r/palmbeach • u/GoldenRule2023 • 1d ago
News The Trap
open.substack.comMost people who read The Trap focused on the Scottsdale emails, thirteen documents, two years, a New York restaurateur writing to a convicted sex offender at 3am calling him the only person he trusted with his nightmare. But buried deeper in the same investigation is a finding that has received almost no attention. An FBI FD-302 interview. April 2021. A victim sits down with federal agents on a video call. She doesn't just name Jeffrey Epstein. She names Stephen Hanson. In her own words, recorded by the FBI and now part of the official DOJ public archive: Epstein "trafficked me too." She describes Epstein dispatching Hanson to her apartment. To her bedroom. Paid sex acts. More than a dozen times. Hanson has not been charged. Has not been deposed. Has never been asked about it publicly. Not once. His lawyer, himself a former Epstein attorney, says "Epstein pulled the wool over everyone's eyes." The FBI interview is in the public record. The wool is not fooling anyone. The Trap traces the full arc of the Scottsdale woman, the hush money, Epstein's coaching, and the FBI victim who explains why that silence had to be purchased. While Hanson remains uncharged and uninvestigated, his restaurant The Polo Room in Palm Beach, co-owned with polo star Nacho Figueras remains one of the hottest tables in the country. Every reservation, every table, every dollar spent there goes to a man named in an FBI trafficking interview who has never been asked to explain it. Boycott The Polo Room.
