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Epstein List Delayed


               
2024 Jan 2, 7:20pm   54,957 views  1,661 comments

by DemoralizerOfPanicans   follow (9)  

Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The Jeffrey Epstein Client List is now delayed until at least Jan. 22 after the court grants Jane Doe 107’s request for a 30-day extension claiming a "risk of physical harm in her country."

Yikes. It may never come out. Expect more of this.https://x.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1742380130486321587?s=20

Can't be Gislaine, she's in prison. Who? I'd say Kamala, but she's in DC.

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1461   AD   2025 Sep 17, 7:57pm  

RWSGFY says

Kash Patel: "Do you know how court orders work?"
Dan Goldman: "I was a prosecutor. A real prosecutor for ten years. I want to understand what the court order prevents you from releasing witness statements that the FBI took... you are hiding the Epstein files. You are part of the cover-up."


And Kash Patel was a real public defender in South Florida so its not as though he does not understand this. It helps he was a public defender to understand the process on both sides.

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1462   RWSGFY   2025 Sep 18, 4:01pm  

Patel has basically exonerated everybody who was ever suspected or accused of fucking minors provided to them by Epstein. So don't you dare joking about Bill Gates visiting the pedo island on TV unless you want the FCC wreck your ass. 🤡

He also admitted that the sole reason for him being where he is now was complete and utter BS. 🤭
1463   RWSGFY   2025 Sep 18, 4:03pm  

AD says

RWSGFY says


Kash Patel: "Do you know how court orders work?"
Dan Goldman: "I was a prosecutor. A real prosecutor for ten years. I want to understand what the court order prevents you from releasing witness statements that the FBI took... you are hiding the Epstein files. You are part of the cover-up."


And Kash Patel was a real public defender in South Florida so its not as though he does not understand this. It helps he was a public defender to understand the process on both sides.

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Public defender is lowest of the low bottom feeders. It's totally possible he does not understand many things because his limited experience never exposed him to them.
1464   RWSGFY   2025 Sep 18, 4:05pm  

Now do Pizzagate. 🤭
1465   AD   2025 Sep 18, 4:25pm  

RWSGFY says


Public defender is lowest of the low bottom feeders. It's totally possible he does not understand many things because his limited experience never exposed him to them.


Wrong, Kash Patel has been a trial lawyer and gone through the entire process from discovery to closing arguments by the defense team. Plus he was an assistant US attorney under Trump involved in criminal investigations.

Dan Bongino has investigated crimes at NYPD then at Secret Service, as he investigated fraud cases while assigned to Secret Service in New York.

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1468   Patrick   2025 Sep 26, 11:48am  

https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/howard-rubin-arrested-for-allegedly-sex-trafficking-women-to-sex-dungeon-penthouse-feds/


Howard Rubin, ex-NYC financier with ties to George Soros, arrested for allegedly sex-trafficking women to ‘sex dungeon’ penthouse: feds

A retired Big Apple financier with past ties to George Soros allegedly “tortured” former Playboy models and other women in a Midtown penthouse-turned-soundproofed BDSM “sex dungeon” for years, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Howard Rubin, 70, was arrested by federal authorities at his home in Fairfield, Ct., Friday morning on charges he sex-trafficked at least 10 women between 2009 and 2019, luring them to swanky New York City hotels and the leased luxury pad near Central Park — where he restrained, beat and electrically shocked them, the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office charged.

The famed former money manager — known as “Howie” or “H” and worth at least tens of millions of dollars — even appeared to revel in the stomach-turning encounters in text messages with his personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, who is also facing sex-trafficking charges tied to the scheme.




1469   Patrick   2025 Sep 26, 11:50am  

https://slaynews.com/news/dnc-refuses-return-decades-donations-jeffrey-epstein/


The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is under renewed fire after revelations that it never returned donations from Jeffrey Epstein.

Evidence has emerged showing that the DNC failed to return the money even as the late financier’s sex-trafficking case files continue to rock Washington. ...

Scrutiny over donations tied to controversial figures is standard practice in politics.

The Republican National Committee (RNC), for example, faced calls to return $1.4 million linked to its former finance chair Steve Wynn after he stepped down in 2018 amid multiple sexual misconduct allegations.

The DNC also accepted more than $90,000 from billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, a longtime associate of Epstein who faced accusations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
1470   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2025 Sep 27, 8:49am  

Trump admin pretty much squashed all Epstein stuff. They are protecting people who have been and are above the law. TACO
1471   Patrick   2025 Sep 27, 9:16am  

https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/read-sickening-messages-between-ex-nyc-financier-howard-rubin-and-his-personal-assistant-as-pair-celebrate-hurting-women/


Read sickening messages between ex-NYC financier Howard Rubin and his personal assistant as pair celebrate hurting women

Disturbing text messages between accused BDSM-crazed tycoon Howard Rubin and his longtime personal assistant were laid bare Friday as federal prosecutors charged the pair with a decade-long sex-trafficking scheme.

Rubin, 70, brazenly memorialized his twisted sexual deviances in missives exchanged with 45-year-old staffer Jennifer Powers and others — including some of his alleged victims — giddily bragging about his love of hurting women, court papers charged.

Here are some of the sickening messages revealed by Brooklyn federal prosecutors as Rubin and Powers were hit with a 10-count indictment:

In one horrifying exchange in 2015, when the retired financier Rubin allegedly told Powers that he had his way with a woman tied up to a cross.

The dedicated sidekick — who had worked for Rubin since 2011 — sent a sickening reply, the feds charged.

“I can only imagine what you did to her on that cross!!! Did you shock her p—y??” Powers allegedly wrote.

Rubin allegedly replied that he had, but bemoaned the fact that his electrocution device was losing strength, according to court papers.
1472   stereotomy   2025 Sep 27, 9:45am  

It just goes to show that women will endure anything if there's a payoff.

I sometimes wonder what women were like 250,000 years ago, before they were bred for compliance/dual mating strategy.

Larry Niven, in his Tales of Known Space universe had the Kzinti, who bred out intelligence in their females over a half million years ago, so that they couldn't even speak.

Is 4th wave feminism the last gasp of resistance by women before they end up like Kzinti females?
1474   Patrick   2025 Sep 30, 9:05am  

https://tuckersmcarlson.substack.com/p/tucker-and-glenn-greenwald-discuss


Tucker and Glenn Greenwald discuss the DOJ’s decisions regarding the Epstein files
1479   WookieMan   2025 Sep 30, 11:58am  

Everyone has been paid off. Maxwell and Epstein were caught trafficking. That's the furthest this goes. These people are rich. Once it broke these people went to their victims because they're rich. Here's life changing money, never talk about this. Hell Epstein probably had a stack of NDA's ready to go. This has been going on since the early 2000's.

If there are NDA's there's not much the FBI can do. They have the evidence, but what's the point in exposing it if nothing comes from it?

And not to be callous, this goes on all over the world and much worse than staying on a private Caribbean island or penthouse. Age of consent is lower in many places. This just happened in America and a Territory and was found out. Don't condone it at all, but most would probably be shocked what goes on in other countries.
1480   Patrick   2025 Sep 30, 12:31pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/new-emails-jeffrey-epstein-lured-underage-girls/


Newly discovered emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account are exposing disturbing details about how he and his associates lured underage victims.

The cache, spanning more than two decades but concentrated between 2005 and 2008, paints a grim picture of Epstein’s inner circle.

Female associates routinely sent him photos and profiles of young women, including information about their age, jobs, ethnicity, and physical appearance.




One message reviewed by Bloomberg allegedly showed Epstein dismissing a potential victim as “fat and Asian sorry.”
1481   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2025 Oct 1, 2:12am  

WookieMan says


Everyone has been paid off. Maxwell and Epstein were caught trafficking. That's the furthest this goes. These people are rich. Once it broke these people went to their victims because they're rich. Here's life changing money, never talk about this. Hell Epstein probably had a stack of NDA's ready to go. This has been going on since the early 2000's.


The part I find amusing is that Dems and Grifters that never cared about Epstein for years are suddenly obsessed by the issue.

The Independent (UK) is claiming Epstein and Trump were "Good Friends". All ignoring that Trump never went to the Island, or that Clinton and Bill Gates were with Epstein far more often.

It also has all the skank-turned-victim drama, when in reality these mostly over the age of consent girls were pimping each other out for $$$
1482   Patrick   2025 Oct 3, 11:08am  

https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/howard-lutnick-calls-ex-neighbor-jeffrey-epstein-greatest-blackmailer-ever/


Oct. 1, 2025

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.

Lutnick made the shocking allegations to The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now.

The 64-year-old cabinet secretary said 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.'”

Lutnick said he and his wife quickly excused themselves and left Epstein’s home, “and in the six to eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”

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.”

Lutnick added: “I assume way back when they traded those videos in exchange for him getting that 18-month sentence, which allowed him to have visits and be out of jail. I mean, he’s a serial sex offender. How could he get 18 months and be able to go to his office during the day and have visitors and stuff? There must have been a trade.

“So, my assumption, I have no knowledge, but my assumption is there was a trade for the videos, because there were people on those videos,” he also claimed.

The DOJ and FBI released a memo July 6 claiming a systematic review had found that Epstein held no “client list” of rich and powerful associates.


The DOJ and FBI are still part of the conspiracy to protect Epstein clients, and likely the Mossad.

Interesting that Lutnick feels free enough to tell the obvious truth. If he suddenly gets fired, we will know why.
1483   Patrick   2025 Oct 6, 8:16am  

https://nypost.com/2025/10/06/us-news/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-from-ghislaine-maxwell/


The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump’s administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein’s case. ...

The Epstein case had consumed Trump’s administration following an announcement from the FBI and the Justice Department in July that Epstein had killed himself despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, that a “client list” that Attorney General Pam Bondi had intimated was on her desk did not actually exist, and that no additional documents from the high-profile investigation were suitable to be released. ...

The announcement produced outrage from conspiracy reality theorists and Trump supporters who had been hoping to see proof of a government coverup. That expectation was driven in part by comments from officials, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who on podcasts before taking their current positions had repeatedly promoted the idea that damaging details about prominent people were being withheld.

Patel, for instance, said in at least one podcast interview before becoming FBI director that Epstein’s “black book” was under the “direct control of the director of the FBI.”

But the Justice Department said its review of evidence in the government’s possession determined that no “further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.” The department noted that much of the material was placed under seal by a court to protect victims and “only a fraction” of it “would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial.”

Faced with fury from his base, Trump sought to quickly turn the page, shutting down questioning of Bondi about Epstein at a White House Cabinet meeting and deriding as “weaklings” supporters he said were falling for the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”


Trump is still protecting the worst people in the world, and most likely Mossad as well.

This is a very bad look. Everyone should continue to demand true transparency instead of this bullshit.
1485   AD   2025 Oct 6, 11:18pm  

Patrick says

Trump is still protecting the worst people in the world, and most likely Mossad as well.

This is a very bad look. Everyone should continue to demand true transparency instead of this bullshit.


I follow the kike's in Congress which means just following Jew Democrats like Congressman Goldman. And Goldman's posts about the Epstein files are only focused on Trump and acting as interference for Goldman's Israel.
1486   RWSGFY   2025 Oct 7, 8:16am  

AD says

Patrick says


Trump is still protecting the worst people in the world, and most likely Mossad as well.

This is a very bad look. Everyone should continue to demand true transparency instead of this bullshit.


I follow the kike's in Congress which means just following Jew Democrats like Congressman Goldman. And Goldman's posts about the Epstein files are only focused on Trump and acting as interference for Goldman's Israel.


But doesn't it mean they are not afraid of the files being released?
1487   Ceffer   2025 Oct 7, 11:56am  

Their dragons' lust for flesh and suffering must be fed, or their empowering spell bindings lose power. Their control grids collapse. You may not believe in the occult, but they do, and it governs their actions and must be dealt with on that level.

Humans were specifically bred and gated to be blind to enormity and to rely on 'authority' to fashion their opinions. Blockage and denial are the norm, and are tools used routinely by the action figures.


https://rumble.com/v6zy20u-the-grand-finale-child-trafficking-networks-unravel-tsunami-of-truth.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_m%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
1489   WookieMan   2025 Oct 9, 5:36am  

Ceffer says





I'll keep saying it, going to Epstein "Island" is going to St. Thomas. It does not mean the people on the flight went to the actual island. I have buddies with Cessnas and even a jet. If they committed crimes without my involvement, am I now guilty of their crimes because of a flight log? 1.4M people flew in from other places on commercial airlines and other private jets. Did any of them go to the island? I'm one of them... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_E._King_Airport#:~:text=It%20is%20currently%20the%20busiest,July%202015%20through%20June%202016.

You can't land any jet on Little St. James unless he somehow had a STOL jet, he didn't. Everyone landed at STT and boated or if he had a chopper that's how they flew in. I'm guessing mainly boat to lubricate the clients up with booze and drugs. It's about 40-60 minutes getting off the dock, the trip and docking at Little St. James going at a leisurely pace. Plus it's a great trip on the water.

I would immediately discredit ANY person that mentions flying to Little St. James proper unless you specifically mention a chopper and not the jet flight logs because that's St. Thomas, not "Epstein Island."

As usual for a disclaimer I do believe Epstein was doing vile things. Unless you have boat logs (not necessary if within international US waters) or chopper flight logs, which I think for a non-tourist, unpaid trip is also unnecessary (generally just need weights I believe), anyone on any list can just say they didn't go to the island. There would have to be a witness with physical evidence. Plus every prominent person already settled with a victim. The victims also likely got paid by Epstein. They screw someone and go over to Charlotte Amalie and shop or go to St. John and lay on some of the best beaches in the world. There's a high likelihood that most actually liked the lifestyle.

Reality is this was going on for at least 2 decades minimum. If you think something is going to come out now, it's almost an impossibility, at least for the island. Also if the FBI knew and was dumb enough NOT to plant a 25 year old female agent that looked 16 that's a joke. That's literally all they had to do. Given Kash and Bongino being all weird once they got into their positions likely means the FBI was in on it. Having sex with minors is really not Mossad or the CIA's target. They can take anyone down anytime they want.

And to top off the rant. A guy like Bill Clinton had a SS detail. When they flew into STT, they would have communicated with the airport. So it would be probable that a dozen people would know when he flew into St. Thomas for security reasons. It's not a big island. The locals talk. It's one of the most buddy buddy cultures I've visited. Also a very conservative culture that wouldn't put up with what was going on if they knew.
1492   Misc   2025 Oct 16, 1:36am  

As long as the government is Shut Down, we don't have to worry about those pesky Epstein files being forced to be released by the House of Representatives.

This tread was started in January of 2024.

Just shitcan the fuckers who have been holding onto them. Just get rid of the entire FBI..
1493   Patrick   2025 Oct 16, 11:28am  

https://slaynews.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-treated-hotel-guest-cushy-new-prison-report/


Jefrrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly enjoying “unusually favorable treatment” at a Texas federal women’s prison, sparking frustration among fellow inmates and raising questions about how much influence she still wields behind bars.

The 63-year-old convicted sex trafficker was transferred over the summer to Federal Prison Camp Bryan.

The minimum-security facility, sometimes called “Club Fed” due to the un-prison-like treatment that inmates enjoy.

The prison’s white-collar criminals include Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, her arrival was accompanied by changes in security measures and occasional special privileges that other inmates say highlight a double standard.

Prisoners were reportedly warned not to discuss Maxwell’s case with the press.

However, one who did so was swiftly transferred to a higher-security facility.
1494   Ceffer   2025 Oct 16, 1:01pm  

Let's have some blurry, 200 yards away telephoto shots of prison Jizzlaine in a jump suit out in the exercise yard to confirm the avatar is still in the Club Fed prison.
1495   Patrick   2025 Oct 18, 10:18am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/your-momma-saturday-october-18-2025


Suddenly and unexpectedly, after all these years of clinging to them tighter than a cat on bath day, Prince Andrew voluntarily surrendered all further use of his royal titles and honors, including Duke of York, Knight of the Garter (ahem), Earl of Inverness, Baron Killyleagh, and Royal Panty Hound. ...

By voluntarily surrendering his official titles, he was allowed to keep the last one, “Prince,” suggesting it might not have been quite so voluntary as advertised. It sounds more like a take-it-or-leave-it deal. Whichever, until this week, Prince Andrew had successfully fended off Epstein fallout for nearly two decades, even after paying a generous settlement to quiet the late Virginia Giuffre.

What finally took him down were newly disclosed Epstein emails; specifically, the mysterious appearance of Epstein’s Yahoo email account that some unknown patriot zipped over to Bloomberg.

Andrew —along with a small army of other British notables— long insisted that he’d “cut all ties” to the International Man of Mystery after that first trafficking conviction in June 2008 for “procuring a child for prostitution.” But the new Yahoo emails exposed Andrew’s Pinocchio-like nose, along with an unsavory, continuing mutual admiration society between the two men. ...

But Bloomberg’s bombshell emails did not implicate Donald Trump. If anything, they exonerated the President, showing Epstein’s frustration at Trump for spurning overtures and even suggested Epstein knew Trump was testifying against him. But the emails bashed like a wrecking ball aimed straight into the first floor of the British deep state.

To remind Portland readers: Last month, the new Epstein emails took out Lord Peter Mandelson, who got summarily sacked as British Ambassador to the United States, recently appointed to “repair the special relationship” with Trump. Mandelson was British deep-state nobility. The shadowy careerist’s satanic nickname among government insiders and journalists —I swear I am not making this up— was “the Prince of Darkness.”

Mandelson was a lifelong creature of Britain’s permanent political class —its deep state— the sort who never really leaves power, just swaps titles. When he wasn’t a cabinet minister, he was an EU Commissioner; when he wasn’t that, he was advising banks, media moguls, or quietly influencing leadership contests. Mandelson mastered the dark arts of spin, back-channel persuasion, and bureaucratic survival.

He was always impeccably polite, immaculately dressed, and perpetually several moves ahead — a political chess player who played in the shadows and preferred not to be seen moving the pieces.

His devilish nickname has aged poorly. When the Epstein emails surfaced, it suddenly read like foreshadowing — the Prince of Darkness found consorting with the wrong kind of royalty, spilling infernal effluence straight into the British deep state’s palace.

Now, in the wake of Andrew’s defenestration, let’s try to connect a few more fascinating dots, shall we? ...

But if you asked me to bet, given Mandelson’s Machiavellian perch in the shadowy nests of British intelligence, right at the crosswalk of Russiagate Street and Impeachment Avenue, I would wager that the now-disgraced Lord was up to his tea-stained neck in Obama’s “get Trump” operation. So Bloomberg’s Epstein email dump appears (to me) aimed right at the British deep state, and by another happy TAW coincidence, it is working.

What about Andrew? Again, there’s no public evidence linking Andrew’s oleaginous fingers to Russiagate. But Andrew and Mandelson knew each other well. Both men circulated through the same Mayfair–Soho dinner-party and ‘fundraising’ orbit that tied together the royals, Labour grandees, and billionaires during the 1990s–2010s. They attended overlapping charity events, foreign-trade functions, and private gatherings hosted by mutual friends such as the Rothschilds, Evgeny Lebedev (son of former KGB officer and British billionaire media mogul), and Jeffrey Epstein.

And they were both very good buddies with Jeffrey “my best pal!” Epstein, who often bragged about his MI6 connections. Ghislaine —through her mysteriously deceased father Robert Maxwell— was a potential conduit.

Trips on Epstein airplanes and visits to pedo island could have provided Mandelson and Andrew with ideal private opportunities to discuss the Russiagate operation. And Mandelson —skilled at navigating British politics from the shadows— would almost certainly have wanted Royal buy-in before doing anything that could damage the “special relationship.” So it would make sense for him to work with Prince Andrew.

Here’s another fun question to muse over: Did Trump’s DOJ arrest Epstein in 2019 —a reboot of the 2008 charges after a Miami Herald 2018 exposé— because they were cracking down on high-flying, deep-state pedophiles? Or did they arrest Epstein in 2019 because Trump had discovered Epstein was connected to Russiagate? Hmm.




... In any event, for those paying attention: accountability is stalking Epstein’s connections, one by one, like a black-clad assassin moving stealthily through the political shadows in the corridors of power.
1496   Patrick   2025 Oct 19, 11:16am  

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5561809-epstein-alex-acosta-house-investigation/


The House Oversight Committee on Friday published fresh files connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal dealings, including the transcript of a previous interview with former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who served under President Trump during his first term.

Acosta, the former U.S. Attorney for the southern District of Florida, ultimately resigned from his post as secretary in 2019 after receiving scrutiny for authoring Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, which allowed the financier to serve 13 months in prison on two state prostitution charges. At the time, more than a dozen victims stepped forward and alleged that Epstein was running an international ex trafficking ring involving girls as young as 14. ...

“He continues to deny he gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal, despite cutting the investigation short and granting Epstein a non-prosecution agreement, even though 30 victims had been identified at the time,” Sara Guerrero, spokesperson for Oversight Democrats said in a Friday release.

“Because of the deal Alex Acosta gave Epstein, he was able to continue assaulting and raping young women and girls for another decade. ...

Still, on Capitol HIll, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have banded together with the hopes of triggering the full release of the Justice Department’s files related to Epstein.

The two are awaiting a final signature on a discharge petition that would force the federal government to release new documents. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has said she will add her name to the petition after being sworn in, which would send it to the floor.
1498   AD   2025 Oct 19, 9:10pm  

I see the Congressman Dan Goldman's wanting enough Epstein Files released to damage Trump in the 2026 midterms but then engaging in gaslighting by calling for the immediate stop of any further release of Epstein Files.
1499   Patrick   2025 Oct 20, 10:47am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pedos-and-dominos-monday-october


The weekend also toppled another top Epstein domino. The New York Times ran a magazine-style exclusive headlined, “Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epstein’s Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan.” The sub-headline explained, “New emails show how Mr. Epstein pressured Leon Black, his longtime friend and patron, to fork over millions for financial services.”




Based on the newly disclosed emails, billionaire Leon Black was Epstein’s largest client and source of funds, having paid Epstein $170 million over five years between 2012 and 2017 —well after his 2008 conviction— for “tax and estate planning.”

Leon Black is a living archetype of a Wall Street warlord. He’s thick-necked, silver-haired, and perpetually glowering, like a man deciding whether to buy you or eat you. The Times described him as “one of the richest and highest-profile figures on Wall Street.”

Black founded Apollo Global Management and built it into a fortress of leveraged buyouts and red-inked ruthlessness, thriving on debt the way sharks thrive on blood. Apollo Global Management is Wall Street’s iron-fisted answer to the old robber barons— a private-equity empire built on debt, discipline, and the dark art of buying distressed companies dirt cheap and then squeezing them until they squirt profits.

The son of a fur trader turned financier, Black is described as a man who never leaves the negotiating table, even at dinner. His friends once described him as “brilliant, volcanic, and obsessive” — the sort who could calculate a tax arbitrage in his head while glaring at a Picasso. When the Epstein scandal finally dragged him into public view in 2020, it revealed a financial figurehead both powerful and strangely captive: a billionaire titan, surrounded by masterpieces and money, yet mysteriously beholden to a convicted predator.

In late 2020, Apollo’s board was forced to hire an outside firm to investigate Black’s ties to Epstein. In January 2021, Dechert, LLP issued its whitewashing report, concluding that Black’s payments to the pedo trafficker were for “legitimate” financial services. But the damage was done, and a few months later, shareholders badgered Black into resigning as Chairman and CEO from the firm he founded.

This weekend it got even worse for Mr. Black. Much worse.

The Times portrayed Leon Black’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as a fusion of money, manipulation, and moral blindness— a partnership between a Wall Street colossus and a convicted predator that blurred every line between finance and servitude. The paper described Epstein not as a mere adviser but as a kind of malignant concierge who managed Black’s fortune, fixed his problems, and insulted him in the same breath.

Email Excerpt from Mr. Epstein to Mr. Black
Nov. 15, 2016
at least for a few weeks I am unable to commit much time and make any future plans to guide you in the redoing of your
procrastination produced mess.
That being said the tasks at hand are the following. You have a bomb of colored string that your retarded children have formed
It has to be very carefully unwound

In dozens of typo-strewn emails, Epstein demanded forty million dollars a year, scolded Black’s staff, mocked his children, and claimed to have saved him billions in taxes. Black, despite being one of the richest, most financially sophisticated, and meanest men on Wall Street, kept paying.

The Times also detailed how Epstein’s services extended far beyond spreadsheets. He advised Black on art transactions designed to dodge taxes, coached him through sexual-misconduct settlements, and brokered introductions to the global elite— from Bill Gates to Woody Allen.

By the end of it, Epstein had extracted roughly $170 million dollars, a fortune in and of itself that bankrolled the pedophile’s post-conviction comeback. The portrait is damning: a billionaire titan who thought he’d hired a financial genius, only to become the captive of a blackmailer with a Rolodex full of secrets.

The Times never used the word “blackmail,” but it might as well have left a trail of dollar bills leading straight to it.

Another woman said in a lawsuit
that Mr. Black had raped her at Mr. Epstein's Manhattan
townhouse. She eventually dropped the lawsuit.

The story (accurately) framed Epstein as a man with no legitimate expertise —a college dropout, not a tax attorney or CPA— who somehow convinced one of Wall Street’s savviest financiers to pay him $170 million or more.

They quoted Epstein’s own bullying emails— threatening to “stop work” unless paid, mocking Black’s children, and reminding him how much he “owed”— like a common payday loan shark demanding Black cough up his weekly vig. They highlighted Black’s inexplicable wire transfers to young women connected to Epstein, described hush-money negotiations over multiple sexual-assault claims from women in Epstein’s massage squad, and quoted Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or.), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, who said the emails “raise questions as to whether there was more at play … potentially including blackmail.” And there it was.

Email Excerpt from Jeffrey Epstein to Leon Black
Nov. 2, 2015
I never want to have any more uncomfortable money moments
with you I find it very distasteful. SO to be clear my terms
are as follows I will only work for the usual 40 million per
year. It needs to be paid, 25 million upon signing an
agreement 5 million every 2 months thereafter for 6 months
ie march may june this can begin if i am able in January. I
will immediately stop work if the payment is not received.

Black —through his lawyers and PR consultants— vehemently denies all wrongdoing, and leans heavily on the Apollo management report finding that the money he paid post-conviction Epstein was proper for “financial services.” Black claims to have cut ties in 2017 or 2018 and fired Epstein because the “fees were excessive and disruptive.”

Epstein was arrested in July, 2019, at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, as he returned from Paris on his private jet. He was found dead in his cell a month later.

Two years ago, in 2023, Black also paid the U.S. Virgin Islands $62.5 million to settle its Epstein case against him. The USVI had alleged that Black “facilitated or enabled” Epstein’s sex trafficking in its territory. Now this.

The Times’ brutal exclusive was based on “previously unreported” emails and documents dated between 2015–2016, many of which were directed to Black’s personal assistant or other advisers. As we’ve seen with the other recent takedowns, the emails’ source was not revealed. But it’s not hard to imagine the source. Just ask yourself: who controls all the Epstein data? (House Republicans and the DOJ.)

The Times included documents clearly linked to the House Oversight investigation, like Black’s contribution to Epstein’s “Birthday Book.” So.







Over the years, Black played the political game as carefully as he picked takeover targets. He’s invested in both Democrats and Republicans, tilting slightly one way or the other as the political winds shifted direction. A 2020 Forbes article said he contributed to “leaders in both parties.” Since 2020, he has leaned toward the GOP.

I mention his politics because the far-left Times was the perfect place to leak intel damaging to a conservative-leaning billionaire. The Grey Lady has both the political motive to out Black, and she also has the means to weather the storm of private outrage that is sure to follow.

Leon chaired the New York City Museum of Modern Art (and was one of its largest donors). He endowed university programs, sat on vast numbers of chíc boards, and moved easily among trustees of major institutions. As an art devoteé and super-collector —he bought The Scream for $120 million— he was one of the art community’s favored darlings. Thanks to his bipartisan donation tendencies, Treasury secretaries, governors, and mayors all treated Black as a financial consigliere who could rally capital for public-private projects.

Black wasn’t just any old billionaire; he was a financial keystone in several elite ecosystems. That vast, interconnected political, social, and cultural network gave him what PR professionals call “soft immunity:” he was too well-connected to fail.

If Black collapsed, then a lot of other well-connected people’s oxes would get gored, too.

For example, if Black becomes publicly discredited, it will also stain the donor class that keeps a lord’s list of blue-chip institutions solvent. (Think Gagosian, Sotheby’s, Christie’s.) Trustees, gallerists, and museum directors hate that kind of radioactive money— it can force them to unwind decades of complicated financial entanglements.

Black’s reputation props up markets, museums, and even political relationships that all depend on the illusion of integrity. When a man who is that centralized loses legitimacy, the fallout scorches everyone in his radius— bankers, curators, donors, and politicians alike.

That, my friends, is exactly why taking down Epstein’s client list is so dreadfully difficult. Just imagine all the stakeholders lobbying behind the scenes to prevent this PR disaster. Exposing Epstein’s client list isn’t just a journalistic task; it’s a political, legal, and financial minefield, because so many of the people and institutions who orbit these billionaires like thousands of SpaceX satellites also have their own skin in the game.

The Times exposé was nothing short of seismic. It is a rhetorical missile strike deep at the heart of one of New York’s deepest aquifers of wealth and influence. It’s rare, almost unheard of, for the city’s flagship paper to turn its full investigative glare on the very social stratum that feeds its pages, funds its galas, and sits on the same museum boards as its editors.

Leon Black isn’t just some rogue trader; he is a load-bearing column in the cathedral of Manhattan money, underwriting the art world, propping up philanthropy, and serving as connective tissue between Wall Street, Washington, and the Upper East Side. For the Times to publish hundreds of words of raw correspondence showing Black’s nauseating, intensely private entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein —complete with threats, money, and unsubtle sexual undertones— was a journalistic act bordering on apostasy.

The Times wasn’t just reporting on a scandal; it was the opening act of an autopsy into its own ecosystem, performed in public.

Email Excerpt from Mr. Epstein to Mr. Black
March 20, 2016
To help out im keenly aware of your current cash position. SO
I will consider an in-kind payment real estate ( Miami ), art
financing of my new plane (allows you to spread over years
or of course the preferred cash.

Leon Black’s exposé arrives not as an isolated scandal but as the current American crescendo of a tightly sequenced international purge. Just weeks earlier, Bloomberg published a cache of previously unseen Epstein emails (also supplied by an anonymous source), a revelation that cost UK deep-state fixture Peter Mandelson his post at Lazard within forty-eight hours.

Within days after that, Prince Andrew’s long-dormant Epstein correspondence resurfaced in Britain, reigniting the royal’s disgrace and causing (so far) the loss of all his prestigious titles. British papers are chattering about the Palace considering banning Andrew from all Royal properties.

Now, like the next domino falling in sequence, the Times unloaded its anonymously supplied trove of Leon Black’s messages, implicating Wall Street’s upper sanctum. Three empires of influence — politics, royalty, and finance— all pierced by a single ghostly hand. The synchronicity feels less like coincidence and more like choreography, a coordinated leak-offensive designed to expose, in rapid succession, the hidden arteries through which Epstein’s contagion flowed.

What’s most unsettling —and brilliant— about the recent cadence of revelations is that it feels staged for maximum sustained impact, not the random chaos of one giant leak. A single document dump would have pleased Epstein watchers and generated shock and noise, but then burned out as the public struggled to absorb the sheer volume. This carefully sequenced detonation —Prince Andrew, Mandelson, Black, and whoever’s next— creates something far more lethal: an ordered narrative of inevitability.

Each exposé primes the next, tightening the sense that an unseen hand is methodically unspooling Epstein’s web one thread at a time.

The choreography serves a critical purpose. It keeps powerful people guessing who’ll be next to be crushed under the Epstein wheel and who is leaking. It signals intent: whoever is releasing these materials isn’t merely airing secrets, but is staging a reckoning. And it keeps the story alive in the headlines, day after day, week after week, instead of cratering into information overload. This is only going to hurt for a very long time.

Who knows? The next wave could out more billionaires or politicians or even target the institutional nodes rather than individuals— like the banks, foundations, and law firms that served as the connective tissue of Epstein’s operations. Nobody knows. By spacing out the leaks, the operators can calibrate each new revelation to dramatically land just as the previous story starts to cool, guaranteeing that the elite world Epstein exploited never recovers its balance.

The real weapon isn’t the disclosure— it’s the timing.

Finally, for those of you feeling frustrated by the absence of accountability among Epstein’s clients … how are you feeling now? You must admit that we are at least making a good start.
1500   Patrick   2025 Oct 21, 11:44am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15204739/Prince-Andrews-smear-Virginia-Giuffre-Emails-disgraced-royal-gave-sex-abuse-victims-confidential-social-security-number-Met.html


Andrew told Met to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre: Police launch probe as email reveals he procured private data for smear campaign

Prince Andrew embroiled the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth's most senior aides in a campaign to smear his teenage sex accuser, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

A bombshell email obtained by this newspaper exposes how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre and passed him her date of birth and confidential social security number.

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