by Tom Elliott via substack,
As
soon as the feds announced Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while
awaiting prosecution on charges of sex trafficking, the popular reaction
was disbelief: “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” quickly became an
internet meme. And now, with the release of the Epstein Files, it’s only
become harder — if not all but impossible — to believe the official
story that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in the Manhattan Correctional
Center on August 10, 2019.
The “Suicide”
The DoJ’s Inspector General released a report
that officially concluded there was no reason to doubt the suicide
story, but actually contains many disturbing details if you read the
included evidence. As summarized by JustFacts:
Federal prison officials placed Epstein in a cell with a murderous, hulking ex-cop — a death trap for any child molester.
Less
than two weeks later, prison guards found Epstein in the middle of the
night in a semiconscious state with a rope and “friction marks” around
his neck.
Despite a court order requiring the prison to
preserve video surveillance footage near Epstein’s cell during the
strangulation, federal prison officials failed to do so and also lost
the backup due to “technical errors.”
Federal prison
officials took Epstein off “suicide watch” just one day after the
strangulation without determining whether Epstein was attacked by his
cellmate or tried to commit suicide.
One day before
Epstein’s death, federal prison officials removed his new cellmate and
didn’t replace him. They did this even though a prison psychologist sent
an email to over 70 prison staffers stating that Epstein “needs” a
cellmate — a common suicide prevention measure.
One day
before Epstein’s death, a federal court unsealed more than 2,000 pages
of lawsuit records that named and implicated wealthy and powerful people
in Epstein’s sex crimes, as well as federal officials in covering up
the crimes.
One day before Epstein’s death, federal
prison officials permitted Epstein to make a completely unmonitored
phone call in direct violation of prison policy and under patently false
pretenses.
Federal officers placed a hoard of linens in
Epstein’s cell, which is commonly prohibited because they can be used to
create nooses.
Federal officers left Epstein alone in
his cell for nearly eight hours on the night he died — despite the fact
that they were required to check on all inmates in his unit “at least
twice per hour” and were only 15 feet from Epstein’s cell.
Federal
officers falsified records to show that they had checked on Epstein, a
violation of federal law punishable by up to five years in prison.
Federal
prosecutors “dismissed all charges pending against” the two officers
who falsified the records and “declined” to prosecute others who
“falsely certified inmate countslips and round sheets on the day before
and the day of Epstein’s death.”
Federal prison officials
failed to record footage from 9 of the 11 surveillance cameras around
Epstein’s cell on the night of his death, including one that showed
Epstein’s cell tier and cell door.
The FBI agents who
searched Epstein’s New York mansion found and then abandoned a sexually
explicit trove of photos and CDs labeled with the names of “young”
females alongside people other than Epstein. This allowed one of
Epstein’s most notorious accomplices to take the evidence and
potentially scrub it before giving it to the feds.
To
this day, the federal government hasn’t revealed the names of the people
that were written beside the “young” females on Epstein’s CDs.
Hours
before Epstein’s reported suicide, he made an unmonitored call to his
girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak. She told friends Epstein gave no indication
he was thinking of harming himself. The New York Times asked the Bureau of Prisons
for his full call logs; “those logs show only one social call during
his stay, more than a week earlier, to Shuliak.” In other words, the
logs omitted this critical call. To date there is no knowledge of its
contents, beyond Shuliak saying Epstein appeared to be in good spirits.
The Cameras
Due
to a known issue with the prison’s DVR system — an issue jail officials
were already aware of — only one security camera in the SHU unit was
functioning. The feds said
there exists no camera list correctly naming camera locations in the
jail. The corrupted DVR drives were shipped to Quantico, where the FBI
reportedly planned to attempt data recovery. However, according to an
FBI letter, “they discontinue[d] those efforts once we told them dates
prior to July 29th weren’t of interest.” This is itself strange, as
pre-July 29th would have covered Epstein’s original reported
strangulation.
According
to the Inspector General’s report, both guards tasked with monitoring
Epstein that night fell asleep during key hours, missing six of the six
mandatory visual checks on Epstein. At other points during the night, as
newly surfaced surveillance footage shows, the guards were actively
walking around mere “steps away” from Epstein’s cell as he was
reportedly preparing sheets to hang himself.
Many online researchers have noted
that by using a technique to search Epstein files displaying the text
“no images produced,” you’ll find files with a .pdf extension that, when
renamed to .mp4, reveal video files. One interesting video
is surveillance footage from the Manhattan Correctional Center from the
night prior to Epstein’s “suicide.” It shows a large screen blocking
the camera from the stairwell.
The Body Swap Theory
Why
might blocking the stairwell camera be necessary? One possibility is to
facilitate what a worker at the jail posted about on 4Chan: that the
night before the “suicide,” the feds swapped Epstein out.
“Last
night after 0415 count they took him medical in a wheelchair front cufed
but not 1 triage nurse says they spoke to him. Next thing we know a
trip van shows up? We do not release weekends unless a judge orders it.
Next thing we know, he’s put in a single man cell and hangs himself?
Here’s the thing, the trip van did NOT sign in and we did not record the
plate number and a guy in a green military outfit was in the back of
the van according to the tower guy who let him thru the gate. You guys I
am shaking right now but I think they switched him out.”
Within 24 hours, the feds subpoenaed
Apple, AT&T, CitiBank, and 4Chan to investigate this poster’s
identity and determined it was indeed a staffer at the jail. Consider
the priorities this reveals: subpoenas issued within hours of an
anonymous post, while the investigation into the most high-profile
prisoner death in modern history was left to two guards who falsified
records.
Multiple sources in the Epstein files note
that at 10:39 PM on August 9, investigators reviewing jail surveillance
footage flagged an orange-colored figure moving up a staircase toward
the locked tier housing Epstein’s cell. The Inspector General said it
could be someone carrying bedding; CBS reported independent analysts
said it looked more like an inmate. Officials have repeatedly stated no
one entered Epstein’s housing tier that night.
The Guards
The NY Post reported
that one of the jail guards, Tova Noel, was googling “Latest Epstein
jail” in the hours before his reputed death. Noel also “made a
mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before the predator’s jail-cell
suicide, new Department of Justice documents reveal.” Noel drove a
$62,000 Range Rover — an extravagant luxury for a jail guard.
Noel
was one of the two jail workers accused of faking records to say they
checked on Epstein throughout the night of his “suicide.” She was fired,
but the feds later dropped criminal charges.
Per the NY Post,
“Noel googled ‘latest on Epstein in jail’ at 5:42 a.m. and then again at
5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas,
found the disgraced financier dead in his jail cell.” Noel later denied
to the feds that she had googled Epstein — a claim her internet history
would disprove. Despite the DoJ knowing she was actively checking for
updates on Epstein throughout that night, the IG report downplays this, merely stating she read an article about Epstein:
“OIG
analysis of the activity on the SHU computers revealed that Noel used
the computer periodically throughout the night, including to search the
Internet for furniture sales and benefit websites and to read a news
article about Epstein. Thomas used the computer briefly around 1 a.m.
and 6 a.m. to search for motorcycle sales and sports news.”
Noel reported that faking records at the Manhattan Correctional Center was just the way things operated there.
The
files only contain Noel’s bank records beginning in December 2018. They
show seven cash deposits totaling $11,880. Noel started working at the
Special Housing Unit — where Epstein had been held — beginning on July
7, 2019, just weeks before his death.
Noel, who drove a $62,000 2019 Land Rover Range Rover, wasn’t asked about the cash during her DOJ interview, records showed.
The Miami Herald reports that an inmate during Epstein’s incarceration overheard a commotion the morning Epstein was reportedly found dead:
The
federal government’s online Epstein library contains a five-page
handwritten report of an FBI interview with an inmate who awoke the
morning of Aug. 10, 2019 to the loud commotion in the Special Housing
Unit, or SHU, where he and Epstein were jailed.
“Breathe!
Breathe!” he recalled officers shouting about 6:30 a.m. Then he said he
heard an officer say “Dudes, you killed that dude.” A female guard
replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to
have an alibi — my officers,” the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the
whole wing overheard the exchange.
Later, after learning Epstein had died, he said inmates said “Miss Noel killed Jeffrey.”
He
identified the female guard as Tova Noel, one of two correctional
officers who were later charged with falsifying reports so that it
appeared from their records that they had made their rounds that night —
when they had not. The charges against her and the other officer,
Michael Thomas, were later dropped, but both were fired.
And another curiosity. In an interview with an unnamed jail worker, the redacted interviewee says they used a fake body to confuse the press:
“[REDACTED]
remained with COs [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] until personnel from the
Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) arrived to transport EPSTEIN to
their facility. Due to the large news media presence outside the MCC, a
male OCHE official called and said he would be arriving at the loading
dock with a black vehicle. In order to thwart the media, [REDACTED],
[REDACTED] and [REDACTED] used boxes and sheets to create what appeared
to be a human body, which was put into the white OCME vehicle which the
press followed, allowing the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with
EPSTEIN's body.”
The Body Doesn’t Match: The Prostate
It
seems clear enough someone died of hanging or strangulation that
morning. The question is whether it was Epstein’s body, or someone
else’s.
Perhaps the most damning evidence that it was not Epstein’s body comes from his prostate — or rather, his lack of one.
In an exchange
with Dr. Richard Axel, Epstein said that despite taking testosterone,
he also takes Viagra due to not having a prostate. This is Epstein, in
his own words, telling a doctor that his prostate had been removed.
His medical records corroborate this. A LabCorp patient report
for Epstein references his “radical prostatectomy” — boilerplate
language triggered by a prostatectomy flag in his patient history. This
language appears in reports from both 2010 and 2018.
In two of the Epstein files, we have Epstein texting himself
about needing a prostate cancer specialist. In April 2019 — just months
before his death — NY-Presbyterian Hospital told Epstein the doctor he
sought was no longer practicing and included several alternative
recommendations. Of a proposed doctor they wrote: “He has been listed as an expert in nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy
techniques as well as male infertility by Castle Connolly’s ‘Best
Doctors’ Guide since 1999 as well as other national ‘Best Doctor’
lists.” (“Nerve-sparing” translates to Epstein being able to continue
his favorite pastime.)
And yet: despite all of these records indicating Epstein’s prostate had been removed, the NYC coroner report
describes the deceased as having a prostate that is “slightly and
diffusely enlarged, with marked enlargement of the verumontanum.” The
verumontanum is an anatomical structure that exists within the prostate. You cannot have one without the other.
To date, there is no publicly known way to regrow a prostate.
The Body Doesn’t Match: The Lipoma
Jeffrey Epstein suffered from a roughly 6 cm lipoma (fatty tumor) in his left supraclavicular fossa — the area above his left collarbone — documented in 2016, 2017, and again in 2018.
The 2016 report also references a similar exam from 2014. In 2016 there
were communications about surgical removal. In 2017, Epstein’s
assistant confirms he hasn’t had it removed. In 2018, it’s being MRI’d
all over again.
2016:
2017:
2018:
Both
MRIs document a mass large enough to displace the brachial plexus — a
critical nerve bundle serving the arm. The autopsy makes no mention of
it whatsoever, despite a detailed neck dissection necessitated by the
hanging injuries. The 2016 MRI also documented multilevel cervical
spondylosis (C3-C7) with cord compression at C5-C6. The autopsy doesn’t
mention this either. Its musculoskeletal section notes only a healed rib
fracture and general musculature — no soft tissue masses anywhere.
Despite
Epstein’s voluminous communications with his doctors in the years and
months before his reported death, there is no record anywhere of Epstein
having the lipoma removed. As late as September 2018, he was texting
his doctor about it. And even if he had somehow undergone an
undocumented surgery and recovery in the months before his arrest, that
level of operation should have left scarring or other evidence the
autopsy would have noted.
The lipoma’s location also creates a
cardiovascular problem for the official narrative. “Evaluation of the
left supraclavicular fossa once again demonstrates a lesion identified,
inferior to the subclavian vein, and displacing the roots of the
brachial plexus inferiorly,” the radiologist, Dr. Douglas DeCorato,
observed in the 2018 MRI. In 2016, in an exchange
with one of his doctors, the surgeon says he’s bringing his brother, a
vascular surgeon, because “the tumor is directly adjacent to the
subclavian vessels.”
Here
is what the official autopsy says of the deceased’s cardiovascular
system (a section redacted in some versions of the document):
During
autopsy, the cardiovascular system examination involves tracing major
vessels including the subclavian. A 6 cm mass resting on those vessels
should have been encountered during that dissection — yet the autopsy
reports the pulmonary vessels and venae cavae as simply “free of
thrombus and embolus” with no mention of any adjacent mass.
The
2018 MRI explicitly states there is “no evidence of adenopathy.” The
autopsy, roughly 14 months later, documents multiple enlarged cervical
lymph nodes up to 1.5 cm. That could be a new development, but combined
with the missing lipoma and the impossible prostate, it deepens the
question of whether these records describe the same person.
The Body Doesn’t Match: Physical Appearance
The Epstein in the post-mortem photos has ears and a nose that look markedly different
from Epstein’s known features. Morticians have also noted that images
of the deceased with his mouth closed do not align with how faces
typically present after death by hanging — muscles relax and gravity
takes over, meaning mouths and eyes usually fall open.
The Medical Examiner
The original death certificate, from the day after his reported suicide, lists his immediate cause of death as “Pending Further Study.”
New York City’s medical examiner, Dr. Kristin Roman, told federal
investigators that due to the high-profile nature of the case, she
wanted to be “thorough” and speak with the guard who found him. However,
she was not permitted
to do so. She changed the ruling to suicide after reviewing “additional
evidence” — which sources say was his alleged prior suicide attempt.
Jeffrey
Epstein’s brother hired famed pathologist Michael Baden to observe the
autopsy. “Baden served for decades as a member of the New York State
Correction Medical Review Board, an entity responsible for reviewing
deaths of inmates in custody,” the Miami Herald reports. “Baden has
conducted more than 20,000 autopsies including reviewing those of former
President John F. Kennedy, and civil rights leaders the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers.”
Baden found three separate
fractures: two on the left and right sides of the thyroid cartilage (the
Adam’s apple), plus one on the left hyoid bone. He described the
injuries as requiring a “huge amount of pressure” and specifically noted
they were “more consistent with ligature homicidal strangulation” than
suicide. “I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal
hanging,” Baden later told 60 Minutes. “Going over a thousand jail
hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past
40-50 years, no one had three fractures.” Others have noted that hyoid
fractures can occur in hangings, particularly among older individuals —
but three fractures remains highly unusual.
Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein told the Southern District of New York:
“We also had been in receipt of a tremendous amount of medical and
scientific evidence volunteered to us opining that the injuries
suffered, as reported, were far more consistent with assault than with
suicide, and we are happy to supply the court with all the information
we have.” These attorneys also noted how the prison guards had moved the
body, complicating investigation efforts: “Instead of having the cell
in the condition it was found, if he had been dead for 45 minutes or two
hours or four hours, there were efforts to move him and, therefore,
make it more difficult to reconstruct whether or not he died of suicide
or some other cause.”
The Pre-Dated Death Announcement
The
feds’ statement on Epstein’s death appears to have been drafted a day
before he died. As many as 23 documents in the disclosure are labeled as
statements from the Southern District of New York’s US Attorney’s
Office. In one version,
the date reads August 9, 2019 — a day before Epstein was reportedly
found dead. It states: “Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional
Centre confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by
this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found
unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.”
The DOJ has called it
“merely an unfortunate typo that was later updated to reflect the
correct date before being publicized.” Theoretically possible, sure. But
it’s another incident in an impossibly long string of coincidences
where you must extend the feds the benefit of the doubt.
Destruction of Evidence
Then
there are the jail’s surveillance hard drives. The Epstein Files
contain an FBI memorandum admitting that an FBI agent removed the hard
drive from the jail’s camera system, wiping all of the data from the
night Epstein died. The agent did this, they acknowledge, even as he
knew doing so would result in the content’s corruption. This comes on
top of two other surveillance systems that independently failed that
night.
And it gets worse. Just yesterday, the Daily Beast reported that six days after Epstein’s death, the Department of Justice shredded a massive volume of documents from the jail:
A Bureau of Prisons “After-Actions team” went through the jail and shredded the files, according to a report drafted
by an FBI official whose name has been redacted. The document is part
of the tranche of files released by the Department of Justice earlier
this year.
“[Redacted] has never seen this amount of bags of
shredded documents coming out to be put in the dumpster at the rear gate
of the MCC,” the report said.
“Last week Epstein hung [sic]
himself, and there is an ongoing investigation. There was a BOP
After-Actions team that come, and they are supposed to review what
happened,” the report continued.
… “Caller found it suspicious
that an after-action team charged with investigating would be shredding
huge amounts of paperwork with all of the officials from the AIG, FBI
and BO[P] in the building in the middle of an investigation. Those
giving instructions to [redacted] said, ‘Make sure you get that box
too,’” the document said, referring to the assistant inspector general.
That
this was no normal cleanup operation is underscored by the fact that at
least one inmate was recruited to help dispose of the shredded
material: “[Redacted] was bringing back bags of shredded papers, around 4
or 5 bags, and caller brought them into the gate to throw into the
dumpster. [Redacted] told caller that the after-action team is shredding
huge amounts of paperwork.”
Even more damning:
a federal prosecutor later wrote that “all institutional count slips
prior to August 10, 2019, which we requested on August 12, 2019, are
apparently ‘missing.’”
The Miami Herald notes
there were two separate corruption probes associated with Epstein’s
death — “one, an obstruction-of-justice case involving the shredding of
documents and possible charges of dereliction of duty and other
misconduct by correctional officers; and second, a blackmail-for-sex
scheme involving a correctional officer that the DOJ labeled a ‘Color of
Law’ probe” — and both were transferred from being an FBI criminal case
to being a matter for the DoJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG),
which lacks prosecuting power.
From the outset, on the
day Epstein’s body was found, then-Attorney General William Barr
immediately announced that Epstein died of an “apparent suicide.” And
then, six days later, on Aug. 16, Sampson confirmed the suicide ruling.
With
the cause and manner of death already determined, and no foul play
suspected, the only aspects of the case left unresolved – at least in
the eyes of the Justice Department – was whether the actions of any of
the officers contributed to Epstein’s suicide.
This seemed to
color the investigation almost from the beginning, since Epstein’s death
was never treated as suspicious. As a result, his cell was never
considered a possible crime scene that would, under normal
circumstances, be examined by experienced criminal and forensic experts
who would take fingerprints, blood samples and other evidence. One thing
that got lost as a result of the cell not being examined was that the
piece of fabric that Epstein allegedly used to hang himself was never
identified.
Before moving on, it’s worth recalling that Epstein significantly revised and signed his will
two days before his reported death. Normally, dramatic changes to your
estate hours before a death arouse suspicion, but it’s also not
inconsistent with suicide.
The Tattoo Question
Many
have called into question an apparent discrepancy between Epstein
having at least one tattoo and the autopsy body having none. The files
contain an undated image of Epstein with a barbed wire tattoo on his
left arm:
However, this situation isn’t straightforward. In 2009, Epstein references his tattoo in an email. In 2010, his assistant emailed him about tattoo removal options. There are also several redacted emails
about a tattoo. Some have pointed to a 2017 DoJ deposition referencing a
“barbed wire” tattoo on the left arm, but this deposition is actually
from one of the victims, not a contemporaneous observation of Epstein.
Due
to Epstein’s 2010 interest in tattoo removal and the lack of dated
photos confirming the tattoo’s presence at the time of his arrest,
there’s not enough to establish this discrepancy definitively. It’s also
possible someone has inserted a fake image of Epstein with a barbed
wire tattoo specifically to plant a debunkable conspiracy theory — a
known disinformation technique.
Post-Mortem Activity
Meanwhile, accounts connected with Epstein have remained active after his reported death.
The Irish media outlet The Ditch
“gained access to the convicted paedophile’s FedEx account after the US
Department of Justice published an unredacted password. The department
later removed it from the Epstein files.”
The account was used as recently as summer 2024 — despite Epstein’s death in 2019.
The
Ditch still has access to the FedEx account and address book, which
contains almost 100 names and addresses, including an ex-Israeli Air
Force Lieutenant Colonel who now advises Alan Dershowitz.
A
package collected from Gulfstream’s product support centre in Savannah,
Georgia, was shipped to Plan D LLC in Kennesaw, Georgia, on 20 May,
2024.
Plan D is the now-dissolved firm that Epstein incorporated
to own and operate his private jet, which Donald Trump used during the
2024 US presidential election campaign.
Another package was
shipped from the same Gulfstream address in Georgia to Empire Aviation
in West Palm Beach, Florida, on 12 March, 2024, according to invoices.
FedEx deleted both invoices from the child sex offender’s account in the past few days.
Then there’s Fortnite.
One of the early public discoveries from the Epstein files drop is that Epstein had a Fortnite account under the username littlestjeff1.
This username matches an email listed in the Epstein files, littlestjeff@yahoo.com (Littlest = Little St. James). It also appears as the username of his YouTube account.
After
people looked up the account’s status, it appeared to be actively used
from Tel Aviv. Fortnite removed the account from online tracking, then
issued a statement saying it was a “ruse” — actually another player “who
changed their username” to match Epstein’s.
However,
Fortnite’s player community noted a problem with this explanation: when
people change their username on the platform, you can see the previous
usernames. This account showed no prior name. (That community note was
later removed from X.)
Other
details that Epic Games’ statement didn’t address: the account showed a
gap in activity that coincided with Epstein’s stay in the Manhattan
Correctional Center, and records of its use were scrubbed from the
Wayback Machine.
Could anyone in Epstein’s orbit exert influence
over Epic Games? One pathway: Epstein’s estimated $5 million equity
stake in Tencent, the Chinese technology conglomerate that purchased a
48.4 percent outstanding stake — equating to 40 percent of total capital
— in Epic Games in 2012. Tencent’s acquisition triggered a number of
high-profile departures from Epic, reputedly over the company’s shifting
philosophy. A financial whistleblower also alerted the feds to
suspicious Epstein activities related to Tencent’s ownership.
Epstein’s
“secret” bank in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Southern Country
International, also saw significant post-mortem activity. The New York
Times reported
that Southern Country had $693,157 in assets when Epstein died. Then,
in mid-December 2019, the estate transferred $15.5 million to the bank.
Two weeks later, its assets were back down to $499,759. The estate
offered no explanation. A magistrate judge reviewing the transactions
said, “There’s no explanation for it.”
The Epstein files dump also includes emails
between DoJ and HHS officials from July 6, 2021 — two years after
Epstein’s death — discussing “Epstein’s” availability for a call in
Colorado. Snopes investigated
and found evidence indicating these emails refer to Richard Epstein, a
cooperating witness in a Medicare fraud investigation. Despite my
general skepticism of Snopes, I believe they’re correct here: the
evidence strongly suggests this email chain referred to a different
Epstein.
There are also the supposed sightings. Someone thought he might have seen Ghislaine (and someone who looks like Alan Dershowitz) in Quebec. Someone else brought a drone
to Little St. James and caught a glimpse of someone who resembles
Epstein (and his most recent girlfriend) in the weeks after his reported
suicide. Another sighting had him in a random port in Greece.
Why the Feds Might Help Him Disappear
Why would the federal government help Epstein flee? There are actually many reasons.
He provided them a skill they find valuable: money laundering. CBS News recently revealed
a previously undisclosed DEA investigation — a five-year-plus probe
targeting Epstein and 14 other individuals for approximately $50 million
in suspicious wire transfers linked to illicit narcotics and
prostitution activity in the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City.
He
was an international power broker, coordinating operations among
banking families, intelligence agencies, universities, and governments.
He’d been a key cog in the apparatus that seems to run our power
structure for at least 40 years. And he provided the U.S. intelligence:
Epstein “told colleagues and friends that he was an intelligence asset”
The FBI closed a forfeiture proceeding against Epstein, noting “Epstein… has provided information to the FBI as agreed upon”
There’s speculation that Epstein was a “confidential informant”
The
U.S. State Department rented Epstein a luxurious townhouse in New York
City that had been seized from the Iranian government in 1992. They
didn’t even complain when he failed to pay his bills.
Researcher Mike Benz has detailed reporting all but conclusively showing Epstein helped launder money for the CIA during, at least, Iran-Contra.
And
yes, most likely he was leveraging sexual blackmail — as everyone now
largely agrees. Were they really going to let Epstein go to trial where
he starts spilling secrets? A guy like Epstein would have sooner torched
the whole cathedral than quietly accept a life sentence. That was never
going to happen.
My working theory is that the feds initially
hoped Epstein would be killed in jail — the most convenient outcome for
Trump, Barr, and others. Which may explain why they kept housing him
with violent inmates. When that failed, they went to Plan B.
Suppression Over Investigation
Of
course I cannot prove any of this definitively — although the prostate
issue seems as close to proof as it gets. But one thing I can say: even
if the feds didn’t help Epstein abscond, why are they acting like they
did? If you start with this theory — that they orchestrated a conclusion
to the Epstein chapter they hoped would tie up countless loose ends —
everything else starts making sense. Including Trump and Bondi’s
absolute resistance to dig deeper into the files.
One of the most
notable aspects of the feds’ post-Epstein behavior is how focused they
are on suppressing incriminating information rather than investigating
it.
Case in point: Zorro Ranch. Many Americans have wondered why
the feds never raided Epstein’s 7,500-acre New Mexico compound despite
multiple victims testifying of abuse there. But it’s worse than neglect —
the feds actively prevented others from investigating, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
The
request by federal prosecutors essentially “gutted” New Mexico’s
investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein’s 7,500-acre Zorro Ranch
located 30 miles south of Santa Fe, Balderas said.
“We provided
information to them to strengthen their prosecution,” he said.
Prosecutors made assurances they would provide findings to New Mexico
investigators. “They were making the representation that they were going
to prosecute with a multijurisdictional, multistate focus.”
Balderas’
office also sent a letter in 2020 urging federal prosecutors to seize
control of Zorro Ranch to preserve evidence, records show. Balderas said
he also offered to assist serving search warrants at the ranch but
never received a response and has no reason to believe prosecutors acted
on the requests …
None of the investigative records provided by
New Mexico appear to be among the more than 3 million pages of documents
released last month by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The
FBI/DoJ’s redactions — technically illegal under the Massie/Khanna
disclosure bill — are also telling. The day before Epstein was reported
dead, the federal jail transferred out Epstein’s cellmate despite a
prison psychologist expressly forbidding this. The records reporting the
transfer are blacked out:
This is one of thousands of similar examples. The Massie/Khanna bill
specifies redactions are only “permitted to withhold certain
information such as the personal information of victims and materials
that would jeopardize an active federal investigation.” The law also
requires the DoJ to list all redactions and categories of redactions.
The DoJ refuses to comply with either requirement.
Should we wonder if the FBI has a conflict of interest considering its post-9/11 data-mining was in large part assisted by Chiliad, a Big Data company run by Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister, Christine?
One whistleblower told the FBI “a backdoor to the software is suspected
… I suspect Robert, Ghislaine, and Jeffrey were all Mossad agents
trying to blackmail leaders in the political and financial world.”
The Impossible Coincidences
I
can’t help but acknowledge that putting all of this in writing will be
controversial. But this is the actual presumption of a very large swath
of the American public — and for good reason. We already know the feds
lied about Epstein’s “sweetheart deal.” They lied about his intelligence
connections. They lied about the lack of incriminating evidence in the
Epstein Files. They refuse to comply with the law requiring the release
of unredacted records. And all of that is before the chain of impossibly
improbable events surrounding his supposed suicide.
To continue believing the official narrative, you must believe:
It’s just bad luck the body autopsied had an enlarged prostate, despite Epstein telling his own doctor he’d had his removed.
It’s just bad luck
a 6 cm tumor documented in Epstein’s neck through 2018 vanished from
the 2019 autopsy — with no surgical record explaining its absence.
It’s just bad luck the jail’s known-to-be-broken DVR system wasn’t repaired before the most notorious inmate in the country was found dead.
It’s just bad luck 11 of 12 cameras were either offline or not recording that night.
It’s just bad luck an FBI agent corrupted the data on one of the surveillance drives still in existence.
It’s just bad luck the FBI was unable to recover that footage.
It’s just bad luck
the Bureau of Prisons shredded “huge amounts of paperwork” from the
jail six days after Epstein’s death, during an active investigation, and
that the institutional count slips from the night he died went
“missing.”
It’s just a coincidence someone working at the
jail posted that he believed they swapped the body out — and the feds
subpoenaed his records within hours.
It’s just bad luck that not one but both guards assigned to Epstein’s unit that night fell asleep, failed to make their rounds, and lied about it.
It’s just a coincidence
one of those guards was receiving unexplained cash deposits and driving
a $62,000 Range Rover, and spent part of the night googling for updates
on Epstein in jail.
It’s just bad luck the DoJ dropped charges against both guards.
It’s just bad luck
the medical examiner initially needed more time, was denied access to
the guard who found the body, and then changed her ruling.
It’s just bad luck
a competing pathologist found three neck fractures — more consistent
with strangulation than hanging — something he’d never seen in thousands
of jail suicides.
It’s just bad luck the feds’ announcement of Epstein’s death was dated the day before he died.
It’s just bad luck
Epstein’s FedEx account was shipping packages five years after his
death, and his Fortnite account showed activity from Tel Aviv.
It’s just bad luck
the feds shut down New Mexico’s investigation into Zorro Ranch and then
failed to include any of New Mexico’s records in the 3 million pages
they released.
It’s just bad luck so many of the feds’ documents regarding Epstein’s reported final days are still being illegally redacted.
All
of this only scratches the surface. Further examples of the feds’
withholding of evidence, as well as conflicts of interest between
Epstein-affiliated enterprises and federal officials, are too numerous
to document here. One rabbit hole: the Epstein-backed surveillance
company Reporty (later renamed Carbyne, also known as Smart911), whose
financial backers — including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak —
overlap with the president’s, and whose technology appears to be used
at the Pentagon. (There is more on this in the book “Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales.”
And I can’t help but quickly add: The authors of that book interviewed
Epstein’s attorney, victims’ attorneys, among others, and the only
person willing to go on record stating he believed Epstein killed
himself was Alan Dershowitz. )
Speaking for myself, I can
only weather so many insults to my intelligence before accepting I’m
being had. We’ll likely never know exactly what happened on August 10,
2019. But one thing I can say with confidence: the feds have absolutely
earned their distrust.
