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in every story where the official narrative stops
making sense. And in the Jeffrey Epstein case,
that moment came the second to most connected
inmate in America somehow died in one place designed
to keep him alive. I'm your host, David Green,
and this is Zero Signal Shorts, where we pull
on the threads you're not supposed to tug. Today
we're going inside Epstein's world, how a college
dropout from Brooklyn ended up managing billionaires'
money, flying presidents and princes on his jet,
and dying in a federal cell surrounded by failed
cameras and forged logs. Was it suicide or quiet
green light? for a desperate man or something
much darker designed to protect the names or
be dating his? That's the question we're gonna
walk straight into today. If you're new here,
tune in every Tuesday at 6 a .m. for our deep
dive episodes, long form breakdowns of crimes,
cover -ups, and conspiracies. The mainstream
would rather write off as nothing to see. For
now, settle in, turn up the volume, and let's
step into the file the feds never wanted us to
open. The rise of the wealth and the death of
Jeffrey Epstein. Edward Epstein and my residence
address is 6100 Red Hook Boulevard in Virgin
Islands. Do you maintain any other residences
presently? I have vacation homes in New Mexico,
Palm Beach, New York and Paris. Have you ever
been convicted of a crime? Yes. What was the
crime of which you were convicted? Two counts,
one soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor
for prostitution. Do you in fact commit those
acts? I'm going to invoke my Fifth Amendment
right. How many times have you solicited a minor
for prostitution? Same answer. How many times
have you solicited a minor for prostitution in
the state of Florida? Same answer. Have you ever
solicited a minor for prostitution in the Virgin
Islands? Same answer. That is, you are invoking
your Fifth Amendment? Yes, right. Yes, Mr. Scrooge.
Have you ever solicited for prostitution in New
York? Same answer. Have you ever solicited for
prostitution in New Mexico? Same answer. Have
you ever solicited for prostitution in Paris?
Same answer. Have you ever solicited a minor
for prostitution anywhere at any time? Again,
I'm gonna assert my right. We're gonna go through
everything. So you are terminating the deposition
at this time? Recessing the deposition. What
college did you attend? Cooper Union. And did
you get a degree from Cooper Union? No, sir.
How many years were you in college? I believe
two. Would you study? Physics. Isn't it true
that you were a teacher at the Dalton School?
in New York after college? It's just unheard
of. It's just an unbelievable scheme to have
kept going for that long of a period of time.
Do you consider yourself to be bisexual? No.
In any event, you did develop a sexual relationship
with Leslie Wexner at some point in time. Is
that true? No. Mr. Epstein, how long have you
been sexually attracted to underage minor female?
Objection, harassing, argumentative. Are you
kidding? I mean, I don't feel like I'm divulging
any secrets here, right? Move to strike. Mr.
Epstein? Were you sexually abused as a minor?
Again? Were you sexually abused as a minor? You
know, I'd like to, again, I'd like to respond
to all your, if any questions seem to be relevant,
but I would like to respond to any relevant question
at this time. However, my attorneys have counseled
me that I cannot provide answers to the questions
relevant to this lawsuit today. I must accept
their advice of risk losing my Sixth Amendment
right to effective representation. Accordingly,
then, I assert my Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth
Amendment right to the United States Constitution.
Would you raise your right hand, please? Yes.
Do you solemnly swear to testimony about to give
away the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth to help you get it? Yes, I do.
Is it true, sir, that you have what's been described
as an egg -shaped penis? I had hired a psychologist
to do a psychological profile on Jeffrey Epstein.
What type of person he was and what would actually
get under his skin, what made him tick, was that...
He was a narcissist. He had no ability to feel
empathy and saw himself as the master of puppets,
so to speak. Sir, one witness described your
penis as oval -shaped and claimed when erect
it was thick towards the bottom but was thin
and small towards the head portion and called
it egg -shaped. Those are not my words, I apologize.
But as Mr. Critton has stated that this is a...
I'm willing to continue. I hate to call him that.
He tries at all times to be the master of his
domain. and in control of his world. As soon
as he feels he's out of control, it's unsettling
to him. Plaint filed by Virginia Roberts against
you. Isn't it true, sir, that a friend of yours
sent you three 12 -year -old females for you
to sexually abuse on one of your birthdays? Form
argumentative, harassing, and irrelevant in this
lawsuit. But you're saying that's part of the
lawsuit? On one of defendant Epstein's birthdays,
a friend of defendant Epstein sent him three
12... year old girls from France who spoke no
English for defendant to sexually exploit and
abuse after doing so they were sent back to France
the next day isn't that true once again I'm gonna
move to strike irrelevant argumentative harassing
I would like to answer that question I really
would However, today, my attorneys have told
me I have to assert my Fifth Amendment, Sixth
Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment rights under
the U .S. Constitution. You're invoking your
Fifth Amendment rights to each of these questions
because you know that your answers will incriminate
you and you feel that it will result in you being
prosecuted for these crimes. Isn't that right?
objection, argumentative, harassing, and calls
for a legal conclusion. No, in fact, the Supreme
Court recently said that the Fifth Amendment
right is there to protect the innocent. So that's
what I'd like to answer. Are you released from
jail at some time? Do you have to report back
to jail on a daily basis? Yes, I report back
to jail at 8 p .m. Every single day? Yes, sir.
And is it seven days a week that you're out on
work release? No, sir. How many days a week are
you out on work release? Six. And of those six
days, how many hours per day are you out on work
release? 12. We're back in the video record at
12 .02 p .m. Let's talk about Jango 102, Virginia
Roberts. Do you know Virginia Roberts? So she's
again who? Virginia Roberts. Can you spell it?
Common spelling, Virginia. Like states, can you
spell it? If you look at Jeffrey Epstein, the
way a detective would to build a case, the first
thing that jumps out is that his life doesn't
start like a billionaire's. It starts like a
kid from Brooklyn who somehow gets escorted into
rooms he has no business being in. Epstein was
born in 1953 in Brooklyn to a working -class
Jewish family. He was right, especially in math
and science, but he never finished college. He
attended classes at Cooper Union and NYU, but
dropped out before ever obtaining a degree. A
normal background check, that's the kind of detail
that limits your options. You might end up teaching
at a strongly public school or working an entry
-level job. Instead, Epstein showed shows up
at the Dalton School, one of the most elite prep
schools in Manhattan. As a 20 -something math
and physics teacher with no diploma, he gets
the job under the headmaster Donald Barr, a former
OSS intelligence officer and the father of future
Attorney General William Barr. For cops, that's
the first, huh, moment. An under -qualified,
uncredentialed young man somehow getting hired
into a highly selective institution by someone
with an intelligence background. It doesn't prove
anything on its own, but it's not a normal trajectory.
He doesn't last long at Dalton. By the mid -1970s,
he's out, and this is where the The second jump
happens. A parent from Dalton helps him land
an entry -level job at Bear Stearns, a major
Wall Street firm. Epstein starts as a low -level
assistant in the trading department and then
moves into options training. Within a few years,
he's a limited partner. For most people now,
this would be a career highlight. But for Epstein,
it's just a launching pad. In 1981, he leaves
Bear and Stearns under circumstances that have
never fully been expanded, officially to start
his own firm, though colleagues later describe
rumors he was pushed out. Immediately afterward,
he's running a company called the Intercontinental
Asset group, saying he helps with wealthy people
recover lost or stolen money. That kind of business,
moving money for rich clients in the shadows
of dispute, is exactly where you expect to find
people who know how to operate off the books.
By 1988, Epstein incorporates J. Epstein & Company,
his own money management firm. He tells Vanity
Fair and others that he will only take clients
worth more than a billion dollars, a strangely
restrictive role for a guy with no public track
record, no SEC registered hedge fund, and no
visible marketing operations. The document reality
uncovered by later investigations is that his
Fortune seems to depend on a very small handful
of ultra -rich clients rather than a broad base
of investors. The most important of those is
retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, founder of
Limited and Victoria's Secret. Epstein meets
Wexner in the mid -1980s, becomes his financial
advisor, and very quickly is given sweeping power
of attorney, legally allowed to sign checks,
buy and sell property, hire on fire, borrow money,
and act in Wexner's name. This is an extraordinary
level of trust of a man with minimal formal credentials.
During this period, Epstein's invisible wealth
explodes. He acquires properties that once belonged
to Wexner, including the now infamous townhouse
at 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan, one of the
largest private homes in the city. Wexner bought
it in 1989. A few years later, Epstein is living
there, and by the late 1990s, he takes full possession
in a transaction that effectively transfers a
mansion worth tens of millions of dollars into
his control. He also relocates part of his operation
to the U .S. Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, a
tax haven, and buying his own private island,
Little St. James. Later reporting shows that
from 1999 to 2011, the bulk of Epstein's income
came from just a few billionaire clients, especially
Wexner and later Apollo, co -founder of Leon
Black, who together paid him hundreds of millions
in fees. So when people ask, how did Jeffrey
make his money? The answer is pretty clear, by
embedding himself inside the financial lives
of a tiny number of extremely rich people, gaining
extraordinary control and charging outsized fees
for it. That's not illegal by itself, but it's
opaque. And it leaves huge unanswered questions
about what exactly he was doing for those clients
that was that kind of money. Meanwhile, Epstein
is building something more valuable than cash,
a network. His social circle expands from presidents,
princes, tech founders, hedge fund billionaires,
top scientists, lawyers, and academics. Flight
log show politicians, royals, and celebrities
flying on his private jet. He donates to elite
institutions like Harvard and MIT, funds obscure
research projects, and positions himself as a
kind of connector, someone who can introduce
banks like JP Morgan to alter high net worth
clients and even political leaders. In internal
emails that surfaced later, bank executives described
him as a brain maker who can bring in billionaires
and banks process over a billion dollars in transactions
for him even after he was flagged as a sex offender.
From a law enforcement viewpoint, this is where
the file stops looking like a routine rich guy
gone bad behavior and starts to resemble infrastructure.
Epstein isn't just wealthy, he is strategically
connected in a way that makes him useful to banks,
to billionaires, and potentially anyone who wants
to have leverage over them. That's the factual
backbone. conspiracy grows on. The conspiracies
don't start from nothing. They grow out of these
unexplained jumps to privileged treatment and
missing answers. The biggest one is the intelligence
asset theory. In this version, Epstein isn't
just a predator, he's a tool. People believe
this theory points to his odd early placement
at Dalton by Donald Barr, a man with OSS intel
history, to his sudden rise in elite finance
without credentials at all, and to the way he
keeps getting protected when any normal offender
would be crushed. They highlight reports that
during the Trump transition, Former U .S. Attorney
Alex Acosta allegedly told officials he's been
told Epstein's belonged to intelligence and that
he should leave it alone. When he cut the 2007
-2008 non -prosecution deal, they noted that
Epstein later provided information to the FBI
as agreed upon, according to a recently surfaced
2008 FBI memo closing out a sub file confirming
he was at least some kind of source to them.
Add in the long -running rumors and reporting
that tie him, V .I. Ms. Maxwell and her father
Robert Maxwell to possible Mossad connection.
And you get the classic honeypot narrative. Epstein
is allegedly running a blackmail operation for
one or more intelligent services, collecting
compromising material and powerful men to be
used as leverage. The why here is simple. Blackmail
is one of the oldest tools of the trade, and
Epstein's carefully constructed world, private
jets, remote islands, camera -filled mansions,
looks like a made -to -order environment for
exactly that kind of work. The second major conspiracy
cluster revolves around the so -called client
list and the ideal of global blackmail networks.
In the public this usually gets reduced to memes.
Release the list. But behind that is a serious
intuition. If Epstein was trafficking minors
for decades, somebody was buying those services.
Flight logs, guest books, and victim testimonies
all point to a wide orbit of powerful people
around him. Officially, the DOJ now says there's
no secret client list, and that C's tapes mostly
show illegal child pornography rather than powerful
mid and compromising situations. But conspiracy
-minded observers look at the limited number
of prosecution, mainly Epstein himself and Miss
Maxwell, and compare Compare that to the scale
of his operations and the roster of names tied
to his social life. They see years of banking
records, travel manifest, and digital evidence
and ask this question, is it really plausible
that none of this implicates anyone else at any
level and there's nobody worth charging? Now,
the theory says no, that there is or was a list,
formal or informal, of compromised elites and
that exposing it with destabilized institutions
in politics, finance, and the media. In that
framing, the why is about system survival. Protecting
the network matters more than justice for individual
crimes. Some breaking news right now. Disgraced
financier Jeffrey Epstein has taken his own life
while he was behind bars here in New York City.
Epstein was facing sex trafficking charges. NBC
News investigative correspondent Tom Winter now
has the very latest time. What more do we know?
Peter, what we know now is that at 639 this morning,
the fire department and EMS here in New York
City got a phone call from MCC, which is a federal
detention facility here in Manhattan in New York
City, where Jeffrey Epstein was being held awaiting
trial. They took him to New York's downtown hospital.
He was in cardiac arrest, and he was pronounced
there. What we know from officials that have
been briefed on what happened, it appeared that
he had hung himself in his cell or wherever he
was being held within MCC. and he was found by
prison officials this morning and that's when
they reached out and they called EMS in unsuccessful
attempts to revive him. So that happened early
this morning and right now what we're trying
to do is figure out if he was still on suicide
watch because there was an incident that occurred
several weeks ago where he injured himself. It
wasn't quite clear if that was an attempt on
his life. and attempt to perhaps stage an attack.
The third major conspiracy is the one everybody
has heard in the meme form. Epstein didn't kill
himself. Underneath the joke is a serious cluster
of questions about his death in August of 2019,
the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
Officially in New York City, medical examiner
rolled into suicide by hanging, and subsequent
DOJ and FBI reviews have reaffirmed that conclusion.
But the list of procedural failures that night
is long. Epstein had been taken off suicide watch,
was left without a cellmate. Guards misrequired
checks and then falsified logs to suggest they
had done them, and cameras near his cell had
technical issues. The DOJ inspector general later
documented numerous and serious failures in staffing,
supervision, and equipment that created the opportunity
for Epstein's death. On top of that, the autopsy
found multiple neck fractures, including a broken
bone in the neck. Injuries that one prominent
forensics pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, said
were extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and
more consistent with homicidal strangulation.
Other experts dispute the interpretation and
say such fractures can occur in older individuals
who hang themselves, but the disagreement itself
feeds down. Then when the DOJ finally released
the jail video years later, metadata analysis
showed the raw footage had been processed and
stitched together with at least one minute gap.
Again, something official said was benign, but
which only deepened suspicion. For people inclined
towards conspiracy, the why here is straightforward.
If Epstein could name names, then leaving him
alive was too dangerous for too many people.
A messy suicide in a broken jail is easier to
manage than a live defendant in open court. A
fourth, broader conspiracy treats Epstein as
just one node in a larger pattern of elite, criminal,
and community. A fourth, broader conspiracy treats
Epstein as just one node in a larger pattern.
In this telling, he isn't a one -off monster.
He's Exhibit A. Supporters of this view point
to the 2008 non -prosecution agreement, Acosta's
office cut, which allowed Epstein to plead to
minimal state charges, serve about 13 months
in a linear work release set up, and avoid federal
indictment altogether, all while victims were
kept in the dark. They know how JPMorgan and
other institutions kept him as a client and processed
more than a billion dollars in trans - actions
even after he was a registered sex offender.
They look at the fact that after his 2019 arrest
and death, only one close associate, Maxwell,
has been brought to trial. While the many powerful
people in his orbit have mostly carried on, but
all that together in the conspiracy isn't just
about espionage or murder. It's about a system
that quietly decides which criminals are too
connected to fail. The what here is about continuity
of power. If you start tugging too hard on the
Epstein thread, you might unravel confidence
in the entire institutions so the system's ops
for a controlled burn instead of a full fire.
We received substantial evidence that he was
involved in trafficking young women and children
to the Virgin Islands for a very long period
of time. Through our airport, through his private
jet, he would then transport them over to Little
St. James, where he has his complex, which is
his official residence. These young girls and
women were subject to sexual assault, sexual
exploitation, through coercion, false imprisonment,
where the past at some points were taken away,
the actions were reprehensible and it was quite
a number of women and we found through our investigation
that at least up to 2018 that continued. So what
your investigation is showing is the broad scope
of Jeffrey Epstein's nefarious activities, that
it just kept going. Based on the evidence that
we found thus far, let me make something very
clear. Jeffrey Epstein was very good at protecting
himself and being secret. The secrecy was he
was very good at that and because of his wealth
his power He was able to do that and secure that
he owns a private island That's over a mile away
from st. Thomas the main island and it's out
there and isolated He purchases that then he
owns the that flew in to the airport It's under
a name of one of the front companies that actually
has been named in our complaint, but it's him
he He's the member of that LLC. And he owns the
helicopter and boats that transported him and
the women and children to the aisle. It's him
orchestrating all of that. Yes, there may have
been baggage handlers. There may have been other
persons who looked and saw him and other females
with young girls. It's important that we focus
on how Jeffrey Epstein was able to create such
an elaborate scheme doing it in such secrecy.
And he had the money and power to create the
secrecy so that not just local authorities, but
we have federal authorities here too. In looking
at that, you have to really get a good understanding
of how he was able to protect and isolate himself.
Once you get on that island, how do you get off?
It's not like a person who's on the island can
just say, okay, I'm going to swim to St. Thomas.
They can't do that. It's not like a person who's
there and needs help that they can sneak away
and run outside and flag down a vehicle or flag
down a police car or run to the nearest police
station like they might be able to do on St Thomas.
The island is isolated. So that kind of isolation
is really how you have to look at when you start
to think how could this have happened for so
long. I think the picture you paint is a terrifying
one, a terrifying one of isolation. but also
abuse of power, and I just wonder why the people
who worked for Jeffrey Epstein weren't terrified
for the girls going over there. They knew how
isolated that island was. They knew the ages
of those girls. They saw powerful men there.
Why weren't they terrified? Why didn't they become
whistleblowers? One thing I do know is that there
are the nondisclosure agreements that... Jeffrey
Epstein had all of the employees, if not most
of them, had to agree not to disclose any information
to law enforcement or anyone else regarding what
goes on that island. Even after Jeffrey Epstein's
death, those nondisclosure agreements are still
in place and still enforced by the... estate.
So this was just one of the ways that you can
pretty much intimidate or silence people. But
in addition to that, when you see someone connected
with powerful people who may visit the island
or he may be involved with, whether it doesn't
have to be here, it could be anywhere in the
world. And it's known that these powerful people
are his friend and associates. That alone is
intimidating to the ordinary citizen who's sitting
there and watching this and say, ooh, that does
not look good. But could you imagine the reluctance
of that person to say, I'm going to come forward,
I'm going to tell on that person who's friends
with all these powerful people? So that alone,
the way that he surrounded himself with these
powerful people, that was an example of the kind
of intimidation that would cause people to be
silent about what they may see or suspect. As
far as the Virgin Islands is concerned, I need
to make sure that... the Virgin Islands is not
and is not perceived as a haven for this kind
of sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and
sexual and child abuse. We have to make that
clear. It is very important that we enforce our
laws against human trafficking, against child
abuse, against sexual exploitation of women.
It is important that we do that because if I
don't do it as the attorney general, the top
law enforcement person, if we do not do it in
the Virgin Islands, then those types of crimes
will continue to flourish. If I'm being completely
honest, when I look at the Epstein story, the
way a cop looks at a case file, I don't see a
random suicide or a Hollywood style assassination.
I see a man who was allowed to die in a cage
that was perfectly engineered through neglect
or a tent to make sure no one stopped him. You've
got a high value inmate who knows the worst secrets
of the world's most powerful people, a guy who
once walked away with a sweetheart deal that
no ordinary offender could ever dream of. And
when he finally lands back in federal custody
and suddenly the Bureau of Prisons forgets how
to do the one thing it exists to do, keep a prisoner
safe long enough to face a trial. That's not
just bad luck. That's a system that at minimum
stop caring about whether he lived or died at
the exact moment. His testimony would have been
most dangerous. Do I think he was capable of
killing himself? Absolutely. He was cornered
aging and smart enough to read the writing on
the wall. This wasn't 2008. There were no plea
deals, no work releases, no going back to the
island. So yeah, suicide is plausible here, but
look at the environment around that decision.
He's taken off suicide watch. He's left with
a cellmate. The guards don't do their rounds.
The logs are faked. The cameras don't give you
the clean view. And when the autopsy hits, the
injuries are controversial enough that experts
are still arguing about them years later. Maybe
no one walked into the cell and strangled him.
But it sure looks like the system opened every
door you'd need to have open if you wanted a
desperate man to take the one exit that protects
everybody but the victims. Then there's a list.
And this is where the story stops being about
one dead man and starts being about the ecosystem
around him. There isn't one neat laminated client
list the government admits to. What there is
is an overlapping circle of association. You
got flight logs, people who flew on his planes,
stayed at his properties, moved through his orbit.
You got the social web, the dinners, the fundraisers,
the donations to universities and to labs, the
meetings with tech founders, CEOs, Royals, former
presidents. You got the financial ties, billionaires
who let him run their money, banks that kept
him as a client even after he was a convicted
sex offender, institutions that kept cashing
his checks because he opened doors they wanted
open. And then there's the smallest, darkest
circle, the alleged co -conspirators and enablers.
the fixers, the schedulers, the people who helped
make the abuse machine run while pretending they
were just part of the furniture. So when people
say the list, what they're really talking about
is that whole spectrum from clueless elites who
thought he was just a rich connector all the
way up to predators and power brokers who may
have had every reason to be terrified of him
talking under oath. My best guess, the real list
that matters isn't just who flew on the plane,
it's who was actually compromised. And with that,
it's probably a mix of people who were stupid,
people who were selfish and people who are just
downright evil. And the reason we've never seen
that list in full is because releasing it would
set off political, financial, and cultural explosions
nobody in power is willing to risk. So here's
where I'd land. Epstein was a predator, but he
was also just a node, a junction point where
money, sex, leverage, and power all met. His
fortune wasn't some genius hedgefunch story.
It was built on a tiny circle of ultra wealthy
clients and institutions that found him useful
and didn't ask too many questions. His contact
book, his flight logs, his archives, whatever
they actually contain are dangerous. Not because
they prove one cartoon villain controls the world,
but because they show how many supposedly separate
worlds quietly overlap. Politics, finance, royalty,
science, media. And when the man finally became
a liability instead of an asset, the system didn't
rush to protect his life. It's sleepwalk just
long enough for a problem to disappear. Whether
you're believed he was murdered, allowed to die,
or vanished and replaced, the message is the
same. The people who needed him silenced got
what they needed. The victims didn't. The public
didn't. Justice didn't. And that's why his story
won't die, because at some level everyone can
feel But the official narrative can't say out
loud Epstein's death wasn't just the end of a
man It was a signal that there are several levels
of power in this world that would rather break
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