21[music]
1:22And if so, who did he work for?" Well,
1:25for the past few months, I've gone down
1:27a bit of a rabbit hole trying to figure
1:29this all out and what I've uncovered is
1:32a tangled mess of connections with
1:34several intelligence agencies going back
1:37to the early '80s. So, yes, this is yet
1:39another Epstein video. Except this one
1:42is a little bit different from the
1:44others because it's more of a deep dive
1:46on the spy allegations rather than the
1:49pedo stuff.
1:52Our story begins in 1973.
1:55Jeffrey was 20 years old and just
1:57dropped out of college. The same year he
1:59landed a job at the Dalton School. Now,
2:01[music] this was no ordinary school. It
2:03was New York's most elite prep school
2:06whose alumni included Anthony Blinken,
2:09Lachlan Murdoch, and Anderson Cooper,
2:11among others. Former students said that
2:14Jeff would walk around in a fur coat and
2:16a gold chain like a low-level street
2:18pimp. And just like every other male
2:20math teacher, he had a habit of flirting
2:22with his female students. Now, the video
2:25just started and we're already faced
2:27with a question. How did this
2:2920-year-old college dropout schmuck get
2:31hired at one of the most prestigious
2:33schools in the entire country? Well,
2:35unfortunately, the only guy who can
2:37answer that question is dead. Jeffrey
2:39was hired by Dalton headmaster Donald
2:42Barr, who was known for his unorthodox
2:45hiring practices. He was described as
2:47the type of guy that didn't care about
2:49credentials as long as you knew your
2:52stuff. He was also a former spy. I
2:55thought I should mention this since, you
2:57know, the video's all about Epstein's
2:59possible ties to intelligence, so no
3:00stone goes unturned. Before going into
3:03education, Donald worked for the OSS,
3:05>> Office of Strategic Services,
3:08>> which was the precursor to the CIA. And
3:10the apple doesn't fall far from the
3:12tree, I guess, because his son Bill
3:14worked for the CIA. Oh, and what's this?
3:16He was also
3:18Trump's attorney general in 2019 and
3:20oversaw the federal investigation into
3:22Jeffrey.
3:23Huh, that's a weird uh
3:26connection. Let's put a pin in that cuz
3:27it might come up again later. Jeff's
3:29teaching career was short-lived. He
3:31would get canned after just 2 years on
3:33the job. But it didn't matter cuz Jeff
3:35already had a much better job waiting
3:37for him. During his time at Dalton, Jeff
3:39learned a very important lesson, one
3:41that would follow him for the rest of
3:42his life. It's not what you know, it's
3:45who you know. So, he switched his focus
3:48from actually teaching to making
3:50connections. And one of those
3:52connections was to Alan Ace Greenberg,
3:55an executive at Bear Stearns. At the
3:58time, it was one of the largest
3:59investment firms in the world before
4:01they collapsed in 2008. There's a lot of
4:04conflicting stories on how these two
4:06guys met, but they hit it off right
4:08away. Ace saw a lot of potential in the
4:10young Jeff. Also, by the way guys, I'm
4:12avoiding using his last name as much as
4:14possible cuz
4:16I kind of don't want this video to get
4:17demonetized. Anyways, just like Donald
4:20Burr, Ace had an unorthodox approach to
4:22hiring. He wasn't a fan of the
4:25buttoned-up Harvard snobs typical of
4:27Wall Street. He preferred PSDs,
4:31psychopathic
4:32tool degenerates. Oh wait, my bad. PSD
4:35actually stands for poor, smart with a
4:38desire to be rich. You know, I think my
4:41uh
4:41description was more accurate though.
4:43Ace thought that Jeff was the prime
4:46example of a PSD. So, he decided to give
4:49him a job, and he was hired as a junior
4:51analyst at Bear Stearns. Now, he might
4:53have been good at math, but he didn't
4:55know [ __ ] about investment banking.
4:57Luckily, Ace took him under his wing and
4:59taught him everything he knew about
5:01money. Turns out, Jeff had a natural
5:04talent for pulling off complex trades,
5:06and he would quickly rise through the
5:08ranks at BS. By 1981, he was named the
5:12youngest partner in Bear Stearns history
5:14at just 27 years old. Even the media was
5:16taking notice. In July 1980, he was
5:19named Cosmopolitan
5:21magazine's
5:23bachelor
5:24of the month along with I [ __ ] you not,
5:27O.J. Simpson. As you can imagine, all
5:29this success was getting to his head.
5:32Jeff thought he could get away with
5:33anything, and for the most part, he was
5:35right. So, he started engaging in
5:37riskier and riskier behavior. Eventually
5:39though, it would catch up to him. In
5:411980, Jeff flew to the Caribbean with
5:43one of his girlfriends on Bear Stearns'
5:45dime, and bought her $10,000 worth of
5:48jewelry on the company credit card. Even
5:50worse, he was giving her and some of his
5:52buddies insider trading tips and
5:54unauthorized loans. Now, any normal
5:57person would have been fired on the
5:58spot, right? But not Jeff. Jeff was let
6:02off with a $2,500 fine and a 2-month
6:05suspension. Basically just a slap on the
6:07dick, but his pride and his ego couldn't
6:11handle that. The fact that he was being
6:13punished for a little insider trading
6:16was insane to him. So, he resigned his
6:18partnership and left Bear Stearns. But
6:21at that point, it didn't matter. Once
6:23again, Jeff had made the exact right
6:25connections he needed to move on to
6:27bigger and better things. Ace Greenberg
6:29had taught him everything about
6:30investment banking, but he was about to
6:32step into the shady world of offshore
6:35banking, money laundering, and arms
6:38smuggling. This is all alleged, by the
6:40way.
6:42His departure from Bear kicks off what I
6:45like to call the lost years of Epstein,
6:48which lasted from '81 to about '87. His
6:51activities around this time were
6:52shrouded in mystery. If Jeff was
6:55involved with intelligence, that
6:56involvement would have started here.
6:58Right before leaving Bear Stearns, Jeff
7:00went on a trip to London with one of his
7:01girlfriends, where he befriended a guy
7:03named Nick Leeson. Nick's family was
7:06disgustingly wealthy. So, Jeff, being
7:09the parasite that he was, started
7:11[music] worming his way in. Soon, he was
7:13making regular trips to England to visit
7:15them. Nick's father, Douglas, fell for
7:17Jeff's charms, and just like Ace
7:19Greenberg, he took the little guy on as
7:21a protege. Now, Doug Leeson was a
7:23mysterious guy in his own right. There's
7:25barely any public information about him,
7:27but from what I was able to scrape
7:29together, he was a sketchy international
7:32arms dealer. His family swears that he
7:35was just a simple defense contractor,
7:38but there's definitely more to it than
7:39that. Leeson himself claimed that his
7:41work involved quote
7:43>> highly sensitive confidential
7:44information which is believed to be
7:46classified by the Department of Defense
7:48and other agencies of the US government.
7:50>> In addition to whatever he was doing for
7:52the Department of Defense, Leese
7:54brokered the largest arms deal in
7:56history between the UK and Saudi Arabia.
7:59He also helped smuggle a bunch of
8:01weapons into Iran. This is very
8:04important. The same year he met Douglas,
8:06Jeff started International Assets Group.
8:09Now, it's hard to tell exactly what IAG
8:11did. Jeff himself said that he was a
8:14financial bounty hunter that worked on
8:17finding money for extremely rich people.
8:20What the hell does that even mean? Well,
8:22it'll all make sense in a minute. Just
8:24pay attention. Doug helped IAG get its
8:27first client, Adnan Khashoggi, who just
8:30happened to be the richest man in the
8:32world at the time. I mean, what do you
8:34expect? The guy had cash in his name.
8:36>> For Adnan Khashoggi, a lifestyle of
8:38heroic excesses is matched only by the
8:40zeal of the global press [music]
8:42to explain this mysterious mogul whose
8:45name and face appear in headlines across
8:47the world. America's richest man, Gordon
8:49Getty, has $4.1 [music] billion compared
8:52to Khashoggi's estimated $10 billion.
8:54And though the cameras follow his every
8:56move, Khashoggi rarely talks to the
8:57[music] press. Instead, they just
8:59speculate about him.
9:00>> You're probably wondering how he made
9:01all that money. Well, like Leese, he was
9:04an arms dealer. In fact, he was the most
9:06notorious arms dealer in history.
9:08There's a reason he had AK in his name.
9:11Okay, okay, I'm done with the name puns.
9:12I promise. AK was tight with the Saudi
9:14royal family and served as a broker
9:16between Western defense companies and
9:18the Saudi government, which is how
9:20[music] he became friends with Douglas
9:22Leese. This would explain why Jeff had a
9:24fake passport that listed his place of
9:26residence as Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi was
9:29also the primary architect of the
9:31Iran-Contra scandal. He basically helped
9:35the CIA and Israel secretly funnel
9:37weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
9:40But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
9:40wait, that doesn't make any sense. Why
9:42would the US and Israel want to support
9:44a country whose slogan is literally
9:46death to America, death to Israel? Well,
9:50it's complicated. If you want to know
9:51more, I made a whole video about it, go
9:53watch that. But I'll give a very brief
9:55rundown here, and then I'll tie it all
9:57back to Jeffrey. And trust me when I
9:59tell you this is some insane [ __ ] man.
10:01It all started in 1982, 3 years after
10:04Iran became an Islamic Republic and an
10:07official enemy of America. Former actor
10:10Ronald Reagan wanted those hostages
10:12free. [music] The only problem is he had
10:14a very strict policy of we do not
10:18negotiate with terrorists. He even
10:20[music]
10:20went on TV and and had a whole talk
10:22about it.
10:23>> America will never make concessions to
10:26terrorists.
10:27To do so would only invite more
10:28terrorism. Once we head down that path,
10:31there will be no end to it. No end to
10:33the suffering of innocent people, no end
10:35to the
10:37>> [music]
10:43>> Obviously, the logical next move was to
10:46start negotiating with terrorists. So,
10:48this guy Oliver North, who was like
10:50Reagan's fixer, along with CIA director
10:53William Casey, set up a back channel to
10:55secretly sell Iran weapons behind
10:57Congress's back in exchange for freeing
11:00the hostages. They did this by using
11:02Israel as a middleman, so it couldn't be
11:04traced back to Reagan. But that doesn't
11:06explain why Israel would agree to this.
11:08Aren't they like arch enemies? Didn't we
11:10just get into a whole war because of
11:12that? Well, you see, at the time, Iran
11:14and Iraq were in the middle of a brutal
11:17war, and both Saddam and Ayatollah were
11:19threats to Israel. So, having them fight
11:22each other for as long as possible was
11:24in their best interest. Adnan Khashoggi
11:26basically brokered and financed these
11:29arms deals. Khashoggi set up a meeting
11:32between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon
11:34Peres and Cyrus Hashemi, an Iranian
11:37banker who will come up again later. The
11:39three men made a deal where Israel would
11:41sell Iran weapons which the US would
11:44then replace to make it look like they
11:46were never missing. This was all done
11:48under the supervision and approval of
11:50William Casey. The transportation was
11:53provided by Southern Air Transport, a
11:56CIA front company. The first shipment
11:58was sent on August 15th, 1985. Now, most
12:02people in the US government had no idea
12:04that this was going on and there was a
12:07similar thing going on in Israel. Their
12:09part of the operation was being handled
12:11by Aman, Israel's military intelligence
12:13wing, which at the time was headed by
12:15Ehud Barak, who would go on to be a
12:18close personal friend of Jeffrey's. Now,
12:20both the Israelis and Americans were
12:22making a buttload of money on this. Aman
12:25laundered their profits through the
12:27companies of Robert Maxwell, the father
12:30of Ghislaine Maxwell, more on that
12:32later. And America's cut was laundered
12:34through BCCI,
12:35a shady Pakistani bank whose clients
12:38included Saddam Hussein and Pablo
12:41Escobar, among others. Part of the
12:43Americans' profits were sent to the
12:45Contras in Nicaragua, a right-wing
12:47paramilitary group fighting the
12:49government of that country. This was all
12:51completely illegal. Congress literally
12:53banned Reagan from sending the Contras
12:55money. Okay, so the the question is
12:56here, how the hell was Jeff E. involved
12:59in all of this? Well, multiple people
13:02have claimed that he was directly
13:04involved in managing finances for these
13:06arms deals, including his future friend
13:09business partner Steven Hoffenberg.
13:11>> He, in the early '80s, was [music]
13:13trained in arms trafficking and money
13:15laundering by Adnan [music] Khashoggi
13:18and Sir Douglas Lee jointly. And Jeffrey
13:21Epstein was a major participant and
13:25principal in the arms trafficking and
13:27money laundering [music] operations of
13:30Adnan Khashoggi and Sir Douglas Lees for
13:33Israel, for what they were doing in the
13:36United Kingdom, for what they were doing
13:39with the remaining Robert Maxwell
13:41operations later on after Robert Maxwell
13:45died.
13:46>> The only proven connection we have
13:48without a shadow of a doubt is that he
13:50worked for Khashoggi. So, [music] it's
13:52likely that he was involved, but I can't
13:54say to what extent. But, I did come
13:56across this New York Times article from
13:581992 that says, "Since the Iranians
14:01refused to pay for the arms in advance,
14:03the original funding came from [music]
14:05and through Adnan Khashoggi, who acted
14:07as a guarantor for Iran. He deposited 25
14:11million to 30 million in advance in a
14:13Swiss bank account controlled by
14:15Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. It is
14:17still not clear where all of Mr.
14:19Khashoggi's money came from."
14:21>> Now, this is interesting because
14:22remember, Epstein said that his role was
14:25finding money for rich people. Huh? Huh?
14:29So, that Times article raises another
14:31good question. Where did that money come
14:33from? It's not like Jeff just had 30
14:35million dollars lying around. Well, a US
14:37Senate investigation revealed that the
14:39arms deals were financed with money from
14:41BCCI, which I mentioned earlier.
14:43Officially, the Bank of Credit and
14:45Commerce International, BCCI, was better
14:48known by its other name, the Bank of
14:50Crooks and Criminals. And that's exactly
14:52what it was. BCCI was notorious for
14:55using a network of shell companies and
14:58offshore banks to launder money for some
15:00of the most evil people on the planet,
15:01okay? Aside from Khashoggi, BCCI's
15:04clientele included dictators, terrorist
15:06groups, drug cartels, the mafia, and
15:09worst of all, Nintendo bootleggers. Oh,
15:12and also the CIA. A 1986 Senate
15:15Committee investigation found that the
15:16CIA not only had multiple accounts with
15:19the bank, but were actively using it to
15:21launder money. [music] BCCI basically
15:24had a secret CIA slush fund which was
15:27used to finance covert operations behind
15:30Congress's back. So, all that money that
15:32went to the Contras was first funneled
15:34through BCCI's complex network of
15:36shells. So, you can reason that uh
15:40Epstein, who handled money for one of
15:42their biggest clients, must have dealt
15:44with BCCI, right? At least uh in some
15:46capacity. Now, in the '90s, all of
15:49BCCI's activities were exposed and on
15:52top of the other stuff, they were also
15:53running a massive Ponzi scheme and
15:56committing more fraud than my uncle
15:57Reuben. So, [music] they were forced to
15:59shut down in July of 1991. Their assets
16:02were frozen and many of their clients
16:04lost their money, including Khashoggi
16:06himself. [music]
16:07Now, Iran-Contra and BCCI weren't the
16:11only CIA-adjacent
16:13things that Jeff was supposedly involved
16:15in. It looks like he might have also
16:17been implicated in the trafficking of
16:18blood diamonds in Africa. Jeff often
16:21bragged to his friends that he made a
16:22fortune off of guns and diamonds. When
16:25his Manhattan penthouse was raided, the
16:27FBI found a safe containing that fake
16:30passport and 48 loose diamonds. Where
16:33the heck did he get 48 loose diamonds?
16:36Well, I might have an idea. I'm going to
16:38play you a clip from an interview that
16:40Ghislaine Maxwell gave the Department of
16:42Defense in 2025.
16:44>> Before I met him, finding money,
16:47I think he may have suggested that there
16:50was people who helped him. He showed me
16:52a photograph that he had
16:55with some um African warlords or
16:58something that he told me and
17:00something like that. That's the only
17:02actual active memory I have of something
17:06nefarious or nefarious. Covert, I
17:08suppose, would be the word.
17:09>> After doing some digging, I think that
17:12this was the picture that she was
17:13referring to. Now, his hair wasn't gray
17:15yet, so this photo must [music] have
17:17been from sometime in the '80s. And
17:19those two soldiers he's standing with
17:21look a lot like members of UNITA. Okay,
17:24so what the hell is UNITA? That sounds
17:25like the name of a large Mexican woman.
17:27It was one of the factions fighting in
17:29the Angolan Civil War, which lasted from
17:311975 [music] to
17:352002. Holy [ __ ] Their main enemy was
17:38the MPLA, a Marxist group backed by the
17:41Soviets. UNITA was obviously backed by
17:44the US, South Africa, and weirdly
17:47enough, China. Now, I should mention
17:49UNITA was doing a lot of bad stuff, like
17:53bombing civilians, using child soldiers,
17:56and using slaves to mine diamonds.
17:59Despite all that, the Reagan
18:01administration provided UNITA with
18:03hundreds of millions of dollars in
18:05funding, and the CIA was also directly
18:07involved in the conflict and had about
18:10100 agents on the ground in Angola. Now,
18:12in addition to getting funding from US
18:14tax dollars, UNITA also had a lucrative
18:17side gig in mining blood diamonds. These
18:20diamonds were mostly extracted by slaves
18:22who worked in appalling conditions, and
18:25those were the lucky people who didn't
18:26just get straight-up murdered by UNITA
18:28soldiers. These diamond mines also
18:30caused a massive famine because people
18:32were diverted away from farming and
18:34growing food. It was It was just a super
18:36messed-up situation. So, for all those
18:39reasons, Angolan diamonds were put under
18:41a UN embargo. They were supposed to be
18:44illegal to buy, but that didn't stop
18:47anyone. De Beers, the diamond cartel,
18:49admitted to buying [ __ ] tons of diamonds
18:51from Angola. UNITA was making billions
18:54off of these blood diamonds, and the CIA
18:57was helping them. Southern Air
18:58Transport, the same one shipping weapons
19:00to the Iranians, were also involved in
19:02transporting weapons to Angola and
19:04diamonds out. And SAT was only one arm
19:08of the operation. According to Human
19:10Rights Watch, "Intermediaries have made
19:13payments of hundreds of thousands of
19:15dollars to UNITA officials for diamonds
19:18smuggled across Zaire's southern border.
19:20>> Now, is it possible
19:22that Jeffrey could have been one of
19:24these intermediaries acting on behalf of
19:27the CIA or whatever other intelligence
19:28agency? I don't know. Again, this is all
19:30speculation, but like
19:32I mean, he was there. We have pictures.
19:34It's weird, man. It's [ __ ] weird.
19:36That's all I'm saying. And things are
19:38only going to continue to get weirder
19:39from here on out.
19:40>> Around this same time, Epstein went into
19:43business with John Stanley Pottinger.
19:45Pottinger was the Assistant Attorney
19:47General to President Nixon. So, he went
19:50from working with one crook to another.
19:51Here's the interesting part. Pottinger
19:53was also involved in Iran-Contra. Guys,
19:55remember Cyrus Hashemi, the guy who
19:57helped set up those initial arms
19:59shipments to Iran? Well, Pottinger was
20:01his lawyer. In 1980, 5 years before the
20:04Iran-Contra thing, Pottinger advised
20:06Hashemi on how to circumvent the arms
20:09embargo on Iran. The FBI actually bugged
20:12Pottinger's office and overheard him
20:14giving advice on how to disguise the
20:16arms shipments through foreign shell
20:18companies and fake invoices. Again, this
20:20was done with the CIA supervision, by
20:22the way. The CIA set up a secret Swiss
20:25bank account to send and receive money
20:27from Hashemi in exchange for weapon
20:29shipments. Now, the [music] FBI had been
20:31investigating him and Pottinger had
20:33gotten into a lot of trouble because of
20:36this. But luckily for him, those
20:38incriminating tapes the FBI had
20:40conveniently got lost. So, he couldn't
20:43be prosecuted. Whoops. Not long after
20:45this, John and Jeff rented a penthouse
20:47together to do business. Ostensibly,
20:50they advised rich clients on how to
20:52avoid taxes. But who knows? Now, this
20:55was a short partnership, but it's not
20:56the last time that Pottinger makes an
20:58appearance in this story, but that's not
21:00for another 30 years or so. Jeff also
21:03had a relationship with Pottinger's
21:05boss, Nixon's Attorney General John
21:07Mitchell. That name sounds familiar?
21:09It's because Mitchell was one of the
21:10primary architects of the Watergate
21:12scandal.
21:13>> [music]
21:13>> He went to prison for 19 months after he
21:16was found guilty of conspiring with
21:18members of the CIA and FBI to plant
21:20listening devices at DNC headquarters.
21:24So, just to summarize
21:25>> Jeff's mentor, biggest client, business
21:27partner, and his good friend were all
21:29deeply involved with intelligence. And
21:31he was also constantly around CIA
21:32operations.
21:33>> Now, was any of this proof that he was
21:35intelligence? Absolutely not, you know?
21:37It's just like your girlfriend's
21:38location getting turned off while she
21:39was at the club with her friends and her
21:41coming home at 5:00 a.m. is not proof of
21:43her cheating. Anyways, in the late '80s,
21:46John Mitchell introduced Jeff to Steven
21:48Hoffenberg. Hoffenberg, like so many
21:50others before him, got hypnotized by
21:53Epstein's charms. The parasite
21:55>> [music]
21:55>> had found his next host. The two of them
21:57quickly became best friends, business
22:00partners, and [music] partners in crime.
22:02Steve hired Jeff as a consultant with a
22:05nice $25,000 monthly salary, which is
22:08approximately
22:11$50 billion in today's money. I could be
22:14wrong though, I took all my math classes
22:16at DeVry. After joining forces, these
22:18two schmucks decided to branch out from
22:21collections into corporate takeovers.
22:23One of the companies they tried to take
22:25over was Pan American Airlines.
22:32Epstein served as an advisor along with
22:35John Mitchell, and I [ __ ] you not,
22:38Richard Nixon's brother. Now, the Pan Am
22:40thing didn't pan out. Their bid failed
22:44partly because Pan Am's planes kept
22:45getting hijacked and blown up. And to
22:47make things worse, the attempted
22:49takeover attracted attention from the
22:51SEC. They started looking into Towers'
22:54finances and realized
22:57something wasn't adding up. On February
22:5917th, 1994, Steven Hoffenberg was
23:02arrested by the feds on charges of
23:04securities fraud. Turns out that Towers
23:07Financial was running the largest Ponzi
23:10scheme in history. Creditors were
23:12induced by promises of high returns to
23:14invest hundreds of millions of dollars,
23:16which were used to covering staggering
23:18operational losses, repay earlier
23:20investors, and support the extravagant
23:23lifestyles of Hoffenberg and his inner
23:26circle. Investors lost nearly half a
23:28billion dollars. This was probably like
23:31the worst disaster to happen to Towers
23:33in New York City. Hoffenberg would end
23:35up serving 18 years for his role in the
23:37scheme. Epstein, on the other hand,
23:39wasn't charged with anything. After he
23:41got out, Hoffenberg claimed that Jeff
23:43was basically the architect of the whole
23:45scheme. Now, it's entirely possible that
23:47Steve is full of [ __ ] but the timeline
23:50does make sense. Jeff started working
23:52with the Hoff in 1987 and the Ponzi
23:54scheme started just a few months after
23:56that. Also, the Towers Ponzi scheme was
23:59a less sophisticated version of what
24:01BCCI was doing, so maybe he got his idea
24:05from there. Either way, Jeff's name was
24:07completely absent from any FBI
24:09documents. In a familiar pattern, Jeff
24:12would get away with it once again. Maybe
24:14the feds were incompetent, maybe he knew
24:16the right people. After getting out of
24:18prison, Hoffenberg had a lot to say
24:20about his former partner, like his
24:22Iran-Contra involvement. Steve also
24:24claimed that Jeff worked on several
24:27projects with Robert Maxwell. Now, as
24:29you guys probably know, Maxwell is the
24:32father of Ghislaine, who was Epstein's
24:34trafficking [snorts] partner. But,
24:36what's interesting is that Maxwell was
24:38kind of a proto-Epstein, an extremely
24:41wealthy and well-connected man, long
24:43rumored to be a spy, who died under
24:45mysterious circumstances. But, it turns
24:47out they might have had a whole lot more
24:49in common than just those things. Now, I
24:51need to take a minute and talk about
24:53Robert Maxwell because his story is as
24:56insane and [ __ ] up as Epstein's and
24:59they're connected.
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25:57back to the video. Maxwell was born
26:00in Czechoslovakia. He fled to England
26:03after the Nazis occupied his home
26:04country and joined the British Army. By
26:071944, Maxwell was working as an
26:09undercover intelligence agent in Paris.
26:11After the war, he moved to West Berlin,
26:14where he continued doing intelligence
26:15work for the British Foreign Office. It
26:17was here where he made a lot of contacts
26:20in the Eastern Bloc. During his time in
26:22Berlin, he started what would grow into
26:24a multi-billion dollar publishing
26:26empire. At their peak, Maxwell's
26:28companies had offices in 26 countries
26:31and employed close to 30,000 people. He
26:33was also one of the few people in the
26:35world who did business in both the East
26:37and West and traveled freely between the
26:40two. As you can imagine, his frequent
26:42trips beyond the Iron Curtain made a lot
26:44of people suspicious. The
26:46>> [music]
26:46>> British Foreign Office, where Maxwell
26:48worked, thought he was a Russian double
26:50agent. An FO report described them as
26:53quote "a thoroughly bad character and
26:55almost certainly financed by Russia."
26:58Funnily enough, the Russians also
26:59thought Maxwell was an MI6 plant trying
27:01to infiltrate the Soviet Union. So,
27:03basically, bro is playing both sides.
27:05Plus, he was working with the Israelis.
27:07So, now we're back to Iran-Contra again.
27:09Israel's military intelligence wing,
27:11AMAN, was making so much money off
27:13selling weapons to Iran that they didn't
27:15know what to do with all of it. The head
27:17of AMAN, Ehud Barak, wanted to keep this
27:20money hidden from the Americans and
27:22certain members of Israel's parliament.
27:24That's when Barak came up with the
27:25brilliant idea to stash the money in the
27:29Soviet Union. That's where Robert
27:30Maxwell comes in. He was the only person
27:33who could make that happen. So, he set
27:35up a meeting between the Israelis and
27:37the KGB at his office in England. Both
27:39sides came to an agreement that the arms
27:42profits would be laundered through
27:43Maxwell's companies and eventually end
27:45up in Soviet banks. And, of course,
27:48everybody involved would get a cut.
27:50Maxwell's handler at the time was an
27:52AMAN spy named Ari Ben Menashe. At least
27:55that's according to Ari's memoir where
27:57all of this information comes from. In
27:59it, he also claimed that Maxwell's
28:00right-hand man, journalist Nick Davies,
28:03was working for Mossad and participated
28:06in several of the arms shipments
28:08himself. These claims were corroborated
28:10by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
28:12Seymour Hersh.
28:13>> So many reporters in this town knew so
28:15much about Nicholas Davies and other
28:17things. Many did not, but some did. You
28:19add up what Maxwell was doing behind the
28:22the various companies and his and his
28:24maze of banking activities, and we're
28:26really at a very small percentage, you
28:27know, less than 10% for sure is known
28:29about what he was doing.
28:30>> So, if all this is true, Maxwell was
28:32making big bucks off this whole
28:34operation, but apparently, it wasn't
28:36enough. Towards the end of the decade,
28:38his business empire started to crumble.
28:41On November 4th, 1991, Maxwell was
28:43scheduled for a meeting with the Bank of
28:45England to discuss a default on a 50
28:47million pound loan, but he never showed
28:49up to the meeting. Instead, he went out
28:51on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, which
28:54by the way was purchased from Adnan
28:56Khashoggi. The next day, his body was
28:58found floating in the ocean off the
28:59coast of Spain.
29:00>> Good evening. The publisher, Mr. Robert
29:02Maxwell, owner of the Daily Mirror, died
29:04today off the Canary Islands. His body
29:06has been recovered from the sea. How he
29:08came to be in the sea is a mystery. Mr.
29:10Maxwell, who was 68, had been on a
29:12holiday cruise on his motor yacht, Lady
29:14Ghislaine. Last night, she was off
29:15Puerto de los Cristianos in Tenerife.
29:17Mr. Maxwell was seen walking alive on
29:20the deck early this morning. His main
29:22business, Maxwell Communications
29:23Corporation, owed the banks more than a
29:25billion pounds. And Mr. Maxwell had
29:27recently been accused of having close
29:28links with Mossad, the Israeli
29:30intelligence service.
29:31>> Shortly after the funeral, it was
29:33revealed that Maxwell had been siphoning
29:35hundreds of millions of dollars from his
29:37company's pension funds to keep his
29:39dying empire afloat. Now, what's weird
29:42is that just 4 months before Maxwell was
29:45found dead, BCCI was forced to shut down
29:48and had their assets frozen. And I don't
29:50think these two things are unrelated.
29:52The official story behind Maxwell's
29:54death is that he had a heart attack
29:56while taking a piss off the side of his
29:58boat and fell in the ocean where he
30:00drowned. But, the unofficial story is
30:02that [music] he had become a liability
30:05to one of the intelligence agencies he
30:07was working for and they disposed of
30:09him. Even Jeffrey himself seemed to
30:12believe this, at least according to this
30:13email from 2018 with the subject line,
30:16"He was passed away." The email says,
30:19"Robert Maxwell threatened Mossad. He
30:21told them that unless they gave him 400
30:23million to save his crumbling empire, he
30:26would expose all he had done for them."
30:28Either way, Maxwell was given a state
30:30funeral in Israel, which was attended by
30:32Prime Minister Shimon Peres, as well as
30:35several intelligence agents. Kind of a
30:38weird thing to do for someone who didn't
30:40work for them, right? Now, again, I
30:42can't say anything for sure, but it
30:44definitely looks like Maxwell was what's
30:46called an access agent, meaning he was
30:49not like an official employee of any
30:51particular agency, but they used him to
30:54gain access to people through his wide
30:57network of connections. His own daughter
30:59even alluded to this when she was being
31:00interviewed by the DOJ.
31:02>> There have been um multiple questions
31:05about whether he worked for any
31:07intelligence agency. Do you have any
31:10knowledge about that?
31:11>> I think most certainly my father had a
31:13background in intelligence. In the
31:15Second World War, he was in intelligence
31:17a British intelligence service. My sort
31:19of belief is that once you've been an
31:20intelligence officer, you're kind of
31:22always It doesn't mean that you're
31:23formally employed. If you're asking if I
31:26feel that he did help
31:28people, the answer would be yes, I do.
31:30>> Oh, there's also this email that
31:32Ghislaine sent to Jeff in 2005. Was with
31:35a CIA operative who said that he worked
31:37with dad. He said he could find all and
31:39reveal all for a price. So, was Robert
31:43Maxwell working for the Mossad?
31:46I would say no. I would say he was
31:48likely working for Aman. Uh a lot of
31:50people don't make a distinction between
31:53Israeli intelligence agencies, but yeah.
31:56What's interesting is that Jeff would
31:58later have his own involvement with
32:00Aman. So, as you can see, Maxwell and
32:02Jeff ran in similar circles. But one
32:05question I found myself asking was,
32:07[music] did they know each other?
32:09And there's a lot of conflicting
32:11evidence for that, too. Ghislaine and
32:13Jeffrey both vehemently deny it. Steve
32:16Hoffenberg, on the other hand, claims
32:17that it was Robert himself who actually
32:20introduced Jeff to Ghislaine. This claim
32:22was echoed by Ari Ben-Menashe, who says
32:25he remembered seeing Jeffrey in Robert's
32:26office several times in the '80s.
32:29Epstein was hanging around with Robert
32:30Maxwell, and the daughter was hanging
32:32around there, too, and that's how they
32:34met. Later on, Ghislaine got involved
32:36with Israeli intelligence together with
32:38him. These guys were seen as agents.
32:40They weren't really competent to do very
32:42much and so they found a niche for
32:44themselves, blackmailing Americans and
32:47other political figures.
32:48>> Oh [ __ ] big if true. So let's briefly
32:51talk about Ghislaine, Jeff's right-hand
32:54woman. Ghislaine was Robert Maxwell's
32:57favorite child, so much so that he named
32:59the yacht that he died on after her.
33:02Ghislaine's role in her father's
33:03business was a sort of
33:06like social emissary, meaning that she
33:08would go to events and mingle with
33:10powerful people on her dad's behalf and,
33:13you know, expand his network. It was
33:16through this role that she met people
33:18like Adnan Khashoggi, Prince Andrew, and
33:21Donald Trump. And it was [music] these
33:23connections that made her so appealing
33:25to Jeffrey. After her father's death,
33:27Ghislaine was not only distraught, but
33:30also broke. She needed someone to
33:32support her, someone to basically
33:34replace the role of her dad. And that
33:36someone was Jeff. Once again, many
33:39conflicting accounts of how these two
33:42met. The original story is that they met
33:44for the first time at a memorial in New
33:46York for Robert Maxwell. Ghislaine, on
33:48the other hand, gives a different
33:49account saying that the two were set up
33:51on a blind date by a mutual
33:53acquaintance. And we already know what
33:55Hoffenberg and Ben Menashe said. What's
33:57certain is that by the early '90s they
33:59were in some kind of relationship. But
34:00it wasn't like a typical
34:02girlfriend-boyfriend,
34:03it was more of a mutually beneficial
34:06partnership. Epstein would support
34:08Ghislaine financially and allow her to
34:10live the lifestyle she was used to. In
34:12exchange, she would act as a social
34:14emissary for Epstein like she did for
34:16her dad. Ghislaine enmeshed Jeff into
34:19this network and pretty soon he became
34:22Robert Maxwell 2.0. Fortunately though,
34:25things didn't end there because as we
34:27know, Ghislaine's role would go beyond
34:29that of a social emissary and she would
34:32go on to help find and groom girls for
34:35Jeff and his friends to abuse [music]
34:37and possibly blackmail. Now, I have a
34:40whole section coming up on the blackmail
34:42operation stuff, but we're still missing
34:45a crucial piece of the puzzle. None of
34:47this would have been possible without
34:50Les Wexner.
34:53Wexner is the billionaire behind The
34:55Limited Brands, who owns Abercrombie and
34:59Fitch and Victoria's Secret. When he met
35:01Jeffrey, Wexner was one of the richest
35:04men in America. He's also the answer to
35:06the question, "Where did Jeffrey get all
35:08that money from?" Jeff's relationship
35:10with Wexner would provide him not only
35:12with near infinite amounts of cash, but
35:15also access to young girls through
35:17Victoria's Secret, which along with
35:19Ghislaine and Jean-Luc Brunel's help
35:22enabled him to create one of the largest
35:24sex trafficking networks in history.
35:27Jeff and the Wex were introduced through
35:29mutual friend of Robert Meister. Wexner
35:32had been looking for somebody to invest
35:34his money, and Jeff seemed like the
35:36perfect man for the job. So, he sent his
35:38financial advisor Harold Levin to New
35:40York to check Jeff out and make sure he
35:43was legit. [music] After talking to him
35:45for a little bit, Harold concluded that
35:47he was completely full of [ __ ] "Stay
35:49away from him," he told Les. Luckily, he
35:53listened.
35:54>> One year later.
35:56>> Levin showed up to work one day, and
35:58guess who was sitting in his office?
36:00Jeffrey [ __ ] Epstein. Apparently, he
36:02was Harold's new boss now. The first
36:05thing Jeff did was push Levin out,
36:07ensuring that he was the only one who
36:09had access to Wexner's finance. Now,
36:11Levin wasn't the only one skeptical of
36:14Jeffrey. Several people had warned
36:16Wexner not to work with him, including
36:18The Limited's executives and board
36:19members. Hell, even Les's own mother.
36:23But despite all of that, what happened
36:25next continues to confuse people to this
36:28very day. Leslie Wexner gave Jeff
36:31general power of attorney, which meant
36:33he had almost complete control of
36:35Wexner's fortune. Now, this makes
36:37absolutely no sense. Why the hell would
36:39Wexner go against the advice of everyone
36:41around him to hire this random schmuck?
36:44What could have possibly possessed him
36:46to do this? Well, it turns out it might
36:48have been an actual demon. You guys
36:50think I'm joking right now, but Wexner
36:52literally said he was possessed by a
36:54demonic entity called a dybbuk.
36:56Honestly, that explains a lot. Either
36:58that or he was blackmailed, but we're
37:00not there yet. Sorry to keep edging you
37:01guys. In the almost 20 years that
37:04Jeffrey managed Les Wexner's fortune, he
37:06had made over 200 million dollars just
37:09in fees. This mother sucker was making
37:12so much money that he was even featured
37:14on VH1's Lifestyles of the Rich and
37:16Famous.
37:16>> Jeff was a high school math teacher
37:18until he traded his blackboard for the
37:20big board in 1976,
37:22eventually launching his own exclusive
37:25finance firm for billionaire clients.
37:27So, when he was shopping for a new
37:29house, he bought himself an entire
37:31schoolhouse
37:34and transformed it into the largest
37:36single residence in all of Manhattan.
37:38>> It has incredible bells and whistles,
37:40closed-circuit televisions,
37:41>> but only one man truly rules the Wall
37:43Street skies. One private plane won't
37:45do.
37:48He's got a small fleet, a Gulfstream IV,
37:51a Cessna, and a Boeing 727, believe
37:54that. It comes in handy when you've got
37:56powerful friends to fly around. With an
37:58estimated annual take of 75 million
38:01dollars, he had more than enough cash to
38:03buy his own piece of the Virgin Islands.
38:05>> Jeffrey Epstein owns a 70-acre private
38:08island called Little St. James.
38:09>> God
38:10damn, that aged poorly. All these
38:12properties served as bases for his
38:15trafficking operation. Many of them were
38:18bought from Wexner himself. Even the
38:20infamous Lolita Express, which was used
38:22to transfer girls between all of Jeff's
38:25properties, originally belonged to The
38:27Limited. In addition to all his
38:28finances, Jeff also controlled the
38:31Wexner Foundation, which he used to buy
38:33influence for himself through donations
38:35and investments. Like for example, he
38:37gave about $2 million to former Israeli
38:40Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Now, Jeff and
38:43Barak would go on to become extremely
38:45close, leading a lot of people to
38:47believe that he was working for Israel.
38:50Well, turns out that Jeff's relationship
38:51with Barak and the Israelis in general
38:53might have started through something
38:55called Mega. And this is absolutely
38:57insane. On May 7th, 1997, The Washington
39:00Post revealed that the NSA had
39:02intercepted a communication between a
39:04senior Mossad agent in Washington and
39:07his superior in Tel Aviv. The two of
39:10them referenced someone code-named Mega.
39:12The intelligence officer allegedly said,
39:14"The ambassador wants me to go to Mega
39:16to get a copy of this letter." His boss
39:19replied, "This is not something we use
39:21Mega for." Now, there's no publicly
39:23available FBI or NSA documents related
39:25to this incident, and despite [music]
39:27the fact that one of our allies was
39:29apparently spying on us, the whole thing
39:31was forgotten about quickly. But a year
39:33later, The Wall Street Journal came out
39:35with an interesting article about a
39:38small philanthropic group of extremely
39:40wealthy Jewish businessmen
39:42>> [music]
39:42>> founded by one Les Wexner. The group,
39:45which included Steven Spielberg and
39:47ginger ale kingpin Charles Bronfman, was
39:50officially named The Study Group, but it
39:52was better known by its nickname,
39:53[music]
39:54Mega. On paper, this was just a
39:57fraternity of like-minded wealthy Jewish
39:59businessmen who wanted to donate their
40:02vast sums of money to good causes. But
40:04in reality, most of that money was used
40:06to further Zionist causes and shape US
40:09policy regarding the Middle East.
40:11[music] Kind of like AIPAC light.
40:13According to former NSA officer John
40:15Schindler, and yes, I checked. He's not
40:18related to the list guy. We know that
40:20Mega was viewed by Israeli intelligence
40:22officials as a vehicle for espionage and
40:25influence operations in the United
40:26States, and we know that it was
40:28co-founded by Jeffrey Epstein's
40:30billionaire benefactor. The rest [music]
40:32remains speculation. I mean, listen, it
40:34could be that the Mega Mall and the Mega
40:36Group were completely unrelated, but
40:38either way, being part of Wexner's Mega
40:41Group gave Epstein access to a ton of
40:44rich and powerful people with ties to
40:46Israel, like Barack and Shimon Peres.
40:49So, if Jeff was working with Israeli
40:52intelligence, this is probably where he
40:54got his in. Now, on top of the money and
40:56the connections, Jeff's relationship
40:57with Wexner provided him with
40:59legitimacy, which he unfortunately used
41:03to prey on young girls. One of the more
41:05disturbing aspects of Jeff's time with
41:07Wexner is how he posed as a victorious
41:09secret modeling scout to lure young
41:12girls into his orbit. Wexner was told
41:14about all this all the way back in 1993,
41:17and he did nothing. He continued to work
41:19with Jeff until about 2007, when they
41:22had a falling out because
41:24>> [music]
41:24>> apparently Jeff had been stealing money
41:26from him. So, we got to come back to the
41:27question, why the heck did Wexner keep
41:31working with him? What was he getting
41:33out of all this? Cuz like, even demonic
41:35possession can't explain this [ __ ]
41:37anymore. The only explanation I can
41:39think of is that he was either in love
41:41with Epstein or he was being blackmailed
41:44or both. For most of his career, Wexner
41:47was hounded by rumors that he was gay,
41:49which kind of makes sense cuz I mean,
41:51I'm sorry, but no straight man is that
41:53into women's clothing.
41:54>> Did you personally
41:56have a sexual relationship with Jeffrey
41:58Epstein?
41:59>> No.
42:03>> He was gay? Leslie Wexner?
42:04>> How about that?
42:05>> So, was Jeff using Wexner's gayness to
42:07blackmail him? And if he was doing that
42:08to Wexner,
42:10who's to say he wasn't doing it to other
42:12powerful people? Maybe his procurement
42:15of young girls wasn't simply for the
42:17sick desires of him and his friends.
42:19Maybe there was something deeper.
42:24In Russian, there's a term kompromat,
42:27which refers to compromising material
42:29that's collected and used as leverage
42:31against the target. This information is
42:33gathered preemptively and used as
42:36needed. The main method for collecting
42:38kompromat is through a money trap, which
42:40is when a target is lured into some
42:43indecent sex act and secretly recorded.
42:45Now, a lot of people think that Jeff's
42:47trafficking network was also a way to
42:49collect kompromat on powerful people,
42:52but the FBI insists that this is not the
42:54case.
42:55>> Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic
42:58these young women to besides himself?
43:02>> Himself. There is no credible
43:03information.
43:05None. If there were, I would bring the
43:07case yesterday.
43:08>> In an official memo, the FBI said,
43:10"There is no credible evidence found
43:12that Epstein blackmailed prominent
43:14individuals as part of his actions."
43:16Well, case closed, I guess. Video over.
43:18Except the video isn't over. I just
43:20pulled a fast one on you. It's not even
43:21close to being over. The FBI's
43:23conclusion directly contradicts the
43:25accounts of Jeff's victims, like
43:27Virginia Giuffre.
43:28>> I was trafficked to other billionaires.
43:30I was trafficked to politicians,
43:32professors, even royalty. It was It was
43:35the elite of the world. It was the
43:36people who run the world. It was the
43:38most powerful people in the world, and
43:40he used me as a form of blackmail. You
43:42know, these people would owe him favors.
43:44He wanted to always have something on
43:45someone just in case he needed it.
43:48>> How did he gather evidence?
43:49>> In New York, in his New York mansion,
43:51there's this door that I never even
43:52really noticed was there. It led to this
43:54room where he brought in and he was
43:55talking to some of the security guards,
43:57and there's like so many little TV
43:59monitors everywhere. I mean, just stacks
44:01and stacks and stacks of them. He's
44:02watching everything that happens in the
44:04massage room. He's watching in me in my
44:06bedroom. He's, you know, like
44:07everything's being recorded. And that's
44:09when I realized that's how
44:11he's getting away with blackmailing
44:12everybody.
44:13>> Man, it's a shame she uh
44:15Virginia's statements were corroborated
44:16by Maria Farmer, another one of Jeff's
44:19victims. But hey, maybe you don't
44:20believe the victims. Shame on you. Maybe
44:23the Palm Beach police officers who
44:25searched Jeffrey's house will convince
44:27you. According to the Palm Beach Post,
44:29when the police raided the Florida home
44:31in October in 2005, they found a camera
44:34hidden inside a clock. And we know that
44:37Jeff probably put it there because in
44:382014, he emailed one of his employees to
44:41purchase three motion detected cameras.
44:44>> I already purchased two cameras from the
44:45spy store in Fort Lauderdale. It's
44:48amazing how small they are, the size of
44:49a thumb drive. I'm installing them into
44:52Kleenex boxes now. Here's where things
44:54get even weirder. Another FBI memo was
44:56released talking about the raid of
44:58Jeff's penthouse in Manhattan, saying,
45:00"During the searches of Epstein's New
45:02York residence in 2019, the FBI searched
45:05for videos and surveillance cameras. My
45:07understanding from the case agent is
45:09that there were no cameras found inside
45:11any bedrooms or living areas.
45:13Surveillance cameras were only located
45:15near the entrances of the residences."
45:17>> Okay, so no surveillance cameras inside
45:20the house. Here's a photo from one of
45:22the bedrooms from that house.
45:25Hey, wait a minute.
45:27Is that a
45:28That kind of looks like a What's the
45:30word?
45:31Ah, it'll come to me. In the meantime,
45:32let's look at another photo. Hidden
45:34camera. That's that's what the word I
45:36was looking Well, that's two words.
45:38Honestly,
45:40normally I'd be 100% convinced that
45:42something nefarious was going on, but
45:44given the fact that Kash Patel and Dan
45:45Bongino are a bunch of incompetent
45:47retards, I wouldn't discount the
45:49possibility that the agents they put in
45:51charge were also incompetent. Look, man,
45:53I'm not saying Jeff was an intelligence
45:54agent who specialized in collecting
45:56sexual blackmail on his powerful
45:58friends. All I'm saying is
46:00that would explain a lot. Like the fact
46:02that the FBI received reports of him
46:04abusing young girls all the way back in
46:061996
46:08and they did nothing. It would also
46:09explain the absolute insane aftermath of
46:12his 2018 child trafficking arrest.
46:17It all started in March 2005, Palm
46:20Beach, Florida. Police started receiving
46:22reports of dozens of underage girls who
46:24claimed that they were lured into
46:26Jeffrey Epstein's mansion and sexually
46:28abused. Later that same year, police
46:30raided his Palm Beach mansion, but the
46:32[music] officers conducting the search
46:34felt that something was off. They
46:36thought that somebody had tipped Epstein
46:38off before they showed up. According to
46:40Michael Wright, the police chief at the
46:42time, the place had been cleaned up. It
46:44wasn't completely devoid of evidence,
46:46>> [music]
46:46>> but a computer that contained all of the
46:48home surveillance camera footage was
46:50gone and all the wires were left hanging
46:52there. Kind of weird, man, but despite
46:54that, Wright was confident that they had
46:56enough evidence to put Epstein away for
46:58a long time. But,
47:00uh, it wouldn't exactly work out that
47:01way. The state attorney, Barry Krischer,
47:04started stalling the investigation. He
47:06was poking holes in the evidence and
47:08claiming that the witnesses weren't
47:10credible. Wright even suspected that
47:12Krischer was passing information off to
47:14Jeff's lawyers. It was clear that the
47:16state of Florida cannot be trusted to
47:18handle this investigation. So, Mike
47:21Wright gave all of his evidence to the
47:23FBI who started their own investigation.
47:26Finally, justice was about to be served.
47:31>> [music]
47:37>> The federal prosecutor in charge of the
47:39case was Alex Acosta who would go on to
47:42become Donald Trump's labor secretary.
47:44Instead of meeting with Epstein's
47:46lawyers at the federal court building in
47:48Miami, Acosta met with one of them in
47:51secret at a Marriott in West Palm Beach
47:5370 miles away. It was [music] here at
47:56this secret meeting where Acosta made
47:58the infamous non-prosecution agreement,
48:01aka the sweetheart deal. Epstein would
48:03plead guilty to two charges of
48:05soliciting prostitution in exchange for
48:0713 months in a minimum security prison
48:11where he was allowed to leave for 12
48:13hours a day, 6 days a week. Not only
48:16that, but the deal would also shut down
48:18the ongoing FBI investigation and would
48:21provide immunity to not only Jeff, but
48:24his accomplices and any potential
48:26unnamed co-conspirator. The last part
48:28raises a lot of questions on who those
48:30co-conspirators were. Were they [music]
48:33powerful people who were engaged in
48:34activities with underage girls at one of
48:36Epstein's properties? We'll never know
48:38because this mother sucker derailed the
48:40investigation. Now, it should be
48:42mentioned that Jeff employed the legal
48:44firm Kirkland & Ellis. You know who else
48:47worked for Kirkland & Ellis? Alex
48:48Acosta. And you know who else else
48:51worked for Kirkland & Ellis? Bill Barr.
48:54Same Bill Barr who would go on to
48:56oversee the 2019 Epstein investigation.
48:59The same Bill Barr whose father hired
49:01Jeff as a teacher for decades prior.
49:03Years later, when Acosta was
49:05interviewing for Trump's labor secretary
49:07position, he reportedly told the
49:09transition team, "I was told Epstein
49:11belonged to intelligence and to leave it
49:13alone." Acosta denied saying this, but
49:16when he was asked about it during a
49:18press conference, he gave a what I can
49:21only describe as a weird ass response.
49:23>> Mr. Secretary, were you ever made aware
49:25at any point in your handling of this
49:27case if Mr. Epstein was an intelligence
49:29asset of some sort?
49:31>> Um so
49:34So so so there has there has been
49:35reporting to that effect. And and let me
49:38say um there's been reporting to a lot
49:40of effects in in in this case uh not
49:43just now, but over the years. And and
49:46again, I would
49:48you know, I would hesitate to take this
49:52reporting as fact. Um Um this was a case
49:55that was brought by our office. It was
49:57brought based on the facts. And and I
50:00look at that reporting and others I I
50:02can't address it directly because of our
50:05our guidelines. Um
50:07but I can tell you that that a lot of
50:09reporting is just going down rabbit
50:12holes.
50:12>> What's going on with you? What are you
50:13talking about?
50:15You You sound insane.
50:16>> Now, the most evil thing that Acosta and
50:18the Justice Department did when they
50:20made the deal was concealing it from the
50:23victims who, as you can imagine, would
50:26have never been okay with it. Attorney
50:28Brad Edwards, who was representing some
50:30of Jeff's victims, was completely
50:33outraged by this. You've probably seen
50:35this guy before. He's in like every
50:37Epstein documentary. Edwards sued the US
50:40government on behalf of his clients on
50:42the grounds that they violated the law
50:44by not telling them about the secret
50:46deal.
50:47>> [music]
50:47>> He would spend the next decade trying to
50:49get justice for his clients, pro bono,
50:51by the way. Now, things are about to get
50:53weird again. In 2013, Brad Edwards got a
50:55call from John Stanley Pottinger.
50:58Remember him? He said he wanted to join
51:00Brad in his fight for justice for the
51:02victims. [music]
51:03By this point, Pottinger had been out of
51:05the lawyer business for over 20 years,
51:08but he decided to come out of retirement
51:10to fight his old business partner.
51:12Edwards needed all the help he could get
51:14and Pottinger had an insane resume. So,
51:16[music] he joined the team. Or did he?
51:19So, we already know that Johnny Potts
51:20was no stranger to doing shady things
51:23and I feel like the timing is a bit odd,
51:25honestly. Was he there because of a
51:28sense of duty that he felt to the
51:30victims? Or was he a plant feeding Jeff
51:33information and trying to contain the
51:35fallout? Now, Pottinger has since passed
51:37away, but before he did, there were
51:39conversations between him and a supposed
51:42hacker who claimed that he had video
51:44evidence of Jeff's blackmail operation.
51:47And Pottinger's instinct was to make
51:50confidential settlements with the
51:51perpetrators in the footage instead of
51:55releasing the evidence. Now, it turns
51:57out this hacker was a fraud, but still.
51:59I don't know, man. Seems
52:01Listen, I took a few law classes at
52:03DeVry, but I'm not a lawyer. This could
52:06be regular procedure for all I know, but
52:08it does seem a little bit sketchy, okay?
52:11Brad Edwards would eventually get some
52:13justice for his clients.
52:15Unfortunately, it would be a whole
52:16'nother 10 years before that happened.
52:20Jeff was released from prison on July
52:229th, 2009. Now, around this time, a lot
52:25of Jeff's friends cut him off, including
52:28Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, even Les
52:30Wexner. When the case became public,
52:32Wexner ominously emailed Jeff, "You
52:34violated your own number one rule.
52:36Always be careful." To which he replied,
52:39"No excuse." What the heck? [music] Even
52:41Ghislaine Maxwell had distanced herself
52:42from him. As you can imagine, being a
52:44convicted sex offender is not great for
52:46one's reputation. Just ask my Uncle
52:48Reuben. So, Jeffrey went on a campaign
52:51to rehabilitate his image from one of a
52:53creepy billionaire pedo to that of a
52:56philanthropist and a patron of the arts
52:59and sciences. He hired publicists,
53:01donated millions of dollars, and hosted
53:03events with scientists, all in an effort
53:06to shake off his past. And it worked.
53:08For the most part, whatever operation
53:10Jeff was running was completely
53:12unaffected by his conviction. He was
53:14able to cultivate relationships with
53:17some of the most powerful people on the
53:18planet. Politicians, scientists,
53:21financiers, royals, billionaires, you
53:23name it. Not only that, but the files
53:25revealed that he was heavily involved in
53:28global affairs and had a lot of insider
53:31knowledge. Now, one person in particular
53:33that Jeff would become really close to
53:35after his conviction was Ehud Barak.
53:38Now, this relationship convinces a lot
53:40of people that Epstein was Mossad. Now,
53:43I'm about to say something extremely
53:44controversial. I'm going to get a lot of
53:46[ __ ] for this, but
53:48Jeff probably didn't work for the
53:49Mossad. Oh, hang on. I'm getting a phone
53:51call.
53:53Hello?
53:54Oh, yes, Mr. Netanyahu, sir.
53:57Yes, the 7,000 just hit my bank account.
53:59Thank you again, sir. Wrong number. In
54:01all seriousness, [music] just like
54:02Robert Maxwell, if Jeff was working with
54:05Israeli intelligence, it would have been
54:07with Aman, which his friend Ehud Barak
54:09used to run. So, let's talk about his
54:12connection to Barak. In addition to
54:14running Aman in the '80s, Barak also
54:16served as Prime Minister of Israel. He
54:18was introduced to Jeff by Shimon Peres
54:21sometime in the early 2000. It could
54:23have been earlier, but that's the
54:25official story. Now, at first, they only
54:27talked on occasion, but Jeff did send
54:30Barak $2 million via the Wexner
54:32Foundation. It wouldn't be until years
54:34after Jeff spent in prison that they
54:36became close. Between 2013 and 2017,
54:40Barak flew on Epstein's plane 30 times
54:44and frequently slept over at his
54:46Manhattan mansion whenever he was in
54:48town. Another person who crashed at
54:50Jeff's pad was Barak's long-time aide,
54:52Yori Koren, who also happened to be an
54:56Aman intelligence chief. According to
54:58Dropsite News, after Barak's retirement
55:00from government, Koren continued to
55:02serve as an informal intermediary
55:04between the American and Israeli
55:06intelligence communities with Barak
55:08acting as his handler. Emails show that
55:11Epstein was also wiring money to this
55:13guy for some reason. Now, a lot of
55:15people say that Epstein was working for
55:18Netanyahu, but that's definitely not the
55:20case because Ehud Barak and Netanyahu
55:24hated each other. In fact, there's a
55:26leaked conversation where Barak is
55:28talking to Epstein about convincing
55:31Vladimir Putin to bring millions of
55:32Russians into Israel to form a a block
55:35that would overthrow Netanyahu and bring
55:38Barack back to power.
55:39>> I believe we have to break the monopoly
55:42of the
55:44Orthodox
55:46rabbinate.
55:47>> We can easily absorb another million.
55:49I used to tell Putin always, "What we
55:52need is not just
55:53one more million."
55:54>> I'm not trying to defend Netanyahu or
55:56anything. I mean, the guy's evil, but
55:57he's more of a Dick Cheney type evil
55:59where he likes to bomb Muslim children
56:01just for the love of the game. So, Putin
56:03knew Ehud Barak, who was close to Jeff.
56:06Does that mean that Jeff also knew
56:08Putin? I got to bring this up because
56:10when the files first dropped earlier
56:13this year, a lot of mainstream media
56:15outlets reported that Jeff has ties to
56:18the Kremlin and Russian intelligence.
56:20One thing that they often cite is an FBI
56:22report where an anonymous informant
56:25claims that Jeff managed money for
56:27Vladimir Putin. It's an anonymous tip,
56:29so you got to take it with a grain of
56:30salt. Jeff himself claimed in the past
56:33that he frequently flew to Moscow to
56:36meet with Putin, but his emails tell a
56:38different story. In it, he claims that
56:40he never met Putin despite multiple
56:42attempts. However, in 2013, Jeff helped
56:45broker a secret meeting between Putin
56:48and Ehud Barak in Russia to discuss
56:50bringing an end to the Syrian Civil War.
56:52That same year, Barak signed a $1
56:55million consulting contract with Russian
56:58oligarch Victor Vekselberg, who is said
57:00to be close to Putin. So, it looks like
57:03maybe he didn't have direct ties to
57:04Putin himself, but he played a kind of
57:07intermediary role from the shadows. And
57:09he also had his own personal
57:11relationships to Moscow insiders like
57:14Sergey Belikov, a Russian government
57:16official with ties to the FSB, which is
57:18like their version of the CIA. In an
57:21email exchange with Sergey, Jeff says,
57:23"I need a favor. There's a Russian girl
57:25from Moscow attempting to blackmail a
57:27group of powerful businessmen in New
57:29York. It's bad for business.
57:31Suggestions?" Whoa. Belikov replied to
57:35I'm meeting with a guy who knows her."
57:37Okay, that's kind of sus. Jeff also had
57:40a correspondence with Russia's
57:41ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin. Oh,
57:45and then there's the fact that one of
57:46Jeff's assistants was the daughter of a
57:49Russian spy. Svetlana Pozdeyeva, a
57:52former model, was one of Jeff's main
57:54assistants. I'm not really sure what
57:56that job entailed, but she sure was
57:59getting paid a lot. Over six figures. I
58:01don't know, man. Based off the emails,
58:03it kind of seems like she was a
58:04honeypot. Svetlana would meet with a lot
58:07of Jeff's powerful friends and even
58:09dated some of them like Joshua Fink, the
58:11son of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
58:14Svetlana's dad was Yuri Pozdeyev, a
58:17known FSB agent who Epstein wired
58:20hundreds of thousands of dollars to. I
58:22don't know. It seems to me like the guy
58:24was playing all sides. He was working
58:26with anybody and anybody. I don't know,
58:28man. Kind of seems like the guy was a
58:30free agent. He was working with anybody
58:32and anybody. The only thing that's clear
58:34is that he was like the most
58:36well-connected person in the world. And
58:38it's these connections that helped him
58:40evade justice again and again. Well,
58:42that is until 2019.
58:47You guys remember earlier how I talked
58:48about the Justice Department failing to
58:50notify the victims about the plea deal
58:52they made? Well, after years of
58:54fighting, our boy Brad Edwards was
58:56finally able to convince a judge that
58:58that was illegal. Which meant that
59:00Jeff's immunity went out the window and
59:02he could be charged again. On July 6th,
59:05Jeff was arrested by the FBI at
59:07Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after
59:09returning from a trip to France. The
59:11same day, FBI agents raided his home in
59:13Manhattan and found thousands of photos
59:16and documents linking to crimes with
59:18children. Jeff's lawyers tried to ask
59:20for bail, but the judge denied it after
59:23it was revealed that he had a fake
59:25passport, a bunch of cash, and diamonds
59:27in his safe. Clear flight risk. Let's
59:30talk about the prison where he was held,
59:32Metropolitan Correction Center. It's
59:35held some of the most notorious
59:36criminals of the 21st century, including
59:39John Gotti, El Chapo, and Bernie Madoff.
59:42Now, MCC can be described as a complete
59:45piece of dog [ __ ] It was notoriously
59:47understaffed, underfunded, and
59:49overcrowded. Not to mention dirty and
59:52rat-infested. I say it was because it
59:54was actually closed down in 2021, partly
59:56due to the Jeffrey controversy. Now, you
1:00:00can probably imagine going from a
1:00:02private island to the American
1:00:04equivalent of a gulag, it's not it's a
1:00:06it's a it's a rough transition. So, it
1:00:09shouldn't surprise you that on July
1:00:1023rd, 2019, Jeff hanged himself in his
1:00:13jail cell. He was found at 1:23 a.m.
1:00:16alive, but barely. He actually made two
1:00:19attempts on his own life. This was the
1:00:21first one. When Jeff was questioned by
1:00:23the medical examiner, he reportedly told
1:00:26him that he didn't know what happened
1:00:27and couldn't explain the mark on his
1:00:29neck. And he accused his cellmate of
1:00:31having something to do with it. His
1:00:33cellmate was Nick Tortaglione, a former
1:00:36NYPD officer turned coke dealer who
1:00:40brutally murdered four people.
1:00:41Tortaglione said that he actually tried
1:00:43to save Jeff's life and that the video
1:00:46footage of the cell would prove that.
1:00:48But here's the thing, the video footage
1:00:50was accidentally deleted. Whoops. After
1:00:53his attempt, Jeff was placed on
1:00:56watch by the guards for 31 hours. That's
1:01:00it. Prison psychologist determined that
1:01:02Jeff was no longer suicidal less than
1:01:04two days after trying to off himself.
1:01:07They did, however, place him on
1:01:09psychological observation, which was
1:01:11less intense, but still required him to
1:01:13be checked on every 30 minutes and to
1:01:15have a cellmate with him at all times.
1:01:18These precautions would make it almost
1:01:20impossible for an inmate to whack
1:01:22themselves.
1:01:31But, what about the precautions? Well,
1:01:33it turns out that the prison guards who
1:01:35were supposed to check on him every half
1:01:37hour fell asleep. They also falsified
1:01:40records saying that they checked on him
1:01:42when they didn't. To make matters
1:01:43weirder, 2 days before he whacked
1:01:45himself, Jeff signed his last will and
1:01:48testament, which wasn't suspicious to
1:01:50anyone. Now, there's been a lot of stuff
1:01:51going around recently that one of the
1:01:54prison guards had been paid off, like
1:01:56there was money going into her account.
1:01:58In addition to the incompetent staff,
1:02:00there was also a ton of problems with
1:02:02the prison's camera system, which added
1:02:04even more conspiratorial fuel to the
1:02:06fire. Basically, this place was using an
1:02:09outdated CCTV system that had a long
1:02:11history of screw-ups. Out of the 11
1:02:14cameras recording Jeff's wing, 10 of
1:02:16them were malfunctioning. Also, last
1:02:18thing I'm going to say about this is,
1:02:20look at this photo of his cell. Why
1:02:21would they give this
1:02:23guy access to all these sheets that he
1:02:25could hang himself with? This isn't even
1:02:27like scratching the surface on all the
1:02:29weird stuff around this guy's death. You
1:02:30don't have to be a schizo to realize
1:02:33something ain't right here. After
1:02:35Jeffrey's death, something amazing
1:02:36happened. All of the people he had been
1:02:38hanging out with for years suddenly
1:02:40didn't know him. Jeffrey Epstein, the
1:02:42New York financier? Yeah, I mean, sounds
1:02:44kind of familiar. Maybe I met him once
1:02:46at a party. But, the recent dump of the
1:02:48files shows that most of these people
1:02:50are liars. Our government who ran on
1:02:53exposing the truth about Epstein has
1:02:54been edging us for years, and when they
1:02:56finally released the docs, they had more
1:02:58black bars on them than a Japanese
1:03:00Plus, [snorts] imagine what they haven't
1:03:02released. Imagine what they've
1:03:03destroyed. That's what's been so
1:03:05frustrating about this whole thing. It's
1:03:06like a paradox. They reveal so much, but
1:03:09at the same time, nothing at all. Like,
1:03:11it's just enough for some dumb [ __ ]
1:03:14like me to make a video speculating, but
1:03:17not enough for anything to actually
1:03:18happen. But hey, at least the Dow was
1:03:20up, I guess. So, is Jeffrey Epstein an
1:03:24intelligence asset? I mean, from what I
1:03:26can tell, the guy was probably a free
1:03:28agent. And oh, [ __ ] did we just invade
1:03:30Iran?
1:03:34>> [music]
1:03:41[music]

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