On The Media's Deafening Silence On Mike Bloomberg's Ties To Epstein And Other Criminals
Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen Bloomberg’s chances at the nomination, one clear weakness of Bloomberg’s has thus far evaded meaningful media coverage: his ties to key players in the Epstein scandal, including Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and even Jeffrey Epstein himself.
Silence among outlets that largely oppose Bloomberg’s candidacy regarding his connections to Epstein and those in his close social orbit is odd, especially when reporting on an individual’s connections to the intelligence-linked pedophile are a sure-fire way to generate considerable negative attention and fodder for rival campaigns. This is particularly striking given that the numerous accusations that Bloomberg has long stoked a toxic culture of sexual harassment at his company, resulting in no small number of non-disclosure agreements over the years, have received some media attention. Yet, the fact that many of Bloomberg’s close friends have been accused of far, far worse has received hardly any coverage by comparison.
For instance, when it was announced last week that the controlling stake in the Leslie Wexner-owned lingerie company Victoria’s Secret would be sold to a private equity firm called Sycamore Partners, only one media outlet — The Intercept — revealed that Bloomberg has at least $136 million of his money in that firm. The Intercept noted in passing that Wexner — the source of most of Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed fortune, his close collaborator for decades and alleged rapist of many of his victims — had been pressured to step down following the scandal, which also hit Wexner-owned companies hard and had forced the Ohio-based billionaire to seek a buyer for his lingerie brand and its tarnished reputation. Yet, the outlet did not make the direct connection that Sycamore Partners-backer Bloomberg is a friend of Wexner’s and has attended Wexner’s personal social parties for years prior to the most recent scandal.
pic Tamara Mellon, Mike Bloomberg and Ghislaine Maxwell
That picture, taken in 2013 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, has not been mentioned by mainstream media following the launch of Bloomberg’s candidacy late last November. Similarly, mainstream media have failed to question Bloomberg regarding why his name and five different telephone numbers for him appear in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous list of contacts often referred to as his “little black book.”
Bloomberg and the Manhattan Swamp
The extent of the Maxwell-Bloomberg relationship is unknown, though Bloomberg’s deep ties to his former employer Salomon Brothers is a possible link, given that that firm served as one of the Maxwell family’s main investment bankers in the years prior to and following Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death in 1991. Similarly, Epstein had close ties to prominent figures on Wall Street, some dating back to his time at Bear Stearns, who are also close to Bloomberg.
Bloomberg and Epstein also shared close friendships with some of the same New York media executives like Mort Zuckerman. Media outlets have described Zuckerman, a former business partner of Epstein’s, as Bloomberg’s “long-time enabler.” In another example, Epstein’s former publicist Howard Rubenstein is a long-time supporter of Bloomberg and was reported to be the driving force behind Bloomberg’s controversial push to run around mayoral term limits and pursue a third term as Mayor of New York.
Another mutual Epstein-Bloomberg associate is disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was part of an investment group with Epstein that sought to purchase New York magazine in 2003. Another member of that investment group was frequent MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch, who has recently fervently backed Bloomberg’s candidacy.
Weinstein was recently convicted of rape and has dozens of accusers, whose decision to come forward about Weinstein’s sex crimes in recent years helped spark the “Me Too” movement. Weinstein also has ties to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was a close friend and business associate of Epstein’s, and it was Barak who personally introduced Weinstein to former Mossad spies that Weinstein hired to intimidate his accusers. In addition to being Prime Minister, Barak is also the former head of Israeli military intelligence, the foreign intelligence agency that sponsored Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation involving underage girls in the United States.
Bloomberg’s candidacy has yet to be strongly challenged over his ties to Weinstein, which are considerable. For instance, Weinstein was a major backer of Bloomberg’s mayoral campaigns and even recorded robocalls on Bloomberg’s behalf to boost his election chances. Bloomberg, in turn, appointed Weinstein to a charity board and Weinstein later praised Bloomberg for aiding his film company. While Bloomberg’s ties to Wexner, Epstein and Maxwell have gotten the silent treatment, some outlets (mostly right-leaning) have covered the Bloomberg-Weinstein ties, but there has been little pressure on Bloomberg from mainstream media to address those ties directly.
Another close Bloomberg associate who recently has been accused by numerous women of sexual harassment is hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt is a long-time fixture in Bloomberg’s social circle and has long appeared at Bloomberg’s dinner parties. Steinhardt is also connected to Leslie Wexner through his membership in the so-called “Mega Group” — an exclusive group of organized-crime-linked “mega” donors to pro-Israel causes that Wexner co-founded in 1991. Steinhardt also boasts close ties to the now deceased founder of Glencore, the Mossad-linked Marc Rich, and Steinhardt — along with top Israeli politicians and spies — aggressively lobbied former President Bill Clinton to controversially pardon Rich before leaving office.
“Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are”
The oft-quoted saying “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are,” seems to hold true for Bloomberg. For instance, his eponymous media conglomerate has received no small number of lawsuits over the years alleging rampant sexual harassment and even the rape of female workers, much of its allegedly egged on by Bloomberg’s long history of comments that have been derided as sexist. Many of those lawsuits ended in female accusers being asked to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). More recently, The Nation reported that Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign is making use of NDAs in such a way “that could prevent staffers from reporting workplace abuse.”
In addition, a 1999 profile of Bloomberg in Wired magazine quoted Bloomberg as saying “My daughter is tall and busty and blonde. We went to China together. And what’s a 16-year-old going to do on a business trip? So, I got her dates in every city in China.”
Bloomberg, not unlike Epstein and Wexner, also has a history of cozy ties to the CIA. For instance, during his tenure as Mayor of New York, Bloomberg actively promoted a controversial post-9/11 program that saw the CIA work directly with the NYPD to spy on the city’s Muslim communities. Even though the CIA is technically prohibited from spying on Americans not linked to criminal activity, one of the CIA officers working as part of the Bloomberg-backed program said he had “no limitations” on what he could do. Bloomberg has long defended this program and its merging of the CIA with local police.
In the case of Epstein and Wexner, as MintPress News reported in its viral series on the Epstein scandal last year, Epstein once claimed to have worked for the CIA during the 1980s and Epstein and Wexner were the key players behind the relocation of CIA front company Southern Air Transport to Ohio, where Wexner’s business interests have long been based.
Rudy Giuliani, left, New York Gov. George Pataki, center, and Mike Bloomberg during a “Salute to Israel Parade, May 5, 2002, in New York. Shawn Baldwin | AP
think- ago
Foxnews and CBS report that Bloomberg drops out of the Presidential race.
@MercurysBall2
So at least we will have only one candidate who is in Epstein's address book.
kestrel9 ago
Is @MercuryBall2 an alt of yours? half /s If so why delete the other comment?
think- ago
Huh? No, it's not an alt of mine. rolls eyes I don't talk to myself, you know. /half s
@MercurysBall2 @Vindicator
kestrel9 ago
Do you know why @MercuryBall2 would delete the hit and run on Trump that was pure speculation? Their bigger fish to fry comment might have some leads to research on "non political" topics.
think- ago
No, I didn't even know they deleted their comment before you mentioned it.
I suggest to PM them, and ask them. Thanks.
@MercurysBall2 @Vindicator
kestrel9 ago
I'm finding interesting info from their posted research, thanks.
MercurysBall2 ago
I deleted my comment because I thought my remarks re Trump would not go down well with some people on here and I don't want to get into a discussion or any drama about politics which I think is a distraction atm from other areas I'm currently researching.
As I said in my original comment I'm currently looking into the Georgia Atlanta area as I'm finding many weird connections re the CDC, the Coca Cola company, the Pendergrast brothers (one of whom is the writer Mark Pendergrast who is part of the 'debunk SRA' lobby), Elton John's presence in that area etc.. I will soon post about that.
Didn't mean to cause any drama @think-
kestrel9 ago
Thanks for the info, I appreciate that. I know that feeling of not wanting to get distracted. Good luck with your research :)
MercurysBall2 ago
:-)
think- ago
K.
think- ago
This.
The plot thickens...
@MercurysBall2
MercurysBall2 ago
That's easy. The silence is because if they go after Bloomberg/Epstein it will bring in more details of Trump's connections. They don't want too many people red pilled. Too many people on Voat still swallowing the left/right paradigm
https://imgur.com/a/kDSLTZc Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, President Bill Clinton, Joe Torre and Billy Crystal at the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation 2008 Golf Classic July 14, 2008 at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor, NY.
I have bigger fish to fry: Georgia, Atlanta; a murdered Georgian senator who called out Child Protective Services; the CDC, Coca-cola company; Peachtree Street at Five Points in Buckhead Atlanta; the Pendergrast brothers; Dr Tim Alefantis, his patents and studies on biowarfare viruses...
Meanwhile people still distracted by the the theatre of politics...None of it is real people.
carmencita ago
They are protecting Mike for a reason imo. Biden has made quite a few ridiculous gaffs. He seems to be doing good no matter what. Imo Bloomberg is waiting in the wings to takeover when Biden gets caught playing with someone’s hair or worse. It seems he’s their boy but I am waiting for him to implode bigly. And he will.
kestrel9 ago
Do you think HRC would run with him?
carmencita ago
Btw Lee Camp has put out info that Mike B has connections to JE and HW. And he includes a video. I have a colossal headache so haven’t watched. I was surprised since not many are speaking out.
carmencita ago
Ha. In a heartbeat. She learned nothing from her first run and made same mistakes the next run. She listens to no one. She is a Narcissist of epic proportions. It would give her a chance to run things maybe. We have no idea what they are planning. If Mime would win the deal could be that she would run the show. If she had the BP spot sh would be too old to run for Pres. 4 yrs later. This is her last shot in the drivers seat. If it happens. Good God. That scenario is frightening.
Shillaxe ago
"We have no idea what they are planning."
"We" seems an odd choice for wording, unless you work for another candidate.
carmencita ago
We means all those interested in the election. The outcome of who runs and bows out can change the votes. I don’t have to tell anyone who I’m for. When I came here most of us respected each other’s choices because we knew that the elites had been fooling all of us with their lies for years. We all have been had at one time or another. I find it odd that you would take my comment in favor of one candidate or another. It was meant only as a political discussion. Thanks for taking an interest.
kestrel9 ago
I've been working on a post regarding CDAN#37 (Wexner, homosexual Barry Diller and his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Epstein, Clintons, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine..more) and Chelsea Clinton ties to Barry Diller which fits in with this topic and the following:
https://pagesix.com/2019/12/05/mike-bloomberg-spotted-at-dinner-with-hillary-clinton-annette-de-la-renta/
America and so called 'New Establishment' http://www.illuminati-news.com/Articles/01.html (I'm just putting the list here and pointing out names related to the CDAN#37 and the above article. Haven't cross checked it yet on the Zerohedge article.
(Annotated by M.C. Piper)
Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of the Apple computer conglomerate.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, the Internet giant.
Stephen Schwarzman and Pete Peterson, founders of the Blackstone Group, a financial investment giant, representing shadowy cliques of plutocratic predators.
53. Oscar and Annette de la Renta, fashion designers.
think- ago
I read that Schwarzenegger visited Jacob Rothschild in England before running for go v in Cal.
kestrel9 ago
James Wolfensohn was at the meeting, quite the resume. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfensohn
He was named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_de_Rothschild_(politician) (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_de_Rothschild) Dorothy is credited with essentially making the Balfour Declaration possible and therefore playing no small part with creating the nation of Israel https://newspunch.com/lord-rothschild-israel/ http://archive.is/aLGUp
https://archive.is/hoLwI Lord Rothschild discusses cousin’s crucial role in ‘miracle’ Balfour Declaration
"He also revealed for the first time the role of his cousin Dorothy de Rothschild, who acted as a critical go-between while still in her teens. Describing her as “devoted to Israel,” Rothschild said: “What she did, which was crucially important, was to connect Weizmann to the British establishment, and extraordinarily, she told Weizmann how to integrate, how to insert himself into British establishment life, which he learned very quickly.”
She has a plaque/brick dedicated to her and a garden, at the Supreme Courthouse in Israel (she did donate the building, with it's funky pyramid). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Israel
kestrel9 ago
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/08/16/16353031.php?show_comments=1 / http://archive.is/yh5xo
The picture is here (note I've yet to read this article) https://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2012/06/is-this-the-preparation-for-the-final-economic-battle-for-world-dominion-when-the-rothschilds-and-th.html
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/rockefellers-and-rothschilds-unite/ http://archive.is/LIcSM
think- ago
Thank you.
kestrel9 ago
yw :)
think- ago
It would be interesting to dig into the Warren Buffet - Rothschild connection.
kestrel9 ago
list con't
Parts of this list may be outdated...
Martha Stewart, popular television personality and home products tycoon.
Mickey Drexler, chief of the J. Crew fashion company.
Michael Moritz, financier previously associated with Google and former journalist who was San Francisco bureau chef for Bronfman-controlled Time magazine. Holds an interest in Pay Pal and inYahoo.
Brian Roberts, heads Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company and second-largest Internet provider.
Roger Ailes, runs Fox News channel for Murdoch and associates.
Vivi Nevo, Israeli-born international investment tycoon who holds large takes in Time-Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft. (One of his principal associates is Israeli arms dealer, Arnon Milchan, a major backer of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program.)
Mick Jagger, rock star.
Jeff Skoll, film producer.
Vinod Khosla, Indian-born, American-based major investor in “green” technologies such as solar, clean coal, fuel cells and cellulosic ethanol.
Diego Della Valle, major figure in the luxury accessories fashion industry, notably the Tod’s shoe company.
Stacey Snider, co-chief of DreamWorks, the Spielberg-Geffen-Katzenberg combine in Hollywood.
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, major Hollywood producers.
John Lasseter, Disney-Pixar studios.
George Soros, infamous international wheeler-dealer.
Philippe Dauman, runs Viacom media giant for Zionist mogul Sumner Redstone (who also controls CBS).
John Malone, runs Liberty Media (Discovery Channel, USA network etc); formerly associated with Jerrold Electronics, founded by Milton Shapp, a devout Zionist who served two terms as governor of Pennsylvania.
Sumner Redstone, owner of the Viacom/CBS media giant.
Paul Allen, head of Vulcan investment house and co-founder, with Bill Gates (see above) of the Microsoft empire.
Eddie Lampert, money manager for major figures in the global elite; member of the secret Skull & Bones fraternity atYale.
Leon Black, major investor with controlling influence at Telemundo, Spanish-language broadcasting, Harrah’s casino empire, and Realogy, which controls real-estate companies such as Coldwell Banker and Century 21.
Jann Wenner, owner of Rolling Stone magazine
Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan Working Title Films, London
JerryWeintraub, Hollywood producer.
Donatella Versace, fashion empire head.
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist.
Tim Russert, NBC news commentator.
Charlie Rose, PBS television news commentator and talk show host.
Joel Silver, Hollywood film producer.
Frank Rich, NewYork Times commentator/ author
Jonathan Ive, designer of the iPod, iMac and Iphone.
Larry Gagosian, owner of art galleries in New York, London and Los Angeles, closely associated with Zionist billionaires such as David Geffen and S. I. Newhouse Jr., etc.
Charles Saatchi, owner of the famed Saatchi Gallery and longtime major figure in the public relations industry.
Jean Pigozzi, art collector and close associate of the Rothschild family.
Stephen Colbert, television-based political satirist/host.
Bill O’Reilly, Fox television conservative talk show host.
Jon Stewart, TV personality and pundit.
Steve Bing, film producer.
Eli Broad, billionaire investor and patron of Zionist causes.
Michael Milken, Wall Street predator, ex-convict, and devoted supporter of Israel.
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., owner of the NewYork Times media empire.
Ron Burkle, supermarket and media magnate (including Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest).
Scott Rudin, Hollywood producer
Jimmy Buffett, singer and musician, branching into investments.
Steven Rattner, private equity and hedge fund investor, former reporter for The NewYork Times.
Arianna Huffington, writer and television personality.
Doug Morris, runs Universal Music for its owners, the Zionist Bronfman family and its wide-ranging empire.
Jimmy Iovine, head of Interscope Rec