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Epstein's "clients" (Original Post) SHRED Jul 2019 OP
DC Madam client list is lost to history, largely... Kid Berwyn Jul 2019 #1
I'm starting to read claims he had ties to Adnan Khashoggi. pecosbob Jul 2019 #2
It was in epstein's little black book Clarity2 Jul 2019 #5
Reportedly he only had the Victoria's Secret owner donkeypoofed Jul 2019 #3
Barr's father was an early adopter. GeorgeGist Jul 2019 #4
I think Clarity2 Jul 2019 #6
If I was Epstein I'd be very scared and concerned for my life. lark Jul 2019 #7

pecosbob

(7,548 posts)
2. I'm starting to read claims he had ties to Adnan Khashoggi.
Sat Jul 27, 2019, 10:40 AM
Jul 2019

This story keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
5. It was in epstein's little black book
Sat Jul 27, 2019, 11:34 AM
Jul 2019
Khashoggi, Adnan: Saudi Arabian man of mystery.

To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epstein’s primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the “personal protection” of “an affluent member of the Jewish faith” traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.

According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he “worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators” and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to “help them hide their stolen money.” A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epstein’s clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump. —Matt Stieb
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html

What I just realized now (and this may already be out there, and I missed it?) is that Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was murdered at the Saudi embassy, was Adnan's nephew. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi

Now that makes it doubly weird.

donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
3. Reportedly he only had the Victoria's Secret owner
Sat Jul 27, 2019, 11:17 AM
Jul 2019

The rest must be from money laundering and/or blackmail.

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
6. I think
Sat Jul 27, 2019, 11:39 AM
Jul 2019

there had to be more in his "little black book", or there was a second little black book.
Isn't Cy Vance prosecuting this case? He was also in Epstein's book, so I don't know how he can possibly be in charge of this.
That's bs, just like the Palm Beach Sheriff investigating his own investigation.

lark

(23,191 posts)
7. If I was Epstein I'd be very scared and concerned for my life.
Sat Jul 27, 2019, 12:29 PM
Jul 2019

PUtin doesn't often allow loose ends to lie around.

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