November 27, 2025 • 18 mins
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — through their lawyers — have strongly condemned the recent release of documents by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that left dozens of their names unredacted. Their attorneys argue that this is not just negligence, but a gross violation of their dignity and privacy: “These women are not political pawns,” the filing reads, emphasizing that many of the victims are “mothers, wives, and daughters,” and that exposing their identities without consent — especially when some were minors at the time of abuse — re-victimizes them and undermines any promise of protection.
Moreover, the lawyers warn that the scope of the oversight failure suggests the DOJ “either does not know the identities of all the victims … and thus cannot apply proper redactions,” or is “intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure.” They’re pressing a federal judge to demand a more robust redaction process — including asking the DOJ for a full list of known victims so they can ensure no one else is inadvertently exposed.
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Moreover, the lawyers warn that the scope of the oversight failure suggests the DOJ “either does not know the identities of all the victims … and thus cannot apply proper redactions,” or is “intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure.” They’re pressing a federal judge to demand a more robust redaction process — including asking the DOJ for a full list of known victims so they can ensure no one else is inadvertently exposed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. The FBI and the DOJ want us to
believe they blew nearly a million taxpayer dollars on overtime
so they could carefully sanitize the Epstein files and make
sure nothing inappropriate slipped through. That's the official line. That's
the boy scout badge they're trying to slap on their
(00:21):
sweaty blazers. And yet, somehow, in their grand crusade to
protect the powerful, the only mistake they made was accidentally
exposing the names of dozens of survivors. Well, isn't that interesting?
So many layers of redaction, so many black bars, that
look like a sharpie massacre. But the only thing they
missed was the identity of the victims. A coincidence so convenient. Yeah,
(00:44):
practically lights fireworks spelling out cover up across the sky.
I mean, did they expect us to go like, Wow,
great job, guys, A million dollars well spent, Like we're
impressed that the same agencies who can track an iPhone
two within three inches using a bird flo arding in
Wisconsin can't manage to keep survivor's names private like these
(01:05):
agencies don't have software that can find a suspicious wire
transfer across five continents in ten seconds, but suddenly they
can't redact a name properly. They can run surveillance satellites
and spy on every text message your grandma sends about
meat loaf night, but when it comes to protecting vulnerable survivors, whoops, butterfingers.
(01:25):
These clowns want us to swallow the idea that this
was an accidental oversight, that in all of the genius
level redaction work, they somehow forgot to black out the
only names that actually mattered to protect. We're supposed to say,
oh darn, what a silly little clerical mix up, as
if they misplaced the post it note not exposed real
human beings who already suffered unimaginable trauma. Meanwhile, every billionaire
(01:50):
hedge fund goul and every political heavy hitter who flew
around the world with epstein still has their name wrapped
up tighter than a CIA black site. And they really
want us to believe that they were doing honest work.
They want us to nod and say, well, you know,
redaction science is hard. No, shut your yap. These people
didn't trip on a cable and fall face first into
(02:12):
a keyboard. This wasn't a clerical loopsie. This was targeted, strategic,
intentional misdirection. They did their job perfectly where they cared.
They had no problems protecting the powerful, They had no
problem protecting predators. They protected the fucking system. And look,
let's be real. If someone had accidentally revealed the name
(02:32):
of a senator, a tech billionaire, or a Wall Street banker,
there would already be a congressional hearing stacked to the ceiling.
There would be emergency press conferences. People would be fired
and marched out of the Federal building before lunch. But
when survivors get exposed, when the people who have been ignored, discredited,
and re traumatized for decades get violated again by the
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same institutions that failed them, the official response is basically
a whoopsie daisy. Anyway, have a great Thanksgiving. And of
course they had the nerve to announce this right before
Thanksgiving too, like they lined up behind the podium and said,
Happy Turkey Day, America. We fucked up again, but don't worry,
it's just the victims, No harm, no foul. As if
(03:14):
the timing wasn't deliberate, as if they didn't do it
right before a holiday, on purpose, banking on everyone being
too busy stuffing their faces and screaming at their in
laws to pay attention to the fact that the people
tasked with delivering justice are actively ripping the wings off
the butterfly. And it should offend every functioning brain cell
in this country that these agencies who left to brag
(03:36):
about integrity are literally acting like a Reno nine to
one one reboot, a bunch of cosplay cops tripping over
their feet while the real criminals are drinking yacht size
Margarita's in New York. This is what happens when you
put clowns in charge of a funeral. Everything becomes a joke.
They want us to believe them. They genuinely think we're
(03:57):
stupid enough to believe that. The only error in the
million dollar redaction process was revealing survivor names. Not the
names of the political donors, not the names of the billionaires,
not the names of celebrities, or the academics or the
finance demons who use Depstein like a concierge service for depravity.
Just the survivors, just the people with no shield, no power,
(04:19):
no security team, and yo, it takes real dedication to
be this corrupt and pretend to be this incompetent. They
stand there with straight faces, insisting they're doing everything possible
to bring transparency while literally burning the truth like confidential trash.
They talk about accountability like it's some theoretical college concept
(04:39):
nobody has ever tried before, So let's just stop pretending. Okay,
we're watching a cover up on fold and real time,
live television, no commercial breaks. You can practically hear the
paper shredder is warming up in the basement. You can
smell the bleach being poured over evidence. You can hear
the champagne corks being popped every time another name gets
(05:01):
buried deeper than the Mariana Trench. And people wonder why
nobody trusts institutions anymore. People ask why are Americans so cynical?
Because every time justice knocks on the door, someone from
the FBI pretends they're not home and tells the press
they're taking a nap. Because every time survivors think they
might finally get a piece of peace, these agencies slap
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them across the face again and say, oops, our bad.
Why don't you try therapy. If you're not furious about this,
it's because you're either consciously ignoring the truth or you're
on the payroll. There is no middle ground left. Ignorance
is an innocence anymore. It's participation. Silence isn't neutral, it's collaboration.
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Pretending you don't see what's right in front of you
doesn't make you wise, it makes you complicit. And every
single person who still believes this was just a mistake
needs the tattoo gullible on their forehead. These agencies didn't
accidentally protect the elite. They didn't act a day erase
every trace of institutional guilt. They didn't accidentally expose the survivors.
(06:05):
They made choices, very specific choices, calculated ones. They're showing
you exactly who they work for, and it isn't you,
It isn't the survivors, and it sure as hell isn't
the truth. They work for the people who write the
checks that are big enough to erase history. And the
sickest part, they expect gratitude. They think they deserve applause
(06:28):
for releasing anything at all. They want credit for letting
us see the crumbs they flick off the table while
guarding the cake like attack wolves. They genuinely think we
should be thankful for the scraps. Well, here's the truth.
We don't owe them respect, We don't owe them thanks,
We don't owe them patients. We owe the survivors a
hell of a lot more than an apology and a
(06:50):
box or edactions. And if there was ever a question
about whether there is a cover up happening, this is
your flashing neon billboard. If you can't see it by now,
there's no explaining it to you. You've already chosen your side,
because the rest of us have eyes, and what we're
seeing is a system actively protecting predators and punishing victims,
a system that is terrified of light, a system that
(07:13):
is cracking under its own rotten beams. Today's article is
from ABC News and the headline law firms representing alleged
Epstein victims send scathing letter over DOJ document release. This
article was authored by Peter Charlembau and James Hill. When
(07:34):
the House Oversight Committee released a trove of files and
emails from the Epstein estate earlier this month, alleged victims
of the convicted sex offender responded with widespread panic after
learning the documents included dozens of unredacted victim names. Prominent
attorneys for Epstein victims told a federal judge this week
that should never happen, Like, wasn't that they're a big
(07:57):
talking point. Oh, well, we want to make sure that
the survivors are protected. Yeah. Sure. You want to make
sure that Glenn Dubin's protected. You want to make sure
that Leon Black's protected. You want to make sure that
Donald Trump is protected. You don't give a fuck about
the survivors. Stop it. I thought the government had promised
to redact our names and identifying material. I don't understand
(08:19):
how this is happening again, one alleged victim told attorneys
Bradley Edwards and Britney Henderson with the Edward Henderson Law firm.
According to a court filing on Wednesday, this type of
negligence by the government to a survivor is just unable
to comprehend. It is just impossible. Another alleged victim said,
according to the filing, I don't understand how this is possible.
(08:42):
I've been unable to mentally and emotionally function or sleep. Yet,
another alleged victim wrote, per the court filing, And at
this point, are we really going to call them alleged?
Not when it comes to Epstein. Not for me, now
the other people. Sure, if we're talking about you know,
Leon Black or Dubin whatever. Sure, alleged is fine. There
hasn't been an investigation. But the vast majority of these girls,
(09:07):
they all got payouts from the compensation fund, They got
payouts from Epstein himself. So what does that tell you,
is that alleged If I'm paying you out a fat
ass bag after you say that I assaulted you, we're
gonna go with that it happened, Okay, especially when we're
talking about somebody who's already been convicted of these same crimes.
I don't think that's too big of a leap to make.
(09:28):
With the Justice Department now facing a December nineteenth deadline
to release hundreds of thousands of Epstein files as required
by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Edwards Henderson attorneys
are calling on a federal judge to order the DOJ
to improve their review policy to prevent another release of
potentially sensitive information about alleged victims. And it's pretty convenient, huh,
(09:52):
that every time there's a mistake, it falls on the
side of the predator, falls on the side of the
people that did the hurting, never on the side of
the survivor. Right. I wonder why these women are not
political pawns. They are mothers, wives, and daughters. These are
women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein in some instances
by others, and who have already had their rights violated
(10:13):
in the past by the government. The attorneys wrote in
the filing to US District Court Judge Richard Berman. They
are human beings who have the right to be treated
with dignity and respect, and to feel safe and protected
by our country, which has felled them time and time again.
Is that too much of an ask? I mean, for real,
(10:33):
are people asking for too much? When we're asking for
actual justice, or at the very least, we're asking for
a robust investigation. That's all anybody's ever asked for. But no,
every time you turn around, there's another boot on the
throat of justice, there's another shitty ass move by the
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DOJ or the court or somebody else involved. It's always
the same story, isn't it always the same ass story?
And if you don't see the pattern at this point,
I don't even know what to tell you. According to
the attorney's filing, the House Oversight release included the unredacted
names and personal information of dozens of victims, including women
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who were miners at the time of their abuse. One
document alone contained twenty eight unredacted names of alleged victim.
The attorneys wrote. Based on the scope of the issue,
the attorney said that they believe the DOJ either does
not know the identities of all the victims of Jeffrey
Epstein and thus cannot apply proper redactions to the files,
(11:36):
or is intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure.
I'm going to go at door number two. They know
exactly who the people are, and they've chosen to protect
people and out others. This is how they roll, This
is what they do, especially when you have a weaponized
justice department the way we do right now. I mean,
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has there ever been a more incompetent justice department than
the one we're seeing right now? I don't think so.
While we will detail the various excuses that the court
will no doubt be provided, this is absolutely unacceptable and
a program that must be rectified prior to the public
release of any additional documents, the Edward Henderson's attorneys wrote.
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The filing further noted that the DOJ publicly acknowledged in
July that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Based on
that statement, the attorney's asked in the filing that the
court confirm with the DOJ that, prior to submitting the
files to the House Oversight Committee, it undertook the onerous
and necessary task of redacting all one thousand plus victim
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names that it had in its possession. God forbid, they
do the right thing and a million dollars. They've spent
a million dollars to do this, and they still fuck
it up. Like many of you out there, I've spent
most of my life in corporate America, and I'll tell
you right now, if you fuck up like this, you're
getting canned. There's no two ways about it. A million
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dollars spent and nothing coming back on the back end.
And if this was not intentional, then this is being
done by a bunch of people who are incompetent. And
neither of those options gives me very much comfort on
that point. At inquiry, the court will learn the DOJ's
redaction process and its process efforts are so irreconcilable with
a number of victims that has publicly acknowledged that, when
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confronted with a discrepancy, its responsibile end somewhere between incoherent mumbling,
non sequitur and outright misrepresentation. The attorneys wrote, one hundred percent,
like usual, They're going to try and dog walk us
like they always do. The attorneys also allege the filing
that the victims have been unable to contact the Department
of Justice to prevent the same thing from happening again,
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despite numerous pleas for assistance. There is one singular entity
that the victims cannot seem to find a way to
engage and which has been the primary violator of the
victims identity protection thus far, the Department of Justice. They wrote, so,
while Glane Maxwell is eating Chick fil A and doing
downward Dog, the survivors can't even get anyone on the
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Justice Department on the phone. I mean, you would think
that Todd Baby Billy Blanche would want to talk to
the survivors, right, But no, because it was never about justice.
It was never about finding out what went down. It
was about making sure that their homie Gleanne Maxwell got
preferential treatment. That's what it came down to. With the
DOJ already possessing hundreds of thousands of Epstein documents, The
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attorneys also cast out about the Trump administration's intention and
seeking out separate grand jury material. The DOJ has asked
judges in New York and Florida to authorize the release
of grand jury transcripts and exhibits from the prosecution of
Epstein and Maxwell, information that is typically not made public.
(14:55):
Before the passage of the Epstein's File Transparency Act, the
DOJ made similar requests that were denied by the judges,
and that was all by design. I'm not gonna rehash
all of that, but they did that on purpose. They
wanted to say, look, we're doing something, when in reality
they ain't doing shit. This incredibly small and largely irrelevant
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subset of grand jury material seems to serve as nothing
more than the DOJ's perpetual distraction from providing the American
people with the full transparency as it relates to Jeffrey
Epstein while protecting the victims. The filing states. The Edward
Tenderson attorneys asked Judge Berman to order the Department of
Justice to clarify what documents they plan to release and
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the process for redacting them. He also requested the ability
to confer with the DOJ to ensure that a complete
list of victims' names is used in the redaction process.
Is that too much to ask for? Are they asking
the Department of Justice to do more than they should?
Of course they're not. Judge Berman responded to the letter
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Wednesday by ordering the Department of Justice by noon Monday,
December first, to provide a detailed description of the material
they seek to release and a detailed description of the
privacy process, including any redactions the government seeks to employ
to protect the rights of Epstein victims. In a separate
filing on Wednesday, US Attorney J. Clayton said his office
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would confer with counsel for known victims concerning names and
terms for withholding and redactions. Probably should have done that earlier, HANJ. Clayton,
Mister Apollo Global. Clayton also clarified the breadth of the
documents the Department of Justice seeks to release, including notes
from witness interviews, search warrant applications, financial and travel records,
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grand jury subpoena returns, school records, materials from the Epstein
estate and law enforcement records. Look, guys, the truth is
this is what the system actually looks like when the
curtain rips open. A machine designed to grind the powerless
into us while polishing the boots of the people who
built it. A machine that still can't admit what it is,
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even while standing ankled deep in its own sewage. They
didn't protect survivors because they never intended to. They didn't
make a mistake. They followed priority. The rich stay unnamed,
and the broken get broken again. It's the same formula
that has run this country for decades, maybe longer, and
they're not even embarrassed enough to hide it well anymore.
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So let them issue their statements, let them shrug and
call it a clerical error, Let them smile in front
of the cameras and pretend they care. Unfortunately for them,
everyone already knows the truth. The predators are protected, the
victims are disposable, and the institutions that swear they stand
for justice are nothing more than pr departments for the powerful.
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And there's nothing spiritual or heroic that is waiting to
swoop in and fix this. This is the world exactly
as it is This is what they think of the
people they failed. This is the level of contempt they
operate with, and the only thing they're sorry about is
that they got caught being this obvious. All of the
information that goes with this episode can be found in
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. The FBI and the DOJ want us to
believe they blew nearly a million taxpayer dollars on overtime
so they could carefully sanitize the Epstein files and make
sure nothing inappropriate slipped through. That's the official line. That's
the boy scout badge they're trying to slap on their
(00:21):
sweaty blazers. And yet, somehow, in their grand crusade to
protect the powerful, the only mistake they made was accidentally
exposing the names of dozens of survivors. Well, isn't that interesting?
So many layers of redaction, so many black bars, that
look like a sharpie massacre. But the only thing they
missed was the identity of the victims. A coincidence so convenient. Yeah,
(00:44):
practically lights fireworks spelling out cover up across the sky.
I mean, did they expect us to go like, Wow,
great job, guys, A million dollars well spent, Like we're
impressed that the same agencies who can track an iPhone
two within three inches using a bird flo arding in
Wisconsin can't manage to keep survivor's names private like these
(01:05):
agencies don't have software that can find a suspicious wire
transfer across five continents in ten seconds, but suddenly they
can't redact a name properly. They can run surveillance satellites
and spy on every text message your grandma sends about
meat loaf night, but when it comes to protecting vulnerable survivors, whoops, butterfingers.
(01:25):
These clowns want us to swallow the idea that this
was an accidental oversight, that in all of the genius
level redaction work, they somehow forgot to black out the
only names that actually mattered to protect. We're supposed to say,
oh darn, what a silly little clerical mix up, as
if they misplaced the post it note not exposed real
human beings who already suffered unimaginable trauma. Meanwhile, every billionaire
(01:50):
hedge fund goul and every political heavy hitter who flew
around the world with epstein still has their name wrapped
up tighter than a CIA black site. And they really
want us to believe that they were doing honest work.
They want us to nod and say, well, you know,
redaction science is hard. No, shut your yap. These people
didn't trip on a cable and fall face first into
(02:12):
a keyboard. This wasn't a clerical loopsie. This was targeted, strategic,
intentional misdirection. They did their job perfectly where they cared.
They had no problems protecting the powerful, They had no
problem protecting predators. They protected the fucking system. And look,
let's be real. If someone had accidentally revealed the name
(02:32):
of a senator, a tech billionaire, or a Wall Street banker,
there would already be a congressional hearing stacked to the ceiling.
There would be emergency press conferences. People would be fired
and marched out of the Federal building before lunch. But
when survivors get exposed, when the people who have been ignored, discredited,
and re traumatized for decades get violated again by the
(02:52):
same institutions that failed them, the official response is basically
a whoopsie daisy. Anyway, have a great Thanksgiving. And of
course they had the nerve to announce this right before
Thanksgiving too, like they lined up behind the podium and said,
Happy Turkey Day, America. We fucked up again, but don't worry,
it's just the victims, No harm, no foul. As if
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the timing wasn't deliberate, as if they didn't do it
right before a holiday, on purpose, banking on everyone being
too busy stuffing their faces and screaming at their in
laws to pay attention to the fact that the people
tasked with delivering justice are actively ripping the wings off
the butterfly. And it should offend every functioning brain cell
in this country that these agencies who left to brag
(03:36):
about integrity are literally acting like a Reno nine to
one one reboot, a bunch of cosplay cops tripping over
their feet while the real criminals are drinking yacht size
Margarita's in New York. This is what happens when you
put clowns in charge of a funeral. Everything becomes a joke.
They want us to believe them. They genuinely think we're
(03:57):
stupid enough to believe that. The only error in the
million dollar redaction process was revealing survivor names. Not the
names of the political donors, not the names of the billionaires,
not the names of celebrities, or the academics or the
finance demons who use Depstein like a concierge service for depravity.
Just the survivors, just the people with no shield, no power,
(04:19):
no security team, and yo, it takes real dedication to
be this corrupt and pretend to be this incompetent. They
stand there with straight faces, insisting they're doing everything possible
to bring transparency while literally burning the truth like confidential trash.
They talk about accountability like it's some theoretical college concept
(04:39):
nobody has ever tried before, So let's just stop pretending. Okay,
we're watching a cover up on fold and real time,
live television, no commercial breaks. You can practically hear the
paper shredder is warming up in the basement. You can
smell the bleach being poured over evidence. You can hear
the champagne corks being popped every time another name gets
(05:01):
buried deeper than the Mariana Trench. And people wonder why
nobody trusts institutions anymore. People ask why are Americans so cynical?
Because every time justice knocks on the door, someone from
the FBI pretends they're not home and tells the press
they're taking a nap. Because every time survivors think they
might finally get a piece of peace, these agencies slap
(05:24):
them across the face again and say, oops, our bad.
Why don't you try therapy. If you're not furious about this,
it's because you're either consciously ignoring the truth or you're
on the payroll. There is no middle ground left. Ignorance
is an innocence anymore. It's participation. Silence isn't neutral, it's collaboration.
(05:44):
Pretending you don't see what's right in front of you
doesn't make you wise, it makes you complicit. And every
single person who still believes this was just a mistake
needs the tattoo gullible on their forehead. These agencies didn't
accidentally protect the elite. They didn't act a day erase
every trace of institutional guilt. They didn't accidentally expose the survivors.
(06:05):
They made choices, very specific choices, calculated ones. They're showing
you exactly who they work for, and it isn't you,
It isn't the survivors, and it sure as hell isn't
the truth. They work for the people who write the
checks that are big enough to erase history. And the
sickest part, they expect gratitude. They think they deserve applause
(06:28):
for releasing anything at all. They want credit for letting
us see the crumbs they flick off the table while
guarding the cake like attack wolves. They genuinely think we
should be thankful for the scraps. Well, here's the truth.
We don't owe them respect, We don't owe them thanks,
We don't owe them patients. We owe the survivors a
hell of a lot more than an apology and a
(06:50):
box or edactions. And if there was ever a question
about whether there is a cover up happening, this is
your flashing neon billboard. If you can't see it by now,
there's no explaining it to you. You've already chosen your side,
because the rest of us have eyes, and what we're
seeing is a system actively protecting predators and punishing victims,
a system that is terrified of light, a system that
(07:13):
is cracking under its own rotten beams. Today's article is
from ABC News and the headline law firms representing alleged
Epstein victims send scathing letter over DOJ document release. This
article was authored by Peter Charlembau and James Hill. When
(07:34):
the House Oversight Committee released a trove of files and
emails from the Epstein estate earlier this month, alleged victims
of the convicted sex offender responded with widespread panic after
learning the documents included dozens of unredacted victim names. Prominent
attorneys for Epstein victims told a federal judge this week
that should never happen, Like, wasn't that they're a big
(07:57):
talking point. Oh, well, we want to make sure that
the survivors are protected. Yeah. Sure. You want to make
sure that Glenn Dubin's protected. You want to make sure
that Leon Black's protected. You want to make sure that
Donald Trump is protected. You don't give a fuck about
the survivors. Stop it. I thought the government had promised
to redact our names and identifying material. I don't understand
(08:19):
how this is happening again, one alleged victim told attorneys
Bradley Edwards and Britney Henderson with the Edward Henderson Law firm.
According to a court filing on Wednesday, this type of
negligence by the government to a survivor is just unable
to comprehend. It is just impossible. Another alleged victim said,
according to the filing, I don't understand how this is possible.
(08:42):
I've been unable to mentally and emotionally function or sleep. Yet,
another alleged victim wrote, per the court filing, And at
this point, are we really going to call them alleged?
Not when it comes to Epstein. Not for me, now
the other people. Sure, if we're talking about you know,
Leon Black or Dubin whatever. Sure, alleged is fine. There
hasn't been an investigation. But the vast majority of these girls,
(09:07):
they all got payouts from the compensation fund, They got
payouts from Epstein himself. So what does that tell you,
is that alleged If I'm paying you out a fat
ass bag after you say that I assaulted you, we're
gonna go with that it happened, Okay, especially when we're
talking about somebody who's already been convicted of these same crimes.
I don't think that's too big of a leap to make.
(09:28):
With the Justice Department now facing a December nineteenth deadline
to release hundreds of thousands of Epstein files as required
by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Edwards Henderson attorneys
are calling on a federal judge to order the DOJ
to improve their review policy to prevent another release of
potentially sensitive information about alleged victims. And it's pretty convenient, huh,
(09:52):
that every time there's a mistake, it falls on the
side of the predator, falls on the side of the
people that did the hurting, never on the side of
the survivor. Right. I wonder why these women are not
political pawns. They are mothers, wives, and daughters. These are
women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein in some instances
by others, and who have already had their rights violated
(10:13):
in the past by the government. The attorneys wrote in
the filing to US District Court Judge Richard Berman. They
are human beings who have the right to be treated
with dignity and respect, and to feel safe and protected
by our country, which has felled them time and time again.
Is that too much of an ask? I mean, for real,
(10:33):
are people asking for too much? When we're asking for
actual justice, or at the very least, we're asking for
a robust investigation. That's all anybody's ever asked for. But no,
every time you turn around, there's another boot on the
throat of justice, there's another shitty ass move by the
(10:54):
DOJ or the court or somebody else involved. It's always
the same story, isn't it always the same ass story?
And if you don't see the pattern at this point,
I don't even know what to tell you. According to
the attorney's filing, the House Oversight release included the unredacted
names and personal information of dozens of victims, including women
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who were miners at the time of their abuse. One
document alone contained twenty eight unredacted names of alleged victim.
The attorneys wrote. Based on the scope of the issue,
the attorney said that they believe the DOJ either does
not know the identities of all the victims of Jeffrey
Epstein and thus cannot apply proper redactions to the files,
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or is intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure.
I'm going to go at door number two. They know
exactly who the people are, and they've chosen to protect
people and out others. This is how they roll, This
is what they do, especially when you have a weaponized
justice department the way we do right now. I mean,
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has there ever been a more incompetent justice department than
the one we're seeing right now? I don't think so.
While we will detail the various excuses that the court
will no doubt be provided, this is absolutely unacceptable and
a program that must be rectified prior to the public
release of any additional documents, the Edward Henderson's attorneys wrote.
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The filing further noted that the DOJ publicly acknowledged in
July that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Based on
that statement, the attorney's asked in the filing that the
court confirm with the DOJ that, prior to submitting the
files to the House Oversight Committee, it undertook the onerous
and necessary task of redacting all one thousand plus victim
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names that it had in its possession. God forbid, they
do the right thing and a million dollars. They've spent
a million dollars to do this, and they still fuck
it up. Like many of you out there, I've spent
most of my life in corporate America, and I'll tell
you right now, if you fuck up like this, you're
getting canned. There's no two ways about it. A million
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dollars spent and nothing coming back on the back end.
And if this was not intentional, then this is being
done by a bunch of people who are incompetent. And
neither of those options gives me very much comfort on
that point. At inquiry, the court will learn the DOJ's
redaction process and its process efforts are so irreconcilable with
a number of victims that has publicly acknowledged that, when
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confronted with a discrepancy, its responsibile end somewhere between incoherent mumbling,
non sequitur and outright misrepresentation. The attorneys wrote, one hundred percent,
like usual, They're going to try and dog walk us
like they always do. The attorneys also allege the filing
that the victims have been unable to contact the Department
of Justice to prevent the same thing from happening again,
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despite numerous pleas for assistance. There is one singular entity
that the victims cannot seem to find a way to
engage and which has been the primary violator of the
victims identity protection thus far, the Department of Justice. They wrote, so,
while Glane Maxwell is eating Chick fil A and doing
downward Dog, the survivors can't even get anyone on the
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Justice Department on the phone. I mean, you would think
that Todd Baby Billy Blanche would want to talk to
the survivors, right, But no, because it was never about justice.
It was never about finding out what went down. It
was about making sure that their homie Gleanne Maxwell got
preferential treatment. That's what it came down to. With the
DOJ already possessing hundreds of thousands of Epstein documents, The
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attorneys also cast out about the Trump administration's intention and
seeking out separate grand jury material. The DOJ has asked
judges in New York and Florida to authorize the release
of grand jury transcripts and exhibits from the prosecution of
Epstein and Maxwell, information that is typically not made public.
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Before the passage of the Epstein's File Transparency Act, the
DOJ made similar requests that were denied by the judges,
and that was all by design. I'm not gonna rehash
all of that, but they did that on purpose. They
wanted to say, look, we're doing something, when in reality
they ain't doing shit. This incredibly small and largely irrelevant
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subset of grand jury material seems to serve as nothing
more than the DOJ's perpetual distraction from providing the American
people with the full transparency as it relates to Jeffrey
Epstein while protecting the victims. The filing states. The Edward
Tenderson attorneys asked Judge Berman to order the Department of
Justice to clarify what documents they plan to release and
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the process for redacting them. He also requested the ability
to confer with the DOJ to ensure that a complete
list of victims' names is used in the redaction process.
Is that too much to ask for? Are they asking
the Department of Justice to do more than they should?
Of course they're not. Judge Berman responded to the letter
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Wednesday by ordering the Department of Justice by noon Monday,
December first, to provide a detailed description of the material
they seek to release and a detailed description of the
privacy process, including any redactions the government seeks to employ
to protect the rights of Epstein victims. In a separate
filing on Wednesday, US Attorney J. Clayton said his office
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would confer with counsel for known victims concerning names and
terms for withholding and redactions. Probably should have done that earlier, HANJ. Clayton,
Mister Apollo Global. Clayton also clarified the breadth of the
documents the Department of Justice seeks to release, including notes
from witness interviews, search warrant applications, financial and travel records,
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grand jury subpoena returns, school records, materials from the Epstein
estate and law enforcement records. Look, guys, the truth is
this is what the system actually looks like when the
curtain rips open. A machine designed to grind the powerless
into us while polishing the boots of the people who
built it. A machine that still can't admit what it is,
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even while standing ankled deep in its own sewage. They
didn't protect survivors because they never intended to. They didn't
make a mistake. They followed priority. The rich stay unnamed,
and the broken get broken again. It's the same formula
that has run this country for decades, maybe longer, and
they're not even embarrassed enough to hide it well anymore.
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So let them issue their statements, let them shrug and
call it a clerical error, Let them smile in front
of the cameras and pretend they care. Unfortunately for them,
everyone already knows the truth. The predators are protected, the
victims are disposable, and the institutions that swear they stand
for justice are nothing more than pr departments for the powerful.
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And there's nothing spiritual or heroic that is waiting to
swoop in and fix this. This is the world exactly
as it is This is what they think of the
people they failed. This is the level of contempt they
operate with, and the only thing they're sorry about is
that they got caught being this obvious. All of the
information that goes with this episode can be found in
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