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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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    Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Transcripts (Day 1-Part 4) (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    Day one of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Kirk’s September 10, 2025 event and the chaos that followed, while Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent David Hull walked the court through the enormous video-review effort undertaken after the shooting. Hull testified that investigators examined hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and ultimately tracked a person they believed was Robinson moving around the UVU campus at several different points that day. Prosecutors introduced surveillance recordings from multiple locations as they attempted to connect the person seen approaching the campus, moving toward the area surrounding the Losee Center, and later leaving the area to Robinson. Three separate videos depicting Kirk being shot were admitted, although Judge Tony Graf determined that their graphic nature warranted restricting their display to the attorneys’ and judge’s monitors rather than broadcasting them throughout the courtroom. Kirk’s widow, Erika, and his parents left the courtroom while the videos were reviewed. Prosecutors also introduced Kirk’s autopsy report through Hull, which listed his cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death as homicide
    The defense spent much of the first day attacking the manner in which the prosecution was getting its evidence into the record rather than attempting to disprove the entire prosecution theory at that stage. Kathryn Nester and Robinson’s attorneys repeatedly raised hearsay, foundation and authentication objections, arguing that investigators were being permitted to introduce reports, statements and records created by other people without those individuals appearing personally to testify. Judge Graf overruled most of those objections, reflecting the substantially lower evidentiary threshold governing a Utah preliminary hearing, whose purpose was only to determine whether probable cause existed to send Robinson to trial rather than whether prosecutors could prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. One significant exception involved an edited compilation of surveillance footage, which Graf declined to admit in that form and required prosecutors to replace with the underlying unedited material. Hull’s testimony also revealed the scope of the prosecution’s surveillance theory: investigators claimed Robinson had appeared on or around the UVU campus multiple times on September 10 and that they were attempting to stitch those appearances together into a continuous identification of the alleged shooter. By the end of day one, prosecutors had established the killing itself, the medical cause of Kirk’s death, the existence and authenticity of substantial video evidence and the beginnings of their effort to identify Robinson as the person captured in that footage. They had not yet presented many of the pieces expected to become more consequential later in the hearing, including the rifle and DNA evidence, Robinson’s alleged communications and admissions, and testimony concerning his roommate Lance Twiggs.
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    Murder In Moscow: The Autopsy Findings in the Murders of Madison, Kaylee, Xana and Ethan (Part 1) (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    The autopsy reports for University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin documented the extraordinary violence of the November 13, 2022 murders inside the King Road residence in Moscow. Spokane County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Veena Singh determined that all four died from multiple sharp-force injuries consistent with a large fixed-blade knife, including a weapon such as the Ka-Bar prosecutors said was used in the killings. Mogen suffered 28 stab wounds, including extensive injuries to her face, neck and upper body that damaged major blood vessels, a lung and her liver. Chapin suffered fewer wounds than the three women, but his injuries included devastating wounds to the neck and major blood vessels, including one wound reportedly measuring approximately seven inches deep. Singh concluded that all four victims experienced a high degree of pain or suffering before death, although Chapin's suffering was assessed as occurring to a lesser degree than that of the other victims.
    The reports provided particularly disturbing new details about Kernodle and Goncalves. Kernodle suffered numerous wounds across her head, neck, chest, abdomen, back and extremities, including injuries to her heart, lung and major blood vessels, and her autopsy was the only one that specifically identified injuries consistent with defensive wounds, supporting the conclusion that she attempted to fight off her attacker. Goncalves suffered a combination of sharp-force and blunt-force trauma that the medical examiner described as more severe in certain respects than the injuries suffered by the others; her injuries included bleeding around the brain, a fractured nose, significant facial trauma and a knocked-out tooth, as well as evidence suggesting that an object had been pressed across her mouth. Taken together, the newly disclosed autopsy findings provided a much clearer medical picture of what occurred inside the house and demonstrated that this was not simply a series of quick fatal stab wounds, but an exceptionally violent attack in which the four victims suffered extensive and, in some cases, markedly different injuries before their deaths.
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    The New Mexico Epstein Commission Interim Report (Part 12) (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual abuse and where young women were routinely transported, housed and brought into Epstein’s orbit. The report pointed to witness testimony, flight records, seized electronic evidence and FBI material suggesting that Zorro Ranch was integrated into the same system of recruitment, secrecy and exploitation seen at Epstein’s other properties. Among the evidence discussed were computer folders labeled “ZORRO,” discs referencing nude photographs associated with the ranch, accounts of young women arriving by aircraft, efforts to impose restrictive nondisclosure agreements on workers, and survivor statements describing abuse in New Mexico. The Commission stressed that the evidence remained under review and that allegations involving individuals named in the report were not final findings of wrongdoing, but it said the existing record was already sufficient to show that Epstein’s activities in New Mexico deserved far more scrutiny than they ever received.
    The report was especially critical of institutional failures, saying New Mexico and federal authorities effectively passed responsibility to prosecutors elsewhere while Epstein’s conduct in the state went largely unexamined. It said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico and state officials expected the Southern District of New York to handle Epstein, but New York prosecutors concentrated on crimes tied to New York and Florida rather than building a New Mexico case. Zorro Ranch was never searched while Epstein was alive and, according to the report, was not subjected to a comprehensive law-enforcement search until March 2026, nearly seven years after his death. The Commission concluded that this passivity allowed evidence to disappear, memories to fade and potential criminal cases to become more difficult or impossible to prosecute. It also opened separate lines of inquiry into Epstein’s financial dealings, his relationships with scientific institutions and wealthy associates, and the conduct of banks, including subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan. Its clearest interim observation was devastating: Epstein continued exercising wealth and influence after becoming a registered sex offender, operated much of his system in plain sight, and New Mexico law enforcement’s decision to rely on other jurisdictions left the conduct of Epstein and his co-conspirators in the state “unexamined and unpunished.” Final findings and recommendations were deferred while the Commission continued issuing subpoenas, interviewing witnesses and searching for additional survivors and potential perpetrators.
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    source:
    NM Survivors' Truth Commission — Interim Report
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    The New Mexico Epstein Commission Interim Report (Part 11) (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
    Show notes

    The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual abuse and where young women were routinely transported, housed and brought into Epstein’s orbit. The report pointed to witness testimony, flight records, seized electronic evidence and FBI material suggesting that Zorro Ranch was integrated into the same system of recruitment, secrecy and exploitation seen at Epstein’s other properties. Among the evidence discussed were computer folders labeled “ZORRO,” discs referencing nude photographs associated with the ranch, accounts of young women arriving by aircraft, efforts to impose restrictive nondisclosure agreements on workers, and survivor statements describing abuse in New Mexico. The Commission stressed that the evidence remained under review and that allegations involving individuals named in the report were not final findings of wrongdoing, but it said the existing record was already sufficient to show that Epstein’s activities in New Mexico deserved far more scrutiny than they ever received.
    The report was especially critical of institutional failures, saying New Mexico and federal authorities effectively passed responsibility to prosecutors elsewhere while Epstein’s conduct in the state went largely unexamined. It said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico and state officials expected the Southern District of New York to handle Epstein, but New York prosecutors concentrated on crimes tied to New York and Florida rather than building a New Mexico case. Zorro Ranch was never searched while Epstein was alive and, according to the report, was not subjected to a comprehensive law-enforcement search until March 2026, nearly seven years after his death. The Commission concluded that this passivity allowed evidence to disappear, memories to fade and potential criminal cases to become more difficult or impossible to prosecute. It also opened separate lines of inquiry into Epstein’s financial dealings, his relationships with scientific institutions and wealthy associates, and the conduct of banks, including subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan. Its clearest interim observation was devastating: Epstein continued exercising wealth and influence after becoming a registered sex offender, operated much of his system in plain sight, and New Mexico law enforcement’s decision to rely on other jurisdictions left the conduct of Epstein and his co-conspirators in the state “unexamined and unpunished.” Final findings and recommendations were deferred while the Commission continued issuing subpoenas, interviewing witnesses and searching for additional survivors and potential perpetrators.
    to contact me:
    bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
    source:
    NM Survivors' Truth Commission — Interim Report
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    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the Royal Funeral Controversy (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faced a new wave of criticism after reports claimed that government contingency plans still provided for him to receive a ceremonial royal funeral despite his dramatic fall from public life. According to the reporting, Andrew remained included in confidential Whitehall “bridge” plans that had apparently not been updated to reflect the loss of his military affiliations, royal patronages and remaining titles. The revelation prompted criticism from politicians, commentators and taxpayer advocates who argued that a publicly supported ceremonial funeral would be inappropriate for someone who was now effectively a private citizen. The controversy was intensified by Andrew’s longstanding association with Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre’s civil allegations against him, which Andrew denied and later settled without admitting liability, and more recent controversies surrounding the former prince. IBTimes noted, however, that it had not independently verified the reported funeral plans and that both Buckingham Palace and the Cabinet Office declined to comment.
    Royal commentators suggested the situation was more likely the result of outdated government paperwork than evidence that Andrew had actually been promised an elaborate taxpayer-funded funeral. Royal historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo argued that any final decision was probably years away and could ultimately fall to Prince William if he became king, while commentator Richard Fitzwilliams described the prospect of a royal funeral for Andrew as “preposterous” given his diminished status. Fitzwilliams also argued that taxpayers would have little appetite for financing such an event, particularly given Andrew’s extremely poor standing with the British public. The broader dispute therefore became another example of the monarchy struggling to reconcile traditional royal protocols with Andrew’s unprecedented disgrace and removal from official royal life. Critics maintained that whenever his funeral eventually occurred, it should be treated as a private matter and privately funded rather than allowing Andrew to receive ceremonial honors associated with the position he once held.
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    Jeffrey Epstein and the Investigation That Never Expanded (Part 4) (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    From the earliest federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the scope appeared strikingly narrow compared with the breadth of the conduct surrounding him. Investigators had evidence pointing beyond Epstein himself: recruiters who helped bring young women and girls into his orbit, employees who facilitated access to his properties, financial institutions that processed enormous sums of money, pilots who transported Epstein and his associates, and a network of powerful people who repeatedly appeared around him. Yet the federal response repeatedly centered on Epstein as an individual offender rather than treating the operation surrounding him as a potentially sprawling criminal enterprise. The extraordinarily broad non-prosecution agreement reached in Florida reinforced that approach by extending protection to unnamed potential co-conspirators instead of using those individuals as investigative pressure points. When Epstein was arrested again in 2019, prosecutors charged him with sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking, but his death brought the criminal case against him to an abrupt end. Ghislaine Maxwell was later prosecuted and convicted, but the broader question remained: why had a network that operated across multiple jurisdictions for years produced so few federal prosecutions? Taken together, the history created the appearance of an investigation designed to establish responsibility for specific defendants rather than systematically identify every facilitator, recruiter, financial enabler, participant, and potential co-conspirator connected to Epstein's operation.
    The DOJ also had an extensive collection of investigative and prosecutorial tools available that could have supported a much broader inquiry. Federal authorities could pursue conspiracy charges, money-laundering statutes, financial-record subpoenas, grand-jury testimony, immunity agreements, cooperation deals, immigration and visa investigations, tax inquiries, asset-forfeiture proceedings, obstruction cases, and, where the evidence satisfied the statutory requirements, potentially racketeering theories aimed at an ongoing enterprise rather than isolated crimes. Following Epstein's money alone could have provided investigators with a roadmap through banks, corporations, trusts, shell entities, property transactions, payments to associates, and transfers involving victims or recruiters. Aggressively flipping lower-level participants could likewise have helped prosecutors work upward through the organization instead of stopping with its most recognizable figures. None of that automatically would have produced charges against every person associated with Epstein, because association itself was not evidence of criminal conduct, but the striking issue was how rarely the government's enormous investigative arsenal appeared to be deployed publicly toward dismantling the entire ecosystem that allowed Epstein's abuse to continue. The enduring criticism, therefore, was not simply that prosecutors failed to charge more people; it was that the government never demonstrated the kind of relentless, enterprise-wide investigation routinely employed against organized crime, trafficking organizations, fraud rings, and other complex criminal networks.
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    Jeffrey Epstein and the Investigation That Never Expanded (Part 3) (8/10/26) Aug 11, 2026
    Show notes

    From the earliest federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the scope appeared strikingly narrow compared with the breadth of the conduct surrounding him. Investigators had evidence pointing beyond Epstein himself: recruiters who helped bring young women and girls into his orbit, employees who facilitated access to his properties, financial institutions that processed enormous sums of money, pilots who transported Epstein and his associates, and a network of powerful people who repeatedly appeared around him. Yet the federal response repeatedly centered on Epstein as an individual offender rather than treating the operation surrounding him as a potentially sprawling criminal enterprise. The extraordinarily broad non-prosecution agreement reached in Florida reinforced that approach by extending protection to unnamed potential co-conspirators instead of using those individuals as investigative pressure points. When Epstein was arrested again in 2019, prosecutors charged him with sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking, but his death brought the criminal case against him to an abrupt end. Ghislaine Maxwell was later prosecuted and convicted, but the broader question remained: why had a network that operated across multiple jurisdictions for years produced so few federal prosecutions? Taken together, the history created the appearance of an investigation designed to establish responsibility for specific defendants rather than systematically identify every facilitator, recruiter, financial enabler, participant, and potential co-conspirator connected to Epstein's operation.
    The DOJ also had an extensive collection of investigative and prosecutorial tools available that could have supported a much broader inquiry. Federal authorities could pursue conspiracy charges, money-laundering statutes, financial-record subpoenas, grand-jury testimony, immunity agreements, cooperation deals, immigration and visa investigations, tax inquiries, asset-forfeiture proceedings, obstruction cases, and, where the evidence satisfied the statutory requirements, potentially racketeering theories aimed at an ongoing enterprise rather than isolated crimes. Following Epstein's money alone could have provided investigators with a roadmap through banks, corporations, trusts, shell entities, property transactions, payments to associates, and transfers involving victims or recruiters. Aggressively flipping lower-level participants could likewise have helped prosecutors work upward through the organization instead of stopping with its most recognizable figures. None of that automatically would have produced charges against every person associated with Epstein, because association itself was not evidence of criminal conduct, but the striking issue was how rarely the government's enormous investigative arsenal appeared to be deployed publicly toward dismantling the entire ecosystem that allowed Epstein's abuse to continue. The enduring criticism, therefore, was not simply that prosecutors failed to charge more people; it was that the government never demonstrated the kind of relentless, enterprise-wide investigation routinely employed against organized crime, trafficking organizations, fraud rings, and other complex criminal networks.
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    Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Shadow Hanging Over Harvard (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with Harvard became one of the clearest examples of how money and elite connections continued to buy him extraordinary access even after his reputation had been shattered. Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard, including $6.5 million in 2003 to establish the university’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, and he was admitted as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2005. More troublingly, Harvard’s own internal review later found that Epstein had an office available for his use at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, along with access that allowed him to move through an elite academic environment as though he belonged there. Even after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, Epstein continued returning to the program’s offices in Harvard Square. Harvard estimated that he visited more than 40 times between 2010 and 2018, often arranging meetings with prominent professors and researchers from Harvard and other institutions.
    What made the situation particularly damning was that Harvard had decided not to accept additional direct donations from Epstein after his conviction, yet his presence and influence did not disappear with that decision. He remained closely connected to Professor Martin Nowak and continued using Harvard as a place to meet academics, cultivate intellectual credibility and introduce wealthy associates who could provide financial support. Harvard’s review found that Epstein helped connect donors to Nowak’s program, including donations totaling millions of dollars, even though the university said the money itself did not come from Epstein. His continued access did not appear to violate a specific Harvard rule at the time, but that technical distinction only underscored the larger institutional failure: a registered sex offender who had already pleaded guilty to crimes involving a minor was still being welcomed into a prestigious Harvard program, provided space and treated as a valuable intellectual and financial connector. Epstein’s Harvard relationship showed just how far elite institutions were willing to separate his money, connections and usefulness from the reality of who he was.
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    Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Targeted Donations (8/11/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    Jeffrey Epstein spread his money across a wide range of powerful institutions and influential people, using donations and financial relationships to build access, credibility and social standing. His giving reached politicians and political committees, universities, scientists, academics, charities and other prominent organizations, while his personal network included major figures in business, finance, philanthropy and government. The amounts were not always enormous by elite-donor standards, but the pattern mattered: Epstein repeatedly placed money in circles where wealth could buy proximity to decision-makers and respected institutions. Donations helped him cultivate the image of a sophisticated financier and philanthropist, giving him introductions and relationships that made him appear legitimate despite the serious questions surrounding both his fortune and his conduct.
    That strategy became especially striking because Epstein continued using philanthropy and elite connections even after his 2008 conviction. He supported scientific research, maintained relationships with academics and wealthy benefactors, and continued circulating among people whose reputations helped rehabilitate his own. In some instances, donations or promised funding placed institutions and individuals in the uncomfortable position of benefiting financially from a man whose criminal history was already public. There is no basis to assume that everyone who received money from Epstein knew about or participated in his crimes, but his broad distribution of money demonstrated how effectively he used wealth as a tool of influence. By spreading donations across politics, academia, science, philanthropy and the business world, Epstein constructed a network of legitimacy around himself that helped keep doors open long after they should have been closed.
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    Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein and The Lack Of Truth When It Comes To His Crimes (8/10/26) Aug 11, 2026
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    For decades, the Jeffrey Epstein story was defined as much by what the public was not told as by what eventually became known. Early media coverage frequently treated Epstein as an eccentric billionaire financier with powerful friends rather than aggressively examining how he accumulated his wealth, how his recruitment system operated, who facilitated his access to vulnerable young women and girls, and how his relationships with influential figures intersected with his crimes. Authorities compounded that failure. The extraordinarily favorable 2007 federal non-prosecution agreement in Florida insulated potential co-conspirators from federal prosecution, victims were kept uninformed while the agreement was negotiated, and Epstein ultimately served a remarkably lenient sentence under unusually permissive conditions. Even after his 2019 arrest reopened national scrutiny, major questions remained unanswered about his finances, the people who assisted him, the institutions that continued doing business with him despite warning signs, and whether investigators ever seriously pursued the full scope of the network surrounding him. What emerged over time through lawsuits, depositions, banking records, survivor testimony and unsealed court documents repeatedly demonstrated that the story was far larger and more complicated than the narrow version initially presented to the public.
    That pattern continued after Epstein's death. Government agencies released information slowly, documents were heavily redacted, names remained concealed behind "John Doe" designations, and competing official explanations often created more questions than they resolved. Meanwhile, much of the media periodically reduced the scandal to celebrity associations, flight logs and sensational lists of famous names, rather than consistently examining the more consequential questions: who enabled Epstein, who participated in crimes, who moved or managed his money, who helped recruit victims, and why so few people beyond Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ever faced criminal charges. This did not mean every person who knew Epstein was involved in wrongdoing, and association alone was never evidence of a crime. But the persistent absence of comprehensive answers from institutions with the power to obtain them helped create the enormous distrust surrounding the case. The enduring failure of the Epstein story was therefore not simply that secrets existed; it was that journalists and authorities repeatedly possessed opportunities to pursue the larger truth and, far too often, gave the public only fragments of it.
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