IHIP News - EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Victim's Lawyer Drops Bomb on Ghislaine, Trump, and DOJ Cover-Up

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

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MAGA continues to cover up the Jeffrey Epstein case. And today we are joined by Spencer Coogan. He's an attorney who has represented nine survivors of Jeffrey Epstein for over 20 years. Counselor, thank you so much for joining us at IHIP News today. This is just breathtaking what is happening to these survivors of this. horrific child predator. It's awful. It's unbelievable. You know, I've been fighting this fight for, like you said, almost 20 years now from the day

that that 14-year-old little girl walked into my office with her parents. You know, they have not been believed from the beginning. And then once they were believed, they were let down by the state attorney's office, by the U.S. attorney's office, by the federal government when he got re-arrested by the Department of Justice. when he died in jail, and now again by the Congress for their failures to disclose all the information that's out there on this child predator. What kind of impact does this have on the survivors when they see that Geelaine Maxwell is able to meet with Trump, sycophant, I think the last name is Blaine, you know, who

represented him at Blanche and has 34 felony counts. And she's able to tell them what satisfies them. She's a convicted sex offender. She shouldn't be moved. And liar, by the way. Invicted a perjury. And she's moved. What kind of impact does that have on a survivor?

It's awful. I mean, look, it's reopening a wound that has existed now for 20 years. You know, every time that this sex predator is in the news, the victims have to see this. They have to see the news footage. They have to see the reports. It just reopens a wound that they thought they put to rest, 20 years ago when these cases were originally, you know, they thought done and resolved. So it's, and it's insulting, by the way, you know, the federal government decides to go have a

conversation with the predator first. Really? I mean, if you want to learn about what happened during those years ago when this guy was sexually molesting underage girls, little girls, go to the victims. Don't go to the predator. It was a, insulting. It really is. I have a question, and I'm deep down the Jeffrey Epstein rabbit hole, so I've read everything that's out there, but something that surprised me was Galane Maxwell's role in it and how deeply she was involved both in the procurement and the actual abuse. So Galane Maxwell, she is now the person convicted of doing these horrible things to children. Can you describe for our audience what her role was in terms of the victims?

Yeah, and that's a good point. And I think a lot of people miss that in this story. And they think that Golan Maxwell is somehow a bit player. I'll put it simply. Without Golan Maxwell, there would have been no Jeffrey Epstein. And that's important to understand. Because think about the methodology that was used to procure these young girls into this extortion type claim, right? Golan Maxwell would train other younger girls in their 20s how to recruit victims. Those 20-year-old girls would then go out and recruit these young victims that were 14, 15, 16, 17 years old. They would go to beach clubs in Palm Beach. would go to schools, they would go places that they knew these young girls would be and recruit

them. Galen trained them to do that, to then bring them back to the house in Palm Beach or Manhattan or wherever to be able to be victims of Jeffrey Epstein. In addition to that, there are numerous stories by victims telling of when Glenn Maxwell would literally have people pull the car over in New York and Manhattan. When she saw these young girls, some of them in little school outfits and then Golan would approach them and say oh my dear you're you're beautiful you could be a model I work for a gentleman that is you know very friendly with the owner of Victoria's Secret and come to the house and let me introduce you to him he's a very powerful man and and he can help you right she

was recruiting these young girls think about if she didn't exist in the world she doesn't exist you have an old older man I don't want to say old because I'm about the age he was back then. But an older man, white hair, approaching a 14-year-old girl, convincing her to come back to his house for a massage. Look, a 14-year-old girl is smart enough to go, ooh, gross. That sounds weird. But when an educated, beautiful, English-accented woman approaches a 14-year-old girl,

her defenses are down, right? She starts feeling good about herself. She starts feeling like, oh, wow, this woman's trying to help me. And that's how these young girls were then victimized and brought to Jeffrey Epstein basically sacrificed on the altar of Jeffrey Epstein to be victimized. One of the most disturbing things for me that I think about when I think about this case is Alex Acosta. And he, listener, and I want you to describe this for our listener. So Epstein was arrested the first time. And Alex Acosta, I believe was the prosecutor in this case and gave him.

him a sweetheart deal and he goes back out. And then of course, as all pedophiles do, he continues to abuse and rape children. And then Alex Acosta gets a sweetheart deal in the Trump administration 1.0. So the double dealing and the corruption and the lack of transparency and the favoring the wealthy in this case is on steroids. It's unbelievable. I mean, look, the depth of this rabbit hole is very deep. So let me back you up to around 2008. The state attorney here in Palm Beach decided not to prosecute. The chief of police for Palm Beach, who I knew very well at the time, was vehemently upset at the state attorney's office.

So what he did is he wrote a scathing letter to the state attorney about why they weren't prosecuting. And after he did that, he called the chief of police, called the FBI in and said, you all need to investigate this. And they started this investigation. And I started working with a couple of the agents and talking to them about who they were going to investigate and talk to. They interviewed over 40 young girls. And they have those interviewed transcripts. By the way, that's part of what the DOJ has failed to turn over, those original interviews that the FBI did are those 40 victims, 40 plus victims. They then had all this evidence, and Acosta's team at the time, there was a U.S. attorney,

assistant U.S. attorney by the name of Maria Villafana, and I was talking to her about what they were doing, and she was all excited about, oh, we're going to prosecute this, and we've got an indictment and we're preparing it, 54-count indictment that they were getting ready to file and prosecute. And then silence. I'm calling. I hear nothing. nobody's answering my calls anymore.

Villafanya is not answering my calls until one day I hear from an agent who calls me and she says, you need to get to the courthouse right now. I'm like, why? I grab my jacket. I run down to the courthouse with a copy of one of the complaints I wanted to serve on Epstein for one of my clients in the civil case. And walking through the metal detector, I have the photos. I took him.

I snapped photos as I walked through the metal detector. Epstein's walking through. We go up to the courthouse and all of a sudden there's everyone is packed in this courtroom, all the U.S. attorneys, the state attorneys, everybody, and they announced that there's a deal. No one ever told the victims. No one ever told the victim's attorneys like myself, hey, look, we're negotiating a deal, discussing a deal, nothing. and Alex Acosta pushed that deal through, and then we had to fight for another eight months just to get a copy of the crappy deal that they entered

because they refused to turn it over. It's atrocious how this all played out. And then like you said, you know, Acosta gets the sweetheart job in the Trump administration, and by the way, now he's sitting on the board of newsbacks. Right. You know, this is a recurring theme, whether it's the Catholic Church,

or universities or the Boy Scouts or Jeffrey Epstein, you have vulnerable children that are abused. And it's not just that there's one singular abuser. There is a network of people that make this happen and cover this up, you know, very well documented in the Catholic Church and other church organizations like the Southern Baptists, et cetera. And when I think about that people in the Catholic Church when I've studied that, and I think they knew this guy was a pedophile and they moved him to a new church so we had a whole new slew of victims and it overwhelms and shocks my conscience that people within our government

u.s attorneys that are supposed to fight for justice especially for the downtrodden because the socioeconomic indication of the victims was a way they lured them in with able to earn extra money. It shocks the conscience that the United States Attorney's Office was in on placing a pedophile back out to reoffend new victims. So my next question for you is it's obviously there's obviously more people abusing children than Epstein. And that's clearly at the core of what they're trying to cover up and time and time again throughout history we find out that powerful men and rich men can abuse children and other people that are completely morally rotten and depraved will help cover it up and look the other way you can look at no further than congressman

jim jordan in it and he covered up the ohio state still to this day covers it up and you know they're while they're family values pro children etc but i know that you you know have confidentiality in all of this, but can you give our listeners an idea of how big this network is? Yeah, so it's one of the reasons why I have been so vocal and out there in the public eye right now with respect to the disclosure of information is because, sadly, I do know the people that were involved in a lot of this on the outside, on the outskirts. basically people that were provided victims by Epstein and Galen Maxwell. And, you know, it's going to shock a lot of people, or maybe it won't. But at the end of the day, it's about money and power, and that's really what it's about.

You know, the network, and, you know, we broke it down because we knew I had a couple of victims that were through this network of, you know, girls that were being provided. What would happen was is that a rich person from Palm Beach Island, let's say corporate CEO, maybe hypothetically, would be in town and would call the house and would get the girl, the young girl that Epstein would hire to work his front desk and they would leave a message for Glenn to call him back. Glenn would then call them back and he would say, hey, I'm going to be in town next week. Do you mind providing me with some company? And Golan would then circulate through the victims that she would want to use and she would send someone over to his house to give him a massage. And that was the network. So, you know, when I hear people talking about, oh, is there a list?

Is there the, you know, there was never a list compiled. They didn't need to. It was just a shared ability to abuse young girls where they could just easily call. up and order a girl. And that was the plan. Or alternatively, they would say, look, you know, we'd like to treat you to a weekend on the island in St. Thomas. You know, they knew what that meant. They didn't have to spell it out. It's like when the mafia talks about making somebody, you know, hey, look, that guy's going to disappear or cement shoes, you know. They don't say we're going to kill up somebody. They use shorthand or code words or language that they recognize by saying,

hey, I need a massage, or can you send over some company? Did these men have to pay Jeffrey Epstein, or did they just pay the children directly? Was he just providing this service just because misery loves company, or was he bribing them after the fact? Like, why? So good question. Maxwell and Epstein would pay the girls. So they would get, let's say,

$2 to $300 depending upon the services that were performed. So that's how the girls would get paid. As far as the relationship between Epstein and Maxwell and these other powerful people, that was more subtle. And I don't think that it's as easy for people to understand in this world of power and money and influence. it's not necessarily a quid pro quo, hey, look, send over a girl, I'll send you a thousand bucks.

That's not the way their lifestyle works. It's, hey, I've been providing you these nice, you know, people for company over the last year. Do me a favor. Can you invite Jeffrey and I to this party where president so-and-so is going to be or senator so-and-so or the head of this organization because we like to meet them? Could you introduce us? Oh, of course, of course, right? What are they going to say, no?

Or invest with us, right? And what are they going to say? No, because they knew that Epstein and Maxwell had the goods on them. Is there truth, and maybe you can't answer this, that Jeffrey Epstein in his properties was videoing these men with these young girls to use as bribery? So I can't tell you about the intent of it, but certainly that. is one possibility what I can confirm and what has been recently confirmed if you look at one of the videos that was recently released in the document dump that the government just did was

the walkthrough of Jeffrey Epstein's home during the search warrant and during the walkthrough what they found was mounts for cameras inside the home that the cameras are missing and the hard drives for all the computers that were hooked up to them were missing and I had a a victim I represented that had direct evidence of cameras inside of the Manhattan home, and she saw the camera room where they had all of the screens that were recording what was inside the house. So did I ever see actual videotape of people having sex with young girls? No. Thank God. I wouldn't want that in my head. But he had the cameras there. He had the recording systems available, it doesn't take a genius to figure out why he probably had it.

And I'm guessing, and likely, the federal government has all those videos now and they're sitting on them and not failing to release them. Knowing that this is much larger than is being presented and has always been much larger than has been presented. And knowing the network involved and the powerful people involved. And this is just an opinion question. You, as I'm asking your personal opinion, do you think he committed suicide? No.

I don't know how to put it more bluntly than that. No, I don't. I don't. I think there were way too many opportunities to have someone on the inside take care of what they would consider to be a problem. And will you please just establish for our listeners? Who was president?

when this happened, and who was in charge of the DOJ when this happened? Yeah, well, the most important thing to note is, obviously, Trump was president, and William Barr, William Barr was the Attorney General and head of the DOJ as the Attorney General when it occurred. What a lot of people don't know, and this was interesting for us to learn, is one of the first jobs that Jeffrey Epstein got after he left Bear Stearns was as a teacher, and he taught at a school. And I want you to take a wild guess who the principal of the school was at that first school that Jeffrey Epstein taught at. I know. I'm cheating. Bill Barr's dad. Yes. Weird

coincidence, right? Yeah. And then it ends up that Jeffrey Epstein's now in federal custody and Bill Barr's dad, well now his son, sorry, is now the head of the Department of Justice when Epstein is in custody. It's rather fascinating to go from a teacher to a massive billionaire that owns a private island and private planes and, you know, eight-figure pin houses and homes in Palm Beach, don't you think? Yeah, it all started with Les Wexner. And this is the CEO, Victoria's Secret. Yeah, Leslie Wexner was the first person to invest in Jeffrey Epstein and give him his start. And in fact, at some point during their relationship, Jeffrey actually had power of attorney over a great deal of assets. Why would Les Wexner provide him power of attorney?

That was always a mystery to us. It made no sense whatsoever. But that's really what gave him his start in the industry of finance and investments. Well, it also allowed him to say, well, I represent Victoria's Secret. You're a model. You're beautiful. Correct. I've always had a theory that it was love.

I just think between Wexler and Epstein and Wexler. I always thought Wexner was madly in love with him. And I'll be honest, you know, he's an old man. So I'm like, that documentary's coming. As soon as he as he passes away, I would have to think that would come out. Yeah, I never knew the connection, but that sounds like an interesting theory for sure. Well, this is really, really fascinating stuff. And, you know, the more you dive into this, just as we get to where does wealth come from, the more interesting it gets. But, you know, at the epicenter of this are little girls that were violated and abused and the people that were supposed to protect them, expose them to more abuse. And that is something that recurs with powerful people, no matter what country you live in, no matter what religion you are, you see this over. over and over again.

So thank you for your work in protecting women because we believe here that Trump calling this a hoax is also a part of his authoritarian play to diminish and demean women altogether in his overall misogynist, sick of . Look at his history. Exactly. Exactly.

Look at his own history. Listen, he's the one that did it to himself. He's the one during the campaign that said he would fight and release all the information and documents. He created this monster. How is he saying it's now a hoax? He's the one that created it. Yeah, but he also created the conflict over the Ukrainian phone call. And then he called that a hoax.

You know, this guy's just a perpetual nut job, titty baby, constantly creating problems and then being a victim of the very problems he creates. And one of the larger mysteries, aside from all of this Epstein stuff, is why I'm not. on earth, 77 million people that it was a great idea to vote for him. But, you know, that's another podcast for another day, counselor. Thank you so much. I was just on the edge of my seat. I really appreciate you shining light on this and spending your morning with us. My pleasure. Thanks for having me.