"OCCULT!" - Epstein Investigator UNLOADS on Craziest Elite Global Network | Henry Abbott • 406
Julian Dorey · 8 Apr 2026 · 3h 19m
Guest: Henry Abbott · Host: Joey Def, Julian Dorey
This conversation brings together a podcast host focused on the Epstein case and a former sportswriter who spent years researching Epstein's connections through the lens of NBA ownership before publishing a lengthy investigative series. The guest describes how following money and ownership structures at Apollo Global led him from basketball reporting into oligarch financing, Russian money laundering, BCCI, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken, and eventually back through the Dulles brothers, the OSS, and the Treaty of Versailles. Much of the discussion traces how figures like Leon Black, Steve Bannon, Jay Clayton, and Josh Harris move through overlapping networks of finance, intelligence, and political power, with recurring attention to compromising material as a tool of control among elites. They discuss theories about pedophilia and power, the alleged use of sex trafficking as a mechanism for building blackmail networks, and unproven but increasingly circulated claims about ritual abuse tied to some of the same circles. The pair also revisit unresolved questions around 9/11's connections to some of the same names, the mysterious fire at Credit Lyonnais, and the recent release of Epstein-related emails implicating major financial and political figures. Throughout, both express frustration at the lack of accountability for wealthy, protected individuals and skepticism toward institutions like the CIA, the SEC, and the Council on Foreign Relations, while cautioning against treating unverified claims as settled fact.
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- Origin of the NBA-to-Epstein investigation
- Oligarch money laundering through Apollo Global
- Compromat as a business model for oligarchs
- Psychology of pedophilia and power
- Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and Drexel Burnham Lambert
- Founding of Apollo and the Credit Lyonnais fire
- Steve Hoffenberg, Towers Financial, and the Ponzi scheme doorway
- Josh Harris, transactional culture, and private equity's incentives
- Nazi-era corporate ties, the Dulles brothers, and Treaty of Versailles
- Jay Clayton's SEC/SDNY appointments and buried Epstein files
- Institutional protection of powerful abusers (Sterling, Weinstein)
- 9/11's unresolved overlap with the Epstein network
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“He's the proof that the the justice system is not working. Yes. Right? Like the fact that he hasn't been touched.”