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In reply to the discussion: Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap': [View all]Bluetus
(2,469 posts)Epstein received something around a billion dollars in money transfers from all over the world. There is no arithmetic that gets you there from running a sex operation. Figure that a high-end prostitute might go for $2000 (and these weren't necessarily top class "escorts" -- they were mostly young girls that were abused and vulnerable). At $2000 per service, you would need 500 million services to bring in that kind of money. Moreover, the Trump/Epstein clientele are not people accustomed to paying like this.
The money came from extortion (how much is Bill Gates paying to keep it secret?), money laundering (you have Putin's attention) and payoffs by spy agencies for the Kompromat.
Speaking of the Kompromat, Congress and the media are talking continuously about redacted documents. We know that the FBI impounded lots of the actual Kompromat (videos and pictures) Where are they? I don't expect that to be released publicly, but we know Epstein must have had thousands of sex tapes. That's the core of the operation. Where is that stuff? Emails can be debated about context. Videos will be very clear evidence. Why is nobody even asking about this?