Posted on 03/28/2026 3:49:18 AM PDT by zeestephen
In 2023, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay Epstein victims $290 million and separately to pay the U.S. Virgin Islands $75 million. Deutsche Bank, that same year, agreed to pay victims $75 million...CNBC has requested comment from the two law firms that represented the victims in the suit filed in October 2025 - Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson.
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Victims but not hookers huh Moe get paid twice.
What did they think they would be doing handing out Cool-Aid.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida under Bush, Acosta, said that he was told Epstein, “was protected.” The US Attorney’s office grabbed the case from the Palm Beach County’s prosecuting office then fully negotiated the deal with half a dozen + very high priced “national” lawyers very well versed in Federal Law, i.e., Dershowitz, Starr and others, and they also involved very good local lawyers. This is were Maxwell gets her claim of immunity - through the Feds and Dersh, et al. and the fed plea agreement.
The Feds were very complicit in giving Epstein and attys every possible benefit even having to renegotiate the deal as the original had some obscure defects that no one ever would have noticed as no one would have reviewed the case.
After a Fed deal was reached, the feds handed the case back to the local prosecutor and judge so that procedurally Epstein could get work release and other benefits of being locally prosecuted and avoid some Federal problems. The girls were totally omitted from the process (ever hear of victim rights?) to such an extent that they originally sued to get the plea overturned - not for money. Those are the facts. Money didn’t get involved until almost 10 years after the plea and after the dismissal of the Fed case regarding overturning the plea and stonewalling by Epstein and pals. Again, those are the facts. And yes, Epstein and lawyers were ready to annihilate the girls once money came into the picture. Before that, the girls were mostly ignored - hence the lawsuit to overturn the plea.
This case was NEVER going to have a trial but if in some alien world it did, the girls would have been set up for slaughter. Some of the Epstein lawyers, fed and local, were involved in the William Kennedy Smith case and knew all the tricks.
Acosta later said he doesn’t recall who, what, where he was told that Epstein was “special.” Again, these are the facts.
It’s a big mess
The victims could go public, they could go to the DOJ. But they don't.
The government could not put Epstein to jail for long time!
How could banks deny him services?
Under age prostitutes are still victims. The legally can’t consent, not to sex or business transactions.
I’m sure there are a number of fake victims on the gravy train and most of the money will ho to lawyers and “administrators” handling the payouts.
The whole Epstein saga has turned into a grift. And while everyone yells for the Epstein files, Biden’s missing immigrant children are still being trafficked.
I’m past tired of the Epstein distraction.
I’m no fan of big banks, but how are banks liable for Epstein victims?
Much of what you stated is not true.
1) “100% of the alleged victims are anonymous”
False.
Many accusers have been publicly identified (e.g., Virginia Giuffre, Annie Farmer, Courtney Wild).
Others used pseudonyms like “Jane” or “Kate” for privacy, especially when they were minors.
Courts routinely allow anonymity in sexual abuse cases to protect victims.
👉 So: Some are anonymous, not all.
2) “No information about victim testimony”
False. There was sworn testimony.
Multiple victims testified under oath at the 2021 criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.
These were sworn, cross-examined witnesses, subject to perjury.
Additional testimony exists in civil cases and depositions.
Victims?? Bull!!
I disagree.
Only a few of them sued to over turn the federal Agreement, and only after their lawyers realized that Epstein was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
5-10 new females were ultimately added to the Cash Compensation settlement.
A public trial would mean that each young woman would have to admit there was no coercion, that they lied about their age, and that they willingly accepted market rate payment for sex.
Ultimately, Epstein pleaded guilty to exactly the crime he committed...
Soliciting under age females for prostitution.
In closing...
I have no idea how any federal judge could allow Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein to be indicted for Trafficking when there is ZERO evidence of coercion.
Who knows better than another woman, you!
Prostitution is happening in every city, every state, every country...and be assured many are underaged runaways...
Epstein had something that others didn't/don't have...name recognition. They made him an example. In the end...it was about grabbing his money and giving these prostitutes a big "tip".
At least 150 women have received financial compensation from Epstein or the Epstein Estate.
Virginia Giuffre is the ONLY one who claims she had sex with someone besides Epstein.
Farmer and Courtney Wild claim they were groomed by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. They also admit they accepted money for sex.
Somehow, in 2019, the Department of Justice figured out how to indict Epstein and Maxwell, for Trafficking, in the 1990s and early 2000s, even though the DOJ still cannot prove ANY coercion by Epstein or Maxwell.
Re: "No information about victim testimony"
I have never seen a transcript for the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in 2021.
Please send me a link, if you have one.
Thanks.
Nope. Everyone in PBC new about Epstein’s net worth way before the girl’s filed suit to overturn the plea. The girls’ attorneys were local but sophisticated with national reputations. There was never going to be a trial but, you are right, it would have been ugly. The reason why there would be no trial is that the prosecution would have shown a pattern of behavior/habit of having the young masseuses that were unlicensed and in HS or thereabouts. When the big name defense lawyers got the Feds involved it was all about a universal plea. Unfortunately for Maxwell and other Epstein employees the S. FLorida US atty could only bind his district and not the entire country to immunity, which was part of the plea deal.
The unfortunate part is that Epstein didn’t learn his lesson and ramped up his girl activity after discharge from first case. Keep in mind that Trump, and likely B Clinton, got out of the Epstein’s world around 2004 - before the 1st criminal case ramped up. Randy Andy and his lovely wife did not, he came back for more. The cash and settlements fly about because of round 2.
Everything changed about 2018 when the Miami Herald story broke. This also led to all the settlements, some with the girls’ original attorneys but it really ramped up with Bois. And then you get NDAs up the wazoo. Why the banks settled is a bigger mystery to me than why Epstein/attys did during round 1. The only way you explain the banks caving is media exposure - at least to me.
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