November 20, 2025 • 37 mins
Jeffrey Epstein’s role as a benefactor to Stacey Plaskett has become a focal point as records show that he provided financial support to her political campaigns while she was serving as the congressional delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Multiple donations were made by Epstein and individuals connected to him over several election cycles, reportedly totaling tens of thousands of dollars. These contributions have fueled criticism that Plaskett benefited directly from Epstein’s wealth and influence at a time when many institutions and public figures were distancing themselves from him following his 2008 conviction.
Beyond the money, Epstein’s relationship with Plaskett raised questions of personal access and influence. Communications released in recent months show that Epstein texted Plaskett during the high-profile 2019 congressional hearing featuring Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, suggesting talking points and strategy in real time as she questioned witnesses. That exchange has been widely interpreted as evidence that Epstein saw Plaskett not merely as a politician he supported, but as someone he could advise, confide in, and potentially influence on matters of national visibility. Plaskett has denied any improper relationship, characterizing Epstein as nothing more than a constituent, but the revelations have sparked intense scrutiny over how close the two actually were and why Epstein felt comfortable inserting himself into her congressional work.
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Beyond the money, Epstein’s relationship with Plaskett raised questions of personal access and influence. Communications released in recent months show that Epstein texted Plaskett during the high-profile 2019 congressional hearing featuring Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, suggesting talking points and strategy in real time as she questioned witnesses. That exchange has been widely interpreted as evidence that Epstein saw Plaskett not merely as a politician he supported, but as someone he could advise, confide in, and potentially influence on matters of national visibility. Plaskett has denied any improper relationship, characterizing Epstein as nothing more than a constituent, but the revelations have sparked intense scrutiny over how close the two actually were and why Epstein felt comfortable inserting himself into her congressional work.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Back in twenty nineteen, when the Jeffrey Epstein case was
exploding for the second time, all we heard about was
Alexander Acosta. This Alexander Acosta that, as if Alexander Acosta
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was mister primetime and mister powerful. Meanwhile, Alexander Acosta was
nothing more than a yes man with a slinky for
a spine, But somehow he was elevated to the arch
criminal of this whole entire or deal. Well, folks, I
have news for you. He is not the arch criminal,
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and he is not the mastermind behind Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal.
He's the fall guy. He was the guy that happened
to be in charge in Florida when his bosses told
him to make this deal. He didn't just wake up
and say to himself, you know what, I'm gonna give
Epstein this sweetheart deal and I'm not gonna tell anybody
else about. Remember, his boss has had to sign off
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on it, and anybody who's ever worked in a bureaucracy
knows that middle management does not have the power to
do anything. Now, let's hit fast forward to twenty twenty three,
and let's talk about Stacy Plaskett, you know, miss US
Virgin Islands herself. Well, more information's coming out now about
Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with Stacy Plaskett and how
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he helped her pull off one of the hugest upsets
in US Virgin Islands political history. Today's article is from
the Insider headline how Jeffrey Epstein turned the US Virgin
Islands into a pedophile's playground and helped elect a sitting
member of Congress. This article was authored by Jacob Shamsian. Now,
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how in the hell does somebody connected to Jeffrey Epstein
get a prominent position on the January sixth committee? Can
somebody please explain that to me? If anything, Stacey plaid
should have been sitting on the other side of a
commission answering questions about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But
considering we live in a world that's upside down and
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driven purely on party politics, that didn't occur. It was
twenty eighteen and Representatives Stacy Plaskett was running for reelection
in Congress. She expected to win a third term, easily,
running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.
Nothing like having some choice, huh down in the US
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Virgin Islands somebody who took money from Epstein or nobody else.
Hell of a choice down there in the USVII. Maybe
they can use some of that one hundred and five
million that day Pilford to get things in order down
on the island. But somehow I have a funny feeling
that that money is never gonna make its way to
the people of the Virgin Islands. The US Virgin Islands,
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where Plasket is from, doesn't have normal congressional representation like Washington,
DC and Puerto Rico. It has a non voting delegate.
She can serve on committees, but doesn't have any say
when the full House of Representatives votes on a bill.
But meanwhile she has to say of sitting on that
J six commission that's never sat right with me. Imagine
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having Acosta sitting on that commission. How would you feel
about that? And if you're okay with one but not
the other, then you, my friend, are part of the problem.
One part of her job, however, is the same as
that of every other Democrat in Congress. She's expected to
fundraise for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that year's campaign cycle.
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The committee gave her a target of around two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to raise for the organization, which
recruits and supports candidates for the party. She said in
a deposition taken earlier this year, Plaskett had a list
of people to ask for money. It included previous donors,
alumni and individual who were interested in the same topics
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for which committees I sat on, she said in the deposition.
On that list, she said, was none other than Jeffrey Epstein,
a financier pedophile worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Epstein
owned two islands in the US Virgin Islands. There are
roughly fifty islands overall. His main residence, on the island
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off Little Saint James, was lavishly furnished in the style
of a resort. He had even shipped in more sand
and palm trees to make it look exactly as he desired.
Plaskett wanted to persuade Epstein to donate thirty thousand dollars,
the maximum amount an individual could donate to a national
campaign committee at the time. Well, how about that a
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night thirty thousand dollars donation solicited from Jeffrey Epstein after
he was already a convicted pedophile. There was just one
issue for Plasket, and it wasn't that he was a
convicted sex offender. By the way, Epstein was a convicted
sex having pleaded guilty eleven years earlier to soliciting sex
from a minor. Law enforcement had separately concluded he sexually
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abused scores of underage girls at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Plaskett was focused on hitting her two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars goal. So it's just endemic to how broken
the political structure is here in America. They don't care
where they get this money from. And then after they
get it from some undesirable scumbag who ends up getting outed,
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they'll say, oh, well, we donated it to this charity
or that charity, and then everybody just drops it and
moves on. Well not me. I want to know why
you accepted the money in the first place. Is it
really that important that you raise this money for the
Democratic Party? That you're taking money from one of the
biggest human traffickers in history, And if you think it's
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okay and you think it's acceptable. Once again, you are
part of the problem. Plasket was focused on hitting her
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars goal. A thirty thousand
dollars donation was a feasible ask for Epstein. He had
donated generously to Democratic politicians from the US Virgin Islands
for years. In exchange, recent court filings say he got
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three hundred million dollars in tax incentives and was able
to fly girls to his islands without customs. Batting an
eye and just let that sink in. Just let it
sink in that Jeffrey Epstein had all of these politicians
that happened to be in the Democratic Party down in
the US Virgin Islands in his pocket and their enabling
of his bullshit directly led to these girls being abused.
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Now tell me how you can support Stacy Plaskett as
a politician, and if you still do, once again, you're
part of the problem. With the assistance of the US
Virgin Islands first Lady, Epstein navigated the territory's political waters unscathed.
He weighed in on an overhaul of sex offender laws,
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considered putting a lawmaker on retainer, and made a customs
office looked the other way by simply buying all seventy
eight staff members turkeys for Thanksgiving. Court filings say, what
is he? Nino Brown from New Jack City shows up
with a truck full of turkeys and gives them out
to all the crackheads and poor people. But in this instance,
the crackheads and the poor people happened to be the
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politicians that were on the take. After all, Plaskett had
taken Epstein's money before for her own campaign. Earlier last year,
on July twelfth, Plasket sent an email to Epstein's assistant
Leslie Groff, inviting the pedophile to a fundraiser for her campaign.
She said she would be grateful for whatever support Epstein
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could provide. Hello, everybody, are you paying attention? This same
lady that was up there on her ivory tower talking
about people being terrorists is over here inviting a pedophile
to her fundraiser. If you don't see the problem with that,
then I can't help you. Epstein responded just two minutes later,
and is typically typo mard prose. Epstein always had typos
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in like every single email. And he's one of these
so called smart people who don't know how to spell.
He wrote, get maximum amounts aloud, so basically saying that's
what he'll do. He'll get maximum amounts allowed for Stacy Plasket.
We would have a friend in Stacy. Epstein kept up
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the generosity. In September that year, a consultant on Plasket's
campaign invited Epstein to two dinners on Saint Thomas and
Saint Croix, the two main islands in the US Virgin Islands.
Email show. Epstein swiftly promised he would donate the max
but said he didn't want his name attached, and Plaskett
was cool with it. Yeah, that's cool, don't attach your name.
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We'll take your money anyway, even though you're a pedophile.
At some point in the fall of twenty eighteen, Plasket
visited Epstein at his Manhattan mansion. Plaskett said Groff greeted
her at the foyer and brought her to Epstein, who
was sitting at a long dining room table. He agreed
to give the full thirty thousand dollars that Plaskett had
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asked him to donate to the Democratic Party. The committee
ended up rejecting the donation. Yeah, well, the smartest thing
they did. But what Stacy Plaskett's excuse? He had not
passed their vetting. Plasket said in the deposition, I was
informed by my chief of staff that the DCCC informed
him that mister Epstein's contribution would not be accepted by
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the DCCC. A representative for Plaskett didn't respond to multiple
requests for comment, So that's certainly a good sign from
the DCCC. They can hang their hat on that. But Plasket,
on the other hand, she has no excuse, and there's
no amount of gas lighting or misdirection that I'm going
to accept from anybody until this lady is really called
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on the carpet. Just a few months after Plasket's twenty
eighteen reelection, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought a sex trafficking
indictment against them. He died in jail in twenty nineteen
while awaiting trial, so he had no other chance to
donate to one of Plasket's campaigns. She did, however, accept
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money from him on previous occasions. Epstein donated five four
hundred dollars to plaskets campaigns in the twenty sixteen campaign cycle,
hitting the contribution limits for the primary and general elections.
Federal Election Commission record show he maxed out his donations
to her unopposed campaign in the twenty eighteen cycle as well.
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So she's running unopposed, why does she need these donations. Oh,
that's right, she's gonna pocket it. Right. Let's not make
pretend that it's only some politicians who are corrupt. Anybody
who goes to DC and they have a net worth
of insert six figures here or whatever, and then they
leave there as millionaires, Well, I have to tell you
they're corrupt because they're only making a little bit of money.
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How are you leaving there a millionaire? Five times over?
If you showed up, they're broke. His financial support of
Plasket's political career stretched back to twenty fourteen, the first
year she won a seat in the House. It was
a close campaign in the Democratic Party primary. Plasket, then
a lawyer for the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, was
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running against Sean Michael Malone, who held a powerful perch
as the president of the US Virgin Islands Senate. So
she was an upstart running against this guy who was
entrenched in party politics. Do you really think she could
have won without the support of people like Epstein. At
that time, Epstein was getting political advice from Cecile du Jong,
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the First Lady of the US Virgin Islands. Her husband,
John Dejeong Junior, served as governor from two thousand and
seven to twenty fifteen. In addition to her duties as
First Lady, Cecil de Jong had a day job at
the Southern Trust Company. Epstein claimed to use the corporation
for his philanthropic foundations, though several lawsuits have alleged it
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served as a vehicle for his sex trafficking operation. Well yeah,
and it also served as a nice spot for him
to color up some of that laundered money. Epstein appeared
to be a generous employer, paying tuition for Dejong's children
in addition to her salary. Court record show a representative
for DeJong declined to make her available to comment. So
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you think he just did that because he was a
great guy, or was he trying to buy a political
favor from her husband. You don't have to be a
great investigator here. You just have to be somebody who
is willing to look at this story and be honest
with how corrupt everybody involved is. And the second you
stop looking at it, through the frame or the lens
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of this political party or that then you're going to
realize that the whole entire thing is rotten, and that
ivory tower that all of these politicians stand on is
really built on a foundation of quicksand Malone. Dejean wrote
in a June twenty fourteen email to Epstein was no
fan of the financier pedophile. Dejeong pleaded for Epstein to
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donate the Plaskets campaign and to ask his rich friends
to contribute more money. Malone, she said, had criticized Epstein
at a recent hearing. Sean is the one who came
after you in the Senate hearing last week, she wrote.
He is nasty and needs to be defeated. We would
have a friend in Stacy Well, isn't that nice? Got
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yourselves a little friend in Stacy Plaskett. Jeffrey Epstein's defender
is Buddy All for the short price of selling your soul.
Epstein assented and offered the names of several associates who
might donate as well. Among those suggestions was Groff, along
with Epstein's lawyers Darren Endyke and Richard Kahn, who became
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his estate executors. When he died five years later, all
of them donated the Plaskets campaign. FEC records reviewed by
Insiders show, now, do you think they donated their money
or do you think they donated Jeffrey Epstein's money? So
did Plaskett and her campaign return all of that money
as well? There's no evidence that Epstein reimbursed his associates
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for their donations, but the remarks raised red flags for
Stuart mcphel, a lawyer for the government ethics watchdog Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. I mean, come on, really,
no evidence? Okay, fine, no evidence, so it just didn't happen. Huh,
there's no evidence because the scumbags that are in power
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have decided that it doesn't warrant the proper Look. You
want evidence, make it a Rico case, and I promise
you every last one of these people will be painted
with the scarlet letter. And that's why it's not a
Rico case. Kelly Rico, Mark Rainiery Rico, everybody under the sun. Rico,
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not Epstein, not Maxwell. I'll let you figure out why.
Mckfel told Insider that if Epstein was using other people
to bring more of his own money into Plasket's campaign.
It could amount to a straw donor scheme and a
legal practice of using a conduit to make political donations
on someone's behalf when they've exceeded campaign finance limits. That's
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what was going on. Come on, you think that a
guy that was out here molesting kids really has any
kind of compunction about being involved in a bundling scheme
when it comes to political donations. There's enough here to
raise concern, and I think the question should be asked
if these individuals were actually the source, mcfel said, And
if they weren't, if this was actually Jeffrey Epstein's money
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that was passed through them, then yes, that would be
an unlawful straw donor violation. Anybody care about this, I mean,
anybody out there cared to put down their resentment of
their neighbor for a minute, or of their supposed political
enemy for a minute and realize that they're all screwed
up and that none of them care about you and
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all of the people that were sitting here cheering about
Stacy Plaskett and her role during that committee. Do you
still feel the same way. Do you still think that
Stacy Plasket should be some arbiter of truth. When we're
talking about something as serious as calling people insurrectionists. Somebody
that was taking money from one of the most notorious
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pedophiles should not be passing judgment on any other American citizen, Okay,
point blank, period. A lawyer representing Endike and Khan said
they weren't reimbursed for the donations. An attorney representing Groff
didn't respond to her request for a comment. Well, I
guess I should just believe what Indike and Khan have
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to say. Huh. Those dudes another group of people that
should just be listened to and believed without any questioning,
said nobody. Ever. The August twenty fourteen primary was a
close race, and there's no doubt that Epstein's money helped
push her across the finish line. Here. There is no
doubt about it. And my question is is anybody going
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to recognize this and is Stacey Plaskett going to face
the kind of scrutiny that say somebody like alex Acosta faced,
because she most certainly should. All Right, folks, that's gonna
do it for part one of this episode. Part two
is on its way. All of the information that goes
with the episode can be found in the description box
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to reach your face up, everyone, and welcome back to
the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna pick up
where we left off in the Insider article talking about
Stacey Plaskett. The author of this article is Jacob Shamsy.
In Plasket one defeating the well known Malone by just
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seven one hundred and thirty seven votes. One local news
organization called it one of the biggest upsets in Virgin
Islands politics. It wasn't until a month later that Plasket
and Epstein met for the first time in person. Introduced
by Erica Kellerhall's, a local lawyer, they had a meeting
on September fifth. According to copies of Epstein's schedules obtained
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by Insider through a Freedom of Information Act request, Plaskett
was expected to coast a victory in the general election.
The local Democratic Party has a firm grip on the
territory's politics since nineteen eighty one, the Virgin Islands has
only once sent a non Democrat to Congress. So who
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is there to blame down here? There's no evil person
down here, right, no boogeyman. So there needs to be
some self reflection when it comes to these revelations that
we hear that involve people like Stacy Plaskett, you can't
talk out of one side of your mouth about how
Stacy Plaskett is this courageous warrior or this great politician
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who cares about our democracy, and then out of the
same side of your mouth talk about you care about
these survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Because that bullshit is not
going to work anymore. It's time that those kinds of
folks are called out for their bullshit because they're certainly
part of the problem. And if you're part of the problem,
you better get ready to catch that smoke, because my
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days of being polite are long over. Nonetheless, DeJong pushed
for more money to support Plasket. If she was going
to cruise the victory, why would she need more money.
In October twenty fourteen, she wrote an email to Epstein
memorializing a thirteen thousand dollars donation to a Democratic Party
operation and Plasket support from the Southern Trust Company. Hi, Jeffrey,
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I'm confirming with you that STC will send thirteen thousand
dollars to the Democratic Party for the benefit of Stacey Plasket.
Dejean wrote, this is a gigantic scandal, folks, and it
needs to be investigated and explored. And if there's criminal charges,
those need to be slapped on people as well. She's
getting money from Southern Trust. Really we know that's a
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money laundering operation. And then you'll wonder why there's no RICO.
Once again, I hate to bring it up, but if
you take a look at this, how is it not
a Rico case? This is as clear as day. It's
just like going after the death penalty for Brian Colberger.
That is as clear as day. Just like anything Epstein
was up to should have been RICO. All of the
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predicates were met, but somehow RICO was never enacted. JP
Morgan and the US Virgin Islands blame each other for
Epstein escaping justice. Plasket's deposition and the emails between Epstein
and de Jong have been produced in litigation between the
US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan chase over who bears
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responsibility for letting it out Epstein Ronald Muck. A compensation
program funded by his estate found he sexually abused more
than one hundred girls before his death, and there's a
lot more than that. Unfortunately, those are just the girls
that came forward. I just received an email from somebody
who says that they were also abused by Epstein and
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that they never received any compensation because they were scared
to come forward. So I'm sure there are a ton
of women out there who are going through that same
exact deal, who, for whatever reasons, have decided that they
don't want to come forward and relive this nightmare. The
US Virgin Islands government sued JP Morgan in December in
a New York federal court, alleging the bank pulled the
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levers of Epstein's sex trafficking operation and ignored numerous red flags.
Epstein had bank with JP Morgan for decades, using entities
like Southern Trust Company to transport girls and pay them
for their silence. The US Virgin Islands has alleged the
criminal try isle of Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate and
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one time girlfriend and co conspirator and fellow child abuser
and all around scusbag and that I mentioned by Peudle
Serpent in twenty twenty one, had already shed some light
on how Epstein used as JP Morgan accounts. One bank
official testified about documents showing that Epstein gave Maxwell at
least thirty point seven million dollars between nineteen ninety nine
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and two thousand and seven. Part of that compensation was
for helicopter pilot lessons. Witnesses testified that after passengers from
Epstein's plane arrived on Saint Thomas, Maxwell flew passengers from
the airport there to his private island of Little Saint James,
which locals nicknamed pedophile Island. If the locals are nicknaming that,
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how are the politicians going to say they had no
idea what was going on? And how did they expect
anyone to believe them? And if you do believe them,
then maybe, just maybe you're part of the problem. Another
trial witness testified that one of Epstein's jets, which prosecutors
said he used the traffic girls for sex, was owned
by a company called Hyperion Air, which was incorporated through
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you guessed it, JP Morgan. The trial Jerry convicted Maxwell
on charges that she traffic girls to Epstein for sex
and sexually abused them herself. She's serving a twenty year
prison sentence, and it's too short. She should be serving
a five hundred and twenty year prison sentence for the
bullshit she was up to. Documents obtained by the US
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Virgin Islands in the case showed deep ties between Epstein
and top JP Morgan officials, including Mary Urdos, who's widely
considered to be second in line to Jamie Diamond's CEO post.
Epstein's main contact at JP Morgan was Jess Staley, the
head of private Banking who later became the CEO of
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Barclay's Bank, only to step down in twenty twenty one
following a UK government investigation into is Epstein ties he
should have never been hired at Barclays in the first place.
They act like they didn't know who he was or
what he was up to. It's such bs. Just go
and look at what Edward Bramson had to say at
the very beginning. And Bramson is a gigantic shareholder with
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Barclays who has a board seat. He wanted nothing to
do with Jess Staley's disgusting ass. JP Morgan's defense in
the lawsuit has basically been I'm rubber your glue. Whatever
you say bounces off me and sticks to you. Well,
it's kind of true, though, right. Both sides here do
hold a lot of responsibility for the bullshit that went down,
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and both sides should be held accountable. The Virgin Islands
had access to the same information about Epstein but did
nothing to stop them. JP Morgan is said in filings,
if anything, the US Virgin Islands government was in Epstein's thrall.
P Morgan has argued authorities exercise practically no oversight when
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Epstein brought girls to his island, even though he was
a registered sex offender. Lawyers for the bank have said
the Virgin Islands government JP Morgan said, got greedy after
already reaching a settlement with Epstein's estate last year. And
I agree with that one thousand percent. Why would they
try and get more money here? Do they really believe
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they're entitled the hundreds of millions of dollars for setting
the table and helping this man pray on these girls.
It can only be greed that would have them putting
themselves in the crossfire once again here, Because now people
are starting to ask the question that I've been asking
for a very long time, how the US Virgin Islands
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is entitled to anything when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's money.
Having sought and obtained more than one hundred million dollars
from Jeffrey Epstein's estate and businesses for damages caused by
his sex trafficking crimes at State's Virgin Islands, now cast
farther afield for deeper pockets. Lawyers for JP Morgan wrote
in a filing, The sad part is all of these
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pockets that they're looking for happened to be the survivors.
Where do you think the money would go? If the
US Virgin Islands would just stop their bullshit, it would
go to the survivors where it deserves to go. But no,
the island that sent Stacey Plaskett to Washington, DC to
go and cause havoc after she is hanging out with
mister pedophile himself, Well, they want more money and they
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want to be paid on the back end of their
bullshit as well as dipping in on the front end.
Is this a local government or are we talking about
a mafia here? This same organization, which the US Virgin
Island says was actually Epstein's vehicle for sex trafficking, was
managed by none other than DeJong. JP Morgan is said
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in court documents. The litigation has already caused some in
the US Virgin Islands political sphere. Denise George, the Attorney
general who secured the one hundred and five million dollars
settlement with Epstein's estate, was fired by Governor Albert Bryan Jr.
Several days after she brought the JP Morgan lawsuit. Brian
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wanted to be kept apprized of the lawsuit status. The
New York Times reported an unusual expectation for any elected official. Yeah,
because his name was all over the Epstein bullshit. I mean,
am I the only one that's seeing the forest through
the trees here? I can't be. I know you out
there listening your hip, you know what's going on here.
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But it seems like the legacy media is still trying
to play catchup. JP Morgan has already agreed to pay
two hundred and ninety million dollars to settle a separate
class action lawsuit brought by one of Epstein's victims, filed
around the same time as the US Virgin Islands lawsuit,
as did Deutsche Bank, to the tune of seventy five million.
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But the litigation between the US Virgin Islands and JP
Morgan is moving full steam ahead with no indication of
a settlement. In the works. US District Judge Jed Raykoff
has pushed the parties to move incredibly quickly, with a
trial scheduled for October. Court filings showed the depths of
Epstein's political connections. Part of the Epstein story is how
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a sex offender and serial rapist he moved freely among
powerful people such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.
Less clear is how he pulled levers of power. The
court records show that at least in the US Virgin
Islands he exerted influence with little friction. And it wasn't
just in the US Virgin Islands. Let's go and look
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at New Mexico next, and let's see what kind of
bullshit was going on there. The records dredged up by
JP Morgan appear damning. Epstein practically had the entire government
in his pocket through DeJong and received three hundred million
dollars in tax incentives over a nineteen year span. JP
Morgan has said, let that sink in for a minute, folks, Okay,
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Miss Stacy Plaskett and the rest of them, they have
some nerve telling anybody else that their scummy. Considering what
went on under their watch, and not only that, but
with their help and their support. You know that's saying
about glass houses and all right. Plasket's connections to Epstein
drew some attention in twenty nineteen after federal prosecutors charged
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them with trafficking girls for sex. After initially refusing to
return his campaign contributions, Plasket later said she would donate
the funds to Virgin Islands organizations that work with women
and children. I am uncomfortable having received money from someone
who has been accused of these egregious actions multiple times,
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Plaskets said at the time, Yeah, okay, sure, but you
took the money and you knew what he was. He
was already a sex offender. We're talking about right before
he was arrested the set time. So she can go
back and try and revise history, but the facts are
going to be what the facts are. Since she joined
Congress in twenty fifteen, plasket star has risen during Trump's
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second impeachment. She served as an impeachment manager. In the
current congressional term, Plasket serves as a counterweight to Republicans
on the House Judiciary Select sub Committee on the Weaponization
of the Federal Government, blasting what she sees as right
wing efforts to undermine the rule of law. Yeah, how
about this for undermining the rule of law taking money
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from a convicted pedophile then using that money in an
uncontested primary to win your seat. Why don't we talk
about that, Stacy Plaskett. How about we have a talk
about what you did down in the Virgin Islands before
we talk about how you're some kind of arbiter of
truth or some kind of person who is going to
hold others responsible. How about you start with yourself and
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the other politicians on the island at the time that
Epstein was active. Until you do that, I don't want
to hear shit from you. De Jong's connections and advice
for Epstein went well beyond just helping out Plasket. In emails,
she drew detailed pictures of the US Virgin Islands political landscape,
explaining how Epstein could curry favor with candidates at different
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points in each election cycle. In one election, Epstein outright
asked DeJong for a list of people he should vote for.
The frankness is startling. In a twenty fifteen email, de
Jong suggested putting one politician on some sort of monthly retainer.
This is what you will get for his loyalty and access,
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she wrote. Epstein later gave that politician ten thousand dollars
to consult on changing the name of one of Epstein's islands.
A JP Morgan filing said the financier pedal file did
not change the name of either of his islands. So
all this money that was being spread around, they'll say
it's for this or that, but the reality is this
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money was being spread around to keep the criminal enterprise
chugging right along, and that would have never been possible
without the complicity of these officials down in the US
Virgin Islands. At Dejong's direction, Epstein doled out money freely
to John Dejong's political allies, JP Morgan wrote. Emails submitted
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as exhibits show Epstein agreed to spend ten thousand dollars
for the inauguration committee of Governor Kenneth Mapp in twenty
fourteen and forked over seventy five thousand for maps PAC
in twenty sixteen. Cecil de Jong solicited twenty five thousand
for the twenty nineteen gubernatorial inauguration of Brian who later
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fired the attorney general who brought the lawsuit against JP Morgan.
The politicians down in the US Virgin Islands were living
their life like we were back in the old days,
and this was Tammany Hall, like they could just do
whatever they want, get in bed with Bill the Butcher,
you know, whatever it is, and there's gonna be no repercussions. Well,
I'm here to tell you the repercussions are coming, and
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I hope that those repercussions mean that US Virgin Islands
is going to get sued by these survivors as well.
Not one single dollar should go to the US Virgin Islands.
Wouldn't fuss Ryan here? When John Dejeong was governor, Epstein
seemed to see the US Virgin Islands as one big
financial instrument. Epstein asked to Seal DeJong in a typo
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filled February twenty seventeen email, the VA government is desperate
for cash. Does John know of any asset they might
have that I can use as collateral islands, et cetera. Yes,
John said there are properties. She responded, appearing to refer
to her husband, how much do you need to collateralize?
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Epstein found Dejong's connections helpful in other ways. In twenty fifteen,
she helped fast track a dental license in the Terror
for Karina Shuliac, Epstein's girlfriend at the time of his
death and the last person he spoke to on the
phone before he died. In twenty thirteen, she arranged student
visas for two women Epstein wanted to bring to one
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of his islands. When Epstein was slow to offer the
details she needed to register them in a class for
English as a second language speaker, to Jeong rushed them.
They are structuring the class around the lady, she told them.
Shortly before Thanksgiving. In twenty twelve, de Jong facilitated Epstein's
purchase of seventy eight turkeys for every employee of the
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Saint Thomas Customs Office, the agency responsible for checking everyone
who arrived on his private planes. No big deal, No
big deal at all, just the guy being nice supplying
some turkeys to the neighborhood. Earlier that year, the US
Virgin Islands passed a bill updating its sex offender laws
that Epstein was unhappy with. DeJong and Epstein had tried
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to stop it from happening. In twenty eleven, she showed
him draft bills, asking this is the suggested language will
it work for you? Imagine having the audacity to run
it by the sex offender if the sex offender laws
work for him. The pedophile had some suggestions. He said
he wanted to make sure some files would be kept
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secret lest they be accessible by the press. Oh, you
don't have to worry about that, Jeffy, the press all
loves you. He also wanted to make sure he could
easily get away on his private jet. We should add
out of the country for more than seven days, otherwise
I couldnot go on a trip to Tortola. At the
last minute, Epstein wrote, God forbid, the diddler can't go
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to Tortola when he wants to go. Meanwhile, the rest
of us are saving for two years to take our
families to Disney World. So I'm not feeling too much
empathy for mister Didler over here, who can't go to
Tortola whenever he wants. You want to travel freely, You
don't want to check in. Here's an idea, don't rape kids.
When the final version of the bill passed, DeJong offered
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Epstein some comfort. The new child sex offender law wasn't
exactly what Epstein wanted. JP Morgan has said they had
been assured by lawmakers. DeJong suggested that things would be different.
I know this was a horrible week and I'm really
sorry about how things panned out. Not being able to
take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. DeJong wrote, However,
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all is not lost and we will figure something out
by coming up with a game plan to get around
these obstacles. So, folks, look, there's a big problem here
that needs to be addressed, and that problem is Stacey
Plaskett and the rest of the Democratic Party down here
in the US Virgin Islands that was using Jeffrey Epstein
as their personal piggybank. Is anyone going to answer for that?
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Or are we just going to get more stupid ass,
canned responses and more denials. The bad news for them, though,
is We're not going to accept that, and there needs
to be a real look at what happened here. There
needs to be a real look at who was involved
with Epstein down in the Virgin Islands. And if I
was a survivor, I'd be putting together a lawsuit right
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now as we speak against the US Virgin Islands. And
as far as Stacy Plaskett goes, I don't want to
hear anything about her courage or about her being a
visionary or anything like that. All I want from Stacy
Plaskett is some real concrete answers about her relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for
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What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
Back in twenty nineteen, when the Jeffrey Epstein case was
exploding for the second time, all we heard about was
Alexander Acosta. This Alexander Acosta that, as if Alexander Acosta
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was mister primetime and mister powerful. Meanwhile, Alexander Acosta was
nothing more than a yes man with a slinky for
a spine, But somehow he was elevated to the arch
criminal of this whole entire or deal. Well, folks, I
have news for you. He is not the arch criminal,
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and he is not the mastermind behind Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal.
He's the fall guy. He was the guy that happened
to be in charge in Florida when his bosses told
him to make this deal. He didn't just wake up
and say to himself, you know what, I'm gonna give
Epstein this sweetheart deal and I'm not gonna tell anybody
else about. Remember, his boss has had to sign off
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on it, and anybody who's ever worked in a bureaucracy
knows that middle management does not have the power to
do anything. Now, let's hit fast forward to twenty twenty three,
and let's talk about Stacy Plaskett, you know, miss US
Virgin Islands herself. Well, more information's coming out now about
Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with Stacy Plaskett and how
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he helped her pull off one of the hugest upsets
in US Virgin Islands political history. Today's article is from
the Insider headline how Jeffrey Epstein turned the US Virgin
Islands into a pedophile's playground and helped elect a sitting
member of Congress. This article was authored by Jacob Shamsian. Now,
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how in the hell does somebody connected to Jeffrey Epstein
get a prominent position on the January sixth committee? Can
somebody please explain that to me? If anything, Stacey plaid
should have been sitting on the other side of a
commission answering questions about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But
considering we live in a world that's upside down and
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driven purely on party politics, that didn't occur. It was
twenty eighteen and Representatives Stacy Plaskett was running for reelection
in Congress. She expected to win a third term, easily,
running unopposed in both the Democratic primary and the general election.
Nothing like having some choice, huh down in the US
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Virgin Islands somebody who took money from Epstein or nobody else.
Hell of a choice down there in the USVII. Maybe
they can use some of that one hundred and five
million that day Pilford to get things in order down
on the island. But somehow I have a funny feeling
that that money is never gonna make its way to
the people of the Virgin Islands. The US Virgin Islands,
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where Plasket is from, doesn't have normal congressional representation like Washington,
DC and Puerto Rico. It has a non voting delegate.
She can serve on committees, but doesn't have any say
when the full House of Representatives votes on a bill.
But meanwhile she has to say of sitting on that
J six commission that's never sat right with me. Imagine
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having Acosta sitting on that commission. How would you feel
about that? And if you're okay with one but not
the other, then you, my friend, are part of the problem.
One part of her job, however, is the same as
that of every other Democrat in Congress. She's expected to
fundraise for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that year's campaign cycle.
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The committee gave her a target of around two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to raise for the organization, which
recruits and supports candidates for the party. She said in
a deposition taken earlier this year, Plaskett had a list
of people to ask for money. It included previous donors,
alumni and individual who were interested in the same topics
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for which committees I sat on, she said in the deposition.
On that list, she said, was none other than Jeffrey Epstein,
a financier pedophile worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Epstein
owned two islands in the US Virgin Islands. There are
roughly fifty islands overall. His main residence, on the island
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off Little Saint James, was lavishly furnished in the style
of a resort. He had even shipped in more sand
and palm trees to make it look exactly as he desired.
Plaskett wanted to persuade Epstein to donate thirty thousand dollars,
the maximum amount an individual could donate to a national
campaign committee at the time. Well, how about that a
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night thirty thousand dollars donation solicited from Jeffrey Epstein after
he was already a convicted pedophile. There was just one
issue for Plasket, and it wasn't that he was a
convicted sex offender. By the way, Epstein was a convicted
sex having pleaded guilty eleven years earlier to soliciting sex
from a minor. Law enforcement had separately concluded he sexually
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abused scores of underage girls at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Plaskett was focused on hitting her two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars goal. So it's just endemic to how broken
the political structure is here in America. They don't care
where they get this money from. And then after they
get it from some undesirable scumbag who ends up getting outed,
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they'll say, oh, well, we donated it to this charity
or that charity, and then everybody just drops it and
moves on. Well not me. I want to know why
you accepted the money in the first place. Is it
really that important that you raise this money for the
Democratic Party? That you're taking money from one of the
biggest human traffickers in history, And if you think it's
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okay and you think it's acceptable. Once again, you are
part of the problem. Plasket was focused on hitting her
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars goal. A thirty thousand
dollars donation was a feasible ask for Epstein. He had
donated generously to Democratic politicians from the US Virgin Islands
for years. In exchange, recent court filings say he got
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three hundred million dollars in tax incentives and was able
to fly girls to his islands without customs. Batting an
eye and just let that sink in. Just let it
sink in that Jeffrey Epstein had all of these politicians
that happened to be in the Democratic Party down in
the US Virgin Islands in his pocket and their enabling
of his bullshit directly led to these girls being abused.
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Now tell me how you can support Stacy Plaskett as
a politician, and if you still do, once again, you're
part of the problem. With the assistance of the US
Virgin Islands first Lady, Epstein navigated the territory's political waters unscathed.
He weighed in on an overhaul of sex offender laws,
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considered putting a lawmaker on retainer, and made a customs
office looked the other way by simply buying all seventy
eight staff members turkeys for Thanksgiving. Court filings say, what
is he? Nino Brown from New Jack City shows up
with a truck full of turkeys and gives them out
to all the crackheads and poor people. But in this instance,
the crackheads and the poor people happened to be the
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politicians that were on the take. After all, Plaskett had
taken Epstein's money before for her own campaign. Earlier last year,
on July twelfth, Plasket sent an email to Epstein's assistant
Leslie Groff, inviting the pedophile to a fundraiser for her campaign.
She said she would be grateful for whatever support Epstein
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could provide. Hello, everybody, are you paying attention? This same
lady that was up there on her ivory tower talking
about people being terrorists is over here inviting a pedophile
to her fundraiser. If you don't see the problem with that,
then I can't help you. Epstein responded just two minutes later,
and is typically typo mard prose. Epstein always had typos
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in like every single email. And he's one of these
so called smart people who don't know how to spell.
He wrote, get maximum amounts aloud, so basically saying that's
what he'll do. He'll get maximum amounts allowed for Stacy Plasket.
We would have a friend in Stacy. Epstein kept up
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the generosity. In September that year, a consultant on Plasket's
campaign invited Epstein to two dinners on Saint Thomas and
Saint Croix, the two main islands in the US Virgin Islands.
Email show. Epstein swiftly promised he would donate the max
but said he didn't want his name attached, and Plaskett
was cool with it. Yeah, that's cool, don't attach your name.
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We'll take your money anyway, even though you're a pedophile.
At some point in the fall of twenty eighteen, Plasket
visited Epstein at his Manhattan mansion. Plaskett said Groff greeted
her at the foyer and brought her to Epstein, who
was sitting at a long dining room table. He agreed
to give the full thirty thousand dollars that Plaskett had
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asked him to donate to the Democratic Party. The committee
ended up rejecting the donation. Yeah, well, the smartest thing
they did. But what Stacy Plaskett's excuse? He had not
passed their vetting. Plasket said in the deposition, I was
informed by my chief of staff that the DCCC informed
him that mister Epstein's contribution would not be accepted by
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the DCCC. A representative for Plaskett didn't respond to multiple
requests for comment, So that's certainly a good sign from
the DCCC. They can hang their hat on that. But Plasket,
on the other hand, she has no excuse, and there's
no amount of gas lighting or misdirection that I'm going
to accept from anybody until this lady is really called
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on the carpet. Just a few months after Plasket's twenty
eighteen reelection, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought a sex trafficking
indictment against them. He died in jail in twenty nineteen
while awaiting trial, so he had no other chance to
donate to one of Plasket's campaigns. She did, however, accept
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money from him on previous occasions. Epstein donated five four
hundred dollars to plaskets campaigns in the twenty sixteen campaign cycle,
hitting the contribution limits for the primary and general elections.
Federal Election Commission record show he maxed out his donations
to her unopposed campaign in the twenty eighteen cycle as well.
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So she's running unopposed, why does she need these donations. Oh,
that's right, she's gonna pocket it. Right. Let's not make
pretend that it's only some politicians who are corrupt. Anybody
who goes to DC and they have a net worth
of insert six figures here or whatever, and then they
leave there as millionaires, Well, I have to tell you
they're corrupt because they're only making a little bit of money.
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How are you leaving there a millionaire? Five times over?
If you showed up, they're broke. His financial support of
Plasket's political career stretched back to twenty fourteen, the first
year she won a seat in the House. It was
a close campaign in the Democratic Party primary. Plasket, then
a lawyer for the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, was
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running against Sean Michael Malone, who held a powerful perch
as the president of the US Virgin Islands Senate. So
she was an upstart running against this guy who was
entrenched in party politics. Do you really think she could
have won without the support of people like Epstein. At
that time, Epstein was getting political advice from Cecile du Jong,
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the First Lady of the US Virgin Islands. Her husband,
John Dejeong Junior, served as governor from two thousand and
seven to twenty fifteen. In addition to her duties as
First Lady, Cecil de Jong had a day job at
the Southern Trust Company. Epstein claimed to use the corporation
for his philanthropic foundations, though several lawsuits have alleged it
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served as a vehicle for his sex trafficking operation. Well yeah,
and it also served as a nice spot for him
to color up some of that laundered money. Epstein appeared
to be a generous employer, paying tuition for Dejong's children
in addition to her salary. Court record show a representative
for DeJong declined to make her available to comment. So
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you think he just did that because he was a
great guy, or was he trying to buy a political
favor from her husband. You don't have to be a
great investigator here. You just have to be somebody who
is willing to look at this story and be honest
with how corrupt everybody involved is. And the second you
stop looking at it, through the frame or the lens
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of this political party or that then you're going to
realize that the whole entire thing is rotten, and that
ivory tower that all of these politicians stand on is
really built on a foundation of quicksand Malone. Dejean wrote
in a June twenty fourteen email to Epstein was no
fan of the financier pedophile. Dejeong pleaded for Epstein to
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donate the Plaskets campaign and to ask his rich friends
to contribute more money. Malone, she said, had criticized Epstein
at a recent hearing. Sean is the one who came
after you in the Senate hearing last week, she wrote.
He is nasty and needs to be defeated. We would
have a friend in Stacy Well, isn't that nice? Got
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yourselves a little friend in Stacy Plaskett. Jeffrey Epstein's defender
is Buddy All for the short price of selling your soul.
Epstein assented and offered the names of several associates who
might donate as well. Among those suggestions was Groff, along
with Epstein's lawyers Darren Endyke and Richard Kahn, who became
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his estate executors. When he died five years later, all
of them donated the Plaskets campaign. FEC records reviewed by
Insiders show, now, do you think they donated their money
or do you think they donated Jeffrey Epstein's money? So
did Plaskett and her campaign return all of that money
as well? There's no evidence that Epstein reimbursed his associates
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for their donations, but the remarks raised red flags for
Stuart mcphel, a lawyer for the government ethics watchdog Citizens
for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. I mean, come on, really,
no evidence? Okay, fine, no evidence, so it just didn't happen. Huh,
there's no evidence because the scumbags that are in power
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have decided that it doesn't warrant the proper Look. You
want evidence, make it a Rico case, and I promise
you every last one of these people will be painted
with the scarlet letter. And that's why it's not a
Rico case. Kelly Rico, Mark Rainiery Rico, everybody under the sun. Rico,
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not Epstein, not Maxwell. I'll let you figure out why.
Mckfel told Insider that if Epstein was using other people
to bring more of his own money into Plasket's campaign.
It could amount to a straw donor scheme and a
legal practice of using a conduit to make political donations
on someone's behalf when they've exceeded campaign finance limits. That's
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what was going on. Come on, you think that a
guy that was out here molesting kids really has any
kind of compunction about being involved in a bundling scheme
when it comes to political donations. There's enough here to
raise concern, and I think the question should be asked
if these individuals were actually the source, mcfel said, And
if they weren't, if this was actually Jeffrey Epstein's money
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that was passed through them, then yes, that would be
an unlawful straw donor violation. Anybody care about this, I mean,
anybody out there cared to put down their resentment of
their neighbor for a minute, or of their supposed political
enemy for a minute and realize that they're all screwed
up and that none of them care about you and
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all of the people that were sitting here cheering about
Stacy Plaskett and her role during that committee. Do you
still feel the same way. Do you still think that
Stacy Plasket should be some arbiter of truth. When we're
talking about something as serious as calling people insurrectionists. Somebody
that was taking money from one of the most notorious
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pedophiles should not be passing judgment on any other American citizen, Okay,
point blank, period. A lawyer representing Endike and Khan said
they weren't reimbursed for the donations. An attorney representing Groff
didn't respond to her request for a comment. Well, I
guess I should just believe what Indike and Khan have
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to say. Huh. Those dudes another group of people that
should just be listened to and believed without any questioning,
said nobody. Ever. The August twenty fourteen primary was a
close race, and there's no doubt that Epstein's money helped
push her across the finish line. Here. There is no
doubt about it. And my question is is anybody going
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to recognize this and is Stacey Plaskett going to face
the kind of scrutiny that say somebody like alex Acosta faced,
because she most certainly should. All Right, folks, that's gonna
do it for part one of this episode. Part two
is on its way. All of the information that goes
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to reach your face up, everyone, and welcome back to
the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna pick up
where we left off in the Insider article talking about
Stacey Plaskett. The author of this article is Jacob Shamsy.
In Plasket one defeating the well known Malone by just
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seven one hundred and thirty seven votes. One local news
organization called it one of the biggest upsets in Virgin
Islands politics. It wasn't until a month later that Plasket
and Epstein met for the first time in person. Introduced
by Erica Kellerhall's, a local lawyer, they had a meeting
on September fifth. According to copies of Epstein's schedules obtained
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by Insider through a Freedom of Information Act request, Plaskett
was expected to coast a victory in the general election.
The local Democratic Party has a firm grip on the
territory's politics since nineteen eighty one, the Virgin Islands has
only once sent a non Democrat to Congress. So who
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is there to blame down here? There's no evil person
down here, right, no boogeyman. So there needs to be
some self reflection when it comes to these revelations that
we hear that involve people like Stacy Plaskett, you can't
talk out of one side of your mouth about how
Stacy Plaskett is this courageous warrior or this great politician
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who cares about our democracy, and then out of the
same side of your mouth talk about you care about
these survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Because that bullshit is not
going to work anymore. It's time that those kinds of
folks are called out for their bullshit because they're certainly
part of the problem. And if you're part of the problem,
you better get ready to catch that smoke, because my
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days of being polite are long over. Nonetheless, DeJong pushed
for more money to support Plasket. If she was going
to cruise the victory, why would she need more money.
In October twenty fourteen, she wrote an email to Epstein
memorializing a thirteen thousand dollars donation to a Democratic Party
operation and Plasket support from the Southern Trust Company. Hi, Jeffrey,
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I'm confirming with you that STC will send thirteen thousand
dollars to the Democratic Party for the benefit of Stacey Plasket.
Dejean wrote, this is a gigantic scandal, folks, and it
needs to be investigated and explored. And if there's criminal charges,
those need to be slapped on people as well. She's
getting money from Southern Trust. Really we know that's a
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money laundering operation. And then you'll wonder why there's no RICO.
Once again, I hate to bring it up, but if
you take a look at this, how is it not
a Rico case? This is as clear as day. It's
just like going after the death penalty for Brian Colberger.
That is as clear as day. Just like anything Epstein
was up to should have been RICO. All of the
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predicates were met, but somehow RICO was never enacted. JP
Morgan and the US Virgin Islands blame each other for
Epstein escaping justice. Plasket's deposition and the emails between Epstein
and de Jong have been produced in litigation between the
US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan chase over who bears
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responsibility for letting it out Epstein Ronald Muck. A compensation
program funded by his estate found he sexually abused more
than one hundred girls before his death, and there's a
lot more than that. Unfortunately, those are just the girls
that came forward. I just received an email from somebody
who says that they were also abused by Epstein and
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that they never received any compensation because they were scared
to come forward. So I'm sure there are a ton
of women out there who are going through that same
exact deal, who, for whatever reasons, have decided that they
don't want to come forward and relive this nightmare. The
US Virgin Islands government sued JP Morgan in December in
a New York federal court, alleging the bank pulled the
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levers of Epstein's sex trafficking operation and ignored numerous red flags.
Epstein had bank with JP Morgan for decades, using entities
like Southern Trust Company to transport girls and pay them
for their silence. The US Virgin Islands has alleged the
criminal try isle of Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate and
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one time girlfriend and co conspirator and fellow child abuser
and all around scusbag and that I mentioned by Peudle
Serpent in twenty twenty one, had already shed some light
on how Epstein used as JP Morgan accounts. One bank
official testified about documents showing that Epstein gave Maxwell at
least thirty point seven million dollars between nineteen ninety nine
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and two thousand and seven. Part of that compensation was
for helicopter pilot lessons. Witnesses testified that after passengers from
Epstein's plane arrived on Saint Thomas, Maxwell flew passengers from
the airport there to his private island of Little Saint James,
which locals nicknamed pedophile Island. If the locals are nicknaming that,
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how are the politicians going to say they had no
idea what was going on? And how did they expect
anyone to believe them? And if you do believe them,
then maybe, just maybe you're part of the problem. Another
trial witness testified that one of Epstein's jets, which prosecutors
said he used the traffic girls for sex, was owned
by a company called Hyperion Air, which was incorporated through
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you guessed it, JP Morgan. The trial Jerry convicted Maxwell
on charges that she traffic girls to Epstein for sex
and sexually abused them herself. She's serving a twenty year
prison sentence, and it's too short. She should be serving
a five hundred and twenty year prison sentence for the
bullshit she was up to. Documents obtained by the US
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Virgin Islands in the case showed deep ties between Epstein
and top JP Morgan officials, including Mary Urdos, who's widely
considered to be second in line to Jamie Diamond's CEO post.
Epstein's main contact at JP Morgan was Jess Staley, the
head of private Banking who later became the CEO of
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Barclay's Bank, only to step down in twenty twenty one
following a UK government investigation into is Epstein ties he
should have never been hired at Barclays in the first place.
They act like they didn't know who he was or
what he was up to. It's such bs. Just go
and look at what Edward Bramson had to say at
the very beginning. And Bramson is a gigantic shareholder with
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Barclays who has a board seat. He wanted nothing to
do with Jess Staley's disgusting ass. JP Morgan's defense in
the lawsuit has basically been I'm rubber your glue. Whatever
you say bounces off me and sticks to you. Well,
it's kind of true, though, right. Both sides here do
hold a lot of responsibility for the bullshit that went down,
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and both sides should be held accountable. The Virgin Islands
had access to the same information about Epstein but did
nothing to stop them. JP Morgan is said in filings,
if anything, the US Virgin Islands government was in Epstein's thrall.
P Morgan has argued authorities exercise practically no oversight when
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Epstein brought girls to his island, even though he was
a registered sex offender. Lawyers for the bank have said
the Virgin Islands government JP Morgan said, got greedy after
already reaching a settlement with Epstein's estate last year. And
I agree with that one thousand percent. Why would they
try and get more money here? Do they really believe
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they're entitled the hundreds of millions of dollars for setting
the table and helping this man pray on these girls.
It can only be greed that would have them putting
themselves in the crossfire once again here, Because now people
are starting to ask the question that I've been asking
for a very long time, how the US Virgin Islands
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is entitled to anything when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's money.
Having sought and obtained more than one hundred million dollars
from Jeffrey Epstein's estate and businesses for damages caused by
his sex trafficking crimes at State's Virgin Islands, now cast
farther afield for deeper pockets. Lawyers for JP Morgan wrote
in a filing, The sad part is all of these
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pockets that they're looking for happened to be the survivors.
Where do you think the money would go? If the
US Virgin Islands would just stop their bullshit, it would
go to the survivors where it deserves to go. But no,
the island that sent Stacey Plaskett to Washington, DC to
go and cause havoc after she is hanging out with
mister pedophile himself, Well, they want more money and they
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want to be paid on the back end of their
bullshit as well as dipping in on the front end.
Is this a local government or are we talking about
a mafia here? This same organization, which the US Virgin
Island says was actually Epstein's vehicle for sex trafficking, was
managed by none other than DeJong. JP Morgan is said
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in court documents. The litigation has already caused some in
the US Virgin Islands political sphere. Denise George, the Attorney
general who secured the one hundred and five million dollars
settlement with Epstein's estate, was fired by Governor Albert Bryan Jr.
Several days after she brought the JP Morgan lawsuit. Brian
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wanted to be kept apprized of the lawsuit status. The
New York Times reported an unusual expectation for any elected official. Yeah,
because his name was all over the Epstein bullshit. I mean,
am I the only one that's seeing the forest through
the trees here? I can't be. I know you out
there listening your hip, you know what's going on here.
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But it seems like the legacy media is still trying
to play catchup. JP Morgan has already agreed to pay
two hundred and ninety million dollars to settle a separate
class action lawsuit brought by one of Epstein's victims, filed
around the same time as the US Virgin Islands lawsuit,
as did Deutsche Bank, to the tune of seventy five million.
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But the litigation between the US Virgin Islands and JP
Morgan is moving full steam ahead with no indication of
a settlement. In the works. US District Judge Jed Raykoff
has pushed the parties to move incredibly quickly, with a
trial scheduled for October. Court filings showed the depths of
Epstein's political connections. Part of the Epstein story is how
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a sex offender and serial rapist he moved freely among
powerful people such as Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.
Less clear is how he pulled levers of power. The
court records show that at least in the US Virgin
Islands he exerted influence with little friction. And it wasn't
just in the US Virgin Islands. Let's go and look
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at New Mexico next, and let's see what kind of
bullshit was going on there. The records dredged up by
JP Morgan appear damning. Epstein practically had the entire government
in his pocket through DeJong and received three hundred million
dollars in tax incentives over a nineteen year span. JP
Morgan has said, let that sink in for a minute, folks, Okay,
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Miss Stacy Plaskett and the rest of them, they have
some nerve telling anybody else that their scummy. Considering what
went on under their watch, and not only that, but
with their help and their support. You know that's saying
about glass houses and all right. Plasket's connections to Epstein
drew some attention in twenty nineteen after federal prosecutors charged
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them with trafficking girls for sex. After initially refusing to
return his campaign contributions, Plasket later said she would donate
the funds to Virgin Islands organizations that work with women
and children. I am uncomfortable having received money from someone
who has been accused of these egregious actions multiple times,
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Plaskets said at the time, Yeah, okay, sure, but you
took the money and you knew what he was. He
was already a sex offender. We're talking about right before
he was arrested the set time. So she can go
back and try and revise history, but the facts are
going to be what the facts are. Since she joined
Congress in twenty fifteen, plasket star has risen during Trump's
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second impeachment. She served as an impeachment manager. In the
current congressional term, Plasket serves as a counterweight to Republicans
on the House Judiciary Select sub Committee on the Weaponization
of the Federal Government, blasting what she sees as right
wing efforts to undermine the rule of law. Yeah, how
about this for undermining the rule of law taking money
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from a convicted pedophile then using that money in an
uncontested primary to win your seat. Why don't we talk
about that, Stacy Plaskett. How about we have a talk
about what you did down in the Virgin Islands before
we talk about how you're some kind of arbiter of
truth or some kind of person who is going to
hold others responsible. How about you start with yourself and
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the other politicians on the island at the time that
Epstein was active. Until you do that, I don't want
to hear shit from you. De Jong's connections and advice
for Epstein went well beyond just helping out Plasket. In emails,
she drew detailed pictures of the US Virgin Islands political landscape,
explaining how Epstein could curry favor with candidates at different
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points in each election cycle. In one election, Epstein outright
asked DeJong for a list of people he should vote for.
The frankness is startling. In a twenty fifteen email, de
Jong suggested putting one politician on some sort of monthly retainer.
This is what you will get for his loyalty and access,
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she wrote. Epstein later gave that politician ten thousand dollars
to consult on changing the name of one of Epstein's islands.
A JP Morgan filing said the financier pedal file did
not change the name of either of his islands. So
all this money that was being spread around, they'll say
it's for this or that, but the reality is this
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money was being spread around to keep the criminal enterprise
chugging right along, and that would have never been possible
without the complicity of these officials down in the US
Virgin Islands. At Dejong's direction, Epstein doled out money freely
to John Dejong's political allies, JP Morgan wrote. Emails submitted
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as exhibits show Epstein agreed to spend ten thousand dollars
for the inauguration committee of Governor Kenneth Mapp in twenty
fourteen and forked over seventy five thousand for maps PAC
in twenty sixteen. Cecil de Jong solicited twenty five thousand
for the twenty nineteen gubernatorial inauguration of Brian who later
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fired the attorney general who brought the lawsuit against JP Morgan.
The politicians down in the US Virgin Islands were living
their life like we were back in the old days,
and this was Tammany Hall, like they could just do
whatever they want, get in bed with Bill the Butcher,
you know, whatever it is, and there's gonna be no repercussions. Well,
I'm here to tell you the repercussions are coming, and
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I hope that those repercussions mean that US Virgin Islands
is going to get sued by these survivors as well.
Not one single dollar should go to the US Virgin Islands.
Wouldn't fuss Ryan here? When John Dejeong was governor, Epstein
seemed to see the US Virgin Islands as one big
financial instrument. Epstein asked to Seal DeJong in a typo
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filled February twenty seventeen email, the VA government is desperate
for cash. Does John know of any asset they might
have that I can use as collateral islands, et cetera. Yes,
John said there are properties. She responded, appearing to refer
to her husband, how much do you need to collateralize?
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Epstein found Dejong's connections helpful in other ways. In twenty fifteen,
she helped fast track a dental license in the Terror
for Karina Shuliac, Epstein's girlfriend at the time of his
death and the last person he spoke to on the
phone before he died. In twenty thirteen, she arranged student
visas for two women Epstein wanted to bring to one
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of his islands. When Epstein was slow to offer the
details she needed to register them in a class for
English as a second language speaker, to Jeong rushed them.
They are structuring the class around the lady, she told them.
Shortly before Thanksgiving. In twenty twelve, de Jong facilitated Epstein's
purchase of seventy eight turkeys for every employee of the
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Saint Thomas Customs Office, the agency responsible for checking everyone
who arrived on his private planes. No big deal, No
big deal at all, just the guy being nice supplying
some turkeys to the neighborhood. Earlier that year, the US
Virgin Islands passed a bill updating its sex offender laws
that Epstein was unhappy with. DeJong and Epstein had tried
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to stop it from happening. In twenty eleven, she showed
him draft bills, asking this is the suggested language will
it work for you? Imagine having the audacity to run
it by the sex offender if the sex offender laws
work for him. The pedophile had some suggestions. He said
he wanted to make sure some files would be kept
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secret lest they be accessible by the press. Oh, you
don't have to worry about that, Jeffy, the press all
loves you. He also wanted to make sure he could
easily get away on his private jet. We should add
out of the country for more than seven days, otherwise
I couldnot go on a trip to Tortola. At the
last minute, Epstein wrote, God forbid, the diddler can't go
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to Tortola when he wants to go. Meanwhile, the rest
of us are saving for two years to take our
families to Disney World. So I'm not feeling too much
empathy for mister Didler over here, who can't go to
Tortola whenever he wants. You want to travel freely, You
don't want to check in. Here's an idea, don't rape kids.
When the final version of the bill passed, DeJong offered
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Epstein some comfort. The new child sex offender law wasn't
exactly what Epstein wanted. JP Morgan has said they had
been assured by lawmakers. DeJong suggested that things would be different.
I know this was a horrible week and I'm really
sorry about how things panned out. Not being able to
take someone at their word is incredibly frustrating. DeJong wrote, However,
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all is not lost and we will figure something out
by coming up with a game plan to get around
these obstacles. So, folks, look, there's a big problem here
that needs to be addressed, and that problem is Stacey
Plaskett and the rest of the Democratic Party down here
in the US Virgin Islands that was using Jeffrey Epstein
as their personal piggybank. Is anyone going to answer for that?
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Or are we just going to get more stupid ass,
canned responses and more denials. The bad news for them, though,
is We're not going to accept that, and there needs
to be a real look at what happened here. There
needs to be a real look at who was involved
with Epstein down in the Virgin Islands. And if I
was a survivor, I'd be putting together a lawsuit right
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now as we speak against the US Virgin Islands. And
as far as Stacy Plaskett goes, I don't want to
hear anything about her courage or about her being a
visionary or anything like that. All I want from Stacy
Plaskett is some real concrete answers about her relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein. All right, folks, that's gonna do it for
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