Well said! Epstein’s partner’s father was without a doubt Mossad. Think of the extremeness of that as a co-incidence (if it were one).
The Mockingbird media’s decades-long lack of interest in Epstein’s remarkable story speaks volumes.
I don’t claim to be an Epstein expert, J. Sobran; but sometimes, when there’s smoke, there’s fire…
I have read a lot about Jeffrey Epstein’ life, education, finances, death and his pedophile network. He was definitely a sex addict.
The police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Interviews with five alleged victims and seventeen witnesses under oath, a high-school transcript and other items found in Epstein’s trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18, the youngest being 14, with many under 16. Eventually the FBI compiled reports on 34 confirmed minors eligible for restitution.
Before and after his death there were at least 20 lawsuits filed by women against Epstein.
In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed Operation Leap Year. It resulted in a fifty-three page indictment in June 2007.
Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed potential co-conspirator. According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crime. At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.
US Attorney Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein belonged to intelligence, was above his pay grad and to leave it alone. Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution charges, serve eighteen months in prison, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. The plea deal was later described as a sweetheart deal.
Of all the materials I have reviewed , there are rumors of Epstein being involved in the intelligence community. I haven’t any hard evidence at a credible level to support to those rumors.
It’s all very troubling, Fred, and many people feel justice has not been done for those young girls. Thanks for your post.
“US Attorney Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein belonged to intelligence…”
Oh that’s okay then. “CIA/Mossad” can sex traffic, blackmail, steal, & murder all they want. And do. They are above the law. You can’t even ask about it. Even Trump won’t let you ask about it.
From Wikipedia:
“In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).[82][83][84] The startup was connected with Israel’s defense industry. It was headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The CEO of the company is Amir Elihai, a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, a director of the company and former defense ministry director general and commander of IDF cyber unit 8200.[85] Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were close, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.[86][87] Epstein had past experience with Israel’s research and military sector.[88] In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases.[88]”
“Epstein was rumored to be associated with Intelligence agencies.[292] The U.S. journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson linked Epstein to the Israeli Mossad in their book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They relied for the most part on the former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe.[293] According to him, Epstein’s activities as a spy served to gather compromising material on powerful people in order to blackmail them.[294] There is also a possible connection to the Mossad via Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father Robert Maxwell is said to have had contacts with the Mossad.[295]”
TIME
Jul 14, 2025 1:32 PM ET
Former Israeli Leader Rejects Allegations Jeffrey Epstein Worked for Mossad: ‘A Vicious Wave of Slander’
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed allegations that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence services, describing the claims from U.S. media figures as being part of “a vicious wave of slander and lies” against Israel.
The Israeli politician on Monday said he had “100% certainty” that Epstein did not have any ties to the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, or the country itself.
“The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett said in a post on X. “There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”
The denial comes after right-wing commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Friday without evidence that Epstein was likely working for the Israeli government. Similar claims have been levied by others in the past but have not been proven.
Epstein recently returned to national headlines after the Justice Department released a memo earlier this month denying that any evidence supports the existence of an Epstein “client list” or that the disgraced financier was murdered. The memo has caused a rift between President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, who have long promoted conspiracy theories tied to Epstein and his 2019 death behind bars. Trump previously promised during his 2024 campaign that he would release records about Epstein if he won the election, but since the memo’s release has urged his supporters to move on.
Bennett accused Carlson and other “prominent online personalities” of “pretending they know things they don’t,” adding, “They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.”
Here’s what to know about the allegations.
Why is Naftali Bennett publicly addressing these allegations now?
Bennett’s public address follows Carlson’s comments alleging a connection between Israel and Epstein during a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on Friday. The popular conservative commentator, who has been one of the most prominent critics of the Justice Department’s memo, said that people needed to start questioning “why was [Epstein] doing this, on whose behalf, and where was the money coming from?”
Epstein, Carlson went on to speculate, was working on behalf of intelligence services, likely for a foreign government. “Now, no one’s allowed to say that foreign government is Israel, because we’ve been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty,” he added. “There is nothing wrong with saying that, there’s nothing hateful about saying that, there’s nothing antisemitic about saying that—there’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that!”
The history behind the allegations that Epstein was connected to Mossad
The allegations that Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence services are not new.
Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, best known for her investigations into Epstein, told The Times of Israel in 2021 that there was a possible connection between the convicted sex offender and the Israeli intelligence community due to his relationship with media baron Robert Maxwell.
“Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell,” Brown, who is also the author of Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, told the publication.
Rumors about a connection between Epstein and Mossad have also been brought forward by Epstein’s former girlfriend and victim, known in court documents as Jane Doe 200, against the disgraced financier’s estate. The woman claimed in a legal filing that she was told that Robert Maxwell was in the Mossad, and was “led to believe by both Maxwell and Epstein that Epstein was as well.”
The history behind the allegations that Epstein was connected to Mossad
The allegations that Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence services are not new.
Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, best known for her investigations into Epstein, told The Times of Israel in 2021 that there was a possible connection between the convicted sex offender and the Israeli intelligence community due to his relationship with media baron Robert Maxwell.
“Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell,” Brown, who is also the author of Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, told the publication.
Rumors about a connection between Epstein and Mossad have also been brought forward by Epstein’s former girlfriend and victim, known in court documents as Jane Doe 200, against the disgraced financier’s estate. The woman claimed in a legal filing that she was told that Robert Maxwell was in the Mossad, and was “led to believe by both Maxwell and Epstein that Epstein was as well.”
In response to Bennett’s defense, which she called “meaningless,” longtime conservative commentator Megyn Kelly also cited 2019 reports that claimed that Alexander Acosta, the former Miami attorney who gave Epstein a controversial non-prosecution plea deal in 2008, had told the Trump transition team that Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Acosta later denied such reports.
In response to Bennett’s defense, which she called “meaningless,” longtime conservative commentator Megyn Kelly also cited 2019 reports that claimed that Alexander Acosta, the former Miami attorney who gave Epstein a controversial non-prosecution plea deal in 2008, had told the Trump transition team that Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Acosta later denied such reports.
In his Friday comments, Carlson pointed to Epstein’s reported ties to Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, with whom the convicted sex offender allegedly met some 30 times from 2013 to 2017.
Carlson questioned why Epstein had never been asked about a connection with Barak or Mossad. “What the hell is this? You have the former Israeli prime minister living in your house, you have had all this contact with a foreign government, were you working on behalf of the Mossad? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of a foreign government?” the right-wing media personality asked.
Other prominent political leaders, including Trump and former President Bill Clinton, have also been named in court documents released in connection with Epstein.
I don’t know the truth of the allegations, Fred, but it seems, based on my previous comment excerpting from Wikipedia, some folks have openly asserted the connection, including folks who wrote a book about it, and a former Israeli intelligence officer. It does not seem disputed that he had a previous business relationship with Barak.
NATIONAL REVIEW
July 16, 2025
The Epstein Uproar
Attorney General Pam Bondi apparently never heard the adage about under-promising and over-delivering.
President Trump’s most vociferous media supporters have been in a full meltdown over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, an obsessive focus of MAGA figures over the years. Last week, the DOJ and FBI put out an unsigned two-page statement saying that no additional charges would be filed in the case.
Rather than putting the matter to rest, the memo caused a political uproar and mutual recriminations among top Trump officials.
Who’s to blame? Everyone who has built vast castles of fantasy atop the Epstein case, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino prior to assuming their current positions, and especially Pam Bondi (Trump himself talked of releasing the files on Epstein, but voiced reservations about ruining lives with “phony stuff”). She hyped Epstein revelations as AG, by handing out worthless white binders supposedly full of Epstein files to sundry MAGA influencers and by seemingly saying in a TV interview that she had an Epstein client list on her desk.
That was grossly self-interested conduct that, of course, did more to stoke conspiracy theories when shortly afterwards the government took the position that there was really nothing to see here.
It is natural that there are questions around the Epstein case, given his hideous crimes, his lenient treatment by the law 20 years ago, his lavish lifestyle, his association with so many famous and wealthy people, and his death in jail by suicide before he could stand trial.
This doesn’t mean the wild theories about the case are justified. There is no evidence that there was any “client list” of those partaking of Epstein’s crimes. Nor is there serious evidence that Epstein was murdered, which would have required a Mission Impossible–style operation to fake his suicide behind bars, or that he was, say, an agent of Mossad. If the Deep State had to make Epstein go away at the behest of a foreign government, or rich and powerful people who shared in his crimes, presumably it wouldn’t have allowed his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell to go to trial, when she had every incentive to spill her guts about such nefarious high-level dealings. (She is currently serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in Epstein’s crimes.)
It’s also hard to believe — if we entertain the conspiracy theorists further — that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino came into office and were instantly co-opted by the alleged conspiracy they so long warned about.
There are now understandable calls for greater transparency. The rules around grand jury secrecy shouldn’t be broken and care must be taken about revealing the identities of victims and besmirching the reputations of people mentioned incidentally in the vast investigative materials. Bondi should have heeded the DOJ practice of not speaking about cases if charges aren’t going to be brought, and the offense shouldn’t be compounded. Yet, the documents a judge has ordered released in a civil case should be made public expeditiously, and it’s hard to understand why other materials related to the case — including the autopsy report on Epstein — haven’t been released.
President Trump wants the whole thing to go away, and now blames various of his political adversaries for creating the Epstein files in the first place. If there’s one lesson from this episode, though, it’s that we need less conspiracy-theorizing rather than more.
That’s a thoughtful take provided by NR, Fred. Thanks for posting it. Is it completely correct with all the statements made within? I don’t know.
Well said! Epstein’s partner’s father was without a doubt Mossad. Think of the extremeness of that as a co-incidence (if it were one).
The Mockingbird media’s decades-long lack of interest in Epstein’s remarkable story speaks volumes.
I don’t claim to be an Epstein expert, J. Sobran; but sometimes, when there’s smoke, there’s fire…
I have read a lot about Jeffrey Epstein’ life, education, finances, death and his pedophile network. He was definitely a sex addict.
The police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Interviews with five alleged victims and seventeen witnesses under oath, a high-school transcript and other items found in Epstein’s trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18, the youngest being 14, with many under 16. Eventually the FBI compiled reports on 34 confirmed minors eligible for restitution.
Before and after his death there were at least 20 lawsuits filed by women against Epstein.
In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed Operation Leap Year. It resulted in a fifty-three page indictment in June 2007.
Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed potential co-conspirator. According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crime. At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.
US Attorney Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein belonged to intelligence, was above his pay grad and to leave it alone. Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution charges, serve eighteen months in prison, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. The plea deal was later described as a sweetheart deal.
Of all the materials I have reviewed , there are rumors of Epstein being involved in the intelligence community. I haven’t any hard evidence at a credible level to support to those rumors.
It’s all very troubling, Fred, and many people feel justice has not been done for those young girls. Thanks for your post.
“US Attorney Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein belonged to intelligence…”
Oh that’s okay then. “CIA/Mossad” can sex traffic, blackmail, steal, & murder all they want. And do. They are above the law. You can’t even ask about it. Even Trump won’t let you ask about it.
From Wikipedia:
“In 2015, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Epstein invested in the startup Reporty Homeland Security (rebranded as Carbyne in 2018).[82][83][84] The startup was connected with Israel’s defense industry. It was headed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was also at one time the defense minister, and chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The CEO of the company is Amir Elihai, a special forces officer, and Pinchas Bukhris, a director of the company and former defense ministry director general and commander of IDF cyber unit 8200.[85] Epstein and Barak, the head of Carbyne, were close, and Epstein often offered him lodging at one of his apartment units at 301 East 66th Street in Manhattan.[86][87] Epstein had past experience with Israel’s research and military sector.[88] In April 2008, he went to Israel and met with a number of research scientists and visited different Israeli military bases.[88]”
“Epstein was rumored to be associated with Intelligence agencies.[292] The U.S. journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson linked Epstein to the Israeli Mossad in their book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They relied for the most part on the former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe.[293] According to him, Epstein’s activities as a spy served to gather compromising material on powerful people in order to blackmail them.[294] There is also a possible connection to the Mossad via Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father Robert Maxwell is said to have had contacts with the Mossad.[295]”
TIME
Jul 14, 2025 1:32 PM ET
Former Israeli Leader Rejects Allegations Jeffrey Epstein Worked for Mossad: ‘A Vicious Wave of Slander’
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed allegations that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence services, describing the claims from U.S. media figures as being part of “a vicious wave of slander and lies” against Israel.
The Israeli politician on Monday said he had “100% certainty” that Epstein did not have any ties to the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, or the country itself.
“The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett said in a post on X. “There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”
The denial comes after right-wing commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Friday without evidence that Epstein was likely working for the Israeli government. Similar claims have been levied by others in the past but have not been proven.
Epstein recently returned to national headlines after the Justice Department released a memo earlier this month denying that any evidence supports the existence of an Epstein “client list” or that the disgraced financier was murdered. The memo has caused a rift between President Donald Trump and his MAGA base, who have long promoted conspiracy theories tied to Epstein and his 2019 death behind bars. Trump previously promised during his 2024 campaign that he would release records about Epstein if he won the election, but since the memo’s release has urged his supporters to move on.
Bennett accused Carlson and other “prominent online personalities” of “pretending they know things they don’t,” adding, “They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.”
Here’s what to know about the allegations.
Why is Naftali Bennett publicly addressing these allegations now?
Bennett’s public address follows Carlson’s comments alleging a connection between Israel and Epstein during a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on Friday. The popular conservative commentator, who has been one of the most prominent critics of the Justice Department’s memo, said that people needed to start questioning “why was [Epstein] doing this, on whose behalf, and where was the money coming from?”
Epstein, Carlson went on to speculate, was working on behalf of intelligence services, likely for a foreign government. “Now, no one’s allowed to say that foreign government is Israel, because we’ve been somehow cowed into thinking that that’s naughty,” he added. “There is nothing wrong with saying that, there’s nothing hateful about saying that, there’s nothing antisemitic about saying that—there’s nothing even anti-Israel about saying that!”
The history behind the allegations that Epstein was connected to Mossad
The allegations that Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence services are not new.
Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, best known for her investigations into Epstein, told The Times of Israel in 2021 that there was a possible connection between the convicted sex offender and the Israeli intelligence community due to his relationship with media baron Robert Maxwell.
“Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell,” Brown, who is also the author of Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, told the publication.
Rumors about a connection between Epstein and Mossad have also been brought forward by Epstein’s former girlfriend and victim, known in court documents as Jane Doe 200, against the disgraced financier’s estate. The woman claimed in a legal filing that she was told that Robert Maxwell was in the Mossad, and was “led to believe by both Maxwell and Epstein that Epstein was as well.”
The history behind the allegations that Epstein was connected to Mossad
The allegations that Epstein had ties to Israeli intelligence services are not new.
Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, best known for her investigations into Epstein, told The Times of Israel in 2021 that there was a possible connection between the convicted sex offender and the Israeli intelligence community due to his relationship with media baron Robert Maxwell.
“Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell,” Brown, who is also the author of Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, told the publication.
Rumors about a connection between Epstein and Mossad have also been brought forward by Epstein’s former girlfriend and victim, known in court documents as Jane Doe 200, against the disgraced financier’s estate. The woman claimed in a legal filing that she was told that Robert Maxwell was in the Mossad, and was “led to believe by both Maxwell and Epstein that Epstein was as well.”
In response to Bennett’s defense, which she called “meaningless,” longtime conservative commentator Megyn Kelly also cited 2019 reports that claimed that Alexander Acosta, the former Miami attorney who gave Epstein a controversial non-prosecution plea deal in 2008, had told the Trump transition team that Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Acosta later denied such reports.
In response to Bennett’s defense, which she called “meaningless,” longtime conservative commentator Megyn Kelly also cited 2019 reports that claimed that Alexander Acosta, the former Miami attorney who gave Epstein a controversial non-prosecution plea deal in 2008, had told the Trump transition team that Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Acosta later denied such reports.
In his Friday comments, Carlson pointed to Epstein’s reported ties to Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, with whom the convicted sex offender allegedly met some 30 times from 2013 to 2017.
Carlson questioned why Epstein had never been asked about a connection with Barak or Mossad. “What the hell is this? You have the former Israeli prime minister living in your house, you have had all this contact with a foreign government, were you working on behalf of the Mossad? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of a foreign government?” the right-wing media personality asked.
Other prominent political leaders, including Trump and former President Bill Clinton, have also been named in court documents released in connection with Epstein.
I don’t know the truth of the allegations, Fred, but it seems, based on my previous comment excerpting from Wikipedia, some folks have openly asserted the connection, including folks who wrote a book about it, and a former Israeli intelligence officer. It does not seem disputed that he had a previous business relationship with Barak.
NATIONAL REVIEW
July 16, 2025
The Epstein Uproar
Attorney General Pam Bondi apparently never heard the adage about under-promising and over-delivering.
President Trump’s most vociferous media supporters have been in a full meltdown over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, an obsessive focus of MAGA figures over the years. Last week, the DOJ and FBI put out an unsigned two-page statement saying that no additional charges would be filed in the case.
Rather than putting the matter to rest, the memo caused a political uproar and mutual recriminations among top Trump officials.
Who’s to blame? Everyone who has built vast castles of fantasy atop the Epstein case, including FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino prior to assuming their current positions, and especially Pam Bondi (Trump himself talked of releasing the files on Epstein, but voiced reservations about ruining lives with “phony stuff”). She hyped Epstein revelations as AG, by handing out worthless white binders supposedly full of Epstein files to sundry MAGA influencers and by seemingly saying in a TV interview that she had an Epstein client list on her desk.
That was grossly self-interested conduct that, of course, did more to stoke conspiracy theories when shortly afterwards the government took the position that there was really nothing to see here.
It is natural that there are questions around the Epstein case, given his hideous crimes, his lenient treatment by the law 20 years ago, his lavish lifestyle, his association with so many famous and wealthy people, and his death in jail by suicide before he could stand trial.
This doesn’t mean the wild theories about the case are justified. There is no evidence that there was any “client list” of those partaking of Epstein’s crimes. Nor is there serious evidence that Epstein was murdered, which would have required a Mission Impossible–style operation to fake his suicide behind bars, or that he was, say, an agent of Mossad. If the Deep State had to make Epstein go away at the behest of a foreign government, or rich and powerful people who shared in his crimes, presumably it wouldn’t have allowed his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell to go to trial, when she had every incentive to spill her guts about such nefarious high-level dealings. (She is currently serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in Epstein’s crimes.)
It’s also hard to believe — if we entertain the conspiracy theorists further — that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino came into office and were instantly co-opted by the alleged conspiracy they so long warned about.
There are now understandable calls for greater transparency. The rules around grand jury secrecy shouldn’t be broken and care must be taken about revealing the identities of victims and besmirching the reputations of people mentioned incidentally in the vast investigative materials. Bondi should have heeded the DOJ practice of not speaking about cases if charges aren’t going to be brought, and the offense shouldn’t be compounded. Yet, the documents a judge has ordered released in a civil case should be made public expeditiously, and it’s hard to understand why other materials related to the case — including the autopsy report on Epstein — haven’t been released.
President Trump wants the whole thing to go away, and now blames various of his political adversaries for creating the Epstein files in the first place. If there’s one lesson from this episode, though, it’s that we need less conspiracy-theorizing rather than more.
That’s a thoughtful take provided by NR, Fred. Thanks for posting it. Is it completely correct with all the statements made within? I don’t know.