Elephants in Rooms Epstein deep dive

This is my favorite Youtube channel for history and current events. The guy was an exec at Fox News for 20 years and approaches a topic like a research paper. He is incredibly thorough and presents different points of views and the strenths and limitations of the different points of views. Also points out how the media can drive a narrative, and he's generally not a big fan of the media.




Who killed Jeffrey Epstein? Was it someone powerful with secrets that he didn't want exposed? Or did Epstein kill
00:05 himself as the government says? Most people think it was murder. Polls show that around half the country believes
00:11 that he was murdered and only 16% think he killed himself. And that's not just some leftright split. Finally, Democrats
00:18 and Republicans agree on something. And there's plenty of weirdness in this case, even if you believe everything
00:24 that the government says. He was left alone in his cell when he shouldn't have been. guards didn't do their job and

00:30 were supposedly sleeping at their station. A disputed autopsy. Multiple cameras were said to be broken. And on
00:36 top of all of that, a lot of powerful people may have wanted him dead. I'm Ken Laort. I research into questions like
00:43 this, and I do my very best to give you what I found and learned, and not a whole lot about what I think. Here,
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we'll look at Epstein's initial crimes and a sweetheart deal. Then, inside his jail and look at some actual facts. The
00:57 cameras are a big point of contention, as was the autopsy. Finally, we'll take a look at the strongest reasons to

01:03 believe. Was it murder or suicide? So, how did Jeffrey Epstein end up in jail in 2019? It actually wasn't for any new
01:11 crimes. The government went after him for sex crimes that he' committed over a decade earlier and essentially evaded
01:18 justice on. So, what was the deal? In 2008, prosecutors in Florida accused him of paying underage girls for sex. They
01:25 said he exploited dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14. He essentially arranged sex encounters in
01:30 his home in a massage room that he had, and over time built a network where he and Gelain Maxwell got some of the girls

01:37 to recruit other classmates to take part. But instead of a trial that could have put him away for decades, he struck
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a deal with federal prosecutors that was great for him. It was what they call a nonprosecution agreement where he
01:49 pleaded guilty to only two charges related to prostitution, one of a minor. He had been facing up to 60 federal
01:56 counts, but ended up serving only 13 months in jail with work release privileges that let him leave jail for
02:03 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. That deal required him to register as a sex offender, but it also protected him from

02:10 broader federal charges. The Fed's deal would haunt the DOJ for years cuz it was obviously weird. The Miami Herald in
02:17 2018 did some great work reporting on how prosecutors secretly met with his lawyers, excluded victims from the
02:24 negotiations, and cut a deal that they never should have done. But pressure had also been building on a number of other
02:30 fronts. Some of the women filed civil lawsuits against him and Maxwell. A defamation case against Maxwell forced
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