We Found the Missing Epstein Documents

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Cy Canterel reveals newly found Epstein documents and internal communications regarding the controversial plea deal.

This is Omnishambles. A new and free weekly podcast where we take on one shamble each week and then untangle it. Subscribe now and never miss an episode! Federal prosecutors alleged internally that the state attorney’s office colluded with Epstein’s defense team to engineer the 2007–08 plea deal — and we have the emails. When Congressman Thomas Massie stood on the floor of Congress and said the documents around that plea were missing from the DOJ’s recent file drop, he wasn’t wrong that they were hard to find. But Cy Canterel found them . And what’s in them is worse than we knew. In this episode, Cy walks Virginia through an extraordinary deep dive into newly released internal communications between federal prosecutors, the state attorney’s office, and Epstein’s own legal team, revealing not just how the infamous 2007–2008 “sweetheart deal” was constructed, but how it was systematically manipulated at every level after it was signed. They cover: * How Palm Beach police went directly to the FBI after state attorney Barry Krischer slow-walked the case — and why that’s nearly unheard of * The “armada” of defense attorneys Epstein assembled before he was ever charged, including Alan…

People in this episode

Host: Virginia Heffernan

Guest: Cy Canterel

Topics covered

• Epstein documents
• legal defense
• plea deal
• federal prosecutors
• internal communications
• collusion
• criminal justice

Keywords

• Epstein
• plea deal
• documents
• federal prosecutors
• collusion
• legal defense
• internal communications
• Congress
• Thomas Massie
• FBI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, Kirkland & Ellis

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