Epstein’s flight logs subpoenaed; Rising reports
Rising’s Jessica Burbank and Amber Duke reported that Republican Tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn filed a subpoena on the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. This covers the flight logs from his private plane. The subpoena is hoped to either confirm or disprove the allegations that Mr Epstein engaged in human trafficking and sexual abuse. The logs will disclose who was traveling on the financier’s private plane and how many trips they took to his private island.
The so-called “Lolita Express” was infamous for allegations of flying underage girls and powerful people. Bill Clinton was one of the politicians, mentioned by Senator Blackburn, for taking a number of flights on Epstein’s plane, as well as Bill Gates and Donald Trump. Epstein’s modus operandi, as asserted by the Senator was to implicate his guests in illegal activities, namely, sexual abuse of minors, and then blackmail them into investing with his company.
Jessica Burbank highlighted that Ghislaine Maxwell’s black book, containing the names of Epstein’s clients should also come to light during the trial. It is worth noting that Alison Nathan, who was the judge, ruling in Maxwell’s case, held that the notebook was immaterial or irrelevant to the trial. Rising dismissed this as ridiculous, arguing that the crime of sex trafficking cannot be perpetrated without demand and Epstein’s clients should be held responsible for what happened on that island.
The subpoena came alongside a report on a brothel based out of Massachusetts and Virginia, which was frequently visited by some highly powerful people, including lawyers, doctors, accountants, elected officials, executives of high-tech companies and pharmaceutical companies, military officers, government contractors, professors, scientists and potentially hundreds others. The disclosures followed investigations of law enforcement through surveillance of phone records and interviews.
Amber Duke suggested that the brothel case once again highlighted that high-profile individuals could be extorted on account of their immoral behavior and repeatedly get away with it because of a sense that they are above the law.
Duke went on to argue that the idea of potential blackmail had national security implications in the case of politicians or elected officials, or individuals who otherwise have their finger on the lever of power, given the possibility that these officials could be selling out the American people for personal protection because someone is holding something over their head.