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Fun and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. As we
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continue to watch the lawsuit down in the US Virgin
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Islands make its way through the court, I think it's
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important to remember that the US Virgin Islands itself played
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a part in helping Jeffrey Epstein maintain his criminal enterprise.
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And not only that, but he was given all kinds
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of advantages down in the US Virgin Islands as far
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as taxes and other business type of arrangements go. Meanwhile,
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the US Virgin Islands is over here yelling and screaming
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that everybody else is complicit, while they are the arbiters
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of justice and the only ones who really care about
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making sure people are held responsible. But is that really
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the case? Is the US Virgin Islands really in this
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for justice or are they just in it to make
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some more money. Today's episode, we're gonna go back to
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a New York Times article that was originally posted in
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February of twenty twenty, headlined Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came
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alive after his death, receiving millions of dollars from his estate.
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This article was authored by Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eeder
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in the years after Jeffrey Epstein registered as a sex offender,
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he closed his money management firm and started a business
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to develop algorithms and mind DNA and financial databases. Then
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he set up a bank. In a banking license application
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reviewed by The New York Times, Epstein described himself as
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one of the investing world's pioneers and said he wanted
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to pursue the dynamic discipline of international banking. One of
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the pioneers. Huh, the pioneers of degeneracy, the pioneers of
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diddling children. Is that what you mean? Egg dick. Officials
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in the Virgin Islands, the US territory where Epstein set
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up most of his businesses, approved the license for him
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in twenty fourteen to run one of the territories first
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international banking entities, a specialized bank that can do business
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only with offshore clients. The
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approval was unusual, given epstein
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status as a convicted sex offender. Well not really. When
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you pull the layers back and you start looking at
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the people who were involved, you had all of the
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powerful people that were working with Epstein, the Bryants, the dejongs,
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and they were all benefiting from his patronage and then
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all of a sudden, he's able to set up the
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first bank of its kind within the territory of the
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US Virgin Island, and nobody has any other questions for
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the territory year. Nobody's going to ask them what their
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role was. It was up to JP Morgan to do that.
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Where's the legacy media? The bank, called Southern Country International,
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renewed its license for each of the next five years,
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but it's unclear whether it conducted any business or had
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any customers. Epstein, who died while in federal custody last
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summer following his arrest on sex trafficking charges, does not
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appear to have done any marketing for the bank or
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hired much staff. You want to talk about a wash shop,
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a place to go and wash money, you're looking at it.
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And when you look at Epstein for what he really is,
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besides a diddler, besides a molester, he's a money mover.
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He's a man who knows how to hide money. He's
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a man who knows how to wash money. And he's
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a man who knows how to make sure that the
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government has no idea where you're parking it, so you
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don't have to be a brainiact to figure out what
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he needed his own bank for. The bank was created
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under a territorial law that lacked many of the oversight
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requirements banks are usually subject to, and its regulatory file
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is largely empty. A lawyer for Epstein told officials in
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the US Virgin Islands in twenty eighteen that the Southern
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Country had not commenced operations, and regulators in the territory
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said they did not exercise oversight of the bank because
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it did not appear to be doing any business. Why
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did you guys set it up
in the first place.
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The US Virgin Islands still has not answered that question.
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But yet they get one hundred and five million dollars.
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And I hate to keep beating on that dead horse,
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but I think it's very important that we all understand
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just how ridiculous that move is. They're legit taking food
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off the table of girls who were actually abused by
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Jeffrey Epstein, and for what purpose? What are they going
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to do help out the next scumbag that comes to
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the island and starts throwing money around. And yet, after
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Epstein's death, his estate transferred more than twelve million dollars
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to Southern Country, According to court documents. On Tuesday, out
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of court hearing in the Virgin Islands on motions involving
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Epstein's estate, a magistrate Judge Carolyn Herman Purcell question the
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estate's lawyers about the transfers to Southern Country, saying the
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disclosure was not satisfactory. The judge said she did not
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know why Southern Country would be receiving checks from the estate.
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There's no explanation for that, she said, of course there is.
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You know what it was, money washing. We'll send it here,
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then we'll bounce it there, then it'll go everywhere. And
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even though the government might know what happened, they're not
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going to be able to prove it. And this is
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the cycle that Epstein was caught in for how long
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the way he moved money should have raised so many
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red flags to so many people who should have been
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watching that. All of those people, in my opinion, are culpable.
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The sad part is most of them who were at
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the levers of power have moved on to other institutions,
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other entities, and they've never had to answer for the
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bullshit they were involved in. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Now we're starting to see a little bit of that
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change with the JP Morgan lawsuit, But really I've had
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my fill of financial settlements. I think it's time for
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some real justice, and I think it's time that some
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of these scumbags ended up in bracelets. A lawyer for
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the estate responded that some of the payment was made
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in error, but the judge was not satisfied with the
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response and asked them to follow up with a fuller accounting.
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Now the real question should be from the judge, why
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the hell did my colleagues even let this bank get
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set up in the first place. Who benefited? Follow the money?
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How many payments were made out when this bank popped up?
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How many people cashed big checks from Epstein? Well, we
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know a lot of people down in the Virgin Islands
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were eating from Epstein's pomp that were taking things from them,
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gifts and all sorts of other stuff. So how many
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of them had money sent to their accounts in the
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wake of this bank opening. Because we all know if
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you follow the money, eventually you're gonna end up in
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some dirty ass politicians office. The check listed in the
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estate's transactions for routine payments such as cable TV bills
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and phone service for Epstein's many properties stand out. The
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list of payments was filed with Herman Purcell, who is
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overseeing the six hundred and thirty five million dollar estate,
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including the possible establishment of a compensation fund for his victims.
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Now we know that that happens, and we know that
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the compensation fund paid out roughly one hundred and twenty
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five million dollars to the survivor's and one hundred and
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five million dollars to the US Virgin Islands. And you
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would think that would be enough and their greed would
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stop there, but it's not. They have to have their
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hand in the cookie jar a little longer and they
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have to try and get some more money. Here. Well,
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they're running into a buzz saw, and that buz saw
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is JP Morgan, because JP Morgan is not going to
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just write a check to the US Virgin Islands when
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they know that the US Virgin Islands was complicit and
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duplicitous when it comes to their relationship with Epstein. That
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Epstein was able to get a banking license in the
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first place is unusual. His two thousand and eight conviction
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in Florida on a charge of soliciting prostitution from an
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underage girl required him to register as a sex offender.
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Most bank operators doing business in the United States are
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required to undergo rigorous background checks, and most banking institutions
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are subject to oversight by the Arm of the Treasury
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that investigates suspicious financial transactions. It's called the Finsen Division.
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Neither was required by the Virgin Islands when Epstein submitted
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the application in twenty thirteen. So who makes the rules
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down there in the US Virgin Islands. Oh, that's right,
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the government of the US Virgin Islands. And they were
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the ones who put these laws on the books to
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make it so that Epstein could set up this bank
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so that they could profit. And that's what the evidence
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shows us. The territory had passed its international Banking Entity
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law a year earlier in hopes of enticing investment from
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over It models its law on that of Puerto Rico,
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where international banking entities have existed for three decades. Such
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organizations are attractive to offshore investors because the banks are
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able to offer more favorable tax treatment than the investors
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own countries can. In return, the territories expect local residents
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to manage the banks even though they cannot use its
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services and under normal circumstances, if you're using these banks
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for the right purposes, there's no issue here. But we
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know Epstein wasn't everything this man touched. He corrupted. These
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specialized banks have drawn scrutiny because of their potential for abuse,
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including money laundering. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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describes international bank entities in the Virgin Islands and Puerto
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Rico as high risk institutions. Last year, it temporarily suspended
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applications for them
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until it can issue stricter rules for and keep in mind,
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Epstein could have chosen to go anywhere in the world.
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He chose to go to the US Virgin Islands and
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set up shop because the rules were favorable to him,
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and the rules that weren't favorable to him, well, he
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had enough money to pay people off to get those
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rules changed. Epstein was carefully evasive in answering a question
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on the application that was meant to reveal information about
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an applicant's criminal record. His response mentioned as guilty plea
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to state charges in Florida, but played down other elements
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of the case. Why was he allowed to play it down.
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Let's not let the Virgin Islands off here. Sure he's
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gonna try and play it down, but it's up to
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the regulators and the people in the Virgin Islands who
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were in these positions of power to stop this man
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from doing his bullshit. And they did not. They failed.
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There's no other explanation for it. They failed, and in
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doing so, they helped Ebstein continue his criminal enterprise for decades,
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for a relatively brief period in what has otherwise been
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a productive and accomplished life. The application said Epstein did
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face some legal difficulties relating to matters alleged to have
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taken place seven years ago. The application noted that a
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federal investigation had been discontinued, and that's why it was
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so important for him to get rid of those federal charges.
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Back in the day. He had to be able to
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continue to operate on this level, and he could smooth
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over the state charges. But if it was federal, and
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we're talking about the Man Act, or we're talking about
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human trafficking at the federal level, he would have been
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toast and there's no way that he could have operated
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the way he did. So once again, he was being enabled,
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and this time by the broken ass legal system here
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in the United States that people like Epstein continuously manipulate.
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But the answer was misleading, said Richard Scott Carnal, a
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former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the Treasury Department.
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The application did not reflect that Epstein's plea deal included
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an agreement with federal prosecutors who promised not to bring
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their own charges. The agreement acknowledged that federal authorities had
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compiled a long list of other possible underage victims. Think
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about that they had all of these victims, a whole
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list of them, amount of evidence, and there were all children,
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and they decided not to prosecute them for anything but
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solicitation of a minor bank. Regulators expect applicants to be candid,
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said Cardinal, now an associate professor at Fordham Law School.
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You'd never suspect there was a non prosecution agreement. As
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a bank regulator, I'd be outraged to learn that an
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applicant has misled me in that way. But they didn't care.
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They all knew what you thought. That the regulators down
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in the US Virgin Islands weren't hip to what was
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going on. They were, they knew exactly what was up.
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They chose to do the Helen Keller and not see
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what was going on. In his application, Epstein listed as
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references James Staley, the chief executive of Barclays, who had
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cultivated a relationship with Epstein while at JP Morgan Chase.
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Another reference was Andrew Farkas, a New York real estate
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tycoon and co owner of a marina and office complex
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on Saint Thomas with Epstein. Spokesmen for both men said
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they had been unaware they were listed as references, along
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with J. P. Morgan and First Bank, a Puerto Rico
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based lender with branches in the Virgin Islands that long
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held some of Epstein's accounts. Now, going back and looking
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at this with hindsight, we all know that Jess Staley
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is obviously lying here. He knew what was up, and
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he was helping Epstein every step of the way as
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far as the financials go. And I called Jeff
Staley
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a liar back then, and I'll continue to call him
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one now. Dude bullshitted everybody about his relationship with Epstein,
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and now that shit's boomeranging back around to hit him
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direct in his head. The application was submitted by Erica
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Keller Halls, a longtime tax lawyer for Epstein in the
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Virgin Islands. She did not return requests for comment. Southern
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Country had not commenced doing business as of April twenty eighteen,
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according to correspondence between Keller Halls and the territory's banking department.
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Regulators said the bank was a self reporting company and
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did not require additional regulatory oversight if it was not operational,
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but court documents show Southern Country was active for some
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of last year. If I was JP Morgan, I'd be
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focusing on this right now. And also if I was
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the survivors, I'd be zeroing in on the US Virgin Islands.
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How dare they take money out of my pocket? Take
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food off my table? That's the way I look at
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it at Records filed by the estate on Friday indicate
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the Southern Country had six hundred and ninety three thousand,
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one hundred and fifty seven dollars in assets when Epstein
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died August tenth. Then in mid December, the estate transferred
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fifteen and a half million to Southern Country in two czechs.
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Southern Country sent back two point six million, leaving the
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total it received at twelve point nine million. The documents
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filed by the estate do not give a reason for
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the transfers. It is also not clear what Southern Country
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did with that money. Two weeks later, the year end
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value of Southern Country's assets was four hundred and ninety
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nine thousand, seven hundred and fifty nine dollars, according to
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the estate's filings. So where'd that money go? I guess
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it just disappeared, right. I guess it's just unaccounted for
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and fell into a black hole. What really happened is
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it's in somebody's offshore account and nobody's the wives or
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for it. The estate has told officials in the Virgin
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Islands that it does not intend to renew the bank's
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license again. Around the time the territory granted Epstein as
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banking license, it also gave a lucrative tax break to
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Southern Trust, a company Epstein's said was developing sophisticated algorithms
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to mind DNA and financial databases. Boy, that's reassuring. Huh,
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this idiot wants to mind DNA databases and compile records
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of people's DNA. Sounds like a fantastic plan. The tax
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break came from the territory's Economic Development Authority, which was
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approved by the territori's former governor, John Dejeong Junior, while
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his wife, Cecil worked for Epstein. Neither Cecil DeJong nor
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her husband returned messages seeking comment. Well, of course they won't.
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They have nothing to say about this. They want to
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stay under the radar. But I think a big problem
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here is the fact that the USVII is greedy. That's
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just what it comes down to. And I think their
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greed is going to undo them when all is said
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and done. Because if you think JP Morgan is writing
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a check to the US Virgin Islands, I have some
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beachfront property to sell you in the middle of the
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Nevada Desert. The tax break granted in twenty thirteen was
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a boon for Epstein. Southern Trust generated about three hundred
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million in profit in six years, and he paid an
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effective tax rate of about three point nine percent. The
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source of Southern Trust revenue is not clear. The bare
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bones corporate filings made by the company in the Virgin
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Islands do not list any clients. That's because it was
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a money washing stop. That's exactly what. It was a
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place for them to wash up their money and get
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it sent back out into the financial system, colored up
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and ready to go. Although the Virgin Islands was long
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a place where Epstein got his way, it is lately
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cast itself as one of his victims. In a lawsuit
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last month, the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, Denise George,
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said Epstein had sullied the territory's reputation with his conduct.
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What about your conduct, Denise George, What about your colleague's conduct?
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What about Stacy Plaskett? She sued Epstein's estate, seeking to
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seize his private islands and dissolve what she said were
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shell companies acting as fronts for his sex trafficking enterprise.
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There's a lot of that that's true. But also let's
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not forget the money laundering aspect of this. A lot
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of people leave that out because it's not as salacious,
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but remember that's how you get most of these criminals
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financial crimes. The suit seeks to intervene in the administration
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of Epstein's will to safeguard assets for dozens of his victims,
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claiming the co executors may have a conflict of interest
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because they were officers in many of Epstein's companies, including
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Southern Country and Southern Trust. The co executors, Darren Endyke
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and Richard Kahn, did not return requests for comment. Well,
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they were part of the whole entire criminal conspiracy, and
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the fact that their skating free and dry here is
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just unbelievable to me. Herman Purcell, the magistrate judge overseeing
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the administration of Epstein's will in the US Virgin Islands,
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heard arguments on the Attorney General's requests at the hearing
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on Tuesday. The judge said she would issue a ruling
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at a later date, so we all know that it
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has progressed from here. But I wanted to go back
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and talk about this one more time because it's just
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another receipt to show you what I'm talking about when
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it comes to the US Virgin Islands and their negligence
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with Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein's discussing crimes and the fact
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that they think they're going to get more money here
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is absurd to me, and I think it needs to
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be pointed out that they are not a victim, and
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in fact, they're an enabler themselves. All Right, folks, that's
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going to do it for this one. All of the
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information that goes with the episode can be found in
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the description box. With Lucky Lin, we've talked a lot
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about Darren Endyke on the program and how he was
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very much involved with Jeffrey Epstein and the day to
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day operations of the criminal enterprise. In tonight's article, we're
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going to add a little more context to that, and
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this article is going to explain how Darren Indyke and
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the pattern of transactions made from Deutsche Bank signal the
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patterns of somebody who is engaging in money laundering. We've
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talked about ctrs here, We've talked about different ways that
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the government has to keep an eye on these sorts
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of transactions. And when I say CTR, I mean cash
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transaction reporting. So the government has all of these guidelines
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in place to make sure that money laundering doesn't occur.
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And Deutsche Bank and Darren Endike and Jeffrey Epstein obviously
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ignored all of those rules and it looks like Darren
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Endyke was engaging in something called structuring. And what structuring
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is is when you will draw money from the bank
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in increments that do not trigger you to have to
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sign CTR paperwork or for it to be a CTR
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type of transaction, and that would be anything over ten
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thousand dollars. So ten thousand dollars and one cent makes
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it a CTR transaction. So what you do if you're
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trying to structure from let's say a sports wagering perspective,
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because in the sports books it's the same deal. You
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have to keep track of what these players are wagering,
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and any anytime ten thousand dollars goes across the counter
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in one transaction or multiple, it has to be CTR.
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So what will happen is you'll have people that try
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and do something called structuring where they'll make sure that
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the ten thousand dollars is never coming across the counter
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one way or the other. And when you notice a
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pattern of people
trying to do that, you sark them
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suspicious activity report. And the bank they have the same
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mechanisms in place to try and stop money laundering. And
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Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions, by the way, we're
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looking the other way when Jeffrey Epstein and his minions
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like Darren Endyke were engaging in this bit of smurfing.
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So let's jump into our article from Law and Crime,
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and let's add a little bit more meat to the
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bone here and some more context to the money laundering angle.
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This article is from Lawn and Crime. The headline brutal
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rebuke of Deutsche Bank raises serious questions about one of
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Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers. This article was authored by Jerry Lamb
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on July seventh of twenty twenty. Deutsche Bank on Tuesday
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agreed to one hundred and fifty million dollars settlement over
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its relationship with since deceased sex offender pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,
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shining a light on the German based bank's consistent failure
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to comply with financial regulations concerning millions of dollars of
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suspicious transactions. And it's not just Jeffrey Epstein who was
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using this bank, right, We know that a lot of
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these billionaire types of people were using We're using Deutsche Bank,
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are still using it. A lot of Russian oligarchs, Donald
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Trump had money there, A lot of these billionaires used
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this bank. And I said, from the very outset, if
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the American Congress was serious about looking into Trump and
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if he did have any kind of relationship with the Russians.
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It would have been through the financials, not the way
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they went about it. And Deutsche Bank is the common
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denominator here though, folks. That's what's really important. Deutsche Bank
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seems to always be embroiled in some sort of money
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laundering scheme or financial irregularities as they like to call it.
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For me or you, that's money laundering or you know,
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washing our money or avoiding taxes for me or you
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forget it, Whe're going to
prison, end of story. These guys, Ah,
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they don't even get in trouble. Their bankers get clipped
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with a fine. But the details contained in the blunt
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consent order between the bank and New York State financial
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regulators may potentially provide prosecutors with a new route for
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unearthing vital information pertaining to Epstein's alleged criminal network. And
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this is what I've been talking about from the jump,
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right when I talk about RICO and I talk about
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for financial forensic accountants, that's what you need. You needs
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financial forensic accountants digging into all of these transactions. They
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need to find the origin of where the transactions originated from,
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and they need to find the destination and every single
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person who is involved in facilitating these transactions or fattening
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their pocket from these transactions, needs to be caught up
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in this rico investigation, just like anybody else would be. Again,
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that's all I'm talking about here, Fairness under the law,
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one law for everybody. I don't care if you're a
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big banker at one of these stupid ass large banks.
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I don't care if you're Jeffrey Epstein. I don't care
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if you're the ice cream man. Everybody should I get
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a fair shake if they get in trouble or if
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they got to go before a judge. The decks shouldn't
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be stacked against the common man, the or the common woman,
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where people like Jeffrey Epstein and his big buddies at
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Deutsche Bank just get a slap on the wrist. According
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to the agreement, an unnamed personal attorney working for Epstein
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made ninety seven separate cash withdrawals from Epstein's accounts at
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the same Manhattan location between two thousand, in thirteen and
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twenty seventeen. An unnamed personal attorney Huh, I'll give you
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guys one guess. Okay, I'm gonna go out on a
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limb here, and I'm guessing this limb that I'm out
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on is pretty strong. It's gonna be a Darren Endyke
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who was involved in all of this. We know he
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was handling the day to day operations for Jeffrey Epstein.
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From a legal standpoint, we know that it was Darren
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Endyke who was the bag man. We know all of this.
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His name was all over, littered, all over documentation. And
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you think Jeffrey Epstein would have somebody involved in his
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smurfing scheme, his structuring plot that he couldn't trust, somebody
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that wasn't ironclad and already locked into the conspiracy. Come on, folks.
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The transactions, which occurred two to three times per month,
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were all in the amount of seventy five hundred dollars
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Deutsche Banks limit for third party withdrawal. So basically he
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was acting as Endyke, who were speculating was the lawyer here.
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He was acting as a third party agent for Jeffrey Epstein.
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Now again in the financial sector, so far as the
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sportsbook world, we have the same thing. Somebody can act
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as your agent and wager on your behalf if all
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of the proper documentation is filled out, and if that
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documentation is not filled out and you're giving somebody money
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a wager on your behalf, well it is technically illegal.
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And the same goes here, right if you're going to
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act as an agent for somebody, there are certain guidelines
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that must be followed, and I mean, I'm shocked that
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they even followed the seventy five hundred dollars guidelines. I
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guess they didn't want to trigger Finsen too much, so
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they had to, you know, sprinkle a little bit of
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truth in with their lives. Under federal regulations, banks and
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other financial institutions must file currents transaction reports with the
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US Treasury Department when there are cash transactions with an
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individual in excess of ten thousand dollars in one day.
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And that's what I was talking to you about just
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a second ago. As far as the sports book goes,
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so you know, I would deal with that quite a bit.
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The sportsbook I worked for, we would take huge, gigantic wagers.
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It was nothing for me to take one hundred thousand
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dollars or more on a football game on a Thursday night.
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So I was dealing with a lot of big money.
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And anytime ten thousand dollars went over the counter, one
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way or the other. Well, we had ourselves a CTR situation,
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and if I missed a CTR or one of them
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didn't get filed and something occurred, forget it. It was
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a big deal. It was a serious transgression. Gaming would
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get involved and it would become a big, serious, serious situation.
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So the fact that Deutsche Bank was able to get
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away with shit like this and let it fly under
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the radar, I just don't understand how that could happen
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unless they had people directing their auditing team to do so.
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Because that's what happens right at the end of the night,
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at least from the sportsbook, everything gets packed away, sent
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up to auditing. They go over it and they look
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for discrepancies and if you screwed up, you'll get notified
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in the morning. And I'm sure it's the same within
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this banking system. Breaking up transactions to avoid the CTR
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reporting is a criminal offense, commonly referred to as structuring
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the agreement stated, and that's exactly what it is. Again.
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I dealt with it quite a bit when I was
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working in the financial sector sports gaming, and it was
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a big problem. Right, you had a lot of people
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trying to game the system. They don't want their names
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in this database. They certainly don't want to fill out
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the government paperwork, right, They don't want to fill out
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that W nine. They don't want to give over their
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ID and their social so they have to fill out
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that W nine. If they don't have their social and
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forget it, it becomes a whole thing. I can't tell
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you how many arguments I got into with customers who
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did not want to pony up the proper documentation. You
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would think if somebody won ten grand and a few
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bucks more would want to
pony up whatever sort of
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documentation that's coming your way, right, if you're going to
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get that kind of dough. But these people were resistant,
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and you can't explain ctr to them. It's illegal while
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I'm at work for me to explain to you how
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to structure a bet or how to structure a money
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laundering move. So there was a lot of things that
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had to occur, and we weren't able to get into
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the particulars with the customers, and that really launched them
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into orbit. We had these little cards we get hand
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out that explained what title thirty one was. I swear,
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I swear to you, I shit you not as attorney
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Adrian Lawrence noted this type of conduct is a classic
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indicator of money laundering, and there's a tweet embedded into
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the article by this lawyer, Adrian Lewis Adrian Lawrence, excuse me,
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or adrianne Lawrence. During one period, Epstein made ninety seven
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cash withdrawals of seventy five hundred dollars. Now, why would
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you make the withdrawals at seventy five hundred Why wouldn't
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you just make them for the ten thousand dollars? Why
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wouldn't you make them for thirty six hundred dollars. So
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it's seventy five hundred bucks out a clip. Why don't
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you just transfer that money? Because they're trying to deal
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in cash, and of course you can't trace cash the
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way you can digital transactions and money transfers, So of
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course they want to make sure that cash is the king,
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and that's how they roll. Making numerous cash transactions beneath
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the ten thousand dollars reporting threshold is called smurfing, an
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indicator of money laundering. Deutsche Bank was unnotice, but it
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evidently looked away. And again, look, I find it hard
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to believe that everybody missed the signs that this was
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obvious money laundering and at the very least Title thirty
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one CTR violations, that alone should have triggered a huge investigation.
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It should have triggered all kinds of action on the
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part of
the authorities. But that at Deutsche Bank they
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obviously weren't where they didn't care right, they were ignoring
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it because it's not just you know, for instance, we
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have you have several lines of defense for things like this.
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At the end of the day, it ends up in auditing,
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and auditing goes through everything with a fine tooth comb,
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and they're supposed to be the people who find these
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indiscretions and then call down to the bank and say,
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what in the f is going on? But it looks
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like none of that occurred here, and that Darren Endyke
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allegedly was able to be involved in about ninety seven
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transactions in just one period where he was structuring the withdrawals.
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The term smurfing refers to a common structuring technique where
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a money launderer employs individuals or smurfs to make unlawful transactions. Now,
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in my industry, we call them beards, and a beard
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is somebody who comes in and wagers for somebody who
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we call a sharp. Now a sharp is somebody who
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has a very good track record against the book, or
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somebody who has perhaps found a way to gain the game,
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the system, or whatever the circumstances may be. Their action
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is no longer welcomed with the book. So what they
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do is they employ somebody called a beard, and that
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person acts as if it was their money, and they
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are the ones who come and wager and collect and
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pay into their accounts whatever it may be, which is
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not legal by that time. Furthermore, on at least two occasions,
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Epstein's attorney also inquired how he could withdraw cash on
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behalf of mister Epstein without triggering an alert that is
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so insanely out of bounds when it comes to a
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financial institution. The fact that he even asked he should
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have been sarked right there, suspicious activity report. It should
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have went into the finsend database and the alarm should
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have been buzzed up high. Because this is just this
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is what I was just talking about. Can't you can't
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help somebody structure, You can't give them tips on how
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to beat title thirty one, And that's what he was
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asking Deutsche Bank to do. And obviously it was on
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two separate occasions, and the people told somebody because we're
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hearing about it here, but nothing occurred. Epstein's accounts should
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have been frozen that moment. Former federal prosecutor Hanado Mariatti,
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a CNN legal analyst, pointed out that prosecutors in the
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Southern District of New York could very likely use this
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information against this unaimed lawyer to make him cooperate with
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their investigation into Epstein's other associates. Now, remember this dude,
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I'm speculating as Darren Endyke. And if that's the case,
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he's an executor of the estate. After all we've learned
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about Darren Endyke, Folks, after everything we've heard about him,
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about the criminality he's been engaged in from day one
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with Jeffrey Epstein, do you really think that this man
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should be administering the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. Of course not.
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There has to be some sort of mechanism to remove
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this man. Epstein's attorney should be concerned about his own liability,
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given that he asked how to evade requirements. I would
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not be surprised if SDNY federal prosecutors tried to put
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pressure on this attorney in order to convince him to
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cooperate against Epstein's other associates. Marriotti wrote, but any cooperation
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would be complicated by potential attorney client privilege issues. I've
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prosecuted lawyers and later represented lawyers who were under investigation,
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and prosecuting a lawyer is never easy. Immunity in exchange
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for the lawyer's cooperation is a possibility, depending on what
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the lawyer did and how helpful he can be. Well,
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we know for a fact that the SDNY goes after lawyers.
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They went after Cohen, Trump's lawyer, right, and not only
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went after him, they hung all boy from on high.
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So we know that the SDNY is not going to
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shy away from that because they will go after lawyers.
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They have done it obviously already, so I would not
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be shocked to see them go after Indike. I've already
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said on record here that I believe that after all
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is said and done, Indyke's going to need lawyers of
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his own. In an interview with Lawn Crime, CNN legal
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analyst Eli Hanig, a former SDNY prosecutor, said he largely
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agrees with Mariotte's take. Basically, anything that will give SDNY
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leverage can potentially be used to flip those who may
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have been involved in criminal activity. Hanig said, if you
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have a lawyer who was intentionally breaking off transactions to
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avoid triggering reporting requirements, that's a violation of federal law,
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which is certainly something that could be used as leverage
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to flip somebody, for sure. And that's what I've said
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to you here forever right. That's what they do in
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these federal investigations. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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I've seen people get broken down by the federal government
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this way. They will use whatever they can to get
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you to flip on your friends or flip on your associates.
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And that's how it works. And if they have some
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leverage on Indyke in this regard, you better believe Alison
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Mowen company are going to use it and they're going
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to leverage him. Hanig explained that while attorney client privilege
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would certainly complicate the matter, that privilege would not attach
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to criminal conduct. There's a crime fraud exception to attorney
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client privilege, meaning that if the conversations were in furtherance
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of a contemplated or ongoing crime, then the content of
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those conversations are no longer protected by privilege. Hanig added.
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Former federal and state prosecutor Daniel R. Alonso suggested SDNY
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was likely already investigating the unnamed attorney. This is a
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vast investigation, and the grand jury is still convened. They're
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investigating many angles and many people, and unnamed lawyer aka
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Darren Endike is most assuredly, in my opinion, one of them.
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Here's a tweet from Daniel R. Alonso talking about how
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he agrees with Renata Hanado Mariatt's breakdown of the situation
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very true, and note that structuring is also used very
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frequently to establish probable cause to obtain search warrants. Given
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that we know, given what we know about this, it
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is likely the government has been investigating this lawyer for
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some time and this is all part of the larger,
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grandiose investigation, right, And they only need something like this
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to use as probable cause to get their foot in
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the door. And then once the foot in the foot
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is in the door, we see how that ends up.
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According to the consent agreement, which did not sugarcoat Deutsche
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Bank's turning of a blind eye to Epstein. The bank
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properly classified Epstein as a high risk client, but didn't
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take necessary precautions and didn't examine suspicious transactions associated with
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exorbitant cash spending. So basically, they look the other way.
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They didn't take any of their finsen responsibilities seriously, and
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they avoided all of these obvious money laundering type transactions.
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The bank was well aware not only that mister Epstein
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had pled guilty and served prison time for engaging in
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sex with a minor, but also that there were public
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allegations that his conduct was facilitated by several named co conspirators.
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Despite this knowledge, the bank did little or nothing to
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inquire into or block numerous payments to named co conspirators
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and to or on behalf of numerous young women, or
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to inquire how mister Epstein was using, on average more
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than two hundred thousand dollars per year in cash. The
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agreement stated they basically gave Jeffrey Epstein the keys to
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the kingdom and told him financially, you can run amuck,
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do whatever you want. You can spend as much money,
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I mean, you can move as much money as you
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want here put as much money as you want in
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the bank, take it out whatever you want, and while
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you're at it, go ahead and just send over your smurf,
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your beard, and he could take out as much as
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he wants to. Well, they never thought the house of
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cards was going to come down around them, and now
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all of these chickens are coming home to roost, and
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people like unnamed lawyer here aka mister Indike are looking
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at a world of pain. If you'd like to contact me,
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you could do that at Bobby Kapuci at ProtonMail dot com.
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That's bobbycap U c c I at ProtonMail dot com.
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You can also find me on Twitter at b O
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B b Y underscore c A p U C c I.
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