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struggle4progress

(126,647 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:16 PM Aug 2025

Ghislaine: Epstein built fortune helping warlords track down stolen money

By Chris Spargo
Published on August 28, 2025 03:41PM EDT

Jeffrey Epstein made his fortune hunting down money that had been stolen from some of the wealthiest people in the world, according to Ghislaine Maxwell, who shared this information during a July interview with the Department of Justice ...

The longtime Epstein confidante — who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence after being convicted on federal charges of: conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor — said that in this endeavor, he either worked with or for African warlords.

The idea came from a girlfriend at the time, said Maxwell, though she did not identify the woman by name.

"She was the daughter of a billionaire, for instance. And that billionaire, whoever his — whatever his name was — had had some money stolen, and for some reason this woman introduced Jeffrey, and Jeffrey — I think that's how that business started. That's what I remember," Maxwell said in her interview ...

https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-african-warlords-fortune-ghislaine-maxwell-interview-11799265

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Ghislaine: Epstein built fortune helping warlords track down stolen money (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2025 OP
So says the child rapist and child trafficker. Scrivener7 Aug 2025 #1
Mike Johnson on Ghislaine: 'She Has No Credibility' struggle4progress Aug 2025 #2
Riiiigggghhhhhttttt. JanMichael Aug 2025 #3
She also says that she isn't a sex criminal, so what use is any of her words? RockRaven Aug 2025 #4
Sounds like the pedophile version of the Nigerian Prince email scam. sop Aug 2025 #5
Big market, eh. Kid Berwyn Aug 2025 #6
In other words, Epstein was stealing money from rich people. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #7
👀 underpants Aug 2025 #8
Laughable deflection in People Magazine. PufPuf23 Aug 2025 #9
How very noble Hekate Aug 2025 #10
sure, bro Skittles Aug 2025 #11
Yeah, nah..... canetoad Aug 2025 #12
examples please .. ? and Jeffy was qualified and adept at this type of stopdiggin Aug 2025 #13
Exavtly my question...what qualifications, or expierence with forensic money transfers Volaris Aug 2025 #14

struggle4progress

(126,647 posts)
2. Mike Johnson on Ghislaine: 'She Has No Credibility'
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:20 PM
Aug 2025

Marco Margaritoff
Fri 29 August 2025 at 5:50 pm GMT-4

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday said convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who told the Justice Department in a recent interview that she “never” saw President Donald Trump engage in any “inappropriate” behavior, has “no credibility.”

The Trump administration has faced notable public backlash for withholding additional files on Maxwell’s late accomplice, the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, particularly after Johnson abruptly shut down the House in July — blocking a vote that would force the release of said files.

Maxwell is currently seeking a pardon from the administration, recently telling Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, “I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age.” She was subsequently transferred to a more comfortable prison ...

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mike-johnson-shares-thoughts-ghislaine-215029427.html

Kid Berwyn

(24,969 posts)
6. Big market, eh.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:26 PM
Aug 2025

New York.
City of London.
Miami.

Yep. Right-o.

While I remember people from those places who work WITH warlords from Africa, I don’t know too many interested in returning any money they looted from Africa.

PufPuf23

(9,919 posts)
9. Laughable deflection in People Magazine.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:35 PM
Aug 2025

Consider Ghislaine Maxwell's father and siblings and his known employers like Wexner.

Squirrel!

canetoad

(20,955 posts)
12. Yeah, nah.....
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:44 PM
Aug 2025


Everyone has seen this image (this version is not cropped). It was taken in Maxwell's townhouse after a dinner engagement, by Jeffrey Epstein. That's his finger in shot, on the right.

Ghislaine is smiling because she and Epstein know that they have their next blackmail victim on camera.

Their business was blackmail. The photo was planned for this very purpose.

stopdiggin

(15,619 posts)
13. examples please .. ? and Jeffy was qualified and adept at this type of
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:46 PM
Aug 2025

bounty hunting - because ... ?

Volaris

(11,788 posts)
14. Exavtly my question...what qualifications, or expierence with forensic money transfers
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:30 PM
Aug 2025

Or tracking cash did he have?

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