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The Widely Anticipated Epstein Documents: Bombshell or Dud?
Initial impressions of the Jeffery Epstein files

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*reposted with permissions from The Post-Liberal

Dozens of prominent figures, including politicians, nobility, and renowned scientists, were recently identified in court documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein that were previously classified but made public late Wednesday.

The documents submitted in the 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, an accuser of Epstein, against Ghislaine Maxwell, the “madam” of the deceased sex offender, contained allusions to notable individuals such as Prince Andrew, former President Bill Clinton, and Stephen Hawking, among others.

Wednesday, the Southern District of New York issued a collection of forty documents pertaining to a civil proceeding that involved Jeffrey Epstein. John Solomon’s outlet Just the News compiled the documents for public consumption, you can read them below:

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For those of you don’t have the time or inclination to pour over legal documents, anonymous legal analyst Techno Fog’s thread on X provided the perfect overview of the files, an assessment that was endorsed by former national Security Advisor and DIA director LTG Michael Flynn.

The first object of interest in the thread is the revelation that John Doe #36 is indeed former president Bill Clinton.

Additionally, witness testimony claiming that Bill Clinton “likes them young” is provided.

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One of the deceitful yet unsurprising tactics of the deep political establishment is to make things seem bigger and more relevant than they really are, and Techno Fog suggests that they have made an effort to do that with the hype leading up to these documents release.

The thread posits that influencers and media attempted to inflate the perceived relevance of the files by making it seem as though the numerous J-Doe’s would all be unmasked, high-profile Epstein associates; the reality was that many of the J-Doe’s were merely Doctor’s and witnesses.

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Testimony regarding Prince Andrew claims that Maxwell and Epstein put the randy Prince’s hand on a minor’s (17 years old) breast.

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It was also divulged that Michael Jackson was present at Jeffery Epstein’s Palm Beach home, though it is uncertain what capacity he was there in. When the witness was asked if she had provided Jackson with a massage she replied “i did not.”

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Among the high-profile individuals mentioned in the documents was Billionaire Thomas Pritzker, a member of one of the United States’ richest families, the Chicago Pritzker family (the current governor of Illinois is a Pritzker), and chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, the family’s historical merchant bank. He is also chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.. He is also a member of the notorious Aspen Institute, a nonprofit think tank widely held to be a Deep State surrogate institution.

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Additional names mentioned include the magician David Copperfield, Stephan Hawking, Leslie Wexner, Al Gore, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, AI pioneer Marvin Minsky (who received a 100,000 grant from Epstein), Glenn Dubin, Kevin Spacey, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Long time readers should be aware that this establishment or “Deep State” interweaves through the Justice department, the Mainstream Media, the various alphabet agencies, and includes the administrative state within the Executive Branch as well.

The big fear with this document release is that it is merely an attempt to placate the greater public’s hunger for further Justice without really doing much of anything besides affirming information most of us have known since 2018. It can also be seen as the compromised Department of Justice publicly giving itself a pat on the back in an attempt to maintain it’s credibility.

These are just my initial thoughts, having skimmed the files, gone through the Techno Fog thread and a handful of additional articles. More updates and musings will be provided as more information comes out.

The Epstein Document Release Will Commence Today in a Federal Court in New York
This confirmation follows uncertainty regarding the release date of the documents subsequent to an appeal filed by one of the J. Does referenced in the case.

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A federal court in New York told John Solomon’s Just the News that the disclosure of unsealed documents in the civil case involving Jeffrey Epstein will commence on Wednesday.

The statement contradicts earlier news reports that the documents, which were expected to be made public on Tuesday, would be withheld for an additional thirty days.

According to a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York, prior information that the dissemination would be delayed until January 22 was unfounded. He stated that the highly anticipated document release is slated to commence today.

The spokesperson clarified that the release would only exclude the names of those who have requested the continued sealing of their personal information.

More than 175 identities of individuals mentioned in a civil suit filed by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims against Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, are anticipated to be exposed in the dump of unsealed documents.

It was previously reported by ABC News that former President Bill Clinton is identified as J. Doe 36 in the court documents. Additionally, the Wall Street Journal previously identified a number of individuals with whom Epstein met and interacted.

The recent filing in the case, in which Judge Loretta Preska granted a 30-day extension to one of the named parties, J. Doe 107, appears to be the source of the confusion regarding the timeline.\

Doe 107 requested her name remain redacted when the documents are unsealed because “she lives outside the United States in a culturally conservative country and lives in fear of her name being released,” according to the letter provided to the court by her attorney. The letter cited potential “risks of physical harm” to Doe 107 in her country.

The filing indicates that Judge Preska granted approval to the request.

“Doe 107’s request for a 30-day extension is approved. Doe 107 shall, by January 22, 2024, submit to the Court for in camera review an affidavit (1) supporting her assertion that she faces a risk of physical harm in her country of residence and (2) providing detail concerning the hate mail she has received,” Preska wrote.

While Doe 107 is not specifically referenced in Preska’s December 18 order to unseal the identities of the individuals involved in the case, the individual’s attorney stated in his letter that he intended to submit supplementary materials to bolster the case’s case-specific sealing of his clients’ information.

This individual petition will not impede the scheduled publication of the names, per SDNY.

Michigan Supreme Court Maintains Trump’s Presence on the 2024 Primary Ballot

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Former President Donald Trump was reinstated to the Republican presidential primary ballot in Michigan on Wednesday, as the state’s highest court declined to hear an appeal to disqualify him.

The court denied the appeal in a concise order, stating that it was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court.”

Trump expressed his approval of the ruling in a Wednesday post on Truth Social, stating, “The Michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the Desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, me, off the ballot in the Great State of Michigan.”

Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court excluded Trump from the state’s primary ballot on the grounds that his participation in an uprising against the country (despite never being charged let alone convicted) restricts him from holding federal office under the insurrection clause of the United States Constitution. The ruling was pledged to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Trump.

A dissenter from the majority was Justice Elizabeth Welch, one of the four justices nominated by the Democratic Party to comprise the seven-member Michigan Supreme Court.

She contended that although she would affirm the Court of Appeals’ decision that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is not obligated to ascertain the eligibility of a presidential primary candidate, such a high court ruling would enable “appellants to renew their legal efforts as to the Michigan general election later in 2024 should Trump become the Republican nominee for president of the United States or seek such office as an independent candidate.”

Presidential Immunity Case: The Supreme Court Will Not Hear Immediately Despite Jack Smith’s Speed Plea
A ruling in favor of former President Donald Trump has prevented the Supreme Court of the United States from hearing his case for presidential immunity immediately.

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On Friday, the high court denied Smith’s request for an expedited review. Consequently, the case will proceed through the customary proceedings in the appeals court and will likely ultimately reach the SCOTUS.

This outcome represents a triumph for Trump and a substantial setback for Smith, who is pressed for time to present Trump to a preponderantly Democratic jury prior to the election.

According to polling, a conviction could cost Trump millions of votes, and if he fails to appeal the conviction by November, there is a possibility that it will harm his campaign on Election Day. The timing of Smith’s prosecution has been characterized by Trump as “election interference,” an effort to manipulate the forthcoming presidential election.

The SCOTUS denied an immediate review of Trump’s presidential immunity claims less than two weeks after Smith initially requested that the justices ascertain expeditiously whether Trump could be legally prosecuted on the charges pertaining to January 6. Those charges allege that Trump allegedly attempted to tamper with the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to stay in power,” the indictment claims. “So for more than two months following Election Day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election that he actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew they were false.”

In that particular case, Trump was indicted on four counts. “One of obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; one of conspiracy to defraud the United States; one of conspiracy against rights; and one on obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.”

Smith, attempting to stick to his ideal trial date of March 4, 2024, is requesting an expeditious review of the case out of concern that it may be postponed until 2025, following the presidential election.

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“It is of imperative public importance that respondent’s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court and that respondent’s trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected,” the prosecutors implored.

However, Trump’s attorneys pushed back on Smith’s request:

Importance does not automatically necessitate speed. If anything, the opposite is usually true. Novel, complex, sensitive, and historic issues — such as the existence of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts — call for more careful deliberation, not less.

They argued that SCOTUS adoption of the case is unnecessary “before the lower courts complete their review.”

 

At Least Six Suspicious Activity Reports Were Lodged by Banks with Joe Biden’s Residence Listed, According to Senator

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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin spent years investigating the first family’s finances and now claims that banks submitted a minimum of six reports pertaining to Hunter Biden’s international business dealings. These reports highlighted the Delaware address of President Joe Biden and sparked concerns regarding potential criminal activity such as money laundering and even human trafficking.

Thursday night, as the ranking Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Johnson disclosed to John Soloman’s outlet Just the News that the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) documented transactions totaling approximately $12 million over multiple years, with a portion of those funds traversing Joe Biden’s residence in Wilmington, Del., where he had granted permission for his son to reside.

Johnson stated that Joe Biden would have undoubtedly detected his son’s use of his residence as a business and banking address, if only by observing the mail that arrived at the address. Further, he stated that there are ample reasons for House impeachment investigators to suspect Joe Biden of collusion in his son’s international dealings. Next week, the House will consider whether to formally authorize an impeachment investigation.

“There’d be so much activity coming into his address, in this case, Hunter Biden’s businesses, that he obviously would have to be aware,” Johnson claimed. “So, again, I just use the word obvious, It has been so obvious for so long, that Biden Inc. is a corrupt enterprise. And that this president is corrupt, that he is compromised.

“And he fully was aware of this, that he fully benefited from it. The members of his family benefited from all these millions of dollars flowing in from countries that are adversarial to America,” he added.

A few hours prior to the unsealing of a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden in federal court in California by Special Counsel David Weiss, Johnson made this revelation. The indictment accuses Biden of engaging in a years-long tax evasion scheme, wherein he avoided paying $1.4 million in federal taxes on millions in foreign incomes originating from countries such as China, Ukraine, and Romania.

According to the indictment, “Rather than pay his taxes, the Defendant spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle.”

Johnson, in conjunction with OG Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), conducted a two-year investigation into the Biden family scandal. The investigation concluded in 2020 that Joe Biden’s family amassed millions of dollars in foreign currency from adversarial nations, thereby jeopardizing the first family’s national security. Johnson is one of the most knowledgeable members of Congress regarding the matter.

Since then, revelations from House investigators, IRS whistleblowers, and subpoenaed documents have only served to heighten Johnson’s concerns, he stated on Thursday.

“They (Biden family) did nothing for it (the money) other than they had the right name. And they were influence peddling. And the people paying these millions expected favors in return, some kind of public policy coming from the former vice president and maybe even a potential president of the United States. Now they got him. Now he’s compromised.”

Johnson stated that his team has been assisting House impeachment investigators and will provide the SAR-derived information regarding Joe Biden’s residence.

“We found six of the Treasury reports on Hunter Biden, listing his suspicious activities,” Johnson said. “The money flows in those reports are over $12 million. Now, there might be double counting in there, you just don’t really know exactly what the activity is. These reports are really meant to obviously raise awareness to prompt further investigation, which of course this Department of Justice, FBI, I don’t think did an honest job of doing.”

“But it does point out we know what’s suspicious about them and there are terms like money laundering, human trafficking, those types, that that’s why these transactions raise suspicion,” he continued. “I mean, Hunter Biden has dozens and dozens and dozens of these Treasury reports that are concerned about suspicious activities he’s undertaking in terms of money transfers. I mean, this is, again, it’s just to me, it just underscores and confirms the criminal nature, the corrupt nature of Biden family, Inc.”

Inquirers from Congress claim they have not identified over 150 SARs that have been lodged involving Biden family businesses and associates for nearly a decade. While Hunter Biden has faced charges related to firearms and taxes, it is noteworthy that neither he nor his father have ever faced formal accusations in court regarding money laundering or human trafficking. However, IRS witnesses have testified before Congress that concerns about a foreign human trafficking operation prompted the tax investigation into Hunter Biden.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) states that a Suspicious Activity notification is submitted “to report known or suspected violations of law or suspicious activity observed by financial institutions subject to the regulations of the Bank Secrecy Act.”

Prior to the September 2020 presidential election, it was reported that Senate committees chaired by Grassley and Johnson had obtained SARs detailing concerns raised by FinCEN regarding a number of foreign transactions involving companies connected to Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden’s work for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the millions of dollars he was paid for his board seat were detailed in the report by Grassley and Johnson. The Senators emphasized in particular how Hunter Biden’s work intersected with his father’s, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s, administration of official U.S. policy in Ukraine.

A $3.5 million wire from the widow of a Russian oligarch and Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Ye Jianming, an energy executive with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, were also detailed in the report.

The Daily Mail had previously reported that it had reviewed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) issued by the Treasury Department. These SARs allegedly indicate that payments from Hunter Biden’s personal and business accounts were monitored as late as December 2019 and that payments from those accounts were linked to an “Eastern European prostitution ring.”

Wells Fargo identified 25 individuals associated with the foreign prostitution operation and approximately $7 million in suspicious transactions, including checks from Hunter Biden that “could have been forged to conceal his payments to prostitutes from his business account,” as reported by the Daily Mail.

In addition, documents from IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler that were made public by the House Ways and Means Committee revealed that Hunter Biden spent money on escorts and claimed tax deductions for a portion of those payments. An investigator conducted an interview with one of Hunter Biden’s accountants and an alleged escort who described an encounter with the younger Biden for these documents.

Furthermore, it was testified by the IRS whistleblowers that they informed the Justice Department about a possible Mann Act violation while investigating Hunter Biden’s tax evasion. The Mann Act prohibits the interstate transportation of females “for the purpose of prostitution, debauchery, or any sexual activity that may result in criminal liability for any individual.”

Joe Biden’s residence has been linked to Hunter Biden’s dubious transactions on multiple occasions for this reason. Hunter Biden received two wire transfers from China in 2019 totaling $250,000 and $10,000, according to records of bank wires obtained by the House Oversight Committee in September.

James Comer, R-Kentucky, chairman of oversight, stated that two wires originating from China designated the Wilmington address of Joe Biden as the recipient. These payments were transmitted during Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

“Bank records don’t lie, but President Joe Biden does,”  Comer said in a press release at the time. “In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China. We’ve already proved that to be a lie earlier this year, and now we know that two wires originating from Beijing listed Joe Biden’s Wilmington home as the beneficiary address when he was running for President of the United States.”

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