Um... Epstein might not have killed himself...
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OA1233 - We are not conspiracy theorist type people. But... yeah man I don't know. But also, so much more in these files to talk about. If you know anything about the federal government’s 2007 plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein you know that it was bad. But newly-released documents from the Epstein files show that it was actually much worse than that! Thanks to a newly-released legal memo, a draft indictment, and internal emails between prosecutors we now have a much better understanding of the disagreements within US Attorney for the District of Southern Florida Alex Acosta’s office as they finalized the terms of a much-too-friendly agreement between the US government and a billionaire pedophile which a federal appeals court would later call “a national disgrace.” Matt has the receipts for this special emergency episode.
You can also watch this episode on YouTube!
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Steve Bannon’s Interview with Jeffrey Epstein (directly downloaded from the DOJ)
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Investigation into the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida’s Resolution of Its 2006–2008 Federal Criminal Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and Its Interactions with Victims during the Investigation (Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility, 2020)
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Incident Report (Palm Beach Police Department, 2006)
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Epstein indictment draft (United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, 2007)
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Appendix in The People of the State of New York v. Jeffrey E. Epstein (2013)
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Opinion - Alex Acosta acted with professionalism and integrity in handling the Jeffrey Epstein case (Miami Herald, 2/16/2019)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:11.8 | This is episode, oh, what was it? |
| 0:13.6 | It's 1233. |
| 0:14.5 | This is episode 1233. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host Thomas Smith, and we're doing bonus video. |
| 0:19.1 | This is the normal Friday episode slot, but this Epstein stuff is just, we got it. We got to do it. We got to address it. So we're doing extra video. It's sort of like a double vapid response. And we got the cruise all here. Welcome, Matt, immigration attorney, of course. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, hey, a little happier to be doing this one. This is going to be a big one. We're going to talk about the Epstein plea negotiations a little more detail. I'm going to move away from last time where we talked about a lot of bad people and get more on familiar territory. It's just talking about bad lawyers. I think that's more familiar to the show. We agree. Lawyers are not people. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.7 | And of course, Lydia's back. |
| 0:57.4 | How you doing? |
| 0:57.7 | Hello, I am doing all right. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes, thanks for having me on a Friday. |
| 1:03.0 | This is not normal for me. |
| 1:04.2 | So happy to be here. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | When last we spoke, you left us with the teaser of the plea deal being even worse than it already |
| 1:11.6 | was bad and it was bad. I am really curious to hear how it got even worse. Do you want to give |
| 1:18.1 | us any more teaser before we go to break? Just that I think it's worth reviewing the whole story |
| 1:23.3 | because, you know, people keep hearing about the sweetheart deal. I think maybe people know some of the |
| 1:26.8 | details, but really digging into it and not just looking at what the defense and prosecution were exchanging and how friendly they were, |
| 1:33.3 | but looking at the enormous missteps and the disagreements between the prosecutors and how they were dealing, handling this. |
| 1:39.4 | There's some new stuff that's come out. |
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