Surprise: Epstein was meeting with a much larger circle of the rich and powerful than you were told

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Everybody already knows that the famous Jeffrey Epstein client list has not been and never will be released.

The names on that list are too prominent, I assume, and nobody wants that particular bomb to explode. The collateral damage would be immense.

But we have gotten bits and pieces of information over the years about his associates–people who were in Epstein’s social circle but who may or may not have been his clients. We have no evidence upon which to base accusations of that nature.

Bill Gates is the most prominent example, as well as seemingly the entire faculty of Harvard, where Epstein hobnobbed with seemingly everybody, and where he even was given an office.

Yes, Jeffrey Epstein had an office at Harvard. After all, he showered the place with money, despite it never being quite clear exactly what he did. He had some vague “financial” job, advising clients. Every time he worked for somebody else the firm wound up in legal trouble or imploded, but he failed upwards for some reason.

I wonder what that was.

Te𝕏asLindsay™ on X (formerly Twitter): “BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Calendar just dropped. The calendar includes meetings with the man who’s now the current Director of the CIA, William Burns, among other prominent names including Rothschild, Kissinger and many more. https://t.co/9CcLlzenoB / X”

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Calendar just dropped. The calendar includes meetings with the man who’s now the current Director of the CIA, William Burns, among other prominent names including Rothschild, Kissinger and many more. https://t.co/9CcLlzenoB

In 2005 he was investigated for his…unorthodox sexual proclivities and was convicted in 2008, as part of what everybody describes as a lenient plea deal, for prostitution, not sexually abusing kids. The deal apparently was struck because Epstein had ties to the intelligence community. He served jail time and was released early in 2009.

The whole history is sordid in itself, as you know, and reeks to high heaven. And none of that is my point; it is a preview. Epstein was by his release a Level 3 sex offender, convicted of sex crimes. Despite this designation, the State of New York never enforced its requirement for Epstein keep the state aware of his whereabouts, despite his failure to do so being a felony on its own.

Instead, Epstein was able to go back to business as usual. And that business meant hobnobbing with the rich and famous.

The Wall Street Journal has a story about Epstein’s newly released calendar, which dramatically expands the list of his associates. It details when and with whom Epstein met on specific dates, and in the years after his conviction and enrollment as a Level 3 sex offender he certainly met with quite a few VIPs whose names have never been released.

Names like William Burns, who has been director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021.

The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.

William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.

Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.