Beyond The Horizon

ICYMI: Jeffrey Epstein And His One Of A Kind NPA

On this edition of the evening update, we once again take a look at the NPA that Epstein weaseled himself and his friends into and we hear from prosecutors and lawyers who have worked these kinds of cases for decades and none of them could ever recall anyone getting a deal such as this. So, how was Epstein able to cash in?

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Duration:: 19m
Broadcast on:: 14 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Membership eligibility required. Equal housing opportunity, all own subject to approval, insured by NCUA. Belco, banking for everyone. And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. One of the biggest issues when we're talking about travesties of justice within the world of Jeffrey Epstein is most certainly the plea deal. How he was able to acquire that plea deal has been the source of much debate and of much contention. But the fact is, he received that plea deal and that deal, well, there is no other deal like it. Nobody else ever has gotten a deal like Jeffrey Epstein, so ask yourselves, how is it that he is worthy of getting such a deal? What makes him so special? Well, when you're hanging out with the people he was hanging out with and you're breaking bread with some of the most powerful and influential people in the world, you end up getting a deal that nobody else would ever, ever get. And that's certainly what happened when Epstein scored this sweetheart deal down in Florida. Today we're going to read an article from Noreen Marcus over at theflordaboldog.org talking about how this is a cushy deal and how it's the only one of its kind in South Florida ever. So let's get into this article and let's see what Noreen Marcus has to say. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein's cushy federal deal was the only one of its kind in South Florida for at least three decades. And ever, right? When you look at it, there was no one who ever got a deal like this. But somehow this disgusting, gross, child molesting son of a bitch comes out with the sweetest deal in the history of sweet deals. Now remember how many larger than life criminals have been down in Florida? Got all kinds of mob guys, drug narco, professionals, you name it, and none of them caught deals like this. What makes Epstein so special? The sickly sweet deal that lawyers for serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein worked out with South Florida federal prosecutors veered so far off the beaten path, it blazed a path of its own. There is no doubt about that. This is going to be studied in law classes and in the law profession for years to come. It's going to be a case study in not how to handle yourself. This is a deal that should have never been signed off on and say it was a Costa, right? Oh, it was all a Costa's fault. Then where was his boss to come in and say, "Look, you can't do this. This deal's terrible, my friend." There was nobody to step in and do that. You know why? Because those on high, Acosta's bosses, they wanted this deal to get done. Over the last 29 years, three non-prosecution agreements, NPA, NPA's, the kind of deal Epstein got, went to big companies in the southern district of Florida, according to a list compiled by the University of Virginia and Duke law schools. So only to companies, not to personal individuals, and certainly not to unnamed individuals. How the hell do you even get that provision put in to a contract like this, to a non-prosecution agreement? You would literally have to be using the Jedi mind trick like Ben Kenobi. But since no company executive was accused of anything close to Epstein's level of depravity, his deal appears to be one of a kind. His informal criminal enterprise that preyed upon teenage girls had no name to include in the law school's corporate prosecution registry. Oh, that's easy. Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise? We can just call it that, right? Or if you want, we can go a step further. The Epstein crime family. How about that? We love to slap monikers on people and call them crime families, right? Well, why not call these guys the same thing? Because that's what they were. They were facilitating all sorts of crimes. Money laundering. Human trafficking. Wire fraud. Threats. Solicitation. You name it. These people were into it. Out of 190 Southern District federal cases that were resolved before trial from 1992 to this year, the list shows 86% resulted in pleas, not including the Epstein affair, only three of the cases, or 1.6% ended with non-prosecution agreements. Now, look, very rarely does the federal government give out a non-prosecution agreement when they have you bent over a barrel. They love to get their convictions, don't they? In federal court, and that, you see it here. 86% resulted in plea deals. 86% 8 out of 10 people said, "I can't beat the federal government at trial, so I'm just going to plead out." Not Epstein. He gets himself a nice non-prosecution agreement. That covers him, his co-conspirators, the core four, and any unnamed co-conspirators as well. Now, however the hell they whipped that one up. I'll need to explain to me how the federal government and the state government signed off on it. "They are rarer than hens teeth, and hens have no teeth," said criminal defense lawyer Joel Hershorne during a 53-year career. He has yet to negotiate a single one. Think about that, folks, okay? Do you really think Mr. Hershorne here is not a good lawyer that he can't, you know, he doesn't know his way around a courtroom? And on the flip side, you think Dershowitz is that good in the courtroom? Or left court? Or left co-its? Of course they aren't. You think it's just happened to be a coincidence that they had all these guys from Kirkland and Ellis working on that law team. Guys like Ken Starr with extreme political reach, because that's what you're paying for. If you have the right amount of money, you're paying for influence. Whereas me or you, we're just looking to get a lawyer and we hope we get a plea deal that doesn't send us to prison for the rest of our lives. A special deal for Jeffrey Epstein alone. The three companies on the Southern District's NPA list are Wacovia, now Wells Fargo, accused of antitrust, Republic Metals Corporation, accused of money laundering, and Baton Holdings, accused of securities fraud. The deals all followed some combination of hefty fines, long prison sentences for company executives, or cooperation with other probes. And that is the rub, right? We know that Epstein wasn't an informer. We know he was working for the government. And all these people that want to act like he wasn't explained to me how he always got off when every guy caught doing something wrong. I call it the whitey-bulger effect. And we see it with Epstein time and time again. But a cushy deal like the late Epstein's is virtually unheard of. The use of an MPA against an individual is very rare, said Miami trial lawyer Marcos Jimenez, who was the U.S. Attorney in South Florida from 2002 to 2005. Sounds like a guy who would know what he's talking about. But nah, this is just your everyday behavior. And that's why it's laughable, that the appeals court would look at this and just be like a shrug their shoulders and be like, nah, you know, we're just going to let this stand. It's an abomination. Jimenez told the Florida Bulldog he doesn't remember authorizing any kind of NPA. The law school's list and media reports confirm his recollection. "I can't think of a bar to doing it. It's just that I've never seen it done in any other instance than for Epstein," said former Miami prosecutor Richard Gregory, who retired in 2018 after 42 years with the Justice Department. He also worked in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Who's the one that's bullshitting you folks? The people that want you to believe that this is just a common everyday occurrence that criminals get deals like this? Or are you going to believe the actual facts that are in front of your face? Because the official narrative that they want you to suck down is just filled and riddled with holes. Protecting mystery co-conspirators. Jeffrey Epstein's off the charts packed led him avoid federal charges that carry serious prison time. Prosecutors prepared, but never filed, a 53-page indictment describing his criminal activities with underage girls that could have put Epstein away for life, and we all know how that ended up. We'll punt it down to state. He'll get the easier, softer charges. Unlike standard NPA's, his carefully crafted version even protected any potential co-conspirators prompting speculation about former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew, and other powerful men in Epstein's social circle. Well, we see that Andrew tried to use this clause, and it didn't work out for him in New York. He got sued anyway. But, criminally speaking, this is a big roadblock from justice being served in this case. None of them has been charged in connection with Epstein, only his ex-girlfriend, co-conspirator, fellow child abuser, general all-around Scuzzbag and bipedal serpent, Helene Maxwell is being prosecuted in New York for allegedly procuring young girls for him to abuse. We all know that it's not prosecuted anymore. She has been convicted. Gregory had nothing to do with the Epstein case and wouldn't speculate about a possible accomplices, but said he's amazed and astounded by the NPA clause granting immunity to hypothetical co-conspirators. "You really think that Acosta has the power to sign off on something like this when you hear from all of these top-notch prosecutors and people who have worked in the business that this is on." Jeffrey Epstein, from Manchin to Jail Suicide. "I have never heard of a case where an NPA extended to people who haven't been investigated or charged yet," Gregory said. "It just doesn't make sense." "If you were getting cooperation from someone who would provide you with leads to take a case to a much higher or significant person or was opening up the case to a much broader range of criminal activity, that might lead to this kind of agreement," he said. Well, we know it didn't. This all happened because Epstein and his lawyers had friends on high. The Justice Department was littered with creatures who were friendly with Dershowitz and Ken Starr and the rest of these guys. "How could an unknown co-conspirator barter for immunity from prosecution?" Yet in exchange for extraordinary largesse from the feds, Epstein pleaded guilty to two low-level state prostitution offenses and funded a victim's compensation pool. The government shut down a grand jury that might have outed others in his sex ring. Jeffrey Epstein got an 18-month sentence but served a little over a year, mostly working on work release near his Palm Beach estate. Ten years later, the wealthy financier, pedophile, died in a Manhattan jail cell in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial for sex trafficking in New York. Acosta's poor judgment cost him. "Look, for me, again, I don't buy that for a second. His coward is cost him. If my boss ever came to me with this kind of proposal and I had all of these girls that I had been investigating to see if their claims were true and I had this evidence that it was, zero chance that I'd be okay with this. I'd raise such a stink that I'd end up getting fired and all of it because there are some things you can, you know, look the other way, not something like this." Signing off on the notorious 2007 Epstein deal came to haunt Alex Acosta, the U.S. Attorney after Jimenez. Following publication of a Miami Herald series about the Epstein case that threw renewed light on his NPA, then Labor Secretary Acosta resigned in 2019. Very convenient fall guy, huh? They love their low-hanging fruit. Jimenez said he agrees completely with a finding by DOJ regulators that the NPA was a flawed mechanism for satisfying the federal interest that caused the government to open up the Epstein investigation in the first place. The finding appeared in a November 2020 report by the department's office of professional responsibility. It concluded Acosta showed poor judgment when he approved the Epstein NPA but didn't violate professional norms largely because none apply. And, you know, it's convenient, right? That the emails during this whole entire time of Acosta to his superiors, they just went missing, right? Just a very convenient fact for the other people who were involved in the decision-making here. Jimenez expressed reluctance to criticize his successor. Still, he said he agrees that Acosta exercised faulty judgment. NPA's Rob's victims of rights. Earlier this month, a discredited deal resurfaced when a federal appeals court ruled against Courtney Wild, who says Jeffrey Epstein began molesting her when she was 15. The U.S. Crime Victims Rights Act says survivors must be notified about and participate in negotiations between prosecutors and defendants, but prosecutors hid the Epstein NPA document for several months until he pleaded guilty avoiding any objections to its lenient terms. Imagine? These guys hid this document when they're not allowed to do that by law and still no repercussions. Nobody held responsible and the deal is allowed to stand. Now, you tell me where the equitable justice is. But the 11th Circuit Court said the law supports victims only after charges are filed. Since Acosta agreed to the NPA and no charges were ever filed in that case against Epstein, unfortunately, that was that. Allowing judges to protect victims' rights earlier in the process would intrude on the prosecutor's discretion. The majority ruled in an opinion published on April 15. The courts would be empowered to issue injunctions requiring consultation with victims to name just a few examples before law enforcement raids, warrant applications, arrests, witness interviews, lineups, and interrogations. Judge Kevin Newsom wrote for the majority, "I'll give me a break." Judge Kevin Newsom. Wasn't he the same guy that was hanging out with Christian Everdell? Yeah, I believe so. Two dudes, just two guys hanging out, no conflict of interest. Wait, what? They both want to harbor together? Come on, still no conflict of interest, right? Right? Decenters call the deal "travesty." The 704 decision from the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit may end while its 13-year pursuit of justice, though her lawyers plan to an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. We know that failed, unfortunately. 411 Circuit Court judges dissented. Those judges, all women, skewer the Epstein NPA, and to sell the dramatic increase in all kinds of pre-inditment agreements over the last 15 years. Not one single dude. Not one single man of those lawyers. I mean, judges, dissented. What an embarrassment. You mean to tell me not one of you guys thought what happened here was disgusting? Maybe you need to do more research. Maybe you need better clerks. The majority's ruling leaves federal prosecutors free to engage in the secret plea deals and deception that resulted in the travesty here. Judge Frank May's whole wrote. It also exasperates disparities between wealthy defendants and those who cannot afford to hire well-connected and experienced attorneys to negotiate favorable deals for them, she wrote. So, will there be another Epstein-like travesty? I would hope that it never happens again, and I don't think that it will, Jimenez said. Folks look, how much more do we have to explain it? This was a travesty of epic proportions, and your courts at every step along the way have sided with Epstein, his friends, and this disgusting-ass deal. I'll leave you with that to think about for a little while. And as for me, well, I'll be back later on. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobbykapucci@protonmail.com. That's b-o-b-b-y-c-a-p-u-c-i@protonmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at b-o-b-b-y_c-a-p-u-c-c-i. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box.