Email: Epstein Hid Cameras In Kleenex Boxes and All Around His Palm Beach Home

I know yesterday I said there was no evidence of an Epstein blackmail operation but I'm going to exercise the Democrat Denialist Maneuver of declaring "I never said that nor held that position."

If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

NYT:

Jeffrey Epstein directed one of his aides to obtain hidden video cameras, apparently to be set up in his home in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a recently released 2014 email.

The purpose of the cameras was not clear, but a number of Mr. Epstein's victims have said they suspected they were being recorded. That has fueled speculation that he was collecting compromising information on his powerful acquaintances, though no evidence has emerged to prove those claims.

"Lets get three motion detected hidden cameras, that record," Mr. Epstein wrote to Larry Visoski, his longtime pilot, who has said he at times set up audio and video equipment for Mr. Epstein in his residences.

Mr. Visoski replied that he had already purchased two motion-sensor cameras from a store that sold surveillance equipment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was in the process of figuring out how they worked. "Its amazing how small they are," he wrote, adding that they could record for 64 hours. "I'm installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I'll bring them by later today."

Mr. Visoski did not respond to a request for comment.

The February 2014 email, which was previously reported by The Telegraph, is the latest indication that Mr. Epstein installed surveillance cameras inside his homes. Last summer, The New York Times published photos that showed a camera mounted in the corner of the master bedroom in his palatial Upper East Side townhouse. Another was nestled in the moldings of an adjoining room. The Times also reviewed a photo that showed a camera near a suite of bathrooms on the same floor as Mr. Epstein's bedroom.

The presence of those cameras conflicts with what federal law enforcement officials have said in the past.

Last March, for example, federal prosecutors in Manhattan provided top F.B.I. officials with a description of the video evidence that investigators had recovered from Mr. Epstein's properties. The email said that when F.B.I. agents raided his New York and U.S. Virgin Islands homes after he was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019, they searched for surveillance cameras.

"My understanding from the case agent is that there were no cameras found inside any bedrooms or living areas of either residence," read the email, which was recently released by the Justice Department. The email added that the only cameras the F.B.I. found were near the residences' entryways.

Uh, have you considered he might have taken them down?

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In 2005, as the police in Palm Beach were investigating Mr. Epstein for raping and sexually abusing girls, detectives searched his home. A police official later wrote in an incident report that he "located two covert (hidden) cameras." Both were stashed inside clocks, one in Mr. Epstein's garage and the other beside his desk.

Note that the FBI didn't deny that there were videos of people in compromising situations. They said there were no videos of people in compromising situations except for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

It's possible this pervert was making unconsented-to pornographic videos of people he was having sex with.

It's also possible he was collecting, as Chuck Todd likes to say, kompromat. (At least he likes to say that when he's speculating about Trump involved in seedy sexual scenarios with Russian Pee-Prostitutes.)

Relatedly, Ghislaine Maxwell has pled the fifth in a House Oversight Committee hearing, but she's trying to conjure herself a Get Out of Free Card by saying she will testify about what she knows if and only if Trump commutes her sentence. She says she will clear Trump -- um, the police records have already done that -- and also clear Bill Clinton.

Pass. I know you're lying based on that last claim.

"I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence," Maxwell, speaking from prison, repeatedly stated more than a dozen times during Monday's closed-door virtual deposition, refusing to answer any questions on the panel's investigation into Epstein, the late sex offender.

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The video of the deposition shows Maxwell declining to answer if she was a close friend of Epstein.

"I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions. My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York. I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," Maxwell responded.

Maxwell refused to say if she was involved in trafficking of young women or girls and if she ever coerced any young women or girls to provide sexual favors to Epstein.

She refused to provide the committee names of any additional co-conspirators, or to answer if she was aware that Epstein was sexually abusing minors and adult women, and whether she ever participated in sexual abuse of any minor or adult woman.

Maxwell's lawyer, David Markus, said during the deposition, "If this committee and the American public truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about what happened, there is a straightforward path. Ms. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump."

"For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing," the lawyer said. "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation."

Trump needs to start suing all of these people. This statement was made outside of Congress. Leftwing judges have extended congressional immunity to statements made outside of Congress supposedly "in the conduct of their congressional duties," but this a simple political slander.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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