When we were cutting our teeth at The Sunday Mail as future news gurus, our editor, Willie Musarurwa would call us into his office and ask a simple question.
“What is your story line?” He would ask.
But the matter becomes juicy. In the Jeffrey Epstein story, which I am about to share with our readers, the story line is hidden behind the words.
In 2008 (under president Barack Obama) Jeffrey Epstein (pictured) was arrested on federal charges of solicitation of prostitution involving a minor.
Of an 18 months sentence, he served 13 and was granted work release, after which he had daily contact with an official outside a jailhouse.
The story becomes juicy. An ambitious reporter, Julie K Brown suggested that perhaps Epstein really never was in a jailhouse.
(An aside: I have been told that in Zimbabwe, some chefs we thought had been jailed, were actually placed under house protection, whatever that means.)
The juiciest part.
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The intrepid Ms Brown became a legendary reporter when she published a list of child victims and women who suffered under Epstein’s criminal under-world activities.
But the real deal was a list of Epstein’s associates which included Prince Andrew of Britain, former president Bill Clinton and his wife, billionaires Bill Gates of Microsoft and Jammie Diamond of J.P. Morgan, the second largest financial house in the world, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and our very own the cantankerous Donald Trump. An Israeli prime minister was one of Epstein’s acquaintances.
While Prince Andrew was tarred and feathered, not all those on the lists (about 75) were guilty of any crime. They might have flown in Epstein’s plane by chance since he was a New York socialite.
Trump was probably the least guilty because, if he had been guilty of the slightest infraction, the Democrats would have taken him to the cleaners.
That much we know.
Juicier
Epstein was re-arrested in 2019 (now under Trump administration). This time the charges were jaw dropping, the Federal Bureau of Investigations having taken over.
Epstein’s English girlfriend and longtime partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell was brought to face charges.
Ghislane was the supreme daughter of the Israeli chief spy, the late English media mogul, Robert Maxwell.
Maxwell, facing financial ruin in England and perhaps some espionage charges, is believed to have “organised” (Zimbabwean English) by jumping from his boat, the Lady Ghislane in the Atlantic Ocean in 1991.
His name was high on the feared Israeli Mossad hierarchy.
More juicier
The worst thing that can happen to a human is to be arrested by the FBI. It literally never loses a case (93 percent wins).
It is a master of over-charging and media over-exposure in order to poison the jury pool so that by the time the accused is tried, the jury are infuriated that the prisoner is nowhere other than in a very bad place, in jail.
The high-profile prisoner, Epstein was placed in a federal maximum prison, guarded 24/7 by two masterful security guards, with two television monitors at their disposal.
On August 10, 2019, the FBI issued this statement. “At approximately 6.30 a.m. inmate Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit from an apparent suicide … in New York.”
On October 30, Michael Baden, a renowned pathologist said that Epstein could not have successfully broken his own neck the way he had observed.
The charges leveled against Epstein further inflames the conspiracy theory that because of the high-profile figures in his list of friends and customers, Epstein’s death was not self-inflicted.
The idea that the two master federal security guards went to sleep while Epstein was struggling to break hi sown neck is laughable. Further, that the two television monitors were “inoperative” is worse than laughable.
The charges were that the FBI, during an investigation, had seized pictures of nude girls, some as young as 14 and that “in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims, Epstein also paid certain of his victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused.”
Ryan Dawson, another intrepid reporter gleaned as many as 250 names of girls and mentioned a nick name for them as “” Disney Princess girls.” Epstein had a love-island in the Caribbean, a house in Florida, another in New York and it has been recently suggested that he had a hide-out in Israel as well.
With these connections all over the world, his financial company was suspected of money laundering as well.
Of Epstein’s associates, the one person who seems to be totally free from blame is president Trump.
He told the New York Magazine in 2002 that while Epstein is a “lot of fun to be with…it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them on the younger side” their friendship broke down.
Trump was never impressed by under-age girls.
Clinton took four trips on Epstein’s plane, but said it was all in good faith, in the furtherance of a humanitarian cause.
The juicy question.
The issue was never about whether Epstein was a “creep” (Trump’s word) or whether he committed sexual crimes and money laundering. That the FBI can easily make a case against him.
The question is whether the US and UK governments were compromised by Epstein’s association with the Israeli Mossad and whether through his many connections, he milked secrets from prominent politicians in fear of political exposure, otherwise known as blackmail.
That is the story line.
President Joe Biden came into power in January 2020. He shut down the investigation. Trump promised, during his campaign, to expose the Epstein cover-up when he assumes office.
He has refused to publish the Epstein files. Reporters who are intrepid enough to pursue this matter may find themselves “in trouble.” Don’t ask me who puts them in trouble.
PEACE.
* Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes from the US.
