When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion in July 2019, on the day he was arrested for child sex trafficking, agents forced open a large safe to find diamonds, bundles of cash, passports, binders of CDs and hard drives.

But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items. And when they returned with a new one, the safe had been emptied while they were gone - according to FBI documents.

Richard Kahn, Epstein’s accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion’s staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.

After the FBI spoke to Kahn’s then lawyer, Kahn agreed to hand over the suitcases untouched, but he did not want agents coming to his house and declined to say who had told him to remove the items.

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    6 days ago

    Ooh, ooh…I know. Because he’s still alive, and in some kind of witness protection program.

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      Diamonds, passports… These would definitely be useful if you wanted to fake your own death and move to some isolated location to start over.

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        Are we gonna ignore the CDs and harddrives full of videos of famous and rich people fucking children?

        "We seem to have misplaced the warrant for that, we’ll be back in a couple of hours it would be a shame if it somehow disappeared in the meantime…"

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        He was career blackmailer for a foreign intelligence agency, in league with the CIA, actively threatening oligarchs with what he knew, they killed him.

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          No, he’s playing War Games, the fun game of Global Thermonuclear War. Fun for the whole family.

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          Yeah, that was some dipshit who changed his own account name to match the publicly available name of Epstein’s old account.

          The guy didn’t even hack Epstein’s old account, just used the account rename option on his own.

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    Emphasis mine:

    The court documents allege Indyke and Kahn also used another Epstein company registered in the US Virgin Islands to write cheques worth $300,000, made out to young women or to an immigration lawyer involved in helping trafficked women stay in the US.

    Well, the bold part is a euphemism and a half. I’d probably phrase it as “helping Epstein keep/hold trafficked women (edit:) trafficking victims, many of whom were children, in the US,” but that’s just because I realize how insane it is to suggest that attorney helped these women in any meaningful way.

    Their response, by the way:

    Kahn did not write cheques “for young women and/or an immigration lawyer on Epstein’s behalf, as he was not a signatory on any of Epstein’s bank accounts until shortly before Epstein’s death,” said his lawyer Ruzumna.

    Notice how the italicized sections don’t line up and the attorney is completely sidestepping the issue?

    Honestly, even if Kahn an Indyke actually somehow didn’t know anything about the trafficking, that would imply such negligent bookkeeping and legal advisement that it seems like they should be their own crimes. At the absolute least (again, under the insane supposition that they were was blindsided by Epstein’s crimes), they should have to pay back their earnings for the course of their employment to the estate to be held for settlements and never be allowed to work managing money or as an attorney again.

    But realistically, Kahn and Indyke knew exactly what was going on and turned a blind eye to it out of greed and/or their own personal interest in the crimes.

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        Very good point. I didn’t even think about the fact that the trafficking victims were probably children. *For some reason, I assumed they were mostly adult employees who were coerced into silence about witnessing all of the child abuse through control of their passports or something.

        /*probably because the media keep whitewashing it with misleading language. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the BBC is carrying water for pedophiles again. It’s sort of their thing.

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    But an issue with the warrant meant they could not leave with the items

    Then don’t open the safe if you can’t take it’s contents.

    Definitely don’t leave the contents unguarded for 3 days and allow the suspects lawyers to remove evidence from the crime scene.

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    Epstein was no fool.

    Compartmentalization is a thing.

    Did they suspect something was going on? Hell yes.

    Did they ever actually see anything illegal. Hell no.

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    How convenient. I’m sure incriminating information was removed. The fix is in. And his Aides are working for Israeli intelligence and the cia presumably.