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    Obviously it’s been bigger than we knew…

    Because regardless of if Republicans or Neoliberals have control of our government, no one wants to fucking release it.

    In particular, filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions—including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals, and payments to numerous women, the senator’s office found. The filings came after Mr. Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges.

    Large money transfers to individuals, foreign countries, or obscure companies are the kind of things banks are supposed to be examining as potentially suspicious. Some of the Epstein money transfers disclosed in a report from JP Morgan Chase involved accounts at two Russian banks before those institutions were subject to U.S. sanctions. A few transactions red-flagged were for as much as $100 million.

    The only chance we have at actually knowing what’s in those files, is if we elect a progressive president and get rid of a bunch of geriatric assholes from both parties so they can’t keep protecting child traffickers.

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        4 days ago

        it

        There is no “it”.

        Like, just the money side is over a billion dollars of transfers. That alone is more than an “it” but it’s still just a slice of a very large pie.

        There isn’t a single person alive who has access to everything.

        If anything leaks, it’s going to be a bite off a slice.

        That’s pretty much the entire point of this article

        This was a massive coordinated effort spanning decades, and honestly possibly generations if you start looking into Robert Maxwell.

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          Robert Maxwell had to be involved with it at some level. He new Epstein at least and his businesses collapsed after his debt and all that fraud was discovered.

          He certainly had enough life trauma to break, even if most survivors don’t.