Epstein orders sulphuric acid to his island

An invoice featured in the latest batch of Epstein files, reveals that Jeffrey ordered 330 gallons of concentrated sulphuric acid to be delivered to his paedophile island in 2018. The order was placed on the same day the FBI opened a new child-trafficking case against him:

Other documents in the latest US government release suggest that Epstein used sulphuric acid for water treatment. However, the acid has also notoriously been used by criminal gangs to dissolve bodies. Orders for large quantities of acid would, of course, need a pretext.

The US justice department (DOJ) has admitted that evidence is it still withholding includes footage of torture, rape and murder. Many victims of Epstein and his twisted circle have never been found. Files in the DOJ release even accuse Epstein and his guests of eating some victims.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    No no, I’m sure he was just running a car battery refurbishment business on the side, nothing to see here, he was innocent…

    My comment was satire, in case that wasn’t clearly obvious.

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        2 hours ago

        it is the actual, factual bone hurting juice. I’d say your fear is justified.

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      20 hours ago

      Hydrofluoric acid is both incredibly dangerous to work with, difficult to safely get in bulk, and rather unsuited for the purposes of body disposal. It can dissolve glass, but that doesn’t mean it dissolves things fast.

      Piranha solution, on the other hand, is just hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid, and it can turn a chicken drumstick into a black carbon slurry in the span of mere minutes, and if you keep adding peroxide, eventually the black color disappears as it turns into carbon dioxide.

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    Wouldn’t this just be stocking up on pool chemicals or something? I’m sure nefarious things were happening in the pool, but the chemicals themselves doesn’t feel newsworthy.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s used in desalination plants, which the island had.

      The “dispose of bodies” theory is dumb as sulpheric acid is damn near useless to disolve a body. Also, it’s an island: there’s a perfectly good ocean to dump a body in right there.

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        4 hours ago

        Desalination is a good explanation too. The point really, is that just ordering certain chemicals in bulk isn’t necessarily shady even if they sound scary.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      Wtf? No…this was sulfuric acid, and 330 GALLONS of it. How much CYANURIC acid do you think pools take? Did you not even read the article, or…?

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            That’s hard to say. It might be a few years’ supply for a large pool and due to the shipping costs it made more sense to get this amount. 330 gal isn’t all that much really (an Olympic sized pool is 660 000 gal for example). Some articles I’ve seen for this story use a tanker truck picture which is crazy misleading as it’s more like one of these tanks which I often see in multiples in the back of a 1-ton pickup.

            This isn’t like the P Diddy baby oil where it was a crazy weird amount with no other purpose than something freaky. The acid alone isn’t necessarily evidence of anything nefarious or newsworthy; people just watch breaking bad so think acid is only for dissolving bodies or something, and the news sites feed into that to get clicks. Just offering up calorie-free content instead of anything of actual substance.

            Now, if there was evidence they used the acid for something bad? Then that’s something.

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              I mean, my chlorine tablets keep chemicals pretty steady. The only time I’ve ever needed anything else was the one time I changed all the water, and that was like cups, so I can’t imagine even Olympic stadiums ever using that much.