Hours before we aired Episode 3 of The Secret Life of Jeffrey Epstein, the cover-up of the crimes we documented six years ago accelerated in real time. Ghislaine Maxwell was quietly transferred from a Florida federal prison to a minimum-security camp in Texas. No explanation. No justification. Just a convicted sex trafficker getting moved to "Club Fed" while Donald Trump scrambles to control the Epstein narrative.
Days after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche spent nine hours over two days interviewing Maxwell about "100 names," she received her presidential reward. She’ll serve out her sentence at a minimal-security prison camp, yoga classes included.
Tonight's repeat episode of The Secret Life of Jeffrey Epstein , "Balance of Power," first aired in 2019 and showed how Russian intelligence systematically compromised American billionaires through financial dependency. The 1996 Moscow trip with Trump, Leon Black, and Howard Lorber was the recruitment of four US business leaders as assets. A single network of American companies laundering fronts funded by marginal banks like Deutsche Bank, dubious Russian organizations like the Russian Direct Investment Fund, and answerable to Vladimir Putin.
When we first broadcast Episode 3, Leon Black had just been publicly connected to Epstein after his arrest for human trafficking. It didn’t take long to uncover a photo of Black seated three seats from Putin at a Russian Development Fund meeting. He stayed on the advisory board longer than any other American. His company then gave Jared Kushner $185 million when no other bank would touch the family, and he gifted Epstein much more. This was Russian money paid to assets via an American company and the CEO’s family office.
Trump’s comments about Virginia Giuffre this week calling Epstein's theft of a 16-year-old employee "stealing her from me" inadvertently exposed how he views women. It also reveals he knew about Epstein’s trafficking network for years and did nothing about it.
The Maison L'Amitié real estate deal - $40 million purchase, $96 million sale to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev during a market crash - is direct evidence of Russian money laundering - only this time to Trump. The Epstein-Trump friendship soured over a real estate deal and the Russian payoff that came with it, not because of Epstein’s human trafficking activity at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate, as Trump claims.
For decades, Jeffrey Epstein was always in close proximity to America’s most significant corporate bankruptcies, always there to capture the stolen proceeds, and when markets crashed, he was first in line for the bailout. Towers Financial, Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham Lambert. Every major collapse bore Epstein’s fingerprints, and miraculously, he was always there with ready liquidity. This is how the Russians breached American capitalism.
What we documented in 2019 explains what's happening now. Maxwell's prison transfer signals the final phase: carefully curated testimony naming disposable Democrats while protecting Trumpworld. The agents of compromise we exposed six years ago are covering up for their crimes today.
The cover-up operation is happening in plain sight. Americans are demanding accountability but realizing the limitations of a system in transition to totalitarian rule.
This is what it looks like when dictators want to change a narrative— they do it in plain sight— no need to hide— nobody has the power to stop them.
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