Archiv: Jeffrey Epstein / abuse (of power) scandal / networks


01.06.2023 - 14:36 [ Human Rights Watch ]

China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global

(April 8, 2021)

To much of the rest of the world, however, this competition is little more than evil versus evil. The U.S. government has also practiced mass surveillance; big U.S. technology companies have adopted a surveillance-based business model, exploiting people’s data in the name of free service; and the Five Eyes, an intelligence coalition comprised of the United States and Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, has sought to undermine encryption by pressuring companies to give governments backdoor access to all digital communications. In this dismal global race to the digital bottom, the biggest losers are ordinary technology users all over the world.

20.05.2023 - 01:35 [ theDailyBeast.com ]

Epstein Accusers Win $75 Million Settlement Against Deutsche Bank

(May. 18, 2023)

Despite the eye-watering sum, Deutsche Bank did not admit any wrongdoing as a result of the settlement, sources told the WSJ. “This groundbreaking settlement is the culmination of two law firms conducting more than a decade-long investigation to hold one of Epstein’s financial banking partners responsible for the role it played in facilitating his trafficking organization,” lawyers for the plaintiffs said in a statement.

05.05.2023 - 11:14 [ Google News Deutschland ]

Jeffrey Epstein, Wall Street Journal

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05.05.2023 - 10:50 [ NYmag.com ]

Who Are the Newly Revealed Jeffrey Epstein Associates?

(04.05.2023)

A multiple-part report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed a number of additional prominent people who were associates of Jeffrey Epstein’s. Their ties to the notorious sex trafficker and longtime high-society hobnobber were not previously known, having not appeared in Epstein’s infamous black book or in the public flight logs of passengers who traveled aboard his private jet before his jailhouse death in 2019 while awaiting trial.

The new reports also deepen public understanding of the ties between Epstein and some boldfaced names who he had previously been associated with. And they underscored just how frequently Epstein met with his high-flying pals.

05.05.2023 - 10:40 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Bill Gates, Leon Black, Thomas Pritzker: ​One​ Day in the Life of Jeffrey Epstein

(May 4, 2023)

On Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, Jeffrey Epstein had a full calendar. He was scheduled to meet that day with Bill Gates, Thomas Pritzker, Leon Black and Mortimer Zuckerman, four of the richest men in the country, according to schedules and emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Epstein also planned meetings that day with a former top White House lawyer, a college president and a philanthropic adviser, three of the dozens of meetings the Journal reported he had with each of them.

05.05.2023 - 10:20 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Jeffrey Epstein Documents, Part 2: Dinners With Lawrence Summers and Movie Screenings With Woody Allen

(May 3, 2023)

Jeffrey Epstein, far right, and some of the people he scheduled meetings with, clockwise from top left: Woody Allen, Ehud Barak, Terje Rød-Larsen, Eva Andersson-Dubin, Lawrence Summers, Leon Black, Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman.

05.05.2023 - 10:05 [ Washington Examiner ]

White House won’t talk about CIA Director Burns meeting with Jeffrey Epstein

(02.05.2023)

CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp provided the Washington Examiner with a statement that did not mention Epstein by name.

“Director Burns recalls being introduced by a mutual friend in Washington, DC, and then met with him once briefly in New York City, about a decade ago as the Director was preparing to leave government service,” the CIA spokeswoman said. “The Director did not know anything about him, other than he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector. The Director does not recall any further contact, including receiving a ride to the airport. They had no relationship.”

04.05.2023 - 21:48 [ Fox News ]

White House declines to comment on CIA director‘s multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein

(May 2, 2023)

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the issue during a Tuesday briefing. The 2014 meetings saw Burns, who then severed as deputy secretary of state, meet Epstein twice: First in Washington and then again at Epstein‘s home in Manhattan.

Reporters pressed Jean-Pierre about the issue in the briefing room on Tuesday.

„Does President Biden have any reaction to CIA director William Burns meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014? This, obviously, was after Epstein had served time for a sex crime and was a registered sex offender,“ a reporter asked.

„I‘m just not going to comment on that from here,“ Jean-Pierre replied brusquely.

04.05.2023 - 18:44 [ Unlimited Hangout ]

Unraveling the Epstein-Chomsky Relationship

Chomsky, who has previously discussed the Epstein case in interviews and who has maintained that Epstein’s ties to intelligence agencies should be considered a “conspiracy theory,” had not previously disclosed these meetings. Chomsky, when confronted by Journal reporters, was evasive, but ultimately admitted to meeting and knowing Jeffrey Epstein.

Many, largely on the left, have expressed dismay and confusion as to why someone with the political views of Chomsky would willingly meet, not once but several times, with someone like Jeffrey Epstein, particularly well after Epstein’s notoriety as a sex trafficker and pedophile. As this report will show, Epstein appeared to view Chomsky as another intellectual who could help guide his decisions when it came to his scientific obsessions – namely, transhumanism and eugenics. What Chomsky gained in return from meeting with Epstein isn’t as clear.

04.05.2023 - 18:18 [ Blick.ch ]

Neue Papiere enthüllen prominente Kontakte des verurteilten Sexualstraftäters: So nah stand Epstein (†66) einer Schweizer Privatbank

Laut neu entdeckten Dokumenten des verstorbenen Finanziers und Pädophilen Jeffrey Epstein (†66) hat dieser gute Beziehungen mit der in Genf ansässigen Privatbank Edmond de Rothschild Group gepflegt. Dies geht aus Recherchen des «Wall Street Journals» hervor, das offenbar im Besitz von Epsteins privatem Kalender ist.

Nachdem Epstein 2019 wegen angeblichen Sexhandels mit minderjährigen Mädchen verhaftet worden war, versicherte die Bank noch, dass man Epstein nie getroffen habe und keine geschäftlichen Beziehungen zu ihm unterhalte. Jetzt teilte die Bank dem «Wall Street Journal» mit, dass diese früheren Aussagen nicht korrekt waren.

04.05.2023 - 17:40 [ Zero Hedge ]

Epstein‘s Private Calendar Emerges: Among Prominent Names Listed Are Biden‘s CIA Chief, Goldman Top Lawyer

(01.05.2023)

One month after meeting with Epstein, in October 2014, Burns stepped down from this role at the State Department to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. He ran it until he was nominated by Biden to serve as CIA director in early 2021.

04.05.2023 - 17:26 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Epstein’s Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief, Goldman’s Top Lawyer

The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.

04.05.2023 - 17:17 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Epstein‘s VERY tangled web: Pedophile met with current CIA Director William Burns, Obama White House lawyer, Noam Chomsky and music director for the American Symphony Orchestra in the years AFTER his sex offence conviction

(30.04.2023)

Jeffrey Epstein‘s newly-released private calendar revealed he had scheduled meetings with a slew of prominent individuals, including the current CIA director, after he was convicted as a sex offender.

The documents contain emails and scheduled meetings with now-CIA Director William Burns, Bard College president Leon Botstein, Obama‘s White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and professor Noam Chomsky.

The meetings were scheduled between 2013 to 2017 after the pedophile had served time in jail in 2008 for sex crimes involving a teenage girl.

08.12.2019 - 15:52 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Shocking photo shows paedo Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein & ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell at Beatrice’s 18th birthday bash

DEPRAVED Jeffrey Epstein, his alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell and disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein grin at Princess Beatrice’s Windsor Castle party.

01.09.2019 - 08:11 [ WSWS.org ]

Only one-third of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide—so why does the New York Times?

The new poll essentially jibes with the results of a Rasmussen Reports poll carried out in the immediate aftermath of Epstein’s unexplained death. On August 14, Rasmussen indicated that 42 percent of Americans thought Epstein “was murdered to prevent him from testifying against powerful people with whom he associated,” while 29 percent thought he had killed himself and 29 percent were undecided.

Three weeks of US media propaganda to the effect that anyone who has doubts about the death is under the influence of “conspiracy theories” has only had a limited effect. A stubborn percentage of the population continues to be skeptical about the “official story.” As the German writer Bertolt Brecht wrote under very different circumstances, “Would it not be easier / In that case for the government / To dissolve the people / And elect another?”

15.08.2019 - 17:47 [ Daily Mail ]

Jeffrey Epstein had broken bones in his neck and suffered injuries commonly linked to hanging OR strangulation, autopsy reveals – as billionaire‘s mystery ‚associate‘ claims the body

– Jeffrey Epstein‘s autopsy report reveals that the pedophile had broken bones in his neck, consistent with a hanging
– Sources tell The Washington Post that he had a broken hyoid bone – a break seen in those who hang themselves but more common in strangulation victims
– The autopsy was completed Sunday, but the New York City‘s chief medical examiner listed the 66-year-old‘s cause of death as pending and not a suicide
– A source says Epstein was in ‚great spirits‘ before his death in jail Saturday
– He met daily with lawyers at Metropolitan Correctional Center and believed his legal team would win an appeal to get him bail
– Epstein told his lawyer Friday, ‚I‘ll see you Sunday‘, but was found dead Saturday
– He was taken off suicide watch and given his own cell after allegedly telling his lawyers that his cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione inflicted the neck injuries on him

14.08.2019 - 06:08 [ CBS News ]

Shrieking heard from Jeffrey Epstein‘s jail cell the morning he died

(today)

On the morning of Jeffrey Epstein‘s death there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell, a source familiar with the situation told CBS News. Corrections officers attempted to revive him while saying „breathe, Epstein, breathe.“

14.08.2019 - 06:08 [ CBS News ]

Corrections officers may have falsified reports saying they checked on Jeffrey Epstein

(13.08.2019)

Multiple sources told CBS News that Epstein‘s cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center posted bail last Friday, leaving Epstein alone in his cell the day before he died. Another source familiar with the investigation said it appears Epstein had been dead one to two hours before he was found.

13.08.2019 - 22:05 [ Craig Murray / Twitter ]

Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail – The highly dubious death of Jeffrey Epstein in a US maximum security prison is another strong reason not to extradite Julian Assange into one – particularly as many of the same people who are relieved by Epstein‘s death

13.8.2019

12.08.2019 - 23:55 [ New York Times ]

In Jeffrey Epstein Suicide, Barr Criticizes ‘Failure’ by Manhattan Jail

No correctional officer had checked on Mr. Epstein for several hours before he was found, even though guards were supposed to look in on the prisoners in the protective unit where he was housed every half-hour, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the detention said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was still ongoing.

12.08.2019 - 23:46 [ ABC News ]

Epstein taken off suicide watch at lawyers‘ urging, sources say; Agents descend on financier‘s island home

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was taken off suicide watch July 29, in part, at the urging of his defense attorneys, sources familiar with the decision told ABC News as federal agents were seen at the grounds of the financier‘s island home in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

10.08.2019 - 22:22 [ Philip M. Giraldi / American Herald Tribune ]

Jeffrey Epstein RIP: But Many More Questions Remain to be Answered

So, he is dead but did he do it himself or was he helped? There are many prominent individuals and powerful government agencies that will be very pleased that he is gone as most of his secrets will have gone to the grave with him.

10.08.2019 - 19:56 [ Joe Scarborough / Twitter ]

He reportedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. And is allowed to finish the job now? Bullshit.

10.08.2019 - 19:54 [ theHill.com ]

Ocasio-Cortez demands ‚answers‘ after Epstein found dead in jail cell

Multiple media outlets reported Saturday that Epstein‘s body was discovered in his jail cell about 7:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC).

Many immediately began questioning the details surrounding his death after Epstein was reportedly put on suicide watch in late July following a possible suicide attempt.

02.08.2019 - 15:10 [ theCut.com ]

The Epstein Case: What Ever Happened to the Mysterious Nobel Prize Sperm Bank?

Wait — what?

While it sounds like something out of the movie Gattaca, the “Nobel Prize Sperm Bank” really was operational for 20 years, from 1979 to 1999, and based in Escondido, California. It was founded by the multimillionaire optometrist and inventor Robert Graham, an admirer of eugenics who believed the human race was getting progressively dumber and that the only way to stop it was by filling the world with the genetic descendants of Nobel Prize winners.

02.08.2019 - 14:59 [ New York Times ]

Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA

Mr. Epstein’s vision reflected his longstanding fascination with what has become known as transhumanism: the science of improving the human population through technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Critics have likened transhumanism to a modern-day version of eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding.

22.07.2019 - 13:47 [ Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post's chief political correspondent ‏/ Twitter ]

Poll on @kann_news finds @barak_ehud‘s Israel Democratic party would not cross threshold, while @NewsChannelIL poll predicts just 4 seats.

22.07.2019 - 13:41 [ Haaretz ]

Answering Barak, Daily Mail Says It Stands by Epstein Article, Rejects ‚Malicious‘ Motives

(18.07.2019)

In its statement the tabloid said: „DailyMail.com stands by its recent story concerning Ehud Barak’s relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein 100 percent.“

„We note that Mr. Barak’s assertion that he was not party to Mr. Epstein’s illegal activities is a denial of a claim we have never made,“ the Daily Mail said in their statement, adding that the story only referenced the content of the photos.

12.07.2019 - 19:27 [ CNN ]

Jeffrey Epstein allegedly hired private investigators and engaged in a campaign of intimidation against accusers in Florida

In the end, Acosta negotiated a controversial federal nonprosecution agreement for Epstein and four alleged co-conspirators. Epstein served time on two state charges of solicitation of prostitution. The alleged co-conspirators were not charged, and Epstein was not charged with obstruction or witness tampering.

12.07.2019 - 19:17 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Affäre um Milliardär Epstein: US-Arbeitsminister Acosta tritt zurück

Hintergrund ist ein umstrittener Deal vor mehr als zehn Jahren, der Epstein ein Verfahren vor einem Bundesgericht ersparte – und der Acosta als damaliger Staatsanwalt in Florida mit ausgehandelt hatte. Epstein soll mehrere Minderjährige sexuell missbraucht und zur Prostitution angestiftet haben

Ein Richter in West Palm Beach in Florida kam in diesem Jahr zum Schluss, dass die Absprache gegen ein Gesetz zum Schutz der Rechte von Opfern verstoße, weil diese im Fall Epstein nicht informiert oder vorab konsultiert worden waren.

12.07.2019 - 19:03 [ New York Times ]

Acosta to Resign as Trump’s Labor Secretary Over Epstein Plea Deal

President Trump’s embattled labor secretary, R. Alexander Acosta, on Friday announced his plans to resign as controversy lingered over his handling of a sex crimes case involving a financier, Jeffrey E. Epstein, when Mr. Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida.

11.07.2019 - 11:14 [ Haaretz ]

Netanyahu Dirties Up Ehud Barak Over Jeffrey Epstein Scandal So He Looks Cleaner

After months of playing defense against the never-ending stream of details regarding the contents of the prime minister‘s pending indictment on corruption charges, one could practically feel the exhilaration in the Netanyahu camp at being able to finally go on the offensive — launching a full-throttle attack against Barak, leader of the new Democratic Israel party.

11.07.2019 - 11:11 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Netanyahu: Barak connected with pedophile, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

(08.07.2019)

Barak attacked Netanyahu again on Sunday evening, telling Channel 12 that the Submarine Affair was not being advanced, despite evidence implicating the prime minister. He said the police want to move the case forward but are being prevented by Mandelblit. He also accused Netanyahu of going overboard in designating his political rivals as leftists.

10.07.2019 - 09:48 [ Washington Post ]

Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexually abusing teenage girls, surrounded himself with influential network of defenders

He was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Many influential people liked to be around Epstein. He was smart, curious, fun.