Tara Palmieri

He could connect intelligence agencies with people, foreign dignitaries, presidents, powerful hedge fund managers.

He had information that could possibly help them with their files.

He was obviously in very close connection with Russian expats, to the point where Poland is now investigating his connections to Moscow.

So I think it shows that this isn't just a Palm Beach, Caribbean Island, Upper East Side sex trafficking operation, that this is global and that he's been able to operate without any recourse because he offered something that the government found to be more valuable than protecting young women and girls.

It was the information he could provide.

And it's really troubling.

I mean, we've seen this throughout history, Whitey Bulger playing both sides of the law while killing people, but offering the FBI information.

But I think it's just, it's really affirmative.

And when I was working on the Broken Jeffrey Epstein podcast in 2019 with Virginia Giuffre,

I spoke with her lawyer, Brad Edwards, who told me a story about interviewing, not interviewing, but like a warning he got from Epstein's bodyguard, Igor Zinoviev, who is this like Russian born UFC fighter.

He was his bodyguard for five years, the height of the sex trafficking operation.

He said, back off.

You don't know who you're messing with.

And he said, CIA.

And then Igor told him that he went to Langley

for a week to pick up some files for Epstein while he was in that Palm Beach County jail serving his 13 month sentence and that he brought them back and he was told not to look at them.

And, you know, I called, I reached out to CIA, emailed, you know, back and forth.

They would not, they would not, they would not tell me whether Igor Sinovia was on the property.

I reached out to Igor who wouldn't get back to me.

I reached out to also ML Nostal who I worked with at the New York Post.