I feel like I am far from a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t get how this Epstein fiasco is not the ongoing story of the century. Millionaire pedophile-playboy, who has no clear records of how he obtained his wealth, with ties to worldwide nobility ends up dead by purported suicide... with no real apparent followup by law enforcement. It is so weird.
In this case news was clearly not maximizing views. The outlet which broke the Jeffrey Epstein story would have secured major eyeballs and journalistic honors. There were other influences at play.
This has to run so deep though, if it is a cover-up. I am a small-fry attorney working for the Dept. of Justice in a small state, in tiny counties, on cases that are of minuscule magnitude compared to the Epstein case(s)... but if I tried to cover up even a tiny legal misstep: multiple attorneys, judges, coworkers, and clients would report me (appropriately) to my state bar, the state’s newspaper, local officials, etc... and everyone would know about my errors in no-time at all.
But we know nothing but vague allusions to the scope of Epstein’s misdeeds after years (decades?) of investigations?? I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
> This has to run so deep though, if it is a cover-up.
This reminds of the film JFK, from 1991, that retells the story around the JFK assassination. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal film that really, really hit me hard. It's 3 hours and 9 minutes long but I watched it all the way through in one sitting.
It follows the true, real story of a district attorney who looks into details around the event shortly after it happened and gets the exact same feeling as you, where he looks around wonders whether he's taking crazy pills or if everyone else is taking crazy pills. So he goes deeper and tries to find out which is the case...
"He began his professional life as a teacher but then switched to the banking and finance sector in various roles, working at Bear Stearns before forming his own firm"
My wild guess is that he became disillusioned with the work hard and you will succeed mantra, and realised what many others before him realised, it's all about contacts. So he gave billionaires the one thing they couldn't easily get access to: models. And some of those would be underage he would have immense leverage against them.
"He ran a money management firm catering to the ultra-rich, primarily for Victoria’s Secret mogul Les Wexner."
I think the results speak for themselves. It worked great for him. So how do we fix this semi-broken system, is there anything we can do to prevent this happening again?
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 29.4 ms ] threadBut we know nothing but vague allusions to the scope of Epstein’s misdeeds after years (decades?) of investigations?? I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
This reminds of the film JFK, from 1991, that retells the story around the JFK assassination. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal film that really, really hit me hard. It's 3 hours and 9 minutes long but I watched it all the way through in one sitting.
It follows the true, real story of a district attorney who looks into details around the event shortly after it happened and gets the exact same feeling as you, where he looks around wonders whether he's taking crazy pills or if everyone else is taking crazy pills. So he goes deeper and tries to find out which is the case...
Highly recommend this film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/
My wild guess is that he became disillusioned with the work hard and you will succeed mantra, and realised what many others before him realised, it's all about contacts. So he gave billionaires the one thing they couldn't easily get access to: models. And some of those would be underage he would have immense leverage against them.
"He ran a money management firm catering to the ultra-rich, primarily for Victoria’s Secret mogul Les Wexner."
I think the results speak for themselves. It worked great for him. So how do we fix this semi-broken system, is there anything we can do to prevent this happening again?