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In America, we are taught to believe that our intelligence agencies exist to safeguard freedom, defend democracy, and ensure national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But what happens when those same institutions entrusted with protecting the public instead serve the private interests of a small, unaccountable elite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens when the power to surveil, destabilize, and even topple governments is no longer used for the common good, but to secure the wealth and influence of a circle most citizens will never be allowed to enter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the CIA, right? How does the CIA come to exist? So, basically, the precursor to
the CIA are uh it’s the OSS and it’s all Wall Street bankers and some of the most
notorious early heads of the CIA like the Dallas brothers were Wall Street
lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I do think some questions aren’t
being asked.
To frame the bigger picture, here’s someone who’s been warning about this for years.
And the early coups of the CIA were all done on behalf of US corporations.
So when we talk about intelligence agencies, whether it’s in the US or
Israel, you know, a lot of times people talk about them as if they’re monoliths
unto themselves, but they serve people and usually they serve oligarchy.
I mean, I think it’s pretty clear that in the United States there’s an
unaccountable oligarchy. Um, and the people that uh end up reaching those
echelons of wealth and power um you know, they get there often times uh
with help uh by people that are already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In America, we are taught to believe that our intelligence agencies
exist to safeguard freedom, defend democracy, and ensure national security.
But what happens when those same institutions entrusted with protecting
the public instead serve the private interests of a small, unaccountable
elite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens when the power to surveil, destabilize, and even topple governments is no longer used for the common good, but to secure the wealth and influence of a circle most citizens will never be allowed to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These aren’t distant hypotheticals.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb has spent years mapping the hidden
intersections of intelligence, organized crime, and global power. Her research
suggests the CIA is far from a neutral guardian of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its roots lie deep in Wall Street and corporate America, and its earliest coups weren’t random foreign adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were calculated moves to protect corporate profits and preserve US dominance. The picture that emerges is one of a transnational oligarchy so entrenched
that it bends entire government agencies to its will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not merely corruption. It is a system built from the top down to serve a particular class. While the rest of us are told comforting stories about patriotism and national interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If true, this raises disturbing questions. How much of our public policy is really shaped in boardrooms and private clubs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many of America’s most celebrated leaders rose to prominence not through merit or service, but through quiet sponsorship from the very networks that thrive on secrecy and control?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And perhaps the most damning question of all, if the rules are written by those already in power, do the rest of us even stand a chance of winning\/be involved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitney Webb traces one of the clearest examples of this system at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A web of billionaires, powerful corporations, and figures tied to organized crime whose influence stretches across industries, governments, and even the very institutions that claim to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the CIA’s Wall Street origins to the shadowy ties of moguls like Leslie Wexner, this investigation will make you question everything you thought you knew about power in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Leslie Wexner is a good Segway from what I just brought up because Leslie Wexner, of course, is Jeffrey Epstein’s main benefactor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um, and he um has alleged organized crime ties which are interesting to explore.
So, in the mid Victoria Secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. Mhm. the limited to Abberrombie and Fitch who I believe the longtime head of that was just uh arrested or charged with you know being predatory towards minors.
Uh it seems to be a recurring theme in Wexner world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you know? Um, so in 1985 or so, um, one of the lawyers for Wexner’s
business interests in Ohio was shot in the face in broad daylight and it
happened days before that lawyer named Arthur Shapiro was supposed to testify
to the IRS. Um, interesting.
So, uh, Columbus, Ohio police began investigating that and one of the analysts there produced a report essentially tying the crime to Leslie Wexner and detailing Leslie Wexner’s ties uh to organized crime, specifically uh the Genevese crime family in particular in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And um that was heavily suppressed by the then Columbus police chief as uh he and some other figures uh were paid by Leslie Wexner to serve as private security at his residences um and for other interests and it just it wasn’t really uh the document was suppressed for a long time until um a Columbus area lawyer and journalist named Bob Fitrais accidentally obtained it via a foyer request and now you can find it on archive. org and read it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh, but Leslie Wexner in 19 Oh, sorry, let me backtrack. So, not sometime between 1985 and 1987, depending on who you believe, Leslie Wexner uh hires Jeffrey Epstein to uh untangle his tangled finances.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And Epstein uh had previously worked at Bear Sterns. He left in 1980, I believe. uh
and he had mainly done uh tax sus rather suspect tax stuff for the elite clients
of Bear Sterns. And the reason he ended up at Bear Sterns after being a a math teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. Well, uh, Ace Greenberg ran Bear Sterns at the time, and he thought that,
um, Jeffrey Epstein was the best ever while his kids were attending the Dalton
School, and that it was apparently forged through uh, how whatever uh, teacher student relationship I guess that Epstein had developed with his children that that decision was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ. Okay. All right. So, he’s up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah. He’s been doing people is le he ends up leaving because of a tie to an insider trading scandal that intimately involves the Bronman family.
And in 1991, Leslie 6:20 Wexner and the Bronman’s co-create this group of billionaires um called the mega group or that’s what it’s called about by called by the Wall Street Journal like 7 years after uh it was created.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The first article on this group appears and that’s what they called themselves.
Uh but they’re also referred to as the study group in that article.
And the other members that are named have ties to organized crime also.
Um which is interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh like the Crown family of Chicago um are uh have historic ties to organized crime. They run General Dynamics, the defense contractor.
Um among other things, they have a big role at JP Morgan, too. uh which I did a series about a couple years ago about how Jaime Diamond only became the CEO of JP Morgan because of uh basically Leslie Wexner’s other right-hand man besides Epstein uh John Kesler and then uh the interests of the Crown family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So maybe that’s why JP Morgan banked Jeffrey Epstein so extensively as we know from
the USVI case that was settled out of court.
M and another one of these figures is the uh in that’s involved with the mega group in the early ‘9s is the Tish family and they used to manage resorts for Resorts International which I mentioned earlier um and specifically Paradise Island uh which had a lot of mob connections in particular like a lot of mob money in the in the uh that you know it when Castro came to power a lot of the mob interests that had been in in Cuba under the Batista regime moved to other areas of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so Paradise Island became one of their hotspots basically. So the Tish family operated Paradise Island, but Resorts International owned it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So a lot of those uh connections are interesting.
And then Tish has a also had a tie to Michelle Sedona, who comes up in the Flavio Briator article um because uh basically Michelle Sedona was this banker in Italy uh who died in prison even though he was under 24-hour uh police watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh he was poisoned with cyanide laced coffee as part of this big scandal that enveloped Italy that was basically built around this lodge called Freemason Lodge called uh P2, but it involved all this other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s kind of a crazy story in and of itself, but he was involved in that he and P2
were linked to the collapse of numerous banks in the Italy and also in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the US bank that Sona had gotten involved with, he was only uh he illegally bought shares because as an Italian, I don’t think he was allowed to own it.
Um and so he bought the shares illegally from Lawrence Tish, who was this founding member of the mega group.
Um Sedona had all these mob ties uh also.
So okay,
very strange stuff. Okay, I want to I want to just make sure I’m like I know it’s a lot of info, but basically I will distill it and say that Leslie Wexner um has alleged organized crime affiliations and then teamed up with this group of billionaires, some of whom also have Epstein affiliations, but basically this entire group has organized crime ties and they’re all billionaires and they get together a couple times a year and they decide how to spend their money and they have a lot of connections also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

uh to the state of Israel.
According to journalist Whitney Webb, Leslie Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein’s chief patron, was no stranger to the darker side of power. His alleged ties to the Genevese crime family documented in a sealed Columbus police report paint a chilling portrait of a billionaire whose empire may have been built on more than
just retail success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the mysterious murder of his attorney, Arthur Shapiro, just days before he was set to testify before the IRS, to the creation of the so-called mega group, Wexner’s story raises far deeper questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mega Group itself, a secretive gathering of billionaires with alleged mafia links, suggests a network of influence that stretches far beyond legitimate business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a world where power, money, and organized crime are entwined and where figures like Epstein were entrusted with managing the financial webs of the elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How deep does this rabbit hole go? And who else sits inside this shadow network? Web’s investigation doesn’t stop with Wexner. She points to the Bronman family entangled in insider trading scandals and the Tish family connected to mobridden Paradise Island.
These are not isolated scandals, but pieces of a larger puzzle. One that Webb
argues reveals how billionaires with murky connections exert enormous influence over America’s economy and politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as we move forward, the picture only grows darker.
These networks reach into the very fabric of American commerce itself.
Well, I was must going to say that that basically most American malls when I was growing up and I’m assuming when you were growing up too consistently, no matter
what mall you’re going to, uh, a lot of the stores were owned by Wexner cuz he
owned, you know, Abberrombi limited to the Limited Bath and Body Works.
You know, all of those, uh, were him. And the reason he was in every American mall
is because one of his business mentors was Alfred Toddman who later went to prison for fixing oxygen auctions at Sabes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um but basically he was the owner of uh most uh not most but a lot of mall commercial retail space and so he basically gave Wexner a deal on uh commercial retail spaces. So he was able to colonize that he what it feels like is you only get rich if you are in the mob.
Like that’s what that’s like the American story. You only get rich and successful in politics if you’re clearly in the mob connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mob connections. Okay.
So, you know, who you’re being connected to. But, I mean, I think it’s pretty
clear that in the United States there’s an unaccountable oligarchy.
Um, and the people that uh end up reaching those echelons of wealth and power.
Um, you know, they get there often times uh with help uh by people that are
already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I mean, New York is more mafia out, I think, than most cities, and it has a longstanding power structure that has been immovable for uh a very, very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh, but I would, you know, obviously I’ve been dumping on Trump a bit. Uh, but that’s because, you know, that’s kind of the he’s in power right now and we’re talking about his Epstein ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh, but the Democrats have a lot of tie, extensive ties to these networks as well. And really, when you want to talk about how this particular organized crime syndicate entered politics, they took over the Democratic Party of New York first. And they did that by taking over the unions and killing or threatening heads of the
unions and then putting mob affiliated figures or mob associates in those positions.
And then use that to take control of the Democratic party in New York.
And then I mean they later do that with the Republicans too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean like Thomas Dwey who was a New York Republican uh who ran against Eisenhower
I believe uh he was very affiliated with mob interests and he had famously been a
prosecutor supposedly targeting the mob and then becomes a business associate of
the mob shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I want to add to this too is that um the CIA right how does the CIA come to exist? So basically the precursor to the CIA are uh it’s the OSS and it’s all Wall Street bankers and some of the most notorious early heads of the CIA like the Dallas brothers were Wall Street lawyers and the early coups
of the CIA were all done on behalf of US corporations. Right.
Yeah.
And to protect US corporate interests.
So when we talk about intelligence agencies, whether it’s in the US or Israel, you know, a lot of times people talk about them as if they’re monoliths unto themselves, but they serve people and usually they serve oligarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I would argue they serve transnational oligarchy. And more often than not, they
tend to have ties to this crime syndicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you go far back enough, if you look far enough into the past, if you strip away the PR polish of American politics, you’ll find a system that functions less like a democracy and more like a closed syndicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Names and faces may change every few years, but the essence of decision-making remains the same.
An overlapping web of corporate interests, political dynasties, and entrenched financial power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public stage is a distraction. The real deals are cut behind closed doors by people whose positions owe less to voters than to patrons within this network.
This isn’t a case of a few bad actors occasionally exploiting the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system itself is designed to reward loyalty to the inner circle and punish
anyone who dares to step outside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why investigations stall, scandals vanish from headlines, and the same players reappear in new roles after every supposed fall from grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not resilience. It’s protection. And the consequences are profound.
If our laws, institutions, and even intelligence agencies can be directed to safeguard the interests of a select few, then the idea that ordinary citizens can hold power accountable is little more than political theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That should be cause for outrage because it means our future is being decided by people whose priorities have nothing to do with the ublic good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real question is whether enough people are willing to see through the facade, to challenge the narratives, and to reject the illusion that change will come simply by swapping one party or personality for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if the underlying structure remains the same, then so will the outcomes no matter who’s in charge.
So, how much time is really left to continue relying on electoral politics as our
only way to fight against uh this extreme oligarchy that is motivated by
uh putting a boot on our face forever and uh stealing our money through
repeated wealth transfers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another day, another thing nobody’s is talking about.
Let’s change that. Here’s the view from someone who sees more than just the
surface. Well, it’s a good question because one of the other figures who
sort of uh gets ignored in the context of the Epstein case whose name comes up
a lot uh is Thomas Pritsker.
Um and there’s actually I think more than one Pritsker in the uh in the Black Book. Uh but Pritskar’s been named by victims and seems to come up a lot and you know
he’s part of the family that runs Hyatt Hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um oh no, they’re related. They’re related. As I note in the very beginning of volume one of my book, uh the Pritskars actually have long-standing ties to organized crime and were one of the earliest clients of Castle Bank, uh which was created by uh the CIA banker Paul Hawwell and um uh one of the lawyers for the um Pritsker family whose name escapes me at the moment.
Sorry about that. Or you work for the modern mob. Um, you know, I think one of the things that Hollywood uh has tried to convince people is that the mob disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh, but really they just rebranded as uh CEOs and corporate philanthropists and
um, you know, I think they’re pretty provably still around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Leslie Wexner is a good segue from what I just brought up because Leslie Wexner, of course, is Jeffrey Epstein’s main benefactor.
Um and he uh has alleged organized crime ties which are interesting to explore.
So in the mid Victoria Secret, yes, the limited to Abbercrombie and Fitch who I believe the longtime head of that was just uh arrested or charged with uh you know being predatory towards minors.
Uh it seems to be a recurring theme in Wexner world.
What do you know? Um, so in 1985 or so, um, one of the lawyers for Wexner’s business interests in Ohio was shot in the face in broad daylight and it happened days before that lawyer named Arthur Shapiro was supposed to testify to the IRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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