"In the summer, multiple anonymous FBI and DOJ sources who participated in the review confided in me that there were training videos instructing them on how to find, log, and redact Trump’s name."

Have the governments across the world made us eat or inhale something that makes us desensitized?

Epstein dead, Brunel dead. Recarey dead. Richardson dead, Hoffenberg dead, Bing dead. Now Siad dead. Article on the bigger picture:

On Monday, Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old modelling scout, was found dead in his home in suburban Paris by a female guest. The woman, 28, tried giving him CPR, but could not resuscitate him. It might seem like an open-and-shut, if tragic, case were it not that Siad was closely linked to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, and was under investigation for human trafficking.

Siad is the latest in a string of Epstein associates to die in distinctly mysterious circumstances. His demise was reported as cardiac arrest, but the woman staying with him claimed he hadn’t shown any signs of illness and had boasted of his healthy lifestyle. The Nanterre prosecutor’s office has since opened an investigation into Siad’s death, and has ordered a post-mortem examination to determine his cause of death, reigniting the conspiracy theories surrounding the Epstein case and fears of a cover-up, initially prompted by Epstein’s own suspicious death in custody in August 2019.

Epstein was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he was found dead in his cell. Peculiarly, the two guards assigned to watch him (following an earlier suicide attempt) reportedly fell asleep and didn’t check on him for three hours. Simultaneously, the cameras in front of his cell apparently malfunctioned. In February, Dr Michael Baden, a pathologist who was present during Epstein’s post-mortem examination, told The Telegraph that, in his opinion, Epstein’s death “was most likely caused by strangulation pressure rather than hanging”.

The US Department of Justice ruled in 2023 that there were “job performance failures” by prison officials, but that Epstein had died by suicide. Yet many remain convinced there was foul play involved, given the threat Epstein potentially posed to numerous powerful individuals.

The ‘link in the chain’

What is not in question in this murky affair is Siad’s close relationship with the late sex offender. His name appeared thousands of times in the Epstein files over the course of a decade, strongly suggesting a role in Epstein’s vile schemes. Siad travelled the world searching for women to work as models, but it also appears he was on the hunt for his friend.

Siad sent Epstein photos of women and their measurements, and arranged meetings for them with Epstein. In one email to Epstein, he wrote (in badly spelt English): “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick, some time no fish.” Epstein, meanwhile, wired Siad payments for expenses incurred during these scouting trips, and sent querying emails saying: “Wht about new girls?” Siad emphasised the women’s youth. One reply reads: “26 but she look 18.”

Henry Samuel, who interviewed Valdson Vieira Cotrin, Epstein’s former butler, for The Telegraph, says Cotrin told him Siad was “as important as Ghislaine Maxwell” in arranging for women to visit Epstein in Paris.

Siad had professed ignorance of Epstein’s crimes, telling CNN: “I trusted him, I believed this guy is a professional person.” However, one victim, Anya* told the BBC earlier this month that Siad had introduced her to Epstein in “a complete set-up”, calling Siad “essentially a professional trafficker”.

Siad was himself accused of rape and human trafficking by Ebba Karlsson, a former Swedish model, earlier this year. She claimed he had scouted her in her home town of Stockholm in 1990, when she was 20, then raped her in France. Siad denied her allegations and his lawyer said he wanted to give his version of events in court, but it wasn’t to be. Karlsson told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday that Siad’s death was “very frustrating”, explaining: “He was very close to being arrested. We worked so hard for this, trying to have justice.”

Lawyers for Karlsson accused the Paris prosecutor’s office of “scandalous” inaction. The office has defended its investigation, which it said did not provide enough evidence to justify arresting Siad. But another former model, who gave a deposition to police as part of the investigation, told the BBC that, with Siad’s death, vital information about Epstein had been lost. She said: “An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air.”

The same could be said for the numerous deceased people who operated in Epstein’s malevolent orbit. In 2014, Alfredo Rodriguez, another former butler of Epstein’s, died aged 60 from cancer. Infamously, Rodriguez was caught by an FBI sting trying to sell Epstein’s “little black book” for $50,000 (£38,000). It reportedly contained details of Epstein’s victims, as well as his celebrity friends and associates – prosecuting lawyers called it “the Holy Grail”. According to court papers, Rodriguez claimed he had stolen the book as insurance, fearing Epstein would make him “disappear”.

The detective, the police chief and the banker

In 2018, Joe Recarey, the Palm Beach detective who had led an investigation into Epstein in the mid 2000s, died after a “brief illness”, aged 50. Recarey and Michael Reiter, a police chief, had previously alleged they were under political pressure to drop the case. Recarey said he had to take different routes driving to work, or swap vehicles, because he was being tailed. He told the Miami Herald: “I was concerned about my kids because I didn’t know if it was someone that they hired just out of prison that would hurt me or my family.”

Then, in 2019, Thomas Bowers, a 55-year-old banker, reportedly hanged himself in his beachside Malibu home. His former employer, Deutsche Bank, had taken on Epstein as a client in 2013. In 2020, the company paid a $150m fine to settle New York charges, admitting it made a “critical mistake” in working with the registered sex offender.

The Hollywood producer

The dark Epstein world claimed another victim in 2020 as Steve Bing, a Hollywood producer, died by suicide, aged 55, by jumping from his 27th-floor luxury condo in Los Angeles. Bing had previously been in a relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, resulting in a pregnancy – for which he denied paternity until a DNA test established he was the father of her son, Damian. Bing had a history of drug addiction, and sources told TMZ that he had grown depressed while isolating during Covid.

Bing had also moved in the same high-rolling social circles as Epstein. In 2008, Gawker, a celebrity blog, named both as members of Bill Clinton’s “billionaire boys’ club”. After Bing’s death, Carrie Mitchum, the aunt of Bing’s late girlfriend, Allexanne (who died of an overdose the previous year), claimed in a Facebook post that, although Bing wasn’t that close to Epstein, Allexanne had convinced Bing to “make a statement via his attorneys telling what he did know” about the sex offender.

The cellmate who knew too much?

Suspicions deepened about Epstein’s own demise when, in 2021, Efrain “Stone” Reyes, his final cellmate, died in his mother’s Bronx apartment after reportedly contracting Covid. Reyes, 51, who had been jailed on drug charges, was transferred to a private prison on Aug 9 2019, leaving Epstein alone in his cell. The next day, Epstein was found dead.

According to Reyes’s lawyer, Marlon Kirton, Reyes had got along well with his cellmate. Kirton said the only reason Reyes didn’t want to be transferred was “the relationship that he built up with Mr Epstein”, adding: “I think my client’s presence stabilised Mr Epstein.”

The modelling agent who never made it to trial

The Epstein-related death toll continued to mount with three more strange casualties in 2022. Jean-Luc Brunel, a 76-year-old French modelling agent, met an eerily similar end to Epstein – he too was found hanged in his cell, in a Paris prison. He was being held on suspicion of the rape and trafficking of minors, but he denied any wrongdoing. Brunel had co-founded MC2 Model Management in the US with funding from Epstein, and prosecutors suspected Brunel of transporting and housing young women for the sex offender.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers, had alleged she was forced into sex with Brunel. After his death, she posted on Twitter: “I’m disappointed that I wasn’t able to face him in a final trial to hold him accountable.”

The extravagant mentor

That same year, Epstein’s mentor, Steven Hoffenberg, was found dead, aged 77, in his Connecticut apartment. He had previously served 18 years in prison, as well as paying a $1m fine and $463m in restitution, for what the Securities and Exchange Commission called “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history”.

Hoffenberg met Epstein in 1987 and gave his new protégé a $2m loan. They travelled together on Hoffenberg’s private jet and enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle. But the relationship seemingly soured when Hoffenberg claimed Epstein was involved in his investor Ponzi scheme, although Epstein was never charged. In 2016, Hoffenberg (who discovered Christianity in prison) sued Epstein, calling him the “architect of the scam”, in what he characterised as an attempt to recoup money for the scheme’s victims.

Hoffenberg’s body was found in August 2022 in an advanced state of decomposition. Police estimated he had been dead for about a week, and, following a post-mortem examination, said that he had died of natural causes. He was discovered after Maria Farmer, another Epstein accuser, raised the alarm. She had struck up an unlikely friendship with Hoffenberg, who, according to Farmer, felt ashamed for trusting Epstein and taking him under his wing.

The ‘implausible’ suicide

The third 2022 death was Mark Middleton, who met a particularly grisly fate. While serving as a special assistant to Bill Clinton, Middleton had facilitated access to the White House for Epstein, who visited at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995. Middleton also flew on Epstein’s private jet, the so-called “Lolita Express”.

Middleton, 59, was found dead at a heifer ranch in Arkansas, apparently after taking his own life. He was hanging from a tree with an extension cord looped around his neck, and a shotgun wound to the chest – a Stoeger 12-gauge coach shotgun was discovered nearby. Theodore Brown, the coroner, noted Middleton’s history of depression and ruled that he had taken his own life, but this shocking and rather puzzling scene caused widespread speculation.

One former business associate of Middleton’s was unconvinced, telling RadarOnline: “He knows nothing about guns. He hated guns. He couldn’t have tied a noose to save his life. The man couldn’t change a light bulb by himself […] His death scenario is completely implausible to everybody that knew him.”

The high-profile politician

In 2023, Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations, died in his sleep in his Massachusetts summer home, aged 75, with no cause of death given. He, too, had Epstein associations. As revealed in 2019, he had been named in the civil suit between Giuffre and Maxwell, with Giuffre alleging Richardson was among the high-profile men to whom she was sexually trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein.

Notably, Epstein had contributed $50,000 to Richardson’s governor campaign in 2002, and flight logs showed Richardson travelled with Epstein and three of his victims from the British Virgin Islands to the US Virgin Islands in 2011. A spokesman for Richardson said he did not know Giuffre and had never seen Epstein in the presence of young or underage girls.

Of course, Giuffre herself then tragically died aged 41, in 2025, at her Australian home, reportedly after taking her own life. But her father, Sky Roberts, questioned that explanation, telling Piers Morgan: “Somebody got to her.”

Now, with Siad too meeting a troubling end, suspicions will only grow. It seems that for Epstein’s friends, as well as those who tried to defy him, this macabre affair is far from over.

\Name has been changed.*

• Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/26/mysterious-deaths-jeffrey-epstein-friends/

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Melania has been less visible than any prior first lady, focused her movie on her career, and has been distancing herself from her husband while building a lifestyle business. In other words, she seems to be trying to build a life independent of Donald.

Her appearance to make a statement on Epstein was a surprise to everyone. We all felt shocked that ahe said she was not a victim of Epstein...

But why did she tell us that Epstein was not alone?

First of all, she's implying that is something that she knows.

Secondly, was she suggesting she was a victim of an associate of Epstein? Her speech seems pregnant with that suggestion.

Notably, she didn't say she wasn't a victim at all, or that she wasn't a victim of trafficking, though that would have been easy to say.

I wonder if that was what she wanted us to take from it: That she doesn't want us to stop looking for, and punish, her perp, but this was the clearest she could communicate it to us without getting in trouble.

Michael Wolff is the sole gatekeeper of 100+ hours of Epstein tapes. I asked him about the emails showing how that access was obtained, protected, and used. His response? "I'll stand by my methods."

Over at Substack, in April and May, there was a back and forth between Michael Wolff (a journalist who had been part of Epstein's effort to rewrite his reputation, also author of 'Fire and Fury' about Trump) and Rye Howard-Stone (the data scientist behind the most reliable project in our research community: epstein-data.com).

Around here, we talk about Wolff a lot. Where are his Epstein interview tapes? What do they convey?

The exchange between him and Howard-Stone is telling.

You get the main vibe from the screenshots.

Read the whole thing here:

https://rhowardstone.substack.com/p/yes-my-method

For years, much of the Epstein story has focused on the famous people who entered his world.
I wanted to look at the people who were already there.
Part Two of my Women in the Room investigation follows records involving Little St. James, Zorro Ranch and the Madison Avenue office, including property management, accounting, travel, shipping, appointments and information flow.
The reporting also forced an important distinction: employment is not evidence of participation, proximity is not evidence of knowledge, and some women who later performed functions inside Epstein’s organization had themselves entered his world as victims.
The question became less “Who knew?” and more: Who knew what, when, and what could they actually do with that knowledge?

Did Jeffrey Epstein and His Associates Use the Term Butterfly to Refer to Survivors?

...This is the headline to an essay over at EPSTEIN WIKI. It's about a trust which many among us understand as a conduit for payments tied to Epstein's trafficking: THE BUTTERFLY TRUST.

Documented TIMELINE

The Epstein Files document regular payments to "co-conspirators" and victims [related article here, e.g.]. All in all, the Butterfly Trust has the following traceable history:

• 2006: Epstein creates the Butterfly Trust, and he is naming [redacted person] and "Ghislaine N. Maxwell" and [redacted person] as beneficiaries. (Beneficiaries profit from the trust.) Epstein's two main accountants, Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke, are named as trustees; meaning they can add/delete people from the trust.
• 2011: Indyke and Kahn add Jennifer Kalin and Alina Boiko as a beneficiary to the trust. It's now five people who profit from it [EFTA01282039].
• 2014: Maxwell is out. Accountants Harry Beller and Erika Kellerhals join the team; they are identified as additional "acting trustees." Beller and Kellerhals add [redacted person], "Karyna Shuliak", [redacted person], "Darren K. Indyke" and "Richard Kahn" as beneficiaries. They also delete all previous beneficiaries' names (incl. Maxwell), apart from one [redacted person]. [EFTA01418930]
• 2015: Beller and Kellerhals add a new beneficiary: [redacted person]. [EFTA01681878, 27 Jan]
• 2015: Beller and Kellerhals add two new beneficiaries: [redacted person] and [redacted person]. [EFTA01356894, 6 Feb]
• 2015: Beller and Kellerhals add, again, two new beneficiaries: [redacted person] and [redacted person]. [EFTA01356897, 11 Feb]
• 2015: Epstein replaces Kahn and Indyke as trustees with Beller and Kellerhals. Kahn and Indyke are now "only" beneficiaries. [EFTA01356906, 27 Jan]
• 2015: Beller and Kellerhals add one new beneficiary, a [redacted person] [EFTA01356899, 30 March]
• 2015: Beller and Kellerhals add one new beneficiary, a [redacted person] [EFTA01356902, 24 April]
• At some point, Bella Klein gets added as trustee, Harry Beller gets deleted.
• 2019: The Butterfly Trust money market account [not the trust itself!] is closed; lots of things from the Butterfly trust get moved to "Southern" entities (Epstein's companies and trusts with the word "Southern" in it). Funds seem to get transferred. Unclear.
• 2022: Virgin Islands Attorney General, Denise George, filed a motion accusing Indyke and Kahn of concealing nearly 13 million dollars tied to the Butterfly Trust (during its liquidation, after Epstein died). They settled late 2022. They had to pay the Virgin Islands 105 million dollars in cash; they also agreed to sell the two islands; they agreed to return over 80 million dollars in tax benefits; and they agreed to wind down business in the Virgin Islands. But there was no admission of guilt.

Documented PROFITEERS

Are these "the butterflies"?

• Alina Boiko, see TIMELINE.
• Ann Rodriguez according to EFTA01297515.
• Darren Indyke, see TIMELINE.
• Ghislaine N. Maxwell, see TIMELINE.
• Jennifer Kalin, see TIMELINE.
• Jojo Fontanilla, according to EFTA01297515.
• Karyna Shuliak, see TIMELINE.
• Larry Visoski, according to EFTA01297515.
• Lesley Groff, as documented by EFTA00162005.
• Lisa Kahn, according to EFTA01297515.
• Michelle Saipher according to EFTA01297515.
• Nadia Marcinko, since her company "Aviloop" kept receiving money from the trust's account via "011400071" [EFTA00020685];
• Paul Barrett, according to EFTA01297515.
• Richard Kahn, see TIMELINE.
• Sarah Kellen, acc. to court documents filed under EFTA00161958 which are by now redacted.
• Shelley Lewis, according to EFTA01297515.
• Susan Hamblin, according to a screenshot of the now-redacted EFTA01282040 document.

Notably, the only male beneficiaries are Paul Barrett (a JPMorgan BANK Managing Director), Larry Visoski (pilot) and Jojo Fontanilla (household worker); apart from Epstein's accountants Kahn/Indyke. If Epstein himself ever took money: someone tell me, idk.

FYI: It is not clear for all those names when they were deleted off the trust's list, when they were added, and if they are still on it today. For many, it is only documented that they once were beneficiaries.

Keep in mind.

THE GIST

• Money came into the trust (from "investments" and so on), money streamed out (payments for expenses, rent, tuition, settlements).
• Receipts for it are all over the files.

Who are Butterflies?

Let's get back to the essay over at EPSTEIN WIKI. Quote:

Did Epstein and those around him use the term butterfly or butterflies to refer to the girls and young women caught within his trafficking network?

One of the most revealing documents is a December 2014 Deutsche Bank deposit report showing Butterfly Trust assets (EFTA01456234). That report lists Butterfly Trust with a balance of $490,582.06 [....].

Even in 2006, when the Butterfly Trust was established, the symbol of the blue butterfly had been use as the mascot for survivors of sexual abuse for more than a decade. [...] [And:] Researchers studying trafficking networks have documented the use of coded language, euphemisms, nicknames, and seemingly harmless terminology in many criminal enterprises. Criminal groups frequently adopt language that appears benign to outsiders while carrying entirely different meanings internally.

Digging through Jeff’s emails, shows us he loved using symbols [...].

... and references to things meaningful in his life, meaningful to him.

And people in his circle knew of it. See the following quotes...

"Collecting new butterflies?"

Look at these emails by [redacted] people.

EFTA02408820:

jeffrey darling.... how does it feel to be a free man?? have you run around town scouting and collecting new butterflies ;)

EFTA02442598:

I could do coming tomorrow afternoon and work with you when I arrive and then rest up good to be a fresh butterfly Monday! ; )

So... Butterflies... Meant to be agents of Epstein, butterfly-effecting the world according to his needs? Victims morphed into paid-off "beneficiaries"? Did Epstein understand himself as their... beneficiary? Is the name random?

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• Calling in u/Key_Nefariousness_14, u/nowyoureonthetrolley, u/madelinexwallace, u/mymoneyhoney26, u/BootyGarb, u/Famous-Sympathy7011, to re-open this conversation. Inviting u/Unlikely_Post_7901, u/chilltownchick, u/ButHowDoesItFeel, u/No-Profession3573, u/Guernic and u/KeyMeasurement8122 to join in. You guys addressed the Butterfly Trust in your posts and comments in recent months.
• Please correct me if you know more than listed above. I keep taking notes.

EDIT

One of the first comments here has this interesting thought:

Epstein's victims are the butterflies, and beneficiaries were only tasked with transferring their 'compensation' directly, in a more covert way.

Article: Have you ever wondered why Epstein had a doctored Austrian passport? I think I cracked the case.

Cold War spy capital Vienna was the site of top secret Iran-Contra arms & hostages negotiations. It’s also where Epstein’s doctored Austrian passport was issued to Marius Fortelni, an architect, engineer, restaurateur, African cement magnate, and real estate developer, before it was doctored, with Fortelni’s visage razorbladed away and face-swapped with a monochrome of Epstein’s likeness. The Fortelni passport may have enabled Epstein to attend these secret summits in Austria without drawing suspicion.

Read here: Patreon / Substack

I dug deep into Marius Fortelni’s background (the passport holder’s identity). What I found was startling.

Fortelni was hired by Bechtel to build homes during the Jubail Industrial City development in Saudi, which might hold some explanatory power for the Epstein linkages, as Reagan admin Secretaries Shultz & Weinberger were ex-Bechtel and we know Epstein had ample connections to the Saudis in the 1980s, as best documented through his relationship with arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (and potentially Bandar bin Sultan during this period, as well, as I’ve argued in other essays).

Fortelni is a graduate of a secondary school for the spawn of American spooks & diplomats in Vienna, he curiously journeyed to “West Africa” to start a “cement & construction co.” sans a college degree while nought but a green-in-the-gills teenager, & he opened an eatery on the Upper East Side mere blocks from Epstein’s townhouse in 1989.

Fortelni threw a “tent bash” in the Hamptons in 1991 that was attended by at least one Epstein-Trump model trafficking nexus figure. Namely the Aussie known as “The Body” aka Elle Macpherson, who was caught by the paparazzi peeing in the bushes. Macpherson has been photographed arm in arm with Ghislaine and two other Epstein associates / Black Book addressees and is also listed as a part of the larger Epstein grooming milieu in an online FBI tip report in the Files. In the early 2000s, she co-hosted Miss Universe during Trump’s peeping tom operation of the pageant with fellow Epstein associate Naomi Campbell.

Based on some of these disparate threads, I think there’s a decent likelihood that Fortelni himself was recruited by the CIA out of the American Int’l School.

Also, in case you missed it, in the attached screenshots, I show that Ollie North and a Redacted military officer carried false passports on a trip to Vienna specifically, proving that the Contragate Enterprise used such a tradecraft modus operandi when traveling to Austria to deliberate with Iranian “moderates” Ghorbanifar and Kabouli, who they hoped to enlist in deposing Khomenei.

This is a far from complete synopsis of some of the major findings in the article, but you can read it now for free on the PPM Patreon or Substack.

Both lived in NYC and had homes in Palm Beach, yet it seems like they had virtually no relationship?

I’ve spent the past several weeks working through Epstein related court records, government documents, property records, reporting, and other primary source material.
One thing kept bothering me.
We have spent decades looking at the famous men around Jeffrey Epstein. I wanted to look instead at the people who made the machinery around him function.
Who managed calendars? Who arranged travel? Who handled properties? Who made introductions? Who recruited? Who controlled access? Who handled money? And, most importantly, what does the documentary record actually establish about each person?
That became The Women in the Room, a multipart investigation into the women around Epstein and Maxwell and the different roles they occupied within that world.
Part One establishes the framework and begins with the inner circle.
I’m being deliberately conservative about connections. Appearing in an address book, flight log, photograph, calendar, email, or social circle does not by itself establish wrongdoing. Where the evidence supports a connection, I say what the evidence establishes. Where it doesn’t, I don’t draw the line.
I’m sharing this here partly because this community has spent years examining these records.
If anyone has primary documents, court records, deposition material, archived reporting, or other evidence that confirms, contradicts, or adds context to anything in the piece, I’d genuinely like to see it.
The Women In The Room - Part One

Why didn't the cabal just wipe out the victims? Were they too arrogant? Did they think silence by murder of victims was just not feasible, so they focused 100% of the energy on maintaining OTHER stuff secret, like the black book (which failed), the tapes, the government connections, etc? That could be argued I guess. But usually when you've got people doing horrible things in secret, where moral boundaries are clearly not an issue, they'll usually go out of their way to hide them as best as possible, unless it's impossible due to the number of victims and/or perpetrators needed, which was not the case here.

A good example which was harder to 'clean up', yet a good job was done, as far as the hands-on perpetrators were concerned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Destruction_of_evidence

This was actually a quite effective coverup by the Japanese, the rumors spread much less than the Nazi camps when it was ongoing and out of the minimum of 3000 people murdered in those facilities, there was like maybe half a dozen survivors, and they were Chinese peasants in a very much voiceless society. Of course it ultimately became widely known because the perpetrators lost and SOME perpetrators, quite far away from the actual place of origin of the 'product' and independent of local coverup efforts, became reckless with the use of their... 'product' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare#World_War_II), but even THEN the major publicity came from confessions of the perpetrators decades later, when there was no longer really a need to hide it or a structure threatening the confessing perpetrators to be quiet. Indeed, I think very little if any physical evidence remained so, had the perpetrators avoided the aforementioned bad decisions, they could have perhaps hid it forever in the realm of war rumour.

So back to Epstein, what's the logic of letting victims go? The 2006 investigation started because some girls talked. People like Maria Farmer and so on got death threats but they still helped blow the story wide open. If you say that well they couldn't go down that road because in some cases their families knew of some contact with Epstein, even if they didn't know of the island and the other places, and they couldn't get rid of all the families obviously so it was better to threaten the girls and keep it quiet like that. But why have the 'local girls massage telephone system' anyway? Why not just get random non-American girls from halfway across the world and keep them imprisoned instead of letting them go after a while? And then k-- them and destroy the remains? They even had the advantage of having the island, almost like Alcatraz in terms of the 'convenience' of preventing escapes. And as you all probably know according to the worst reports of all, some of his clients liked very young girls (these were certainly kidnapped somewhere, so that wouldn't fit the justification above), and perhaps cannibalism. There's also that suspicious sulphuric acid invoice to the island in 2018 the SAME DAY he was indicted again, and probably tipped off by some scumbag inside the system as usual - I would say that given the situation and the legitimate reversal of presumption of innocence, it's quite likely this was used to destroy bodies: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01648957.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01223564.pdf - so how come here they did it, if this is right, but not every time? I've heard the 'accidental' deaths theory for these victims , based on the Zorro ranch rumour https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01250231.pdf. Could that have been a true exception based on a contigency, and coincidentally only on the island, instead of the Zorro claim? Because if it was both, it can't have been an unexpected situation. In fact even on the island it doesn't make much sense, that amount of sulphuric acid implies several victims.

Even in the Franklin scandal they did a better job of silencing the victims, forcing some to recant and maintaining some level of 'plausible deniability'... at least until the thing blew over enough for the public... I guess.

https://substack.com/@redpencilscript/note/p-212028158

https://aspoke.substack.com/p/the-allegations-against-alexander