The Jeffrey Epstein-Vince
Foster Connection?
[Kenneth] Starr was also [Alexander] Acosta’s
mentor at the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis, a large law firm where
Acosta worked as a newly minted lawyer in the 1990s. A former prosecutor
suggested [Jeffrey] Epstein’s addition of Starr to his defense
team was key to Acosta’s decision to putting the kibosh on the federal
prosecution. “Acosta is pretending the failure to prosecute was routine,” the
former prosecutor told Newsweek, asking for anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the matter. “But that’s bullshit. What happened here was
completely and totally out of the main. Prosecutors wanted badly to prosecute
this guy because he was an unrepentant perpetrator and child molester who was
not going to stop absent significant incarceration. That Acosta overruled his
prosecutors and didn’t notify the victims cannot be justified.”
Referenced here is the
September 2007 sweetheart plea deal cut between federal prosecutor Acosta and Epstein’s
legal team. One would never know it from
the 2017 Newsweek article from which we have
taken the quote, but Starr’s primary task after being appointed as an
Independent Counsel in August of 1994, after Congressional reinstatement of the
Independent Counsel law which was not in effect when Special Counsel Robert
Fiske did his work, was to investigate the death of President Bill Clinton’s Deputy
White House Counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr.
It would take him over three years of foot-dragging, but in October of
1997 he would submit a report, put together primarily by his young staff
member, Brett Kavanaugh, later made a Supreme Court Justice by President Donald
Trump, that would put the stamp of approval on the original press story that
Foster committed suicide brought on by depression caused mainly by criticism
that he was receiving from the press (Would you believe?).
Returning to the story of that
amazing plea deal, despite (or because
of?) his performance in that first Epstein case, Trump nominated Acosta, and
the Senate approved him, as Trump’s first Secretary of Labor. When Epstein was rearrested and charged in
New York City in 2019, publicity over Acosta’s previous work on Epstein forced
him to resign his cabinet position.
There is quite strong, but
little-known, evidence that Starr’s connection to these two high-profile cases
involving questionable “suicides” is not a mere coincidence. What the two cases might well have in common
is high level pedophilia.
The primary evidence that
Vince Foster’s fairly obvious murder was in some way related to pedophilia is
provided in chapter 16 of my 2020 book, The Murder of Vince
Foster: America’s Would-Be Dreyfus Affair. A 2016 version of that chapter, with the same
title, “Was Vince Foster’s
Murder PizzaGate-Related?” can be found on my web
site. The key revelation in that article
is that one of the FBI’s primary investigators assigned to the Foster case was James
Clemente, primarily a specialist in pedophile cases, and that there is a cover
sheet of a document in the National Archives that reads at the top, “CHILD ABDUCTION AND SERIAL
KILLER UNIT,” which carries the title,
QUESTIONS FOR A
SUICIDE EXPERT
VINCENT FOSTER
DEATH INVESTIGATION
As we learn from the
chapter/article, the key Foster-case witness, Patrick Knowlton, met with
Clemente on “at least seven occasions,” but at no time was Knowlton aware of
Clemente’s background in pedophile-related matters.
The Common Israel
Connection
Something else that the
Epstein and Foster cases might well have in common is a connection to organized
Jewry and to Israel. When Acosta
announced his plea deal, he made mention of Epstein’s likely ties to “intelligence.” There are several reasons for people to
conclude that he was referring primarily to Israel’s intelligence agency, the
Mossad. The two perpetrators of the wholesale
abuse of minor females, Epstein and his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, are
Jewish. Maxwell’s late father, the
British media magnate, Robert Maxwell, was widely believed to be an agent of
the Mossad. The powerful Zionist American
business magnate, Les Wexner, was apparently Epstein’s primary source of
funding for his extremely opulent lifestyle, a front as a sort of investment genius
for what was little more than a high-level blackmail operation.
It was hardly the focus of our
Foster chapter/article, but it suggests that Israel
might also have been behind Foster’s death.
Consider this passage:
Perhaps our press kept the public innocent of knowledge of
Foster's not too distant connection to some very large shady activities to
prevent undue speculation about the reasons for his demise. [Jackson] Stephens,
it should be mentioned, is also a major contributor to political campaigns. A
similar figure with a connection to Foster is left out of the press's story
entirely. The Washington Post reported on July 30, 1993, that Foster had spent the weekend
before his death visiting, along with his wife and Associate Attorney General
Webster Hubbell and his wife on the Eastern Shore of Maryland at the home of
Michael and Harolyn Cardozo.
Actually, The
Post was probably aware but did not report that the host of that
gathering was Harolyn's father,
wealthy developer and Democratic Party official and major political
contributor, Nathan Landow. On January 26, 1978, The Post had
reported on a couple of investment ventures by Landow that
involved, in one case, a member of the Gambino family and in another a member
of the Meyer Lansky organization. The error by omission of The Post concerning
the true host of Vince Foster's last weekend, once again, kept speculation from
taking place, speculation that the people at The Post apparently
deemed to be unhealthy. By choosing in this way what it considers suitable for
public consumption, and when the unsuitable so often turns out to be
intimations of sweeping, very high-level corruption, by, in effect, ruling
whole areas of inquiry out of order, the press makes itself irrelevant to the
pursuit of the truth. Hardly any motivation for suicide was anywhere in
evidence, and by withholding vital information the press would simply not
permit any speculation on possible motivation for murder.
Landow, it almost goes without
saying, is Jewish, and that business connection to the major Israel-backing Jewish
gangster Meyer Lansky is certainly enough to raise eyebrows. Later Landow turns up in Bill Clinton’s
sordid world making overtures
to Kathleen Willey, a woman that Clinton allegedly hit on in the White
House, whose husband, Ed, turned up dead in the Virginia woods near his home
allegedly of a self-inflicted gunshot.
The ”Jackson Stephens”
referred to in the passage, was the owner of the Systematics software firm in Little
Rock, Arkansas, that both Foster and Hillary Clinton represented as
lawyers. Systematics was supposedly involved
in the theft of powerful PROMIS software program on behalf of the state of
Israel. In the article we quote the
allegation by former senior editor James Norman of Forbes magazine that
Foster’s death was an Israeli hit related to Israeli espionage. Evidence that
Starr’s investigation team was onto the Israeli connection can be found in this article about the interview of
Norman by Jim Quinn of Media Bypass magazine.
As a curiosity, early in the
Foster case, I saw a Washington Post editorial making light of “conspiracy
theories” related to Foster’s death.
Prominent among such theories, they said, was that he had been
assassinated by a Mossad “hit team.”
Working in Washington, DC, I had been quite active in looking into Foster’s
death, and that Post editorial was the first thing that I had ever heard
of any possible Israeli connection to it.
Then, in reference to a visit
to Fort Marcy Park, where Foster’s body had been discovered, that the witness Knowlton
made in the company of the FBI pedophile profiler Clemente, we have this
passage:
(A curious footnote to that Fort Marcy Park visit is that they
were closely followed by a van with a passenger in the front seat. The van parked near
them at the park and then followed them to the gas station, parking at the gas
pump while they parked near the tire inflation pump. Clemente seemed
unnerved by the presence of that van and even suggested to Knowlton that
Knowlton might be responsible for it, which Knowlton vigorously denied.)
Who, one might wonder, could
apparently intimidate and frighten members of America’s top law enforcement
agency in such a way?
The very important role in the
Foster-case cover-up played by the virtual lone critic of reporter and now CEO
of Newsmax and confidant of President Donald Trump, Christopher Ruddy, also
brings Israel into the picture. The
non-practicing son of an Irish Catholic Long Island policeman, we learn from Wikipedia that Ruddy,
a graduate of New York City’s St. John’s University, “early in his career” became
the editor-in-chief of the monthly conservative publication New York
Guardian. Its publisher was Herbert London, a Jewish
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a major figure in New York City
politics and American conservative politics.
Wikipedia also tells us that Ruddy attended Hebrew University in Israel as
an undergraduate at St. John’s, a very unusual thing for an American non-Jew to
do.
The following anecdote from my
2014 article, “Double
Agent Ruddy Reaching for Media Pinnacle,” is very telling, I think, when it
comes to the question of who Ruddy has been working for throughout his career
in the media:
Once I happened to make some rather routine critical comment about
Israel, and Ruddy’s sharp rejoinder in disagreement really surprised
me. He seemed to take what I was saying about Israel
personally. I recently ran across an observation by Professor
Kevin MacDonald that reminded me very much of how Ruddy reacted at that time: “I have encountered many liberal,
politically correct Jews who react vociferously (almost violently) to the most
innocuous comments about any topic related to Israel or Jews.”
Take out the liberal and politically correct part, and that was
Ruddy, though I’m not sure now about the need to remove the liberal part. There
really wasn’t any real point in taking issue with my offhand observation, it
seemed to me, and he definitely wanted to stay on my
good side, but it was like he couldn’t help himself. I just marked
Israel off as anything I could make small talk about with Ruddy, and we never
found anything further to disagree about that I can think of.
Looking at the big picture,
the headline of this 2019 online article says it all when it comes to what the
Foster and Epstein cases might well have in common, “’Stanley
Kubrick Said Pedophiles Run the World,’ Said Nicole Kidman.”
David Martin
July 20, 2025
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