Epstein files release

Jeffrey Epstein ordered his staff to install hidden cameras in home after being told “the Russians may come in handy”

Jeffrey Epstein ordered staff to install hidden cameras in his home after being told “the Russians may come in handy”, it is claimed.

According to the latest emails in a huge tranche of documents released by US authorities the paedophile financier made secret recordings at his property empire.

Epstein asked his pilot, Larry Visoski, to buy “three motion detected hidden cameras, that record”, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Visoski, who also worked as a technician and general handyman, replied confirming that he had already purchased the surveillance equipment and started “installing them in Kleenex boxes now”.

He said cameras were bought from a spy shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida was “figuring out how they work as we speak”, an email to Epstein on February 5 2014 reveals.

On the same day, Epstein received an email from someone else, whose name is redacted, saying: “Remember what we spoke about if you want to put cameras in the house. It will have to be very discreetly done. The Russians may come in handy.”

There is no further discussion of Russians in the email traffic relating to the hidden cameras.

It is claimed that Epstein may have been working with Russia’s intelligence services, collecting so-called “kompromat”, compromising information, with which to blackmail, discredit or manipulate the rich and famous.

It comes as The Prince and Princess of Wales said they have been “deeply concerned” by the ongoing revelations from the Epstein scandal involving William’s uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

William and Kate responded for the first time to a crisis that has engulfed the monarchy and Westminster.

The prince was en route to Saudi Arabia for the start of a three-day tour of the Middle East country.

Ahead of the visit, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said: “I can confirm that the Prince and Princess of Wales have been deeply concerned by the continued revelations.

“Their thoughts remain focused on the victims.”


Much of the work of the royal family in recent weeks has been overshadowed by the Department of Justice’s document dump.

These sparked a string of allegations against the former Duke of York and led to the Metropolitan Police launching an investigation into Lord Peter Mandelson over alleged misconduct in public office.

Among the claims are that a second woman was sent to the UK by paedophile Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew, and also that the former prince and Epstein asked an exotic dancer for a threesome in the billionaire’s Florida home.

The latest allegation is that Andrew shared confidential reports of official visits to Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Singapore in his role as the UK’s trade envoy. Police are assessing the claims.

The former duke, who was stripped of his titles by the King last year, has always denied any wrongdoing, including having sex with Virginia Giuffre when she was 17, and last week he finally left Royal Lodge for the Sandringham estate.


The Duke of Edinburgh was the first royal to publicly speak out since the Epstein documents were released, saying last week that it was important to “remember the victims” when asked how he was “coping”.

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Coming out of the Maxwell Deposition

Rep Stansbury: “We know that there are more than 3 dozen associates, family members and individuals directly associated with Donald Trump in those files… The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking scandal and influence pedaling scandal in the history of the United States and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

 

Ford auto worker who called Trump a ‘pedophile protector’ still has job, union says​

The Ford worker who called Donald Trump a “pedophile protector” while the president toured a Michigan auto factory last month still has his job and no discipline on his record, an official with the United Auto Workers union said Monday.

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30 years from now, will the bigger embarrassment be that this happened or how it has been handled?

I remember in med school learning about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and thinking "No freakin' way!" No offense to those men who were treated so horribly, but this is worse in many ways.

When these scumbags are mostly dead and the truth finally comes out, our nation is going to have yet another huge black eye.
 

Raskin: DOJ improperly censored names in Epstein files after reviewing the unredacted files​

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., on Monday said that the Department of Justice improperly shielded the names of individuals in the Epstein files, after reviewing the unredacted documents personally.

Raskin was one of several lawmakers who viewed the full, uncensored documents, after the DOJ released millions of heavily censored documents to comply with a law that President Donald Trump signed.

"I was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of completely unnecessary redactions in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims, and so that's troubling to us," he said, according to The Hill.

"There's no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," he added. "No way. It doesn't work like that. So we need to figure out what other conspiracies were involved, what other co-conspirators were involved? And I really do believe that listening to the survivors is going to be our pathway through this nightmare."

Raskin's comments come as Trump officials, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, face scrutiny over their links to Epstein.
 

Steve Bannon joked with 'friend' Epstein they were keeping Trump up at night​

Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein are much closer than initially described in previous reports.

CNN reported Monday morning that in the hours before Epstein was arrested in July 2019 "the two men exchanged a steady stream of text messages, veering from breezy banter and dark humor to more serious strategizing around Bannon’s efforts to "foment a global populist movement."

At one point Bannon asked Epstein, “Do [you] know anyone in Europe that wants to control the European Parliament and with it the EU.”

Epstein wanted Bannon to rally the U.S. behind a Slovakian leader seeking a top NATO post. Bannon needed access to a close ally of Epstein's in Israel.

While others pulled away from Epstein after his conviction, Bannon appeared to pull him closer. As Bannon was dealing with his own legal problems, the two "workshopped Bannon’s messaging," the report said.

Epstein bragged that he was "comforting people all day,” while in Europe, as people were disgusted with the election of Trump.

Trump has said that he and Epstein stopped speaking and they didn't hang out after a beef over taking girls from Mar-a-Lago. But after Trump was elected, Epstein said, “It's going to be better than fine.”

Michael Wolff's book “Siege: Trump Under Fire" said that Bannon met with Epstein and confessed, “You were the one person I was truly afraid of coming forward during the campaign.”


After Bannon was pushed out of the White House for taking credit for his populist campaign win, the two men connected through Wolff.

"Over the next month, Bannon appeared to walk Epstein through his plans for a new center-right coalition, one that could outlast democratic elections for more than a decade," the report said. "Over email, Bannon described his movement as 'reverse Alabama' — 'Populist/Nationalist first; Conservative Christians (catholic/evangelical) next.'"

“I need to understand flow of funds,” Epstein said, according to the CNN report. Epstein said there would be “money needed for think tank, for ads for policy meetings... though (sic) leaders.”

He even suggested using "cryptocurrency as a potential option and encouraged Bannon to study the blockchain."

At one point, Epstein confessed to a Dubai businessman, “We have become friends."

CNN's senior reporter Steve Contomo told Dana Bash that "Bannon leaned on him [Epstein] at times. Look at this message that Bannon sent to Epstein in 2018 asking for help. He says, 'Do you know anyone in Europe that wants to control the European Parliament? And with it the EU?' And Epstein responds by offering him help and guidance along the way. At one point, he says Europe can be a wife and not a mistress, and encourages him to spend more time in Europe, which Bannon then does."

“If you are going to play here, you’ll have to spend time, europe (sic) by remote doesn’t work,” Epstein wrote. “Lots and lots of face time and hand holding.”

Bannon did exactly that, speaking in packed rooms while having conversations with Epstein about what to do next.

"There are hundreds of them," said Contomo about the messages the men exchanged. He said it shows "that this was a close relationship, but it was also surrounded by their overlapping interests on the world stage."

At one point, Epstein and Bannon began discussing Slovakian diplomat Miroslav Lajčák, who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 and 2018, CNN said.

In March 2018, Epstein said Slovakia was about to collapse, “his [government will fall this week — as planned." He added a smiley face.

At one point Epstein texted Bannon, “Now you can understand why trump (sic) wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends."

Bannon replied, “Dangerous.”

It wasn't long after that Bannon was bragging about the fall of the Belgian government. He told Epstein that the populist and nationalist groups were ready to rise up.

“We can run the tables here,” Bannon wrote.

The messages also show that Epstein was arrested mere moments after texting with Bannon.

Before the arrest, Epstein told Bannon that he understood how toxic he was and wanted to protect Bannon so he could "win."
 
GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

 
Dave Smith: This is so devastating for the Trump administration. The mishandling of the Epstein files is legendary. It'll go down in history as one of the worst-handled political scandals.

 
Donald Trump took up to 40% of FBI agents away from investigating serious crimes like child sex trafficking to do mass immigration round-ups…


86% of the arrested folks have no violent criminal record.

 
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