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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

I am a retired lawyer. You guys are the kind of advocates/lawyers that I originally WANTED to be. Thank you so much for not sacrificing your ideals for money.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Were any of the co-conspirators cops? Members of the media?

Were all the Guiffre co-workers at the Mar a Lago spa, where she worked as a minor, questioned? The customers? The owner? If so, where are the investigation reports?

Trump associates are funding attacks on the Congressional Republicans seeking to open the Epstein records. Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson has been accused by Republican Representative Thomas Massie of being named in Epstein's "black book." Massie made the comments during an interview on Democracy Now! while discussing the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, which he co-sponsored with Democratic Representative Ro Khanna.

in Epstein's 2008 plea agreement were:

Sarah Kellen: Named as a potential co-conspirator and allegedly helped schedule massages and keep records of potential victims. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11780745/news/

Nadia Marcinko: Named as a potential co-conspirator and accused of participating in sexual encounters with minors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCX_GYd_EWw

Adriana Ross: Named as a potential co-conspirator who allegedly helped organize Epstein's predatory sessions. Adriana Ross (also known as Adriana Mucinska) was a Polish model and one of Jeffrey Epstein's key assistants, named as a potential co-conspirator in his sex trafficking operation. She was allegedly involved in recruiting young girls for Epstein and assisting with his illegal activities. According to statements from other Epstein staff, Ross helped remove computers and other evidence from Epstein's Florida home before a 2005 police raid.

Lesley Groff: Named as a potential co-conspirator who allegedly coordinated travel for young girls. https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1634648163/the-true-crime-tapes/core-4-lesley-groff-and-how-the-doj-looked-the-other-way-72225

Why are they not subpoenaed? https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/09/03/jeffrey-epstein-case-these-4-women-might-know-about-any-client-list/85937418007/

Da Plane.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-trial-pilot-rodgers-testimony-1268678/

Megan Rothery's avatar

Reach out to as many House reps as you can about the Epstein files. This is bigger than a “I only represent my constituents” issue.

Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️‍🩹🤍💙

Sandra Wallace's avatar

Thank you. A very useful link. Much appreciated.

"Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble)"

Patricia Williamson's avatar

We don't have to worry. Trump was actually an FBI informant, and I'm the real Queen of England.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Well.. if your the Queen then I, of course, am the Czar of All the Russias🤡

BF's avatar

Ben, please call upon all patriotic, ethical members of the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and very importantly, Foreign Intelligence Organizations who have any knowledge of EACH PERSON who VICTIMIZED girls & women via the MAXWELL, EPSTEIN SEX SLAVERY SYNDICATE to reveal all they know.

We already have evidence that EVIDENCE in possession of the FBI & DOJ is BEING ALTERED.

We need an INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL to model itself on the Nuremberg Tribunal to serve all humanity in holding accountable all the rich folk, their bankers, lawyers and anyone else who facilitated and profited from their monstrous abuse of girls and women.

bluebird's avatar

I agree, there are many , many people who were involved in the investigations and interviews, we NEED them to be the whistle blowers now. Come forward you good people, the entire planet will thank you.

Daniel Solomon's avatar

Acosta is supposed to testify, in secret, on the 17th. Acosta’s “non-prosecution agreement” immunized several of his alleged co-conspirators from federal prosecution, and Maxwell alleges she is one of them in her SCOTUS appeal. Maxwell was named in at least eight civil lawsuits alleging sex trafficking and abuse, filed by victims such as Virginia Giuffre, Sarah Ransome, Jennifer Araoz, Annie Farmer, and Jane Doe, as well as others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell She also initiated one lawsuit, Maxwell v. Epstein's Estate, in 2020.

I don't think Acosta will come clean unless he is closely cross examined. Years after the fact, DOJ performed an Office of Professional Responsibility investigation that was papered over, but he denied that he had a secret meeting with Epstein's lawyers. I get this from the Miami Herald, that tracked it. OPR concluded that “Acosta exercised poor judgment when he failed to make certain that the state intended to and would notify victims identified through the federal investigation about the state plea hearing. His decision left victims uninformed about an important proceeding that resolved the federal investigation, an investigation about which the [United States Attorney’s Office] had communicated with victims for months. It also ultimately created the misimpression that the [Justice] Department intentionally sought to silence the victims.”

The summary said the Office of Professional Responsibility had reviewed “hundreds of thousands of records,” including emails, letters, memos and investigative materials, and conducted “more than 60 interviews of witnesses,” from FBI case agents to a former deputy attorney general. In a statement, the Justice Department said it shared the executive summary of the report with victims on Thursday and the full report with a congressional committee. “

"Among the federal prosecutors who avoided being targeted for criticism in the executive summary were Acosta’s former top assistant, Jeffrey Sloman; ex-criminal chief Matthew Menchel; former case prosecutor Marie Villafaña, who had prepared a sex-trafficking indictment against Epstein that was not filed; and her boss, Andrew Lourie. They and their actions, however, are detailed in the full, unreleased report."

Hopefully the Dems will interview Villafana and the others before they question Acosta.

Every person who used the spa at Mar a Lago during the time that Virginia Giuffre worked there is a potential witness. Same for her co-workers. What do the states' attorneys and AUSAs know about that?

Several Epstein lawyers have passed away. Did they have files? Dershowitz is still around. Was he privy to the secret meeting?

chev_chelios's avatar

RELEASE THE DAMN FILES OF THE GUY WITH THE EGG SHAPED PENIS !

Anton Kleinschmidt's avatar

Fact check. Mushroom shaped

Chels's avatar

💩🍊is the mushroom and Epstein is the 🥚and the fact that I know this shows how much this timeline sucks

Karen Scofield's avatar

Bless you,Ben,, for giving these victims a Voice. This has been long overdue for these Survivors, and they deserve justice ⚖️ Thank you, and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍

Aaron Givens's avatar

You could have asked “is there any reason why a 14 yo would know the shape of your sex organs?”

Kenneth Walker's avatar

Great reporting!!!!!

Barbara M's avatar

Listened to him. How frustrating it must be to see all that evil protecting the evil. 😡😡👹👹

Jean Conley's avatar

....and have to fight extremely hard to do something about it. Sure hope they get those files....you know the rest!

BF's avatar

Why hasn't a request been filed with the American Bar Association to have Blanche and Bondi disbarred, permanently?

Jean Conley's avatar

Dump has way too much power and support from the republiCRAP attorneys, etc. That's my guess, anyway.

Debra's avatar

Keep digging and exposing these jackasses who think they are untouchable, it will come out if we keep a spotlight on the whole sordid mess, it has to be exposed for all of our safety.

M3333's avatar

I believe that Epstein and the Orange Monster jointly ran a worldwide child trafficking ring! All who participated in raping and abusing these young girls and boys should be in prison the rest of their miserable lives AS well as their protectors!!!

SFGal's avatar

Plus a multi-national global money-laundering syndicate!

Susan Cooper's avatar

Speaking of uncovering the worldwide child trafficking ring, Senator Ron Wyden has been following the money on Epstein for over 3 years now, and recently sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting records of all financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and any of his co-conspirators (whether indicted or unindicted) on the part of 58 different individuals and entities. For a link to that letter (including those 58 names) and more info see my comment further down.

MM Harris's avatar

I think digging into the $$$$ will also reveal OTHER criminal activity beyond sex trafficking..

Roger Loeb's avatar

Trump is running out of reliable distractions, so now we're fomenting war with Venezuela. Gotta find an enemy to plunder that doesn't have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, we can be assured that Trump has ordered the (in)Justice Department to destroy or clean the Epstein files. There are probably hordes of employees engaged in purging those files of all identities, or at least those identities that have paid the extortion fee. I propose that we start a fund to pay off whoever risks their life by exfiltrating enough of those files to bring down the regime.

MaryAnnP's avatar

He has declared war against Chicago. Seriously.

Roger Loeb's avatar

I once lived on the south side of Chicago, which was already a war zone. The National Guard would be sitting ducks.

WJB Motown's avatar

Research "hound" extrordinaire Whitney Webb has been on the Epstein case for years.

There is alot more than meets the eye with the files. It would be mindblowing if MTN had Whitney Webb on for an interview.

Cheryl st germain's avatar

Why isn’t anyone asking Maureen Comey what she knows??? I’d love to see her interviewed and asked questions…..

Whatistobedone's avatar

Have wondered the SAME thing. Have included it in comments...makes sense, doesn't it? She would know what a complete turnover of files, videos is (I think hundreds? of videos)...

SFGal's avatar

Truly, she's the Rosetta Stone of comprehensive most recent fact-finding and prosecution, yet summarily fired without explanation, followed by Maxwell's kid-glove DOJ treatment. It's all so unbelievable!

Cheryl st germain's avatar

So somebody pleeeeeeze ask her what she knows!!!

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

"Jeffrey Epstein didn’t operate in a vacuum": truer words were seldom spoken, but the non-vacuum includes so many, many more than Epstein and his clients and cronies. It includes, among others, Harvey Weinstein and others of his ilk. It includes the Catholic Church, which for decades covered up priests' abuse of boys and young men. It includes families who covered up for the "funny uncle" or stepfather who wasn't "funny" at all.

Notice how no one talks about #MeToo these days? That's the way it works: Sexual abuse is headlines for a couple of years then it fades from the headlines till another travesty brings it up again. Here's hoping that doesn't happen again this time.

SFGal's avatar

As it was announced on MSNBC this morning how DT's regime has dismantled all sex-trafficking regulations, oversight, and protections.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I hadn't heard that yet. Odd how this regime thinks: They blow up alleged drug traffickers without evidence, never mind a trial, and turn sex traffickers loose. It's even odder that they'd dismantle sex-trafficking regulations when even many MAGAs are ripped about Epstein.

SFGal's avatar

Evil works in mysterious ways . . . but nonetheless blatantly so.

Jonnie's avatar

Thank you so much for your comment. Victims live with injustice every day of their lives.

The Police with 60% domestic abusers are answering domestic abuse calls. The Police are still bullies. I know I had a Police Officer try to rape me. I also was repeatedly humiliated by the police I called for help and they laughed in my face and told me I was crazy or paranoid or exaggerating or they will try to get you committed.

It didn’t matter what police officers I called. I called many because I was forced to keep moving after leaving him. Thanks to the Supreme Court DAWA cannot protect me cross state boarders.

It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor. It doesn’t matter if you are a child or an eighty year old woman who can’t defend herself in a care home either. The men that are abusers are like serial killers. Neighbours don’t want to get involved. Nobody wants to get involved.

The police aren’t trained to deal with abuse. The Utah police with the young blogger whose boyfriend killed her. I saw it constantly. I was the one “sounding crazy and crying” While my abuser was joking with the police about sports.

It is seems so obvious to me. If this is a couple having an argument that got of hand but they still loved each other than both people are going to be upset and crying.

When an abuser is joking with the Police about sports while a victim is falling apart that seems to me there’s abuse

The police aren’t trained at this and should be working with a counsellor until their knuckles aren’t dragging on the ground.

There are so many cold case files rotting in boxes where the evidence is compromised. The victim gets no justice. Like many of us are.

Lawyers have no idea how to work with victims. They have little to no understanding of the trauma experienced by victims. Nor do they try. There are also the issue that many victims may have other issues. Some have been misdiagnosed and carry a psychiatric diagnosis. That steals any credibility from the victim.

In Islam, women cover their bodies or wear burkas. This is because it is to keep them protected them from men who would see more flesh and succumb to their impulses.

In the USA, it’s no different. Woman are embarrassed and harassed on the stand on what they were wearing, drinking, or acting provocatively. Were they asking for it? Should women in the women in the US cover their bodies or wear burkas so they don’t have to deal with these abusive questions from defence attorneys.

There is only one question that a defence attorney can ask “Did you consent?” That’s the only question to establish rape.

Judges and court systems are woefully inadequate in handling with cases where abuse is involved. Women must cry but not too much or be factual but cry. The courts are overwhelmed with divorce, child abuse, domestic abuse, child custody are forced through because there are full dockets.

I had a judge tell me domestic abuse wasn’t his problem and I should go find a domestic abuse shelter.

That judge should know it’s not that simple. Part of homelessness are those fleeing abuse. Children, women and families. The rich got the money that’s supposed to go to domestic abuse shelter.

The truth is that unless step up and help abused women nothing is going to change until the next sex scandal shows up splashed across Breaking News banner and it only matters if it’s a celebrity.

I would love to see the banner say “Joe Trash a middle manager at the local bank found guilty of severe financial abuse.”

That’s the other problem there is invisible abuse. Coercive control (narcissistic usually) are on the books but not enforced.

The greatest abuse is financial abuse. In the Great Land of Capitalism without money you can’t survive. That’s why many victims stay. They stay for health insurance. They stay for children or pets. They stay because they are sick or disabled. They stay because it’s more dangerous to leave.

The fact that men are coming out now screaming for justice for these young victims, thank you for that, you need that support for ALL victims. Including male victims.

In a way I’m a little repulsed at how some male content creators are using these victims as a tool to push the Epstein narrative. The victims are just a means to an end. You’re just abusing them too.

I want to see more Breaking News banners say “Male colleagues at a local bank turned in Joe Trash for abusing his wife. With a fair divorce settlement the former Mrs. Trash is on holiday in Greece”.

Kathy H's avatar

That's why this is a powder keg way beyond a "scandal" used as a political weapon or even a core "tenant" on which to base a civil war ..our entire culture has enabled, protected, & elevated people that abuse power -in families, communities, work places, & our institutions. Now criminal predators have taken over. Rape is not primarily sex, it's about control.

You're right, time after time, people have turned away & psychopaths have taken control. There is a lot riding on seeing what we do now. Nothing less than our collective soul. These Survivors are speaking for all of, all of us that have been abused & all those that WILL be unless we finally face reality. The harm to even one should be enough for us to hold those responsible accountable. To keep pulling the rug on justice is just sick. It makes a mockery of all of humanity.

Barry G. Hall's avatar

PLEASE post a transcript of your interview.

I am a paid TMN subscriber, but this is the first post by Ben that I admire, Well done Ben Meiselas. Keep up the good work.

HarrisWalz FTW 2024's avatar

I would appreciate that, and in the form of a document, please, not a jagged line-by-line thing that shows up next to the video, and not like the ones that show the timer next to each person's name when they speak. Easily readable, PLEASE.

Jean Conley's avatar

...and somehow email it or whatever is the easiest to all you who are commenting know.