Y'all following this Epstein mess?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Cuddles, Feb 23, 2019.

  1. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Don't feel so bad, she still owes Donnie $300ish k. I'm guessing the shennanigans were so egregious that Columbus had to cough up. Did Mike get her that deal? The settlements for the border kids are going to be Uuuuge, Avenatti should jump on board, should be able to skim enough to pay his legal fees.
     
    #211     Jan 27, 2020
  2. Did you even look at the video you posted? Support your statements, please. Bonus points for a Who, What, Where, When, Why, or How.

    It would be glorious if the names of the protected powerful pedophiles were released to the public. Whether by hack, accident, or court order, it would be glorious. Democrat, Republican, Representative, Senator, Supreme Court Justice, or President, expose them all. Just one time in human history I would like those who consider themselves above the law that violate public trust and standards of societal conduct be named and removed from power in the most humiliating way possible. Perhaps then it will give pause to future politicians who consider our children as sex toys.
     
    #212     Jan 27, 2020
  3. easymon1

    easymon1

    $450K, Krikey!
    Wonder if Owen Shroyer knows that.

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    #213     Jan 27, 2020
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    #214     Jan 28, 2020
  5. easymon1

    easymon1

    Is Epstein Still Alive?
    By RUSSIAN TROLL on 02/05/2020



    Mysterious Money Transfers Uncovered Between Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate And Secretive Bank
    By RUSSIAN TROLL on 02/05/2020

    Estate records reveal that millions of dollars were transferred from the estate of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a secretive bank he established in the Virgin Islands six years ago, according to the New York Times.

    The bank, Southern Country International, was one of the territory’s first international banking entities, and was only authorized to conduct business with offshore clients. The Times notes that its 2014 approval was unusual, given that Epstein was a convicted sex offender by that time.

    After Epstein’s death last August in a Manhattan jail cell, $15.5 million was transferred to the bank from his estate in December. $2.6 million was then transferred back to the estate, leaving $12.9 million in the mysterious bank.

    Emigrate While You Still Can!

    Two weeks later, all but $499,759 had vanished.

    According to Virgin Islands magistrate judge, Carolyn Hernon-Purcell, “There’s no explanation” for why Southern Country would be receiving checks from the estate.

    A lawyer for the estate responded that some of the payment had been made in error, but the judge was not satisfied with his response and asked him to follow up with a fuller accounting.

    The checks — listed in the estate’s transactions for routine payments such as cable-TV bills and phone service for Mr. Epstein’s many properties — stand out. The list of payments were filed with Judge Hermon-Purcell, who is overseeing his $635 million estate, including the possible establishment of a compensation fund for his victims. –New York Times

    The Times notes that during roughly the same period as Southern Country International bank was established, the Virgin Islands granted a lucrative tax break to a company owned by Epstein, Southern Trust, which was “developing sophisticated algorithms to mine DNA and financial databases,” according to the report.

    Curiously, “The tax break came from the territory’s Economic Development Authority, which was approved by the territory’s former governor, John de Jongh Jr., while his wife, Cecile, worked for Mr. Epstein. Neither Ms. de Jongh nor her husband returned messages seeking comment,” the Times reports.

    The tax break, granted in 2013, was a boon for Mr. Epstein. Southern Trust generated about $300 million in profit in six years, and he paid an effective tax rate of about 3.9 percent. The source of Southern Trust’s revenue is not clear; the bare-bones corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin Islands do not list any clients. –New York Times

    Last month, Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise N. George sued Epstein’s estate, arguing that the deceased pedophile had tarnished the territory’s reputation. The lawsuit seeks to seize Epstein’s private islands and dissolve his shell companies she says were fronts for his sex-trafficking enterprise.

    George claims that girls as young as 11 and 12 were brought to his private estate on Little Saint James (or simply ‘pedo island’) – where former President Bill Clinton and other high-profile guests reportedly vacationed, according to several Epstein accusers. Epstein kept a computerized database to track the availability and movements of his victims, according to the New York Times.

    The suit seeks to intervene in the administration of Mr. Epstein’s will to safeguard assets for dozens of his victims, claiming the coexecutors may have a conflict of interest because they were officers in many of Mr. Epstein’s companies, including Southern Country and Southern Trust. The coexecutors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, did not return requests for comment.

    “Epstein clearly used the Virgin Islands and his residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands at Little Saint James as a way to be able to conceal and to be able to expand his activity here,” said George.

    And it looks like Epstein’s bank may have been part of that expansion. What his executors are doing with it now is anyone’s guess.

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    #215     Feb 5, 2020
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/jeffrey-epstein-estate-bank.html

    Jeffrey Epstein’s Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death
    Southern Country International received millions of dollars from Mr. Epstein’s estate in December.

    In the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender, he closed his money management firm and started a business to develop algorithms and mine DNA and financial databases.

    Then he set up a bank.

    In a banking license application reviewed by The New York Times, Mr. Epstein described himself as one of the investing world’s “pioneers” and said he wanted to pursue the “dynamic discipline of international banking.”

    Officials in the Virgin Islands, the United States territory where Mr. Epstein set up most of his businesses, approved a license for him in 2014 to run one of the territory’s first international banking entities, a specialized bank that can do business only with offshore clients. The approval was unusual, given Mr. Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.

    The bank, Southern Country International, renewed its license for each of the next five years, but it’s unclear whether it conducted any business or had any customers. Mr. Epstein, who died while in federal custody last summer following his arrest on sex trafficking charges, does not appear to have done any marketing for the bank or hired much staff.

    The bank was created under a territorial law that lacked many of the oversight requirements banks are usually subject to, and its regulatory file is largely empty. A lawyer for Mr. Epstein told officials in the Virgin Islands in 2018 that Southern Country had not commenced operations. And regulators in the territory said they did not exercise oversight of the bank because it did not appear to be doing any business.

    And yet, after Mr. Epstein’s death, his estate transferred more than $12 million to Southern Country, according to court documents.

    On Tuesday, at a court hearing in the Virgin Islands on motions involving Mr. Epstein’s estate, a magistrate judge, Carolyn Hermon-Purcell, questioned the estate’s lawyers about the transfers to Southern Country, saying the disclosure was not satisfactory. The judge said she did not know why Southern Country would be receiving checks from the estate. “There’s no explanation for it,” she said.

    A lawyer for the estate responded that some of the payment had been made in error, but the judge was not satisfied with his response and asked him to follow up with a fuller accounting.

    The checks — listed in the estate’s transactions for routine payments such as cable-TV bills and phone service for Mr. Epstein’s many properties — stand out. The list of payments were filed with Judge Hermon-Purcell, who is overseeing his $635 million estate, including the possible establishment of a compensation fund for his victims.

    That Mr. Epstein was able to get a banking license in the first place is unusual.

    His 2008 conviction in Florida on a charge of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl required him to register as a sex offender. Most bank operators doing business in the United States are required to undergo rigorous background checks, and most banking institutions are subject to oversight by the arm of the Treasury that investigates suspicious financial transactions. Neither was required by the Virgin Islands when Mr. Epstein submitted the application in 2013.

    The territory had passed its international banking entity law a year earlier, in hopes of enticing investment from overseas. It modeled its law on that of Puerto Rico, where international banking entities have existed for three decades.

    Such organizations are attractive to offshore investors because the banks are able to offer more favorable tax treatment than the investors’ own countries can. In return, the territories expect residents to manage the banks, even though they cannot use the banks’ services.

    These specialized banks have drawn scrutiny because of their potential for abuse, including money laundering. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York describes international bank entities in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as “high-risk” institutions. Last year, it temporarily suspended applications for them to obtain financial services from the Fed until it can issue stricter rules for them.

    Mr. Epstein was carefully evasive in answering a question on the application that was meant to reveal information about an applicant’s criminal record. His response mentioned his guilty plea to state charges in Florida, but it played down other elements of the case.

    “For a relatively brief period, in what has otherwise been a productive and accomplished life,” the application said, Mr. Epstein “did face some legal difficulties relating to matters alleged to have taken place seven years ago.” The application noted that a federal investigation had been “discontinued.”

    But that answer was misleading, said Richard Scott Carnell, a former assistant secretary for financial institutions at the Treasury Department. The application did not reflect that Mr. Epstein’s plea deal included an agreement with federal prosecutors, who promised not to bring their own charges. The agreement acknowledged that federal authorities had compiled a long list of other possible underage victims.

    “Bank regulators expect applicants to be candid,” said Mr. Carnell, now an associate professor at Fordham Law School. “You’d never suspect there was a nonprosecution agreement. As a bank regulator, I’d be outraged to learn that an applicant had misled me in that way.”

    In his application, Mr. Epstein listed as references James E. Staley, the chief executive of Barclays who had cultivated a relationship with Mr. Epstein while at JPMorgan Chase. Another reference was Andrew Farkas, a New York real estate tycoon and co-owner of a marina and office complex on St. Thomas with Mr. Epstein. Spokesmen for both men said they had been unaware they were listed as references, along with JPMorgan and FirstBank, a Puerto Rico-based lender with branches in the Virgin Islands that long held some of Mr. Epstein’s accounts.

    The application was submitted by Erika A. Kellerhals, a longtime tax lawyer for Mr. Epstein in the Virgin Islands. She did not return requests for comment.

    Southern Country had not commenced doing business as of April 2018, according to correspondence between Ms. Kellerhals and the territory’s banking department. Regulators said the bank was a “self-reporting” company and did not require additional regulatory oversight if it was not operational.

    But court documents show Southern Country was active for some of last year.

    Records filed by the estate on Friday indicate that Southern Country had $693,157 in assets when Mr. Epstein died on Aug. 10. Then, in mid-December, the estate transferred $15.5 million to Southern Country in two checks. Southern Country sent back $2.6 million, leaving the total it received at $12.9 million. The documents filed by the estate do not give a reason for the transfers.

    It’s also not clear what Southern Country did with that money. Two weeks later, the year-end value of Southern Country’s assets was $499,759, according to the estate’s filings.

    The estate has told officials in the Virgin Islands that it does not intend to renew the bank’s license again.

    Around the time the territory granted Mr. Epstein his banking license, it also gave a lucrative tax break to Southern Trust, a company Mr. Epstein said was developing sophisticated algorithms to mine DNA and financial databases. The tax break came from the territory’s Economic Development Authority, which was approved by the territory’s former governor, John de Jongh Jr., while his wife, Cecile, worked for Mr. Epstein. Neither Ms. de Jongh nor her husband returned messages seeking comment.

    The tax break, granted in 2013, was a boon for Mr. Epstein. Southern Trust generated about $300 million in profit in six years, and he paid an effective tax rate of about 3.9 percent. The source of Southern Trust’s revenue is not clear; the bare-bones corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin Islands do not list any clients.

    Although the Virgin Islands was long a place where Mr. Epstein got his way, it has lately cast itself as one of his victims.

    In a lawsuit last month, the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, Denise N. George, said Mr. Epstein had sullied the territory’s reputation with his conduct. She sued Mr. Epstein’s estate, seeking to seize his private islands and dissolve what she said were shell companies acting as fronts for his sex-trafficking enterprise.

    The suit seeks to intervene in the administration of Mr. Epstein’s will to safeguard assets for dozens of his victims, claiming the coexecutors may have a conflict of interest because they were officers in many of Mr. Epstein’s companies, including Southern Country and Southern Trust. The coexecutors, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, did not return requests for comment.

    Judge Hermon-Purcell, the magistrate judge overseeing the administration of Mr. Epstein’s will in the Virgin Islands, heard arguments on the attorney general’s request at the hearing on Tuesday. The judge said she would issue a ruling at a later date.
     
    #216     Feb 6, 2020
  7. easymon1

    easymon1

  8. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...one-videotape-ghislaine-maxwell-alleged-have/

    'Epstein and I have everyone on videotape' Ghislaine Maxwell alleged to have confided
    Socialite with links to royal family reveals she has spoken to FBI about friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ms Maxwell

    Ghislaine Maxwell told a former acquaintance that she and Jeffrey Epstein had “everything on videotape,” it has been claimed.

    Christina Oxenberg, a socialite and distant relative of the royals, said Ms Maxwell also once told her that Epstein had purchased his own helicopter because commercial pilots were “eyes and ears” they did not need.

    She revealed she had spoken to the FBI about what she had been told.

    Ms Oxenberg, 57, first met Maxwell in the early 1990s and said she would never forget a conversation the pair once had in Maxwell’s home.

    “We were alone,” she said. “She said many things. All creepy. Unorthodox. Strange. I could not believe whatever she was saying was real. Stuff like: 'Jeffrey and I have everyone on videotape.’”

    Several sources have also claimed that Epstein secretly filmed his guests using hidden surveillance cameras scattered throughout his Manhattan mansion.

    Ms Maxwell is also said to have told Ms Oxenberg, daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, that Epstein bought her a helicopter when she was awarded her pilot’s certificate.

    “Jeffrey doesn’t trust commercial helicopter pilots,” she is alleged to have said. “They are eyes and ears we don’t need. And I can do anything. You see, I don’t make mistakes. I am indispensable to Jeffrey.

    “This way nobody knows who’s going to the island. This way we have anonymity and secrecy and privacy.”

    Ms Oxenberg wrote on the Patreon website: “When I told the FBI all of this they said they knew about the helicopter but they didn’t know why.

    “I was able to provide them why. So that Epstein and Maxwell could conceal what they were up to. Proving they knew they were up to no good.”

    US prosecutors continue to investigate sex trafficking allegations and are looking at possible "conspirators" who worked with Epstein, who killed himself in a New York prison last August.

    They have accused the Duke of York of failing to respond to requests for an interview about his friendship with the convicted paedophile.

    The Duke was targeted in a stunt by lawyers representing some of Epstein’s victims on Friday, who arranged for a US yellow school bus to be driven past Buckingham Palace with a message on the side appealing to the Duke to answer questions.

    Gloria Allred, who represents five of the women, said: “I implore the Prince. I don't know what else he needs us to do. There is nothing else he needs us to do and we're not finished yet.

    “I can assure Prince Andrew it's not over until it's over. You must do the right thing and stop shaming your family. for Andrew to answer questions from the FBI.”

    Sources close to the Duke of York suggested that he had not received a request to speak to the FBI.

    Ms Maxwell's whereabouts are unknown.
     
    #218     Feb 22, 2020
  9. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Wouldn't be surprised
     
    #219     Feb 22, 2020
  10. elderado

    elderado

    #220     Jul 2, 2020
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