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The Epstein Chronicles

Jeffrey Epstein was a multi millionaire who had political and business ties to some of the most rich and powerful people in the world. From businessmen to politicians at the highest levels, Epstein broke bread with them all.

Yet for years the Legacy media and the rest of high society looked the other way and ignored his behavior as multiple women came forward with allegations of abuse.

Even after he was convicted and subsequently received a sweetheart deal those same so called elites welcomed him back with open arms.

Now after his death and the arrest of Maxwell, the real story is starting to come together and the curtain has begun to be drawn back and what it has revealed is truly disturbing.

From Princes to Ex Presidents, the cast of scoundrels in this play spans continents and political affiliations leaving us with a transcontinental criminal conspiracy possibly unlike any we have ever seen before.

In this podcast we will explore all of the levels of Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal enterprise.

From his most trusted assistants to obscure associates, we will leave no stone unturned as we swim through the muck searching for clarity and answers to some of the most pressing questions of the case.

From interviews with people directly involved in the case to daily updates, the Epstein Chronicles will have it all.

Just like our other project, The Jeffrey Epstein Show, you can expect no punches pulled and consistent content. We have covered the Epstein case daily(everyday since October 1st 2019) and will continue to do so until there are convictions. With a library of well over 1k shows, you can expect a ton of content coming your way including on scene reporting from the Maxwell trial and from places like Zorro Ranch.

Thank you for tuning in and I look forward to having you all along for the ride.

(Created and Hosted by Bobby Capucci)

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The Report And Recommendation To Allow The Survivor Suit Against The FBI To Proceed (Part 1) (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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A federal magistrate judge recommended denying the government’s attempt to throw out a negligence lawsuit brought by numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors against the United States over the FBI’s handling of warnings about Epstein stretching back decades. The women alleged that the bureau repeatedly failed to act on credible reports, beginning with Maria Farmer’s 1996 complaint that Epstein had sexually assaulted her, possessed child sexual abuse material and was abusing and trafficking young girls. The complaint also alleged that additional tips and red flags were ignored between 1996 and 2005, that another survivor’s allegations were left largely untouched for years, and that the FBI’s later Florida investigation was riddled with failures, including not interviewing all known victims, not collecting all available corroborating evidence and not properly pursuing reports of suspicious financial activity. The survivors further alleged that after the 2007 non-prosecution agreement effectively ended the federal case, FBI agents continued sending letters telling victims that the matter was still under investigation, creating the impression that federal authorities were continuing to pursue Epstein when they were not. They argued that these failures created a foreseeable risk that Epstein would continue abusing women and girls, and sought $320 million in compensatory damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
The government argued that the case should be dismissed on several grounds, including sovereign immunity, the discretionary-function exception, the statute of limitations and alleged defects in the survivors’ administrative claims. Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe rejected dismissal at this stage, finding that the women had plausibly alleged that FBI agents voluntarily undertook responsibilities toward victims and then failed to exercise reasonable care, particularly in New York and Florida. He also concluded that the survivors had pleaded enough to potentially justify equitable tolling of the limitations period, including allegations that critical information about the FBI’s conduct had been withheld for years and that they did not learn important facts about the government’s failures until much later. McCabe did express skepticism about whether the survivors would ultimately be able to prove that the FBI’s failures legally caused their later abuse, noting that agents themselves could not guarantee prosecution or imprisonment, but he said causation was generally a factual question that should not be resolved on a motion to dismiss. He recommended allowing 90 days of limited discovery into FBI policies and procedures and into administrative-exhaustion questions involving three Jane Does, after which the government could renew parts of its dismissal request. In practical terms, the recommendation kept the heart of the survivors’ case alive and opened the door to discovery into exactly what rules governed the FBI when it received reports about Epstein and what federal agents actually did with those warnings.
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source:
epstein-victims-civil-fbi-MTD-report.pdf
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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Claim He Tried To Whack Himself 3 Times While Locked Up (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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The New York Times’ new claim that Jeffrey Epstein attempted suicide at least three times depends heavily on Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein’s former cellmate and a convicted quadruple murderer with an obvious personal interest in shaping the story. Epstein initially accused Tartaglione of attacking him during the disputed July 23, 2019 incident, so Tartaglione benefits enormously from portraying Epstein as repeatedly suicidal and himself as the man who tried to save him. His account turns him from a possible aggressor into a rescuer who found nooses, warned guards, performed chest compressions, and preserved a purported suicide note. Yet these extraordinary allegations do not appear clearly in the major official investigations, psychological records, medical reports, or the Justice Department inspector general’s reconstruction. If Epstein had repeatedly attempted hanging, lost consciousness, and required resuscitation, there should be identifiable officers, medical documentation, incident reports, confiscated materials, surveillance evidence, or contemporaneous witnesses. Without that corroboration, Tartaglione’s story remains a deeply self-serving allegation rather than an established fact.
Questioning Tartaglione does not require rejecting the official suicide ruling or embracing a murder theory. It simply means applying ordinary journalistic standards to an unreliable and interested source. The official record may be incomplete, and prison officials may have concealed or mishandled important information, but those possibilities do not automatically make Tartaglione truthful. His claims should be tested individually against records, witnesses, physical evidence, and the timeline, particularly because they emerged publicly years after the events and conveniently support both his defense and the government’s broader narrative. By presenting his account as a bombshell without resolving these contradictions, the Times risks laundering one prisoner’s recollections into historical fact. In a case already defined by falsified logs, missing evidence, negligent guards, institutional secrecy, and contradictory official statements, certainty should come from corroboration—not from the belated word of a man with every reason to rewrite his role in the story.
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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Broken Bargain (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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Taken as a whole, the plea conference transcript documents the formal moment when Jeffrey Epstein secured an unusually favorable resolution to serious felony charges, one that was explicitly premised on compliance with strict custodial and supervisory conditions. The court accepted the plea on the understanding that Epstein would serve meaningful jail time, submit to sex-offender designation, comply with supervision, and abide by restrictions meant to prevent further harm. On paper, the agreement was presented as a final, enforceable resolution that balanced punishment with accountability, and the court relied on representations that Epstein would follow those terms in full.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is now clear that those assumptions did not hold. Epstein’s subsequent treatment and behavior—his hollowed-out incarceration, continued privileges, and apparent disregard for key restrictions—call into question whether the plea terms were ever genuinely satisfied. That breakdown matters because the plea deal and the related non-prosecution agreement were conditional arrangements, dependent on good-faith compliance. When viewed in this broader context, the transcript reads not as a clean conclusion, but as the starting point of a failed enforcement process that allowed the protections of the deal to remain in place despite evidence that its core requirements were not being met.
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source:
gov.uscourts.flsd.317867.463.3.pdf
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Mega Edition: Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 15-17) (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, and did not knowingly help Epstein or Maxwell commit crimes. She described Epstein as a “master manipulator” who lied to her and kept his “legitimate” world apart from his abuse, while acknowledging that she scheduled massage appointments when Epstein provided names and numbers, sometimes circulated calendars that included those appointments early on, and understood the massages as routine at the time. She said she did not personally meet the massage providers, did not know they were minors or young women, and assumed they were masseuses, even though members pressed her on why an extremely wealthy man would use rotating names and phone numbers instead of a professional massage service.
The questioning also focused heavily on Epstein’s network and whether Groff had knowledge of powerful men being provided access to girls or young women through Epstein or Maxwell. Groff repeatedly answered no when asked whether she had arranged massages for prominent figures, knew of sexual activity involving minors or young women, or knew of anyone who knowingly facilitated Epstein’s crimes. She acknowledged scheduling or connecting Epstein with high-profile contacts, including Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton-related circles, and Donald Trump phone calls, but denied arranging Trump travel during her employment and denied knowledge of Trump-related law enforcement communications. She also said she never suspected Epstein or Maxwell of working with any intelligence service. Overall, Groff’s testimony was defensive and narrow: she admitted to being part of the machinery that kept Epstein’s calendar and contacts moving, but insisted she never saw the criminal operation underneath it and never knowingly enabled it.
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Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf
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Mega Edition: Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 12-14) (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, and did not knowingly help Epstein or Maxwell commit crimes. She described Epstein as a “master manipulator” who lied to her and kept his “legitimate” world apart from his abuse, while acknowledging that she scheduled massage appointments when Epstein provided names and numbers, sometimes circulated calendars that included those appointments early on, and understood the massages as routine at the time. She said she did not personally meet the massage providers, did not know they were minors or young women, and assumed they were masseuses, even though members pressed her on why an extremely wealthy man would use rotating names and phone numbers instead of a professional massage service.
The questioning also focused heavily on Epstein’s network and whether Groff had knowledge of powerful men being provided access to girls or young women through Epstein or Maxwell. Groff repeatedly answered no when asked whether she had arranged massages for prominent figures, knew of sexual activity involving minors or young women, or knew of anyone who knowingly facilitated Epstein’s crimes. She acknowledged scheduling or connecting Epstein with high-profile contacts, including Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton-related circles, and Donald Trump phone calls, but denied arranging Trump travel during her employment and denied knowledge of Trump-related law enforcement communications. She also said she never suspected Epstein or Maxwell of working with any intelligence service. Overall, Groff’s testimony was defensive and narrow: she admitted to being part of the machinery that kept Epstein’s calendar and contacts moving, but insisted she never saw the criminal operation underneath it and never knowingly enabled it.
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source:
Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf
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Mega Edition: Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 9-11) (8/23/26) Aug 23, 2026

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Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, and did not knowingly help Epstein or Maxwell commit crimes. She described Epstein as a “master manipulator” who lied to her and kept his “legitimate” world apart from his abuse, while acknowledging that she scheduled massage appointments when Epstein provided names and numbers, sometimes circulated calendars that included those appointments early on, and understood the massages as routine at the time. She said she did not personally meet the massage providers, did not know they were minors or young women, and assumed they were masseuses, even though members pressed her on why an extremely wealthy man would use rotating names and phone numbers instead of a professional massage service.
The questioning also focused heavily on Epstein’s network and whether Groff had knowledge of powerful men being provided access to girls or young women through Epstein or Maxwell. Groff repeatedly answered no when asked whether she had arranged massages for prominent figures, knew of sexual activity involving minors or young women, or knew of anyone who knowingly facilitated Epstein’s crimes. She acknowledged scheduling or connecting Epstein with high-profile contacts, including Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton-related circles, and Donald Trump phone calls, but denied arranging Trump travel during her employment and denied knowledge of Trump-related law enforcement communications. She also said she never suspected Epstein or Maxwell of working with any intelligence service. Overall, Groff’s testimony was defensive and narrow: she admitted to being part of the machinery that kept Epstein’s calendar and contacts moving, but insisted she never saw the criminal operation underneath it and never knowingly enabled it.
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source:
Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf
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Epstein Files Push Britain Into Institutional Crisis Aug 23, 2026

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The Epstein files are being framed as more than another royal scandal in Britain; they are being presented as a full institutional crisis hitting the monarchy, Parliament, and the Metropolitan Police all at once. The reporting argues that the newly released U.S. Justice Department documents have accelerated a collapse in public trust, with polling showing support for the monarchy falling below majority levels and approval ratings for senior royals dropping sharply. The deepest royal damage centers on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was reportedly arrested in February 2026 on suspicion of misconduct in public office over questions about whether he forwarded classified government reports to Epstein while serving as a trade envoy. No charges have been brought, but the arrest and open investigation have turned Epstein from a reputational stain on the royal family into a live legal and constitutional problem.
The political and policing fallout is described as just as severe. Keir Starmer’s government is portrayed as being badly damaged by the Peter Mandelson connection, after Mandelson’s Epstein relationship and later document releases reportedly helped fuel a Labour revolt, cabinet resignation pressure, and growing questions about Starmer’s judgment. At the same time, the Metropolitan Police is under scrutiny over allegations that officers had proximity to Epstein-linked social circles, that Epstein-connected flights entered and left Britain without meaningful scrutiny, and that a London property tied to Epstein was not pursued more aggressively despite concerns about young women being housed there under coercive conditions. The broader point is that Britain is not dealing with one isolated Epstein-related embarrassment, but a convergence of failures across the Crown, the government, and law enforcement — the very institutions that were supposed to prevent this kind of power-protected abuse from festering in the first place.
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source:
Epstein Files Are Tearing Britain's Institutions Apart
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Spencer Kuvin Talks Nadia Marcinkova And The Line Between Victim And Conspirator Aug 23, 2026

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Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nadia Marcinkova, is being pushed back into the center of the Epstein story because of her unusual position inside his world: she has been described as a former teenage model, Epstein girlfriend, assistant, and pilot connected to his private jet, the “Lolita Express.” According to the reporting, she was allegedly recruited through Jean-Luc Brunel’s modeling orbit, later became one of Epstein’s closest companions after Ghislaine Maxwell, and was named as a “potential co-conspirator” in the 2008 non-prosecution agreement that gave immunity to several Epstein associates. Her lawyers have maintained that she was a victim of Epstein, and she has not been charged with a crime, but survivors and court records have long raised questions about whether she also helped recruit girls or participated in abuse.
The renewed focus is on what Marcinko may know. Prison records reportedly show that she visited Epstein 67 times during his 2008 jail sentence, and attorneys for survivors argue that she could hold important information about Epstein’s operation, the people who moved through it, and the powerful figures who interacted with him. The piece frames Marcinko as one of the complicated Epstein-world figures who may have begun as a victim but later became entangled in the machinery around him, making her potentially significant to investigators and survivors still searching for accountability. Her disappearance from public view since Epstein’s 2019 death only adds to the sense that there are still key people in Epstein’s orbit who have never been fully questioned in public.
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Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ pilot girlfriend 'could blow case open' after ‘luring girls’ & seeing paedo 67 times in jail
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Lesley Groff Faces Congress Over Her Role in Epstein’s Operation Aug 22, 2026

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Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime executive assistant, is set to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee as lawmakers continue digging through Epstein-related records and questioning people who worked inside his operation. Groff worked for Epstein for nearly 20 years, from 2001 until his July 2019 arrest, and told the FBI in 2021 that she was hired after a headhunter described the position as a job to “organize one man’s life.” According to FBI notes cited in the report, her duties included scheduling meetings, making calls, coordinating with Epstein’s driver, chef, and other staff, and managing much of his daily calendar. Those same notes say massage appointments were a routine part of Epstein’s day, and Groff described booking them as just another scheduling task.
Groff’s testimony matters because her name has long sat in one of the most contested parts of the Epstein record: the category of employees and associates who may have had knowledge of how the abuse network functioned. She was among the women identified as possible co-conspirators and granted immunity under Epstein’s controversial Florida non-prosecution agreement, though she has never been criminally charged and her lawyers have repeatedly denied that she knowingly participated in Epstein’s crimes. The Guardian also notes that an FBI document from 2019 listed Groff among possible co-conspirators, while her lawyer said she was never told law enforcement considered her one and was informed after voluntarily answering prosecutors’ questions that she would not be prosecuted. Survivors have accused her in civil litigation of helping facilitate abuse, but those claims against her were later dismissed, leaving her testimony as another key attempt by Congress to understand who inside Epstein’s operation knew what, when they knew it, and how much they helped keep the machine running.
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source:
Jeffrey Epstein assistant Lesley Groff set to testify before House panel | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
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Murder In Moscow: Murder In Moscow: The Experts Behind The case Against Bryan Kohberger (Part 4) (8/22/26) Aug 22, 2026

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Anne Nord, Jade Miller and Rylene Nowlin were all forensic scientists associated with Idaho State Police Forensic Services who became part of the prosecution’s extensive forensic case against Bryan Kohberger. Nord and Miller were among a group of ISP laboratory employees identified as potential expert witnesses because they had performed or reviewed forensic testing connected to the investigation. Their work fell within the larger effort to process the enormous amount of physical evidence collected from the King Road residence and other locations, document laboratory findings, and provide the state with scientists capable of explaining those results to a jury. Prosecutors eventually identified eleven ISP forensic scientists who could potentially testify about specific laboratory reports, including Nord, Miller and Nowlin, demonstrating how heavily the case depended on specialized forensic analysis rather than a single laboratory examiner.
Rylene Nowlin had the most prominent role of the three because she was a longtime Idaho State Police forensic laboratory manager and became directly involved in disputes over the knife-sheath DNA. Nowlin testified that testing of the sheath produced a single-source male DNA profile and was expected to explain concepts involving touch DNA, direct transfer, secondary transfer and the persistence of DNA on objects. The defense aggressively challenged the limits of that testimony, arguing that science could not reliably establish exactly how or when Kohberger’s DNA was deposited on the sheath, while prosecutors maintained that Nowlin’s training and experience allowed her to discuss the relative likelihood of direct versus indirect transfer. Judge Steven Hippler ultimately permitted her testimony, making Nowlin an especially important figure in the battle over how prosecutors intended to explain the most significant piece of biological evidence tying Kohberger to the crime scene.
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