Argentina yoga school ran a sex sect: 19 arrested so far

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So, there’s a high level sexual cult uncovered in Argentina – run by people named Susana Mendelievich, Juan Percowicz, and Mariano Krawczyk.

High level people were involved.

But the real victims are the hookers.

Huh.

AP:

An Argentina-based yoga group sexually exploited vulnerable women it called “geishas” to get money and influence from wealthy and powerful men around the world, including opera star Placido Domingo, who knew the organization’s leaders for more than two decades, according to interviews with former members and local authorities.

A sprawling investigation into the sect-like Buenos Aires Yoga School, which operated for over 30 years in Argentina’s capital, has uncovered what authorities are calling a criminal organization involved in sex trafficking, money laundering, involuntary servitude, illegal practice of medicine and other crimes. Nineteen members have been arrested in the investigation that reaches into the U.S., where six more suspects are sought.

Despite its name, the school did not offer yoga classes. Leaders are accused of preying on people to join its ranks with promises of eternal happiness and then exploiting them sexually and financially, according to charging documents.

Former members of the school and officials investigating the case told The Associated Press that the group forced female members to work as “geishas” who were assigned to make guests feel welcome at the school, with sex part of the expectations. Influential or wealthy men were matched up with members of the “Geishado VIP,” one of many groups of women that were forced to have sexual encounters in exchange for money and influence that benefited sect leaders, according to the charging documents. Some of the women were sent to the United States and Uruguay to have sex with men, a practice that amounted to slavery, authorities said.

Former member Pablo Salum said his mother and sister were among the women exploited in Argentina, and described orgies and sexual abuse of children.

“When you reached 11 or 12 years old, the leader told you who you had to have sexual relations with,” he said, adding that younger children were made to watch sexual activity. Salum says he was brought into the organization by his mother at age eight and left at 14. His accusations helped spark the current investigation.

Some members of the group were reduced to “a situation of slavery,” forced to have sexual encounters and tasked with menial chores at the school like cleaning and cooking, according to the investigative documents and a police official. Male and female “slaves” were required to follow instructions without asking any questions, said a former member named Carlos, who asked to be identified only by his first name because he left the group many years ago and couldn’t confirm details from the current investigation.

Domingo found himself embroiled in the scandal after law enforcement officers carried out dozens of raids in Buenos Aires in August targeting the school. The famed tenor was “a consumer of prostitution” but isn’t accused of a crime because prostitution is legal in Argentina, said a law enforcement source in Argentina who, like other police and judicial sources in Buenos Aires, spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Authorities released wiretapped phone conversations from earlier this year in which a man they identified as Domingo appears to be arranging a sexual meetup at his hotel in April in Buenos Aires with Susana Mendelievich, a concert pianist who prosecutors say was a sect leader in charge of the “Geishado VIP.”

In one of the wiretaps, Mendelievich talks with another sect leader about how the group had tried unsuccessfully for years to use its music connections to recruit Domingo into the group but it was worth trying again while he was in Buenos Aires in April for a series of concerts. In another wiretap, Mendelievich asks sect leader Juan Percowicz if she can take Domingo to “the museum,” the moniker used to refer to the top floor of their 10-story building where influential men had sex with group members. Mendelievich, 75, and Percowicz, 84, were detained in the raids in August; both were released this week to house arrest.

Juan Percowicz

Domingo has publicly tried to distance himself from the group, which allegedly had multiple offices in the United States.

“Of course, I have nothing to do with that,” Domingo, 81, said last week in reference to the organization’s allegedly illegal activities. In comments to a television station in Mexico, where he was performing, Domingo did not deny he was the man in the wiretapped recordings but said he felt betrayed by musicians he had considered to be friends. “It makes me sad when you’ve had friends for many years and you realize you have been used.”

Domingo has not responded to numerous requests through his representatives for an interview or comment from the AP.

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Authorities have not released names of other powerful men they say the group allegedly targeted. But investigators say they are poring over hard drives and “boxes and boxes” of erotic photographs and videotapes seized in the raids. Judicial officials say that many sexual encounters arranged by the group took place at its Buenos Aires school and were videotaped.

Carlos told the AP that he saw Domingo visit the school several times in the 1990s, including once as the guest of honor at a dinner party inside the school. Carlos said he was a waiter at the party, held in Domingo’s honor, where the singer made a generous offer at the end of the evening to fly several of the group’s leaders with him to Europe on an upcoming trip.

“At the dinner Placido Domingo said ‘let’s all go to Europe’,” said Carlos, who left the group after 10 years in 1999. “He was inviting them all, the whole table, to Europe.”

At Domingo’s table were classical musicians who police say were part of the group’s leadership: Rubén D’Artagnan González, Verónica Iacono and Mendelievich among others, according to Carlos who said it was common knowledge at the school that the three accompanied Domingo on his trip.

González, who died in 2018, served as concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until 1996 and is accused of playing a key role in the group’s U.S. operations. Iacono was a New York-based soprano, who used the stage name “Loiacono,” and is the subject of an international arrest warrant. Another alleged leader named Mariano Krawczyk, was an oboist who goes by the artistic name Mariano Krauz.

The extent of Domingo’s professional or personal ties to the musicians in the group are not known, and he has declined comment on that. But Domingo has performed with several of the people who’ve been arrested, including at a 1996 concert that featured the three he allegedly invited to Europe and Krawczyk.

During that Buenos Aires concert, Domingo and Iacono sang a portion of “Marked Cards” an opera that Iacono, Mendelievich, González and Krawczyk wrote together based on a book by Percowicz, the founder and leader of the Buenos Aires Yoga School.

Sexual encounters were touted to members as a form of “healing” and offered a path to scaling the seven levels of the school’s strict hierarchy that had Percowicz at the top, according to charging documents.

Former members interviewed by AP say Percowicz was known as “El Maestro.” Others ranked at the seventh level were Iacono, Krawczyk and Mendelievich, according to prosecutors’ documents. A judicial source says she has seen documents that show González was at a top level of the organization before he died. Krawczyk was among those arrested.

Yeah, who knows what’s going on there.

I don’t even dare hazard a guess.

We know that Jeffrey Epstein has some kind of satanic temple on his island where he brings celebrities to have sex with underage girls.

There are also apparently tunnels underneath the temple, possibly for the use in satanic rituals of various sorts, including child sacrifice.

Last week, MSNBC released a video of Epstein with Donald Trump from 1992 in an attempt to defame Trump by showing that he knew this sickening Jew (who every single other celebrity also knew – including the fake news liar George Stephanopoulos and the TV person Chelsea Handler, who both attended his “welcome home” party after he was released from prison for having sex with young girls).

In this video, Donald Trump, who is the funniest person we know of so far, makes the Jew laugh – and it is revealed that when he laughs, he transforms into a satanic being. Like something literally from hell.

Just look at that.

Are you going to try to tell me this is not some kind of otherworldly and satanic creature simply pretending to be human?

It looks like he’s a demon wearing human skin and it’s visible when he accidentally smiles.

He doesn’t smile otherwise. Purposefully, he avoids doing it, because when he does, it reveals his true and evil form.

New York Magazine has a very interesting article up quoting various hedge fund people saying that it is basically impossible that Jeffrey Epstein was secretly running a hedge fund and that it is much more likely he was running a blackmail ring disguised as a hedge fund.

The media is getting dangerously close to outright saying that Epstein was a Mossad spy.

New York Magazine:

Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor.

“I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management. While stories about young girls swarming Epstein’s waterfront mansion and the sex parties he hosted for the rich and powerful were the talk of the town, Kass was more focused on how this obscure person, rumored to be managing billions of dollars, had become so wealthy without much of a track record.

Kass was well-connected on Wall Street, where he’d worked for decades, so he began to ask around. “I went to my institutional brokers, to their trading desks and asked if they ever traded with him. I did it a few times until the date when he was arrested,” he recalls. “Not one institutional trading desk, primary or secondary, had ever traded with Epstein’s firm.”

When a reporter came to interview Kass about Bernie Madoff shortly before that firm blew up in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, Kass told her, “There’s another guy who reminds me of Madoff that no one trades with.” That man was Jeffrey Epstein.

“How did he get the money?” Kass kept asking.

For decades, Epstein has been credulously described as a big-time hedge-fund manager and a billionaire, even though there’s not a lot of evidence that he is either.

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Intelligencer spoke to several prominent hedge-fund managers to get a read on what their practiced eyes are detecting in all the new information that is coming to light about Epstein in the wake of his indictment by federal prosecutors in New York. Most saw signs of something unsavory at the heart of his business model.

To begin with, there is much skepticism among the hedgies Intelligencer spoke with that Epstein made the money he has — and he appears to have a lot, given a lavish portfolio of homes and private aircraft — as a traditional money manager. A fund manager who knows well how that kind of fortune is acquired notes, “It’s hard to make a billion dollars quietly.” Epstein never made a peep in the financial world.

Epstein was also missing another key element of a typical thriving hedge fund: investors. Kass couldn’t find any beyond Epstein’s one well-publicized client, retail magnate Les Wexner — nor could other players in the hedge-fund world who undertook similar snooping. “I don’t know anyone who’s ever invested in him; he’s never talked about by any of the allocators,” says one billionaire hedge-fund manager, referring to firms that distribute large pools of money among various funds.

Epstein’s spotty professional history has also drawn a lot of attention in recent days, and Kass says it was one of the first things that raised his suspicions years ago. Now 66, Epstein didn’t come from money and never graduated from college, yet he landed a teaching job at a fancy private school (“unheard of,” says Kass) and rose through the ranks in the early 1980s at investment bank Bear Stearns. Within no time, Kass notes, Epstein was made a partner of the firm — and then was promptly and unceremoniously ousted. (Epstein reportedly left the firm following a minor securities violation.) Despite this “squishy work experience,” as Kass puts it, at some point after his quick exit, Epstein launched his own hedge fund, J. Epstein & Co., later renamed Financial Trust Co. Along the way, he began peddling the improbable narrative that he was so selective he would only work with billionaires.

Oddly, Epstein also claimed to do all the investing by himself while his 150 employees all worked in the back office — which Kass says reminds him of Madoff’s cover story. Though it now appears that Epstein had many fewer employees than he claimed, according to the New York Times.

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Given this puzzling set of data points, the hedge-fund managers we spoke to leaned toward the theory that Epstein was running a blackmail scheme under the cover of a hedge fund.

How such a scheme could hypothetically work has been laid out in detail in a thread on the anonymous Twitter feed of @quantian1. It’s worth reading in its entirety, but in summary it is a rough blueprint for how a devious aspiring hedge-fund manager could blackmail rich people into investing with him without raising too many flags.

Kass and former hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson both emailed the thread around in investing circles and both quickly discovered that their colleagues found it quite convincing. “This actually sounds very plausible,” Tilson wrote in an email forwarding the thread to others.

“He somehow cajoled these guys to invest,” says Kass, speaking of hypothetical blackmailed investors who gave Epstein their money to invest, but managed to keep their names private.

The fact that Epstein’s fund is offshore in a tax haven — it is based in the U.S. Virgin Islands — and has a secret client list both add credence to the blackmail theory.

So what did Epstein do with the money he did have under his management, setting aside the questions of how he got it and how much he had? One hedge-fund manager speculates that Epstein could have just put the client money in an S&P 500 index fund, perhaps with a tax dodge thrown in. “I put in $100 million, I get the S&P 500 minus some fees,” he says, speaking of a theoretical client’s experience. Over the past few decades, the client would have “made a shitload” — as would Epstein. A structure like that wouldn’t have required trading desks or analysts or complex regulatory disclosures.

Kass has kicked around a similar idea: Maybe Epstein just put all the client money in U.S. treasuries — the simplest and safest investment there is, and the kind of thing one guy actually can do by himself.

If the blackmail theory sounds far-fetched, it’s worth keeping in mind that it was also floated by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. “Epstein … also got girls for Epstein’s friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifically told me that the reason for him doing this was so that they would ‘owe him,’ they would ‘be in his pocket,’ and he would ‘have something on them,’” she said in a court affidavit, according to the investigative series in the Miami Herald that brought the case back to the public’s attention late last year.

In the 2015 filing, Giuffre claimed that Epstein “debriefed her” after she was forced into sexual encounters so that he could possess “intimate and potentially embarrassing information” to blackmail friends into parking their money with him. She also said photographic and video evidence existed — an assertion that looms especially large now that federal investigators have found a trove of images in Epstein’s home safe.

We should note that Kass is clearly Jewish (it’s a German last name meaning “shrewd person” that is used almost exclusively by Jews).

The article itself is written by Michelle Celarier, who also appears to be Jewish.

I think that the point of this is to offer an explanation that sort of explains what is going on here without implicating the Jews as a whole.

The Twitter thread they link to about the blackmail theory has this note at the bottom:

There’s no need to invoke the Mafia/Russia/Mossad/CIA/etc, that’s just needlessly overfitting.

However, I completely disagree with that, based on the theory itself, for a number of reasons.

If he was doing the blackmail to make money, then where is the money?

There is no evidence he actually has any money. All there is evidence of is that he has property, the most expensive piece of which, a $70 million mansion in Manhattan, was given to him for free by a Jew from Columbus, Ohio, Les Wexner.

Why did Wexner give him this mansion, if all he was going to do with it is run a blackmail scheme that only produced a couple hundred million dollars? Les Wexner owns Victoria’s Secret and several other brands, and owns the better part of the city of Columbus. Why would he get involved with a weird underage sex blackmail scheme with a random unemployed teacher from New York City?

The only context in which that makes sense is if Epstein was doing something that was in his interest, and the only apparent overlapping interest they have is Jewishness.

Leslie Wexner is himself deeply involved with the Jewish community and with the State of Israel.

Wexner is one of the top leaders in the entire diaspora in America that organizes along explicitly Jewish lines.

He runs the Wexner Foundation, which focuses on both Jewish rule in America and training Jews in Israel.

Wikipedia:

The Wexner Foundation focuses on the development of Jewish professional and volunteer leaders in North America and public leaders in Israel. Founded by Leslie Wexner, CEO of Limited Brands and his wife, Abigail Wexner the headquarters are located in New Albany, Ohio with additional offices in New York City and in Jerusalem. In addition to the core leadership programs, the Wexner Foundation supports other Jewish charities on a local, national, and international level.

Furthermore, are we actually supposed to believe that if Epstein was blackmailing people for money to put into a fake hedge fund in order to gain a personal profit, he would focus his efforts on politicians?

And if we do accept the premise that Epstein was just trying to make money for himself, surely we also have to accept that the blackmail material he was gathering was worth a lot more than the politicians themselves could give him. For example, a video of Bill Clinton having sex with an underage girl is worth a lot more than Bill Clinton is able to pay out for hush-money. So if Epstein was all about fueling his fake hedge fund, he would also be selling this blackmail material.

And given his connections to Wexner and the fact that his assistant, who also is alleged to have played the role of recruiting underage girls for the sex ring, is the daughter of a Mossad spy, it seems that the most obvious entity for him to be transferring this blackmail material to would be the Mossad.

It was also recently revealed that former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Epstein “at least ten times.” He says he never slept with any underage girls, and that seems likely true. They have plenty of Eastern European sex slaves in Israel. He would have other things to do in meetings with Epstein.

It seems to me that we’re now at the point where “Mossad agent” is simply the Occam’s Razor explanation for what Epstein was up to. There is no other explanation that even comes close to explaining what he was doing with his fake hedge fund, free houses from Israel-linked Jews, underage sex parties, blackmail videos and protection from prosecution by the FBI and Justice Department.

I hope that the media will start exploring this obvious fact. Though I will not be holding my breath.

Vanity Fair, however, while reporting on the “fake hedge fund blackmail scheme” theory, did give a nod to people thinking he’s Mossad:

In the absence of much other information, the reigning theory on Wall Street currently is that Epstein’s activities with women and girls were central to the building of his fortune, and his relations with some of his investors essentially amounted to blackmail.

Similarly, DC is on edge. “Epstein bragged about his contacts in Washington,” Boies said. Reporters are likely to dig into why the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Epstein and kept the deal secret from his victims. One theory circulating among prominent Republicans is that Epstein was a Mossad agent.

So, who knows.

Maybe this will all go exactly where we want it to go.

They are really acting like they’re going to wreck this kike and all his associates.

I still do not understand what is going on.

This is a goy sheriff, who will probably get shut down by Jews. But just the fact that they opened this can of worms – I don’t get it.

Fox News:

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw launched an investigation Friday into whether wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was properly monitored during his work release program while serving time for soliciting prostitution from underage girls more than a decade ago.

The inquiry will focus on whether deputies assigned to Epstein violated any rules or regulations, Bradshaw said in a statement, adding that “all aspects of the matter will be fully investigated to ensure total accountability and transparency.”

Epstein, 66, was allowed to spend six days a week at the office of his now-defunct Florida Science Foundation rather than in jail under a heavily-criticized 2008 plea deal with federal prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor and registered as a sex offender.

A deputy was assigned to remain with him in his office at all times, according to the work release program rules.

Labor Secretary Acosta announces he will step down amid criticism over Epstein plea dealVideo
Logs show Epstein was escorted to his home by deputies at least nine times, WPTV reported, even though he was only allowed to leave his office to go to the jail. He was also allegedly left in his home unsupervised for up to three hours on some occasions.

One former deputy told The Associated Press he remembers young women visiting Epstein at his office but couldn’t say whether anything inappropriate occurred.

“I do remember young women coming in and going back into the office area,” now-retired deputy Jeffrey Rice said Thursday. He said the girls were maybe in the early 20s.

“They just kind of said they were office assistants,” he said.

The plea deal allowed Epstein to be out of the county jail from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., but records show that on some occasions his personal limousine dropped him off as early as 7:15 a.m. or picked up as late as 10:40 p.m.

Rice said when he escorted Epstein home, he stood guard outside the house but wasn’t aware of what Epstein was doing or if anyone else was inside. He contacted a sergeant for clarification on what he was supposed to do.

The work release program was (I would assume) being managed by the Jew local prosecutor Barry Krischer, who had originally refused to prosecute Epstein at all, which eventually led to the feds being brought in. Or it was taken care of by other local Jews. And I’m sure it wasn’t followed properly. But no one will go down for that.

Epstein also didn’t register as a sex offender, even though he was ordered to, because his Jew friends let him not do that. He was usually in Florida or New York, the two most Jewish places in America.

Remember that it was the almost cartoonishly corrupt (now senile) bastard Robert Mueller that was running the FBI when Epstein was prosecuted, and there are rumors (not confirmed) that he intervened and said Epstein was an informant. Mueller’s FBI was letting Whitey Bulger literally murder people and not be punished while he was an FBI informant. So obviously, he would let Epstein continue to fuck young girls, if this was indeed the arrangement.

And it’s possible that this is exactly how they would set up a Mossad agent working in the US. Obviously, it is illegal to allow a spy from a foreign government to operate with impunity in the United States. There is no official “Mossad exception” on the books. So the best way to keep local law enforcement from touching him would be to claim he was an FBI informant, and have him registered as such.

That sort of thing could be uncovered by a goy sheriff like the one who is investigating the work release program. So I would look for this to be shut down very quickly – that is, for the feds to come in and take it over.

Almost all Jewish discourse can be construed as an attempt to avoid one haunting and essential truth: that the prejudice they have inspired throughout history is justified and is caused by their own behavior.

To this end, a fantastical conspiracy theory has been constructed, according to which anti-Jewish feeling has been inspired by cultural artefacts (“tropes”), which have somehow been exchanged by all the world’s peoples, speaking their various languages, living widely separated from one another, indeed scarcely often even aware of one another’s existence, and yet somehow able to mutually communicate these “misimpressions” of Jews and maintain them intact for thousands of years.

Only by cultivating an intense “Us vs. Them” mindset could such a maniacal distortion of reality be made to seem plausible.

Now and then, when a new financial scandal breaks, when another Holocaust hoaxer is exposed, when a particularly egregious example of Jewish hypocrisy comes to light, doubt will inevitably arise in the mind of the average Jew: could the goy possibly be right after all?

On these occasions, it is the role of Jewish thought leaders to step forth and deliver pep talks, reassuring their fellow Jews. “No, the goy aren’t right. They hate us for no reason. Disregard anything the goy think, feel or say. Have faith in your own Chosenness, my friends.”

Here we have one such screed on the occasion of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Jewish Daily Forward:

When I heard that Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested on sex-trafficking charges, I cringed. I’m sure I was not the only Jewish person who did, or whose first thought was, Why does this sorry excuse for a human have to be Jewish? And I probably also wasn’t the only Jewish person whose second thought was, Given that he is Jewish, why does he have to have such a Jewish-sounding name?

It’s a natural response to a people who have been hounded by anti-Semites, to cringe when one of our own behaves in such a horrifying manner. And of course, it didn’t take long for the anti-Semites to crawl out of their holes with the reactions that prompted mine.

I wonder

Did Jeffrey Epstein abuse any Jewish girls?

— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) July 8, 2019

It may be natural to fear the wrongdoing of our own not just for its moral ugliness but for the attacks against the rest of us that such wrongdoing will surely engender. But it’s also a fallacy.

As Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt once told me when I interviewed her about her book, Antisemitism: Here and Now, it doesn’t matter how Jews behave. Anti-Semitism is not based on anything rational. Rooted in a mythology of secret Jewish power, money, control, and dual loyalties, anti-Semitism and Jewish wrongdoing have little to do with each other.

We all cringe as Jews when one of our own, with such a Jewish-sounding name, turns out to be a horrible person (and it doesn’t get much more horrible than being a child rapist). But cringing over Jewish deplorables is at the end of the day something of a category error. It’s the wrongdoing, not the Jewishness, that should horrify us.

After all, anti-Semitism is a virus that does not depend on the behavior of actual Jews. They would hate us, anyway. Lipstadt compares anti-Semitism to herpes — “It’s disgusting, but it doesn’t go away. Come a moment of stress in society, come a moment of tension into someone’s life, it can pop up,” she said. Anti-Semitism is the herpes in society. “It keeps asserting itself at times of tension, at times of dislocation, and that’s one of the reasons we’re seeing it.”

They hate us when a Jew is successful in the public eye, and they hate us when a Jew is a villain in the public eye. It makes no difference.

This is why if Israel went away, or if Zionism had never existed to begin with, so-called “left-wing anti-Semitism” would still be around; it would simply have taken another form. Anti-Zionism is the excuse, the drawing-room and academic-conference respectability the anti-Semitism virus feeds upon. But it can always find something else.

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It’s natural to feel shame when one of our own turns out to be a villain, just as it’s natural to feel pride when one of our own is successful in politics, sports or entertainment. The thing is, that shame is playing by the anti-Semites’ rules. It’s assuming a collective responsibility for one man’s actions.

We can reverse engineer a Jewish success story to make it about their Jewish upbringing, but then we have to accept the other side of the coin: Is it his Jewishness that makes Epstein a horrible person? The anti-Semites will say yes (and they already have), but we don’t need to fall into the trap of claiming “Not all Jews.”

Many Jews are especially angry at their fellow Jews who are in the public eye for misdeeds. They are angry because they’re Jews, and so should have had a better understanding of what it means to act unethically. While understandable, it’s still playing by the anti-Semites’ rules.

Instead, condemn the man for his misdeeds, but leave the Jews out of it. Epstein isn’t going to contribute to anti-Semitism. If it wasn’t Epstein, it would be somebody else.

Cringe Over Epstein – but cringe over him as a fellow human, not as a Jew.