Via America’s Lawyer: It turns out Epstein used blackmail and coercion to keep his victims from fleeing his private island. Attorney and founder of Runaway Girl Carissa Phelps joins Mike Papantonio to discuss the haunting psychological impact of human trafficking and explains steps people can take to keep themselves safe from predators. Plus, disturbing new findings point to over a hundred everyday makeup products that have been contaminated with PFAS toxins. Attorney Sara Papantonio joins Mike Papantonio to break down how both regulators and manufacturers are to blame for these dangerous “forever chemicals” making their way into a laundry list of items being sold on store shelves.

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A new filing in the cases against Jeff Epstein have revealed that he'd use blackmail and he used coercion techniques to prevent women from fleeing his property. Joining me to talk about this is Carissa Phelps. She's one of our lawyers and just is an expert in this area. Carissa, look, start by telling us the story, the new development that's coming around the Epstein case.
Well, fortunately, people are able to share their story as it's taken so long for them to be able to do so around this case. And what he used was, you know, blackmail in the same way that he used blackmail in other cases, that's what's being alleged, is that you had people that were holding dossiers and information on his victims and holding acts. Maybe they were innocent acts. Maybe they were supposedly criminal acts that he convinced them they would get in trouble for. They would lose an opportunity over. And he was holding that over their head, allegedly.
The, the lawyer involved, Brad Edwards, longtime friend, wonderful lawyer who actually started all of this. He stayed with it. You know, he wasn't, it wasn't about am I going to make a big fee, it is, can I make some justice take place? Judges blew it. Regulators blew it. Department of justice blew it. State prosecutors blew it, did a terrible, terrible job.
Right.
And to me, we ought to take a close look about prosecuting some of them for their failures, because it was, it's too close, the conduct is simply too close to say, well, it was just bad judgment. I think there was some intent involved there. And I think we had to take a serious look at it. But so, so this case centers around the one that Brad's going forward with centers around Priscilla Doe, 22 year old ballet dancer, lay that out for me just a little bit.
Well, if someone has hopes and dreams and they fought to get to where they're at and they're offered an opportunity, maybe for something that seems like an easy job or a shortcut to help them through the hard times where they're trying to support something like in the arts that's so hard to get support for in the United States happens. There, there could be some pressure, some recruiting that goes on, which it sounds like happened with her. In her complaint, she talks about a recruiter who kind of sold her this dream and this idea that she would only have to do massages or she would only have to do certain acts. And that's usually how the lie starts is there's only going to be so much you have to do, you have control and you have power and it's just simply a lie.
Yeah.
And then once they fall prey to it, once they're in that trap, it's a tangled web.
So this, this story centers around something called HBRK. Now as a corporation, attorney Wiener is the guy in charge of it and he's working with Epstein. Who's working with Klein, who's working with Khan, who's working with Wiener. So this whole group, this whole cabal is involved in something, whether they're saying they intentionally knew or not, this resulted in a massive amount of trafficking of young girls. Not uncommon.
Correct.

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