Question: Is our ruling classtryingto make us to think theyre a bunch of pederasts? Our media could not be less interested in Jeffrey Epsteins child molestation ring and, with the sole exception of the Palm Beach Police Department, every arm of government has bent over backward to bury the case.
(Who says our media and government cant work together?)
The jurys courageous delivery last week of five guilty verdicts against Epsteins pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, was a sort of reverse jury nullification. The U.S. attorneys office theprosecution did everything it could to get an acquittal, but the jurors defied them.
A court artists sketch of the jury in Ghislaine Maxwells sex trafficking trial on December 21, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
As for media coverage, did you even know that the FBI found Epsteins cache of sex tapes labeled (name of underage girl) + (name of VIP) and then lost them?
Immediately after Epsteins arrest at Teterboro Airport in July 2019, the FBI executed a search warrant on his New York mansion. Following a daylong search, agents discovered a hidden safe in the closet of a fifth-floor dressing room, used a saw to break into it, and found an enormous collection of photos of naked girls, and CDs of the girls apparently having sex with influential men.
Then, the agents left abandoning the photos and CDs, with Epsteins employees free to wander about the place. As Kelly Maguire, FBI special agent in charge of the search, explained during Maxwells trial, they only had a warrant tosearchthe house, but not toremoveevidence evidence at the heart of the entire sex trafficking scheme.
It didnt occur to Maguire to leave a single agent behind to guard the CDs? How about the intern who just gets coffee?
Youll never guess what happened next.
The CDs and photographs disappeared. By the time the FBI returned with a new warrant four days later to remove the CDs and photos, they were gone. Later, after a few phone calls, Epsteins lawyer, Richard Kahn, returned the cache in two suitcases.I had no idea they were important! I was just tidying up!
Were the videos tampered with? Were all of the photos returned? Who knows!
This was testified to by Special Agent Maguire.Thats the last time I trust the lawyer of a pedophile! Boy, is my face red! Darn it! Oh well, what are you going to do?
(Before moving on, lets take a moment to honor the historic appointment of Kelly Maguire as FBI special agent. Another glass ceiling shattered!)
How could any search warrant for Epsteins residence fail to specify videos?
In this courtroom sketch, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe, left, questions FBI Special Agent Kelly McGuire on the witness stand on December 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)
The reason the tapes are kind of important is that it was perfectly clear certainly by 2019 that Epstein had no legitimate source of income to fund his Caligula lifestyle, and further, that he was farming out underage girls for sex to the rich and powerful with hidden cameras running everywhere. It sure looked like his underage sex ring was a blackmail/kompromat operation.
Obviously, the most important question is:On behalf of whom?The tapes of (underage girl) + (important person) would have gone a long way toward answering that. What did the search warrant specify, if not videos and photographs?
If I didnt know better, I might think that those in power dont want us to know anything about Epsteins sex-trafficking operation.
As further evidence that there is ABSOLUTELY NO COVER-UP: The New York Times has never breathed a single word about the CDs lost in the FBIs botched search. Nor has the Washington Post. Nor the Chicago Tribune. Nor the Los Angeles Times.
Wait Ill make this easier. Heres a list of all the major U.S. newspapers thatdidreport on Maguires breathtaking revelation:
1) The Miami Herald2) The New York Post
The end.
Oddly, media in the rest of the world seemed to find Maguires testimony about the vanishing CDs somewhat more newsworthy. The story of the missing tapes was covered repeatedly in theDaily Telegraph(London),the Independent(United Kingdom),the Daily Mail(Ireland), Economic News (Russia) and theDaily Mail(U.K.), among others.
The totally not-a-cover-up gets weirder and weirder.
Epstein had vast wealth, and we still dont know where it came from. Normally, the IRS is extremely curious about unexplained flows of riches. Did the IRS decide in this case,Well, he may be a committed and energetic pedophile, but as far as we know, hes a conscientious taxpayer!
This collage shows four of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteins lavish residences around the world. Top left: Epsteins apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris; top right: Epsteins mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; bottom left: Epsteins private island estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands; bottom right: Epsteins home in Palm Beach, Florida. (Jacques Demarthon, Kevin Hagen/Getty Images; Wikimedia Commons; Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Similarly, there are vague claims that he made his money from investments. The SEC wasnt the least bit interested in finding out how he got this rich from secretive investment services?
And this: Epstein spent decades aggressively cultivatingpowerful,importantmen, quite afewfromforeigncountries evidently taping all their activities. Why wasnt the CIA concerned? Couldnt he have sold dirt on U.S. politicians to foreign intel agencies?
U.S Attorney Audrey Strauss points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Finally, its odd that our government wasnt concerned about how much blackmail material Epstein had gathered on high-level U.S. officials. Doesnt the FBI try to prevent that sort of situation? Or the Secret Service?
How was it that all these agencies let Epstein keep up his activities for so long?
Theres much more to this story. Stay tuned for next week!