Congress Names Epstein’s 'Filthy 14' (Part 1) (9/2/26)

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1:27For years, Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed as a distraction, a conspiracy theory, a political weapon, a hoax, a story for cranks, a story for people who supposedly saw monsters, in every shadow. Funny how that works. The more evidence piles up, the more desperate the dismissal becomes. The more named surface, the more people suddenly discover, an intense interest and restraint. The more records come out, the more we are told not to read too much into them. The more testimony appears, the more people remind us that memory, well, it's imperfect. And the more money that's uncovered, the more complicated everything supposedly becomes. And every single time the trail starts moving toward people with wealth, status, influence, or something valuable to lose, the tone changes. Suddenly, everyone becomes delicate. Suddenly, all these politicians become careful. Suddenly, everyone becomes deeply concerned about reputations.

2:32Where was that concern when the women were talking? Where was that caution when survivors were being picked apart publicly? Where was that restraint when powerful institutions were given years to explain themselves while victims were expected to prove every detail of their lives over and over again? It seems like the compassion always arrives late, and it always seems to arrive for the same people. And that's one of the biggest discresses of all time, because Jeffrey Epstein's dead. That dick has been dead for years. He doesn't need anyone to defend him. He doesn't need anyone to protect his reputation. He doesn't need anyone to minimize what happened. He doesn't need anyone to bury documents, soften language, redirect attention, or pretend the questions are somehow beneath serious people. And yet the instinct to protect the world around him is still alive and well. And that tells you everything. The protection was never really about Epstein. It was about who sat behind them, who knew him, who used them, who benefited from him,

3:34who stayed close. Who kept answering the phone? Who kept finding reasons to look the other way? And who would rather have you believe that all of this somehow begins and ends with one dead predator and one woman sitting in prison? That story's always been to convenient, way too convenient. It lets everybody else walk away clean. It lets institutions call them out or closed. It lets people who spent years around Epstein redefine themselves as innocent bystanders, who just happen to keep showing up. It lets the people who add access to more information than the average person pretend they somehow knew less than everyone else. And maybe that worked for a while. Maybe it worked because the public was overwhelmed, the records were scattered, because too many people were willing to reduce the entire scandal to a punchline or a political slogan. Maybe it worked because calling something a hoax is easier than reading, easier than listening, than asking uncomfortable questions about people you might admire.

4:39But that excuse is getting harder to sustain. The record keeps expanding, the contradictions keep multiplying, and the gap between what people said they knew and what the documents suggest they were close enough to know keeps getting harder to ignore. Now look, that doesn't mean every person in Epstein's Orbit committed a crime. That means the old performance is wearing thin, the shrugs, the selective memory, the carefully polished statements, the insistence that everything was misunderstood. The outrage at being questioned, the sudden shock that anyone would dare revisit relationships that somehow lasted for years, all of it, I'm tired of it. I'm tired of watching people with immense power act like asking them to explain themselves is some outrageous violation of their bich-ass dignity. I'm tired of watching survivors receive suspicion while powerful people receive patience. I'm tired of watching obvious questions get treated like bad manners.

5:40And I'm especially tired of people who call this entire scandal a hoax, not pretending they were merely asking reasonable questions. No, no, no, you weren't asking questions, you were trying to shut them down. You were trying to make curiosity embarrassing, scrutiny sound unserious, and you were trying to create a social penalty for anyone who refused to stop digging. Because every time somebody says there is nothing here, what they're really asking for is silence. When they say move on, what they're really saying is that the unanswered questions are becoming too inconvenient. And when somebody calls the whole thing a hoax, they're asking you to ignore the people who still have something to explain. I'll let other people talk about theories and shadows and internet rumors. We're going to talk about the names that have been dragged directly into the public record in a way that can no longer be brushed aside so easily. If somebody spent years close to Jeffrey Epstein, I want questions asked. If they benefited from that relationship, I want questions asked.

6:43If somebody continued dealing with them, after everyone knew what he was, I want the questions asked. And if somebody spent years telling the rest of us that there was nothing to see here, I want them to explain why they were so invested and make insurinable but he looked. Because maybe the most revealing thing about the Epstein scandal was never who was simply around them. Maybe it was who kept insisting that none of it mattered. Thomas Massey walked onto the floor of the United States House of Representatives and did what the Justice Department of Spaniards finding reasons not to do. He said the names out loud. Just daily, Leon Black, Les Wexner, David Copperfield, Lapo Elkin, Thomas Pritzker, Glendouban, Fredrick Fokai, Eduardo, Tio Dorani Fabri, Jean-Luc Brunel, Daniel Saed, Ramsey Elcoly, Andrew, Mount Bant Wenzor, and Leslie Graf were all placed into the Congressional record. Massey described them as Epstein co-conspirators and demanded that they be investigated and

7:45prosecuted where the evidence supports it. That's not some random guy's screaming names into a camera for clicks. This was the sitting member of Congress using the House floor to openly challenge the Justice Department over people appearing throughout the Epstein record. And after everything that has happened in the case, the question is not why Massey finally named them, the question is, what took so fucking long? Epstein has been dead since 2019, Glendouban Maxwell, sitting in a federal prison for years, millions of pages have been accumulated, and somehow the wider investigation has crawled along like the government has all the time in the world. It does not. People die, memories disappear, evidence gets harder to reconstruct, and every year at the lay becomes another gift handed to anyone hoping this story eventually exhausts the public. What makes Massey's list so important is that these 14 people did not all encounter Epstein in the same way. Some handled logistics, some moved through his financial life, some allegedly encountered

8:49women connected to him, some supplied models or introductions, some socialized with him, and some maintained relationships with him after his criminal history was impossible to pretend did not exist. Epstein's life was not one endless dinner party where rich people happened to wander past him, and accidentally end up in photographs. His world had moving parts. Somebody scheduled things, somebody arranged things, somebody introduced people, somebody paid money. Somebody accepted money, somebody traveled, somebody opened doors, and somebody always seemed available when Epstein needed access to another room full of powerful people. Yet every time scrutiny reaches one of those people, the public's handed some variation of the same insulting explanation. Nobody knew anything, nobody noticed anything, nobody understood anything. And apparently Jeffrey Epstein spent decades surrounded by extraordinarily accomplished adults, who suddenly developed the observational abilities of houseplants whenever the subject turned

9:50to him. After a while, that becomes less believable, then offensive, and look, there's anger here because the women and girls around Epstein never received the luxury of being oblivious. They live with what happened. They remembered the rooms, the massages, the money, the instructions, the pressure, the names, and the adults who appeared throughout those years. Meanwhile many people occupying the wealthy side of Epstein's world had lawyers, publicists, corporations, royal institutions, banks, and reputations, standing between them and meaningful scrutiny. The teenage girl was expected to remember every detail of something traumatic decades later, while billionaires routinely appeared before investigators, and suddenly struggled to remember conversations, meetings, introductions, or obvious warning signs. Somehow amnesia becomes respectable when the person suffering from it owns enough property. Somehow terrible judgment becomes sophisticated complexity when the person exercising it

10:51manages billions of dollars. Somehow continuing to deal with a convicted sex offender becomes a complicated personal matter rather than a basic test of character. Massie threw 14 names into the middle of that hypocrisy, and they deserved to be examined one by one. So let's start with Jess Staley. Because his relationship with Epstein makes a phrase, I didn't know, feel like an insult, to basic intelligence. Staley wasn't some inexperienced junior banker who met Epstein once and forgot about him. He rose through JP Morgan, eventually became chief executive of Barclays, and occupied the highest levels of international finance. When the power goes out, there are two kinds of people. There's the ones that are hoping someone else can help, and then there's the ones who are ready to help themselves. This message is brought to you by Avocado Mattress.

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13:04He traveled to Epstein's Island. He exchanged amount of communications with them. He continued treating Epstein as someone worthy of his time, even after Epstein had been convicted in Florida. Then congressional testimony released in 2026 added another astonishing layer when Staley acknowledged sharing confidential and market-sensitive JP Morgan information with Epstein. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein was trustworthy enough to hear sensitive information from one of America's most powerful bankers, but somehow not trustworthy enough for that banker to know much about what Epstein was actually doing with his life. That is one hell of a selective friendship. Staley told Congress that he had viewed Epstein's 2008 crime as essentially a one-off and hoped Epstein had changed, and as far as I'm concerned, that explanation deserves nothing but content, because it asked everyone else to accept the level of him being naive that would be embarrassing coming from a teenager, never mind a man entrusted with enormous financial

14:07institutions. Epstein wasn't caught stealing a bottle of whiskey and promising to behave himself. The case in Palm Beach involved allegations from multiple girls, and yet the investigation that had already exposed deeply disturbing conduct yet Staley continued that relationship. He even advocated inside JP Morgan for retaining Epstein as a client while concerns about Epstein were multiplying like Gremlins, the same man who could navigate financial crisis, billion dollar transactions, regulatory minefields, and international banking politics, apparently decided that Jeffrey Epstein deserved the benefit of the doubt. If Staley truly believed Epstein's behavior had been some isolated lapse, then his judgment was appalling. If you knew more than that, then investigators should determine exactly how much more. His 2026 testimony made the whole thing smell worse, not better. Staley acknowledged that Epstein helped generate valuable introductions and served as a source

15:07of advice. He admitted discussing matters with Epstein that most bankers would not casually share with an ordinary acquaintance. Epstein had enough importance in Staley's life, that his usefulness crossed personal and professional lines. Staley also acknowledged the sexual relationship with a woman who worked for Epstein, describing it as consensual. Other allegations involving Staley have been made and denied, including deeply serious claims connected to women and Epstein's orbit. And look, the point isn't to try and pretend that every allegation has been proven. The point is that the relationship keeps producing more material, every time somebody finally forces open another door. Every new disclosure makes the old claims of limited knowledge look more ridiculous. Staley wasn't watching Epstein from across a football stadium. He was close enough that ignorance itself now deserves investigation. Leon Black presents another problem entirely because here the numbers become so obscene that they almost sound like satire.

16:10Black paid Jeffrey Epstein roughly 158 million with some congressional figures placing the overall amount around 170 million for financial tax estate and related advisory services. Read that again and resist the urge to laugh. A billionaire private equity titan with access to the finest tax lawyers, counten's, state planners, consultants, and investment professionals money can buy somehow found Jeffrey Epstein uniquely valuable. After Epstein was already a convicted sex offender, not mildly valuable, not a few million dollars valuable, nine figure valuable. Epstein apparently possessed financial wisdom so extraordinary that Leon Black showered him with a fortune while the rest of the professional financial world somehow felt to recognize his towering genius. Miss me with that. Black has insisted the services were legitimate and that Epstein provided significant tax and estate planning benefits. Wonderful. Then open the books and let the work speak for itself.

17:12Show every assignment, show every invoice, show every calculation. Show every contemporaneous explanation for why Jeffrey Epstein was worth compensation that would make elite law firms blush. Show exactly why Black continued pouring money toward a registered sex offender years after Palm Beach. Instead the public has watched congressional investigators fight for information while Black's relationship with Epstein has become more disturbing with every serious examination. His name appears thousands of times in release material. The United States Virgin Islands pursued him over Epstein related issues and obtained a $62.5 million settlement without Black admitting my ability. None of that looks like a relationship deserving a shrug. Then came Black's 2026 encounter with Congress and somehow the arrogance managed to become even more visible. He voluntarily appeared before the House Oversight Committee and then refused to answer certain questions involving non-disclosure agreements and women.

18:16Lawmakers responded by Servants of Venus. Black walked out of the interview after the committee escalated the matter. Imagine behaving that way while Congress is investigating Jeffrey Epstein. Imagine having paid Epstein an amount approaching $170 million and deciding that certain questions simply were not going to receive answers on the committee's timetable. That's the kind of privilege that has infected this story from the beginning. Everyone wants privacy when scrutiny arrives. But survivors were denied privacy for years while every painful piece of their lives was picked apart. Black is denied participating in Epstein's crimes and denied allegations of sexual misconduct fine. But denial is not a substitute for answers when the financial record is screaming this loudly. Alright folks we're going to wrap up part one right here and in the next episode we're going to pick up with Les Wechner. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.