[I]t’s jaw-dropping to learn — some seven long years later — about the phone call that came into a popular Albuquerque disc jockey and was passed onto local authorities from a man who claimed he’d worked on a rural New Mexico ranch belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the uber-connected financier and convicted sex offender.
The man said he knew where the bodies were buried.
Literally. Two of them, in fact — young girls whose life of abuse in Epstein World allegedly ended in murder and were hidden somewhere in the hills near the ranch not far south of Santa Fe.
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New Mexico authorities were told back in 2019 not to investigate by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors in Manhattan who just as abruptly lost all interest in the matter.
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[A] flurry of smaller but significant details in the latest and supposedly last tranche of Epstein Files has me convinced that 1) there might be some very active landmines in the case that haven’t been touched off yet, and 2) there definitely was, and still is, an active coverup at the highest levels of government.
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The recently released files contain some surprising discoveries from the FBI’s investigation, especially centering on the actions of one of the two guards on duty that night. Both were fired for failing to check on their famous inmate and allegedly falsifying records.
The normally Trump-friendly New York Post reported last weekend that one of the two guards made an unusual $5,000 deposit just 10 days before Epstein’s death and, perhaps even more suspiciously, Googled “latest on Epstein in jail” twice, just 50 and then 40 minutes before her co-worker discovered the body. (The guard has denied in a sworn statement that she had anything to do with Epstein’s death.)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Perhaps she believes that taking $5,000 for "falling asleep" while it happened isn't having something to do with it. It's a technicality.
The online commentator Alison Gill also notes that Epstein and his associates were discussing the possibility of blackmail material on Trump, presumably with the goal of ending Epstein’s criminal case, in the days right before he died.
Recall that one of the victims
claimed Trump threatened her (and her family) with an allusion to a 12-yearold girl being killed.
[N]ow we know from a recently released 302 that Epstein was not just blackmailing the victims, but also his clients and he discussed this with Trump. (A 302 is the number of the FBI form that is used for interviews)
And [Gill] reported that he also discussed some dirt he might have on Trump
And that interview with the FBI took place 3 days before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell
Gill’s pointing out that some of the 302s especially about Trump and how he trafficked girls from his modelling agency are also missing.
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Also reminds us that the DOJ withheld accusations of Trump committing sexual abuse of a minor (discovered by NPR sleuthing)
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Also suspicious was the discovery of these documents in the time of Bondi and Blanche. When these were discovered, Bondi closed the case (or tried to on a 4th of July weekend) and Blanche went to talk to Maxwell. Also that closing memo talked about how no evidence of blackmail found. (Which makes us think that blackmail was found)
Daily Kos
[T]he Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., near where the [Trump] accuser [who was 13 years old at the time of her accusations] grew up [...] assigned reporters to look at anything and everything that could either confirm or cast doubt on what she told the FBI — real estate records, court filings, old newspaper clippings, and more — and even sent a journalist out to the West Coast,
The result? The things they could check out pretty much checked out, including her family’s relationship with an Ohio businessman whom she said introduced her to Epstein on Hilton Head Island. None of what the paper found relates to her veracity about the Trump encounter, but both its findings confirming other details, and the fact that the FBI spoke to this woman four times, bolster her credibility.
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We know that during the fraught days between Epstein’s 2019 arrest and his death, the FBI ordered the New York Police Department and local Manhattan prosecutors to back off their own investigations into Epstein. Why? We know that in the New Mexico case, federal prosecutors hijacked the investigation and then absolutely nothing happened. Why? And we know that the three temporarily missing FBI interviews with the Trump accuser are part of a much bigger pattern of disappeared files, constant slow-walking, and other Justice Department irregularities. Why?
Philadelphia Inquirer
I think we know the answer to those questions is the same answer: protect Trump and the Epstein class.
[L]ocal prosecutors in New York, New Mexico, Florida, the Virgin Islands, and elsewhere need to step up.
