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Monday, July 28, 2025

The Gordian Knot That's Obamagate

By Rich Kozlovich  

 

Currently the two biggest stories are the Epstein scandal, and the Russiagate scandal, and now they're being tied together like a Gordian, and are being called Obamagate, and rightly so.   As I see it there are eight foundational things that can be taken away from all of this. 

  1. Hillary was running in 2016 to make sure none of this information ever got out to the public….ever!
  2. After she lost in order to avoid exposure they desperately needed to win the 2020 election, at any cost, including massive and provable levels of voter fraud.   But their bench is so shallow they opted for a man who was not only dumb as a rock, he was clearly losing it mentally, and they knew it, and his mental decline became accelerated so badly during his voter fraud acquired presidency, everyone knew it.
  3. By electing Donald Trump in 2024 America prevented the destruction of the United States, and the Constitution. 
  4. No one, including Trump realized just how massively this corruption permeated the deep state, although they should have and took action during his first term.
  5. It’s now clear the federal judiciary is part of this corruption.
  6. The real movers behind this are billionaires who insanely desire the destruction of the nation and the system that created them, and they must be insane.  There also seems to be a China connection there, and while that's still conjecture, I believe it.  Oops...is that another conspiracy theory?  Well, I'm betting this will be another conspiracy theory that proves factual.
  7. Someone had better end up in prison over this, someone big, or none of this will matter in the least over the long haul.
  8. I'm probably going to break out in hives saying this since I pretty much despise Richard Nixon, but truth is truth, and "the entire country owes Richard Nixon an apology because what he did while wrong was nothing compared to what has been done by so many since."

Obama and virtually all he put in positions of power suffer from excessive levels of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris believing they're untouchable and the swamp will protect and save them. They delusionally believe they're true leaders, and equipped with all the qualities of true leadership, when in reality they're clueless followers, and when left to their own devices, they're exposed as fools. 

They keep lying to defend their illegal actions, and we should thank them for that since each time they shoot off their mouths they extend the "five-year “clock” on a “grand conspiracy”'.  They keep talking, keep lying, and each time they do that's considered an overt act, and the clock "starts anew with each overt act"!  Any pardons given by Biden will be meaningless since this is a conspiracy, and any "overt acts" are considered new crime as a continuation of that conspiracy, which is not covered by these pardons.

They all suffer from unchecked arrogance and psychopathy, which is a personality disorder characterized by a "lack of empathy, shallow emotions, manipulative tendencies, and antisocial behavior,,,,,, a disregard for the feelings and rights of others". 

What could possibly go wrong?  Everything, as we're now seeing how many lives they destroyed as they rampaged like ravenous wolves through the nation's rule of law, and it's now time for a reckoning!

Update, 2:14 AM:  Treason, Epstein, And ‘Distractions’ — A Guide For The Perplexed -  Shortly after President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason – an epithet that has been thrown at Trump practically every day – Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said: “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”

Distraction from what?

Rodenbush didn’t have to say, because the media have been busy filling in that blank. “Trump tries to distract from Epstein by casually accusing Obama of treason,” is how MSNBC put it. CNN’s headline blared that “Trump’s longtime rage at Obama roars back amid Epstein furor.” “Critics say Trump is trying to distract from Epstein by talking about everything but that,” is how ABC News put it.

Let’s see if we understand this..... the official media definition of “distraction.” Distraction (n.):1. Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat.  2. Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative.  We hope this clears things up......

Friday, July 18, 2025

Who Really Backed Epstein?

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The first time Jeffrey Epstein was locked up, it was in a private wing of the Palm Beach Stockade with unlocked doors and a ‘work release program’ (even though sex offenders were barred from participating in work release programs) that allowed him to keep an office outside the prison, then ‘work’ from his beachfront home, hire Sheriff’s Deputies as his private security, have them refer to him as a “client” and all the records of his visitors, who reportedly included minors used for sex, were then destroyed as part of a “routine purge”.

As an example of the justifications for his special treatment, a Palm Beach officer wrote that Epstein is “poorly versed in jail routine and society and his adjustment to incarceration will most likely be atypical. For the time being, I am authorizing that his cell door be left unlocked and he be given liberal access to the attorney room where a TV will be installed”.

Both local and federal prosecutors threw the case against Epstein resulting in a light sentence. And while being a registered sex offender should have crippled his prospects when he got out, officials in three states colluded to keep him off their sex offender registries.

Florida prison officials refused to list him as a sex offender while he was in custody despite the clear evidence of his conviction. Officials in New Mexico, where Epstein owned a $17 million ‘Zorro’ ranch, took him off the sex offender registry two days after he signed up.

In New York, the Manhattan DA’s office colluded with Epstein to lower his sex offender status from Level 3 to Level 1 despite a specific recommendation from the State of New York Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders and objections from the judge who had never seen such a thing. The NYPD did not end up monitoring him because of yet another error in his registration.

Florida and New York officials claimed that they had made errors. New Mexico officials blamed a ‘loophole’ and yet another error. Future ‘errors’ in Manhattan’s criminal justice system were less favorable to Epstein when they led to his death in the ‘hole’ of a high security prison even though he was supposed to be on suicide watch, but somehow had his fellow inmate removed and was not being properly monitored when he died and took his secrets to his grave.

Was any of this natural? Obviously not. Throughout Epstein’s long criminal career, law enforcement and assorted local, state and federal officials used various excuses to justify his special treatment. And while some of that may be explained by bribery, all of it cannot. No one walks in and just bribes the Manhattan DA’s office and Palm Beach is used to dealing with men wealthier than Epstein. And while law enforcement isn’t immune to corruption, there are fewer cops and prosecutors who would take bribes to betray their duties for a rapist of underage girls.

It would take more than money. It would take allegiance. The question is to whom?

To the CIA? If the CIA had the ability to command that level of allegiance across the country, it would be a very different creature from the incompetent mess that it really is. The FBI? There is strong evidence that Epstein had acted as an FBI informant at one point, but it’s highly doubtful that the Bureau would go to such lengths to enable his lifestyle or to put him down afterward.

Tucker Carlson and other agents of foreign influence from Muslim terrorist states like Qatar have mobilized to blame Israel, but if Epstein had been a Mossad operation, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak would not have been allowed to get close to him. And Epstein’s flight logs would have been filled with Muslim names instead of Naomi Campbell, Chris Tucker and Kevin Spacey. These are not the kind of people an intelligence agency is interested in, but it is the kind of list that a pimp to the parties of the rich and powerful would have assembled.

And the most powerful man in Epstein’s orbit was the former president of the United States.

The obsession with connecting Epstein to intelligence agencies foreign and domestic is a very 2025 response to a problem from the Clinton administration. And many people forgot a time when the entire political and media class expended its capital denying that President Bill Clinton was a career sexual predator and that his wife’s political future depended on covering up for him. Those cover-ups involved the FBI, local law enforcement and officials in different states.

Clinton’s sexual abuses were a kind of trial run for Epstein’s. And the most disturbing thing about them was how lying about them and covering up became a litmus test for Democrats. In the brief window between Bill’s exit and Hillary’s rise, some Democrats publicly bemoaned their role in enabling the utter corruption of the Clintons, but then the Clinton Foundation, which Jeffrey Epstein claimed to have co-founded, rose and critics of the Clintons shut up again.

What could have convinced local officials in three different states to lie and protect a rapist?

Allegiance to the CIA? Your average local official doesn’t care about the CIA. The Mossad? Still less likely. Even assuming some international Jewish conspiracy, many of the officials who colluded to give Epstein a pass were not Jewish. And the ones who were Jewish tended to be so liberal that their response to a request from the Mossad would have been “Free Palestine.”

There was one thing that the three places that protected Epstein had in common. Dems.

When New Mexico took Epstein’s name off the sex offender registry, Gov. Bill Richardson, a former Clinton official, ally and friend, was running the state into the ground. Richardson’s extreme corruption later denied him the chance to join the Obama administration. In Palm Beach County and Manhattan, Epstein dealt with Democrats, many of them with ties to the Clintons, who not only protected him, but also aided other Clinton sexual misconduct pals.

Former DA Cyrus Vance Jr., the son of Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state, had also protected Harvey Weinstein, but targeted Trump. Palm Beach prosecutor Barry Krischer had gone after Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter while giving Epstein a pass. The pattern is not hard to spot.

Democrats in different states didn’t just collude to aid Epstein, but other Clinton and Democrat donors, and they also colluded to target conservatives including Trump. This was not an intelligence operation, but a partisan political campaign much like Russiagate.

9 years ago, I assembled lists of sexual predators associated with the Clintons and Democrats. Epstein was just one of the names on that list. Rather than being a unique phenomenon, Jeffrey Epstein was part of a pattern of sexual crimes surrounding the Clintons and the Democrats.

Conservatives used to know that, but social media grifters have overrun the movement, some of them in the pay of foreign governments, and they obsessively push their agendas. Many are millennials who don’t even remember the Clintons. And the Clintons are less exciting now that Bill is a doddering old fool who can barely finish a sentence and defeat reduced Hillary to a bitter powerless shrew. But the Democrats have not become any less corrupt for it all.

Could the Jeffrey Epstein case happen today? Of course. And we watched it happen.

During the Biden administration, we witnessed the spectacle of multiple law enforcement agencies, federal and local, as well officials from across the government, collude to cover up the crimes of Hunter Biden despite public photo and video evidence of drug use, prostitution and behavior that would have landed any normal person behind bars for a decade or two.

We saw the president head up a money laundering operation across members of his family in a conspiracy involving corrupt meetings with foreign billionaires from Russia to China, and payments in diamonds and through shell accounts, blood money, and threats of torture in a Middle East dictatorship aimed at witnesses who tried to speak out against the Bidens.

Jeffrey Epstein is not a phenomenon. He’s just another day in the life of the Democrats.

It’s not the Deep State, it’s the Democrat State.

And whether it’s the Clintons, Obama or Biden, Democrats have shown that they will conspire to cover up any crime, no matter how awful, not for their country or any country, but for the party.

The Epstein case matters because it shows how corrupt the Democrats are. And those trying to divert attention from the Democrats to undermine Trump with their own agendas are not only hurting the president, but are aiding Epstein’s real backers so that their crimes will continue.

Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but as Hunter Biden showed us, there are plenty of ‘Epsteins’ out there. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donationThank you for reading.

 

 



Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Epstein Case: Far Ranging and Nuclear, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich Tags:  The Epstein Case: Far Ranging and Nuclear Part I, Part IIPart IIIPart IV

It was generally believed, and promised, President Donald Trump would bring in a team that would cut right through the Deep State like a hot knife through butter, and to a large degree they have.  So what happened with the Epstein case?  Let's start by saying it this is a coverup, it's not the first one involving Epstein.

This whole thing stunk to high heaven from the beginning, which I outline in Parts 1 through IV, but the phrase, "Something is rotten in the state Denmark", really is hitting home now.   As time went by nothing coming out of the DOJ, seemed to make sense, and so too with the FBI. 

They claim Epstein really did committed suicide, and have a video showing an empty hallway as proof, yet at least 1 minute is missing from the footage of his prison wing.   Bondi says according to the  Bureau of Prisons that minute is missing every night as they reset the video.  Okay, I can buy into that, but that doesn't explain why Epstein didn't have a cellmate after his was transferred and not replaced the night he died.  His guards were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes and didn't.  Two guards fell asleep at their desks and falsified their records, and two cameras were inoperable that night.   Given all the big time people allegedly involved in this case, doesn't that kinda seem suspicious?  Or is it a conspiracy theory?  After all, we need more conspiracy theories since so many of them have turned out to be true.  

They're claiming there's no evidence that Epstein blackmailed powerful political figures, yet no one can tell the world where all his billion dollar empire came from, none of which was reported to the IRS.  If Epstein wasn't blackmailing people, why did he have recorded tapes of their behavior?  There is an abundance of evidence that points to conspiracy to hide the truth as the DOJ announced they would not be pursuing charges against any of the criminals they have on tape. 

The FBI allegedly has “tens of thousands of videos” of sex crimes by wealthy powerful men.  If there's no conspiracy to cover up what went on, why is it then with all this evidence only Epstein an Ghislaine Maxwell were arrested?

And they're saying no further Epstein records will be released.  If there are no further records, why say they won't be released?  One former CIA Officer says the Deep State probably destroyed the list long ago.  A lot of people think that's really amazing since at one point Pam Bondi said the list was "on my desk right now".   

Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft asks: If there was No Epstein client list why did a New York court deny the Gateway Pundit’s legal request for the list based on an anonymous ‘John Doe’ who was allegedly on that list, if there is no list?  Hoft goes on to ask: 

Who is this person [John Doe] and why is he the lone person fighting to keep the Epstein client list hidden from public view?  What is his connection to Epstein?  Why did the court side with this anonymous and powerful power player?  

Nick Lopez notes in his commentary, The government's Epstein problem, "either they were lying then, or they’re lying now, maybe both. They don’t get to claim that there are no client lists after issuing statements going back over a decade saying there were “client lists”.  
 
And this from what was generally considered conservative leadership committed truth, justice and transparency.  One writer suggests the reason for this deception is now all that evidence of corruption can potentially lead to "blackmail-driven control over various heads of state and corporate leaders."  
 
But no matter what, I don't think this is going away, and I believe the stench of this could impact the administration.  But one thing is sure, the credibility of the "reformed" DOJ and FBI is now totally questionable.   
 
"Pamie, you got some splainin to do".   

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

The Jeffrey Epstein Bombshell

By Rich Kozlovich

Today I posted this article Assessing the Fallout From the Patel, Bongino Interview by and truth is that interview hit the fan.  I'm linking two more articles dealing with this, with kind of opposing views.

First, Jeffrey Epstein and trust in the government by Dawn Merrill saying:

Ah, Jeffrey Epstein.  We finally have an official statement from our own side, and it contradicts every last thing our own side has believed now for years. Let’s all approach this analytically. I would be willing to bet that no one reading this right now was there in that jail cell.  No one reading right now was on the island, on the plane, or anywhere else relevant to the case.  We have secondhand knowledge at best.  It is easy to believe a conspiracy theory.  It is hard to admit it if you are wrong.......It is time to put faith in our government and move on from the Epstein cause of death......We have bigger fish to fry! 

Then there's this one by Todd Baumann, Kash and Bongino losing trust over Epstein saying:   
 
This past weekend on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, FBI director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, made a stunning declaration: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.  That was it.  Case closed.  Bongino even said he’s “seen the file,” as if that alone should convince the American people to move on.  But that’s not how this works. I couldn’t tell if I was watching an interview or a hostage video.The public doesn’t owe Patel and Bongino blind trust, especially not on a matter this explosive.  In fact, their appearance on Bartiromo’s show torpedoed their credibility.  
 
He then went on to list all the amazing irregularities, some of which seem to me to be criminal:

  • The cameras outside Epstein’s cell mysteriously failed the night of his death.
  • Two guards assigned to check on him allegedly fell asleep and didn’t perform their rounds.
  • He was taken off suicide watch days after a prior “attempt,” against standard protocol.
  • He had no cellmate at the time, though he had had one shortly before.
  • The fractures in his hyoid bone and carotid artery were more consistent with strangulation than hanging, according to forensic experts.
  • Dr. Michael Baden, a prominent pathologist who observed the autopsy, publicly stated that the evidence pointed to homicide.
  • The staff at the prison were charged with falsifying records about their monitoring duties.  Those charges were later dropped.
  • Key documents and surveillance footage have never been released or are said to have disappeared.
  • The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) provided no meaningful accountability following his death.  The director of the BOP, appointed by Attorney General William Barr nine days after Epstein’s death, raises other questions.

He ends his commentary by saying:

Despite all this, the DOJ closed the case quietly and without holding anyone truly accountable.  This isn’t a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.  It’s a pattern of irregularities so staggering that any reasonable observer would demand real answers.

So, what's the answer? I have no idea, but I'm sure while this is going to pretty much end it officially, this is never going to end in people's minds.  Will we move on?  Yes, but this whole thing just stinks so badly.
 

Assessing the Fallout From the Patel, Bongino Interview

All in all, it was a riveting Q&A. 

By | May 20, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

Say what you will about new FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, but one thing is for certain: They are not boring. The second certainty is that they sure do know how to tease an audience. Both men fielded questions from Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday (May 18) and managed to infuriate some, please others, and leave everyone on both sides of the political aisle wondering what’s next.

In a wide-ranging interview, the FBI’s top cop and his wingman managed to touch on just about every political drama of the last eight years. They waxed about J6 events, Jeffrey Epstein, the two Trump assassination attempts, and the effort to rebuild public trust in America’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Time to Take a Deep Breath

Conspiracy theories that mysterious forces silenced Jeffrey Epstein went down like a thud when FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino asserted that everything he’s seen shows that the fallen financier did indeed commit suicide. “He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself,” Bongino interjected under pressure from Bartiromo. The backlash was swift, so much so that the former radio host felt the need to defend himself with a post on X, saying, “I was asked about some of the details surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case. I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. There’s no evidence in the case file indicating otherwise.”

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But that was only the beginning of the explosive topics. The events of Jan. 6 were also center stage, but this time it was Patel who piped up. He confirmed that 26 informants were in DC on that fateful day. However, none of them were directed to be there by the FBI. Patel also teased, “We just found a trove of information, and it’s on its way to Capitol Hill right now.” The only clear-cut point that Patel was willing to put on record was that soon a document dump would occur, the clouds would lift, the seas would part, and the events of Jan. 6 would finally be transparent to all.

Patel alluded to the coming clarity in this sound byte, often referred to as the money quote:

“Look, I can speak to the people who were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest DC deception game we’ve ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution, and it was, and will be again very soon. But when the likes of [James] Comey, [Andrew] McCabe, [Peter] Strzok, and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars – likely illegally – to fund this entire operation and then withhold exculpatory information from a federal court … That’s what broke the FBI. And then when they were caught, they lied about it.”

Patel insisted the Crossfire Hurricane documents are being brought to Congress “fast and hard” and “unredacted” and will ultimately be used to “restore the credibility” of the bureau.

The Patel, Bongino Road Show

Still, Patel made sure to tell Bartiromo that Americans must remember that the Federal Bureau of Investigation works under the Department of Justice – doing its bidding. So the real enemy here wasn’t the bureau but rather the DOJ. This is a somewhat specious argument at this point because it remains to be seen who went first – the chicken or the egg?

In other words, was the FBI acting under the Justice Department, or was it a rogue agency? Or did all this corruption originate from the executive branch? Patel and Bongino claim everything will soon be crystal clear. However, these questions and more still need forthright answers before blame can be assessed on all the corruption that many believe was at the heart of the Biden administration.

Patel and Bongino are now at the pinnacle of their power, serving in high-level positions. And they’ve claimed the mantle of the cowboys in the white hats, ready to take down the bad guys: 

“It’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency… Just give us about a week or two,” Patel asserted.

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Sunday, January 17, 2021

You Can Quit Because You Took Jeffrey Epstein's Dirty Cash And Still Be The Hero of a Spielberg Movie

January 13, 2021 @ Sultan Knish Blog

In November 2020, filming began on Oslo: an adaptation of the revisionist history Broadway play about the fake peace process between Israel and the PLO terrorist organization.

That same month, the man at the center of both the play and the movie, Terje Rød Larsen announced that he was stepping down as president and CEO of the International Peace Institute after it was revealed that he had taken a $130,000 personal loan from Jeffrey Epstein.

The International Peace Institute is closely linked to the United Nations and its honorary chair is usually the UN Secretary General. The notorious pedophile didn’t just give Larsen money, he also pumped $650,000 into the UN-linked group through his “foundations'' and the Norwegian paper that broke the story published emails showing that Larsen’s people were trying to move money from IPI back to Jeffrey Epstein. "For forms sake we should send it to Jeff, however I am sure we will get it back many fold!" Larsen appears to have written in one email.

It was 2016. The date on the original loan was in 2013. All of this took place years after the original Epstein case and his conviction. The ex-UN diplomat knew whom he was dealing with.

But the Epstein scandal didn’t stop Oslo from being produced by Steven Spielberg anyway. Or HBO from moving forward with plans to air a story about a disgraced Jeffrey Epstein associate.

Neither HBO nor Spielberg are strangers to revisionist history or anti-Israel propaganda.

Spielberg’s most infamous movie, Munich, equated the terrorists murdering Israeli civilians with the Israeli operatives trying to stop them, and was the work of screenwriter Tony Kushner who had declared that he wished Israel had never existed. HBO has been responsible for a litany of anti-Israel flicks, most recently, Our Boys, which was protested by the families of terror victims.

But Oslo is awkward because a man linked to the world’s most notorious pedophile is its hero.

Oslo, the original play, was born when Terje Rød Larsen modestly proposed it to director Bartlett Sher who is also directing the HBO movie. The director and the diplomat are good friends.

“We were part of a historic event which we have waited twenty years to see written about,” is how Larsen pitched his story.

The “historic event” has been written to death. The so-called peace agreement has killed more people than many actual wars. The real problem was that the story was fading away. And, most particularly, Larsen’s starring role in the story which is key to his fame and his career.

The premise of Oslo is that Larsen and his wife, Mona Juul, who still serves as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Norway Mission to the United Nations, got the “warring sides” to make peace by seeing each other as human beings for the first time. And it’s nonsense.

The true story of Oslo is how Israeli lefty radicals double-crossed their own country and government, violated laws against doing exactly what they were doing, made repeated concessions to the terrorists, and then presented a hoax of a peace agreement.

Arafat, the PLO, and the entire terrorist movement built around a fake ‘Palestinian’ nationality, never made peace, never recognized Israel, and were not going to stop killing Jews.

What was the whole thing really about? Long before Epstein, Larsen had been accused of trading cash for a Nobel Peace Prize. KÃ¥re Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee, alleged that Larsen got $100,000 from the Peres Center, a project of Israel’s notoriously corrupt left-wing foreign minister, to ensure that Shimon Peres would receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian government had been pumping millions of kroner into the Peres Peace Center which was writing a very large check to Larsen. Meanwhile Larsen was also sitting on the board of governors of the Peres Peace Center which was giving him an award and a big check.

The diplomat claimed that he had informed the Norwegian government to which it responded, "no one in the Foreign Ministry has known about these sums of money." There were also suggestions that it would investigate the role that Mona Juul, Larsen’s wife, who was also getting the prize money, had played in getting those millions of kroner to the Peace Center.

In 2002, a conservative Israeli government bounced Larsen, who was being billed as ‘Mr. Peace’, after he falsely accused Israel of having “lost all moral authority” while it was fighting the Islamic terrorists behind the Passover Massacre of thirty people: most of them senior citizens.

Larsen’s false claims of an Israeli massacre in Jenin that was “horrifying beyond belief”, “a shameful chapter in Israel’s history”, and rife with “the stench of death” were disproven. Even the UN’s own report found that 52 died, most of them terrorists, along with 23 Israeli soldiers.

Two years later, the PLO declared ‘Mr. Peace’ persona non-grata making Larsen’s unwantedness in the region about the only thing that the Israelis and the terrorists agreed on.

A few years later, it was discovered that all of the ‘Oslo Files’, the papers related to the so-called negotiations, had vanished from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The twists and turns in the search for those documents, and why they went missing would make for a much more interesting story than the tedious nonsense of Sher directing another glamorization of Larsen.

There are plenty of interesting angles to Larsen’s story that Spielberg and Sher won’t touch, but the real truth about Larsen is that his story matters much less than the devastation of Oslo. The backchannel wasn’t a triumph of peace, but a dirty leftist political trick that wrecked Israel’s security, touched off decades of intense violence in the region, and cost thousands of lives.

Oslo is another one of the same stories that the elite tell each other. Larsen and Sher got to know each other because their daughters attended the same Manhattan private school. Larsen and J.T. Rogers, the playwright, then met up at an “Upper West Side haunt” for drinks. Oslo did well on Broadway by way of being touted by the New York Times, and will be an HBO movie.

There is one giant hole in Oslo’s story about the power of Norwegian diplomats who send their kids to Manhattan private schools to make peace. There wasn’t and isn’t any actual peace.

The only meaningful peace accords in the region that led to normalization weren’t made by Larsen, Clinton, Peres, and Rabin, but by Trump, Netanyahu, and conservative leaders. Oslo is nostalgic peace porn from the elites who failed miserably, though not at getting rich or getting a lot of people killed, calculated to obscure the real world triumphs of Trump and Netanyahu.

Jeffrey Epstein thrived in these same elitist circles and was plugged into the same networks. When Larsen, previously earning around half a million a year as head of the IPI, needed $130,000, he was there to lend it to him. And provide cash and connections for countless members of the elite, trading favors, offering introductions, and palling around with everyone.

Oslo isn’t about Israel or Islamic terrorism. Like everything the decadent cultural industry of our country makes, it’s about that incestuous world whose key players all send their kids to the same private schools, hang out at the same bars, and agree on the same basic things. They’re also very good at not seeing things like abused teenage girls or thousands of dead people.

If Bartlett Sher wanted to make a truly relevant and groundbreaking play, he would tell the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s network and of the girls he abused, some of them the same age as his daughter. But that play, unlike his theatrical smears of American foreign policy in Afghanistan and the Middle East, would never be put on, and would be quickly sunk by the New York Times.

And Spielberg, and the rest of the gang, along with HBO, wouldn’t turn it into a movie.

The real life players and their fictional counterparts in this world give each other awards and good reviews. They write about the world, but the only world they know is their own, and despite the dictum of writing what you know, they have little interest in writing about the horrors in their own world, when they can write about how their friends brought peace to the Middle East.

Oslo unintentionally explains why the professional peacemakers failed so miserably. It wasn’t only Jeffrey Epstein’s abused girls they couldn’t see, but the limits of their own corrupt hubris. They promise to solve the problems of the people who aren’t as famous and connected as they are, but fail horribly every single time, only to spin those failures as historic successes.

And if the New York Times says so, it must be true.

The true story of Oslo is a tale of corruption, death, and bloodshed. It’s about the price that ordinary people paid when the elites got their way. It’s about Jewish senior citizens murdered while celebrating Passover, schoolgirls blown up on buses, and children shot in the head. It’s a million miles away from the world of Off-Broadway plays and Manhattan private schools, skyscraper boardrooms and Brentwood mansions that spawned Oslo’s revisionist history.

The violence unleashed by Oslo’s empowered terrorists in Israel fell heaviest on working class people riding the bus to their jobs or commuting to cheaper homes in Judea and Samaria.

While Oslo films in Prague, the terrorism continues in Israel. And Jeffrey Epstein’s old associates look forward to being able to watch Oslo’s message that the elites know best while paying no attention to the terrorism, to Larsen’s scandals, or to their own corruption.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

This article first appeared exclusively at Front Page Magazine.
 

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

With the Epstein Documents Unsealed, The FBI Is Dragged Back into the Limelight...And It's Not Good

Matt Vespa Jul 31, 2020

 Well, last night they were unsealed. The Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell documents were unsealed. There some new stuff, some old stuff, but frankly, most of the creepy allegations that you already knew were further corroborated.

We have witness statements. We have emails allegedly sent between Epstein and Maxwell, where the former coaches her in how to deny the allegations lobbed against him. Maxwell, as noted in other reports, appears to be a key player in this alleged child trafficking scheme. She’s the one who allegedly orders these underage girls to give erotic massages. And yes, Bill Clinton is named in these documents as someone who was on Epstein’s island with Maxwell, and two young girls. Remember, these are merely allegations, but there’s a lot of smoke here. Enough to indict Epstein before his suicide, another event engulfed in controversy.

Alan Dershowitz, a renowned liberal attorney, is also named in these documents. I’ll let you read the allegations against him. What’s new is that it appears the Federal Bureau of Investigation were quite privy to the creepy allegations and activities that surrounded Mr. Epstein—and they did nothing about it. In 2014, they were in contact with an alleged victim and did nothing. One victim even contacted the FBI to see if they could turn over the items seized from Epstein’s property to assist in her civil case. One of the victims who came forward is featured in a picture with Prince Andrew and Maxwell. The FBI had their own file on this for years, even before the bureau interview the alleged victim in 2011. The plea deal is also included. It seems it went ahead before federal authorities had interviewed all of Epstein’s alleged victims...............To Read More....

My Take - A number of things seem clear to me.
  • First, it seems clear Epstein's suicide wasn't. 
  • Second, it seem clear, based on Epstien's "suicide" Maxwell was in hiding in fear for her life as she was in fear of her arrest. 
  •  Third, it seem clear to me if she wants to ever see freedom again, she's going to have to spill her guts about all her "clients", and they are big name and powerful people. 
  • Fourth, these powerful people can only stay out of prison if Trump is defeated. 
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Tick...tick...tick — the stench of Epstein closing in on Bill Clinton

January 9, 2020 By Monica Showalter

Much of the fallout of the Jeffrey Epstein "pedophilia among the powerful" scandal has fallen onto Prince Andrew of the U.K., an insignificant second son of Queen Elizabeth II.  The pervert's suicide, though, and the increasingly suspicion-arousing circumstances, point to much more important people.  As I've argued before, the media scrum around Andrew seemed to be an attempt to deflect attention from more powerful players involved with Epstein as the story burns out and the public loses interest.

Beneficiary number one remains Bill Clinton, whose associations with Epstein are pretty astonishing.  He's been listed on the flight logs of more than two dozen Epstein "Lolita Express" flights.  He's been a regular at Epstein's "cowboy village" in New Mexico with its group showers, which, based on the word of maintenance staff, seemed to be all about perversion out of the public eye.  He's been seen with all those candy-stripers.

Well, now the lid's starting to bounce on that boiling pot, and maybe too soon for Bill's taste.  The Sun of the U.K.'s new U.S. edition now has an astonishing series of photos of Clinton livin' it up on Epstein's airplanes, Clinton posing with Epstein's accused pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Clinton whooping it up with underage staff, generally partying hearty on the pervert's dime.  Yet to this day, he claims to know nothing about what Epstein was about, never noticed a thing.......To Read More...

Monday, September 9, 2019

Did Jeffrey Epstein have something on the New York Times's big shots?

September 8, 2019 By Monica Showalter

Ronan Farrow has done it again: Exposed the power players who prey on women for profit in his new piece for the New Yorker.

This time, it's not Harvey Weinstein but Bill Clinton's 'Lolita Express' captain, Jeffrey Epstein, who had a sick thing for underaged girls, a lot of unexplained money to throw around, and many prominent Democrats, academics, and Hollywood figures in his little black book. His game was to get prominent people on his hook over his sex traps and then call the shots. He mysteriously committed 'suicide' while in prison last month, leaving lots of perverts and compromised people relieved.

Farrow's piece targets one of the places where Epstein had the the hooks in, the MIT Media Lab, a group that focuses on putting unrelated sciences together to solve global problems. Epstein was donating money to MIT Media Labs and they were taking it, despite his earlier Florida conviction on sex with child prostitutes charges, which on paper rendered him a pariah they couldn't take money from. They were, but they were covering it up, which in the last day or two has led to the resignation of its director, Joi Ito.

Farrow doesn't get every story right, but he seems to have done a Weinstein-level one with this story, something that rightly earned him a Pulitzer prize earlier.

Here's the thing though: As with the Weinstein story, the information was out there, it just wasn't being reported in the mainstream press............. To Read More

My Take - This story isn't going to go away until someone goes to jail.  Actually a lot of someones.  Someones who are prominent.  I've said in the past this is nuclear, and it's nuclear on an international scale for a lot of people, including the media, who've clearly been a party in covering this up. 

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein: Another Clinton-related 'suicide'

August 25, 2019 By Daniel John Sobieski

For now, Jeffrey Epstein's death is officially a suicide, but something still smells fishy, as Dr. Marc Siegel noted on  Fox News recently.Based on the evidence and autopsy, he doesn't rule out foul play.  It could be a suicide that was allowed to happen or even encouraged, what with guards falling asleep, guard logs being falsified, cellmates being removed.  As BizPacReview reports:
"Something in this situation really smells,"............"I don't know what happened here, but I don't like the way it's being put together,"........ "There's too many convenient excuses, there's too many people — as you say — looking the other way."  
The question to ask in crimes or suspicious deaths is always who would benefit from this individual's death........... Bill Clinton had a habit of ditching his Secret Service protection when flying with child predator Epstein on the latter's "Lolita Express"...........

There is a joke going around that former FBI director James Comey decided not to prosecute Hillary Clinton  because he found his suicide note in her files.  It doesn't seem so funny anymore...........To Read More.... 

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Who’s Worse: Jeffrey Epstein Or The Mainstream Media?

Chris Stigall | Aug 15, 2019

The New York Times just published what’s known as an “on background” conversation between one of their business reporters, James B. Stewart, and the now dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

“On background” is journalism speak for an interview subject leaking information to a media outlet and in exchange remaining anonymous in the story. You the viewer/reader won’t ever know the source of the information.

In 2019, it’s the media standard when you’re talking about Donald Trump. “Sources say, close associate says, a White House insider tells us, a close friend of the President says, a former employee says…” That’s “on background.”

Personally, I think it’s shoddy and disgusting to build supposed “news” stories around people who aren’t willing to identify themselves when discussing political matters. Of course there are times anonymity is critical.............

It’s classic, actually. A famous criminal befriends a beat reporter and the reporter agonizes over the human frailty of the subject they’re interviewing. They strike up a long, strained friendship as the reporter tries to separate the misdeeds of the felon he’s befriended from the personal bond they share. I think I’ve seen at least six movies like it..............

It’s reported George Stephanopoulos and Katie Couric were just two of many well-connected people who dined at Epstein’s home well after his child sex conviction.............

Epstein was a sick but unashamed, unrepentant, and unapologetic figure until his death in a jail cell last week. Powerful media people knew it and hobnobbed with him anyway..........To Read More...

You Should Totally Trust Our Elite Institutions...Not

Kurt Schlichter |Aug 15, 2019

All you crazy kooks who doubt our accomplished and selfless elite and the institutions our elites manage are crazy kooks, willing participants in crazy kooky conspiracy theories that are both crazy and kooky. Also, Donald Trump was totally a Russian agent who did lines of emoluments off a hooker’s tummy alongside Putin in Moscow.

You look at something like America’s most notorious prisoner, Jeffrey Epstein, suddenly gacking himself in federal custody after having tried to do it a couple weeks ago, and you’re not wrong for wondering if maybe there’s a bit more to the tale than some short eyed strange-o choking himself out. After all, he was known to cavort with other elite pervs – mostly Democrats and at least one married to Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit. Certainly, it’s a reasonable possibility – probably the most likely possibility – that he opted for asphyxiation since his future was distinctly dank going forward. His new friends in the slam would be a bit old and male for his taste........

So, you have questions about Epstein’s death? Good, because you should. Our elite is a burning dumpster fire of failure that would have to exponentially improve to achieve mediocrity. If their track record wasn’t one of fiasco followed by foul-up over the last thirty years, maybe you could give it the benefit of the doubt. But then, a ruling caste that’s not utterly irredeemable would never have produced and partied with a Jeffrey Epstein in the first place, now would it?..........To Read More....

Epstein Committed Suicide or Arkancide

Monty Pelerin

Arkancide describes Clinton associates who died mysteriously. The Urban Dictionary defines it:
Arkancide is the favored method of getting rid political enemies in the state of Arkansas. When the medical examiners explain away two bodies filled with bullets as a case of suicide, it’s obvious they caught a case of arkancide.
The term became popular when the Clintons became national figures. The internet is filled with information (mostly unverified) of the Clinton Body Count.

Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide or Arkancide. If it were Arkancide, it does not necessarily mean the Clintons were involved............To Read More....

Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around his death

Carol Leonnig, Aaron Davis

An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.

Among the bones broken in Epstein’s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said.

The details are the first findings to emerge from the autopsy of Epstein, a convicted sex offender and multimillionaire in federal custody on charges of sex trafficking. He died early Saturday morning after guards found him hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and he could not be revived. ........To Read More....

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

In Short-Staffed Jail, Epstein Was Left Alone for Hours; Guard Was Substitute

Ali Watkins, Katie Benner and Danielle Ivory

One of the two people guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he apparently hanged himself in a federal jail cell was not a full-fledged correctional officer, and neither guard had checked on Mr. Epstein for several hours before he was discovered, prison and law-enforcement officials said.

Those details emerged on Monday as Attorney General William P. Barr sharply criticized the management of the federal jail in Manhattan where Mr. Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, was found dead on Saturday morning.

“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation,” said Mr. Barr, who, as the country’s top law enforcement official, is responsible for federal prisons.

“We will get to the bottom of what happened,” he added. “There will be accountability.”.........To Read More....


My Take - The plot thickens!!!! "Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark".

What Happened to Jeffrey Epstein?

A mysterious criminal dies a mysterious death.

August 12, 2019 Daniel Greenfield

New York City’s Civic Center is a maze of courts, prisons, and offices that begins where Chinatown ends; past relics like a 17th century Jewish cemetery and an 1819 seaman’s church. Park Row is barricaded and blocked off by the brutalist infrastructure of One Police Plaza..........The Metropolitan Correctional Center is the most obscure of the Civic Center buildings (except to its inmates and their families), its brutalist mass huddling in a blockaded zone, even as it has housed countless famous inmates from John Gotti to Bernie Madoff, from the Blind Sheikh to El Chapo..........

Somebody did not want the inmate in a cell on one of the top floors of the MCC testifying, even though the job of MCC personnel isn’t just to lock them up, but to keep them from dying. Before Jeffrey Epstein, Mafia kingpins, drug lords and terrorists had come and gone. A helicopter rescue operation had failed.

And then Epstein had somehow managed to impossibly hang himself in his cell................suicide watch inmates are supposed to wear straitjackets. The sheets are paper thin, the ceiling is 9 feet high and there’s nothing to attach a rope to............. “for reasons unknown”, and the guards weren’t monitoring him every 30 minutes as they were supposed to............

Who could possibly penetrate Manhattan’s most secure detention facility? Who had the political influence to manipulate events within MCC’s walls? Who could do what Chapo’s confederates couldn’t?.............Someone at the federal level had protected Epstein. And someone at the federal level may have decided that he was better off dead............To Read More.....

Monday, August 12, 2019

Epstein Affair: "Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark".

By Rich Kozlovich

There's a whole lot being made over this issue of excessive bail in the Epstein case.  I find that strange, but I find it compelling for a number of reasons, which I will come back to later. 

In point of fact, I find this whole affair so strange, going back to the original charges against him where he practically got off scot free, that it isn't possible to avoid theorizing about a conspiracy.  Apparently I'm not the only one as this cartoon demonstrates.

An editorial appearing in the The New York Sun on August 11, 2019 entitled, Should Epstein Have Been Granted Bail? brings up an issue of excessive bail and the Constitution. The 8th Amendment of the Constitution states “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”  Remember, bail is to insure defendants will appear at their trial. It's not to be a punishment, it's not to balance the ability of the poor versus the rich to pay, it's to insure appearance.

The Sun goes on to show what Epstein's attorneys were prepared to do to insure his appearance in court saying:
"It proposed 14 conditions to “guarantee his appearance and abate any conceivable danger he’s claimed to present."
Among them being:
  • .....detention in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion “with permission to leave only for medical appointments as approved by Pretrial Services.”
  • ..........surveillance cameras at the front and rear entrances.
  • ........ “electronic monitoring with a Global Positioning System,” that, unlike the old radio bracelets, tracks the wearer in real time.
  • Epstein also offered not to seek a new passport.
  •   He would consent to extradition from “any country.”
  •  He would waive “all rights against such extradition.”
  • ........a personal bond in an amount set by the court.
  • It would be secured by Epstein’s $77 million Manhattan townhouse and his private plane, which Epstein would “deregister or otherwise ground.”
  • Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark....... would “serve as a co-surety of the bond,” to be also secured by Mark Epstein’s home in West Palm Beach.
  • A friend, David Mitchell, would pledge some of his investment interests.
  • letter proposed to “demobilize, ground, and/or deregister” all Jeffrey Epstein’s vehicles “or any other means of transportation in the New York area.”
  • no person would “enter the residence, other than Mr. Epstein and his attorneys, without prior approval.”
  • Epstein would “report daily by telephone to Pretrial Services (or on any other schedule the Court wanted).” 
  • one or more trustees would be appointed “to live in Mr. Epstein’s residence and report any violation to Pretrial Services and/or the Court.”
The article goes on to say:
One might be tempted to ask what further the court could demand without the bail being constitutionally “excessive.”
When you consider all the Epstein team offered it bodes well the question they ask at the start of the article:
Should Jeffrey Epstein have been granted bail?
However, it appears his alledged co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, can't be found and is living abroad. Her "five-story Manhattan townhouse was sold in 2016 for $15 million by a company that used the address of Epstein’s New York office." Did this enter into the government decision to demand bail be rejected?

This whole thing boggles my sense of reality, not to mention justice. It seems abundantly clear all the powerful people he was involved with used their influence to help him a the beginning. Can I, or anyone else, prove that? As far as I can tell the answer is no. However, considering the outcome does that sound irrational? I don't think so!

Regading his suicide, I don't know what happened, and perhaps I missed it, but it appears to me no one is telling us what happened, or how it happened, and as of a 8:30 pm Sunday when I wrote this piece, NBC claims, "After autopsy, cause of Jeffrey Epstein's death awaits 'further information'. 

The whole thing stinks to high heaven!

The media has stated this guy had tapes of prominent people in compromised positions. Tapes he allegedly used to blackmail them. Is that true? I don't know, but we do know very powerful prominent people were involved in his activities, so I think it rationally begs the question: Did he commit suicide, or did he get murdered?

Since the person who was supposed to be watching him wasn't watching him, could he have been murdered to prevent him from going on trial? Does that seem like an irrational question? Based on events and the potential damage he could do by testifying, I don't think so.

If he went on trial would he have sold everyone down the river for some consideration? I'd bet the farm on that, but with him dead, and without a trial, will it all come out? If there really are tapes will these people be exposed and prosecuted. I don't know the answer to that either. No one does it seems at this point, but does that sound like an irrational question? I don't think so.

I know, I know, there's no such thing as a conspiracy, unless of course it's a "vast right wing conspiracy", and maybe he really did just commit suicide, but as the guard Marcellus said in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

Friday, July 26, 2019

So who were the Democratic Party 'faves' in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book?

July 25, 2019 By Monica Showalter

Jeffrey Epstein, the man dubbed the "Palm Beach Pervert," by Forbes in 2011, is now in jail awaiting trial for running a child-sex racket. Up until now, he's always dodged trouble, but now he's under intense scrutiny by both the press and prosecutors. The idea, of course, was to pin Epstein to Trump, now that the Russia collusion narrative has collapsed.

But then there was that intriguing statement by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, that a lot of Democrat "faves" might be going down. Remember this from the Washington Examiner? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter said that some favorite figures of both the Right and Left may be implicated in the sex trafficking case alleged against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
"This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may — whether on Republicans or Democrats," Christine Pelosi tweeted Saturday after news of Epstein's arrest broke.
 Faves? Really? I wrote a bit about that here.

Epstein's Little Black Book is out (actually, it's been out since 2015 and dates to 2005) and is now the subject of many news stories featuring the bankers, celebrities and billionaires who populated it, and above all, Donald Trump, who pretty well hit all the categories. You can go here, here, here and here and see how so much of the press focus is on how Trump's name appears in it. ...........To Read More...

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The Epstein Case: Far Ranging and Nuclear, Part IV

By Rich Kozlovich

It's being claimed trying Epstein now is a case of double jeopardy, and mostly because of Acosta's handling of the plea agreement.  But that's in federal court. New evidence in the old cases won't cut it.  It will take evidence of new offences, and apparently they don't have that....yet! 

However, in this February 2019 article they state:
Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday. 
While the decision marks a victory for crime victims, the federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an order resolving the case. He instead gave federal prosecutors 15 days to confer with Epstein’s victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement. The victims did not seek money or damages as part of the suit. 
It’s not clear whether the victims, now in their late 20s and early 30s, can, as part of the settlement, demand that the government prosecute Epstein. But others are calling on the Justice Department to take a new look at the case in the wake of the judge’s ruling.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226577419.html#storylink=cpy
Will that be a factor in this case?  I have to believe it will.  But one thing seems clear to me, and that is none of this prevents local and state prosecutors from taking action.  This is getting too big for the locals to ignore, and someone will have to step up and be counted. 


Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Epstein Case: Far Ranging and Nuclear, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich

What's becoming clear is this is going to be truly sordid and a lot of prominent people are going to be involved.  Was his fortune acquired by blackmailing people?  I have my doubts about that because I think they wanted in on his disgraceful behavior.  All this strikes me as a kind of a Roman thing in modern times.  Here' are my picks for the day on this issue.


Trump Clears Democrat Smokescreen with Removal of Acosta - The hysterical and almost totally unwarranted attack on Alexander Acosta was a way to divert attention from Bill Clinton's squalid relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Clinton Dashes Into The Bunker When Pressed About Jeffrey Epstein 'Lolita Express' Flights - Billionaire former hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested and charged with sex crimes against minors. It was apparently a long time coming and many already knew the stories of his aberrant and perverse sexual proclivities.

Jeffrey Epstein Accused Of Witness Tampering After Allegedly Wiring $350,000 - Billionaire and heinous pervert Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of tampering with a witness after allegedly wiring $350,000 to two people who could have been potential witnesses against him. He was arrested for trafficking underage girls earlier this week and will appear in court Monday. According to the New York Times, the allegation was revealed in a new court filing in which "prosecutors said that Mr. Epstein had paid significant amounts of money to influence individuals who were close to him and who might be witnesses against him at trial."

Theories Fly: Was Epstein Running a Massive Blackmail Scheme And Was He An Intelligence Asset? - His position untenable and his saga inflicting an endless parade of headache-inducing news cycles upon the White House, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced his resignation this morning. Some of the points he made in his own defense at a lengthy press conference this week seemed fair and valid, but his combination of buck-passing, contrived helplessness, and selective talking points left numerous questions unanswered. So he's out. The stomach-turning Epstein case is far from over, of course, and one gets the sense that there's much more sordidness lurking beneath its already-seedy and disturbing surface.