🚨Epstein Survivor FILES BOMBSHELL Declaration DEMANDING Special Monitor

What this episode is about

Lisa Phillips, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, has filed a declaration in federal court urging Judge Paul Angelmeire to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the production of Epstein files, citing concerns about the Department of Justice's corruption and inadequate progress in releasing the documents. Despite a legal mandate for the files' release, only a small fraction of the estimated millions of pages have been disclosed, prompting a call for greater accountability and transparency in the process.

Key takeaways

• When the DOJ stumbles, survivors like Lisa Phillips become the champions of transparency.
• A staggering 5 million pages exist, but the DOJ's 125K reveals either incompetence or lack of urgency.
• Congress stepped up while the DOJ played coy—trust issues abound in a case that demands clarity.
• The DOJ insists they need court approval to release files they historically didn't—someone’s playing chess in a checkers game.
• In a twist of irony, the Trump DOJ now argues against judicial oversight after seeking it themselves.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Michael Popac (Host) · 12 min speaking
• Lisa Phillips (Guest) · 3 min speaking
• Ben Myelis (Host) · 2 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Department of Justice, Lisa Phillips, Massie and Kana, Paul Angelmeire
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Department of Justice
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Department of Justice, Lisa Phillips, Massie and Kana, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Lisa Phillips, Department of Justice
5. 12:00 – 15:00: Department of Justice, Congress, NYU

Notable quotes from "🚨Epstein Survivor FILES BOMBSHELL Declaration DEMANDING Special Monitor"

• Leaders like Lisa Phillips do the job for you. We now have a new filing by Lisa Phillips, a survivor, a victim of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring, who's filed a new…

  about Lisa Phillips · at 0:16

• About representatives Massie and Kana, that bipartisan dynamic duo who led the charge starting with collecting the 218 votes ended up being 434 votes from the House to support the.

  about Massie and Kana · at 1:42

• Take over the process. They say on page three of their letter, simply put, put simply, the Department of Justice can't be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the…

  about Department of Justice · at 3:54

• New filing proud to also inform you that I represent Lisa Phillips in this matter and she filed her declaration just on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which I think is completely appropriate.

  about Martin Luther King Jr. Day · at 7:58

• Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators or will you finally protect survivors?

  about Congress · at 12:16

• Was a handful of us that started noticing that, wait a minute, did he send you to NYU, too? Did you take classes at NYU? Oh, you went to NYU, too? And then another was well, I…

  about NYU · at 13:16

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Lisa Phillips — Person · Referenced survivor; declarant seeking court oversight · 8 mentions · first at 0:16
  She is described as an Epstein survivor who filed a federal-court declaration urging Judge Paul Angelmeire to remove DOJ from the disclosure process and appoint a special master/monitor.
• Paul Angelmeire — Person · Referenced federal judge overseeing related proceedings · 1 mention · first at 0:30
  He is the judge being urged to use inherent authority to supervise production of Epstein files and potentially appoint a special master/independent monitor.
  The Epstein child sex trafficking ring, who's filed a new declaration in federal court imploring federal judge Paul Angelmeire to take the Department of Justice out of the…
• Massie and Kana — Person · 4 mentions · first at 1:42

Companies & orgs

• Department of Justice — Company · Case study · 12 mentions · first at 0:03
  Central to the discussion about the handling of the Epstein files, criticized for delays and lack of transparency.
• Congress — Company · Case study · 2 mentions · first at 2:36
  Mentioned in the context of legislative actions regarding the Epstein files.

Places & events

• NYU — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 13:22
  Mentioned in the context of survivors' experiences and connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Event · Referenced event · 1 mention · first at 8:06
  Mentioned as the day Lisa Phillips filed her declaration, adding symbolic significance.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 We got some breaking Epstein file news. If the Department of Justice and its ethical conflicts and its corruption are not going to do the job to produce all of the Epstein files, then get out of the way and let the survivors and their leaders like Lisa Phillips do the job for you. We now have a new filing by Lisa Phillips, a survivor, a victim of the Epstein child sex trafficking ring, who's filed a new declaration in federal court imploring federal judge Paul Angelmeire to take the Department of Justice out of the process and to appoint as special officer of the court, an independent monitor, a special master to take over the the continued production of the Epstein files. When I say continued production, that phrase is doing a heavy lift. I mean, we are a month and a half out from the deadline, which means we are almost two months out from the actual law being signed. And yet, there's only 125,000 pages out of 3

1:05 to 5 million total. I mean, I didn't major in math, but I know that's an anemic percentage. Now, Lisa Phillips has filed her declaration, an invitation. I I would suggest that came from Judge Engel Meyer himself and there's an involvement I have my involvement and of course we support all sex abuse victims and survivors on legal a and on the Midas touch network on Michael Popach my law firm filed that declaration on behalf of Lisa Phillips with the court. You're on legal a and the Midas touch network. Let's get to the new reporting. How did we get here?

1:42 about uh representatives Massie and Kana, that bipartisan dynamic duo who who led the charge starting with collecting the 218 votes ended up being 434 votes from the House to support the Epstein files being ordered to be turned over by the executive branch. Let me make this clear. The executive branch and its Department of Justice and FBI and other agencies always had its own sole ability without court oversight, without judicial oversight to release the files to the American public. Let me repeat that. They never needed court approval. They never needed legislative approval. It's always been in the executive branch. In fact, you would see them, the Department of Justice, arguing in other cases, um, separation of powers. This is a presidential power. These are our agencies. These are our executive heads.

2:36 we get to fire them even if Congress created them. Now they're saying, "Well, we would love to produce everything, but we need federal judges and we need congressional approval." They never needed that at all. But if we're going to play that game, you know, don't blame the player. Blame the game. We're going to play the game, then we're going to play it right. So, Congress did its part through Massie and Kana, and the federal courts got involved. Not because the survivors ran there initially, but the Trump Department of Justice ran there.

3:07 They run they ran a Judge Angle Meyer, Judge Burman, Judge King, Judge Rosenberg, and said, "Oh, we'd love to produce the Epstein files, but you know, what about the grand jury material? What about your cases? You know, we need to have it all. Have it all." They've had it all for over a year. They're just now getting around to 500 attorneys working round the clock in order to produce the documents. Nobody believes that. Certainly not judge Angle Meer. So So Ro kna, Representative Knassie, they sent in a letter on the um 13th and they said in their letter to Judge Angelmire that he should use his inherent authority as a judge to oversee the production and take the Department of Justice out of the mix and appoint a special master, independent monitor, federal judge to take over the process. They say on page three of their of their letter, simply put, put simply, the Department of Justice can't be trusted with making

4:03 mandatory disclosures under the act that they keep changing the numbers. Is it 1 million? Is it 3.2 million? Is it 5 million? What is the number of documents? Um, and that's why they said they got to be taken out of the mix. Now, to the complaining that happened after that that that filing, you heard the Department of Justice say, "Oh, they shouldn't be allowed into this case under friends of the court to argue about relief or remedies." Judge, your your relief and remedies are limited and there shouldn't be an independent master or special monitor or anything like that. I think I got it backwards. It shouldn't be an independent monitor or special master or anything like that. uh we're producing as fast as we can even though we're a month and a half late and they have no right to be in this case and you have no remedy or powers to order us to do anything. And I beg to differ because it's the Trump administration and DOJ

4:58 that ran to federal judges over the summer and ran to them again two months ago to demand and beg for their involvement. once in federal judges have the power to supervise activities and events and processes that that are in front of them. Who gave them that power? Who gave them that jurisdiction? I suggest the Department of Justice and Donald Trump gave it to them. And I think they waved any argument that now that because they don't like where Judge Angeler is going with remedy. Oh, judge, what are you doing? We only wanted you for a limited purpose. That's not how federal court works. That's not how inherent authority works. Hey everybody, Ben Myelis here from the Midas Touch Network. I wanted to let you know about my podcast partner, Michael Popac's new law firm. It's called the Popac firm.

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6:29 The popfirm.com. Or you can call 877 pop af. P O P O K AF. So 1877 P O P AF. Give Michael Popac a call and I'm really proud of you Popac. Thanks for all the hard work you're putting in. After uh the letter came in from representatives Kana and Massie, then we had the judge and the judge issued his ruling which I suggest to you was an invitation for a survivor like Lisa Phillips to come forward and file a declaration. He said um that he wanted the government to respond about whether the Massie and Kana had um standing to participate in the criminal case even as Amichi as friends of the court and also concerning uh and concerning the compliance in this matter. uh con considering that at that moment on the 13th of January, the judge noted that that issue about non-compliance by the Department of Justice had not been raised by any party in the in the matter which would be um Galain Maxwell and she's not in a

7:42 position to be raising that issue or victim. In other words, that issue about the Department of Justice having disqualified itself from running this process and it should be replaced by a judge supervised process has not been raised by a victim. It has now with the new filing proud to also inform you that I represent Lisa Phillips in this matter and she filed her declaration just uh on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which I think is completely appropriate. Here's what Lisa Phillips had to say. I am a survivor of the sex trafficking criminal enterprise led by Jeffrey Epstein and defendant Galain Maxwell.

8:20 She she files this in support of representative Massie and Kana's um request to participate in these proceedings as Amichi Curai and to seek the court's oversight and appointment of an independent monitor special master. She says, "I have no confidence that the Department of Justice, already 30 days late, now more in complying with the act with no end in sight and with its constantly shifting public pronouncements about the volume of documents, will produce the Epstein files uh it has represented to this course it would release, nor the files it is legally legally required to produce, pursuant to the act." She says the continued failure by the DOJ has caused significant emotional distress and retraumatization for her and others.

9:05 The Department of Justice's conduct constitutes a willful violation of the act and undermines the survivors trust in the integrity of the process. She also talks about Annie Farmer, one of her fellow survivors, who expressed in a letter to the court her fears that the that the Department of Justice would not fully comply with the act. instead as the as found by this court judge Angle Meyer in a prior ruling about this matter and this is what Lisa uh Lisa Phillips is referring to the court judge Angelmeer said that the Department of Justice has merely paid lip service to the victims and has failed to treat uh us the victims with the solicitude we deserve. Lisa Phillips writes and continues in their mishandling of the production. She says that the appointment of an independent monitor or special master would provide needed compliance with the law and protection of the rights and dignity of the

10:02 survivors who have already suffered profound horm. And that without independent oversight, the survivors remain at risk of continued delay, obfiscation, and trauma caused by uncertainty and broken assurances. That's signed on the 14th of January by Lisa Phillips. and is now part of the public docket. This answers the question raised by Judge Angelmire. Will a victim step forward and tell me their position about representatives Kana and Massie stepping forward? You just heard from Lisa Phillips there in her filing which I handled for her. Uh, as you know, we support survivors and child abuse survivors through the Pope firm, through Legal AF, and certainly it was my proud honor uh to uh support Lisa on this. For those that don't know Lisa Phillips, let me show you Lisa Phillips along with other survivors on Capitol Hill and then a clip from an interview that I had with her recently. Let's play the uh let's

11:03 play first the Capitol Hill and then we'll go to her interview with me. In the year 2000, I was taken to Jeffrey Epstein's island while on a photo shoot on a nearby island. Who I saw and what I experienced there was a was a glimpse into a very dark and disturbing world. For years after, I tried to avoid Jeffrey, but he had introduced me to Katie Ford, the owner of the Ford modeling agency. Epstein's reach went to the very top of fashion, arts, and entertainment. This did not just happen to underage girls in Florida. In New York City, hundreds of young, ambitious women were abused by him. Epstein was not just a serial predator. He was an international human trafficker.

11:53 And many around him knew, many participated, and many profited. And yet, he was protected. So I stand here today for every woman who has been silenced, exploited, and dismissed. We are not asking for pity. We are here demanding accountability. And I'm demanding justice. Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators or will you finally protect survivors? And also I would like to announce here today us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list. We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now together as survivors we will confidentially compile the names we all know who regularly in who are regularly in the Epstein world and it will be done by survivors and for survivors.

12:52 no one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details. And so when I spoke out at Capitol Hill and I said, you know, speaking to survivors that I want survivors to come forward and connect the dots and when I said we can release their own names or information with the proper authorities, um that's what I started doing. So, as survivors started coming forward, there was a a handful of us that started noticing that, wait a minute, you know, did did he send you to NYU, too? Did you take classes at NYU? Oh, you went to NYU, too? And then another was like, well, I didn't go to NYU, but I went to Colombia. Like, I didn't even know about Colombia. My father went to Columbia.

13:34 So, like you, I have ties as well to these universities. And these other women were saying, "Yeah, I I went." and they had crazy stories attached to uh Jeffree sending them to these universities um and that they weren't really able to get out of it even if they try to pay themselves or get a scholarship or um get a loan. So they we were kind of tied into this. And then there was another survivor that said, "Not only did I go to NYU, I kind of didn't finish up my last classes and I still got a degree, you know, and she didn't feel good about, you know, she obviously didn't feel good about that.

14:13 Um, even though she had did the majority of her classes, she she got her degree. So, we kept thinking, well, what's going on here?" So that's why um after doing that research and as I promised on September 2nd that I was going to start connecting the dots with other survivors that came forward that we would um sit down with certain peoples and higher authorities and um discuss our findings. That's how it all came about. You're doing the sleuththing as a survivor that the Department of Justice and the FBI and law enforcement should have been doing to try to connect these dots. We will continue to report and do commentary at the intersection of law and politics, but we're needed. We will run into the burning building together.

14:59 We will support survivors uh people who have been had their civil liberties and civil rights abused, denied um by this administration whenever we can or wherever uh we think it's necessary. We got to get off the sidelines at some point and and for certain good causes and we certainly have decided that this meets that test. I'm glad you're here. Take a moment, hit the free subscribe button for Midas Touch. come over to Legal AF YouTube channel and do the exact same thing. And if you're um looking for a way to help support and provide resources to Legal AF for matters like this, you can come over to Legal AF Substack. I'm running a sale 25% off in honor of Dr. King in a way that of course the Trump administration won't even make a proclamation over on Legal AF Substack for annual paid membership. So till my next report, I'm Michael Popac.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "🚨Epstein Survivor FILES BOMBSHELL Declaration DEMANDING Special Monitor"?

Michael Popac (Host), Lisa Phillips (Guest), Ben Myelis (Host).

What is "🚨Epstein Survivor FILES BOMBSHELL Declaration DEMANDING Special Monitor" about?

Lisa Phillips, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, has filed a declaration in federal court urging Judge Paul Angelmeire to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the production of Epstein files, citing concerns about the Department of Justice's corruption and inadequate progress in releasing the documents. Despite a legal mandate for the files' release, only a small…

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How long is "🚨Epstein Survivor FILES BOMBSHELL Declaration DEMANDING Special Monitor"?

The episode runs 16 min; the transcript is about 2,717 words in 20 timestamped sections.

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