November 28, 2025 • 15 mins
In the wake of a blistering letter sent on behalf of Epstein survivors, Judge Richard Berman has demanded answers from the Department of Justice about its handling of the Epstein documents and its failure to protect victim privacy. The survivors condemned the DOJ for what they described as gross negligence, after a release of documents revealed survivor names while shielding the identities of abusers and powerful associates. Berman is now insisting that the DOJ explain what information they plan to release and how they intend to safeguard the people who endured Epstein’s crimes.
The DOJ spent nearly a million dollars and extensive resources claiming to carefully sanitize the records, yet the only reported “error” ended up exposing the victims. Given the long history of sweetheart deals, concealed evidence, and institutional protection surrounding Epstein, many believe this was no innocent mistake but part of a pattern of shielding influential figures while suppressing accountability. The survivors’ letter marks a turning point, signaling an end to polite cooperation and a direct challenge to a system that has repeatedly failed them. Judge Berman’s demands suggest the pressure on federal authorities is now intensifying.
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The DOJ spent nearly a million dollars and extensive resources claiming to carefully sanitize the records, yet the only reported “error” ended up exposing the victims. Given the long history of sweetheart deals, concealed evidence, and institutional protection surrounding Epstein, many believe this was no innocent mistake but part of a pattern of shielding influential figures while suppressing accountability. The survivors’ letter marks a turning point, signaling an end to polite cooperation and a direct challenge to a system that has repeatedly failed them. Judge Berman’s demands suggest the pressure on federal authorities is now intensifying.
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Judge seeks to shield Epstein victims after dozens of names exposed in documents release
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. There have been moments in this six year
war where you just stop, look around and wonder if
these people actually think that were this stupid, And this
week this is one of those moments, because after that blistering,
scorched short letter sent on behalf of the Epstein survivors
(00:20):
calling out the Department of Justice for what can only
be described as gross negligence and outright betrayal, Judge Richard
Berman has finally stepped in, demanding answers, demanding clarity, demanding
transparency about what exactly the DOJ thinks it's doing with
these documents and how they plan to protect the privacy
of the very people who were tortured by this monster
(00:43):
and his network. Let's just take a minute and really
sue with this. The DOJ spent nearly a million dollars overtime, manpower,
endless hours, allegedly to sanitize these documents, allegedly to protect survivors,
allegedly to make sure the public release didn't read traumatize
the people who had already paid the highest price. And
(01:04):
after all of that effort, all of those resources, all
of that grandstanding. They accidentally released the names of survivors.
That's the big mistake, that's the one they got wrong.
So they managed to successfully black out the names of
people who did the abusing, the politicos, the financiers, the celebrities,
the billion dollar backers, the power brokers, the intelligence adjacent operators.
(01:27):
But somehow the only slip up in the entire process
just happened to expose survivors to danger, harassment, and humiliation.
In the words of Joe Biden, come on, man, if
you believe that's an innocent clerical error, I've got a
bridge in Brooklyn with your name on it. These people
(01:48):
have protected Epstein and his orbit for decades. Every turn
of the wheel has been in the service of shielding
the powerful and silencing the powerless. They had one job
this time, one protect the victims. And they couldn't even
do that, not because they're incompetent, but because the priority
has always been the same contain the exposure, limit the damage,
(02:08):
and preserve the mythology that this was the work of
a lone pervert instead of a sprawling criminal enterprise with
institutional backing. And that's why the survivors went scorched earth.
That's why they didn't just whisper. They detonated. That letter
was basically a declaration of war. And now Judge Berman,
one of the only people in this saga who has
(02:30):
consistently demanded accountability, is staring down the DOJ and saying
no more, no more excuses, no more oversights, no more
oopsie daisies that only ever seem to land on the
backs of victims because under normal circumstances, maybe you chalk
it up to bureaucratic incompetence, some pencil pusher asleep at
the wheel. But after everything we know, after years of
(02:52):
sweetheart deals, NDAs, hidden evidence, seal files, deferred prosecutions, intelligence
fingerprints all over the crime scene, and a cover up
deep enough to bury a skyscraper, this isn't in competence,
its strategy, its protection. It's control. Something is moving beneath
the surface. You can feel it. The seams are popping,
(03:12):
and whatever is coming next, they're terrified that you're going
to see it, So let's get into it. This article
was published by NBC News the headline Judge seeks to
shield Epstein victims after dozens of names exposed in document release.
This article was authored by Catherine Doyle. A federal judge
(03:34):
is pressing the Justice Department to explain how it will
protect the identities of Jeffrey Epstein's victims after lawyers said
that dozens of their names appeared unredacted in documents released
by Congress, prompting what they described as widespread panic. Can
you blame them? We're talking about people that have fought
tooth and knell to keep their names anonymous throughout the years,
(03:55):
and then in this dump, their names are just released.
Imagine being the judge, and if you recall, it was
Judge Berman that has demanded accountability from the FBI and
the DOJ since the Sweetheart deal. So he's not some
guy that's new to this, right, He's not green. My
man's been around this situation for quite some time and
he's disgusted by it too. Judge Richard Berman of the
(04:18):
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
on Wednesday night, requested a detailed description of the material
the government intends to release and an explanation of how
it will safeguard the privacy of victims, including through redactions. Berman,
who oversaw the trafficking case against Epstein attached a letter
from attorneys Bradley Edwards and Britney Henderson that calls for
(04:40):
strict privacy protections in future releases. And that's the letter
that we just talked about in the previous episode. And
I wish I could tell you that it was an anomaly,
but it's not. This is the kind of shit that's
been happening from the very beginning when it comes to
this case, and nobody has any explanation for it. Right.
All the people that want to run around and act
like free Epstein and the stories being overblown like he
(05:02):
had no ties to intelligence, all of that jazz, but
they can't ever explain the finer points. And look, it's
all fine and well to lob bombs, but you better
have something to back it up. The House Oversight Committee's
public release of more than twenty thousand documents caused widespread
panic among survivors. The lawyers wrote, well, yeah, when your
(05:24):
name gets dumped like that, it's going to cause panic.
It's going to cause havoc. It's going to cause chaos,
and it's going to cause you a lot of grief.
Edwards and Henderson, who represent hundreds of Epstein's victims urged
the Justice Department to redact all victim names in any
future materials sent to Congress or made public. They also
asked for a private meeting with the DOJ to share
(05:45):
a list of more than three hundred victims they represent
so that federal officials can protect against further disclosures. The
lawyers said dozens of victims' names appeared unredacted in the
cash of documents and emails from the Justice Department release
this month, turning the release into a new source of
concern for victims who had sought to maintain their anonymity.
(06:07):
And if you were acall, as we were going through
the court documents for Epstein and Maxwell, there were so
many women who came forward and were allowed by the
court to proceed anonymously. Now if you compare that to
what happened with Diddy and you see all the women
that tried to move forward anonymously who were shot down,
it shows you the real concerns that these women have.
(06:29):
When it comes to Epstein, we're talking about a real
criminal empire here. We're talking about a group of people
that should have been hit with the world's largest RICO case,
but they were able to avoid it. And the only
way you avoid a RICO case if you're somebody like
Jeffrey Epstein or Glenn Maxwell, is if you're being protected.
(06:50):
And I would love for somebody to give me an
example of somebody that was doing what Epstein was doing
that wasn't hit with RICO, because I can give you
examples from here till next month of people who are
hit with RICO in questionable circumstances at best. But this
scumbag and his friends they get to skate on RICO.
(07:11):
And the reason is because RICO is an absolute colonoscopy. Right,
They're looking at everything, all your ties, all your business partners,
everybody who sent money to everybody who sent money to you,
and it becomes a whole thing. And that's what they're
scared of. They're scared of the paper trail. They're scared
of people following that paper trail and finding victory because
(07:34):
you can't dispute it, right, I mean, the paper trail
is what the paper trail is. So that's why they
fear that when it comes to witnesses, they can impugn them, right,
they can attack them, they can go after their character,
a whole bunch of things they can do, and they
do all of it. But when you have a money
trail and you follow that money, it's very difficult to
(07:54):
dispute the findings. The numbers are what they are right,
there's no half step in there. There's no really disputing
any of it unless you say that the report was
doctored or whatever, and I don't think that's going to
work out too well for you. Transparency cannot come at
the expense of privacy, safety, and protection of sexual abuse
and sex trafficking victims, especially these survivors who have already
(08:17):
suffered repeatedly, the lawyers wrote. According to the letter, some
victims warned that releasing their names would put them in
physical danger. Several told their lawyers that they had been
approached on the street by reporters, including one who said
she was confronted while standing with her nine year old son.
According to the letter, the lawyers pointed to one document
release by the Justice Department that they said listed the
(08:40):
names of at least twenty eight victims, including individuals who
were minor children at the time of the abuse, as
well as women granted protection in the same legal jurisdiction
as a result of grave public safety concerns, and that's
what I was talking about. These women have already fought
that battle of anonymity and won, but now they're being
(09:01):
outed by the Justice Department. I thought the Justice Department
was so concerned about protecting victims. Isn't that what they said,
that this whole thing's about Epstein's victims. No, it's not.
It's about covering their own ass. That's what it's all about.
This type of negligence by the government to a survivor
is just unable to comprehend. One alleged victim wrote in
a document included in the core of filing, I don't
(09:23):
understand how this is possible. I have been unable to
mentally and emotionally function or sleep set another a third said,
I thought the government had promised to redact our names
and identifying material. I don't understand how this is happening. Again, Well,
it's because they don't care. That's how it's happening. And
I wish I could say something differently here and say,
(09:44):
you know what, it was an oversight and they're going
to fix it and things are going to get better.
But we all know that's not the case. We all
know that these people have no desire to be transparent.
If they wanted to be transparent, breaking news, we wouldn't
be having this gigantic debate in Edwards and Henderson said
some survivors fear the Justice Department intentionally expose their names
(10:05):
when it released thousands of unredacted files tied to Epstein's
case to Congress this year. These women now beg this
court and begged the United States Department of Justice to
allow them to choose to remain protected, the attorney said.
While Epstein's estate also failed to redact some names, the
lawyers said they believe that these were genuine mistakes. Yeah,
(10:27):
we're not going to pin this all on the Epstein estate.
They certainly have their own problems, but this is a
DOJ problem, and the DOJ needs to handle it. And
whoever's working for Congress when it comes to oversight, whoever
the investigators are, they have to do a better job.
And if they can't do a better job, find somebody
who can. The lawyers also accuse the DOJ of creating
(10:50):
a perpetual distraction through the release of grand jury materials
tied to Epstein's co conspirator Glaine Maxwell, arguing that the
documents provide little meaningful information and are being used as
a diversion. Well, look, I agree with that one hundred percent.
If you want to talk about the grand jury documents
in the overall encompassing Epstein documents, we want cool. But
(11:13):
if you're going to act like they're the be all
end all, that's where I have a problem because they're not. That.
They'll give us a little bit of context, and you
all know I love context. The more meat on the
bone the better. But let's not act like this is
the Holy Grail, because that is not what it is.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request
for a comment on Thursday. Berman presided over the government's
(11:36):
twenty nineteen case against Epstein before the disgraced financier and
sex offender died in jail while awaiting trial. The letter
from Edwards and Henderson comes after President Donald Trump signed
a bill on November nineteenth directing the DOJ to release
its Epstein files. The president, who for months argued against
passing the legislation, has continued to call the push to
(11:59):
release the files part of a hoax. Imagine a hoax
a man with daughters himself? Would it be a hoax
if it was his daughter, would it be a hoax
if it was his granddaughter? Of course it wouldn't be right.
It would be a big thing, a big problem. Well,
guess what, even though it's not your people, it's a
big problem. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which
(12:22):
directs Attorney General Pound Bondi to release all unclassified records
tied to Epstein within thirty days, while withholding or redacting
material that could jeopardize a federal investigation. A federal investigation
that materialized out of nowhere. I mean, come on, are
we really going to give credence to that? And if
you want to look at the results of what will
(12:43):
come if they try to bring criminal charges against anyone
due to this dumbass investigation, just take a look at
what happened with James Comy. That's exactly what's going to
happen if you go through with targeted prosecutions due to Epstein,
and that's going to make things worse. Right, how's that
going to make it better? If we have targeted prosecutions
that end up getting thrown out, and it gives people
(13:05):
the room to say, look, it's all the big hopes
that's the goal. Keep in mind, that's the goal. They
want this to go away. They don't want to deal
with it, they don't want to talk about it, and
they don't want you talking about it, And whatever paths
they have to take to get there, they're willing to
take it. Some victims have criticized the attempts to unseal
the grand jury testimony, saying those attempts have disregarded victims
(13:28):
repeated calls for privacy, and make no mistake, Judge Berman
isn't asking for a favor. He's telling the DOJ to
explain themselves in writing. With no wiggle room left after
everything that's happened, after every excuse we've heard for why
transparency apparently takes a decade, he wants to know why
the only people exposed in the whole process were the
(13:49):
ones who already took the hits. And there's no way
to dress that up. They had unlimited time, unlimited resources,
unlimited cover, and the best they could do was put
survivors on the chopping block. Again, the reality is simple,
either they don't care or they hope nobody would notice.
Neither answer is acceptable, So now it's on them to
produce something real, not a press release, not a talking point,
(14:12):
not another round of our thoughts are with the victims,
actual answers, actual accountability, and for the first time in
a long time, we have a judge who's not letting
them hide behind the door and shrug. The survivors made
their position clear in that letter. This wasn't an accident
that can be brushed aside. It caused real harm. It
undermined what little trust remained, and Berman acknowledged that by
(14:35):
demanding specifics instead of accepting another round of procedural fog.
Nobody expects miracles. They just expect the most basic level
of competence and respect for the people who endured the
worst parts of the story. If the DJ can't manage that,
then everything else they've said about protecting victims is just noise.
(14:57):
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. There have been moments in this six year
war where you just stop, look around and wonder if
these people actually think that were this stupid, And this
week this is one of those moments, because after that blistering,
scorched short letter sent on behalf of the Epstein survivors
(00:20):
calling out the Department of Justice for what can only
be described as gross negligence and outright betrayal, Judge Richard
Berman has finally stepped in, demanding answers, demanding clarity, demanding
transparency about what exactly the DOJ thinks it's doing with
these documents and how they plan to protect the privacy
of the very people who were tortured by this monster
(00:43):
and his network. Let's just take a minute and really
sue with this. The DOJ spent nearly a million dollars overtime, manpower,
endless hours, allegedly to sanitize these documents, allegedly to protect survivors,
allegedly to make sure the public release didn't read traumatize
the people who had already paid the highest price. And
(01:04):
after all of that effort, all of those resources, all
of that grandstanding. They accidentally released the names of survivors.
That's the big mistake, that's the one they got wrong.
So they managed to successfully black out the names of
people who did the abusing, the politicos, the financiers, the celebrities,
the billion dollar backers, the power brokers, the intelligence adjacent operators.
(01:27):
But somehow the only slip up in the entire process
just happened to expose survivors to danger, harassment, and humiliation.
In the words of Joe Biden, come on, man, if
you believe that's an innocent clerical error, I've got a
bridge in Brooklyn with your name on it. These people
(01:48):
have protected Epstein and his orbit for decades. Every turn
of the wheel has been in the service of shielding
the powerful and silencing the powerless. They had one job
this time, one protect the victims. And they couldn't even
do that, not because they're incompetent, but because the priority
has always been the same contain the exposure, limit the damage,
(02:08):
and preserve the mythology that this was the work of
a lone pervert instead of a sprawling criminal enterprise with
institutional backing. And that's why the survivors went scorched earth.
That's why they didn't just whisper. They detonated. That letter
was basically a declaration of war. And now Judge Berman,
one of the only people in this saga who has
(02:30):
consistently demanded accountability, is staring down the DOJ and saying
no more, no more excuses, no more oversights, no more
oopsie daisies that only ever seem to land on the
backs of victims because under normal circumstances, maybe you chalk
it up to bureaucratic incompetence, some pencil pusher asleep at
the wheel. But after everything we know, after years of
(02:52):
sweetheart deals, NDAs, hidden evidence, seal files, deferred prosecutions, intelligence
fingerprints all over the crime scene, and a cover up
deep enough to bury a skyscraper, this isn't in competence,
its strategy, its protection. It's control. Something is moving beneath
the surface. You can feel it. The seams are popping,
(03:12):
and whatever is coming next, they're terrified that you're going
to see it, So let's get into it. This article
was published by NBC News the headline Judge seeks to
shield Epstein victims after dozens of names exposed in document release.
This article was authored by Catherine Doyle. A federal judge
(03:34):
is pressing the Justice Department to explain how it will
protect the identities of Jeffrey Epstein's victims after lawyers said
that dozens of their names appeared unredacted in documents released
by Congress, prompting what they described as widespread panic. Can
you blame them? We're talking about people that have fought
tooth and knell to keep their names anonymous throughout the years,
(03:55):
and then in this dump, their names are just released.
Imagine being the judge, and if you recall, it was
Judge Berman that has demanded accountability from the FBI and
the DOJ since the Sweetheart deal. So he's not some
guy that's new to this, right, He's not green. My
man's been around this situation for quite some time and
he's disgusted by it too. Judge Richard Berman of the
(04:18):
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
on Wednesday night, requested a detailed description of the material
the government intends to release and an explanation of how
it will safeguard the privacy of victims, including through redactions. Berman,
who oversaw the trafficking case against Epstein attached a letter
from attorneys Bradley Edwards and Britney Henderson that calls for
(04:40):
strict privacy protections in future releases. And that's the letter
that we just talked about in the previous episode. And
I wish I could tell you that it was an anomaly,
but it's not. This is the kind of shit that's
been happening from the very beginning when it comes to
this case, and nobody has any explanation for it. Right.
All the people that want to run around and act
like free Epstein and the stories being overblown like he
(05:02):
had no ties to intelligence, all of that jazz, but
they can't ever explain the finer points. And look, it's
all fine and well to lob bombs, but you better
have something to back it up. The House Oversight Committee's
public release of more than twenty thousand documents caused widespread
panic among survivors. The lawyers wrote, well, yeah, when your
(05:24):
name gets dumped like that, it's going to cause panic.
It's going to cause havoc. It's going to cause chaos,
and it's going to cause you a lot of grief.
Edwards and Henderson, who represent hundreds of Epstein's victims urged
the Justice Department to redact all victim names in any
future materials sent to Congress or made public. They also
asked for a private meeting with the DOJ to share
(05:45):
a list of more than three hundred victims they represent
so that federal officials can protect against further disclosures. The
lawyers said dozens of victims' names appeared unredacted in the
cash of documents and emails from the Justice Department release
this month, turning the release into a new source of
concern for victims who had sought to maintain their anonymity.
(06:07):
And if you were acall, as we were going through
the court documents for Epstein and Maxwell, there were so
many women who came forward and were allowed by the
court to proceed anonymously. Now if you compare that to
what happened with Diddy and you see all the women
that tried to move forward anonymously who were shot down,
it shows you the real concerns that these women have.
(06:29):
When it comes to Epstein, we're talking about a real
criminal empire here. We're talking about a group of people
that should have been hit with the world's largest RICO case,
but they were able to avoid it. And the only
way you avoid a RICO case if you're somebody like
Jeffrey Epstein or Glenn Maxwell, is if you're being protected.
(06:50):
And I would love for somebody to give me an
example of somebody that was doing what Epstein was doing
that wasn't hit with RICO, because I can give you
examples from here till next month of people who are
hit with RICO in questionable circumstances at best. But this
scumbag and his friends they get to skate on RICO.
(07:11):
And the reason is because RICO is an absolute colonoscopy. Right,
They're looking at everything, all your ties, all your business partners,
everybody who sent money to everybody who sent money to you,
and it becomes a whole thing. And that's what they're
scared of. They're scared of the paper trail. They're scared
of people following that paper trail and finding victory because
(07:34):
you can't dispute it, right, I mean, the paper trail
is what the paper trail is. So that's why they
fear that when it comes to witnesses, they can impugn them, right,
they can attack them, they can go after their character,
a whole bunch of things they can do, and they
do all of it. But when you have a money
trail and you follow that money, it's very difficult to
(07:54):
dispute the findings. The numbers are what they are right,
there's no half step in there. There's no really disputing
any of it unless you say that the report was
doctored or whatever, and I don't think that's going to
work out too well for you. Transparency cannot come at
the expense of privacy, safety, and protection of sexual abuse
and sex trafficking victims, especially these survivors who have already
(08:17):
suffered repeatedly, the lawyers wrote. According to the letter, some
victims warned that releasing their names would put them in
physical danger. Several told their lawyers that they had been
approached on the street by reporters, including one who said
she was confronted while standing with her nine year old son.
According to the letter, the lawyers pointed to one document
release by the Justice Department that they said listed the
(08:40):
names of at least twenty eight victims, including individuals who
were minor children at the time of the abuse, as
well as women granted protection in the same legal jurisdiction
as a result of grave public safety concerns, and that's
what I was talking about. These women have already fought
that battle of anonymity and won, but now they're being
(09:01):
outed by the Justice Department. I thought the Justice Department
was so concerned about protecting victims. Isn't that what they said,
that this whole thing's about Epstein's victims. No, it's not.
It's about covering their own ass. That's what it's all about.
This type of negligence by the government to a survivor
is just unable to comprehend. One alleged victim wrote in
a document included in the core of filing, I don't
(09:23):
understand how this is possible. I have been unable to
mentally and emotionally function or sleep set another a third said,
I thought the government had promised to redact our names
and identifying material. I don't understand how this is happening. Again, Well,
it's because they don't care. That's how it's happening. And
I wish I could say something differently here and say,
(09:44):
you know what, it was an oversight and they're going
to fix it and things are going to get better.
But we all know that's not the case. We all
know that these people have no desire to be transparent.
If they wanted to be transparent, breaking news, we wouldn't
be having this gigantic debate in Edwards and Henderson said
some survivors fear the Justice Department intentionally expose their names
(10:05):
when it released thousands of unredacted files tied to Epstein's
case to Congress this year. These women now beg this
court and begged the United States Department of Justice to
allow them to choose to remain protected, the attorney said.
While Epstein's estate also failed to redact some names, the
lawyers said they believe that these were genuine mistakes. Yeah,
(10:27):
we're not going to pin this all on the Epstein estate.
They certainly have their own problems, but this is a
DOJ problem, and the DOJ needs to handle it. And
whoever's working for Congress when it comes to oversight, whoever
the investigators are, they have to do a better job.
And if they can't do a better job, find somebody
who can. The lawyers also accuse the DOJ of creating
(10:50):
a perpetual distraction through the release of grand jury materials
tied to Epstein's co conspirator Glaine Maxwell, arguing that the
documents provide little meaningful information and are being used as
a diversion. Well, look, I agree with that one hundred percent.
If you want to talk about the grand jury documents
in the overall encompassing Epstein documents, we want cool. But
(11:13):
if you're going to act like they're the be all
end all, that's where I have a problem because they're not. That.
They'll give us a little bit of context, and you
all know I love context. The more meat on the
bone the better. But let's not act like this is
the Holy Grail, because that is not what it is.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request
for a comment on Thursday. Berman presided over the government's
(11:36):
twenty nineteen case against Epstein before the disgraced financier and
sex offender died in jail while awaiting trial. The letter
from Edwards and Henderson comes after President Donald Trump signed
a bill on November nineteenth directing the DOJ to release
its Epstein files. The president, who for months argued against
passing the legislation, has continued to call the push to
(11:59):
release the files part of a hoax. Imagine a hoax
a man with daughters himself? Would it be a hoax
if it was his daughter, would it be a hoax
if it was his granddaughter? Of course it wouldn't be right.
It would be a big thing, a big problem. Well,
guess what, even though it's not your people, it's a
big problem. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which
(12:22):
directs Attorney General Pound Bondi to release all unclassified records
tied to Epstein within thirty days, while withholding or redacting
material that could jeopardize a federal investigation. A federal investigation
that materialized out of nowhere. I mean, come on, are
we really going to give credence to that? And if
you want to look at the results of what will
(12:43):
come if they try to bring criminal charges against anyone
due to this dumbass investigation, just take a look at
what happened with James Comy. That's exactly what's going to
happen if you go through with targeted prosecutions due to Epstein,
and that's going to make things worse. Right, how's that
going to make it better? If we have targeted prosecutions
that end up getting thrown out, and it gives people
(13:05):
the room to say, look, it's all the big hopes
that's the goal. Keep in mind, that's the goal. They
want this to go away. They don't want to deal
with it, they don't want to talk about it, and
they don't want you talking about it, And whatever paths
they have to take to get there, they're willing to
take it. Some victims have criticized the attempts to unseal
the grand jury testimony, saying those attempts have disregarded victims
(13:28):
repeated calls for privacy, and make no mistake, Judge Berman
isn't asking for a favor. He's telling the DOJ to
explain themselves in writing. With no wiggle room left after
everything that's happened, after every excuse we've heard for why
transparency apparently takes a decade, he wants to know why
the only people exposed in the whole process were the
(13:49):
ones who already took the hits. And there's no way
to dress that up. They had unlimited time, unlimited resources,
unlimited cover, and the best they could do was put
survivors on the chopping block. Again, the reality is simple,
either they don't care or they hope nobody would notice.
Neither answer is acceptable, So now it's on them to
produce something real, not a press release, not a talking point,
(14:12):
not another round of our thoughts are with the victims,
actual answers, actual accountability, and for the first time in
a long time, we have a judge who's not letting
them hide behind the door and shrug. The survivors made
their position clear in that letter. This wasn't an accident
that can be brushed aside. It caused real harm. It
undermined what little trust remained, and Berman acknowledged that by
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demanding specifics instead of accepting another round of procedural fog.
Nobody expects miracles. They just expect the most basic level
of competence and respect for the people who endured the
worst parts of the story. If the DJ can't manage that,
then everything else they've said about protecting victims is just noise.
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