{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":73.63,"endTime":75.47,"body":"3 million pages of evidence."},{"startTime":76.27,"endTime":78.66999999999999,"body":"Thousands of unsealed flight logs."},{"startTime":79.14999999999999,"endTime":84.03,"body":"Millions of data points, names, themes and timelines connected."},{"startTime":84.83,"endTime":88.91,"body":"You are listening to the Epstein Files, the world's first"},{"startTime":89.07,"endTime":94.14999999999999,"body":"AI native investigation into the case that traditional journalism simply"},{"startTime":94.14999999999999,"endTime":95.22999999999999,"body":"could not handle."},{"startTime":99.71,"endTime":101.31,"body":"Welcome back to the Epstein Files."},{"startTime":101.78999999999999,"endTime":104.55,"body":"Last time we walked through the Palm beach investigation and"},{"startTime":104.55,"endTime":107.07,"body":"tested what the records could actually prove without 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the."},{"startTime":155.89,"endTime":158.29,"body":"The police letters, the non prosecution agreement itself."},{"startTime":158.29,"endTime":159.64999999999998,"body":"The signal is what's on paper."},{"startTime":159.64999999999998,"endTime":160.93,"body":"Signed, dated."},{"startTime":161.17,"endTime":164.29,"body":"And the objective is to answer one question, really."},{"startTime":164.29,"endTime":166.13,"body":"It's the one that underpins everything else."},{"startTime":166.69,"endTime":170.29,"body":"How does a case with, and this is the police's"},{"startTime":170.29,"endTime":175.17,"body":"own term, probable cause, affidavits for multiple felonies against multiple"},{"startTime":175.17,"endTime":179.01,"body":"victims end up as a single solicitation charge with sweeping"},{"startTime":179.01,"endTime":179.81,"body":"federal immunity?"},{"startTime":179.81,"endTime":181.69,"body":"To get to that answer, you have to start with"},{"startTime":181.69,"endTime":183.69,"body":"the 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say?"},{"startTime":246.66,"endTime":250.57999999999998,"body":"Raider writes that he is submitting probable cause affidavits for"},{"startTime":250.57999999999998,"endTime":254.14,"body":"Jeffrey Epstein, for Sarah Kellen, and for Haley Robson."},{"startTime":254.14,"endTime":257.38,"body":"He calls it the Palm Beach Police Department's presentation for"},{"startTime":257.38,"endTime":258.02,"body":"prosecution."},{"startTime":258.18,"endTime":259.94,"body":"Let's pause on that phrase for a second."},{"startTime":260.41999999999996,"endTime":261.53999999999996,"body":"Probable cause."},{"startTime":261.78,"endTime":263.7,"body":"We hear it all the time on crime shows."},{"startTime":263.7,"endTime":266.22,"body":"But in a legal document like this, what does it"},{"startTime":266.22,"endTime":266.94,"body":"actually signify?"},{"startTime":266.94,"endTime":268.06,"body":"Just the legal standard, right?"},{"startTime":268.06,"endTime":269.46000000000004,"body":"It's the finish line for 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right after that procedural language, the tone of"},{"startTime":295.88,"endTime":297.93,"body":"the letter, it changes."},{"startTime":297.93,"endTime":299.09000000000003,"body":"It becomes sharp."},{"startTime":299.40999999999997,"endTime":303.37,"body":"Raider writes, quote, I must renew my prior observation to"},{"startTime":303.37,"endTime":305.93,"body":"you that I continue to find your office's treatment of"},{"startTime":305.93,"endTime":307.57,"body":"these cases highly unusual."},{"startTime":307.73,"endTime":308.61,"body":"Highly unusual."},{"startTime":308.61,"endTime":310.04999999999995,"body":"Let's just sit with that for a moment."},{"startTime":310.13,"endTime":313.53,"body":"In the, you know, the very careful diplomatic language of"},{"startTime":313.53,"endTime":317.73,"body":"legal and police correspondence, that phrase is a cannon shot."},{"startTime":317.73,"endTime":318.85,"body":"It's not subtle."},{"startTime":319.01,"endTime":320.61,"body":"It is the opposite 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to"},{"startTime":339.669,"endTime":342.30899999999997,"body":"communicate in this manner, but my most recent telephone calls"},{"startTime":342.30899999999997,"endTime":344.269,"body":"to you and those of the lead detective to your"},{"startTime":344.269,"endTime":347.98900000000003,"body":"assigned attorneys have been unanswered and messages remain unreturned."},{"startTime":347.98900000000003,"endTime":348.94899999999996,"body":"And there it is."},{"startTime":349.269,"endTime":353.269,"body":"The first major documented red flag in this entire audit."},{"startTime":353.63,"endTime":355.87,"body":"Just think about the operational reality for a second."},{"startTime":355.87,"endTime":357.87,"body":"This isn't some minor shoplifting case."},{"startTime":357.95000000000005,"endTime":359.71000000000004,"body":"You have a high profile suspect."},{"startTime":359.87,"endTime":363.35,"body":"You have allegations of a widespread sexual abuse network involving"},{"startTime":363.35,"endTime":366.95000000000005,"body":"dozens of minors, and the chief of police cannot get"},{"startTime":366.95000000000005,"endTime":368.42999999999995,"body":"the state attorney on the phone."},{"startTime":368.75,"endTime":370.07000000000005,"body":"It's not just a missed call."},{"startTime":370.07000000000005,"endTime":370.99,"body":"It's a pattern."},{"startTime":371.23,"endTime":373.07000000000005,"body":"Unanswered and unreturned."},{"startTime":373.30999999999995,"endTime":375.39,"body":"Plural, that silence is an action."},{"startTime":375.63,"endTime":376.75,"body":"It's not passive."},{"startTime":376.90999999999997,"endTime":379.59000000000003,"body":"An institutional wall is being built right there in that"},{"startTime":379.59000000000003,"endTime":382.27,"body":"sentence between the people who investigated the crime and the"},{"startTime":382.27,"endTime":384.11,"body":"people whose job it is to prosecute it."},{"startTime":384.67999999999995,"endTime":386.43999999999994,"body":"Barry Krisher isn't just busy."},{"startTime":386.52,"endTime":388.43999999999994,"body":"He is making himself unavailable."},{"startTime":388.67999999999995,"endTime":390.32000000000005,"body":"The letter builds to a climax."},{"startTime":390.32000000000005,"endTime":393.48,"body":"And it's a request that, well, it's breathtaking, frankly."},{"startTime":393.48,"endTime":397.28,"body":"Writer urges Krischer to, quote, consider if good and sufficient"},{"startTime":397.28,"endTime":399.72,"body":"reason exists to require your disqualification."},{"startTime":399.72,"endTime":401.24,"body":"He's asking him to recuse himself."},{"startTime":401.32000000000005,"endTime":404.12,"body":"The chief of police is telling the county's top prosecutor"},{"startTime":404.12,"endTime":405.15999999999997,"body":"to get off the case."},{"startTime":405.32000000000005,"endTime":406.52,"body":"It's almost unheard of."},{"startTime":406.52,"endTime":407.55999999999995,"body":"This is the proof."},{"startTime":408.43999999999994,"endTime":412.32000000000005,"body":"As early as May 1, 2006, months before the feds"},{"startTime":412.32000000000005,"endTime":414.91999999999996,"body":"are involved, years before the public understands the scope of"},{"startTime":414.91999999999996,"endTime":418.91999999999996,"body":"this, the the local police force had already formally on"},{"startTime":418.91999999999996,"endTime":422.67999999999995,"body":"the record, documented a complete and total lack of confidence"},{"startTime":422.84000000000003,"endTime":425.32000000000005,"body":"in the state attorney's ability to be objective."},{"startTime":425.32000000000005,"endTime":426.76,"body":"They suspected something was wrong."},{"startTime":426.84000000000003,"endTime":429.72,"body":"They suspected on paper that the fix was in."},{"startTime":429.88,"endTime":431.799,"body":"They might not have known why it was in, but"},{"startTime":431.799,"endTime":434.6,"body":"they knew the behavior of the prosecutor's office was not"},{"startTime":434.6,"endTime":436.52,"body":"the behavior of an office seeking justice."},{"startTime":436.6,"endTime":438.08000000000004,"body":"Okay, so that letter lands in May."},{"startTime":438.08000000000004,"endTime":439.48,"body":"Krisher is now on notice."},{"startTime":439.48,"endTime":441.28,"body":"Let's move the timeline forward two months."},{"startTime":441.28,"endTime":442.91999999999996,"body":"It's now July of 2006."},{"startTime":443.73,"endTime":447.53,"body":"After the ignored calls, after this bombshell letter, State attorney"},{"startTime":447.53,"endTime":449.09000000000003,"body":"Barry Krisher finally takes action."},{"startTime":449.33000000000004,"endTime":451.16999999999996,"body":"He presents the case to a grand jury."},{"startTime":451.57000000000005,"endTime":453.13,"body":"And this is where we find what we have to"},{"startTime":453.13,"endTime":454.85,"body":"call the indictment discrepancy."},{"startTime":455.01,"endTime":457.37,"body":"The police files, as you said at the top, identified"},{"startTime":457.37,"endTime":458.53,"body":"over 40 victories."},{"startTime":458.61,"endTime":462.68999999999994,"body":"The probable cause affidavits that writer sent over described multiple"},{"startTime":462.68999999999994,"endTime":463.33000000000004,"body":"felonies."},{"startTime":463.73,"endTime":466.01,"body":"Rape, sexual battery on a minor."},{"startTime":466.01,"endTime":467.97,"body":"Serious, life altering felonies."},{"startTime":468.04999999999995,"endTime":468.53,"body":"Correct."},{"startTime":469.16999999999996,"endTime":471.09000000000003,"body":"But when the indictment is handed down by the grand"},{"startTime":471.09000000000003,"endTime":474.77,"body":"jury in July 2006, what does it charge?"},{"startTime":474.85,"endTime":477.89,"body":"One count, a single count of solicitation for prostitution."},{"startTime":477.97,"endTime":480.28999999999996,"body":"And just as important is what's not in the charge."},{"startTime":480.68999999999994,"endTime":484.09000000000003,"body":"The document itself notes there is no reference to minors"},{"startTime":484.09000000000003,"endTime":484.85,"body":"in the indictment."},{"startTime":484.85,"endTime":485.45000000000005,"body":"That feels."},{"startTime":485.45000000000005,"endTime":486.68999999999994,"body":"I mean, how is that even possible?"},{"startTime":486.68999999999994,"endTime":488.04999999999995,"body":"I've gone through the police reports."},{"startTime":488.28999999999996,"endTime":490.61,"body":"The case was about minors almost exclusively."},{"startTime":491.25,"endTime":494.57000000000005,"body":"How do you construct an indictment based on those files"},{"startTime":494.57000000000005,"endTime":496.77,"body":"and leave out the central fact of the crime?"},{"startTime":497.03,"endTime":499.27,"body":"You do it by deliberately sanitizing the record."},{"startTime":499.90999999999997,"endTime":503.95000000000005,"body":"By framing the charge as solicitation of prostitution without the"},{"startTime":503.95000000000005,"endTime":507.07000000000005,"body":"minor qualifier, the state attorney's office performed a kind of"},{"startTime":507.07000000000005,"endTime":508.07000000000005,"body":"legal alchemy."},{"startTime":508.07000000000005,"endTime":511.51,"body":"He transformed child sexual abuse into adult vice."},{"startTime":511.59000000000003,"endTime":513.27,"body":"He turned a predator into a john."},{"startTime":513.43,"endTime":514.11,"body":"Precisely."},{"startTime":514.11,"endTime":515.15,"body":"And that changes everything."},{"startTime":515.15,"endTime":517.99,"body":"The entire legal classification of the crime is altered."},{"startTime":518.23,"endTime":520.1899999999999,"body":"If you're Charged with soliciting an adult."},{"startTime":520.1899999999999,"endTime":522.07,"body":"It's a misdemeanor, It's a nuisance."},{"startTime":522.07,"endTime":524.63,"body":"If you're charged with soliciting a minor, that's a serious"},{"startTime":524.63,"endTime":525.31,"body":"sex offense."},{"startTime":525.31,"endTime":528.23,"body":"It means a sex offender registry, mandatory prison time."},{"startTime":528.23,"endTime":530.77,"body":"There are two completely different universes of crime."},{"startTime":530.85,"endTime":534.49,"body":"And we have another piece of correspondence from chief writer"},{"startTime":534.49,"endTime":535.73,"body":"that shows his reaction."},{"startTime":536.05,"endTime":539.89,"body":"It's another letter, this one dated July 24, 2006."},{"startTime":540.13,"endTime":542.6899999999999,"body":"It's addressed to the father of one of the victims."},{"startTime":542.6899999999999,"endTime":546.17,"body":"And this letter is, for all intents and purposes, the"},{"startTime":546.17,"endTime":548.85,"body":"police department washing its hands of the state attorney's decision."},{"startTime":549.33,"endTime":553.01,"body":"Writer writes directly to this father and says, quote, I"},{"startTime":553.01,"endTime":555.49,"body":"do not feel the justice has been sufficiently served."},{"startTime":555.8,"endTime":558.2,"body":"Can you imagine getting that letter, the chief of police"},{"startTime":558.2,"endTime":561.0,"body":"telling you, I'm sorry, the system failed."},{"startTime":561.16,"endTime":564.0,"body":"It creates a documented split that we have to be"},{"startTime":564.0,"endTime":565.08,"body":"absolutely clear about."},{"startTime":565.48,"endTime":568.36,"body":"The state level case against Jeffrey Epstein did not fail"},{"startTime":568.52,"endTime":569.8,"body":"because the police came up short."},{"startTime":570.04,"endTime":571.72,"body":"It did not fail for lack of evidence."},{"startTime":572.2,"endTime":574.64,"body":"The records prove the police believed they had more than"},{"startTime":574.64,"endTime":576.92,"body":"enough probable cause for major felonies."},{"startTime":577.32,"endTime":580.08,"body":"The case failed because the state attorney made a choice"},{"startTime":580.08,"endTime":583.4,"body":"to ignore that evidence and pursue a much narrower, much"},{"startTime":583.4,"endTime":585.16,"body":"safer, much less serious charge."},{"startTime":585.39,"endTime":587.63,"body":"So that takes us right into evidence block two."},{"startTime":587.63,"endTime":589.07,"body":"We have to drill down on the why."},{"startTime":589.23,"endTime":591.7900000000001,"body":"We can't know what was in Barry Krisher's head, but"},{"startTime":591.7900000000001,"endTime":593.87,"body":"we can audit the official justification."},{"startTime":594.11,"endTime":596.35,"body":"What reason did he give for gutting this case?"},{"startTime":596.75,"endTime":600.4300000000001,"body":"For that, we have to look at later documents, specifically"},{"startTime":600.51,"endTime":604.59,"body":"the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility report, the"},{"startTime":604.59,"endTime":607.7900000000001,"body":"OPR report, and archives from the Palm Beach Police Department."},{"startTime":608.99,"endTime":613.4,"body":"In depositions given later, Chief Rider recounted exactly what Krischer"},{"startTime":613.4,"endTime":614.9200000000001,"body":"told him in their few conversations."},{"startTime":615.0,"endTime":619.28,"body":"And the official reason was the record states that Krisher's"},{"startTime":619.28,"endTime":622.16,"body":"position was that he did not believe the victims were"},{"startTime":622.16,"endTime":622.6,"body":"credible."},{"startTime":622.6800000000001,"endTime":623.4,"body":"Not credible."},{"startTime":623.4,"endTime":624.6,"body":"The classic defense."},{"startTime":624.6,"endTime":625.08,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":625.08,"endTime":626.4,"body":"These girls are unreliable."},{"startTime":626.4,"endTime":628.6,"body":"They're troubled, they can't be trusted on the stand."},{"startTime":628.84,"endTime":630.12,"body":"That was the justification."},{"startTime":630.6,"endTime":633.44,"body":"But we have to audit that claim against the actions"},{"startTime":633.44,"endTime":633.84,"body":"he took."},{"startTime":633.84,"endTime":634.36,"body":"Okay."},{"startTime":634.44,"endTime":634.8000000000001,"body":"Right."},{"startTime":634.8000000000001,"endTime":637.3100000000001,"body":"If the victims are not credible at all, then why"},{"startTime":637.3100000000001,"endTime":639.19,"body":"did he charge Epstein with solicitation?"},{"startTime":639.19,"endTime":639.87,"body":"Exactly."},{"startTime":639.87,"endTime":641.99,"body":"That is the core procedural contradiction."},{"startTime":642.5500000000001,"endTime":643.7900000000001,"body":"You can't have it both ways."},{"startTime":643.7900000000001,"endTime":646.11,"body":"If the witnesses are lying, you have no crime."},{"startTime":646.11,"endTime":646.83,"body":"You have nothing."},{"startTime":646.83,"endTime":648.15,"body":"You can't bring any charge."},{"startTime":648.3100000000001,"endTime":650.6700000000001,"body":"But if the witnesses are telling the truth, then they"},{"startTime":650.6700000000001,"endTime":653.1890000000001,"body":"are minors and the crime is a felony."},{"startTime":654.3100000000001,"endTime":657.6700000000001,"body":"There is no logical middle ground where a victim is"},{"startTime":657.6700000000001,"endTime":660.15,"body":"credible enough for you to believe she was solicited for"},{"startTime":660.15,"endTime":663.6700000000001,"body":"prostitution, but not credible enough for you to believe how"},{"startTime":663.6700000000001,"endTime":664.39,"body":"old she is."},{"startTime":665.0,"endTime":667.5600000000001,"body":"Her age is A fact, not a judgment call."},{"startTime":667.72,"endTime":669.4,"body":"The logic just doesn't hold up."},{"startTime":669.4,"endTime":671.48,"body":"It collapses under the slightest scrutiny."},{"startTime":671.5600000000001,"endTime":674.76,"body":"And the documents show Krischer proposed another course of action."},{"startTime":674.84,"endTime":675.24,"body":"That."},{"startTime":675.64,"endTime":676.6800000000001,"body":"It's just bizarre."},{"startTime":676.76,"endTime":678.28,"body":"When I first read this, I thought it had to"},{"startTime":678.28,"endTime":679.96,"body":"be a typo in the legal code."},{"startTime":680.12,"endTime":683.24,"body":"He suggested that the Palm Beach Police Department should just"},{"startTime":683.24,"endTime":686.28,"body":"issue Epstein a notice to appear."},{"startTime":686.6800000000001,"endTime":687.12,"body":"Okay."},{"startTime":687.12,"endTime":689.84,"body":"For anyone listening who hasn't spent their life reading legal"},{"startTime":689.84,"endTime":692.5600000000001,"body":"filings, let's break down what a notice to appear 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misdemeanor."},{"startTime":715.28,"endTime":718.12,"body":"So to be perfectly clear, the date attorney for Palm"},{"startTime":718.12,"endTime":721.9200000000001,"body":"Beach County's initial recommendation for handling a serial child abuser"},{"startTime":722.2900000000001,"endTime":726.09,"body":"with over 40 identified victims was to use the same"},{"startTime":726.09,"endTime":728.13,"body":"procedure as a traffic violation."},{"startTime":728.2900000000001,"endTime":729.8100000000001,"body":"That is what the record shows."},{"startTime":730.13,"endTime":731.57,"body":"And again, you have to ask why?"},{"startTime":732.45,"endTime":735.0500000000001,"body":"Why would a prosecutor want to handle a case that"},{"startTime":735.0500000000001,"endTime":735.33,"body":"way?"},{"startTime":735.33,"endTime":736.69,"body":"It's not about efficiency."},{"startTime":736.69,"endTime":737.77,"body":"It's about exposure."},{"startTime":737.77,"endTime":739.01,"body":"It's about exposure."},{"startTime":739.09,"endTime":742.37,"body":"If you arrest Jeffrey Epstein on felony charges, it becomes"},{"startTime":742.37,"endTime":743.01,"body":"a public record."},{"startTime":743.01,"endTime":746.13,"body":"The moment he's booked, the media gets the police blotter."},{"startTime":746.13,"endTime":747.49,"body":"There's a mugshot released."},{"startTime":747.82,"endTime":748.5400000000001,"body":"It is an event."},{"startTime":748.86,"endTime":751.78,"body":"If you issue a notice to appear, it flies completely"},{"startTime":751.78,"endTime":752.62,"body":"under the radar."},{"startTime":752.7,"endTime":755.26,"body":"It creates no immediate public record of an arrest."},{"startTime":755.5,"endTime":758.5400000000001,"body":"It sanitizes and minimizes the entire encounter."},{"startTime":758.62,"endTime":760.38,"body":"But Reiter didn't go for it."},{"startTime":760.5400000000001,"endTime":761.58,"body":"Reiter refused."},{"startTime":761.58,"endTime":764.0600000000001,"body":"And that's why we have these probable cause affidavits."},{"startTime":764.14,"endTime":765.34,"body":"Reiter forced the issue."},{"startTime":765.5,"endTime":768.82,"body":"He filed the felony paperwork with Krisher's office, which made"},{"startTime":768.82,"endTime":771.58,"body":"it impossible for Krisher to just issue a ticket without"},{"startTime":771.58,"endTime":774.38,"body":"creating a massive paper trail of his own negligence."},{"startTime":774.76,"endTime":777.48,"body":"Writer was essentially saying, if you're going to let this"},{"startTime":777.48,"endTime":779.2,"body":"man walk, you're going to have to do it in"},{"startTime":779.2,"endTime":779.96,"body":"broad daylight."},{"startTime":779.96,"endTime":781.5600000000001,"body":"I will not help you do it quietly."},{"startTime":781.64,"endTime":785.24,"body":"So when Reiter uses that phrase, unusual course in his"},{"startTime":785.24,"endTime":789.2,"body":"letter, looking at all of this, the stonewalling, the discrepancy"},{"startTime":789.2,"endTime":794.36,"body":"between victims and charges, the traffic ticket suggestion, unusual course"},{"startTime":795.0,"endTime":797.16,"body":"feels like the understatement of the century."},{"startTime":797.16,"endTime":799.72,"body":"It establishes the fundamental truth of this phase."},{"startTime":799.96,"endTime":804.38,"body":"The prosecution begins with an immediate, documented, and successful attempt"},{"startTime":804.38,"endTime":806.5,"body":"by the state attorney to kneecap the case."},{"startTime":806.66,"endTime":808.82,"body":"This wasn't an investigation that ran out of steam."},{"startTime":808.98,"endTime":811.98,"body":"This was an investigation that hit a wall intentionally built"},{"startTime":811.98,"endTime":812.98,"body":"by the prosecutor."},{"startTime":813.0600000000001,"endTime":816.66,"body":"And that wall is what leads directly to evidence Block"},{"startTime":816.66,"endTime":818.58,"body":"three, the federal takeover."},{"startTime":819.3000000000001,"endTime":823.22,"body":"There's a common misconception, a popular narrative, that the FBI"},{"startTime":823.22,"endTime":825.74,"body":"saw this case being mishandled and swooped in to save"},{"startTime":825.74,"endTime":826.1800000000001,"body":"the day."},{"startTime":826.5,"endTime":828.98,"body":"The documents tell a very, very different story."},{"startTime":829.19,"endTime":829.6700000000001,"body":"They do."},{"startTime":829.83,"endTime":831.75,"body":"The federal involvement was not a seizure."},{"startTime":831.75,"endTime":832.7900000000001,"body":"It was an invitation."},{"startTime":833.11,"endTime":835.4300000000001,"body":"Go back to that same letter from Chief Ryder on"},{"startTime":835.4300000000001,"endTime":838.71,"body":"July 24, 2006, the one to the victim's father."},{"startTime":838.71,"endTime":841.7900000000001,"body":"He 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case fully built, and they were trying"},{"startTime":889.65,"endTime":892.71,"body":"to find a jurisdiction, any jurisdiction that would actually take"},{"startTime":892.71,"endTime":893.3100000000001,"body":"it to trial."},{"startTime":893.3100000000001,"endTime":894.59,"body":"That's exactly what was happening."},{"startTime":894.59,"endTime":896.83,"body":"But instead of a federal trial, what we got was"},{"startTime":896.83,"endTime":902.03,"body":"the non prosecution agreement the NPA signed in September 2007,"},{"startTime":902.19,"endTime":903.59,"body":"finalized in 2008."},{"startTime":903.59,"endTime":905.47,"body":"I have the text of the NPA in front of"},{"startTime":905.47,"endTime":905.63,"body":"me."},{"startTime":905.63,"endTime":907.47,"body":"It's pages of dense legalese."},{"startTime":907.549,"endTime":910.19,"body":"But some of these clauses are just extraordinary."},{"startTime":910.4300000000001,"endTime":913.87,"body":"This document is the contract that 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else"},{"startTime":939.32,"endTime":939.76,"body":"involved."},{"startTime":940.32,"endTime":941.76,"body":"That's the point of a plea deal."},{"startTime":942.16,"endTime":944.52,"body":"You give up the big fish to get leniency, but"},{"startTime":944.52,"endTime":946.72,"body":"you help the government roll up the entire network."},{"startTime":947.13,"endTime":951.53,"body":"But this deal, this clause, it does the exact opposite."},{"startTime":951.53,"endTime":954.57,"body":"The agreement says the United States will not prosecute Jeffrey"},{"startTime":954.57,"endTime":955.09,"body":"Epstein."},{"startTime":955.09,"endTime":955.9300000000001,"body":"That's standard."},{"startTime":956.1700000000001,"endTime":958.61,"body":"But then it adds that it will not Prosecute any"},{"startTime":958.61,"endTime":960.57,"body":"potential co conspirators."},{"startTime":960.73,"endTime":962.25,"body":"Any potential co conspirators."},{"startTime":962.33,"endTime":965.61,"body":"That one word, 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not"},{"startTime":1011.61,"endTime":1013.8100000000001,"body":"to bring charges against anyone you find?"},{"startTime":1014.2900000000001,"endTime":1016.529,"body":"It didn't just give Epstein a light sentence."},{"startTime":1016.53,"endTime":1019.49,"body":"It gave his entire organization a get out of jail"},{"startTime":1019.49,"endTime":1020.13,"body":"free card."},{"startTime":1020.13,"endTime":1022.9300000000001,"body":"And on top of that, there was another procedural violation"},{"startTime":1022.9300000000001,"endTime":1025.33,"body":"documented in the process of making this deal."},{"startTime":1025.82,"endTime":1027.98,"body":"The conflict with the Crime Victims Rights Act."},{"startTime":1027.98,"endTime":1028.94,"body":"The cvra."},{"startTime":1029.42,"endTime":1029.82,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":1029.82,"endTime":1032.26,"body":"The House oversight files and the filings from the Jane"},{"startTime":1032.26,"endTime":1032.74,"body":"Doe 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possession"},{"startTime":1184.76,"endTime":1185.8,"body":"of a map of the network."},{"startTime":1185.8,"endTime":1188.6799999999998,"body":"They had the names, and yet the NPA was structured"},{"startTime":1188.6799999999998,"endTime":1190.1999999999998,"body":"to protect that very network."},{"startTime":1190.6799999999998,"endTime":1193.84,"body":"The investigation narrowed to focus only on Epstein, and the"},{"startTime":1193.84,"endTime":1196.74,"body":"NPA then ensured that it could never widen again, at"},{"startTime":1196.74,"endTime":1197.74,"body":"least not criminally."},{"startTime":1197.82,"endTime":1199.4199999999998,"body":"It was a legal dead end."},{"startTime":1199.74,"endTime":1201.62,"body":"Now we have to move to evidence block 5 and"},{"startTime":1201.62,"endTime":1204.1399999999999,"body":"apply some very strict source discipline."},{"startTime":1204.62,"endTime":1206.74,"body":"A lot of sensational claims have been made over the"},{"startTime":1206.74,"endTime":1209.1799999999998,"body":"years, and it's our job to test them against the"},{"startTime":1209.1799999999998,"endTime":1210.4599999999998,"body":"actual court records."},{"startTime":1210.54,"endTime":1213.1799999999998,"body":"Let's start with the story of the tapes, the blackmail"},{"startTime":1213.1799999999998,"endTime":1213.6599999999999,"body":"tapes."},{"startTime":1213.82,"endTime":1216.78,"body":"This is the allegation, primarily from a victim named Sarah"},{"startTime":1216.78,"endTime":1220.3,"body":"Ransom, that Epstein had hidden cameras and was recording powerful"},{"startTime":1220.3,"endTime":1223.54,"body":"men she named Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson to"},{"startTime":1223.54,"endTime":1224.32,"body":"use for blackmail."},{"startTime":1224.4699999999998,"endTime":1225.4299999999998,"body":"It's a huge claim."},{"startTime":1225.51,"endTime":1228.7099999999998,"body":"We have a document here, an Epstein file Release, specifically"},{"startTime":1228.7099999999998,"endTime":1232.9099999999999,"body":"document 1332 16, a summary of legal proceedings from the"},{"startTime":1232.9099999999999,"endTime":1233.55,"body":"Jufre v."},{"startTime":1233.55,"endTime":1234.3899999999999,"body":"Maxwell case."},{"startTime":1234.55,"endTime":1236.7099999999998,"body":"What does this court filing say about the tapes?"},{"startTime":1236.7099999999998,"endTime":1238.7099999999998,"body":"This is a perfect example of why you have to"},{"startTime":1238.7099999999998,"endTime":1240.3899999999999,"body":"read the filings and not just the headlines."},{"startTime":1240.9499999999998,"endTime":1244.79,"body":"This document, which discusses arguments from interveners in the case,"},{"startTime":1245.1899999999998,"endTime":1248.31,"body":"directly cites Sarah Ransom's own emails."},{"startTime":1248.3899999999999,"endTime":1249.6299999999999,"body":"Her own emails."},{"startTime":1249.6299999999999,"endTime":1251.84,"body":"And what do they say in those emails?"},{"startTime":1251.84,"endTime":1255.6799999999998,"body":"Ransom admits she fabricated the story about the tapes she"},{"startTime":1255.6799999999998,"endTime":1257.48,"body":"wrote that she made it all up to try and"},{"startTime":1257.48,"endTime":1259.12,"body":"generate more attention for her case."},{"startTime":1259.1999999999998,"endTime":1260.48,"body":"She admitted she lied."},{"startTime":1260.56,"endTime":1261.04,"body":"Yes."},{"startTime":1261.28,"endTime":1265.9199999999998,"body":"The filing explicitly argues that her own emails reveal Ransom's"},{"startTime":1265.9199999999998,"endTime":1269.36,"body":"lack of credibility regarding the existence of these videos."},{"startTime":1269.6799999999998,"endTime":1273.24,"body":"Now, to be absolutely precise here, this does not invalidate"},{"startTime":1273.24,"endTime":1275.28,"body":"her claims of being a victim of abuse."},{"startTime":1275.52,"endTime":1279.4599999999998,"body":"But on the specific sensational claim of blackmail tapes featuring"},{"startTime":1279.4599999999998,"endTime":1282.6599999999999,"body":"those presidents, the original source of that claim later retracted"},{"startTime":1282.6599999999999,"endTime":1283.34,"body":"it in writing."},{"startTime":1283.4199999999998,"endTime":1285.58,"body":"And that retraction is now part of the court record."},{"startTime":1285.82,"endTime":1288.26,"body":"So, based on the public record available to us, the"},{"startTime":1288.26,"endTime":1291.26,"body":"existence of these specific tapes is unproven and in fact,"},{"startTime":1291.26,"endTime":1293.9399999999998,"body":"contradicted by the witness's own statements in the legal files."},{"startTime":1293.9399999999998,"endTime":1296.98,"body":"We simply cannot build a factual case on evidence that"},{"startTime":1296.98,"endTime":1298.6999999999998,"body":"the source herself has disavowed."},{"startTime":1298.78,"endTime":1301.5,"body":"Okay, then we have the defamation lawsuits."},{"startTime":1301.74,"endTime":1304.5,"body":"Virginia Giffre vs Alan Dershowitz and Jeffrey V."},{"startTime":1304.5,"endTime":1305.1399999999999,"body":"Maxwell."},{"startTime":1305.37,"endTime":1308.2099999999998,"body":"These civil suits are, in many ways, the real engine"},{"startTime":1308.2099999999998,"endTime":1309.37,"body":"of this entire story."},{"startTime":1309.37,"endTime":1312.8899999999999,"body":"Post 2008, the criminal justice system at both the state"},{"startTime":1312.8899999999999,"endTime":1314.9699999999998,"body":"and federal level had shut the door."},{"startTime":1315.2099999999998,"endTime":1318.73,"body":"These lawsuits pried it back open because the discovery process"},{"startTime":1318.73,"endTime":1321.81,"body":"in a civil case can unearth documents that were sealed"},{"startTime":1321.81,"endTime":1322.25,"body":"or buried."},{"startTime":1322.25,"endTime":1322.61,"body":"That's it."},{"startTime":1322.61,"endTime":1325.53,"body":"You can subpoena records, depose witnesses under oath."},{"startTime":1325.85,"endTime":1329.29,"body":"The prosecution begins a second time, really, around 2019."},{"startTime":1329.6899999999998,"endTime":1332.53,"body":"And it's almost entirely because the evidence uncovered in these"},{"startTime":1332.53,"endTime":1336.4399999999998,"body":"civil suits from 2015 onward forced the original 2006 to"},{"startTime":1336.4399999999998,"endTime":1338.7199999999998,"body":"2008 evidence back into the public eye."},{"startTime":1338.8799999999999,"endTime":1341.9199999999998,"body":"It made the silence of that 2008 deal politically and"},{"startTime":1341.9199999999998,"endTime":1344.08,"body":"legally untenable for the Department of Justice."},{"startTime":1344.1599999999999,"endTime":1346.32,"body":"Which leads us to evidence block 6."},{"startTime":1346.56,"endTime":1348.7199999999998,"body":"This is where the discipline is most critical."},{"startTime":1348.8799999999999,"endTime":1352.24,"body":"The intelligence claims, the allegations that this was a Mossad"},{"startTime":1352.24,"endTime":1353.52,"body":"operation honey trap."},{"startTime":1353.6,"endTime":1356.08,"body":"We have a source document in the file titled Israel"},{"startTime":1356.08,"endTime":1356.4399999999998,"body":"Island."},{"startTime":1356.4399999999998,"endTime":1357.4399999999998,"body":"Child Rape Island."},{"startTime":1357.4399999999998,"endTime":1358.8,"body":"A very provocative title."},{"startTime":1358.8,"endTime":1359.6,"body":"Extremely."},{"startTime":1359.84,"endTime":1362.08,"body":"But we have to analyze what the document is."},{"startTime":1362.37,"endTime":1364.33,"body":"This isn't a declassified government memo."},{"startTime":1364.33,"endTime":1365.49,"body":"It's not a court filing."},{"startTime":1365.6499999999999,"endTime":1367.6899999999998,"body":"It appears to be a text that was uploaded to"},{"startTime":1367.6899999999998,"endTime":1368.77,"body":"the Internet Archive."},{"startTime":1368.85,"endTime":1372.53,"body":"It's an article or a manifesto, and it makes huge"},{"startTime":1372.61,"endTime":1373.09,"body":"claims."},{"startTime":1373.09,"endTime":1377.6899999999998,"body":"It links Epstein to Israeli Intelligence's Unit 8200 to Robert"},{"startTime":1377.6899999999998,"endTime":1378.2489999999998,"body":"Maxwell."},{"startTime":1378.2489999999998,"endTime":1379.4099999999999,"body":"It makes those assertions."},{"startTime":1379.4099999999999,"endTime":1383.85,"body":"Yes, but it provides no primary source documentation to prove"},{"startTime":1383.85,"endTime":1384.1299999999999,"body":"them."},{"startTime":1384.1299999999999,"endTime":1386.85,"body":"Within the files that we're auditing, there is no attached"},{"startTime":1386.85,"endTime":1389.51,"body":"government cable, no contract, no financial record."},{"startTime":1389.9099999999999,"endTime":1391.9099999999999,"body":"So we have a record of the claim being made,"},{"startTime":1391.9099999999999,"endTime":1393.99,"body":"but we do not have a record of the fact."},{"startTime":1394.07,"endTime":1396.6299999999999,"body":"That is the crucial distinction for a forensic audit."},{"startTime":1397.03,"endTime":1400.6699999999998,"body":"Based on the available court records and verifiable documents, we"},{"startTime":1400.6699999999998,"endTime":1404.31,"body":"have to classify the intelligence operation theory as unproven."},{"startTime":1404.7099999999998,"endTime":1406.51,"body":"We have the npa, we can hold it in our"},{"startTime":1406.51,"endTime":1406.75,"body":"hands."},{"startTime":1406.75,"endTime":1407.1499999999999,"body":"It's real."},{"startTime":1407.1499999999999,"endTime":1408.6299999999999,"body":"We do not have an intelligence contract."},{"startTime":1408.9499999999998,"endTime":1411.79,"body":"It's important to understand why that theory is so persistent,"},{"startTime":1411.79,"endTime":1412.07,"body":"though."},{"startTime":1412.55,"endTime":1416.4399999999998,"body":"The npa, that immunity deal we just dissected, it's so"},{"startTime":1416.4399999999998,"endTime":1420.7199999999998,"body":"abnormal, so inexplicably favorable to the defendant, that people search"},{"startTime":1420.7199999999998,"endTime":1422.6,"body":"for an extraordinary explanation."},{"startTime":1423.24,"endTime":1426.1999999999998,"body":"He must have been an asset, the thinking goes, because"},{"startTime":1426.1999999999998,"endTime":1428.6799999999998,"body":"that's the only way anyone gets a deal that good."},{"startTime":1428.9199999999998,"endTime":1432.28,"body":"The NPA itself is the best evidence for the intelligence"},{"startTime":1432.28,"endTime":1432.6799999999998,"body":"theory."},{"startTime":1432.6799999999998,"endTime":1436.1999999999998,"body":"Paradoxically, the document is so bizarre that it creates the"},{"startTime":1436.1999999999998,"endTime":1437.7199999999998,"body":"vacuum that the theory fills."},{"startTime":1437.9599999999998,"endTime":1439.8,"body":"But a vacuum is not proof."},{"startTime":1439.9599999999998,"endTime":1442.04,"body":"What about the other claims in that text?"},{"startTime":1442.3799999999999,"endTime":1444.9399999999998,"body":"The mention of Palantir, A tech nexus."},{"startTime":1445.26,"endTime":1446.4599999999998,"body":"Same standard applies."},{"startTime":1446.4599999999998,"endTime":1449.3,"body":"We've reviewed the Epstein assets files, the estate documents."},{"startTime":1449.3,"endTime":1452.8999999999999,"body":"We looked for financial records, ledger entries, contracts that would"},{"startTime":1452.8999999999999,"endTime":1456.78,"body":"link Epstein's finances to these specific tech firms in an"},{"startTime":1456.78,"endTime":1457.8999999999999,"body":"operational capacity."},{"startTime":1458.2189999999998,"endTime":1460.1399999999999,"body":"A link isn't there in the documents we have."},{"startTime":1460.3799999999999,"endTime":1463.86,"body":"The file show immense wealth, real estate, a complex web"},{"startTime":1463.86,"endTime":1468.2199999999998,"body":"of shell companies, but a specific documented spy tech commercialization"},{"startTime":1468.2199999999998,"endTime":1468.86,"body":"partnership."},{"startTime":1469.25,"endTime":1471.9699999999998,"body":"It's not supported by the evidentiary record provided to us."},{"startTime":1471.9699999999998,"endTime":1473.1699999999998,"body":"So we can't say it didn't happen."},{"startTime":1473.1699999999998,"endTime":1475.1699999999998,"body":"We can only say the records don't prove it happened."},{"startTime":1475.33,"endTime":1476.4099999999999,"body":"We have to state the gap."},{"startTime":1476.4099999999999,"endTime":1477.9699999999998,"body":"We don't have documentation for that."},{"startTime":1477.9699999999998,"endTime":1479.33,"body":"It's the most honest answer."},{"startTime":1479.49,"endTime":1481.09,"body":"So let's synthesize all of this."},{"startTime":1481.4099999999999,"endTime":1484.1699999999998,"body":"We've audited the police letters, the weak indictment, the federal"},{"startTime":1484.1699999999998,"endTime":1485.81,"body":"mpa, the civil filings."},{"startTime":1486.37,"endTime":1488.85,"body":"If you were to map the trajectory of how this"},{"startTime":1488.85,"endTime":1492.37,"body":"prosecution began and then immediately failed, what does that path"},{"startTime":1492.37,"endTime":1492.85,"body":"look like?"},{"startTime":1492.9299999999998,"endTime":1496.85,"body":"It's a clear four step downward cascade of accountability, really."},{"startTime":1496.85,"endTime":1499.04,"body":"2006, the police do their job."},{"startTime":1499.1999999999998,"endTime":1502.6399999999999,"body":"They build a solid case with probable cause for multiple"},{"startTime":1502.6399999999999,"endTime":1503.28,"body":"felonies."},{"startTime":1503.28,"endTime":1508.4399999999998,"body":"Mid 2006, the state attorney, Barry Krisher, intercepts that case"},{"startTime":1508.4399999999998,"endTime":1511.76,"body":"and systematically dismantles it, pushing for misdemeanors."},{"startTime":1511.76,"endTime":1515.32,"body":"July 2006, the police chief, Michael Ryder, sees what's happening"},{"startTime":1515.32,"endTime":1516.56,"body":"and makes a desperate move."},{"startTime":1516.6399999999999,"endTime":1519.6799999999998,"body":"He invites the FBI in, hoping to save the prosecution."},{"startTime":1519.84,"endTime":1523.9699999999998,"body":"2007 to 2008, the federal prosecutors take the case and"},{"startTime":1523.9699999999998,"endTime":1527.2099999999998,"body":"instead of prosecuting, negotiate a secret deal that grants even"},{"startTime":1527.2099999999998,"endTime":1530.33,"body":"broader immunity than the state ever could have, protecting not"},{"startTime":1530.33,"endTime":1532.2099999999998,"body":"just Epstein, but his entire network."},{"startTime":1532.29,"endTime":1534.57,"body":"It's a complete inversion of how the system is supposed"},{"startTime":1534.57,"endTime":1534.9299999999998,"body":"to work."},{"startTime":1535.09,"endTime":1536.2099999999998,"body":"A total inversion."},{"startTime":1536.37,"endTime":1539.4889999999998,"body":"Normally, in a major criminal case, you have different agencies"},{"startTime":1539.4889999999998,"endTime":1541.1699999999998,"body":"fighting for the right to prosecute."},{"startTime":1541.4099999999999,"endTime":1544.1299999999999,"body":"The FBI wants the collar, the DEA wants it."},{"startTime":1544.1299999999999,"endTime":1545.57,"body":"The local DEA wants it."},{"startTime":1545.6499999999999,"endTime":1549.1699999999998,"body":"They compete for jurisdiction because a big conviction is Good"},{"startTime":1549.1699999999998,"endTime":1549.81,"body":"for the agency."},{"startTime":1549.81,"endTime":1550.77,"body":"It's good for careers."},{"startTime":1551.1899999999998,"endTime":1552.79,"body":"Here, the record shows the opposite."},{"startTime":1552.9499999999998,"endTime":1556.83,"body":"The record shows multiple agencies seemingly competing to avoid a"},{"startTime":1556.83,"endTime":1557.4299999999998,"body":"public trial."},{"startTime":1557.59,"endTime":1559.51,"body":"The State Attorney's office didn't want it."},{"startTime":1559.59,"endTime":1560.11,"body":"The U.S."},{"startTime":1560.11,"endTime":1561.55,"body":"attorney's office didn't want it."},{"startTime":1561.55,"endTime":1564.27,"body":"The NPA was the end result of that race to"},{"startTime":1564.27,"endTime":1564.7099999999998,"body":"the bottom."},{"startTime":1564.87,"endTime":1567.9099999999999,"body":"And the accountability gap is crystal clear in the documents."},{"startTime":1568.3899999999999,"endTime":1571.35,"body":"Barry Krisher and the federal prosecutors of that era are"},{"startTime":1571.35,"endTime":1574.31,"body":"identified as the architects of this failure to prosecute."},{"startTime":1574.31,"endTime":1577.1499999999999,"body":"While Police Chief Michael Ryder is documented as the only"},{"startTime":1577.1499999999999,"endTime":1580.37,"body":"institutional figure at the time who actively dissented."},{"startTime":1580.4499999999998,"endTime":1582.9299999999998,"body":"His letters are the only proof we have of someone"},{"startTime":1583.09,"endTime":1587.25,"body":"inside the system in real time saying, stop, this is"},{"startTime":1587.25,"endTime":1587.6499999999999,"body":"wrong."},{"startTime":1587.81,"endTime":1589.6499999999999,"body":"He's the only one who put it on letterhead."},{"startTime":1589.6499999999999,"endTime":1592.61,"body":"So, summarizing the knowns versus the unknowns from this audit."},{"startTime":1592.77,"endTime":1594.85,"body":"The police had a felony level case."},{"startTime":1595.4099999999999,"endTime":1597.61,"body":"The State Attorney refused to prosecute it."},{"startTime":1597.61,"endTime":1602.01,"body":"As such, the federal government then granted secret sweeping immunity"},{"startTime":1602.01,"endTime":1603.81,"body":"to Epstein and all his co conspirators."},{"startTime":1604.62,"endTime":1607.26,"body":"Those are documented facts, unknown."},{"startTime":1607.58,"endTime":1611.1399999999999,"body":"The specific blackmail material on the alleged tapes which the"},{"startTime":1611.1399999999999,"endTime":1612.6999999999998,"body":"primary witness has retracted."},{"startTime":1613.1,"endTime":1616.26,"body":"And the definitive documentary proof of a link to an"},{"startTime":1616.26,"endTime":1619.26,"body":"intelligence agency which remains absent from the public record."},{"startTime":1619.4199999999998,"endTime":1621.54,"body":"When you look at the paper trail, the conclusion is"},{"startTime":1621.54,"endTime":1622.1399999999999,"body":"unavoidable."},{"startTime":1622.1399999999999,"endTime":1625.34,"body":"Yes, the machinery of justice didn't simply jam or break"},{"startTime":1625.34,"endTime":1626.2199999999998,"body":"down on its own."},{"startTime":1626.2199999999998,"endTime":1628.86,"body":"The records show that the machinery of justice didn't jam."},{"startTime":1629.02,"endTime":1630.54,"body":"It was manually switched off."},{"startTime":1631.1299999999999,"endTime":1633.37,"body":"The switch was thrown first in West Palm beach, then"},{"startTime":1633.37,"endTime":1635.2099999999998,"body":"welded shut by federal prosecutors."},{"startTime":1635.2099999999998,"endTime":1637.6899999999998,"body":"And that weld held for over a decade."},{"startTime":1637.77,"endTime":1638.4099999999999,"body":"Next time."},{"startTime":1638.57,"endTime":1639.85,"body":"Alexander Acosta."},{"startTime":1644.8899999999999,"endTime":1648.01,"body":"You have just heard an analysis of the official record."},{"startTime":1648.8899999999999,"endTime":1652.73,"body":"Every claim, name and date mentioned in this episode is"},{"startTime":1652.73,"endTime":1654.8899999999999,"body":"backed by primary source documents."},{"startTime":1655.37,"endTime":1659.4499999999998,"body":"You can view the original files for yourself at epsteinfiles"},{"startTime":1659.77,"endTime":1660.33,"body":"fm."},{"startTime":1661.33,"endTime":1664.2099999999998,"body":"If you value this data first approach to journalism."},{"startTime":1664.61,"endTime":1667.73,"body":"Please leave a five star review wherever you're listening right"},{"startTime":1667.73,"endTime":1668.05,"body":"now."},{"startTime":1668.4499999999998,"endTime":1670.61,"body":"It helps keep this investigation visible."},{"startTime":1671.01,"endTime":1672.53,"body":"We'll see you in the next file."}]}