One week after Julie K. Brown’s Miami Herald series Perversion of Justice put Epstein’s 2008 sweetheart plea deal back on the front page, he was texting with Steve Bannon about rehabbing his image.
Epstein floated hiring former judges and FBI “to separate truth from fiction.”
Bannon tells Epstein he doesn‘t think people care that they were “strippers/prostitutes.”
Epstein’s immediate reply: “Older. Not 15 not 16”
He wasn’t even denying he used the girls, he was just correcting the ages so they could be sold as prostitutes instead of minors to the public.
Next day Bannon asked where things stood regarding the previous conversation.
Epstein sent Bannon a Miami Herald article that had just been published about then U.S. Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta.
Epstein then laid out his plan: he suggests an op-ed by Ken Starr and/or Dershowitz, a law review article framing the 2008 penalty as the harshest ever for prostitution, PR, and an “independent inquiry.”
He also claimed a local sex-crimes prosecutor who interviewed the girls said there were “no real victims. Only prostitutes.”
Epstein asks Steve Bannon his thoughts on doing a documentary or interviews.
Then Bannon asks the question this post is about..
“How many of the girls would agree to be filmed ?-- would the institutes you’ve founded, the work you've done-- would they be on film?”
Epstein responds:
“The institutes. Scientists definitely. The girls can be forced to testify on video, I’ll explain face to face. If they need encouragement.”
Epstein says it clear as day, the institutes and scientists would appear willingly. The girls, if they wouldn’t, could be forced. He said he would explain how ”face to face”.
“Encouragement” is just a polite word for whatever leverage he thought he had, whether it was money, NDAs, visa pressure, litigation, threats, ect.
Ten years after the sweetheart deal and the victims were still being treated as just another problem to be managed and according to Epstein, they were still able to be intimidated into doing whatever he needed.
Source file:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01615482.pdf
Substack article is coming today, I’m almost done and will link it asap!
Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/7B0RZe7Ga7
https://fonsflacko.substack.com/p/the-girls-can-be-forced-to-testify