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TAMUallen said:

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Amazing how quickly the Epstein story can fade away after being assassinated

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just came here to post that. apparently a horde of influential multi millionaires and government cronies actually can get away with murder, rape, treason, and anything else, even when busted.

its a very, very scary proposition.

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.....Last year, Epstein told a New York Times reporter that he personally knew and routinely played host to MBS. The same reporter encountered a full-length portrait of the Saudi prince on a wall in Epstein's New York City mansion. And Bezos has broken bread with Epstein at least twice -- in 2004 and again in 2011 -- at so-called "billionaires dinners" hosted by the Edge Foundation.

One noteworthy attribute that Epstein and his apparent friend MBS share is a history of being accused of blackmail. In January, Bezos' chief of security accused the Saudi kingdom of gaining unauthorized access to Bezos' personal messages and photos. According to The Daily Beast, the Saudis planned to blackmail Bezos, who purchased The Washington Post in 2013, as punishment for his paper's aggressive coverage of their own columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, whom Saudi agents assassinated in Istanbul last year.

The Saudis denied the blackmail operation, and others blamed the brother of Bezos' girlfriend for obtaining and selling their correspondence to the National Enquirer (whose publisher, American Media Inc., has its own murky ties to Saudi Arabia). But the allegations closely match a certain thread of speculation about the source of Epstein's titanic wealth. His case is laden with indications, some more obvious than others, that he engaged, or attempted to engage, in high-stakes blackmail.
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The trip to Riyadh offers some of the most significant evidence to date of Epstein's ties to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a relationship that could propel further speculation about his potential role in the world of intelligence.
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After his arrest in July, prosecutors revealed that Epstein possessed a counterfeit Austrian passport, bearing Epstein's photo but a different name, whose stamps showed travel to and from Saudi Arabia (along with France, Spain, the United Kingdom). The passport listed Epstein's residence as Saudi Arabia, too.
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Police raid Jeffrey Epstein's Paris mansion 'with custom-made massage room' as pressure intensifies on Prince Andrew to help French investigation

• French police raided Epstein's former home in Paris on Monday and Tuesday
• The 7.18m central property is fitted with a massage room, butler claimed
• Simultaneous raids targeted model agency run by his friend Jean-Luc Brunel
• Brunel is alleged to have procured underage girls for the paedophile

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British intelligence chiefs are concerned that Russia may have obtained kompromat, compromising material, on Prince Andrew over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

MI6 is understood to be concerned about the activities of a former Florida police officer who had access to the investigation into the billionaire paedophile and then moved to Russia.

The bizarre case of John Mark Dougan, a former deputy in the Palm Beach County sheriff's office, has provided further evidence that the prince's repeated efforts to distance himself from allegations of sexual abuse are failing to shield him from the fallout of the Epstein case....

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MI6 is understood to be concerned about the activities of a former Florida police officer who had access to the investigation into the billionaire paedophile and then moved to Russia.

The bizarre case of John Mark Dougan, a former deputy in the Palm Beach County sheriff's office, has provided further evidence that the prince's repeated efforts to distance himself from allegations of sexual abuse are failing to shield him from the fallout of the Epstein case....

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Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel flees to Brazil as Paris police launch official investigation into man who supplied Jeffrey Epstein with underage girls and raid the agency he used to traffic minors

• Authorities in France are investigating Jean-Luc Brunel for rape and sexual assault, while also looking into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
• This is the first investigation into one of Epstein's cohorts since his arrest in July on charges of sex trafficking, which were dropped after his death in August
• A former Dutch model told authorities in August that she was raped by Brunel when she was a teenager after he spiked her drink in 1991
• His former modelling agency, Karin Models, was raided last week by authorities while Brunel has fled to Brazil

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A picture is slowly emerging of his businesses and his associates. Recent reporting shows that Epstein was at the forefront of structured finance, the packaging of mortgages and bonds into complex financial instruments that nearly brought down the global financial system more than a decade ago.

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A picture is slowly emerging of his businesses and his associates. Recent reporting shows that Epstein was at the forefront of structured finance, the packaging of mortgages and bonds into complex financial instruments that nearly brought down the global financial system more than a decade ago.

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Hhmm. Well that explains the FBI report that Epstein cooperated in testifying as to the incipient financial meltdown since he was a part of it.

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.....Rather than having stocks and bonds as the underlying security, Liquid Funding had commercial mortgages and investment-grade residential mortgages bundled into complex securities. The three main credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's, Fitch Ratings and Moody's Investors Service all helped Bear Stearns create the securities in a way that would allow the creative product to get a gold-plated AAA rating.....

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Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in prison, managed to lure an astonishing array of rich, powerful and famous men into his orbit.

There were billionaires (Leslie Wexner and Leon Black), politicians (Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson), Nobel laureates (Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek) and even royals (Prince Andrew).

Few, though, compared in prestige and power to the world's second-richest person, a brilliant and intensely private luminary: Bill Gates. And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, whose $100 billion-plus fortune has endowed the world's largest charitable organization, has done his best to minimize his connections to Mr. Epstein. "I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him," he told The Wall Street Journal last month.


In fact, beginning in 2011, Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions including at least three times at Mr. Epstein's palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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ruddyduck said:

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yeah...trying to figure out what the point is after all this time. to say that they did?

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Notice that Epstein is wearing his famous 'screw you' slippers.

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Blatant Disregard said:

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Is that Barbara Walters in the back right?

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Blatant Disregard said:

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Is that Barbara Walters in the back right?

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