>“Bank regulators expect applicants to be candid,” Jesus wept. Is this it? That's the level of scrutiny?
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Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
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#62Epstein may have the record for pimping at scale. There have been pimps for several thousand years. There have been pimps using blackmail. That's not new. Becoming a billionaire with a private island that way, though - that's new.
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And her father died by apparently "falling overboard off his yacht" (which was named "The Lady Ghislaine" after her!). Not at all suspicious. Even more fun? You know who owns that yacht now? DJT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death
>Even more fun? You know who owns that yacht now? DJT. Any reference on that?
He's confused on the yachts (easy to do, I suppose). DJT bought Adnan Khashoggi's yacht. Emad is his cousin. Emad's yacht was bought by Maxwell. Adnan's yacht was bought by Trump, which was foreclosed upon a few years after he purchased it.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
And her father died by apparently "falling overboard off his yacht" (which was named "The Lady Ghislaine" after her!). Not at all suspicious. Even more fun? You know who owns that yacht now? DJT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death
Want even more fun? You know who sold Maxwell that yacht? Emad Khashoggi... Jamal Khashoggi's cousin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Khashoggi
Another of his cousins died with Princess Diana
Re: Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
#65Is it that easy to start a new bank?
Very generally speaking, it costs about $5M to start a U.S. bank. Someone of Epstein's personal wealth, not to mention the assets under his control, would not have a problem starting a bank easily. His criminal record would have been an issue in the U.S., however, and any regulator worth their salt should have found it and denied the charter accordingly.
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#66I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that the simplest explanation for investigations being constantly spiked or important evidence repeatedly disappearing during Epstein's life, is that enough high-ranking officials got invited to "parties" and slept with his underage sex slaves (or worse) on video, and were then blackmailed. The fact that even after his life there aren't gobs of collaborators being arrested also…
I am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same. One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations - 1) The law enforcement agencies are choos…
She is under investigation. That's step 1 to extradition.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/jeffrey-epstein-friend-ghisl...
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I've come to the conclusion that he was an intelligence asset. The dog that doesn't bark is the fact that, to my knowledge, there are no on the record statements from the intelligence community which deny he was an asset. What's even more conspicuous is that there is clearly a strong interest by the public. Even if all these "conspiracy theories" are false, you could get a LOT of viewership just going around debunkin…
Intelligence agencies never confirm or deny such things, and how can you debunk something that's not currently possible to prove or disprove? I think almost no one, including the media, knows what really happened. There are a huge array of different forking possibilities.
If the intelligence community can't publicly deny that perhaps the most prolific child rapist in known history was an asset, we have serious problems. Regardless of standard policy.
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I am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same. One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations - 1) The law enforcement agencies are choos…
Is it actually hard to disappear if you have money?
If you want to keep the money, presumably yes. If you don't mind becoming an anonymous but financially insecure expat in the jungles of South America or Asia, then sure.
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I am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same. One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations - 1) The law enforcement agencies are choos…
If she's sitting in a cafe in some random country, let's say Morocco or Bermuda, what is their law enforcements motivation for finding her? As far as I understand, there is no arrest warrant out for her, nor any Interpol involvement. They've got better things to do, so I wouldn't be so quick to assume law enforcement around the world is in on this.
> They've got better things to do
This is incredible.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Intelligence agencies never confirm or deny such things, and how can you debunk something that's not currently possible to prove or disprove? I think almost no one, including the media, knows what really happened. There are a huge array of different forking possibilities.
If the intelligence community can't publicly deny that perhaps the most prolific child rapist in known history was an asset, we have serious problems. Regardless of standard policy.
> the most prolific child rapist in known history
I think maybe your cynicism is misplaced. The world is a far uglier place than your comment presumes. And relative to the kinds of people intelligence agencies must deal with sometimes, Epstein's crimes and alleged crimes probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow. (Which isn't a comment on whether they were blackmail worthy.)