NY - Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein arrested, sex trafficking, 6 July 2019 *FOUND DECEASED IN JAIL* #4

[Betty P]

GOP shuts down House Democrats' effort to subpoena banks handling Jeffrey Epstein money

Rep. Jamie Raskin wanted to subpoena four banks he says flagged $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions linked to the disgraced financier.

www.usatoday.com

That’s so suspicious.

 

[Betty P]

julie k. brown
@jkbjournalist
Breaking: A rock star. A magician. A prince and a bunch of billionaires -- GOP lawmaker says the FBI has at least 20 names of suspected Jeffrey Epstein clients.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968495914521428386

So give the public the full list. What’s the problem?

 

[sds71]

House Dems say Alex Acosta stood by his legal deal with Epstein and appeared to blame the victims. Rep. Frost said Acosta “essentially said he didn't have faith in the victims, their stories and their ability to tell their own story.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1969078887079408114

 

[Cedars]

There is a YT that goes in depth thru the birthday book ('so you don't have to'), he's a high-finance expert, Patrick Boyle.

 

[Inthedetails]

julie k. brown
@jkbjournalist
Breaking: A rock star. A magician. A prince and a bunch of billionaires -- GOP lawmaker says the FBI has at least 20 names of suspected Jeffrey Epstein clients.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968495914521428386

Rock star? Mick Jagger?

jmo

 

[sds71]

A bombshell email obtained by The Mail on Sunday has revealed how the Duchess of York cynically lied when she pledged to cut ties with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Just weeks after publicly disowning the vile billionaire, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous and supreme friend' – and admitting she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation.

The Duchess 'humbly apologised' to the convicted sex offender for letting him down, and said she had been told to speak out if she wanted to save her career as a children's author.

Fergie's Epstein lies exposed in bombshell email

Just weeks after publicly disowning paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous and supreme friend'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Cedars]

Rock star? Mick Jagger?

jmo

Obviously, there's lots of fun and games going on with the innuendo about what it meant to be a 'client' of this private wealth manager.

Perhaps it meant he was helping to manage their private wealth?

The likelihood that's all it was is shown by the mention of 'a rock star'.

Even a B-level 'rock star' has more enthusiastic young female fans than Epstein ever dreamed of. (Not that they take advantage of it. Only paedophiles are interested in very young girls).

JMO

 

[Inthedetails]

Obviously, there's lots of fun and games going on with the innuendo about what it meant to be a 'client' of this private wealth manager.

Perhaps it meant he was helping to manage their private wealth?

The likelihood that's all it was is shown by the mention of 'a rock star'.

Even a B-level 'rock star' has more enthusiastic young female fans than Epstein ever dreamed of. (Not that they take advantage of it. Only paedophiles are interested in very young girls).

JMO

Among the famous names in Epstein’s contact list released by the Department of Justice Thursday: Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger...

Of course, just because someone is on a contact list does NOT make them guilty of crimes. I know that. I've been a fan of the Stones for essentially my whole life and would be disappointed, but not surprised, if Jagger was in the Maxwell-Epstein circle in a creepy way. I doubt Jagger was a client of any financial management services offered by Epstein, but that's my opinion. As far as I can tell, the only financial management client Epstein had was the Victoria Secret guy. imo

New Jeffrey Epstein contact list includes Alec Baldwin, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger and RFK Jr.’s mom

Thursday’s unveiling was comprised of over 100 pages including a contact list that belonged to the convicted pedophile financier.

nypost.com

 

[Cedars]

[As far as I can tell, the only financial management client Epstein had was the Victoria Secret guy. imo

Wexner apparently cut his ties with Epstein in 2007, when he discovered Epstein had 'misappropriated' $46 million. A later client of Epstein's was Leon Black, billionaire head of a private equity fund, who is estimated to have paid him $170 million in fees in the 2010s. And there are others that have emerged through various investigations of his companies, all based in the US Virgin Islands - where he could diddle his books to escape taxes.

How Jeffrey Epstein Got So Rich

The convicted sex offender was worth nearly $600 million at his death, thanks mostly to two wealthy billionaire clients—plus generous tax breaks.

www.forbes.com

The story of how the international band of the super rich hide their wealth from taxes and government regulations was first brought to public attention with the leaked Panama Papers in 2016. It involves shell companies, offshore accounts, fake trusts and fancy maneouvers like derivatives, that caused the financial collapse in 2008. IMO, that's the kind of service Epstein was providing that people paid him millions for, not massages.


JMO

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1970221251986596009

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1970435215089615302

 

[vls12345]

Statue of Trump, Epstein titled ‘Best Friends Forever’ appears on National Mall

A statue of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein titled "Best Friends Forever" has appeared on the National Mall.

www.live5news.com

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5520512-massie-grijalva-epstein-petition/

Adelita Grijalva’s victory on Tuesday in a special House election in southern Arizona sends another Democrat to Capitol Hill — and secures the deciding 218th signature on a discharge petition designed to compel the Justice Department to disclose the still-concealed documents related to the late child sex offender.

Grijalva’s endorsement will force a House floor vote on the proposal over the objections of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other GOP leaders, who are siding with President Trump in opposition to the bill.
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Once Grijalva signs the petition, supporters must wait an additional seven legislative days before one of them can go to the floor to announce an intent to offer the discharge motion on the Epstein bill. The Speaker is then required to stage a vote on the proposal within two legislative days — a timeline that, if the current calendar holds, sets the stage for an Epstein vote during the week of Oct. 20, when the House is scheduled to be in session for four days.
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Johnson and GOP leaders oppose the legislation, arguing it has little chance of success since it would still have to move through the Senate, and win Trump’s signature, to become law.

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

In July, Elon Musk said this,

Elon Musk: Steve Bannon is in the Epstein files - The Telegraph

Turns out, he was right. They both are in the files.

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents - Politico

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house/

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders refused requests from Democrats to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday, saying she will be sworn in when the House returns to regular session.

The move deprives a petition of the last signature it needs to force a vote on a bill to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a push that Republican leaders and President Trump oppose.

 

[Inthedetails]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house/

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders refused requests from Democrats to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday, saying she will be sworn in when the House returns to regular session.

The move deprives a petition of the last signature it needs to force a vote on a bill to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a push that Republican leaders and President Trump oppose.

Welp, the government shut down overnight, and that is likely to be the big story, fwiw.

 

[sds71]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in a notable break with the Department of Justice, claimed late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was “the greatest blackmailer ever” — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal.

The 64-year-old cabinet secretary said that Epstein himself showed off his notorious “massage room” while giving Lutnick and his wife a tour of the infamous East 71st Street townhouse after the couple moved in next door to the since-disgraced financier in 2005.

“I say to him, ‘Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?'” Lutnick recalled. “And he says, ‘Every day.’ And then he gets, like weirdly close to me, and he says, ‘And the right kind of massage.'”

When asked by Devine whether Epstein’s rich and powerful associates — including the likes of Prince Andrew and Microsoft founder Bill Gates — “could hang around him and not see what you saw, or did they see it and ignore it,” Lutnick responded, “they participated.”

“They get a massage, that’s what his MO was. ‘Get a massage, get a massage,’ and what happened in that massage room, I assume, was on video,” the commerce secretary went on. “This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever, blackmailed people. That’s how he had money.”

Exclusive | Howard Lutnick tells ‘Pod Force One’ ex-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein showed off massage room, made creepy comment during townhouse tour

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. … That’s how he had money,” Lutnick said on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday.

nypost.com