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BumRushDaShow

(164,777 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:26 PM Sep 2025

DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret

Source: NBC News

Sept. 6, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT


The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from him in 2018, court documents show. The Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making their names public.

The first associate received a payment of $100,000 from Epstein and the second associate received a payment of $250,000, both in 2018, days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of investigative stories where victims criticized a plea deal he received in Florida in 2008.

As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two individuals would not be prosecuted.

The payments became public after Epstein was indicted and arrested in New York in 2019 and asked to be released on bail. Federal prosecutors in New York filed a memorandum on July 16, 2019, that argued Epstein should remain in jail to prevent him from tampering with witnesses.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-says-names-two-associates-epstein-wired-100k-250k-stay-secret-rcna229408

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DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP
Do their names rhyme with Trump and Dershowitz? C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #1
Or maybe Schmalex Schmacosta? Nt spooky3 Sep 2025 #2
Schmalex (r - Keeper of Occult Repube Filth) BoRaGard Sep 2025 #38
mmm more like Ondee and Costah? Justice matters. Sep 2025 #15
I suspect Acosta, Dershowitz, and Bradley Edwards were all in on protecting Trump. blm Sep 2025 #26
These payments were from Epstein. They had nothing to do with protecting Trump. Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #32
I know. I'm feeling free to voice my overall suspicions. blm Sep 2025 #46
"If you don't want to see your names in the Miami Herald..." lapfog_1 Sep 2025 #3
Yes, by all means, we MUST protect the privacy of intheflow Sep 2025 #4
SCOTUS? ReRe Sep 2025 #16
Gosh, i wonder how his CHRISTIAN wife would bluestarone Sep 2025 #23
I'd take that bet. I can all but guarantee you are wrong on both counts. Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #33
Epstein didn't want the 2 prosecuted because of what moniss Sep 2025 #36
🙄 Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #43
Well, discovery would be pretty bad, no? They were friends and probably travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #44
"Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals" KS Toronado Sep 2025 #5
'Privacy concerns'??? OldBaldy1701E Sep 2025 #12
"Privacy concerns"? Ooohhh, Boo, Hoo, hoooo! Too Bad! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #13
The payments might have been made to two women victims womanofthehills Sep 2025 #17
Well, THAT would be Certainly True!... electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #18
Did I read incorrectly? The 2 payments involve the same people who were not prosecuted? Raven123 Sep 2025 #27
Not possible according to the OP PSPS Sep 2025 #29
In other words, they're Republicans. We know how this fucking DOJ works. Karasu Sep 2025 #6
Beginning to wonder whether Epstein worked for Israel Ponietz Sep 2025 #7
Beginning to wonder if Epstein and his customers fuck children. Iggo Sep 2025 #19
I think he worked for Russia too. Captain Zero Sep 2025 #21
You're just now beginning to wonder that? Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #34
I think we should change the name of the Department of Justice to sinkingfeeling Sep 2025 #8
Or, Department of Privilege 70sEraVet Sep 2025 #24
G.O.P. #DeptOfPrivilege - started to go viral, but... BoRaGard Sep 2025 #39
So the largest international child sex trafficking crime syndicate* in history paid 350,000 $s to 2 people... Botany Sep 2025 #25
Department of Cover Trump's Ass LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #31
As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured........ LilElf70 Sep 2025 #9
MTG went for those stock market games Trump played with tariff manipulation. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #45
Wiring Money in These Amounts Leaves an Audit Trail eringer Sep 2025 #10
Calling for a Forensic Auditor, now! electric_blue68 Sep 2025 #14
It's all Fiddlelady11 Sep 2025 #11
He likely wired big dollars to others. So we get all but two. As a former auditor this is laughable. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #20
C'mon peeps, DOX away!! aeromanKC Sep 2025 #22
Fuck you guys Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 #28
Perhaps DOJ is just some guys initials? Brainfodder Sep 2025 #30
At least one of them is a woman. Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #35
G.O.P. occultists hiding the ugly truth about themselves BoRaGard Sep 2025 #37
These Payments Are Most Likely Similar to the Payments Stormy Daniels Received DallasNE Sep 2025 #40
So a decree from a prosecutor in inviolable... 3825-87867 Sep 2025 #41
Nope. ALL the players need to be known. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #42
Why redate the names ? republianmushroom Sep 2025 #47

blm

(114,406 posts)
26. I suspect Acosta, Dershowitz, and Bradley Edwards were all in on protecting Trump.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:01 PM
Sep 2025

blm

(114,406 posts)
46. I know. I'm feeling free to voice my overall suspicions.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:37 AM
Sep 2025

We’ll see who received the payments……eventually. You don’t have to overreact, do you?

lapfog_1

(31,546 posts)
3. "If you don't want to see your names in the Miami Herald..."
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:38 PM
Sep 2025

please send me X amount via wire transfer for my "legal fees" ( or prosecutor payoffs, lawyers to intimidate victims, goons for same, etc ).

Your pal and fellow Pedophile... Jeffery.

intheflow

(29,940 posts)
4. Yes, by all means, we MUST protect the privacy of
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:44 PM
Sep 2025

rich white people who got extremely large payments from a convicted pedophile. I mean, they asked nicely, right? Just common courtesy.



My bets are Trump and one of the SCOTUS.

bluestarone

(21,006 posts)
23. Gosh, i wonder how his CHRISTIAN wife would
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:14 PM
Sep 2025

Handle that? I feel there is more than a 50/50 chance he's on that list.

Wiz Imp

(8,566 posts)
33. I'd take that bet. I can all but guarantee you are wrong on both counts.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:22 PM
Sep 2025
As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two individuals would not be prosecuted.


Why the hell would Epstein want to keep Trump from being Prosecuted? You're barking up the wrong tree.

moniss

(8,569 posts)
36. Epstein didn't want the 2 prosecuted because of what
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:01 AM
Sep 2025

all they might spill about him when their lawyers worked out a deal for them to be cooperating witnesses. It wouldn't matter if it was Crumb the 1st or who it was. Crumb The 1st, along with Maxwell might well be the 2 people who knew the most about what he was up to.

So you send them a nice payment as a gift for "future consideration" if need be. The payment would have the side benefit to Epstein of tying the 2 people to him in a way compromising their credibility if they should decide to rat on him later.

travelingthrulife

(4,174 posts)
44. Well, discovery would be pretty bad, no? They were friends and probably
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:39 AM
Sep 2025

business partners in his Lolita Express business.

This was far too much money involved in this for Trump not to have his dirty hands all over it.

KS Toronado

(22,719 posts)
5. "Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals"
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 02:45 PM
Sep 2025

So 2 people begged the DOJ to keep their names a secret, doesn't work that way for anyone
named Biden.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,889 posts)
12. 'Privacy concerns'???
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:26 PM
Sep 2025

Are they kidding around?

I can tell you this... if this actually works and those rich assholes get to remain anonymous, then my belief that there is no actual justice (except occasionally by accident, which is no way to run a nation) in this country is all but proven.

womanofthehills

(10,678 posts)
17. The payments might have been made to two women victims
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 04:51 PM
Sep 2025

If they were made to victims no one would want their names released.

Raven123

(7,411 posts)
27. Did I read incorrectly? The 2 payments involve the same people who were not prosecuted?
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:04 PM
Sep 2025

Are you suggesting the associates were the conduit for payments to victims?

PSPS

(15,182 posts)
29. Not possible according to the OP
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:55 PM
Sep 2025
As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two individuals would not be prosecuted.


So the recipients were going to be prosecuted until trump toady acosta created the infamous "sweetheart deal" for epstein.

Iggo

(49,552 posts)
19. Beginning to wonder if Epstein and his customers fuck children.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:00 PM
Sep 2025

Oh that’s right! They absolutely do!

Wiz Imp

(8,566 posts)
34. You're just now beginning to wonder that?
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:29 PM
Sep 2025

It's been pretty well proven a long time ago that he was.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
39. G.O.P. #DeptOfPrivilege - started to go viral, but...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 04:31 AM
Sep 2025

republicon Kancel Kulture censors killed it.

They labeled it "wrong think."

Why does that sound so familiar and ominous?

Botany

(76,159 posts)
25. So the largest international child sex trafficking crime syndicate* in history paid 350,000 $s to 2 people...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:54 PM
Sep 2025

… but the important issue is the privacy of the people who got either the bribes or the hush money.


*. Aka Epstein’s organization. You know the organization that used Trump’s plane to move
the girls around, Trump’s beauty pageants, and Trump’s “modeling try outs.”

LilElf70

(1,329 posts)
9. As part of the plea agreement, Epstein secured........
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:33 PM
Sep 2025

a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two individuals would not be prosecuted?

The names should be announced. Of course, Donny will get off again. It just makes sense. All the shit this guy has pulled and gotten by with so far? Adding Pedo to his name is NBD to magats.


But MGT? She'll go ape shit once she finds out the con man is really a con man. Sure would be good entertainment though.

The shit show by the GOP changes daily. Just when you thought something is over, it's something else. I wonder what's next? Amazingly you can't make this shit up.

When I said buckle up months ago, I meant it. Good luck to us all.

travelingthrulife

(4,174 posts)
45. MTG went for those stock market games Trump played with tariff manipulation.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:45 AM
Sep 2025

She made a ton of money. I expect he holds this and other things she has done over her head to control her.

eringer

(512 posts)
10. Wiring Money in These Amounts Leaves an Audit Trail
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:42 PM
Sep 2025

No worries here. The truth on this on will get out soon.

twodogsbarking

(17,360 posts)
20. He likely wired big dollars to others. So we get all but two. As a former auditor this is laughable.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:03 PM
Sep 2025

Wiz Imp

(8,566 posts)
35. At least one of them is a woman.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:45 PM
Sep 2025
Prosecutors added that “the same records show that just three days later, on or about December 3, 2018, the defendant wired $250,000 from the same trust account to [REDACTED], who was also named as a potential co-conspirator — and for whom Epstein also obtained protection in — the NPA.”

The prosecutors continued: “This individual is also one of the employees identified in the Indictment, which alleges that she and two other identified employees facilitated the defendant’s trafficking of minors by, among other things, contacting victims and scheduling their sexual encounters with the defendant at his residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.”


These 4 women were known co-conspirators who were not prosecuted:

-Sarah Kellen worked as Epstein’s massage scheduler & allegedly kept a Rolodex of young girls to recruit for Epstein
-Lesley Groff coordinated travel for young girls, often calling to schedule ‘massages.’”
-Nadia Marcinko “According to written testimony by several alleged victims, Marcinkova is described as having ‘encouraged and engaged in sexual acts’ with young girls while Epstein watched.”
-Adriana Ross allegedly helped organize Epstein’s predatory sessions

DallasNE

(7,944 posts)
40. These Payments Are Most Likely Similar to the Payments Stormy Daniels Received
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 06:43 AM
Sep 2025

Last edited Sun Sep 7, 2025, 03:45 PM - Edit history (1)

The terms and conditions are hidden in the non-disclosure agreements signed by these parties. In these cases, they probably involve witness tampering and other sleszy costs of doing business payments and what most people would call dirty money.

3825-87867

(1,769 posts)
41. So a decree from a prosecutor in inviolable...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:38 AM
Sep 2025

but 6 asswipes in robes can rewrite the constitution however and whenever they wish?
BY the way, I heard trump thinks he can reverse Biden's pardons?
So...name names!

republianmushroom

(22,122 posts)
47. Why redate the names ?
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 11:05 AM
Sep 2025

They won't be prosecuted but may face some embarrassment.
More DOJ of Florida unreliable witnesses ?

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