author: Tyler Durden
French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel – whose network regularly delivered fresh girls from all over the planet to Jeffrey Epstein – was in 2016 ready to tell US prosecutors what he knows about Epstein's human trafficking operation. According to the recently revealed Justice Department file, the lawyer of the deceased Brunel already negotiated with Epstein's victims' lawyers a possible gathering with national prosecutors in fresh York City in exchange for immunity— And Epstein knew that.And of courseKathy Ruemmler is active in the game, Legal Advisor Goldman Sachs (soon she was).
According to handwritten notes drawn up by the national prosecutor in February 2016: "One of Epstein's boyfriends, Jean Luc Brunel, helped get the girls. He wants to cooperate.". Notes add: "Brunel is afraid to be brought to trial," reports Wall Street Journal.
The discussions afraid the date Brunel entered the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. His lawyer said Brunel recruited girls for Epstein and held incriminating photos, according to notes.
That's erstwhile Brunel stopped communicating.
The files indicate that Epstein found out negotiations were underway.On May 3, 2016, Epstein sent an email to Ruemmler, Obama's leading lawyer, who late announced resignation due to that friendship. Epstein warned that Brunel was planning to study to the national prosecutor's office next week – Noting that one of his friends "he asked for $3 million to keep Jean Luc from going inside."
Epstein said Brunel was afraid of arrest if he wasn't. It will. "I want to know more," he wrote, dismissing Brunel's lawyer and friend as "swindlers".
Ruemmler responded a fewer hours later, asking Epstein to call and explain. The next day, she wrote, "Wake up now. I'm talking to Poe in 20 minutes." Gregory Poe was Epstein's lawyer in Washington, D.C.
Poe says he didn't talk to Ruemmler or Epstein about Brunel "May 4, 2016 or at any another time," saying JournalThat day, he had a scheduled interview with Ruemmler about his work on the motion to cancel the appeal to Epstein. "My commitments with Jeffrey Epstein were limited," said Poe, adding that he finished his work for Epstein in August 2016.
It is inactive unclear why Brunel yet refused to cooperate, or whether Epstein gave him $3 million to do so. According to the file, no investigation was initiated at the time. A 2021 government judicial paper states that the prosecutor, who drew up notes from February 2016, discussed a gathering with colleagues from the national prosecutor's office and the FBI, but no investigation was initiated. Notes relating to Brunel were censored in this document. A spokesperson for the fresh York national prosecutor's office refused to comment.
Epstein remained free for another 3 years.until his arrest in 2019. He died in a prison cell in fresh York City in the same year as the city court doctor declared suicide.
"This has taken us back a fewer years," said David Boies, a lawyer who brought civilian actions on behalf of Epstein's victims, referring to Brunel's decision not to cooperate. "We know from our lawsuits that after that more than 50 girls were smuggled in."
Brunel occupied central seat in Epstein's orbit. As head of the U.S. modeling agency, he recruited abroad girls and young women, obtained work visas and provided the appearance of legal employment, according to the file. He traveled on Epstein's private jet, visited his private island and exchanged hundreds of emails with him.
Federal prosecutors in fresh York City were informed in 2016 of details of Epstein's human trafficking scheme, including allegations that Brunel, Ghislaine Maxwell and others recruited dozens of underage girls, as reported by handwritten notes. The Justice Department did not take action against Epstein until the conclusion of the Miami Herald investigation in late 2018, which resumed the analysis of his earlier settlement in Florida.
When Epstein was arrested in 2019, Brunel and Maxwell were identified as co-conspirators in FBI records, according to documents. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and holds 20 years in prison.
Joseph Titone, Brunel's attorney, said he advised his client to cooperate with the authorities and cut ties with Epstein. "I recommended and advised him to halt contacting Epstein, but he never did," Titone said.
Brunel was arrested in France in 2020 on suspicion of rape and transportation of girls to Epstein. He died in prison in 2022. Prosecutors in Paris informed on Saturday that they would re-examine the case and set up a peculiar squad to analyse evidence that could incriminate French citizens.
Rummler said she never represented Epstein and regretted her relation with him. A spokeswoman, Jennifer Connelly, said, "This is another case erstwhile Epstein tried to make contact with Mrs. Ruemmler in a case she had no cognition of, and appropriately referred him to his lawyer." Connelly refused to identify whose lawyer the defence lawyer was.
When the details of Ruemmler's communication with Epstein became public in fresh files, last week she said that she would resign as legal counsel for Goldman Sachs in June.
Modeling agency as pipeline
Brunel was always a freak.Even before he met Epstein. In 1988, CBS program "60 Minutes" aired an investigationconcerning women who claimed to have been drugged by Brunel and forced to have sex with his coworkers to get a model job. 1 female on the camera claimed Brunel drugged and raped her. No criminal charges were filed, and Brunel denied the charges.
In the early 2000s. Brunel and Epstein had a close relationship. The flight logs show that Brunel has frequently traveled Epstein's private jet since around 2000.
In 2005 Epstein donated up to $1 million to aid Brunel run MC2 Model ManagementThat opened offices in fresh York and Miami. According to the report, MC2 was an interior gag referring to E=MC2 equation, with E referring to Epstein.
According to the fresh files, Epstein utilized the agency to rise women and as pay tools. The July 2006 emails show that Epstein ordered Brunel to put a female "on his payroll" with an yearly wage of $50,000. erstwhile Brunel asked if a female should be looking for models, Epstein replied, "Start wage as shortly as possible." He added that he would be in Paris next week and "then he could see her."
After Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 for getting a kid for prostitution and served time in prison, Brunel visited him almost 70 times, according to prison records.
Inspection through visas and debt
After his arrest in Florida in 2006, Epstein focused on recruiting teenage and twentieth-century women from Europe and Russia, as the records show. Depending on work visas, housing and financial support, they were susceptible to control.
In June 2012, Joshua Fink – Son of CEO BlackRock, Larry Fink – sent an email to Brunel about invoices The MC2 on the "model" he was seeing... Brunel said he'd suspend the settlement. When Brunel gave the exchange to Epstein, Epstein replied, "Please, talk to me first."
The invoice afraid an worker visa by the agency. The female gave Epstein the chat logs with Fink.And with your visa, I have no thought what I can do but pay your agency to support your income and theirs due to the fact that you don't get a occupation as a model.
Fink said he met this female at dinner and had a romanticist relation lasting about a year. "I had no connection to Epstein or Brunel."," he said. "I'm completely shocked that she was transmitting electronic correspondence to Epstein.". He said he loaned her money to pay off his debts at the agency.
"It was a individual relationship, and individual things happen," Fink added.
The female said JournalThat she felt trapped in an abuse network controlled by Epstein and Brunel. After signing a contract with MC2 and obtaining an worker visa, she said, the model's orders began to decrease and fees increased. She described the relation with Fink as a voluntary and possible escape. She said Epstein blocked plans for Fink to meet her in Paris to discuss marriage, and the relation ended.
Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing more than 200 victims of Epstein, said, "Epstein's wealth and power allowed him to penetrate the industries, possibly most commonly into the modeling industry. In Jean-Luc he found a predator with akin views, with whom he could game regular to recruit and control the lives of countless young women"including Jane Doe."
Breakdown and reconciliation – a trick?
In 2014, Virginia Roberts Giuffre applied for girls' trade as early as 12 years of age to her coworkers, including Epstein. As public control grows, Brunel and MC2 sued Epstein in Florida in January 2016, claiming that the agency's value fell due to publicity around Epstein. The suit alleged lost profits of $10 million and difficulties in obtaining models.
Titone later contacted Edwards, suggesting that Brunel may have photographic evidence against Epstein. Victims' lawyers, including Stan Pottinger and Boies, passed the information on to national prosecutors.
In early 2016, Brunel seemed ready to cooperate. Notes from February 29, 2016 state: "Titone claims his client has photographic evidence." They besides note, "Brunel doesn't want to get involved."
On May 3, 2016, Pottinger wrote to the prosecutor, mentioning Daniel Siad, whom Brunel described as Epstein's recruiter. E-mails show how Sit informs Epstein of possible recruits and writes, "Please, send me details of the girls' names etc." In another message, Sit compared recruitment to fishing: "In this class I feel like a fisherman, sometimes I rapidly collect supplies, sometimes I don't have fish." He calculated expenditure at EUR 2 700.
Sit later said on tv broadcast in France that he professionally introduced models to Epstein. "In time, we learned that he had committed cruelty," he said.
The divided between Brunel and Epstein proved temporary (maybe as assumed). By April 2015, Brunel proposed mediation, and Epstein wrote, "I have any ideas. Which I think you'll like." Titone said the suit was yet settled on confidential terms.
When Epstein was found dead in 2019, Brunel's hiding. French police arrested him in December 2020 erstwhile he attempted to board a plane to Senegal. He was charged with sexual crimes and was found hanged in a prison cell in February 2022.
The Justice Department's file suggests that in 2016, a possible turning point passed. Brunel did not enter the U.S. Attorney's office. The investigation has not moved forward. Epstein's been recruiting victims for years.
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Source:https://www.zerohedge.com/political