TODAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEGUN
SETTLEMENT DISCUSSIONS WITH ABUSE VICTIMS OF A BILLIONAIRE
BY THE NAME OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY HEARD
ABOUT HIM, BUT HE WAS IMPLICATED IN A CASE INVOLVING MINORS,
UNDERAGE SEX, AND PROSTITUTION SOLICITATION.
HE WAS ACTUALLY CONVICTED OF SOLICITING AND UNDER AGE
INDIVIDUAL FOR PROSTITUTION BACK IN 2015, AND THE WAY THIS CASE
PLAYED OUT WAS SHADY TO SAY THE LEAST.
IT TURNS OUT THAT HE WAS
NOT PROSECUTED ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL, HE WAS ABLE TO STRIKE A
SWEETHEART DEAL EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS EVIDENCE INDICATING
THAT HE HAD CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN HIS HOME AND THAT HE HAD MANY
DIFFERENT SITUATIONS INVOLVING UNDERAGE GIRLS, HE WAS ONLY
TRIED FOR PROSTITUTION.
>> IN 2007, BY THE WAY.
>> THE CASE HAPPEN IN 2005 BUT HE WAS CONVICTED IN 07.
IN 2007
THE FEDS ENTERED INTO A SECRET, NONPROSECUTION AGREEMENT WITH
THE BILLIONAIRE WHICH ENSURE THAT EPSTEIN AND HIS
CO-CONSPIRATORS WOULD NOT BE PROSECUTED FEDERALLY IN EXCHANGE
FOR AT HIS GUILTY PLEA TO SAY CHARGES.
EPSTEIN SERVED 13
MONTHS IN A FLORIDA PRISON AND HOME DETENTION FOR SOLICITATION
AND PROCUREMENT OF MINORS FOR PROSTITUTION.
BY
THE WAY, HE WAS SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS BUT HE ONLY SERVED 13
MONTHS, SO EVEN A SMALL SENTENCE THAT HE GOT WAS LESSENED TO
13 MONTHS, WHICH REALLY UPSETS ME.
>> PROBABLY FOR BEHAVING IN PRISON, TIME SERVED BUT IT'S A
LITTLE EASIER TO MAKE SURE HE DOESN'T VIOLATE THAT.
I ASSUME
HE ALSO DID NOT CAUSE A RUCKUS IN WHATEVER PROBABLY CUSHY
PRISON HE WAS IN.
WOW.
YOU LET HIM OFF FIVE MONTHS EARLY.
THE
MUCH BIGGER ISSUE IS, AND TO THE VICTIMS BY THE WAY MOST
IMPORTANTLY, THE BIGGER ISSUE IS THAT THE FEDS DECIDED NOT TO
PURSUE THE CHARGES THAT ALL.
DID HAVE TO DO WITH THE FACT
THAT HE HAD A DREAM TEAM OF LAWYERS WHO AGGRESSIVELY WENT
AFTER THE PROSECUTION AND MAY BE CONNECTED TO A LOT OF
REALLY POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE, INCLUDING BILL CLINTON?
IT IS HARD TO TELL, BUT THAT IS WHY THEY ARE SUING TO FIND OUT.
>> THE STORY IS APPARENT ONCE YOU GET INTO THE DETAILS
AND YOU MIGHT WONDER ANNA, WHY DID YOU START THAT STORY WITH
TALKS ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TALKING SETTLEMENT
TALKS WITH THE VICTIMS?
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
DID DO SOME SHADY AND STRIKING THE SWEETHEART DEAL.
WHEN YOU
MAKE THIS TYPE OF DEAL WITH THE CRIMINAL AT HAND, YOU HAVE TO
MAKE SURE YOU DISCLOSE AS MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT THAT DEAL WITH
THE VICTIMS.
YOU HAVE TO BE AS TRANSPARENT AS POSSIBLE, AND
THEY WERE NOT.
ATTORNEYS FOR THE VICTIMS IN THIS CASE CONTEND
THEIR CLIENTS RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE US ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA FAILED TO NOTIFY THEM
IN A TIMELY MANNER OF THIS NONPROSECUTION AGREEMENT.
ALSO
FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON TOOK AT LEAST 26 TRIPS ABOARD
HIS PRIVATE JET WHICH IS BEEN NICKNAMED THE LOLITA EXPRESS
EVEN LEAVING BEHIND A SECRET SURGEON SERVICE AGENTS ON
SEVERAL OCCASIONS I MENTION THAT BECAUSE IT SHOWS HOW
WELL-CONNECTED EPSTEIN IS, AND THERE IS SOME INDICATION IN
COURT FILINGS, SOME REPORTS INDICATING THAT EPSTEIN HAD
HIDDEN CAMERAS THROUGHOUT HIS HOME AND WHAT HE WOULD DO IS HE
WOULD FILM POLITICIANS AND CELEBRITIES, BIG-NAME
INDIVIDUALS, HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH MINORS AND THEN
HE WOULD USE THAT AS BLACKMAIL AGAINST THEM.
I AM NOT SAYING ñ
ANY STATEMENT SAYING THAT BILL CLINTON IS INVOLVED AND
THAT IS SPECULATION AND I WANT TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR
ABOUT THAT, BUT DID HE HAVE TO ON POLITICIANS THAT WERE
INVOLVED IN THE SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOR, ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> THERE ARE REPORTS THAT THERE IS VIDEOTAPE OF THAT, BUT
WE DO NOT KNOW WHO HAS VIDEOTAPED THAT.
>> WE DON'T KNOW WHO.
>> LET'S BE SUPER CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT JUDGMENT
HERE, AND WHY HE GOT A RELATIVELY LIGHT SENTENCE.
FIRST OF ALL, HE IS A BILLIONAIRE.
HE HAS A DREAM TEAM OF LAWYERS THAT
ANNA IS GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT IN A SECOND.
WHEN YOU ARE A
BILLIONAIRE, YOU GET A LOT OF BREAKS.
YOU GET A BREAK BECAUSE
YOUR DEFENSE IS BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE GUY'S DEFENSE TEAM.
SECONDLY, A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN POWER UNCONSCIOUSLY
RELATE TO YOU.
I DON'T MEAN AS THE GUYS GOING AFTER CHILD
PROSTITUTES AND CHILD PORNO.
BUT THERE IS A FEELING OF JUST
THIS GUY REALLY BELONG IN JAIL?
HE'S A BILLIONAIRE.
BUT WHEN A NORMAL THUG WALKS IN,
YEAH, I SEE HIM BELONGING IN JAIL FOR A
LONG TIME.
BUT THIS GUY, HE'S CONNECTED TO ALL THESE
POLITICIANS THAT, WE DON'T KNOW
IF THEY ARE COVERING UP FOR HIM,
EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT COVERING UP FOR HIM, THESE ARE
BENEFITS HE GETS, SOME CONSCIOUS AND SOME SUBCONSCIOUS.
THE SPECULATION IS THAT THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN POWERFUL PEOPLE
WHO
ARE LOOKING OUT FOR HIM AND THAT WOULD BE A BIG DEAL, AND DID THE
PROSECUTORS GET SCARED OF HIS LAWYERS FOR SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT LAWYERS DIDN'T ASK, I THINK THAT IS THE VERY INTERESTING
PART OF THE STORY.
THERE IS SOME REAL EVIDENCE ON THAT AND WE SHOULD GET INTO
THAT AS WELL.
>> LET'S GET INTO THAT.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, NOT ONLY
DID PROSECUTORS NEGOTIATE A CAREFULLY WORDED NONPROSECUTION
AGREEMENT WITH HIS ATTORNEYS, THEY APPARENTLY DIDN'T EVEN
NOTIFY DOZENS OF HIS ALLEGED VICTIMS UNTIL AFTER THE DEAL HAD
BEEN SIGNED.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT, WHEN THE FEDS
DID SEND OUT NOTIFICATIONS OF 2008, DOCUMENTS APPEAR THAT THE
I MADE IT APPEARS THAT THE INVESTIGATION WAS STILL ONGOING,
EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW FULL WELL THAT A DEAL HAD BEEN REACHED
WITH EPSTEIN TO IN THE INVESTIGATION.
THAT SHOWS YOU
HOW THE PROSECUTORS KIND OF WORKED WITH THE DEFENSE
ATTORNEYS TO STRIKE THIS DEAL AND THEY HIT IT.
THEY HID THE
FACT THAT THEY WERE DOING THIS DEAL AND THEY TRIED TO MAKE IT
SEEM TO THE ABUSED VICTIMS THAT NO, THIS INVESTIGATION IS
ONGOING.
WHO ARE EPSTEIN'S ATTORNEYS?
THEY ARE BIG NAMES.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ, KENNETH STARR, ROY BLACK, I DON'T KNOW WHO
JAY LEFKOWITZ IS.
>> HE'S A RELATIVELY FAMOUS ATTORNEY AS WELL.
LET'S NOTE THE IRONY OF KEN STARR BEING ON THAT LIST.
KEN STARR IS THE GUY WHO WENT AFTER BILL CLINTON FOR HIS
SEXUAL PROBLEMS.
DID YOU SLEEP WITH THAT YOUNG WOMAN?
BUT THEN HE TURNS AROUND AND DEFENDS A GUY WHO GOT
CONVICTED FOR SLEEPING WITH UNDERAGE MINORS.
>> I KNOW, BUT HE IS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY, AND ALTHOUGH I AM
SURE THERE ARE SOME DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE MORAL
AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I
THINK THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE JUST DOING THEIR JOB.
>> NO I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL.
>> REALLY?
>> LET ME EXPLAIN.
THIS IS THE SAME ARGUMENT I GOT IN WITH
JOHNNY COCHRAN IN THE VERY FIRST TV PARENTS EVER MADE.
YES IF
YOU ARE A COURT OF APPOINTED LAWYER, THEN BLESS YOUR HEART,
YOU HAVE TO DEFEND WHOEVER YOU HAVE TO DEFEND THAT IS JUST OUR
JUSTICE SYSTEM.
THESE GUYS ARE NOT COURT-APPOINTED.
THEY'RE
GETTING PAID A TON OF MONEY.
HE DID NOT HAVE TO DEFEND THIS
CHILD MOLESTER.
HE CHOSE TO DO IT FOR A TON OF MONEY.
HE GOES
AND HE TELLS BILL CLINTON, HOW DARE YOU DO THAT?
THAT IS INAPPROPRIATE, WITH A PERSON WHO WAS TOTALLY
ABOVE AGE AND AGREED TO DO IT.
THERE OTHER THINGS IN THAT CASE BUT OH MY GOD, YOU SHOULD
BE IMPEACHED AND I WILL INVESTIGATE IT INTO THEIR.
O YOUR BUDDY OVER HERE ACTUALLY HAD SEX WITH UNDERAGE WOMEN.
I AM GOING TO GO DEFEND THEM BECAUSE I'M GETTING PAID A
LOT OF MONEY.
THAT IS MY MORALS AND PRINCIPLES.
>> UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING.
DO I THINK HE HAD TO DO IT?
NO OF COURSE NOT.
I AM JUST TRYING TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT HOW
WHEN IT COMES TO FAMOUS DEFENSE ATTORNEYS LIKE THAT, THAT ARE
MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IF THEY HAVE A CHANCE MAKE MORE
MONEY, THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT CHANCE.
>> THEY'RE GOING TO GET PAID.
>> EXACTLY.
LET ME GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GUY
BECAUSE THE MORE DIGGING I DID THE MORE DISGUSTED I WAS WITH
HOW EASILY HE GOT OFF.
TO THIS DAY HE DID SERVE 13 MONTHS IN PRISON IN
FLORIDA AND HE IS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER IN THE STATE OF
FLORIDA, HOWEVER, THE REASON WHY HE GOT CAUGHT IS BECAUSE BACK IN
2005 A WOMAN HAD NOTIFIED POLICE THAT HER 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER
WAS TAKEN TO HIS MANSION, AND WAS GIVEN $300 TO UNDRESS.
ALLEGEDLY SHE KEPT HER UNDERWEAR ON, AND THEN MASSAGED HIM.
YOU
KNOW WHAT MASSAGED MEANS.
THAT'S THE REASON WHY AN
INVESTIGATION BEGAN, AND THROUGH THAT INVESTIGATION,
THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND THE HIDDEN CAMERAS AND ALL OF THAT
OTHER STUFF.
THEY ALSO FOUND IMAGES OF UNDERAGE GIRLS IN HIS HOME, THEY
FOUND THAT THERE WERE NUMEROUS CASES OF UNDERAGE GIRLS THAT
WERE BEING SOLICITED FOR PROSTITUTION, THEY ALSO FOUND
THAT HE HAD THIS REFERRAL PROGRAM WHERE HE WOULD HAVE THE
YOUNG GIRLS REFER MORE OF THEIR FRIENDS, MORE YOUNG GIRLS, TO
GET PAID TO HAVE SEXUAL ACTS WITH HIM.
IT IS JUST
DISGUSTING.
THE MORE YOU READ ABOUT IT, THE MORE YOU FIND OUT
WHAT HE IS REALLY ABOUT HOW EASILY HE GOT OFF.
YOU FIND OUT
THAT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A JUSTICE SYSTEM.
WE HAVE THAT
TWO-TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHERE INSANELY WEALTHY AND
WELL-CONNECTED PEOPLE GET OFF AND POOR PEOPLE CAUGHT WITH
MARIJUANA SPEND A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEHIND BARS.
>> MAYBE I'M BEING OBVIOUS, YOU GUYS,
YOU KNOW THIS.
IF YOU WERE AN
AVERAGE GUY AND YOU DID ANY OF THIS, AND YOU ARE MIDDLE-CLASS,
FIRST OF ALL, YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT.
IT'S TERRIBLE.
BUT IF
YOU DID IT, YOU WOULD BE GOING AWAY FOR A LONG TIME.
THE FEDS
WOULDN'T BE LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DO A NONPROSECUTION
AGREEMENT WITH YOU.
ISN'T THAT UNBELIEVABLE?
A NONPROSECUTION AGREEMENT.
MY GUESS IS THEY WOULD DO A
PRO-PROSECUTION AGREEMENT AND MAKE SURE THEY THREW THE BOOK
AT YOU, BUT HEY, YOU COULDN'T HIRE THE BEST ATTORNEYS IN THE
WORLD FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A
BILLIONAIRE, SO YOU'RE GOING TO GET A DIFFERENT JUSTICE
SYSTEM THAN THIS GUY.
WE ALL KNOW THAT ON TOP OF THAT, HIS DEFENSE
COUNSEL DID THINGS THAT, TO ME, I AM SICKENED THAT THE
PROSECUTION SEEMS TO OF WILTED UNDER PRESSURE.
ACCORDING TO FORMER U.S.
ATTORNEY ALEXANDER COAST, HE SAID DEFENSE COUNSEL
INVESTIGATED INDIVIDUAL PROSECUTORS AND THEIR FAMILIES
LOOKING FOR PERSONAL THINGS THAT MIGHT PROVIDE
A BASIS FOR DISQUALIFICATION.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEFENSE
ATTORNEY SAID WE ARE COMING AFTER THE PROSECUTORS
PERSONALLY.
WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO DIG UP DIRT ON YOU.
I FEEL
LIKE IF I WAS A PROSECUTOR AND THEY DID THAT TO ME, I WOULD
COME 10 TIMES HARDER.
I WOULD BE LIKE, OH YOU WANT TO PLAY
AROUND WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACTS YOU WANT TO DO
AN INVESTIGATION ON ME TAX I HAVE HUNDREDS OF PROSECUTORS
HERE.
LET'S GET IT ON.
LET'S HAVE AT IT, HOSTILE WHAT DO THEY
DO TAXABLE MY GOD, HE'S A BILLIONAIRE.
OH NO, HE'S
THREATENING US.
HE'S THREATENING YOU.
WHAT KIND OF A
FEDERAL PROSECUTOR ARE YOU JACKSON SAID THEY BACK DOWN.
THIS IS WHY EVERYONE HATES THE SYSTEM.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS LIKE WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
THE BIG DEAL IS WE'RE TIRED OF THE TWO-TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM.
WE'RE TIRED THAT THERE IS NO JUSTICE FOR A GUY WHO WILL SMOKE
POT AND GET A LOT MORE PRISON TIME THAN A GUY WHO DID ALL OF
THESE THINGS WITH UNDERAGE GIRLS BECAUSE HE HAS THE DEFENSE
ATTORNEYS THAT WILL THREATEN PROSECUTOR.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT HIS CONNECTIONS TO THE POWERFUL
INCLUDING CLINTON.
LOLITA EXPRESS WAS THE NICKNAME OF THE PLANE, HE DIDN'T PUT
THAT ON THE PLANE.
>> THAT WOULD BE PRETTY BAD -
>> CLINTON WALKED INTO A PLANE CALL THE LOLITA EXPRESS.
WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE NICKNAME HAS BEEN AROUND.
MAYBE CLINTON, ALL OF THOSE TIMES HE WAS ON THE PLANE
AND HANGING OUT WITH EPSTEIN NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG.
BUT HE DID GO ON THE PLANE 26 TIMES.
ON THE PRIVATE PLANE OF EPSTEIN.
THAT IS REALLY BAD JUDGMENT FOR WHAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT HIM.
AGAIN,
MAYBE IT IS TOTALLY UNFAIR AND CLINTON DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF IT
AND IT WAS ALL IN A TIME PERIOD WHERE HE COULDN'T HAVE POSSIBLY
KNOWN WHAT EPSTEIN WAS UP TO, BUT APPARENTLY A LOT OF PEOPLE
KNEW WHAT HE WAS UP TO.
THERE IS BUBBA GOING ON THAT PLANE.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
WHAT YOU DOING?
DON'T HOLD ANYTHING AGAINST HIM YET BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING
PROVEN AGAINST HIM, BUT WE ALREADY KNOW THE OUTRAGE IN THIS CASE IS
WHAT EPSTEIN WAS ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH BECAUSE HE HAD
MORE POWER, MORE INFLUENCE, AND PROBABLY MORE IMPORTANTLY,
HE HAD MORE MONEY.