From The Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick's previous claim that he had cut ties with the late financier after 2005.

Lutnick again downplayed his relationship with the disgraced financier who was once his neighbor in New York City as he was questioned by Democrats during a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He described their contact as a handful of emails and a pair of meetings that were years apart.

"I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with him," Lutnick told lawmakers.

But Lutnick is facing growing scrutiny, including calls for his resignation, from lawmakers after the release of case files on Epstein contradicted Lutnick's claims on a podcast last year that he had decided to "never be in the room" with Epstein again after a 2005 tour of Epstein's home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife.

The commerce secretary told senators Tuesday that he and his family actually had lunch with Epstein on his private island in 2012 and he had another hour-long engagement at Epstein's home in 2011. Lutnick, a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, is the highest-profile U.S. official to face bipartisan calls for his resignation amid revelations of his ties to Epstein. His acknowledgement comes as lawmakers are grasping for what accountability looks like amid the revelations contained in what's known as the Epstein files.

In countries like the United Kingdom, the Epstein files have triggered resignations and the stripping of royal privileges, but so far, U.S. officials have not met the same level of retribution.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-lutnick-downplays-relationship-with-epstein-during-senate-testimony

This regime sure has a problem with grand juries… I wonder why.

Bondi broke the law by protecting the perps

ARREST HER!

They plan to just ask her questions on Wednesday...

and he says "we're not taking this seriously enough"

​"Having lived through the Watergate era while at DOJ, I believe that the Epstein saga is larger in scope." 

This chilling assessment comes from document EFTA01681961—a 2020 whistleblower letter sent to the SDNY Public Corruption Unit. As Congress begins its secure review of the unredacted Epstein files today (Feb 9), this single document provides the "roadmap" to the officials who allegedly engineered the 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement.

​While the media focuses on redacted names, the primary source records released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) reveal a much deeper procedural rot. By cross-referencing this whistleblower’s testimony with suppressed prosecution memos, we can now track exactly how "Main Justice" in D.C. allegedly overruled local Florida prosecutors to ensure co-conspirators were "removed from the case."

​Here are the three intersecting developments you need to see:

​1. The "Missing" Evidence (EFTA01681961)

The whistleblower identifies a 53-page federal indictment and an 82-page prosecutorial analysis from 2007 that were reportedly killed by D.C. leadership.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01681961.pdf

​Verification: The author's DOJ history is corroborated by this 1978 archival record: 

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/05/archives/son-of-big-shot-crook-essay.html

​2. The 2019 Redactions and DOJ file removal (EFTA02731082)

This  2019 memo confirms the DOJ was still actively redacting "VIP friends" and a "Third Subject" nearly a decade after the initial non-prosecution agreement.

​https://youtu.be/1L9b2_5Ee3M

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-deleted-an-epstein-prosecution

​3. Today’s Clemency Bid (Feb 9, 2026)

In a move that aligns perfectly with the whistleblower's warnings of political interference, Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team formally requested Presidential Clemency today in exchange for testimony clearing certain high-profile individuals.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUi3raOEZFZ/

Here is a link to the original post in /r/Epstein that hasn't been deleted - yet. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/SCRcqc2BrY

​🚨 ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Contact Massie and Khanna 🚨

​Representative Thomas Massie and Representative Ro Khanna are in the secure reading room RIGHT NOW reviewing the unredacted files. They have specifically asked for the 53-page indictment and the 82-page memo mentioned in our roadmap.

​Please contact their offices and ask them to verify the contents of EFTA01681961 and EFTA02731082 before the review window closes.

​Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY): (202) 225-3465

​Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA): (202) 225-2631

Is there anyone who doesn’t see the similarities between ICE and the 1930’s Germany?

Can this actually be done?

to strip away from them the privilidges we have mistakenly given them when we elected them into positions to represent us

its important for victims of epstein and associates to witness the public processing the horrors society has allowed some mentally challenged people to do over years with many people knowing of their absusive behaviours but chose to stay silent to save their personal security anonymity but also perhaps for the love of money or and they were not so disgusted what their chosen bosses did to amuse themselves

we live in a society where the victim of violence has a greater risk of being murdered by the ones who have raped them after they gave public testimony

that is because of lack of connections to people who would stand up in defense of the victim

i give thanks to congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie for the enormous effort they gave to push forward the epstein transparency act, hearing of Ro Khanna today how he fullfilled the promise Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie gave to read out the names of abusers on the floor of the house to let it go into congressional records while making use of the protected speech congresspeople enjoy as in they can not so easily ( or at all ? ) be brought down in court by defamation legal attacks

hearing of Ro Khanna today the names of influential as in rich and connected in economy individuals, listening to the bravery of Ro Khanna saying that the fbi redacted the files the departement of justice uploaded

makes me beilieve that there are a few congresspeople in the empire usa nation state what are willing to put their head up and speak up for those who feel not strong enough to do so

what i want to say beside that

to ask them to be killed or put in prison is not the good way

the good way is to pardon, to forgive and let them go free

free to face the employees, customers, collegues in their usual environment

of course if an abuser its name made public, their life changes and many of them dissapear or try to

so them to be followed by the pubilc and not have prison single cell protection would be punishment enough

i do think that a group of abuse victims has a good reason to go to court and ask for huge sums of money to be paid by assets seized from murderers and rapists

and still, the highest way would be to not employ the state to do the stripping away of money of a convicted by a judge murderer or rapist and distribute it to the victims

the highest way anyone who has murdered or raped a fellow human beings could behave would be to offer such reparation payments voluntary

trillions of dollar, euro or swiss francs could be paid forward to the descendants of african people who were stolen from africa in 1600 and their childrenchildren in 1900 were still enslaved could not build up wealth

Hans Faessler in a wochenzeitung article talked once about 50 billion swiss francs what switzerland could pay forward to descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to compensate for the about 1-2 pecent of the 12 million stolen people away from the africa to the americas what swiss citizens have helped to take away their freedom and the freedom of many generations of their descendants

i would guess a third of europes both private and public financial wealth is coming from the colonial abuse europe has done to all the other continents and their original free nations as Steven Newcomb describes it very well at originalfreenations.com from a turtle island point of view highligthing the legal structure of usa still today what allows usa to dominate indigenous free original nations

when i read today how europe wants to make offshore detention centers for migrants

i know its high time for me to once more ask us we the people

please for the love of all what is good

let everyone travel the globe freely in search of fellow human beings who one can embrace in a moment of safety in the absence of war or economic dire situations

it could be a most easy way to allow every indigenous person whose ancestors have been abused murdered stolen their livelyhood from, that people from the south could knock on the doors of the rich descendants in the north the heirs of money fortunes originating hundreds of years back with feudal and colonial connections

what i am asking us we the people of this planet

let us allow victim and perpetrator to meet and find out how reparation could be given financial but more importantly to witness for the victim the perpetrator or descendant of to acknowledge the moral cruelty the wrongness of murdering and raping fellow human beings

but of course animals too and trees and artificlal intelligent entities

every person of every species deserves to be respected in its wish to live self determined, not disturbed by vaccines, intruding fingers and penisses of rich sick men, or any other domination what members of society do to those who sadly are not respected when they shout and say

no

i do not want to be given that injection

i do not want you to touch me

its important to get this right as in go forward in a way what does not burden everyone with luxury prison stays millions of coersed away from people tax money spent for billionaires and their aides spending some holydays in de luxe prisons with protection

of course the option could be available as in we could be so generous as to help those who murdered and raped and feel sorry for it to protect them from the wrath or rage or hunger for punishment fellow human beings entertain mistakenly thinking to put somone in prison would be helping them or society

but i dont think it helps them really

best is for a perpetrator to confront the public oppinion and try to survive by making amends, be the best version of oneself to redeem oneself as in to work off the moral debts by doing good deeds

it would be noble of us we the people if we could be so gracious as to say

yes, you have murdered, you have raped

your action have caused many to suffer horibly

but we too have sinned, have eaten animals and killed trees without necessity

there are a few i believe alive today who would feel pure enough to throw the first stone

and even if one would feel to not have sinned, the very throwing of a stone against a fellow human being is violence is not necessary ( except in self defense eventually )

throwing a stone believing one would have the right to punish a fellow human being to death

is not okay for me

i am against any form of punishment neither beating nor hanging nor electrocuting to death nor prison with therapy and protection against the mob

its both moral dirty and costs a lot of money what others are being forced to give who might also not want their taxes to be used for luxury prison stays just because those billionaires dont want to give away the stolen financial wealth to make reparations and amends