Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl
"The Epstein Files: Phase 1" contains 22 parts, most of them heavily redacted.
Part 22 contains the most unredacted pages which have to do with the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein. These pages include emails and letters from lawyers as well as depositions.
No flight log.
Here's an example: Part 10 of the "release" contains only twelve or so pages listing pages which have been deleted. There is no information on what those deleted pages contained, or why they've been deleted.
Super-researchers Jordan Shaechtel asked if the released files contain any new documents. I don't think he got an answer yet.
Attorney General Bondi wrote a letter to FBI Director Patel accusing the NY FBI office of lying and withholding, and demanded the FBI deliver all pages by tomorrow at 8am, with no excuses such as "this information came from a confidential source." She says the DOJ is quite capable of redacting sources and methods on its own, thankyouverymuch.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
So then, Attorney General Pam Bondi has given the FBI until tomorrow at 8AM to give her "full and complete Epstein files."
FBI NY office apparently withheld and disobeyed her initial order...
Think about that. We have a new president, a new attorney general, a new FBI director - and this SH is still happening.
It was NEVER going to be easy. It runs deep. VERY, VERY deep.
Bondi has also ordered an investigation into why her initial order was not followed in the first place.
There is a ton of work to do, folks. This is a problem.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
The FBI's NY Field Office said it gave @AGPamBondi all its Jeffrey Epstein Files. It lied to her, says Bondi. That may be because Epstein appears to have been running a sex blackmail operation, or honeytrap, for intelligence agencies. The FBI has used honeytraps for decades...
Shellenberger expands on that claim, discussing previous partial disclosures:
Jeffrey Epstein Ran Sex Blackmail Operation For Intelligence Agencies, New Evidence Suggests
Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used a puppet to entrap Prince Andrew, victim claims in unsealed court documents
The release of new court documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein yesterday "provided little, if any, new fodder for conspiracy theorists who remain fixated on Mr. Epstein's dealings more than four years after his death," according to the New York Times. The documents, the Times claimed, reinforced what the public already knew, namely that pedophile financier Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell made young and often underage women available for sex to powerful men.
In fact, the documents offer new evidence and insight into how Epstein and Maxwell appeared to be blackmailing powerful individuals, albeit to mysterious ends. A judge ordered the release of the court documents, which were from a case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell in 2015. The parties settled in 2017. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
It's true that some of the information released yesterday had already come to light. Last April, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, had scheduled three meetings with Epstein in 2014. At the time, Burns was deputy secretary of state. According to the Journal, they met in Washington, D.C., and at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan. The Journal based its reporting on Epstein's own emails and schedules.
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But the newly unsealed documents include powerful new evidence that Epstein and Maxwell were deliberately blackmailing people. Johanna Sjoberg, another one of Epstein's victims, recounted that he and Maxwell had created a Prince Andrew puppet for Prince Andrew. They presented it to him and used it to guide him into taking sexual photos with Sjoberg and Giuffre.
"They put the puppet on Virginia's lap," Sjoberg testified, "and I sat on Andrew's lap, and they put the puppet's hand on Virginia's breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo."
It is a remarkable passage since Maxwell and Epstein appear to be engaged in a kind of psychological operation, framing Andrew, to himself, as their puppet. Maxwell and Epstein apparently played it off as a joke to Andrew, and he played along, copying his puppet's behavior and groping Sjoberg.
Epstein's sex blackmailing also required coercion. Sjoberg testified that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Another filing alleges that Jane Doe #3 was "forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations" and that Epstein told her to "give the prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."
The court documents also contain allegations against billionaires Glenn Dubin and Tom Pritzker. Prizker currently serves as the CEO of the Pritzker Organization and as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and is a member of the Aspen Institute. Giuffre alleges that she had sex with both Dubin and Pritzker under the direction of Maxwell and Epstein.
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The Epstein scandal has implicated many powerful people. Melinda Gates told reporters last year that her husband Bill's connections to Epstein had been part of the reason for her decision to seek a divorce from him. "I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no," she told Gayle King.
Bill Gates said Epstein tried to blackmail him. "Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates," a spokeswoman for Gates told the Wall Street Journal last year.
Epstein and Maxwell appear to have been running a large and well-funded blackmail operation. Why would they?