3. The 1990s: Elite Exploits of the New World Order

  1.      Thomas L. Friedman, “Foreign Affairs Big Mac I,” New York Times, December 8, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/opinion/foreign-affairs-big-mac-i.html.

  2.      Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden, “The Long Boom,” Wired, July 1, 1997, https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/.

  3.      Jane Meyer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” New Yorker, March 4, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.

  4.      Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth (New York: Regan Arts, 2016), 125.

  5.      Landon Thomas, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery,” New York, October 28, 2002, http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/#.

  6.      Shane Croucher, “Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Finds Hyoid Neck Bone Break, Expert Says It Raises Questions About Strangulation: Report,” Newsweek, August 15, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-neck-hyoid-bone-broken-suicide-homicide-1454457.

  7.      Katie Benner and Danielle Ivory, “Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records,” New York Times, August 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-jail-officers.html.

  8.      Julie K. Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member Gave a Serial Sex Abuser the Deal of a Lifetime,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html.

  9.      Cockburn, “AG Barr’s Father Warns of ‘Dictatorship’ … in Outer Space,” Spectator, April 3, 2019, https://spectator.us/donald-barr-science-fiction/.

  10.    Rebecca Klein, “Jeffrey Epstein Was Their Teacher. He Became a Monster,” Huffington Post, July 12, 2019, https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/jeffrey-epstein-math-science-students-memories-194803928.html.

  11.    Norman Vanamee, “Who is Les Wexner, the Billionaire Former Client of Jeffrey Epstein?,” Town & Country, July 10, 2019, https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28350600/jeffrey-epstein-les-wexner-connection-money/.

  12.    “Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication Priorities 2003,” Harvard University, http://wilsonweb.physics.harvard.edu/HUMANRIGHTS/PALESTINE/luntzwexneranalysis.pdf; Lisa Miller, “Titans of Industry Join Forces to Work for Jewish Philanthropy,” Wall Street Journal, May 4, 1998, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000.

  13.    Rachel Sandler, “Report: Leslie Wexner Says Jeffrey Epstein ‘Misappropriated’ At Least $46 Million from Him,” Forbes, August 7, 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/08/07/leslie-wexner-says-jeffery-epstein-misappropriated-at-least-46-million-from-him/#5cdd46c26e80.

  14.    Ibid.

  15.    Bess Levin, “Of Course Jeffrey Epstein Moved His Dirty Money Through Deutsche Bank,” Vanity Fair, July 23, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-deutsche-bank.

  16.    Julie K. Brown, “For years, Jeffrey Epstein Abused Teen Girls, Police Say. A Timeline of His Case,” Miami Herald, November 28, 2018, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article221404845.html; Julie K. Brown and David Smiley, “New Victims Come Forward As Epstein Asks to Be Released from Jail to His Manhattan Mansion,” Miami Herald, July 11, 2019, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article232551882.html.

  17.    Paul Lewis and Jon Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the Decade of Scandal Entangling Prince Andrew,” The Guardian, January 10, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/jeffrey-epstein-decade-scandal-prince-andrew.

  18.    Stephen Rex Brown, “Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Sues Alan Dershowitz as New Sex Trafficking Victim Reveals Herself,” Boston Herald, April 17, 2019, https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/04/17/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-sues-alan-dershowitz-as-new-sex-trafficking-victim-reveals-herself/.

  19.    Bridget Read, “Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Insists He Has a ‘Perfect, Perfect’ Sex Life,” New York, July 19, 2019, https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/epstein-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-says-he-has-perfect-sex-life.html; John Amato, “Dershowitz: ‘I Kept My Underwear On’ During Massage at Epstein’s Mansion,” Crooks and Liars (blog), July 10, 2019, https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/alan-dershowitz-i-kept-my-underwear-during.

  20.    Lewis and Swaine, “Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the Decade of Scandal”; Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member.”

  21.    Brown, “How a Future Trump Cabinet Member.”

  22.    Landon Thomas Jr., “Financier Starts Sentence in Prostitution Case,” New York Times, July 1, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/01epstein.html.

  23.    Alexandra Wolfe, “Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein’s Society Friends Close Ranks,” Daily Beast, April 1, 2011, https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks.

  24.    Philip Weiss, “The Fantasist,” New York, December 7, 2007, nymag.com/news/features/41826/.

  25.    “Doe v. Trump et al. refiled complaint 9/30/16,” https://www.scribd.com/document/326055870/Doe-v-Trump-et-al-refiled-complaint-9-30-16?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=66960X1516588Xf17583373eb900fb6c523b3c5a53d8c3&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate.

  26.    Lisa Bloom, “Why the New Child Rape Case Filed Against Donald Trump Should Not Be Ignored,” Huffington Post, June 29, 2016, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.

  27.    Nancy Dillon and Leonard Greene, “California Woman Accusing Donald Trump of Raping Her When She Was 13 Cancels Press Conference Amid Threats,” New York Daily News, November 2, 2016, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calif-woman-accusing-trump-child-rape-break-silence-article-1.2855631.

  28.    Clive Irving, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father Was a Dark and Mysterious Figure, Just Like Jeffrey Epstein,” Daily Beast, July 13, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwells-father-was-a-dark-and-mysterious-figure-just-like-jeffrey-epstein?ref=scroll.

  29.    Robert Verkaik, “The Mystery of Maxwell’s Death,” The Independent, March 10, 2006, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-mystery-of-maxwells-death-6107041.html.

  30.    Emily Hourican, “Robert Maxwell: Legacy of ‘The Bouncing Czech,’” The Independent, October 17, 2016, https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/robert-maxwell-legacy-of-the-bouncing-czech-35131452.html.

  31.    Verkaik, “Mystery of Maxwell’s Death.”

  32.    Steven Prokesch, “Maxwell’s Mirror Group Has $727.5 Million Loss,” New York Times, June 24, 1992, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/24/business/maxwell-s-mirror-group-has-727.5-million-loss.html.

  33.    “Publisher Maxwell Buried in Jerusalem: Investigation: Hands Aboard the Tycoon’s Yacht Are Told Not to Leave The Canary Islands as a Probe into the British Publisher’s Mysterious Death Continues,” Los Angeles Times, November 11, 1991, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-11-fi-1038-story.html.

  34.    Verkaik, “Mystery of Maxwell’s Death.”

  35.    Prokesch, “Maxwell’s Mirror Group Has $727.5 Million Loss.”

  36.    Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003), 37–45.

  37.    Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 36.

  38.    Thomas and Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy, 174.

  39.    “Jeffrey Epstein v. Bradley Edwards et al.,” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1509483-exhibits-stm-undisputed-facts-part1.html#document/p606 percent20//.

  40.    Ben Schreckinger and Daniel Lippmann, “Meet the Woman Who Ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons,” Politico Magazine, July 21, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-1424120.

  41.    Rosie Perper, “The Mysterious Foreign Passport Found in Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion Was Used to Enter at Least 4 Countries in the 1980s, Prosecutors Say,” Business Insider, July 18, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-saudi-austria-foreign-passport-1980s-2019-7.

  42.    Vicky Ward, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight,” Daily Beast, July 9, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight.

  43.    Erik Larson, “Epstein Saga Enters New Phase. Will Anyone Else Be Ensnared?,” Bloomberg, July 21, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/epstein-saga-enters-new-phase-will-anyone-else-be-ensnared.

  44.    “Ghislaine Maxwell: Profile,” The Telegraph, March 7, 2011, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8365015/Ghislaine-Maxwell-profile.html.

  45.    Josh Saul, “Ex-Teen Prostitute Files Suit in Billionaire Sex-Slave Case,” New York Post, September 21, 2015, https://pagesix.com/2015/09/21/ex-teen-prostitute-files-suit-in-billionaire-sex-slave-case/.

  46.    “Ghislaine Maxwell: Profile,” The Telegraph.

  47.    Marc Fisher, “Epstein’s Accusers Call Her His Protector and Procurer. Is Ghislaine Maxwell Now Prosecutors’ Target?,” Washington Post, August 11, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epsteins-accusers-call-her-his-protector-and-procurer-is-ghislaine-maxwell-now-prosecutors-target/2019/08/11/7af5968a-bbbd-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html.

  48.    Leah Simpson, “Jeffrey Epstein’s ex Ghislaine Maxwell gave elementary children a presentation about the ocean in January but the Massachusetts school had ‘no knowledge’ of her connection to the pedophile,” Daily Mail, August 17, 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7366333/Ghislaine-Maxwell-guest-speaker-elementary-school-January-gave-presentation-ocean.html; Yaron Steinbuch, “Jeffrey Epstein’s Gal Pal Ghislaine Maxwell Lying Low at Massachusetts Mansion,” New York Post, August 14, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/jeffrey-epsteins-gal-pal-ghislaine-maxwell-laying-low-at-massachusetts-mansion/.

  49.    Vanessa Grigoriadis, “They’re Nothing, These Girls,” Vanity Fair, August 12, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler.

  50.    Ibid.

  51.    Public prosecutor Yusuf Khaki Dogan, “Bill of Indictment to the Criminal Court of Antalya City, Supreme Republican Public Prosecutor’s Office,” Turkey, December 11, 2010 http://trump-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tevfik-Arif-Child-Prostitution-Indictment.pdf; Daily Mail Reporter, “New York Real Estate Mogul Arrested in Turkey on Suspicion of Running Prostitute Ring on $60m Luxury Yacht,” Daily Mail, October 1, 2010, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1316831/NY-real-estate-mogul-Tevfik-Arif-arrested-suspicion-running-prostitute-ring.html.

  52.    Horacio Silva, “The Man Who Invented Supermodels Also Took Advantage of Them,” W Magazine, January 12, 2017, https://www.wmagazine.com/story/john-casablancas-models-documentary-netflix.

  53.    Veronica Stracqualursi and Marshall Cohen, “Key Mueller Witness George Nader Hit with Underage Sex Trafficking, Child Porn Charges,” CNN.com, July 19, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/george-nader-child-porn-sex-charges/.

  54.    Robert I. Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America (New York: Little, Brown, 2002).

  55.    “Clinton Announces New Initiative Against Global Drug Trafficking Syndicates at U.N. Conference, Signs Order Barring Individuals and Companies from Trade and Commerce,” National Drug Strategy Network, December 1995, http://www.ndsn.org/dec95/unconf.html.

  56.    Friedman, Red Mafiya, 266.

  57.    Martin Longman, “Trump Shouldn’t Feel Vindicated by Phone Records,” Washington Monthly, February 1, 2019, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/02/01/trump-shouldnt-feel-vindicated-by-phone-records/.

  58.    Tina Nguyen, “The Mystery of Donald Jr.’s Blocked Calls—Revealed?,” Vanity Fair, February 1, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/donald-trump-jr-howard-lorber-trump-tower-call.

  59.    Thomas Frank, “Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos to Unknown Buyers,” BuzzFeed News, January 12, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to.

  60.    Ibid.

  61.    Ibid.

  62.    Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, “Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged with Felony Fraud,” ProPublica, October 4, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud.

  63.    Michael Kruse, “Roger Stone’s Last Dirty Trick,” Politico Magazine, January 25, 2019, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/roger-stone-last-dirty-trick-224217.

  64.    Adam Nagourney, “President? Why Not? Says a Man at the Top,” New York Times, September 25, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/25/nyregion/president-why-not-says-a-man-at-the-top.html?.

  65.    David Smith, “Trump, ‘Blackmail’ and a Pecker: Bezos Delivers Scandal with Something for Everyone,” The Guardian, February 9, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/09/jeff-bezos-trump-national-enquirer-amazon-david-pecker.

  66.    Sue Curry Jansen, “How Western PR Firms Quietly Push Putin’s Agenda,” Fast Company, July 1, 2017, https://www.fastcompany.com/40437170/russia-quiet-public-relations-war.

  67.    Lachlan Markey, “Ex-Trump Aide Michael Caputo Scrambles to Scrub Russia from Bio,” Daily Beast, November 6, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-aide-frantically-scrambles-to-scrub-russia-from-bio.

  68.    Bill Carter, “Survival of the Pushiest,” New York Times, January 28, 2001, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/28/magazine/survival-of-the-pushiest.html?mtrref=www.bing.com&gwh=558B7761298E9FDC4B18FCE2E78ACA30&gwt=pay.

  69.    Lacey Rose, “Mark Burnett Pursuing Vladimir Putin as Next Reality TV Star,” Hollywood Reporter, June 24, 2015, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mark-burnett-pursuing-vladimir-putin-804454.

  70.    Andrew Prokop, “The Investigation into Trump’s Inauguration Money Looks Quite Serious,” Vox, February 5, 2019, https://www.vox.com/2019/2/5/18211600/trump-inauguration-investigation-subpoena-sdny.