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Nine Questions about Epstein that Need Answering

Barry Levine, who has covered Jeffrey Epstein for decades and wrote a book about him, now wrote an op-ed in The New York Times asking nine questions about Epstein that he wants answered. They sound like good questions to us. Here is a brief summary of them:

• Where did his money come from? When Epstein died, under what now seem like mysterious circumstances, with so-called "raw surveillance video" containing metadata indicating that it was edited by Adobe Premiere Pro with a key minute missing, his estate was worth $600 million. How did he make his money? Usually people with that much money either founded a startup or were CEO of a big company. He did neither. But there were thousands of wires totalling $1 billion to his bank account. Who sent them and why? This should be easy for the feds to check out—if they want to.
  
  
• Was Epstein a spy? The first time Epstein was arrested, he got a real sweetheart deal from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Rene Alexander Acosta. When asked about this, Acosta said: "I was told Mr. Epstein 'belonged to Intelligence' and I should leave him alone." So that is what he did. Acosta later became secretary of labor in Trump v1.0. Was Epstein really a spy? If not, who told Acosta to leave Epstein alone and why? Was the cabinet appointment related to this?
  
  
• Is Trump in the Epstein Files? In May, Pam Bondi told Donald Trump that he was in the Epstein files. Various reports have said that FBI agents have been working day and night to remove the documents mentioning Trump from the files. How much of this is true? Was Trump in the files and what was he doing there?
  
  
• What about Bill Clinton? Epstein palled around with a lot of famous people. Epstein's little black book had 21 different phone numbers for Bill Clinton in it. Did Clinton party with Epstein? If not, what was the nature of their relationship?
  
  
• Who were Epstein's "clients?" Prince Andrew (a.k.a. "Randy Andy") is suspected of partying with Epstein on his island. Were there more? Who were they? Were there frequent flyers? Who were they?
  
  
• Who else helped Epstein? Everyone knows about Ghislaine Maxwell and how she aided and abetted Epstein. Did he have other helpers? French "modeling scout" Jean-Luc Brunel was an associate of Epstein. What was his role? Unfortunately, no one can ask him now because he died in prison mysteriously in Paris in 2022 while awaiting trial for rape. How strange. This seems like a good lead for some ambitious French reporter.
  
  
• What was in Epstein's safe? When the FBI raided Epstein's houses, they found so much stuff that the index ran to three pages. There were 40 computers and electronic devices, 26 hard disks, at least 70 CDs, and six recording devices. A court filing said there are thousands of compact discs. A detailed listing of everything the FBI found would be nice to release.
  
  
• What's on the videos? Why can't the videos be released? If there are salacious videos, there is software available to blur out the faces of innocent victims so the videos can be released. Google maps has been doing this for 15 years. Surely Google would be willing to share its blurring software with the FBI if asked politely.
  
  
• What is in Epstein's autopsy report? The autopsy was performed by Kristin Roman, a forensic pathologist under supervision of the New York medical examiner. What's in it? Why not make the full report public? Were there DNA tests on the bedsheet Epstein used to hang himself? Was there any DNA from someone other than Epstein on the sheets? Did Roman or anyone else ask prisoners in adjoining cells if they heard or saw anything unusual?
  

Inquiring minds want to know. In fact, much of the country wants to know, and all we are getting is stonewalling. Maybe it will work as well as it worked for Richard Nixon. We'll see. We don't expect the government to help much, but investigative reporters might find some stuff if they dig enough. (V)