December 25, 2025 • 23 mins
In 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority after the agency refused to release records related to Jeffrey Epstein and the substantial tax benefits he received while living in the territory. The Times sought documents detailing Epstein’s participation in the USVI’s Economic Development Commission program, which granted him sweeping tax exemptions and incentives for years, even after serious allegations about his conduct were known. The lawsuit argued that the EDA improperly withheld public records that could shed light on how Epstein was vetted, approved, and allowed to retain those benefits.
The legal action highlighted broader questions about government transparency and accountability in the Virgin Islands, where officials have faced criticism for enabling Epstein’s financial operations while failing to intervene in his criminal behavior. The EDA contended that some records were protected by confidentiality provisions, but the Times countered that public interest outweighed those claims, particularly given Epstein’s role in one of the most significant sex-trafficking scandals in modern history. The lawsuit became part of a wider effort by journalists and investigators to uncover how Epstein leveraged government programs and institutional secrecy to protect his wealth—and how local authorities handled warnings that, in hindsight, should have triggered far greater scrutiny.
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The legal action highlighted broader questions about government transparency and accountability in the Virgin Islands, where officials have faced criticism for enabling Epstein’s financial operations while failing to intervene in his criminal behavior. The EDA contended that some records were protected by confidentiality provisions, but the Times countered that public interest outweighed those claims, particularly given Epstein’s role in one of the most significant sex-trafficking scandals in modern history. The lawsuit became part of a wider effort by journalists and investigators to uncover how Epstein leveraged government programs and institutional secrecy to protect his wealth—and how local authorities handled warnings that, in hindsight, should have triggered far greater scrutiny.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we're going to jump down to the US Virgin
Islands and check in on a New York Times lawsuit
that they filed to get some information about Epstein's activities
down there. Now, I know I give the New York
Times a hard time a lot of the time, but
when they do their investigative work and they get away
(00:23):
from the division and the nonsense, they do good stuff, right,
they can have an impact. You See, here's the thing.
They have a lot of resources. The Gray Lady, the
Washington Post, these outlets have the resources to really dig
in on these investigations. So when they utilize those resources
and actually investigate things that affect us and matter to
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us and not simply divide us, well they should be
given a tip of the cap. And when it comes
to stuff like this, digging in deeper into Jeffrey Epstein's
financials and how the whole entire thing set up in
the Virgin Islands, you can damn well guarantee that they'll
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get a tip of the cap from me for that.
So they have filed a Freedom of Information Act and
they're suing the President of the Economic Development Authority. They
want financial records, business documents, all kinds of things relating
to Jeffrey Epstein. And to tell you the truth, I've
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been wondering what's going on, Why this hasn't happened previously.
Why isn't the SDN, why going crazy down here trying
to find out the genesis of the money, how it
all started, where it was going, who was getting money
sent to them, who was part of this conspiracy? You
know why? Because they have no desire to dig deeper.
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What they're gonna do, like I've thought they were gonna
do from the very jump, is stop it all at
Glen Maxwell. There's not gonna be other arrests as far
as these high flyers or anything like that. They're not
going to dig deeper into the financials because they know
that those financials will inevitably lead back to some of
their buddies in government. We all know Epstein was flinging
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money around to everybody that he thought he could influence.
So they don't want to chase the money. They don't
want to dig into the financials and have forensic accountants
going wild because they know that that is the inroad,
that is the real way to get all of these people.
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Let's remember al Capone wasn't caught up on murder charges
and all the other things. It was tax evasion. And
every single one of these people rolling around with Jeffrey Epstein,
if you open up their closet, I guarant fucking te
you they're engaging in tax evasion of some sort as
well money laundering, whatever it may be. That is the
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bread and butter for these disgusting, greedy oligarchs. It's not
good enough for them that they have a bazillion loopholes
in the tax code. No, they have to steal on
top of that, as well as not paying any taxes.
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The banking cartel, their friends, and the whole entire infrastructure
that supports this money laundering system has to be shattered.
The money that's being siphoned, especially from the developing world,
is astronomical in the amount. And you don't think that
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money could go to helping the people of we'll just
use the Virgin Islands here for this instance that we're
talking about here. You don't think the money that Epstein
should have been paying in taxes, or they should have
been paying for the site fees or whatever it was,
couldn't help the people of the Virgin Islands. What everybody
in the Virgin Islands is rich. They don't need to eat.
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Of course they do, and of course they're not. But
you think these people care, These bureaucrats and especially people
like Epstein, they don't give a fuck. All right, So
let's jump into this article from the Saint Thomas source
and let's see what author Cyan Cobb has to say. Headline,
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New York Times sues EDA CEO Biggs for Epstein documents.
The New York Times has sued Economic Development Authority CEO
Waynebiggs Junior and the Virgin Islands government for access to
financial and business documents of the late disgraced financier pedophile
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Jeffrey Epstein under the Territories Open Records Act. So it's
like a freedom of information Act, right like we were
used to. And unfortunately, our government doesn't believe in transparency.
So you have to go through all of these steps
to file a freedom of Information Act and then if
you're lucky enough to have it recognized, then you'll get
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some of the information. But they make it difficult. You
gotta jump through some hoops. You gotta here's an idea,
just be transparent. You know, they want to have all
these fucking commissions all the time, and oh, we're gonna
we're gonna study what happened on January sixth. There's still
nothing about Epstein. Have we had a committee on what
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Jeffrey Epstein was up to? Have we had a committee
on any of the other poorest fucking nonsense that's going
on in the country. No, only on what they think
they can divide us with, what's gonna help them expediently
get elected. It's a joke. It's an absolute joke. How
about we have a commission that deals with everything Epstein,
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every single person that was in that black book, bring
them in, sit them down, let's have a talk all
of it. But the government has no they have no
Our politicians have no interest in it. Right, so we're
left with things like freedom of information acts and relying
on you know, the New York Times or outlets with
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resources to do the right thing, and then you just
hope that they do. Where it shouldn't be like that.
Here's an idea, a little bit of transparency. Please, we
really need a two and a half year investigation into
what went on in that jail cell. You guys don't
have that investigation wrapped up yet. I mean, it's amazing,
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and it's not that they can't have it wrapped up.
What they do, as we all know, is they keep
the investigation going so they can use that as a
reason for not being transparent. Epstein received Economic Development Commission
benefits through the Southern Trust Company, Incorporated, which had an
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office in Red Hook. Now we know that Southern Trust
was bunk, We know that it wasn't a real setup,
and we know that it was obviously a place where
he was washing money, moving dark money. And still nothing,
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We haven't heard shit or shinola about it for the
most part. The Economic Development Commission is an entity within
the Economic Development Authority that gives out ninety percent to
one hundred percent tax breaks on most taxes as an
incentive to set up offices in the US Virgin Islands.
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The multimillionaire pedophile, who listed as primary residence as Little
Saint James Island off of Saint Thomas, was arrested on
federal sex trafficking charges in July twenty nineteen and died
of an apparent suicide at a New York City jail
in August twenty and nineteen. He left an estate valued
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at more than half a billion dollars. And this is
what I've talked about from the beginning with the Virgin
Islands in Denise George. Now, remember Denise George wanted it
so that the Virgin Islands gets paid out and they
get some restitution here. Well, I was never down with that,
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considering it was Virgin Islands officials who set Jeffrey Epstein
up with these sweetheart deals in the first place. So
I don't see how Denise George or anybody else should
think that the Virgin Islands should get some money out
of this. It's ridiculous. If anything, if I was one
of these survivors, I might sue the Virgin Islands. It
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was their officials who set this all in motion. It
was their officials who gave Epstein this base of operations.
It was their officials who went into business with Jeffrey Epstein.
So why would Denise George think that they deserve some
dough It never made any sense to me. Right, And
now the New York Times, well they're suing for this information.
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Who was involved, who gave these tax breaks, who helped
Jeffrey Epstein manipulate this system. Among the documents the newspaper
is seeking are the income tax returns for Southern Trust Company, Well,
you know those are going to be fudged and manipulated.
There's no way that it's on the up and up,
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no matter what those transcripts say, at least in my opinion,
Southern Trust companies audited financial statements again, you know, fudged numbers.
Who knows what's going on when you have someone like
Kahn working as your accountant, You know, who the hell knows.
The sky's the limit when it comes to fuck baggery
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locations for tax incentives and related documents. Those are important
because it should leave a paper trail on who was
involved with Epstein when he was putting these deals in place.
All records applied to the Virgin Island Attorney General relating
to the company in Epstein. So I don't know how
successful that's going to be as far as what Denise
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George has sealed or what's sealed by the court right now,
but I don't blame them for trying to get that information.
All correspondents exchanged between employees, board members, contractors, and executives
of the EDA and Southern Trust Company from January first,
twenty twelve to the present. That's a pretty broad ask there,
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and I think it's a good idea. It covers a
decent clip of time, and it should be able to
give us or The New York Times at least a
little bit more of a look into the financials. I've
said from the jump, folks, the financials are one of
the most important pieces of this whole puzzle, and not
enough time is spent on them. If you really want
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to put people in prison that were related to Epstein,
and if the prosecution was really serious about that, this
is the pathway, or, as the dude in the Mandalorian says,
this is the way all correspondents exchanged between employees, board members,
contractors and executives of the EDA and Epstein from January first,
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twenty twelve to the present and compliance reports prepared by
EDC staff on Southern Trust Company. Boy, it's a pretty
uh broad ask here, and it would shed some light
on things. There's no doubt if we could have access
to those documents that The Times is trying to get,
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it definitely will shine some light on how Epstein was
able to set this trust up, who was helping him him,
who gave him the tax breaks, who his contact was,
and what it will really do, in my opinion, will
it will throw a whole, entire, gigantic poolsworth of cold
water on Denise George's lame idea of trying to get
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some money for the Virgin Islands here. The New York
Times said in its suit that Biggs failed to respond
to the newspaper's public records request, and allegation the CEO
has denied. While acknowledging that it must comply with all
laws of the US Virgin Islands, including the Open Records Act,
VAIDA is under an obligation to protect all the confidential
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documents of all its beneficiaries, Biggs, represented by attorney Henry C. Smock,
said in an answer to the suit, again, their answer
is always more secrecy. That is always the government's answer
when we're seeking transparency or we're seeking answers. Oh, you
want transparency, now, we'll give you more sects. And then
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they'll say, Oh, it's to protect so and so, it's
so and shows privacy that if we're protecting Meanwhile, they
don't give a fuck about privacy. They're collecting the meta
metadata of every single call, every email, every text message,
everything you do. They're collecting. Then they want to talk
about the government's privacy breaking news. The government doesn't have
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any privacy unless it's a national security issue. Go get
fucked with that whole entire line of thinking. I'm tired
of it, all of these governments, regional and national, with
their stupidity and their nonsense. Oh, this is national security.
We can't give you any information. Oh what do you
mean someone just stole some potatoes. How's that a national
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security threat? Oh well, we can't tell you. This is
a very serious operation basically what it's like. Right. I
don't know about you, guys, but I'm fucking sick of it,
and I'm tired of a complicit legacy media. So it's
nice to see the New York Times stepping out of
the box here and doing something for the people for once.
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In its response, the Virgin Islands Government said it is
not a proper party to the action, that the VI
Code identifies the EDA as a public corporation having a
legal personality separate and apart from the Government of the
Virgin Islands, and that the documents sought are solely in
the possession and control of the EDA, So of course
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the finger pointing begins right The Virgin Island Government says, hey, look,
we have no we don't have any responsibility for this
contractor that works for us. It's a joke, right, everybody
that we have in power. And I don't care who
your favorite politician is. You shouldn't have any, by the way,
but I don't care who your favorite politician is. They're
all clowns, every last one of them. You have this asshole,
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Ted Cruz talking to people who lost their job, I
mean lost the unemployment. Oh go get a job. Oh yeah,
it's so simple, Ted Cruise, how about you start fucking
doing your job. Maybe not run away to you know,
a vacation when your state's in the middle of a
national disaster or a emergency. You know, these people they're
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so tone deaf, they have no idea what the rest
of us are going through on a daily basis. And
it's all of them. I'm disgusted by the whole entire
political class, which there shouldn't be, by the way, was
never meant to be a career, okay, but these people
that message from Ted Cruz, that tweet from Ted Cruz
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or wherever the fuck he sent that message, that just
shows you how they really feel about you. And let's
remember most of these people out of work. They didn't
quit their jobs. Their jobs were taken from them when
the government shut down whatever fucking industry they were in.
And now they're the assholes. So yeah, Ted Cruz and
the rest of these scumbags, they can all go get fucked.
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As far as I'm concerned, I have no patience for
them and no desire to carry water for any of them.
In fact, what we're gonna do on the podcast is
we're going to continue to put a microscope on their bullshit.
That's what we're gonna do here. Well, let everybody else
engage in their bs tribalism and you know, the pitchforks
and the torches battling with each other. I ain't got
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time for it, zero time for it. Today. The release
of information regarding Southern Trust Company, Incorporated serves as a
legitimate public purpose as the company is a defendant in
the case of the Government of the US Virgin Islands
versus Darren k Endyke at All and is accused of
fraudently obtaining eighty million dollars from the GVI. Southern Trust
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Incorporated is also accused of funding Jeffrey E. Epstein's criminal activities.
The New York Times setting its suit, pretty clear that
the EDA should be ponying up this information, Pretty clear
that they were involved with Epstein. It's all pretty clear.
But again they'll say that it's you're not entitled to
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these documents, parthacracy, parpathas, or whatever nonsense they drum up.
Indyke is the executor of Epstein's estate, with Richard Kahn,
the chief administrator of the late financier Pedophiles various trusts
and companies. The Virgin Islands Justice Department filed suit against
them in Virgin Island Superior Court in January twenty twenty,
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seeking compensation for the territory and victims believed to have
been subjected to abuse at Epstein's compound on Little Saint
James in Pillsbury's Sound. There's been an avalanche of motions
and subpoenas in the twenty months since, but no resolution
to the case. And see that's what I was talking
about a second ago, with the Virgin Islands looking to
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catch a few bucks out of this deal. You know,
I really don't have too much criticism of Denise George.
She's been doing some pretty good work down here and
I think that it's shrewd work trying to get subpoenas here.
I think it's a good idea, but it sours me
when I see the cash grab. It's bad enough that
the government took the lion's share of the money from
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that fund and from the estate when it comes to taxes.
Now you got another government entity with their handout. That
doesn't seem obscene to anybody else as if so the
US Virgin Islands is going to take money out of
the mouths and out of the pockets of these survivors,
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it just it's unseemly. It doesn't sit well with me.
And if the United States the Virgin Islands wants to
get involved in the cash grab, don't worry. There's three
and a half trillion coming down the pipe soon. I'm
sure you're gonna get your peace. Additionally, the notorious activities
of Jeffrey Epstein in the US, Virgin Islands and elsewhere
has been a matter of national and international news for
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a period of years, culminating with his arrest on July sixth,
twenty nineteen on sex trafficking charges. The New York Times said,
so it is a matter of public interest at this
point right. This is a huge, gigantic international case, and
the New York Times their reasoning is this information will
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move the conversation forward in the public sphere. At the
time of his arrests, Epstein was already a convicted sex
offender after pleading guilty in June two thousand and eight
in Florida to sexually abusing a female miner in what
later became a highly controversial plea agreement that was kept
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secret from dozens of other plaintiffs, several of them as
young as fourteen at the time of the alleged assaults.
Justice officials allege in their suit that Epstein maintained a
deliberately complex web of Virgin Island corporations, limited liability companies, foundations,
and other entities, not all of which are yet known
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to the government of the Virgin Islan, through which he
carried out and concealed his criminal conduct. Right there in
black and white ink for you folks, all of the
things that we talked about previously, before these subpoenas even
came out, before the the Denise George made these assertions,
these are all of the things that we were talking about.
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These money stashes, washing stations, offshore entities, and then to
get that confort of the confirmation from Denise George and
the suit. It just goes to show you you're sniffing
down the right path, folks. No matter what all these
knuckleheads talk about, Oh it's a conspiracy theory, No it's not.
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Maybe some of the other nonsense surrounding it is. But
the core of this case, the actual meat and potatoes
of this case, not a conspiracy theory, more like a
fucking criminal conspiracy. Entities named in the government's lawsuit include
the nineteen fifty three trust created by Epstein two days
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before his death containing his financial assets, Nautilus Incorporated, owner
of a Little Saint James, Great Saint Jim LLC, owner
of three parcels of land on the Great Saint James,
Poplar Incorporated, a limited liability company holding the title for
Great Saint James. Plan d LLC, owner of aircraft that
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Justice officials say were used to transport sex trafficking victims.
And Hyperion Eir LLC, registered owner of helicopters allegedly used
to transport sex trafficking survivors. So look, and that's just
what we know about. How long have I been telling
you guys that there are nameless, nameless LLC's that Epstein
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was involved with. What do you think this is it?
This is the full monty of everything he had going on.
No way, this dude was washing a ton of money overseas.
He had a whole entire plan in place. And all
of the people around him that were part of this
criminal conspiracy, well, they were the straw that stirred the drink.
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Expert depositions in the New York Times suit were due
by August thirtieth, with a deadline of September thirtieth for
mediation and so called Dober emotions special motions that are
used before or during trial to exclude the presentation of
unqualified evidence to the jury. A status conference and trial
date have yet to be scheduled by the court. Well, folks,
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finally a little movement down there in the Virgin Islands.
We really haven't had too much to talk about down
there recently, but with the New York Times here with
this suit, maybe we'll get a little bit more information
to come out of there, especially with this September thirtieth deadline.
So we'll see where it goes, and we'll see what
comes out of it, but one thing is definitely for sure.
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Free Epstein had his fingers in many pies when it
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Today we're going to jump down to the US Virgin
Islands and check in on a New York Times lawsuit
that they filed to get some information about Epstein's activities
down there. Now, I know I give the New York
Times a hard time a lot of the time, but
when they do their investigative work and they get away
(00:23):
from the division and the nonsense, they do good stuff, right,
they can have an impact. You See, here's the thing.
They have a lot of resources. The Gray Lady, the
Washington Post, these outlets have the resources to really dig
in on these investigations. So when they utilize those resources
and actually investigate things that affect us and matter to
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us and not simply divide us, well they should be
given a tip of the cap. And when it comes
to stuff like this, digging in deeper into Jeffrey Epstein's
financials and how the whole entire thing set up in
the Virgin Islands, you can damn well guarantee that they'll
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get a tip of the cap from me for that.
So they have filed a Freedom of Information Act and
they're suing the President of the Economic Development Authority. They
want financial records, business documents, all kinds of things relating
to Jeffrey Epstein. And to tell you the truth, I've
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been wondering what's going on, Why this hasn't happened previously.
Why isn't the SDN, why going crazy down here trying
to find out the genesis of the money, how it
all started, where it was going, who was getting money
sent to them, who was part of this conspiracy? You
know why? Because they have no desire to dig deeper.
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What they're gonna do, like I've thought they were gonna
do from the very jump, is stop it all at
Glen Maxwell. There's not gonna be other arrests as far
as these high flyers or anything like that. They're not
going to dig deeper into the financials because they know
that those financials will inevitably lead back to some of
their buddies in government. We all know Epstein was flinging
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money around to everybody that he thought he could influence.
So they don't want to chase the money. They don't
want to dig into the financials and have forensic accountants
going wild because they know that that is the inroad,
that is the real way to get all of these people.
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Let's remember al Capone wasn't caught up on murder charges
and all the other things. It was tax evasion. And
every single one of these people rolling around with Jeffrey Epstein,
if you open up their closet, I guarant fucking te
you they're engaging in tax evasion of some sort as
well money laundering, whatever it may be. That is the
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bread and butter for these disgusting, greedy oligarchs. It's not
good enough for them that they have a bazillion loopholes
in the tax code. No, they have to steal on
top of that, as well as not paying any taxes.
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The banking cartel, their friends, and the whole entire infrastructure
that supports this money laundering system has to be shattered.
The money that's being siphoned, especially from the developing world,
is astronomical in the amount. And you don't think that
(03:49):
money could go to helping the people of we'll just
use the Virgin Islands here for this instance that we're
talking about here. You don't think the money that Epstein
should have been paying in taxes, or they should have
been paying for the site fees or whatever it was,
couldn't help the people of the Virgin Islands. What everybody
in the Virgin Islands is rich. They don't need to eat.
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Of course they do, and of course they're not. But
you think these people care, These bureaucrats and especially people
like Epstein, they don't give a fuck. All right, So
let's jump into this article from the Saint Thomas source
and let's see what author Cyan Cobb has to say. Headline,
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New York Times sues EDA CEO Biggs for Epstein documents.
The New York Times has sued Economic Development Authority CEO
Waynebiggs Junior and the Virgin Islands government for access to
financial and business documents of the late disgraced financier pedophile
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Jeffrey Epstein under the Territories Open Records Act. So it's
like a freedom of information Act, right like we were
used to. And unfortunately, our government doesn't believe in transparency.
So you have to go through all of these steps
to file a freedom of Information Act and then if
you're lucky enough to have it recognized, then you'll get
(05:18):
some of the information. But they make it difficult. You
gotta jump through some hoops. You gotta here's an idea,
just be transparent. You know, they want to have all
these fucking commissions all the time, and oh, we're gonna
we're gonna study what happened on January sixth. There's still
nothing about Epstein. Have we had a committee on what
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Jeffrey Epstein was up to? Have we had a committee
on any of the other poorest fucking nonsense that's going
on in the country. No, only on what they think
they can divide us with, what's gonna help them expediently
get elected. It's a joke. It's an absolute joke. How
about we have a commission that deals with everything Epstein,
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every single person that was in that black book, bring
them in, sit them down, let's have a talk all
of it. But the government has no they have no
Our politicians have no interest in it. Right, so we're
left with things like freedom of information acts and relying
on you know, the New York Times or outlets with
(06:25):
resources to do the right thing, and then you just
hope that they do. Where it shouldn't be like that.
Here's an idea, a little bit of transparency. Please, we
really need a two and a half year investigation into
what went on in that jail cell. You guys don't
have that investigation wrapped up yet. I mean, it's amazing,
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and it's not that they can't have it wrapped up.
What they do, as we all know, is they keep
the investigation going so they can use that as a
reason for not being transparent. Epstein received Economic Development Commission
benefits through the Southern Trust Company, Incorporated, which had an
(07:10):
office in Red Hook. Now we know that Southern Trust
was bunk, We know that it wasn't a real setup,
and we know that it was obviously a place where
he was washing money, moving dark money. And still nothing,
(07:31):
We haven't heard shit or shinola about it for the
most part. The Economic Development Commission is an entity within
the Economic Development Authority that gives out ninety percent to
one hundred percent tax breaks on most taxes as an
incentive to set up offices in the US Virgin Islands.
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The multimillionaire pedophile, who listed as primary residence as Little
Saint James Island off of Saint Thomas, was arrested on
federal sex trafficking charges in July twenty nineteen and died
of an apparent suicide at a New York City jail
in August twenty and nineteen. He left an estate valued
(08:13):
at more than half a billion dollars. And this is
what I've talked about from the beginning with the Virgin
Islands in Denise George. Now, remember Denise George wanted it
so that the Virgin Islands gets paid out and they
get some restitution here. Well, I was never down with that,
(08:34):
considering it was Virgin Islands officials who set Jeffrey Epstein
up with these sweetheart deals in the first place. So
I don't see how Denise George or anybody else should
think that the Virgin Islands should get some money out
of this. It's ridiculous. If anything, if I was one
of these survivors, I might sue the Virgin Islands. It
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was their officials who set this all in motion. It
was their officials who gave Epstein this base of operations.
It was their officials who went into business with Jeffrey Epstein.
So why would Denise George think that they deserve some
dough It never made any sense to me. Right, And
now the New York Times, well they're suing for this information.
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Who was involved, who gave these tax breaks, who helped
Jeffrey Epstein manipulate this system. Among the documents the newspaper
is seeking are the income tax returns for Southern Trust Company, Well,
you know those are going to be fudged and manipulated.
There's no way that it's on the up and up,
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no matter what those transcripts say, at least in my opinion,
Southern Trust companies audited financial statements again, you know, fudged numbers.
Who knows what's going on when you have someone like
Kahn working as your accountant, You know, who the hell knows.
The sky's the limit when it comes to fuck baggery
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locations for tax incentives and related documents. Those are important
because it should leave a paper trail on who was
involved with Epstein when he was putting these deals in place.
All records applied to the Virgin Island Attorney General relating
to the company in Epstein. So I don't know how
successful that's going to be as far as what Denise
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George has sealed or what's sealed by the court right now,
but I don't blame them for trying to get that information.
All correspondents exchanged between employees, board members, contractors, and executives
of the EDA and Southern Trust Company from January first,
twenty twelve to the present. That's a pretty broad ask there,
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and I think it's a good idea. It covers a
decent clip of time, and it should be able to
give us or The New York Times at least a
little bit more of a look into the financials. I've
said from the jump, folks, the financials are one of
the most important pieces of this whole puzzle, and not
enough time is spent on them. If you really want
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to put people in prison that were related to Epstein,
and if the prosecution was really serious about that, this
is the pathway, or, as the dude in the Mandalorian says,
this is the way all correspondents exchanged between employees, board members,
contractors and executives of the EDA and Epstein from January first,
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twenty twelve to the present and compliance reports prepared by
EDC staff on Southern Trust Company. Boy, it's a pretty
uh broad ask here, and it would shed some light
on things. There's no doubt if we could have access
to those documents that The Times is trying to get,
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it definitely will shine some light on how Epstein was
able to set this trust up, who was helping him him,
who gave him the tax breaks, who his contact was,
and what it will really do, in my opinion, will
it will throw a whole, entire, gigantic poolsworth of cold
water on Denise George's lame idea of trying to get
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some money for the Virgin Islands here. The New York
Times said in its suit that Biggs failed to respond
to the newspaper's public records request, and allegation the CEO
has denied. While acknowledging that it must comply with all
laws of the US Virgin Islands, including the Open Records Act,
VAIDA is under an obligation to protect all the confidential
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documents of all its beneficiaries, Biggs, represented by attorney Henry C. Smock,
said in an answer to the suit, again, their answer
is always more secrecy. That is always the government's answer
when we're seeking transparency or we're seeking answers. Oh, you
want transparency, now, we'll give you more sects. And then
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they'll say, Oh, it's to protect so and so, it's
so and shows privacy that if we're protecting Meanwhile, they
don't give a fuck about privacy. They're collecting the meta
metadata of every single call, every email, every text message,
everything you do. They're collecting. Then they want to talk
about the government's privacy breaking news. The government doesn't have
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any privacy unless it's a national security issue. Go get
fucked with that whole entire line of thinking. I'm tired
of it, all of these governments, regional and national, with
their stupidity and their nonsense. Oh, this is national security.
We can't give you any information. Oh what do you
mean someone just stole some potatoes. How's that a national
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security threat? Oh well, we can't tell you. This is
a very serious operation basically what it's like. Right. I
don't know about you, guys, but I'm fucking sick of it,
and I'm tired of a complicit legacy media. So it's
nice to see the New York Times stepping out of
the box here and doing something for the people for once.
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In its response, the Virgin Islands Government said it is
not a proper party to the action, that the VI
Code identifies the EDA as a public corporation having a
legal personality separate and apart from the Government of the
Virgin Islands, and that the documents sought are solely in
the possession and control of the EDA, So of course
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the finger pointing begins right The Virgin Island Government says, hey, look,
we have no we don't have any responsibility for this
contractor that works for us. It's a joke, right, everybody
that we have in power. And I don't care who
your favorite politician is. You shouldn't have any, by the way,
but I don't care who your favorite politician is. They're
all clowns, every last one of them. You have this asshole,
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Ted Cruz talking to people who lost their job, I
mean lost the unemployment. Oh go get a job. Oh yeah,
it's so simple, Ted Cruise, how about you start fucking
doing your job. Maybe not run away to you know,
a vacation when your state's in the middle of a
national disaster or a emergency. You know, these people they're
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so tone deaf, they have no idea what the rest
of us are going through on a daily basis. And
it's all of them. I'm disgusted by the whole entire
political class, which there shouldn't be, by the way, was
never meant to be a career, okay, but these people
that message from Ted Cruz, that tweet from Ted Cruz
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or wherever the fuck he sent that message, that just
shows you how they really feel about you. And let's
remember most of these people out of work. They didn't
quit their jobs. Their jobs were taken from them when
the government shut down whatever fucking industry they were in.
And now they're the assholes. So yeah, Ted Cruz and
the rest of these scumbags, they can all go get fucked.
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As far as I'm concerned, I have no patience for
them and no desire to carry water for any of them.
In fact, what we're gonna do on the podcast is
we're going to continue to put a microscope on their bullshit.
That's what we're gonna do here. Well, let everybody else
engage in their bs tribalism and you know, the pitchforks
and the torches battling with each other. I ain't got
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time for it, zero time for it. Today. The release
of information regarding Southern Trust Company, Incorporated serves as a
legitimate public purpose as the company is a defendant in
the case of the Government of the US Virgin Islands
versus Darren k Endyke at All and is accused of
fraudently obtaining eighty million dollars from the GVI. Southern Trust
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Incorporated is also accused of funding Jeffrey E. Epstein's criminal activities.
The New York Times setting its suit, pretty clear that
the EDA should be ponying up this information, Pretty clear
that they were involved with Epstein. It's all pretty clear.
But again they'll say that it's you're not entitled to
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these documents, parthacracy, parpathas, or whatever nonsense they drum up.
Indyke is the executor of Epstein's estate, with Richard Kahn,
the chief administrator of the late financier Pedophiles various trusts
and companies. The Virgin Islands Justice Department filed suit against
them in Virgin Island Superior Court in January twenty twenty,
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seeking compensation for the territory and victims believed to have
been subjected to abuse at Epstein's compound on Little Saint
James in Pillsbury's Sound. There's been an avalanche of motions
and subpoenas in the twenty months since, but no resolution
to the case. And see that's what I was talking
about a second ago, with the Virgin Islands looking to
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catch a few bucks out of this deal. You know,
I really don't have too much criticism of Denise George.
She's been doing some pretty good work down here and
I think that it's shrewd work trying to get subpoenas here.
I think it's a good idea, but it sours me
when I see the cash grab. It's bad enough that
the government took the lion's share of the money from
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that fund and from the estate when it comes to taxes.
Now you got another government entity with their handout. That
doesn't seem obscene to anybody else as if so the
US Virgin Islands is going to take money out of
the mouths and out of the pockets of these survivors,
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it just it's unseemly. It doesn't sit well with me.
And if the United States the Virgin Islands wants to
get involved in the cash grab, don't worry. There's three
and a half trillion coming down the pipe soon. I'm
sure you're gonna get your peace. Additionally, the notorious activities
of Jeffrey Epstein in the US, Virgin Islands and elsewhere
has been a matter of national and international news for
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a period of years, culminating with his arrest on July sixth,
twenty nineteen on sex trafficking charges. The New York Times said,
so it is a matter of public interest at this
point right. This is a huge, gigantic international case, and
the New York Times their reasoning is this information will
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move the conversation forward in the public sphere. At the
time of his arrests, Epstein was already a convicted sex
offender after pleading guilty in June two thousand and eight
in Florida to sexually abusing a female miner in what
later became a highly controversial plea agreement that was kept
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secret from dozens of other plaintiffs, several of them as
young as fourteen at the time of the alleged assaults.
Justice officials allege in their suit that Epstein maintained a
deliberately complex web of Virgin Island corporations, limited liability companies, foundations,
and other entities, not all of which are yet known
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to the government of the Virgin Islan, through which he
carried out and concealed his criminal conduct. Right there in
black and white ink for you folks, all of the
things that we talked about previously, before these subpoenas even
came out, before the the Denise George made these assertions,
these are all of the things that we were talking about.
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These money stashes, washing stations, offshore entities, and then to
get that confort of the confirmation from Denise George and
the suit. It just goes to show you you're sniffing
down the right path, folks. No matter what all these
knuckleheads talk about, Oh it's a conspiracy theory, No it's not.
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Maybe some of the other nonsense surrounding it is. But
the core of this case, the actual meat and potatoes
of this case, not a conspiracy theory, more like a
fucking criminal conspiracy. Entities named in the government's lawsuit include
the nineteen fifty three trust created by Epstein two days
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before his death containing his financial assets, Nautilus Incorporated, owner
of a Little Saint James, Great Saint Jim LLC, owner
of three parcels of land on the Great Saint James,
Poplar Incorporated, a limited liability company holding the title for
Great Saint James. Plan d LLC, owner of aircraft that
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Justice officials say were used to transport sex trafficking victims.
And Hyperion Eir LLC, registered owner of helicopters allegedly used
to transport sex trafficking survivors. So look, and that's just
what we know about. How long have I been telling
you guys that there are nameless, nameless LLC's that Epstein
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was involved with. What do you think this is it?
This is the full monty of everything he had going on.
No way, this dude was washing a ton of money overseas.
He had a whole entire plan in place. And all
of the people around him that were part of this
criminal conspiracy, well, they were the straw that stirred the drink.
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Expert depositions in the New York Times suit were due
by August thirtieth, with a deadline of September thirtieth for
mediation and so called Dober emotions special motions that are
used before or during trial to exclude the presentation of
unqualified evidence to the jury. A status conference and trial
date have yet to be scheduled by the court. Well, folks,
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finally a little movement down there in the Virgin Islands.
We really haven't had too much to talk about down
there recently, but with the New York Times here with
this suit, maybe we'll get a little bit more information
to come out of there, especially with this September thirtieth deadline.
So we'll see where it goes, and we'll see what
comes out of it, but one thing is definitely for sure.
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Free Epstein had his fingers in many pies when it
comes to offshore money laundering. If you'd like to contact me,
you can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com.
That's b O B B Y c A p U
c c I at ProtonMail dot com. You can also
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find me on Twitter at b O B B y
underscore c A p U C c I. All of
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