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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsdamn! J.B. Pritzker's cousin "Tom Pritzker is part of the Epstein class & is stepping down as Chairman of Hyatt."
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i love my governor and i hated hearing this--i don't want anything bad touching him
Billionaire Thomas Pritzker steps down as Hyatt executive chairman over Epstein ties
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In an email exchange from 2018, reported by several outlets, Epstein asked Pritzker to help arrange a trip to Asia for Karyna Shuliak, who was reportedly his girlfriend.
When Pritzker asked what she was going to do there, Shuliak responded, Going to try to find a new girlfriend for Jeffrey. Pritzker said, May the Force be with you, along with a smiley-face emoji.
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The Independent has reached out to JB Pritzkers office for comment about his cousin stepping down from the Hyatt board.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/thomas-pritzker-retires-hyatt-epstein-b2921587.html
bamagal62
(4,427 posts)Your family members.! Hopefully, JB had nothing to do with it.
mopinko
(73,484 posts)jb is pretty much the black sheep, so i wouldnt assume anything.
kwolf68
(8,356 posts)It doesn't matter, whoever is in this scandal needs to go down hard. TOO MANY innocent girls have been destroyed.
I am in disbelief that NO ONE among the "Epstein Class" ever said to themselves, "naa this is fucked up i can't do this and Im gonna tell."
These fucking oligarchs thought they were above the law = A real argument for a wealth tax.
Raven123
(7,688 posts)Someone steps down after getting caught in the Epstein scandal and the guy the Independent is in search of a comment from is his cousin? Is the reason this is a story is the fact that JB is a governor and the cousin of the guy in the files?
mopinko
(73,484 posts)they tried to screw him out of his inheritance, so i think its safe to assume theres family he has nothing to do with.
Ocelot II
(129,873 posts)Jimmy Carter also had a dodgy brother. So did Bill Clinton (some would say he's the dodgy brother), Dick Nixon (ditto), and George W. Bush (ditto). Whose family doesn't have a black sheep or two?
doc03
(38,964 posts)and just snowballed. I think if all of these CEOs
and political leaders from other countries keep
taking a hit some of them will start talking.
leftstreet
(39,667 posts)I was looking forward to our first billionaire POTUS candidate. Much less chance they'd get into office and be hauling out bags of cash
Wednesdays
(22,018 posts)leftstreet
(39,667 posts)But his primary opponents will use it against him
patphil
(8,879 posts)I don't believe they were all pedophiles, but they had to know that the man they were doing business with, and/or engaged with socially had a very dark side to his life.
These people see money and power as an end in its own right. Those who weren't on board with his abuse of young girls were probably casting a blind eye to Epstein's criminality as long as the money was good.
MerryBlooms
(12,200 posts)Fulfilled. Bring it all into the light! Enough!!Justice is screaming!!
MerryBlooms
(12,200 posts)PeaceWave
(2,907 posts)If Tom confided in J.B. and J.B. kept it quiet, then it's game over.
C0RI0LANUS
(3,017 posts)In a legal deposition, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused Thomas Pritzker of serious sexual allegations, naming him as one of several men she was trafficked to have sex with. In her book Nobody's Girl, Virginia wrote about "Billionaire One" and "Billionaire Two," but omitted their names out of fear for her mortal life and the lives of her family. Thomas Pritzker is one the wealthiest men on the planet and cousin to JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois.
Mega-oligarch Thomas Pritzker, who never worked a day in his life, inherited a massive fortune, attended the best schools, ate the finest foods, and traveled the world in First Class or Concorde. This good-for-nothing reprobate lavishes himself with a net worth of $3.1 billion dollars.
Below, the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was an underage sex slave for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. One of Virginia's last wishes was that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell never see the light of day again.
https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/15bdbf68a455e97cac236747719d8429?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=2531&cropW=3796&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=575