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Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death
- solarkraft 7y agohttp://archive.is/g7OGd http://archive.is/g7OGd
- judge2020 7y agoOff-topic but for some reason i'm now able to access archive.is via Cloudflare. Queries using 1^4 over DoH are only failing about 1/2 of the time (datacenter ATL).
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agome too, but only after solving 20 captchas - classic clownflare :)
- nacs 7y agoThe number of captchas for the "I am not a robot" checkbox you have to solve is decided by Google's algorithms -- not really a Cloudflare choice other than them allowing their users to show that Captcha page in the first place.
- proximitysauce 7y agoRecords filed by the estate on Friday indicate that Southern Country had $693,157 in assets when Mr. Epstein died on Aug. 10. Then, in mid-December, the estate transferred $15.5 million to Southern Country in two checks. Southern Country sent back $2.6 million, leaving the total it received at $12.9 million. The documents filed by the estate do not give a reason for the transfers. It’s also not clear what Southern Country did with that money. Two weeks later, the year-end value of Southern Country’s assets was $499,759, according to the estate’s filings. So ~$12.5M transferred after his death is missing an unaccounted for? That's pretty outrageous. Are there methods for tracking that money down? The article doesn't really say anything about an investigation into its whereabouts.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoThe FBI still hasn't raided Epstein's New Mexico ranch. Probably a lot of potentially fruitful leads are not being pursued.
- clubm8 7y agoDo you have a source on this, this is the first I've heard of it.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoThere were widespread reports and NYT articles when the NYC mansion and Little Saint James island were raided. The last word on the New Mexico ranch was a CBS report in August that it still had not been raided, and there's been zero word since. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-news-ranch-new-mexico-still-has-not-been-raided-by-federal-agents-2019-08-21/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-news-ranch-new-...
- MockObject 7y agoThe source is that you've never heard of this ranch being raided.
- chrisbrandow 7y agoBest reply ever.
- micah94 7y agoIt's really hard not to jump down the rabbit hole, but how else to explain the lax "investigation". There's millions of dollars moving around and nobody cares? Of course they could track this down. But the Virgin Islands isn't going to implicate themselves in this. They consider themselves a victim too (metoo!). I'll just leave my comments there.
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- searcher1 7y agoI've reluctantly come to the conclusion that the simplest explanation for investigations being constantly spiked or important evidence repeatedly disappearing during Epstein's life, is that enough high-ranking officials got invited to "parties" and slept with his underage sex slaves (or worse) on video, and were then blackmailed. The fact that even after his life there aren't gobs of collaborators being arrested also leads me to think that he wasn't even in charge of the whole thing.
- mgolawala 7y agoI am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same. One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her whereabouts. Unless we think she is some Jason Bourne level expert that can just make herself disappear, I can think of only three explanations - 1) The law enforcement agencies are choosing not to find her and track her down for some reason. 2) She is being kept hidden (willingly or unwillingly) by someone else who has the means and ability to do so. 3) She is already dead and her body will turn up at some point. The thought there could be such types of 'cover ups' in the western democratic world is very scary. I was always certain this stuff only happened in the movies, now I am not as sure about that.
- micah94 7y agoYou might have missed this: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ghislaine-Maxwell-accused-of-helping-Epstein-reportedly-hides-in-Israel-613367 https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ghislaine-Maxwell-accused-...
- notyourday 7y agoWhere there's a will, there's a way. Start squeezing her assets. Socialites cannot live without spending hundreds of thousands dollars a year which is difficult to do when one's accounts are frozen.
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- afpx 7y agoIs it that easy to start a new bank?
- AndrewBissell 7y agoKinda suggests Epstein somehow had an ability to evade the normal rules and laws of society, doesn't it?
- zonethundery 7y agoEhhh, it can be (there used to be ads in the back of the Economist for this sort of thing). The hard part is getting correspondent relationships with bigger banks (i.e. a bank account for your bank). The difficulty of that exercise is supposed to be directly proportional to the AML/KYC reputation of the jurisdiction granting the charter. Exceptions abound, of course, and possession of incriminating video of a bank executive might make it a lot easier.
- caspper69 7y agoVery generally speaking, it costs about $5M to start a U.S. bank. Someone of Epstein's personal wealth, not to mention the assets under his control, would not have a problem starting a bank easily. His criminal record would have been an issue in the U.S., however, and any regulator worth their salt should have found it and denied the charter accordingly.
- swarnie_ 7y ago£10 says he's kicking back on a CIA island in the gulf.
- bhouston 7y agoI heard Epstein wanted to have tons of babies in some weird Boys from Brazil scenario. Did he end up doing that? Is this money going to support them?
- Animats 7y agoEpstein may have the record for pimping at scale. There have been pimps for several thousand years. There have been pimps using blackmail. That's not new. Becoming a billionaire with a private island that way, though - that's new.
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- annoyingnoob 7y agoThat is all about the high profile clientele.
- ColanR 7y agoYou hope it's new. I don't think there's anything that he did that couldn't have been done by someone else in the past 2-3000 years.
- econcon 7y agoHe just proved - to be a billionaire, all you need are billionaire clients or some product which billionaires will pay for.
- Traster 7y ago>“Bank regulators expect applicants to be candid,” Jesus wept. Is this it? That's the level of scrutiny?
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- rukuu001 7y agoI know, right? I read this: "As a bank regulator, I’d be outraged to learn that an applicant had misled me in that way." And laughed out loud. I feel insulted just reading that.
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- readhn 7y agothere is a strong case to be made that Epstein could still be alive. Per interviews with the victims he video recorded EVERYTHING at his properties. Pinhole cameras, CCTVs in bedrooms/showers etc you name it. Chances are in order to protect himself - he had blackmail material on people we all know. If acts described by the victims were secretly taped then those people are royally (pun intended) screwed. Now the real question is - who in the world is capable to pull off an escape from a prison / suicide / body double swap? “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”-Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami. So the answer is - CIA. Epstein's buddy Bill Clinton has a "dirty" drug / CIA connection from his Mena / Arkansas days going back to the 80's (it was widely publicized, refer to the book " Crossfire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation"). CIA is the only organization capable to get Epstein out and safe / get him new identity and help disappear. The truth? We will never know.
- notananthem 7y agooh... wow cool story
- ta999999171 7y agoStory? ha, okay clownshoes.
- Supermancho 7y ago> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alexander-acosta-dodges-when-asked-if-jeffrey-epstein-was-an-intelligence-asset https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alexander-acosta-dod... This is something I had not read before. Thanks for bringing it up.
- analognoise 7y agoI'll bet you're you're fun at parties.
- krick 7y agoLet me wonder aloud here. The story goes that Epstein was a Mossad puppet in an operation that served to control the richest, most powerful and influential, most well-connected people alive, to extent to significantly affect things on global political stage. That operation was successfully going on for decades. (That's impressive, but wouldn't really surprise me, as we know for a fact that some even more impressive success stories of several government intelligence agencies dismissed as "conspiracy stories" for decades turned out to be true.) Then, this very valuable asset (virtually untouchable for some very high-profile people) gets compromised because some nobody accused him of "sexual abuse". There is an investigation, arrest, conviction, yet nothing really leaks, he gets off relatively easy, his masters don't think it is necessary to get rid of him and the whole (pretty public by now, with multiple very famous people low-key-affected) goes on in this messy way for 15 years. After 15 years he suddenly gets arrested again, this time for good, the whole story gets incredibly public, his bosses suddenly (again, 15 years) realise that he is a liability and decide to get rid of him. He gets killed in a cell by Mossad agents, this is staged as a suicide, which is another "conspiracy theory" for a short while, but in the end we all know that Epstein didn't kill himself. Key evidence disappears and the case is covered on multiple levels, leading up to some very high ranks. Ok, there are plenty of really really suspicious inconsistencies in that story already, but here's what really baffles me: how come this very well-organized, lead by world-class professionals and covered up by incredibly influential people (both on the "offending" and "blackmailed" sides) operation gets "cleaned up" in a way such that every fucking couch potato in the internet (HN included) sees that this is obviously staged? Mossad cannot silently get rid of people? I mean, of course everybody (again, HN community members especially included) loves to think they are wa-ay smarter than some Mossad goons and dirty politicians covering this up. But seriously. How can this possibly be so obvious (yet still so mysterious! — we really know nothing in paricluar) unless somebody really wants it to be obvious?
- _Codemonkeyism 7y ago"That's impressive, but wouldn't really surprise me, as we know for a fact that some even more impressive success stories of several government intelligence agencies dismissed as "conspiracy stories" for decades turned out to be true." I would be interested in these, any Wikipedia links?
- nestlequ1k 7y agoAmazing how millions of dollars just disappear and no one knows where it went.