Damn. That is a spectacular explanation of how we are where we are! So well laid out! I couldn't stop reading, even as l was tearing up at all the torture, evil, insidiousness that was kept alive as you described it.
All the more resolve that Congress, and good cops and prosecutors keep digging, digging and taking the right next steps!! We have to open all the doors and,stairwell and,supposed dead ends, BUT NEVER FORGETTING TO PROTECT THE SURVIVORS FROM FURTHER ABUSE.
Thank you again. I be sharing with all my family, friends, colleagues and State and Federal Reps.
Looking away from evil while benefiting from it seems common in the social and business circles Epstein cultivated. As long as your own fingernails are clean, it’s “just business” or “exchanging favors” to help sustain those on the dark side. Amoral systems of power, wealth and influence continue no matter who’s at the helm.
There is a file in the DOJ records that regarding a complaint report given to the FBI by someone who claimed to be a victim of Epstein and Trump. It was filed in 2020. This person wrote about being part of a "calendar girls" event put on by these two men where girls as young as 10 were physically probed by Trump and Epstein to check for their vaginal tightness, and some of the girls were forced to perform fellatio on the men. The FBI form asked for witnesses to all this on the form. The answer was Ghislaine Maxwell and Ivanka Trump. Ivanka Trump. The claim also listed the following people as being present at some of these calendar girl events....Musk, Dershowitz, Attorney Bob Shapiro, Donald Trump JR. Eric and Ivanka Trump. This whole thing goes way farther and way deeper than any of us realize. Plus, I don't believe Epstein killed himself.
Thank you for this, and for the Jimmy Saville and Rotherham inclusion. I’m in the UK and have seen first hand how the Rotherham -type abuse was able to germinate.
Brilliant analysis of how a social hierarchy built around wealth, status and ivy-envy breeds corruption. Wannabes to every in-group—from high school cliques to influencers on social media to corporate ladder-climbers, office-seekers and tenure track academics—thrive on influence. The lure of fame and wealth has pushed personal integrity and morality to the periphery of American ideals. Can our society regain the strength to push back?
It's hard not to surmise that those senior prosecutors handling Epstein's case in 2006/2008 were potentially co-conspiritors or in the pockets of co-conspiritors. Otherwise why would they agree such a, literally, unbelievable deal? Anybody else would have been in a secure jail for many years.
Equally, his death, supposedly by suicide, stretches credulity. If he had gone to court or, perhaps, agreed a plea deal, how many powerful people could he have named? It suited all his co-conspiritors that he never got the chance to name names.
All a bit conspiracy theory I know but it doesn't sound implausible to me. We'll never know of course.
Besides the victims themselves, a few lawyers and prosecutors and Julie K. Brown, who else can be cited as a hero in this ever expanding story of Jeffrey Epstein? Where are the voices that said, enough! Where are the people who backed away in horror and did something? I know there are some parents of victims who tried, some local cops who were suspicious, and some lawyers who attempted, when paid, to expose a part of something so huge, it was unimaginable.
Of course, everybody who knew Epstein, looking at you Howard Nutlick, now say they were appalled, just appalled, by Epstein, but we know they swallowed their mouth vomit and continued on with their liaison with a man who was known to be a pedophile, who gloried in it. The Bill Gates, the professors and scientists, the nerds, felt like cool boys and girls when sitting at the Epstein table. The predators themselves: Twump, Woody Allen, Les Wexner, many others, found in Epstein a validation for their own moral failings.
I await the book where Julie Brown, or someone with her credentials, tells the whole story, naming names, addresses, and bank accounts of all of Epstein's friends, and especially highlights the Epstein Class, those for whom the law is a suggestion.
I’m reading every one of your newsletters and am enjoying them VERY much. At age 79 I’m old school, so the devastation wrought upon grammar by texting is quite a concern for me.
When I notice what in my opinion is a better use of punctuation, I’d like to share it with you.
I hope that’s OK. So, here’s one:
“At first glance his life reads like a lurid fable, money and mansions and private jets, a tropical island with an infamous nickname, and then, inevitably, the names, famous and powerful and gilded, ripple through the narrative like a spark hitting dry brush.”
fascinating analysis. When you start thinking about, basically, a culture of permissions, the view broadens, as we are clearly living in a society fueled in so many ways by permissions, particularly the permissions of the dog whistle and the permission to be openly corrupt. Many readers, looking at the "what happens when the head is lopped off, must have thought "and what about too many hamberders" and the implications of what might happen should that occur.
Damn. That is a spectacular explanation of how we are where we are! So well laid out! I couldn't stop reading, even as l was tearing up at all the torture, evil, insidiousness that was kept alive as you described it.
All the more resolve that Congress, and good cops and prosecutors keep digging, digging and taking the right next steps!! We have to open all the doors and,stairwell and,supposed dead ends, BUT NEVER FORGETTING TO PROTECT THE SURVIVORS FROM FURTHER ABUSE.
Thank you again. I be sharing with all my family, friends, colleagues and State and Federal Reps.
A brilliant exposé, a gift from the gifted. There is no superlative adequate ..except please …READ!
It could be The American Story that which combined in perfect timing and accompanied by jail sentences for.them.all.
No less is the sad playbook laid out so succinct .
This is thoroughly disgusting how elite can continue abuse without Epstein.
Perfection in your analysis. The machine waits to be turned on again. The monster waits to be released from the cave. It's not over. By a long shot.
Superb journalism and writing - thank you.
Looking away from evil while benefiting from it seems common in the social and business circles Epstein cultivated. As long as your own fingernails are clean, it’s “just business” or “exchanging favors” to help sustain those on the dark side. Amoral systems of power, wealth and influence continue no matter who’s at the helm.
There is a file in the DOJ records that regarding a complaint report given to the FBI by someone who claimed to be a victim of Epstein and Trump. It was filed in 2020. This person wrote about being part of a "calendar girls" event put on by these two men where girls as young as 10 were physically probed by Trump and Epstein to check for their vaginal tightness, and some of the girls were forced to perform fellatio on the men. The FBI form asked for witnesses to all this on the form. The answer was Ghislaine Maxwell and Ivanka Trump. Ivanka Trump. The claim also listed the following people as being present at some of these calendar girl events....Musk, Dershowitz, Attorney Bob Shapiro, Donald Trump JR. Eric and Ivanka Trump. This whole thing goes way farther and way deeper than any of us realize. Plus, I don't believe Epstein killed himself.
Thank you for this, and for the Jimmy Saville and Rotherham inclusion. I’m in the UK and have seen first hand how the Rotherham -type abuse was able to germinate.
Brilliant analysis of how a social hierarchy built around wealth, status and ivy-envy breeds corruption. Wannabes to every in-group—from high school cliques to influencers on social media to corporate ladder-climbers, office-seekers and tenure track academics—thrive on influence. The lure of fame and wealth has pushed personal integrity and morality to the periphery of American ideals. Can our society regain the strength to push back?
It's hard not to surmise that those senior prosecutors handling Epstein's case in 2006/2008 were potentially co-conspiritors or in the pockets of co-conspiritors. Otherwise why would they agree such a, literally, unbelievable deal? Anybody else would have been in a secure jail for many years.
Equally, his death, supposedly by suicide, stretches credulity. If he had gone to court or, perhaps, agreed a plea deal, how many powerful people could he have named? It suited all his co-conspiritors that he never got the chance to name names.
All a bit conspiracy theory I know but it doesn't sound implausible to me. We'll never know of course.
Besides the victims themselves, a few lawyers and prosecutors and Julie K. Brown, who else can be cited as a hero in this ever expanding story of Jeffrey Epstein? Where are the voices that said, enough! Where are the people who backed away in horror and did something? I know there are some parents of victims who tried, some local cops who were suspicious, and some lawyers who attempted, when paid, to expose a part of something so huge, it was unimaginable.
Of course, everybody who knew Epstein, looking at you Howard Nutlick, now say they were appalled, just appalled, by Epstein, but we know they swallowed their mouth vomit and continued on with their liaison with a man who was known to be a pedophile, who gloried in it. The Bill Gates, the professors and scientists, the nerds, felt like cool boys and girls when sitting at the Epstein table. The predators themselves: Twump, Woody Allen, Les Wexner, many others, found in Epstein a validation for their own moral failings.
I await the book where Julie Brown, or someone with her credentials, tells the whole story, naming names, addresses, and bank accounts of all of Epstein's friends, and especially highlights the Epstein Class, those for whom the law is a suggestion.
I’m reading every one of your newsletters and am enjoying them VERY much. At age 79 I’m old school, so the devastation wrought upon grammar by texting is quite a concern for me.
When I notice what in my opinion is a better use of punctuation, I’d like to share it with you.
I hope that’s OK. So, here’s one:
“At first glance his life reads like a lurid fable, money and mansions and private jets, a tropical island with an infamous nickname, and then, inevitably, the names, famous and powerful and gilded, ripple through the narrative like a spark hitting dry brush.”
To me, it should be a s colon after “fable”.
OK,stay strong! 🙏
Rob Freeman
fascinating analysis. When you start thinking about, basically, a culture of permissions, the view broadens, as we are clearly living in a society fueled in so many ways by permissions, particularly the permissions of the dog whistle and the permission to be openly corrupt. Many readers, looking at the "what happens when the head is lopped off, must have thought "and what about too many hamberders" and the implications of what might happen should that occur.
Oh so deserves another…..WOW!
TY Shanley