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2019-07-16 -Lurid Crime Tales-
We Found Expired Saudi Passport In Epstein's Safe Under A False Name
[Hot Air] This wasn’t the safe on Pedophile Island stashed in a room that no one’s allowed to enter. This was a safe in his ultra-ultra-ultra-luxe Manhattan townhouse.

The guy’s so shady that something as cartoonishly shady as a fake passport doesn’t make the cut for his most secure hiding place. What the hell’s in the safe on the island? The Necronomicon?

Add to this to the list of mysteries, then. How’d Epstein make his money? Who are his "clients," and what service is he providing to them? Why was Alex Acosta allegedly told that he "belonged to intelligence"? And, um, "Jeffrey Epstein" is his real name, isn’t it?
"Just this morning the government became aware of a safe that contained a pile of cash, diamonds, a passport from a foreign country with a picture of the defendant under another name," Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller told U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.
Well, some people in gov't... "became aware - just this morning."
"The passport was issued in the name of a foreign country, it was issued in the 1980s, it is expired, it shows a picture of Jeffrey Epstein, and another name," Rossmiller said, adding the passport showed Epstein’s residence as Saudi Arabia.

We can only guess what sort of illegal activity precipitated his decision to get a false passport 30+ years ago, just in case he had to flee the country when the feds were looking for him. Financial fraud? Sex trafficking? And why Saudi Arabia? That seems random since Epstein doesn’t look Arabic. If he was going to choose a country at random in obtaining a forged passport, you would think he’d choose one where he might more plausibly reside. But maybe it isn’t random. Vicky Ward, who’s been following the Epstein story for years, claimed a few days ago that a former senior White House official(!) told her of Epstein, "He knew a lot of rich Arabs, including the crown prince of Saudi Arabia." There’s a photo of Mohammed bin Salman, the Kingdom’s crown prince, in his New York home, in fact.

And from Bright Pebbles:
Inside the Victoria's Secret pipeline to Jeffrey Epstein

[NYPost] Elisabetta Tai, a former Italian model, told the New York Post that she visited the Manhattan residence of Jeffrey Epstein in 2004, when she was 21, and escaped after the wealthy financier stripped naked, laid on a massage table, and handed her a vibrator.

Tai said her booker told her that Epstein, who later registered as a sex offender and now faces sex-trafficking charges, was "in charge of Victoria's Secret" and could get her a modeling gig for the lingerie company's catalog.
I didn't think Victoria had a secret.
Epstein was close with Lex Wexner, the founder and CEO of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria's Secret.
My friend over there is the campus Playboy photographer. Don't let on that you know that, and treat him right. You will get in Playboy.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 He was a pimp who blackmailed super-wealthy establishment johns with underage girls.

Show us the flight logs.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-16 00:47||   2019-07-16 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 "Just this morning the government became aware of a safe that contained a pile of cash, diamonds, a passport from a foreign country with a picture of the defendant under another name,"

He had been instructed to dispose of those items years ago. He was a definite control problem.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-16 02:15||   2019-07-16 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Epstein doesn't matter. It's all the people he implicates that matter. Elites for some reason absolutely adore pedophilia. Tony Podesta had stuffed animals on his bedside table and he lives alone.
Posted by Herb McCoy  2019-07-16 07:36||   2019-07-16 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 flight logs are here

and below

and parts are almost illegible- Bill Clinton did travel w Epstein but some of the people only have initials

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1507315-epstein-flight-manifests.html
Posted by lord garth 2019-07-16 10:38||   2019-07-16 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Was Epstein an "intelligence asset" as has been said. If so, who was running him?
Posted by JohnQC 2019-07-16 11:38||   2019-07-16 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I have a running theory that many a powerfolk become that way not because talent or achievement, but because they are a face and are willing to attend such venues. They get their pleasure, and others have the dossier to control them. A win, win, if you will.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-07-16 12:20||   2019-07-16 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks for the flight logs link, LG.

Entries #52 ff. are intriguing. No initials used for special guest in entry #57: "BILL CLINTON" also "4 SECRET SERVICE"

Plus "ED TUTTLE", which a quick search reveals to be an architect and designer who appears to specialize in luxury hotel design in the 19th century neoclassical style.

And lots of female passengers identified by their first names only: "JESSICA," etc
Posted by Lex 2019-07-16 13:20||   2019-07-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Ref #5: Was Epstein an "intelligence asset" as has been said. If so, who was running him?

When people have acquired unexplained wealth, travel (or have traveled) abroad on private aircraft using foreign passports and pseudonyms, keep large stashes of USD and diamonds, are accompanied by beautiful women, conduct periodic laision with powerful foreign nationals....well, these certainly are indicators.

As far as a handler, he could have been a stringer for several domestic or overseas entities.

The media continues to say he returned to the US, was immediately arrested, and is being held. I have not been able to discover where he is being held or if bail has been established. There does not appear to be any big rush to free him from confinement by his legal team. Perhaps he is enjoying some type of protective custody.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-16 14:34||   2019-07-16 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 He has obviously been shielded from prosecution by powerful figures in the upper reaches of law enforcement.

Someone's protecting him.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-16 19:42||   2019-07-16 19:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Epstein's passport had a different name than Epstein and a SA address. It was issued in the 1980s. When was John Brennan in SA? He went with the CIA in 1980 according to open source info. I wonder if there is an Epstein-Brennan connection.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-07-16 22:18||   2019-07-16 22:18|| Front Page Top

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