If You, dear b, undestand German here is a Video that mentions the very important but hardly known “MEGA GROUP“, Epstein was member of.
Jump in at https://youtu.be/VnTLlk-2-b8?t=2510

Posted by: Joerg | Aug 19 2019 7:01 utc | 303

Posted by: Joerg | Aug 19 2019 7:01 utc | 305
This “Mega Group” thing seems to be a myth. I guess it is shorthand for “Mega Donors”.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 19 2019 10:02 utc | 305

JR belief in Robert Maxwell faked death + Jeffrey Epstein faked death + Ghislaine Maxwell [soon to be] faked death = extreme foolishness
JR putting words into people’s mouth = straw rabbit.
JR logical argument = nonexistent
JR dishonest argument = bingo!

Posted by: donkeytale | Aug 19 2019 10:29 utc | 307

Titans of Industry Join Forces To Work for Jewish Philanthropy

. . .
Formed seven years ago by Leslie Wexner, chairman of Limited Inc. and Charles Bronfman, Edgar’s brother and Seagram Co. cochairman, the group meets twice a year for two days of seminars on topics related to philanthropy and Jewishness.
. . .
“We want to make it cool to be Jewish,” says Edgar Bronfman, whose company’s keen sense of image has made it one of the world’s most successful marketers.

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I guess, for a time, Epstein and Ghislaine were “cool”. Now they are just more shocking examples of Jewish sexual predation and criminality like Harvey Weinstein. Not cool.
But the scandal, with links to the MEGA Group, has succeeded in showing us why our politicians are publicly so devoted to Israel and why few people of any importance have expressed any misgivings about that fact.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 19 2019 12:20 utc | 309

“It is not possible that he did not have insurance.” I think there was no insurance or dead man switch. Epstein was a pimping pedo guy, not a nerd like Assange. He chose to live fast and die young.
-joost 220.
I have thought similar, in the sense that ‘dead man’s switch’ seems out of character. The social circles of the ‘famous’ plus with a rep of dealings in ‘high finance’ are tightly tied in solidarity.
The participants spend time together to be ‘in groupy’, and if one likes, to bond. Trust is a major component. Of course sometimes it is betrayed, but very rare. Epstein has allegedly stated (no link sorry, can’t remember, to his part time driver in Florida) that ‘he knows secrets’ (implied about powerful ppls sex lives?) and thus has some ‘power’. Which sounds very like feeble bragging.
If there was even a faint hint of blackmail or the possibility of such attached to Epstein he would never have risen, or kept his position, as he did. Extorting one person, or forcing them to act in ways he/she would not normally even with the *hint hint* method, would be the end for him. (In the extreme version of this view.)
Epstein was a superb con-man, see his ties to Science (paying for a look in essentially), etc. and besides his sex-related crimes, which were, in that milieu a social boost (fascinating, a sign of daring, power-protected-connections, and impunity) the guts of the story are most likely financial.
see also steven at 302
one article about finance
https://www.accountingtoday.com/articles/more-questions-about-how-jeffrey-epstein-got-island-owning-rich

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 19 2019 14:20 utc | 311

Interesting read.
2/1/2002: Israeli Espionage: The Corporate Nexus(pdf)

Posted by: Zack | Aug 19 2019 16:16 utc | 313

Jackrabbit | Aug 19 2019 15:57 utc | 314
One thing you did not mention: Epstein had 2 legs, like all known Zionists as well. I am sure we all can find much more correlations. But would it convince the naive ones?

Posted by: Hausmeister | Aug 19 2019 17:24 utc | 315

@ “somebody” (307)
Here You find something about the “Mega Group”:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000

Posted by: Joerg | Aug 19 2019 18:04 utc | 317

Jackrabbit | Aug 19 2019 17:49 utc | 318
Not complete. Those who find „nothing to see here!“ boring may entertain themselves with nicely compiled stories with varying percentages of phantasy. The chance is always there as those people whose bad deeds are disputed have the habit not to write protocols when they meet and make plans. This bad habit can be countered by well done constructs:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
“…and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.” You see: “informal”. Staying on this level means for you: you never interrupted your sleep.

Posted by: Hausmeister | Aug 19 2019 19:04 utc | 319

Posted by: Joerg | Aug 19 2019 18:04 utc | 319
Yep, the WSJ article describes “legitimate” philantrophy. It is pretty feudal but this is how society is run in the US. There is also eg Catholic Irish philantrophy to “promote and support peace, culture, education and community development throughout the island of Ireland, and Irish-related causes around the world.” You bet some of them gave money to the IRA.
The organized crime connection in the Mintpress article is a bit far fetched. It is like connecting Trump to organized crime because his apartments have been used by money launderers, the cement his company needed was controlled by the mob, and he owned casinos.
Bob Fitrakis claims that Wexners logistics were run by the mob, his planes were used by the CIA, and Epstein organized it all.
I think you have to go back to Richard Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell and the weapons dealer Douglas Leese who introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Hoffenberg who ran the Towers Financial Fund.
John Mitchell and CIA director William Casey were part of the parties Craig Spence did in Washington. Craig Spence ran a homosexual blackmail ring in the 1980’s.

Hoffenberg claims he was introduced to Epstein by Douglas Leese, a mysterious British arms dealer, and that he paid Epstein $25,000 a month as Towers Financial began making risky plays to take over companies like Pan American World Airways and Emery Air Freight. Advisers on the Pan Am deal included Richard Nixon’s attorney general John Mitchell, Nixon’s brother Edward, and John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy. The move fell apart after the Lockerbie bombing, and when Towers Financial later went belly-up, Hoffenberg says, the two of them engineered a Ponzi scheme to fill the hole.

The mention of Lockerbie is curious. Same as Emery Air Freight. It certainly suggests that Epstein was involved in procuring planes for the CIA. This is the 1980’s and Iran-Contra.
There is someone else involved in Iran-Contra weapons and drugs – Bill Clinton in Arkansas.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 19 2019 21:13 utc | 321

From Somebody’s 1st link
the use of boy prostitutes and surveillance for the purpose of blackmail by the highest levels of government. In one instance, dignitaries from 17 countries attending a 1993 APEC conference were placed under surveillance while some were being compromised by a child sex ring
that’s exactly what an Austrian passport with an address in KSA would help do if one wanted to blackmail some Gulfies’ governments through the behaviour of their representatives at the OPEP conf’s in Vienna
Epstein was introduced to James Backer, a close member of the Bush/CIA mafia circle.

Posted by: Mina | Aug 20 2019 7:34 utc | 323

Signed his will 2 days before getting a little help to get out of the picture. One must admit that ppl making money with the stocks need to be well organized.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49402526

Posted by: Mina | Aug 20 2019 8:01 utc | 325

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It is interesting how Iran Contra people turn up in Donald Trump’s administration. There is Bolton who was assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration during Iran-Contra. There is Elliot Abrams. And there is William Barr.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 20 2019 9:10 utc | 327

Jeffrey Epstein, this piece of trash, has placed all his money in a trust in the offshore US Virgin Islands, so it will be more difficult for his victims to attack the trust.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/jeffrey-epstein-signed-will-two-days-before-suicide/
The perfect timing, signing the will, get his cellmate out of the way, in the two last days of his life is more than suspicious.
What is exposed is again that the US/royals established financial system is made to cover crime and prevent victims to get justice.

Posted by: Mina | Aug 20 2019 10:15 utc | 329

Mostly Fox.
“Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham (and guests) express doubt about the official Epstein autopsy narrative, that his death was a suicide.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR31nSquC_Y

Posted by: imo | Aug 20 2019 13:25 utc | 331

photoshop explained: it was PR
https://t.co/Yj1n9vVjH8

Posted by: Mina | Aug 20 2019 17:49 utc | 333

Bill Gates Adviser ‘Shocked’ Jeffrey Epstein Named Him in Will

But the document shows the disgraced money-manager also selected an alternate executor in the event that Indyke and Kahn can’t carry out their duties: Boris Nikolic, an immunologist and biotech entrepreneur.
Nikolic was reportedly “shocked” to learn that he was listed in the will—which dictates that all of Epstein’s personal property should go to the trustees of a mysterious entity called The 1953 Trust.
“I was not consulted in these matters and I have no intent to fulfill these duties, whatsoever,” he said in a statement obtained by Bloomberg.

Why would Epstein involve this guy? What is the 1953 Trust?
Found this Delaware court document(pdf) which involves a trust named the 1953 Trust from Nov. 13, 2013. Predating the trusts Epstein reportedly created recently.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 20 2019 21:31 utc | 335

US police at its best
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article234189557.html

Posted by: Mina | Aug 21 2019 7:48 utc | 337

From the same source in previous comment. Found this document when searching google for: “1953 Trust”+ext:pdf.
Think it’s possible that Epstein was sending a message(vicarious liability) to his victims on how to sue the organizations he was working for by leaving his assets to the 1953 Trust.
Page 21:

“…there must be a strong connection between what the employer was asking the employee to do (the risk created by the employer’s enterprise) and the wrongful act. It must be possible to say that the employer significantly increased the risk of the harm by putting the employee in his or her position and requiring him to perform the assigned tasks.”

Page 25:

“…Giving the leading speech Lord Nicholls held that it was necessary to apply the legal policy underlying vicarious liability, which he stated at para 21: is based on the recognition that carrying on a business enterprise necessarily involves risks to others. It involves the risk that others will be harmed by wrongful acts committed by the agents through whom the business is carried on. When those risks ripen into loss, it is just that the business should be responsible for compensating the person who has been wronged.”
…
76. When considering the stage 2 test of “the ordinary course of employment” he suggested at para 23 that the wrongful conduct must be so closely connected with the acts the employee was authorised to do that the wrongful conduct might “fairly and properly be regarded” as done in the ordinary course of employment.

Page 27:

85. The precise criteria for imposing vicarious liability for sexual abuse are still in the course of refinement by judicial decision. Sexual abuse of children may be facilitated in a number of different circumstances. There is currently concern at the possibility that widespread sexual abuse of children may have occurred within the entertainment industry. This case is not concerned with that scenario. It is concerned with the liability of bodies that have, in pursuance of their own interests, caused their employees or persons in a relationship similar to that of employees, to have access to children in circumstances where abuse has been facilitated.
86. Starting with the Canadian authorities a common theme can be traced through most of the cases to which I have referred. Vicarious liability is imposed where a defendant, whose relationship with the abuser put it in a position to use the abuser to carry on its business or to further its own interests, has done so in a manner which has created or significantly enhanced the risk that the victim or victims would suffer the relevant abuse. The essential closeness of connection between the relationship between the defendant and the tortfeasor and the acts of abuse thus involves a strong causative link.

Page 29:

94. This is not a borderline case. It is one where it is fair, just and reasonable, by reason of the satisfaction of the relevant criteria, for the Institute to share with the Middlesbrough Defendants vicarious liability for the abuse committed by the brothers. I would allow this appeal.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 21 2019 20:16 utc | 339

bevin | Aug 16 2019 20:50 utc | 50

What Epstein is said to have done has nothing to do with pedophilia, apart from the fact that it suggests that he was not likely to have been involved in it.
So far as the evidence goes Epstein was no more interested in pre-pubescent children than he was in sheep: he was clearly obsessed with nubile young women and very successful in seducing them. You may not like it but that is not pedophilia, any more than it is bestiality.
There is a racist, specifically anti-semitic, sub-text in these charges which gybe with the common anti-islamic “grooming” of “white girls” slander.

The Important thing about this case is not the pedophilia or any other sexual crimes. Yes, I have no doubt they are important to the women, girls, boys or young men involved, but the important point from the public pov is BLACKMAIL that is that NO ONE who ever partook of Epstein’s hospitality should be allowed to hold a public office. EVER! They are all deeply suspect of not being independent actors.

Posted by: foolisholdman | Aug 22 2019 11:03 utc | 341

High quality copy of Epstein’s last will and testament. Found it on accident when searching google for: “1953 Trust”+ext:pdf. It is the 3rd result down labeled Untitled.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 22 2019 17:00 utc | 343

Info/discrepancies regarding Boris Nikolic.
World Economic Forum Bio for Boris Nikolic

MD, Zagreb Medical School; clinical training, Medical Centre, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 1994, Harvard Graduate Program in Immunology; postdoctoral fellowship in transplantation immunology; Instructor in Surgery; Instructor in Medicine; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; since 2002, Founder and Director, Advanced Immunology Laboratory for Tolerance Induction Stem Cell Transplantation, Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School; since 2007, current position, on leave from faculty position, Harvard Medical School. Author of over 50 articles and patent applications. Co-Founder, three biotechnology companies. Research interests: immunogenetics, immunological tolerance induction for transplant, auto immunity and stem cell research. Recipient of awards.

Now an article removed from Duke Magazine’s page, but accessible through the wayback machine.
Surviving a Civil War

In the spring of 1992, as most seven-year-olds in America were just finishing the first grade, Boris Nikolic was packing up his belongings in Banja Luka, Bosnia. Two months earlier, Bosnia had declared its independence, and, with Slobodan Milosevic encouraging Bosnian Serbs in a vicious campaign of “ethnic cleansing” to create a “Greater Serbia,” suddenly there was no room for Croatians like the Nikolics in their home country. “Basically, if you stayed, you were taken to a concentration camp or shot,” Nikolic says.
…
The Nikolics decided it was time to move once again. In October 1997, a little more than five years after they first came to Croatia, the family, now reunited, left for the United States. Working through Lutheran Family Services, they were assigned residence in Greensboro, North Carolina, a city with a large refugee population. Last spring(2003), at age nineteen, Nikolic graduated from Greensboro Day School, where his father works as a janitor, and entered Duke this fall as a Robertson Scholar.
Enrolling in the Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS program for freshmen, Nikolic seemed immediately at ease. His sister, Ivana, a medical student at Duke, is nearby; her presence was a powerful influence in Boris’ decision to come here.

Greensboro Day school is a K-12 school.
WHO IS THE ADVOCATE WHICH THE MONSTROOUS RICH MAN APPROVED FOR THE PERPETRATOR OF YOUR WILL ‘Boris is extremely intelligent, dedicated to working at Harvard’
[translated by google]

Boris Nikolic was born in Zagreb, where his brother is still a doctor. He graduated in 1994 from the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. His colleagues and professors at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb remember him as one of the best students of the year.
He then went to America to pursue his scientific studies at Harvard’s best university in the world, where he studied immunology. From that period he is well remembered by journalist and publicist Sanja Muzaferi, who intensively hung out with Nikolic in the mid-1990s in Boston.

So Boris graduated med school when he was 9yrs old? In addition, how was Muzaferi hanging out w/ Boris in the mid 90s in Boston, when it appears Boris and his family did not move to the US until October 1997?
Something strange is going on here…

Posted by: Zack | Aug 23 2019 20:56 utc | 345

Pathologizing Male Desire: Satyriasis, Masculinity, and Modern Civilization

Satyriasis had long been familiar to physicians as, in very rough terms, the male equivalent of nymphomania. The name of the condition evoked the satyr, the half-beast and half-human figure of Greek mythology famed for lustfulness and promiscuity. In a book written in the first century AD, Aretaeus of Cappadocia defined satyriasis as a condition of excessive desire in men that, by inducing a state of severe sexual frustration, would lead to sickness and death. For Renaissance writers, satyriasis was characterized by excessive and unrequited passion for another. In his Treatise on Lovesickness [End Page 25] (1610), the French physician Jacques Ferrand classed satyriasis as a variant of “love melancholy” or “love madness.” A French dissertation from the early nineteenth century described the sufferer as red in the face and extremely animated, and it listed death due to gangrene in the genitals as a likely outcome.

Sure sounds like they are talking about Pan, which will be interesting to some people here.
Don’t subscribe to everything in this article, but highly suggest reading it. Stanisław Szukalski was a master dot connector. Pretty hard to miss the similarities to Epstein’s behavior.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 24 2019 18:14 utc | 347

@Lozion
Only truth can get this crazy.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 25 2019 22:01 utc | 349

Google shows no search results found for: “1953 Trust”+site:moonofalabama.org.
Duckduckgo shows results for: “1953 Trust”+site:moonofalabama.org, but google does not report any.
Why does google not have any results indexed for this search query even though duckduckgo does?

Posted by: Zack | Aug 28 2019 18:46 utc | 351

Whitney Webb should never have to pay for anything again in her life and she should be protected by the public if the need ever arises. She has done more in her 4 part series than most will ever do in their life in regards to taking this criminal network down and shining light on their dirty deeds.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 30 2019 16:12 utc | 353

Posted by: Zack | Aug 30 2019 20:38 utc | 354
Might be Google having become slow to index. Might be because of Google’s localisation.
My guess is that Google has become so embarrassed by offering search results from fringe sources that they give preference to “respected” news sources.
If you look for just “Boris Nikolic” first page of search results are mainstream media second page is fringe.
If you google just site:moonofalabama.org results exist but are not really useful.
Moon of Alabama is not optimized for Google but I doubt this is the reason,
If you just look for “Boris Nikolic” in DuckDuckGo you get a list of people with that name without special consideration for the guy who has become topical.
Google has been guessing what people are searching for when they type in one or two words for quite a while, plus trying to decide what are “trustworthy” sources.
They are not ranking down certain sources they just have trusted sources they give preferential treatment. So I assume they are simply slow to index. Try site:moonofalabama.org putin and you will get a full list. Try again in a month and you will probably find site:moonofalabama.org “boris nikolic”.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 30 2019 22:10 utc | 355

@355-Thank you. Greatly appreciated.
@356-No problemo.

Posted by: Zack | Aug 31 2019 6:42 utc | 357

Posted by: Zack | Aug 31 2019 9:22 utc | 358
The French Butler claims to have seen Steve Bannon at Epstein’s place.
Supposing a connection to the Qanon fantasies is interesting.

Like Batman, QAnon’s identity is supposedly a deep, dark secret, and so the kookosphere swirls with speculation. Some name “NSA whistleblower” Thomas Drake, whose anti-Obama posture has gained him somewhat of a fanbase on the far-right.[16] Others say it’s Steve Bannon. Or Trump himself. Or Donald Trump Jr. Or an artificial intelligence.[17]
Adding to the confusion, a number of “Q impostors” and fakes have appeared, as well as copycat Anons such as “MegaAnon” and “WH Anon”, prompting the faithful to conclude it’s all just part of a “deep state” plot to smear QAnon.[18][19]
In reality, however, the supposed deep cover agent QAnon is most likely a 4chan troll doing it for the shits and giggles. At the very least, Russian troll accounts were pushing the QAnon bullshit to idiots on Twitter before being purged.[20]

The sad truth however is probably how Stuart Pivar states it in the Mother Jones interview: Epstein was a sexual addict and his procurers were women.
The Maria Farmer story is exceptional in that Epstein chose a young woman who was not poor but not exceptional that he was allegedly enabled by a woman.
Epstein seems to have “commissioned art” as he “commissioned science” – without knowing anything about it. He used people who knew – like Stuart Pivar and John Brockman.
I think it is quite possible that he worked for the CIA as a front and that his money was CIA money.

After a couple of days, R would invite the scientist to lunch or dinner and make his pitch: his company was interested in the scientist’s field, and would like to support their work. “Every academic I have ever met is constantly trying to figure how to get grants to continue his research. That’s all they talk about,” he explained. They would agree on a specific project, and the price, which varied by the scientist’s country: “$1,000 to $5,000 for a Pakistani. Korea is more.” Once the CIA pays a foreign professor, even if they are unaware at first of the funding source, it controls them, because exposure of the relationship might imperil their career or even their life in their native country.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 31 2019 16:22 utc | 359

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John R. Maguire who is supposed to work with Eric Prince on this:

Maguire spent more than two decades as a paramilitary officer in the CIA, including tours in Central America working with the Contras. He has extensive experience in the Middle East, where he helped plan the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Posted by: somebody | Aug 31 2019 16:58 utc | 361

Posted by: Zack | Sep 1 2019 19:38 utc | 362
And Epstein had a portrait of the Saudi prince on his wall.
There is also this:
Miami Herald whose stories started the retrial of Jefrey Epstein is owned by McClatchy is owned by Chatham Asset Management which also owns the National Enquirer of Trump Michael Cohen Pecker fame.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 1 2019 21:08 utc | 363

@364
Iran Contra people appear to have been involved in 9/11.
FEMA Investigator Claims World Trade Center ‘Vault Contents Emptied Before Attack
The Million-Dollar Diamond Theft at the World Trade Center on 9/11
Precious Metals in WTC 4 Vault: Only a Fraction Recovered?
Wonder what happened to the gold/silver/diamonds/cash/bonds in the vaults under the WTC complex? Would not be surprised if Epstein ended up with some of this.

Posted by: Zack | Sep 5 2019 16:42 utc | 365