The Epstein case started back in 2006. It involved grooming, underage sex, and prostitution by one ethnic group (Epstein, Maxwell, and possibly MOSSAD) against another.
This victim group can be divided into two. First, the main victims, largely young WASP girls, effectively raped and traumatised, and secondly prominent people, compromised and presumably blackmailed. This second group appears to have included at least one member of the Royal Family, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and many, many others. Trump, however, may have had a foot in both camps.
This victim group can be divided into two. First, the main victims, largely young WASP girls, effectively raped and traumatised, and secondly prominent people, compromised and presumably blackmailed. This second group appears to have included at least one member of the Royal Family, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and many, many others. Trump, however, may have had a foot in both camps.
In some ways, Epstein and Maxwell's operation is a weird echo of the grooming gangs scandal that was underway in England at the same time, although that lacked the element of elite blackmail. Another significant difference is that the criminals implicated in Epstein's operation had a lot more political pull and knowledge of the weak points of the justice system than those involved in the Muslim grooming gangs scandal in the UK.
This is seen immediately in the softening of the charges.
In 2006, Palm Beach Police signed paperwork to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with minors (at least five alleged victims were mentioned). This was an open-and-shut federal case with serious jail time. But instead of this going forward, the case was sent to a grand jury, which was unusually summoned to decide on the merits of the case. This grand jury was then used to downgrade the case to a state prosecution on one minor charge of soliciting prostitution.
The decision to use a grand jury to water down the charges was made by Palm Beach County’s top prosecutor, State Attorney Barry Krischer. In 2018, Krischer received the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Jurisprudence Award in 2018, recognizing his "contributions to the legal profession and community," aligning with the ADL's "principles against antisemitism and bigotry." Making sure that Epstein faced a lesser charge may have been part of Krischer's work against antisemitism and bigotry.
In 2006, Palm Beach Police signed paperwork to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with minors (at least five alleged victims were mentioned). This was an open-and-shut federal case with serious jail time. But instead of this going forward, the case was sent to a grand jury, which was unusually summoned to decide on the merits of the case. This grand jury was then used to downgrade the case to a state prosecution on one minor charge of soliciting prostitution.
The decision to use a grand jury to water down the charges was made by Palm Beach County’s top prosecutor, State Attorney Barry Krischer. In 2018, Krischer received the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Jurisprudence Award in 2018, recognizing his "contributions to the legal profession and community," aligning with the ADL's "principles against antisemitism and bigotry." Making sure that Epstein faced a lesser charge may have been part of Krischer's work against antisemitism and bigotry.
But the campaign to save Jeffrey Epstein didn't stop with Krischer or the Jews. Also deserving a prize from the ADL was Krischer's Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek (Czech origin). It was her handling of the grand jury that effectively soft pedalled the case by undermining the victims. She emphasised their potential "criminality" (e.g., prostitution), and their past issues like drug use or shoplifting, and generally questioned their credibility. She effectively shifted focus from Epstein, and portrayed the girls as willing participants or prostitutes.
This part of the Epstein case also has eerie parallels with the victims of the Muslim grooming gangs in England.
Belohlavek: Epstein's angel
Not everybody was happy with this leniency. The Palm Beach Police were totally pissed off, and accordingly referred the case to the FBI, which opened a federal investigation identifying dozens of underage victims.
With Federal prosecutors preparing a new indictment, however, Epstein’s lawyers pulled off what is perhaps the biggest sweetheart deal in US legal history with the U.S. federal attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta (Cuban background). This avoided a federal prosecution, while also violating the Crime Victims' Rights Act by not even informing the victims.
With Federal prosecutors preparing a new indictment, however, Epstein’s lawyers pulled off what is perhaps the biggest sweetheart deal in US legal history with the U.S. federal attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta (Cuban background). This avoided a federal prosecution, while also violating the Crime Victims' Rights Act by not even informing the victims.
Epstein agreed to plead guilty to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution, and got a mere 18 months in an open jail that allowed him to go home during the day.
Acosta later became associated with Trump, when he was appointed Secretary of Labour in February 2017. At the time of the Epstein deal (2007), however, there was no clear connection between them. Acosta's motivation for helping Epstein must have come from somewhere else. The official story is that Acosta was just guilty of "poor judgement." Some people are stupid enough to believe that.
Acosta (a lot of money?)
In 2009 Epstein's "sentence" ended (it would be inaccurate to say that he was released from jail), but his accusers continued to campaign to get his federal non-prosecution agreement with Acosta voided.
In 2011, the best-known victim Virginia Giuffre gave interviews to journalists detailing Ghislaine Maxwell's role in recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein's operation. Maxwell then publicly called Giuffre's accusations "obvious lies" and "untrue." This provided grounds for Giuffre to file a civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell, leading to the case being settled confidentially in May 2017. Giuffre reportedly received "millions," but there was no public admission of liability by Maxwell and, most importantly, the Epstein files remained sealed.
This should be seen as essentially a selfish act by Giuffre that helped to protect Epstein for a few more years.
This should be seen as essentially a selfish act by Giuffre that helped to protect Epstein for a few more years.
Giuffre: the method of her apparent "suicide" in unknown. Mossad, meanwhile, has a long track record of staging suicides.
That seemed to be that, but on February 16, 2017, Donald Trump appointed Alexander Acosta labour secretary—an idiotic decision in retrospect. This led the Democrat-leaning Miami Herald to "revisit" the handling of the Epstein’s case, with stories appearing from November 2018.
This in turn led to the case heating up again. Federal prosecutors in New York, under U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman (Jewish/ appointed by Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions) decided they weren’t bound by the terms of the earlier non-prosecution deal, and on July 6th 2019, Epstein was arrested again. A few weeks later he would be officially dead.
Berman, not on the Trump train
Unlike the 2nd Trump administration, where power is centralised by the President's clique in accordance with Project 2025, the 1st Trump administration was a generally "normie" Republican administration, open to congressional oversight by a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.
Berman's boss Sessions was not on the Trump train, and Berman certainly wasn't. He had already prosecuted Trump's long-time personal attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen in 2018, investigated Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and was about to indict Trump advisor Steve Bannon on fraud charges, when he was fired by Trump in June 2020.
Following Epstein's rearrest on July 6th, 2019, he was kept at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City, a federal detention facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons under the U.S. Department of Justice. Here, on August 10th, he reportedly "committed suicide" in highly suspicious circumstances.
The person in ultimate charge of the facility was Attorney General William Barr, who is now a critic of Trump and is normie-Republican coded. Barr's version of what happened was a "perfect storm of screw-ups." He cites staffing shortages, falsified logs by guards, Epstein's removal from suicide watch, lack of a cellmate, etc. that "enabled" the suicide. Most people, however, feel this is too neat and that Epstein must have been murdered or even "spirited away" (with the body of double placed there instead).
Setting a low Barr?
With Epstein officially dead, however, much of the impetus behind the case was removed, but there was still the "loose thread" of Epstein's assistant and fixer Ghislaine Maxwell.
She was arrested on July 2nd, 2020 by the FBI at her property in New Hampshire. Suspiciously, Trump who was still President at the time, went out of his way to "wish her well," which many reasonable people interpreted as a signal not to "drop him in it" in hopes of a Presidential pardon.
Trump was then defeated a few months later in the controversial 2020 election and left office, somewhat reluctantly in January 2021. On December 30, 2021, after a month-long trial, Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes, receiving the kind of sentence that Epstein should have received in 2007, namely a 20-year sentence.
She was arrested on July 2nd, 2020 by the FBI at her property in New Hampshire. Suspiciously, Trump who was still President at the time, went out of his way to "wish her well," which many reasonable people interpreted as a signal not to "drop him in it" in hopes of a Presidential pardon.
Trump was then defeated a few months later in the controversial 2020 election and left office, somewhat reluctantly in January 2021. On December 30, 2021, after a month-long trial, Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes, receiving the kind of sentence that Epstein should have received in 2007, namely a 20-year sentence.
However, this didn't end things.
On December 18, 2023, U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska (a Bush appointee), decided to release 900 pages of files from the 2015-2017 civil defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. These included depositions, e-mails, correspondence, flight logs from Epstein's private jets, legal motions, exhibits, witness statements, and related materials. Preska's argument is that due to the notoriety of the case a lot of facts and rumours are already public knowledge.
Preska: letting part of the cat out of the bag
The effect of this decision was to break the legal logjam keeping all the Epstein data locked up. It created a renewed appetite for more revelations just as America was going into another Presidential election year. During that election, Trump played to the large "conspiritard" element of his base, claiming he would open more government files on Epstein.
For example, during an appearance on the Lex Friedman Podcast on September 3rd, 2024, he was asked about declassifying and releasing documents related to Epstein (including the often-discussed "client list" of those who visited Epstein island). Trump responded:
"Yeah, I’d certainly take a look at it... I’d be inclined to do the Epstein [files]. I’d have no problem with it."
It is obvious from his later behaviour that these comments were insincere and said mainly in the heat of trying to win an election that would serve to keep him out of prison.
Since then, Trump has been trapped in a Faustian bargain with his largely low-IQ followers. While the President arranges "performative" releases of Epstein-related material, much of it already out there, they applaud enthusiastically while asking for yet more.
The latest batch of Epstein material is a perfect example of this.
Clearly all references to Trump have been redacted and blacked out under the guise of "national security" or "protecting the victims," while anything that can deflect from him—like pictures of Michael Jackson, Woody Allen, or Bill Clinton taking a bath—have been released.
But Trump's base is relentlessly conspiritard, and will not stop until everything is out in the open, and even then they will move on to the "other" Epstein files, the ones that may or may not be in the hands of the Israelis or the Russians.
The latest batch of Epstein material is a perfect example of this.
Clearly all references to Trump have been redacted and blacked out under the guise of "national security" or "protecting the victims," while anything that can deflect from him—like pictures of Michael Jackson, Woody Allen, or Bill Clinton taking a bath—have been released.
But Trump's base is relentlessly conspiritard, and will not stop until everything is out in the open, and even then they will move on to the "other" Epstein files, the ones that may or may not be in the hands of the Israelis or the Russians.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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