David Rhys Lewis

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Bank of America just agreed to pay $72.5 million for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic underage girls. The settlement dropped late Friday night. Buried under war headlines and protest coverage. Almost like they planned it that way. And this is literally the FOURTH major bank settlement tied to Epstein's sex trafficking operation. JPMorgan paid $290 million to victims. Then another $75 million to the US Virgin Islands. Deutsche Bank paid $75 million to victims and got hit with a $150 million regulatory fine on top of that. Now Bank of America adds $72.5 million. Total exposed so far: Over $660 million. Number of bankers criminally charged: ZERO. Number of bankers who went to prison: ZERO. Every single settlement came with "no admission of wrongdoing." Every bank said some version of "we regret the association" and moved on. But the court filings tell a very different story: JPMorgan filed suspicious activity reports on Epstein's accounts as early as 2002. Their own compliance team flagged him. They KNEW something was wrong but they kept banking him for 11 more years anyway. When Epstein was alive and actively trafficking girls, JPMorgan flagged $4.3 million in suspicious transactions. After he died in his cell? They retroactively reported $1.3 BILLION in suspicious activity going back to 2003. That's 300 times more than what they reported while he was alive. A Senate investigation found that JPMorgan executives overruled their own compliance officers to keep Epstein as a client. Internal emails show top executives approved continued business with Epstein even AFTER his 2008 conviction because he was bringing in ultra-wealthy referrals. Deutsche Bank picked Epstein up as a client in 2013, the same year JPMorgan finally dropped him. Their own CEO later admitted onboarding him was "a critical mistake that should never have happened." They literally kept him for five more years. Bank of America allegedly didn't file suspicious activity reports on Epstein-linked accounts until AFTER he was dead. The pattern is identical every time: See the red flags. Ignore them. Profit from the relationship. Wait until the client dies or gets arrested. Then file a report. Then write a settlement check. Then say you did nothing wrong. Now think about this... These are the same banks that freeze your business account over a $5,000 wire transfer. The same compliance departments that require endless forms of ID to open a checking account. The same institutions that flag small business owners for "suspicious activity" if they deposit cash from their own customers two weeks in a row. But a convicted sex offender runs hundreds of millions through their systems for DECADES and nobody notices. Nobody reports it. Nobody escalates it. Nobody calls law enforcement. Until he's dead. Then suddenly everyone remembers everything. Senator Wyden called for a criminal investigation. The Treasury Department has thousands of pages of Epstein bank records they still won't release. Congressional investigators say the full picture of what these banks knew hasn't come close to being revealed. $660 million in settlements and fines. But not a single criminal charge against any banker at any institution. That's the system working exactly as designed. I wonder why no one's talking about the files anymore?

@jaz07singh @UtdHeisenberg_ Mine fell apart eventually & went in the bin.

@DavidRhysLewis9 @UtdHeisenberg_ I bought it, I still have it.

This was The Jacket to own for kids of my generation

@UtdHeisenberg_ Yep, reminds me of great times.

@DavidRhysLewis9 So nostalgic

BREAKING: An Israeli artillery barrage has targeted the headquarters of the UN’s peacekeeping contingent in southern Lebanon, reports Lebanese media. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/f9ib4j

@DaytrippingRed K'in hell 😮

Sweet mother of Jesus there’s a slap He’s a beast

@trussliz You get stupider by the day.

“We are launching a British CPAC.” Tickets will go on sale next week.

In his Palm Sunday meditation in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, recalls that Jesus still “weeps” today over our world marked by conflict, suffering, and missed opportunities for peace. vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

@mbtrle Oh yes, I'll have that, an interview with Denise 💓

@Ianmc22efc @insidewrite1957 Your choice, I don't want their shite cluttering up my feed.

@DavidRhysLewis9 @insidewrite1957 You two sausages don’t talk for whole fan bases, if an Everton fan wants to vote Tory or reform it’s fuck all to do with me or any other Everton fan.

Absolutely stunned these last few days to discover how many United supporters on my followers are supporters of Reform & Restore Britain. They are no longer on my followers as they clearly know nothing of our club or the history of Manchester.

@kd84afc @whitcher_j38836 @insidewrite1957 Got much better things to do with my time than spend it here arguing with idiots.

@DavidRhysLewis9 @whitcher_j38836 @insidewrite1957 Is that all your got? go and lie and petal, why can't you lot answer simple yes or no questions?

@DrHelenFry The London Cage is an excellent read, I absolutely recommend it.

I hope you've learned something new from this thread. If so, consider having a look at my book 'The London Cage' for the full story, and follow me here on X at @DrHelenFry for more educational threads like this one! (end).

A truth drug is a substance believed capable of inducing a state in which a subject answers questions truthfully. In December 1939, Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division began experimenting with such compounds, starting, remarkably, by testing them on themselves: (🧵)

It’s also worth remembering that Viscount Rothermere (Lord Rothermere’s father) supported the fascists and the Nazis in the Daily Mail

@mbtrle As it's 96 can I be interviewed by Zoe or Gaby please, not Sharron bloody Davies.

@mbtrle Sorry, I only have green Adidas.

Psalm 98:4 KJV Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: Make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

#Week301 #JusticeForNoahTruthForFiona ⠀⠀ #NoahsArmy⚡️

#JusticeForNoahDonohoe Noah read a book, cycled from home, abandoned his backpack, abandoned his coat, abandoned his phone, abandoned his shoes, abandoned all his clothes, abandoned his bike, seen running exhausted looking back scared, vanished into thin air, dived down a drain?

Congrats @ZahraJoya on never giving up on highlighting the challenges for women and girls in Afghanistan

More than 40 emergency workers have been killed in Lebanon in the past three weeks by Israeli strikes, while medical infrastructure has also been put out of action. Our special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky has been reporting from southern Lebanon