The Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Howard Lutnick, who broke with the FBI and the Department of Justice, says that he believes that the high profile associates of the sentenced sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein participated in their behavior, and that Epstein may have blackmailed them with incriminating videos.
Asked by Miranda Divine of the New York Post on Wednesday’s Pod Force One Podcast if Epstein’s high profile associates knew about her behavior and ignored it, Lutnick said she believes: “No, they participated. They participated that was what his mo:” get a massage, get a “” massage.
“And what happened in that massage room, I suppose, was on video,” Lutnick said. “This guy was the best post in history.”
Lutnick, the former Epstein neighbor, said he believes that Epstein could have changed the supposed blackmail videos for a minor prison sentence in the so -called “love agreement” he received during his first criminal case for state charges in 2008.
“I suppose that, a lot, when they exchanged those videos in exchange for he received that 18 -month sentence, which allowed him to have visits and be out of jail. I mean, he is a sexual offender in series. How could he get 18 months and be able to go to his office during the day and have visitors and things? There must be an exchange.”
The accusations contrast with what FBI director Kash Patel told Congress during the testimony last month.
Ask Senator John Kennedy who, if someone, made Epstein traffic to young women in addition to herself, Patel replied: “himself. There is no credible information. None. If there were, it would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked other people.”
This photo provided by the Registry of Sexual Criminals of the State of New York shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
Record of sexual criminals of the state of New York
Brad Edwards, a victim rights lawyer who has been looking for the case of Epstein for almost two decades, told ABC News that Epstein was largely his own client.
“Jeffrey Epstein was the pimp and John. It was his own number 1 client,” Edwards said in an interview earlier this year. “Almost all the exploitation and abuse of all women intended to benefit only the sexual desires of Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein.”
Edwards said Epstein lived, essentially, two separate lives: one in which he sexually abused women and girls “daily”, and another in which he associated with politicians, royalty and business, academia and science titans.
“For the most part, those two worlds did not overlap. And where they overlap, in the cases that overcame, it seems to be a very small percentage,” said Edwards. “There were occasions when a few of these men dedicated themselves to sexual acts with a few of the girls that Jeffrey Epstein was exploiting or abusing, mainly girls who were over 18 years old.”
“I was abusing hundreds of women, if not thousands. And it is a very small fraction of those women who was sending men,” Edwards said.
Edwards said he is bound by the lawyer-client privilege and that he cannot ethically reveal the names of any of Epstein’s alleged associates without the permission of his clients. But he said that he has not seen any indication that Epstein has maintained a list of these men, or that he became a practice to use those instances to blackmail or extort men, despite the fact that these men may have been legitimately concerned that Epstein had compromising information that he could use against them.
The former Epstein companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced in 2021 for child sexual trafficking positions and other crimes related to Epstein, is the only associate in Epstein who is accused in relation to his crimes.
The Trump administration has been dealing with the consequences of its decision not Blowback he received Of the Maga supporters after announcing in July that additional files will not be launched.
President Donald Trump, who was a friend of Epstein in the 1990s, but then had a fight, has called the impulse to release the archives a hoax created by his political rivals.
“Everything has been a great deception,” Trump told journalists in July. “It is perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans, and the foolish Republicans fall into the network. Therefore, they try to do the work of the Democrats.”
Lutnick, in his interview with Divine, described Epstein as “Gross.”
“I say: ‘massage table in the middle of his house? How often does a massage have?'” Said Lutnick. “And he says: ‘Every day'”.
“And then he puts himself, as, strangely close to me, and he says:” And the type of correct massage, “Lutnick said.
