00:00And just when you see the amount of victims and how he was able to operate this, I mean, it's just mind boggling.
00:07You and your book describe it as a pedophiliac pyramid scheme.
00:11But what's a trend for years and decades is that Jeffrey Epstein seemed to use money as both a weapon and a shield.
00:19And I think for most of his life, his adult life, rather, Jeffrey Epstein was this elusive, ultra wealthy figure.
00:25He was compared to people like fictional characters like Jay Gatsby, like the talented Mr. Ripley.
00:31He described himself as an experienced and successful financier and businessman.
00:36According to your reporting, I mean, his resume is a little light for that title.
00:40But he was massively wealthy at the time of his death.
00:43His estate says that he was worth $578 million.
00:46So I think a question that a lot of people have, including yourself, is twofold when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's finances.
00:53One, how did he get so rich?
00:55And two, how was he financing this sex trafficking operation?
01:00Yes, of course.
01:01These are also questions that the massive amount of material in the FBI files could help answer.
01:09There's also questions as to did Jeffrey Epstein have ties to intelligence?
01:14Did he have any ties in the U.S. to the government?
01:18And also, did he have any ties to the Israeli Mossad?
01:22OK.
01:23Alexander Acosta had allegedly said that Jeffrey Epstein was part of intelligence.
01:29And that also played into the fact that he received that kind of slap on the wrist conviction.
01:34So not only is he, you know, is there a massive amount of money here that exchanged hands, but there's also questions of intelligence and who knew about this operation.
01:47I've been very happy to hear through all that's come out in the past two weeks that Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon has been going down the money road.
02:04He's been, you know, looking into Jeffrey Epstein's finances and he's reported that he's uncovered the fact that there's been almost five that there were almost 5000 wire transfers totaling one billion dollars of money.
02:21That Jeffrey Epstein moved through Russian banks to not only pay out some of his victims, but paid other individuals under under under under suspicious circumstances.
02:36And, you know, after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested down in Florida and received that slap on the wrist sentencing, he was wary of alerting authorities to his continued sex trafficking away from the eyes, the prying eyes of New York police and also on Beach, Florida police.
03:01So he moved, so he moved, so he moved, really moved his operation to his island in the Virgin Islands and he used international fixers to deliver him victims.
03:14These were young women and children that were flown to him from places like Russia and Turkey and other countries in Eastern Europe.
03:25And they would be, they would be, they would fly in, they would be flown into the Virgin Islands and then ferried on boats to his island and the attorney general in the, in the Virgin Islands, Denise George, after Jeffrey Epstein's death, launched an investigation into what went on there at the island.
03:46And she had learned, and she had learned that airport personnel had seen girls as young as 12 years old getting off of planes and being sent to Jeffrey Epstein's island home.
03:59Now you have, now that raises alarm bells in the sense of who are the men on the other side who were putting these girls on planes with the intention for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse them.
04:14Okay, they were model fixers and they were other international individuals.
04:21I want to know in those files, what information the FBI has about that operation.
04:28And are there any men that they could work with other countries to possibly apprehend and charge in connection to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes?
04:39Because these men were enablers, they, they did things that were almost as worse as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in terms of targeting young, young women and children and sending them to a convicted sexual predator across, you know, into America.
05:07Now we know that one man, his name is Jean-Luc Brunel.
05:12He was a French modeling scout from Paris.
05:16After Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, he was arrested in Paris, France on unrelated rape charges.
05:23And he died behind bars in a similar fashion to Jeffrey Epstein.
05:28Now we know that Mr. Brunel had been part of Jeffrey Epstein's operation.
05:34There's photographs of him with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
05:40There's documentation showing the two together.
05:45Now he, of course, is dead.
05:48But there are other men who may still be out there who took part in this operation.
05:53Let's get to the bottom of that.
05:54And let's get to the bottom of how Jeffrey Epstein made his money and how that money was distributed.
06:02We know that Jeffrey Epstein had two great financial benefactors.
06:08One was Leslie Wexner, who was the founder of the L Brands.
06:13He worked with Jeffrey Epstein in the earliest days.
06:18Jeffrey Epstein became his financial consultant and financial advisor.
06:27He even gave Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney.
06:31This was remarkable at the time and raised a lot of questions among individuals.
06:37Now, Mr. Wexner has denied all knowledge of any wrongdoing relating to Jeffrey Epstein.
06:46He simply said he was completely unaware of what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.
06:52And Mr. Wexner has never been investigated by law enforcement as to anything that would have been any type of criminality.
07:03In fact, Leslie Wexner said that Jeffrey Epstein stole money from him.
07:10And Jeffrey Epstein apparently paid some of that money back through making donations to a charity in the name of Leslie Wexner's wife.
07:20But Jeffrey Epstein received multiple millions of dollars from Les Wexner.
07:26And Jeffrey Epstein also received upwards of $160 million from Leon Black, who was co-founder of the Apollo Global Fund here in New York, and a financial wizard.
07:42Now, Mr. Black also has denied any wrongdoing.
07:47He's denied any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, and he also has never been under any type of investigation by law enforcement.
07:59But the combination of the monies from both Mr. Wexner and Mr. Black really seeded Jeffrey Epstein's criminality, in a sense.
08:12And Denise George, the former attorney general in the Virgin Islands, said that the company Jeffrey Epstein had created in the Virgin Islands, a company called Southern Trust, was actually a front for criminality.
08:30And she went after Jeffrey Epstein's estate and the co-executors of his estate, who, you know, should be speaking, I believe, to authorities and politicians in America,
08:54to kind of explain the whole financial structure of Jeffrey Epstein.
09:02He had, by the way, Brittany, more than 150 different bank accounts, and he used multiple banks.
09:09And over time, victims have sued J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank for kind of looking the other way or not following through on warnings that they had received about Jeffrey Epstein.
09:26And both banks made financial settlements with the victims to the tune of more than $200 million.
09:34So the whole side of Jeffrey Epstein's finances, how he made his money, are there other individuals that we don't know about, billionaires who also gave him money for financial help?
09:54Are there names that we don't know about?
09:56This would be very important to learn from the FBI files.
10:01And it's not only the information about how he made his money, but how he took his money and used it to basically pay for his sex trafficking ring over the course of two decades.
10:16So there's a lot of questions and it's important to find out, are there individuals who should be brought up on financial crimes related to this scandal?
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