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Jeffrey Epstein docs: 3rd batch includes allegations sex trafficker trolled nightclubs for underage girls
Story by Louis Casiano, Michael Ruiz
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Very good interview. Tucker was excellent. And the brother brave, articulate and smart.
Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
Tucker Announces Interview With Late Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced an upcoming interview Monday on his X, formerly Twitter, show with the brother of late financier and international human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“The U.S. government claims Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a federal detention facility in Manhattan four and a half years ago, just before his trial,” Carlson began. “If that’s true, why are there so few records available from that night?”
“Here’s Mark Epstein trying to get a copy of one of the most basic documents of all, the prehospital care report [PCR], written by the EMS team that moved his brother’s body out of the cell. We’ll be interviewing Mark Epstein soon,” Carlson announced.
In the following video footage, Epstein asks a local official for the paperwork, “But as of right now, you’re telling me you can’t find the PCR report.” The official answered, “Not for the 10th of August 2019. No, not in — it’s not in the fire department database. I don’t know why. If it’s supposed to be there, we’ll find out.”
A confusing back-and-forth between Epstein and the fire department official ensues, concluding with the brother of the infamous international criminal asking, “What the computer is saying is that it doesn’t have a record of this?” The official answered, “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Yes, and I don’t know why — what’s going on.”
Some odd coincidences surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 in a New York City jail led to widespread speculation that someone murdered him despite authorities ruling his death a suicide.
Guards were assigned to check on Epstein every thirty minutes after authorities found him injured in his cell a month earlier. They fell asleep for three hours the night he died and left him unsupervised. Meanwhile, not one but two cameras posted in front of Epstein’s cell failed that night— and the guards falsified records.
The unsealing in January of court records from a 2015 civil lawsuit, which previously redacted the names of Epstein associates — including former President Bill Clinton — has led to increased interest in the notorious human trafficker’s 2019 death.
You should see what they do to pedophiles in some countries
Ep. 59 Most people understand that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. But the attorney general of the United States helped cover up his murder? That’s a different thing entirely. Epstein’s brother Mark explains.
Ep. 59 Most people understand that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. But the attorney general of the United States helped cover up his murder? That’s a different thing entirely. Epstein’s brother Mark explains. pic.twitter.com/aP6EjURJmL
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 4, 2024
Bucky, I could hold my nose and go right along with that.
It's an affront to law abiding citizens that this has been covered up. And a great injustice to the abused girls.
It screams, "two tier justice system". The American royalty and the deplorables.
It undermines our faith in the system, which is tearing our nation apart.
I have a possibly unpopular opinion. If we could give Maxwell immunity to let the courts know exactly what happened and we got a lot of convictions I would be 100% ok with that.
I will always remember the public backlash in Toronto when Karla Holmolka was given a deal to give up info on her then Husband Paul Bernado of the rape torture kidnapping and eventually killing of two very young girls. The evidence she gave got them the goods on Bernado. They may never of convicted him otherwise and yes she got out of jail after a few years. and she was very complicit in the crimes and yes she should of rotted in hell for the rest of her life - NO QUESTION EVER. but I think she gave the cops the secret location of some tapes of the crime. Maybe that isnt the case.
Anyway, perhaps she never was offered a deal or was not interested. I am just thinking there really was a lot of rich and famous people raping young girls via the Epstien island and mansions. and every one of them should go to jail and none have and that isn't right.
Jeffrey Epstein Victim Claims He Wanted Girls to ‘Sleep Around Him’
By Marie Lodi for New YorkMagazine
NOV. 18, 2019
The scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes against underage girls remains unknown, months after the convicted sex offender died of an apparent suicide in his prison cell. However, his alleged victims have been providing more details about the abuse they endured at the hands of the disgraced financier. A new accuser, identified as Jane Doe 15, has filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate claiming that he sexually abused her when she was 15 years old.
Jane Doe 15 alleges that she met Epstein during a school field trip to New York City in 2004. She had spent a day with her sister, who lived in New York and already knew Epstein, NBC News reports. She was then flown on his private plane, along with other girls, to his New Mexico ranch. During the trip, Epstein allegedly gave her a tour of his jet, starting with the bedroom. “He told me to get down and feel the carpeted floors of the room. He then asked if I noticed anything special about the floor,” the woman said at a press conference on Monday, according to the New York Post. “I responded that it felt very soft. He laughed and said was because the floors in the bedroom were foam mattress floors, because he liked to have girls sleep around him on the floor while he slept in the bed.”
“Epstein’s description of the women sleeping around him on the floor made [the plaintiff] immediately think of slaves,” the lawsuit states. According to the complaint, Jane Doe 15 recognized one of the other girls on the flight as a model who had been on a magazine cover that same month, which made her her think, If she’s here, it must be ok.
Jane Doe 15 said that when Epstein raped her at his New Mexico ranch, he took her “sexual innocence in front of a wall of framed photographs of him shaking hands and smiling with celebrities and political leaders.” Afterward, she said, Epstein gave her $5,000 for college as well as several hundred dollars in cash, and invited her to stay at his home in Little St. James Island.
The woman, who wore a handmade beaded bracelet that said “Epstein didn’t kill himself,” also called out Prince Andrew for denying knowledge of Epstein’s crimes in his recent interview with the BBC. “It was clear from the time I spent with Epstein that something was very wrong with his lifestyle, and it didn’t take a victim to see that,” she said. “We were not hidden. It is upsetting to me to think that anyone who was closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein might argue that they didn’t suspect that he might have been sexually abusing children.”
Mother of Epstein victim celebrates release of more than 150 associate names
Dorothy Groenert said daughter, Carolyn Andriano, was just 14 when she was recruited to Epstein's mansion.
https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/mother-of-epstein-victim-celebrates-release-of-more-than-150-associate-names
Newsweek Jeffrey Epstein List—What Happens Next for People Listed?
Story by James Bickerton
The release of hundreds of pages of court documents, detailing dozens of former associates of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Wednesday is unlikely to lead to any fresh prosecutions, according to a prominent civil rights attorney.
The papers come from a lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's alleged victims, against his girlfriend and collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite. In December 2021 Maxwell was convicted of helping Epstein groom victims for sexual abuse and later sentenced to 20 years in prison. Epstein was found dead in his cell in August 2019 whilst awaiting trial for the alleged sex trafficking of minors, with a medical examiner concluding his death was a suicide by hanging.
In total nearly 90 names of Epstein's former friends, employees, associates and victims were included in the documents released on Wednesday, though four were redacted. Prominent figures referenced include former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, along with actors Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio, though there is no suggestion any of these were involved in any illegal activity.
Speaking to Newsweek, trial and civil rights attorney V. James DeSimone, founder of a law firm that bears his name, said the publication is unlikely to lead to fresh prosecutions though it could impact on public opinion.
He commented: "It is unlikely that additional criminal prosecutions will ensue based on the public releasing of these documents. Prosecutors have known about these documents for years and the public revelation of these names and additional details is unlikely to move the needle on the decision to prosecute others.
Related video: Victims' attorney celebrates expected publication of names linked to Jeffrey Epstein (WPTV West Palm Beach, FL)
We're, of course, talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
"Jeffrey Epstein is dead so he won't be offering testimony against his wealthy and powerful aiders and abettors and Ghislaine Maxwell has already accepted and is serving her 20-year sentence.
"The impact the document release will have will be in the court of public opinion especially if there is evidence linking prominent individuals with coerced sexual conduct as Virginia Giuffre alleged in her defamation lawsuit. And those named in the documents will also have to navigate the wrath of loved ones who were betrayed by this illicit conduct," DeSimone concluded.
Also listed in the filings is Prince Andrew, with one document describing a visit by the British royal to Epstein's private island. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's alleged victims who also features in the documents released on Wednesday, claims she was forced by the financier to have sex with the Duke of York aged just 17. She sued Andrew who settled out of court in 2022, agreeing to pay her an undisclosed sum widely believed to be in the millions, though without admitting any liability.
Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort features 13 times in the court documents, including an interview in which Maxwell denies ever having been a member, though admits she did visit the resort and is "pretty sure" she was there at some point during the year 2000. In the same year Giuffre is recorded as working at the club "as a locker room attendant for the spa area."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jeffrey-epstein-list-what-happens-next-for-people-listed/ar-AA1msc3a
Epstein tried to get girls for celebrity hairstylist, accuser says
Celebrity hairdresser Frederic Fekkai, middle, was one of nearly 200 names redacted in court documents related to a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/jeffery-epstein-documents-list?mode=app&dicbo=v2-Ehj9BEP
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg testified that she heard the financier call to find someone to try and find girls in Hawaii to send over to celebrity hairdresser Frédéric Fekkai.
Fakkai is one of nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The documents with the names were released Wednesday.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting underage girls for Epstein. She is appealing her conviction.
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Additional documents to be released in coming days
Dozens of court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were previously sealed were made public late Wednesday, and additional documents are expected in the coming days.
U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered 40 documents to be released on Wednesday, with around 250 total documents expected to be unsealed in the coming days. The initial batch largely mentioned figures whose names were already known, including high-profile friends of Epstein’s and his victims, who have already revealed themselves publicly.
Preska initially evaluated the documents to be unsealed in December, saying then that she was ordering the records released because much of the information within them is already public.
The judge has not set a target for when all of the documents should be made public, but more are within the next few days.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN LIST: COURT UNSEALS NAMES IN GHISLAINE MAXWELL LAWSUIT
The documents being unsealed are part of a 2015 lawsuit filed against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims who is among dozens of women who sued him for abuse.
Their contents concern Epstein, who was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with sex trafficking in 2019. He killed himself in a jail cell while awaiting trial.
They also concern Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 of helping recruit his underage victims. She is serving a 20-year prison term.
The Associated Press contributed to this update.
Newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents include big names but few new details
Story by Tom Winter and Adam Reiss and Sarah Fitzpatrick and Phil Helsel and Erik Ortiz and Laura Jarrett for NBC NEWS
Jan 4, 2024
The first batch of documents unsealed in a settled lawsuit involving the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released Wednesday evening — containing important names but little in the way of new information.
While the forty exhibits — hundreds of pages — released Wednesday night by a federal court in New York City include the names of former U.S. presidents, a member of the British royalty and other high-profile figures, most have previously been reported. But, it's likely only the first stage of the public revealing of documents expected to make public the names of more than 150 people. The rest are expected on a rolling basis, a spokesman for the court said.
They are part of the civil defamation lawsuit first filed in 2015 against British socialite and Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who said she was a victim of sex trafficking and abuse. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
According to a transcript of her deposition, Giuffre said at different times she was directed to have sex with Prince Andrew; another prince; and the unnamed owner of a large hotel chain; and Glenn Dubin, a billionaire hedge fund manager.
A request for a response from Prince Andrew was not immediately returned Wednesday night, but Andrew has strenuously denied the claim previously. A spokesperson for Dubin in 2019 and again Wednesday said they "strongly deny these allegations," and called them unsubstantiated statements.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump also were mentioned in depositions by Maxwell and one of the girls she hired for Epstein, although neither contains allegations of wrongdoing.
In a 2016 deposition from the woman who said she was hired by Maxwell and took a photo with Prince Andrew in which he placed his hand on her chest, Johanna Sjoberg said Epstein once spoke about former President Bill Clinton, who is not accused of wrongdoing.
“He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,” the deposition reads. There is no mention of wrongdoing in that document, and the questioning moves on. Sjoberg said she had never met Clinton and never saw him on Epstein’s island.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for Clinton referred to a statement from 2019 that said the former president had not spoken to Epstein in over a decade and was unaware of any criminal activity at that time.
Trump's name also appears in the deposition by Sjoberg, which contains no allegations of wrongdoing.
She recounted that when Epstein’s plane would have to land in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “Jeffrey said, Great, we’ll call up Trump” and go to a casino, she said in her deposition. Sjoberg also said she never gave Trump a massage.
Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday but has previously said he hadn’t been in touch with Epstein for 15 years before his death.
The depositions allege that Epstein, who had a private plane and island in the Caribbean, among other properties, was associated with powerful people in politics, and even royalty; referring to two princes.
Clinton flew on the millionaire financier’s planes numerous times, flight records made public in 2019 show.
In a deposition, Maxwell said that Clinton had dined on Epstein’s plane, but Maxwell denied he ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean Island, Little St. James. She said allegations that Clinton had had a meal on Epstein’s island were “100% false.”
Trump was also found to have flown on one of Epstein’s planes at least once, and video emerged in July 2019 of Epstein and Trump partying together at Trump’s Florida mansion in the early 1990s.
In 2019, Trump said he hadn’t communicated with Epstein in 15 years and was “not a fan of his.”
In the newly unredacted filings, attorneys for Giuffre reveal that at some point during his deposition, Epstein invoked his Fifth Amendment right rather than answer a question about his former attorney Alan Dershowitz. It is not known what question prompted that response from Epstein.
Dershowitz has strenuously denied any involvement with underage girls and has said he was looking forward to the document release to help clear his name.
In her deposition, Sjoberg said she’d also met singer Michael Jackson at Epstein’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, but did not massage him. She also said she met magician David Copperfield at a dinner at Epstein’s. She recounted how there was another woman at dinner who looked very young and wondered if it was possible she was in high school, according to the documents.
Sjoberg said Copperfield did magic tricks at the dinner, and “he questioned me if I was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls,” the deposition reads. Asked if Copperfield described any specifics of that, Sjoberg said no.
Copperfield did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday night.
Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, as he faced serious federal charges. Since then there, have been public conspiracy theories about the case and those he interacted with.
“The public interest must still be served in learning more about the scale and scope of Epstein’s racket to further the important goal of shutting down sex trafficking wherever it exists and holding more to account,” Giuffre’s attorney, Sigrid McCawley, said Wednesday evening. “The unsealing of these documents gets us closer to that goal.”
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska last month ordered the materials to be released after Jan. 1. However, the judge delayed whether to release documents associated with those who have objected to the disclosure of their names until a later date, the spokesman said.
In one case, an attorney for J. Doe 107 asked Preska for clarification on Dec. 20 of whether the name of his client would be unsealed. The attorney said his client lives in a “culturally conservative country” outside of the United States and is “in fear of her name being released.” Preska asked for information supporting her claim.
Epstein was facing multiple sex trafficking charges when he hanged himself in a federal jail in New York in August 2019, as a trove of incriminating material had just been unsealed in court.
A Department of Justice report last June uncovered a cascade of misconduct, negligence and errors by Metropolitan Correctional Center employees that created the conditions allowing Epstein, 66, to take his own life, and found no evidence to contradict the official conclusion that he died by suicide.
The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death had propelled a slew of online conspiracy theories, some amplified by conservative commentators and prominent Republican officials, including Trump.
Giuffre alleged that Epstein sexually abused her and that Maxwell and Epstein directed her to have sex with other men from 2000 to 2002, starting when she was 17. The case, which Giuffre brought after Maxwell accused her of lying when she said Maxwell and Epstein had exploited and abused her, was eventually settled out of court in 2017.
An email contained in the documents released Wednesday appeared to show Epstein in January 2015 telling Maxwell to offer "a reward" to any of Giuffre's friends or acquaintances who could help disprove Giuffre’s allegations.
In 2022, Giuffre also settled a high-profile lawsuit out of court against Britain’s Prince Andrew. Andrew has denied the allegations and has said he has no recollection of ever having met Giuffre.
A year after Epstein’s death, Maxwell, the daughter of late British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, was arrested on charges connecting her with the recruitment of teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein. At trial, Maxwell’s accusers provided graphic accounts of how they say she “groomed” them to have sex with Epstein or pressured them into massages, in which she sometimes groped them herself. She was convicted of five federal sex trafficking charges and sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years behind bars.
Maxwell, now 62, is in a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, and filed an appeal of the verdict, claiming prosecutors used her as a scapegoat.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
I set up this board because I immediately knew this was broad and almost without end. There are just so many aspects to it. From depraved human behavior, to evidence of a two-tier justice system, to misplaced trust in our leaders, to ruthless cover ups,
I could have been posting on this subject every single day, a full time occupation.
Well, let's see if we can get at a little truth here...
Sure enough. I just came to deposit an early report of the documents released and saw your post. Great minds think alike!
hum might be time to fire this board up
Jesse Watters: The FBI is sitting on 'troves' of Epstein evidence
Fox News host Jesse Watters raises questions on Jeffrey Epstein's death as new evidence exposes more horrors, calling it 'one of the biggest scandals in America politics' on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317311875112
Feds release report on suspicious 2019 death of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein linked to global titans
https://www.foxnews.com/us/feds-release-report-suspicious-2019-death-sex-trafficker-jeffrey-epstein-linked-global-titans
JPMorgan Execs Joked About Convicted Perv Jeffrey Epstein & A Then 16-Year-Old Miley Cyrus: Lawsuit
Story by Douglas Montero • 8h ago
Explosive new emails show JPMorgan bank execs allegedly knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in underage girls — and callously joked about seeing him with a then 16-year-old pop tart Miley Cyrus, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The shocking revelation was laid bare in an amended lawsuit filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), accusing the banking giant and Deutsche Bank of turning a blind eye to Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation and allowing him to pay off reported victims and lackeys through various shell companies.
USVI charges executives Jes Staley, the head of private banking, and Mary Erdoes kept Epstein as a client from 1998 to 2013 — even though the billionaire creep served 15 months in the Palm Beach, Florida, county jail for soliciting underage girls in 2008.
“Indeed, Epstein’s behavior was so widely known at JPMorgan that senior executives joked about Epstein’s interest in young girls,” stated the lawsuit which was amended to include the allegation JPMorgan obstructed a federal investigation into the alleged trafficking scheme by failing to report the suspicious activity. (con't)
Jesse Watters: The FBI is sitting on 'troves' of Epstein evidence
Jesse Watters Primetime
December 15, 2022
Jesse Watters: The FBI is sitting on 'troves' of Epstein evidence
Fox News host Jesse Watters raises questions on Jeffrey Epstein's death as new evidence exposes more horrors, calling it 'one of the biggest scandals in America politics' on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317311875112
OPINION Published January 25, 2023 10:00pm EST
TUCKER CARLSON: A look into the strange circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein's death
Despite officials saying Epstein committed suicide, many are not buying it
Tucker Carlson By Tucker Carlson | Fox News
Tucker: No one wants to talk about what happened to Jeffrey Epstein
Fox News host Tucker Carlson analyzes Jeffrey Epstein's death on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
On Saturday morning, Aug. 10, 2019, Attorney General William Barr was working in his home office when his chief of staff called to say that Jeffrey Epstein had just been found dead in his cell in New York City. Barr was shocked and upset to hear this. His first reaction, as he recounts it in his memoir, was to worry that some people in America might not buy the idea that Jeffrey Epstein had killed himself.
"No one's going to believe it was a suicide," Barr fretted to his chief of staff. "There will be conspiracy theories all over the place." Now, that's a pretty odd response, if you think about it. At the time, there was no way that Bill Barr could have known for sure how Jeffrey Epstein died. So, you would think as the attorney general, his first concern would be finding out what actually happened, but instead, his first concern was worry that the public might jump to unapproved conclusions about what happened and, in some ways, Bill Barr was right to worry.
Many Americans did not believe that Jeffrey Epstein had killed himself, given the strange circumstances of his death, stranger than even most people understood at the time, it was going to take a sustained public relations campaign to convince Americans that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, but Bill Barr was willing to make the effort. Two days later, he flew to New Orleans, gave a speech and said this.
BILL BARR: I was appalled and indeed, the whole department was, and frankly angry to learn of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner. We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation. The FBI and the Office of Inspector General are doing just that. We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability.
GEORGE SANTOS CLAIMS IN 2020 INTERVIEW THAT HE MET JEFFREY EPSTEIN, ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKER WAS 'MURDERED'
What do we already know about Jeffrey Epstein's death?Video
So, the country is skeptical and concerned. Bill Barr is skeptical and concerned. We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability, he promised that day, but that turned out to be untrue. Three-and-a-half years after Jeffrey Epstein died, no one has gotten to the bottom of what happened that day, and there has been no accountability for it.
The only people ever punished for the grotesque malfeasance surrounding Epstein's death were two low-level guards who fell asleep on duty that night. Both pleaded guilty to falsifying government records, but last year, with no real explanation, an Obama-appointed judge dropped all charges against both of them. One of the guards may still work for the federal government. As for getting to the bottom of what happened, despite many promises from many various officials, neither the FBI nor the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General has ever issued a report explaining how Jeffrey Epstein died. Not a word.
So, once again, three-and-a-half years after one of the most widely covered deaths of our time, there are still no answers and there is still no accountability. Why is that? Well, many reasons, probably, but one of them is that Washington veteran Bill Barr, the only man in the modern era to serve as attorney general twice declared, the Epstein case closed. Now, at first blush, Barr seems to have good reason for doing that. "By the end of 2019," Barr writes in his memoir, "I was confident that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging himself." Now, why did Bill Barr believe that? Well, the first piece of evidence he offers up is this: "The New York City medical examiner had conducted an autopsy and ruled that Epstein killed himself by hanging." That's the first piece of evidence. The second is this. It's a videotape that "confirmed the medical examiner's findings."
"I personally reviewed that video footage," Barr writes. "It shows conclusively that between the time Epstein was locked in a cell at 7:49 p.m. on the night of Aug. 9 and the time he was discovered the next morning at 6:30, no one entered his tier." Therefore, Bill Barr explained, we can know for sure that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. In his book, Barr ends this section on Epstein with a self-congratulatory note. "The management changes I made at the time (to the federal prison system) were good ones, and I think the agency is slowly on its way back."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS TO BE UNSEALED, POTENTIALLY REVEALING ACQUAINTANCES, JUDGE ORDERS
In other words, everything is fine now. Let's move on. This was enough for most journalists in Washington. Virtually every subsequent news story about Jeffrey Epstein's death denounced skeptics of the official story as crazy, who, for whatever reason, were engaged in "baseless conspiracy theories." What's amazing in retrospect is that none of these reporters, veterans at The Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC News, The New York Times, many others, none of them ever thought to revisit Bill Barr's assessment of Epstein's death and measure it against the basic tenets of common sense.
If you did that, you saw that what Bill Barr said about Jeffrey Epstein was transparently absurd and very obviously dishonest. Barr began by claiming that the medical examiner who conducted Epstein's autopsy ruled his death a suicide, but that is not true. The initial cause of death following the autopsy was not suicide, but "pending," which is to say unclear. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy could not say how Jeffrey Epstein died. Forensic pathologist Michael Baden, who was also present that day, came away believing Epstein had been murdered. After reviewing more than a thousand suicides by hanging in New York state, Baden later said he couldn't find a single neck injury, not one, that matched the injury that Epstein sustained.
Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself, Baden concluded, he was strangled. The physical evidence he saw at the autopsy made that obvious, but New York City's chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, who was not present at the autopsy, overruled the judgment of those who were. Days later, on the basis of no new evidence or investigation, Barbara Sampson simply declared Jeffrey Epstein's death a suicide. That was the city's official but totally unsupported conclusion, which Bill Barr and many others promptly repeated. Why did chief medical examiner Barbara Sampson do that? We don't know. We called Sampson to ask her, but she hung up on us. Then, there's the question of the videotape, which Barr cited. Both cameras trained on the door of Jeffrey Epstein's cell did not work that night famously and to this day, no one has explained why they didn't work. So, the video footage that Bill Barr said he watched didn't cover Epstein's cell, just the entrance to the larger cellblock.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL SAYS SHE BELIEVES JEFFREY EPSTEIN WAS 'MURDERED' IN POST-CONVICTION PRISON INTERVIEW: REPORT
No one came in or out of the tier, Barr said. Therefore, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. So, let's consider that claim rationally. On the night of Aug. 9, Jeffrey Epstein was being held in the special housing unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, the most secure part of the city's federal lockup. It would be physically impossible for a stranger to get in and out of this facility without an electronic pass and without being seen by the countless cameras in place between the street and the locked ninth floor of the building. So, if Jeffrey Epstein was murdered, he was not murdered by an intruder, someone who came into the tier, he was murdered by someone on his own cellblock, obviously.
There were seven other cells on Epstein's tier and each one housed dangerous criminals. So, if you were looking for a killer, you would figure out who was in those cells, but no one seems to have thought of that or done it. The Bureau of Prisons refused to provide us with a list of the inmates on Epstein's tier. It's not clear how many of them were even interviewed by investigators, despite the fact that some of them were transferred out of the facility shortly after Epstein's death. That's a baffling oversight. Instead, Attorney General Bill Barr simply assured the country that no one from outside came into Jeffrey Epstein's tier and declared the case solved and if you think about it, that is a remarkable way to assess a potential crime scene, especially when you consider the source.
Bill Barr was not a civilian or a crime novel aficionado. He was the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. He was the nation's top cop. His job was to solve crimes and yet, somehow, with all his law enforcement experience, it never seemed to dawn on Bill Barr that if there was a killer, the killer would have come from one of the cells on Epstein's tier and then further, apparently, no one in the entire FBI suggested this to Bill Barr as they reviewed the case.
Excuse me, Mr. Attorney General, it doesn't matter what the camera outside the tier shows. What matters is what happened inside the tier. Again, obvious and yet, apparently no one at DOJ ever said that to Bill Barr and no one in the media noticed. It's all very strange and the story gets much stranger once you start pressing a little bit. We've pressed pretty hard for the last few days on this question, not because we have any special affection for Jeffrey Epstein. We've pressed because you don't want to live in a country where it's possible to murder people in federal lockup, cover up the killings, and then get away with them. That's scary.
CALIFORNIA MURDERER SCOTT FORREST COLLINS REMOVED FROM DEATH ROW IN SEPTEMBER DIES IN PRISON
That should not be allowed in this or any other civilized place, but in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, it appears that it was allowed and on one level, you can see why it was. This is one of those crimes that has no natural constituency pushing to solve it. The only people who liked Jeffrey Epstein were his friends, and some of them are clearly happy he's dead. Here's Bill Gates, whom records show spent quite a bit of time with Jeffrey Epstein after he became a registered sex offender.
REPORTER: What did you do when you found out about his background?
BILL GATES: Well, you know, I said I regretted having those dinners and there's nothing, absolutely nothing new on that.
REPORTER: Is there a lesson for you, for anyone else looking at this?
GATES: Well, he's dead. So, you know, in general, you always have to be careful.
"Well, he's dead, along with his many secrets about me and the rest of our friends." Oh, we're so sorry. So, so sorry. You can imagine that Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew and many, many others feel the same way. No one wants to talk about what happened to Jeffrey Epstein, because privately, a lot of people are happy about what happened to Jeffrey Epstein. This week, we've called virtually every person involved in the story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death and with very few exceptions, none of them would speak to us. Some of them hung up immediately. Others declined all comment.
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One of them, the DOJ case officer supposedly assigned to investigate Epstein's death, refused even to acknowledge that he worked for the federal government. "I'm not going to confirm or deny that," said Mr. Lyeson Daniel when we reached him on his cell phone. "Why is that?" We asked him. "I'm not going to confirm or deny that," he repeated. For his part, former Attorney General Bill Barr also turned down an offer to come on tonight. He did not explain why. One person we did speak to at length is Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark, his only living relative. The two were never in business together, but Mark Epstein wound up more financially successful, even than his famous sibling. So, he's not looking for money from the estate. He is interested in finding out what happened to his brother.
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On the basis of those conversations with Mark Epstein, as well as with a criminal defense attorney called David Schoen, who also knew Jeffrey Epstein well and met with him in a cell shortly before he died, here is a list of questions that any honest investigator would want the answers to. First, why do so many public officials persist in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein attempted suicide in prison once before on July 23, 2019? Now, that's a very convenient claim if you're trying to convince people that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, but there's no evidence that it's true.
In fact, Jeffrey Epstein himself adamantly denied ever trying to kill himself in prison or out. He denied this to his friends, to his lawyers and to prison psychologists. He said instead that he was injured by another inmate. That's why he was in the fetal position on the ground. According to David Schoen, who talked to him shortly after that event, Epstein seemed upbeat, happy and confident of his release from jail, but he was very concerned about being hurt by someone in a nearby cell and speaking of nearby cells, were the cells on Epstein's tier locked for the entire night, the night he was killed? We've heard from a source that they were not locked, that inmates were able to move from one cell to another, including into Jeffrey Epstein's cell. Can the Bureau of Prisons give us clarity on this? Can they prove otherwise? And by the way, who moved Jeffrey Epstein's body and who gave the order to do that?
Epstein was discovered the morning of Aug. 10 by a part-time prison guard called Michael Thomas, who amazingly was the very same guard who discovered him in the fetal position on the floor after his previous falsely reported suicide attempt, but by the time the EMTs arrived, Epstein's body had been moved to the prison infirmary. That's a clear violation of federal policy. Who ordered that? And though Jeffrey Epstein had been dead for at least two hours when the guard found him in his cell, by the time the EMTs arrived, Epstein was clad in a hospital gown. That means that somebody, for some reason, cut away Jeffrey Epstein's prison uniform and redressed his stiffening corpse in new clothes. Why would anyone do that?
Then to make it even stranger, Jeffrey Epstein's corpse was intubated, air was blown into his lifeless lungs. It's not clear why. Now, there was handheld video of all of this happening. That might explain it, but that video has never been released. In fact, authorities will not even acknowledge that it exists, but it does exist. Nor has the EMT's account of what they saw that day, their mandatory, so-called prehospital care report, ever been released, nor most strikingly of all, are there photographs of Jeffrey Epstein dead in his cell, and that means it's impossible to know the position of his body when it was found or how he died.
Was Jeffrey Epstein hanging from a bedsheet, as the authorities insist? They say he was strangled by a ligature of his own making. His neck was bloody, but the strip of sheet was not. Or was he killed with the electrical cord from his C-PAP machine for sleep apnea? That's what Dr. Baden concluded, because that would be consistent with his actual injuries at autopsy. These are very basic questions. These are not conspiracy theories. They're obvious questions. They are the essential questions, in fact, in any legitimate investigation, but apparently nobody has even tried to answer them.
We dutifully called the Department of Justice today to ask them to explain some of this. They refused on the grounds that there's "an active investigation in progress," but that is a lie. There is no investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death. For moving on four years now, there has never been an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death, the death of an American citizen. Now, we can only speculate as to why that is, but all the explanations are bad and ominous. Maybe someone in the new Republican Congress should look into all of this, not because Jeffrey Epstein was an American hero, but because for once it would be nice to see the federal government forced to tell the truth about something.
Tucker Carlson currently serves as the host of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (weekdays 8PM/ET). He joined the network in 2009 as a contributor.
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Dr. Baden on Ghislaine Maxwell's claim Jeffrey Epstein was murdered: 'Strangulation' was more likely
NYC medical examiner ruled Epstein committed suicide in Manhattan prison
By Elizabeth Heckman | Fox News
What do we already know about Jeffrey Epstein's death?
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden makes the case that Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy points to murder on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
Forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden addressed claims made in a jailhouse interview by convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who believes that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in prison.
Baden, who was hired by Epstein's brother to investigate his 2019 death and observed the autopsy, joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss why evidence shows strangulation was "more likely" than suicide.
"There were three fractures in the windpipe that are much more typical of crush injury from homicidal strangulation than from hanging," Baden told host Carlson
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida federal prison for her role in Epstein's abuse of young girls, told British broadcaster Jeremy Kyle Monday she was "shocked" by his death.
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"I believe that he was murdered," Maxwell said in a jailhouse interview with Britain's TalkTV. "I was shocked. Then I wondered how it had happened."
Baden also noted "hemorrhages in the eyes" which are "more typical" of homicide and said the "ligature imprint" on Epstein's neck did not match the sheet found in his jail cell.
"I thought that made it more likely that this was a homicide than a suicide. But we never got to find out how the body was found," Baden said.
"He was dead for a few hours before he was found. And the two guards never made a statement that was released as to how the body was found, that the body was just cut down and brought out to a hospital where he was pronounced dead."
Why hasn't Jeffrey Epstein's client list been released yet?
In August 2019, New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson ruled the disgraced billionaire’s cause of death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan to be a suicide by hanging.
Elizabeth Heckman is a digital production assistant with Fox News.
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The New York Times Jeffrey Epstein Victim Says She May Have Made a Mistake in Accusing Dershowitz
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Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey E. Epstein who for years maintained that the law professor Alan Dershowitz had sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, settled a defamation lawsuit against Mr. Dershowitz on Tuesday and said that she might have “made a mistake” in accusing him.
Alan Dershowitz said Virginia Giuffre was brave to acknowledge that she might have been mistaken.
In a joint statement announcing the settlement, Ms. Giuffre said, “I have long believed that I was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to Alan Dershowitz. However, I was very young at the time, it was a very stressful and traumatic environment, and Mr. Dershowitz has from the beginning consistently denied these allegations.
“I now recognize I may have made a mistake in identifying Mr. Dershowitz,” her statement said.
The joint statement announced the end of litigation between Ms. Giuffre and Mr. Dershowitz — who had also sued her — as well as of two other lawsuits between Mr. Dershowitz and the lawyer David Boies that stemmed from Ms. Giuffre’s accusation.
Ms. Giuffre had sued Mr. Dershowitz on the grounds that he had made defamatory statements about her after her accusation. Her lawyer would not comment on the statement but confirmed that the settlement had been reached. A document confirming that Ms. Giuffre had agreed to dismiss her case was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon.
“She has suffered much at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, and I commend her work combating the evil of sex trafficking,” Mr. Dershowitz said of Ms. Giuffre in his own statement.
And Mr. Boies, who has represented Ms. Giuffre, though not in this matter, said that “the time has come to end this litigation” and that Mr. Dershowitz “has suffered greatly from the allegation of sexual abuse made against him — an allegation that he has consistently and vehemently denied.”
The terms of Ms. Giuffre’s deal with Mr. Dershowitz were not immediately clear on Tuesday, though the statement and the court filing said that no payments were made by any of the parties.
The settlement of the defamation lawsuit, which was filed in 2019, and Ms. Giuffre’s accompanying statement represented a remarkable turnabout for Mr. Dershowitz, who has been trying to resuscitate his reputation since Ms. Giuffre first made her claim publicly in 2014. Her accusations against Mr. Epstein have been corroborated.
Ghislaine Maxwell says meeting Jeffrey Epstein was "greatest mistake of my life"
A longtime friend of Mr. Epstein, Mr. Dershowitz defended the financier after he was first arrested and charged with sex trafficking, attacking his client’s young accusers, and in 2008, helped to win a lenient plea deal for Mr. Epstein. After pleading guilty to two prostitution charges in state court, Mr. Epstein served about a year in a Florida jail, leaving confinement six days a week to work out of his office.
The plea deal was far from the end of the matter. It led to more litigation, including a 2014 lawsuit that sought to have the deal thrown out for violating a federal law that required that non-prosecution agreements be shared with the victims of crimes. (A federal judge later determined that prosecutors had broken the law by not sharing the agreement.)
Besides Alan Dershowitz, Virginia Giuffre also sued Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew.
As part of that lawsuit, Ms. Giuffre first publicly detailed her accusation of Mr. Dershowitz, saying that he had sex with her when she was underage. Her claim prompted furious denials from the lawyer, who until then had been known for high-profile defenses of O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mike Tyson and others.
The murmurs about Mr. Epstein continued, spurred by reporting from The Miami Herald and new attention prompted by the #MeToo movement. In 2019, federal prosecutors in New York revived the case against him, charging him with sex trafficking. Before he could be tried, Mr. Epstein committed suicide in August 2019.
By then, Ms. Giuffre’s name had become widely known. In the months after Mr. Epstein was charged, a trove of sealed legal documents related to a defamation lawsuit that Ms. Giuffre filed against Ghislaine Maxwell became public. Ms. Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, was later convicted of child sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Ms. Giuffre also sued another associate of Mr. Epstein, Prince Andrew of the British royal family, whom she accused of raping her when she was a teenager. That lawsuit was settled in February. Prince Andrew did not admit guilt; he released a statement saying that he “regrets his association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Ms. Giuffre and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.”
Before Mr. Epstein’s 2019 death in a Manhattan jail cell, Ms. Giuffre sued him too, receiving $500,000 in a settlement.
The deal ended both pairs of lawsuits: Ms. Giuffre’s defamation suit against Mr. Dershowitz; Mr. Dershowitz’s defamation lawsuit against Ms. Giuffre; Mr. Boies’s defamation lawsuit against Mr. Dershowitz, filed in 2019; and Mr. Dershowitz’s countersuit against Mr. Boies, filed early the following year.
The suits between Mr. Boies and Mr. Dershowitz were related to Ms. Giuffre’s accusations. Mr. Boies sued Mr. Dershowitz for saying that Mr. Boies had manufactured the allegations as part of a plot to extort money from the billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose finances were managed by Mr. Epstein. Mr. Dershowitz reiterated those accusations in his January 2021 lawsuit.
Those suits were moving ahead, with Mr. Boies questioning Mr. Dershowitz under oath in late September in a session that Mr. Dershowitz cut off abruptly, citing health concerns.
In a follow-up interview, Mr. Boies said that while he stood by his statement about Mr. Dershowitz, “My accusations against him stand unretracted, and his allegations against me are now retracted.”
Mr. Dershowitz has long been a legal celebrity. He first entered the spotlight when, at 28, he became the youngest professor ever to work at Harvard Law School.
His profile grew in tandem with his famous clients, and he appeared in coverage of the trial of Patricia Hearst, a kidnapped heiress, and Mr. Von Bülow. The Danish-born socialite was convicted of having tried to murder his wife but appealed successfully with Mr. Dershowitz’s help. Mr. Dershowitz’s 1985 book about the case, “Reversal of Fortune,” contributed to his growing fame.
In most circumstances, Mr. Dershowitz welcomed public conflict; a champion of Israel, he appeared at public debates on the country’s politics and relished the (often negative) attention that came with representation of his famous clients.
But Ms. Giuffre’s accusation, though it was never proven and no criminal charges ever arose from it, was related to Mr. Dershowitz’s private life rather than his work.
After Ms. Giuffre first made her accusation public, in the 2014 lawsuit, Mr. Dershowitz told The Times that he regretted taking Mr. Epstein’s case “in light of everything that has happened.”
How the Epstein saga could've been ended years ago: To his first prosecutors, victims were prostitutes
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/11/20/jeffrey-epstein-saga-couldve-been-ended-attorney-barry-krischer/4237757002/
Barclays (BCS) CEO Jes Staley has agreed to step down after a U.K. watchdog investigation into his business dealings with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Current head of global markets, C.S. Venkatakrishnan, is taking over as CEO, effective immediately, subject to regulatory approval. Barclays said the probe did not find that Staley "saw, or was aware of," any of Epstein's alleged crimes. (CNBC)
Epstein guards admit to falsifying records, will skirt jail time in deal with prosecutors
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Ghislaine Maxwell's brother insists she should be treated as 'presumed innocent
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By JAMES HILL ABC News
The brother of Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged co-conspirator of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said his sister is being subjected to what he claims is "monstrous" treatment in a federal detention center where she awaits trial on charges of aiding Epstein's abuse of underage girls.
"It's a really ghastly experience. She's lost 20 pounds, she's losing her hair, she can't concentrate," Ian Maxwell, 64, told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive television interview. "She has a flashlight shone in her cell every 15 minutes during the night. So, she has no sleep of any real quality," he said.
Ian Maxwell's comments come as his youngest sister awaits a federal judge's decision on her third attempt to be granted bail ahead of her July trial.
The previous two attempts were rejected after the court deemed Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, a flight risk because of the seriousness of the charges, her substantial wealth and international ties.
Her latest proposal for pre-trial release, which prosecutors and the alleged victims oppose, includes an offer to place her assets of more than $20 million under the control of a monitor and to renounce her citizenship in France, where she was born, and in England, where she was raised.
"Ghislaine is an American," her brother said. "She's never been a flight risk. In the year or so between when Epstein died and when she was arrested, she was in the United States all the time. She was not running away from law enforcement."
Upon Epstein's arrest in July 2019, prosecutors vowed to continue investigating his alleged co-conspirators. After his death in prison a month later, the attention of the authorities, alleged victims and the media quickly focused on Ghislaine Maxwell, who was once a fixture on the social scene in New York with a rolodex of the rich, powerful, and politically connected. She has also faced civil lawsuits, both before and after Epstein's arrest, from alleged victims of Epstein who accused her of facilitating their abuse -- allegations she has long denied.
She retreated from public life after Epstein's death, in an effort, her brother said, to protect her family from what he called a "lynch mob" mentality in the media.
"The real problem is that the media frenzy about her, which had shifted from Epstein onto her, drove her absolutely mad," he said. "She's married, has a husband. And she has two stepchildren. And she couldn't allow the terrible frenzy of the media to be brought down on their heads."
Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested last July in an FBI raid of a secluded New Hampshire estate where she had been living for several months. An FBI agent said at a news conference announcing her arrest that the government had been "discreetly keeping tabs" on her whereabouts throughout their year-long investigation.
Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with facilitating and, in some cases, participating in Epstein's alleged sexual crimes against three unnamed minor girls in the mid-1990s.
Authorities allege that she groomed the victims, befriended them and put them at ease, knowing that Epstein intended to sexually abuse them.
She has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, which also include two counts of perjury.
At her initial court hearing last July, one of the three accusers, Annie Farmer, now 41, spoke publicly via video conference and implored the judge to keep Ghislaine Maxwell detained until trial.
"She has never shown any remorse for her heinous crimes, for the devastating, lasting effects her actions caused. Instead, she has lied under oath and tormented her survivors," Farmer said.
Since Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest last summer, her family has maintained a public silence.
Her attorneys have also consistently declined to address questions from reporters, confining the defense of their client to their submissions in court. They recently filed 12 separate pre-trial motions, seeking to suppress certain evidence, dismiss some charges or to toss out the entire case.
But with her bail application pending, and her trial just four months away, her siblings decided it was time to come forward. They've also hired a family attorney, David Oscar Markus, and started a Twitter account dubbed "@GMaxFacts."
"What's going on here is what I've referred to as the Epstein effect. She's being held because of her association with Epstein from all those years ago, which is absurd. You can't hold someone in detention based on guilt by association," said Markus, a criminal defense lawyer from Miami.
Ian Maxwell's TV interview with "GMA" is his first, he said, in 30 years.
"I'm not minimizing the seriousness of the allegations, but my sister's fighting for her life, and that's pretty serious too," he said. "Ghislaine wants to confront the accusers head-on and deal with this and get on with her life. She is as convinced as she can be that she will be exonerated. We as a family are behind her, solidly behind her."
Ian Maxwell said he knew little of his sister's life in New York, where she moved in 1991, after the death of the Maxwell family patriarch, British press baron Robert Maxwell. He said he was aware of Ghislaine's friendship with Epstein but met him only once.
"I have absolutely no memory of Epstein at all," he said. "I had no knowledge of their life or the life that Ghislaine was leading in any great detail."
The last time he saw his sister in person, Maxwell said, was at a rare reunion of the seven surviving Maxwell children in London on June 10, 2019, on what would have been their father's 96th birthday.
"It was just serendipitous that we all happened to be more or less in Europe and we got together and it was a very happy, genuinely happy occasion for all of us," he said.
Less than a month later, Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, as he returned to the U.S. from his home in Paris.
"Ghislaine is married with the step-children, getting on with her life. We're all getting on with our lives. And then bang! This extraordinary development out of left field," Ian Maxwell said.
Echoing the arguments of his sister's attorneys, Ian Maxwell insisted that the prosecutors only targeted her as a substitute for Epstein after the federal government failed to keep the alleged child sex trafficker alive to face the charges against him in 2019.
"They're taking it out on my sister. Damn it, that's wrong," he said. "She is not Epstein. Epstein was guilty. He did time. And he was gonna do a hell of a lot more time. But she is not him. And I don't know how many times I have to say it. She's deserves to be treated as Ghislaine, presumed innocent, get on with the defense, tell us what you've gotta tell us, put it up, and then let the jury decide."
The government contends that "at the heart" of its case against Maxwell "are brave women who are victims of serious crimes that demand justice," and who "deserve to see [Maxwell] brought to justice at a trial." Prosecutors allege in court filings that the "recollections of the victims bear striking resemblances that corroborate each other and provide compelling proof of [Maxwell's] active participation in a disturbing scheme to groom and sexually abuse minor girls."
Maxwell's attorneys have asserted in court filings that government's "sudden zeal" to charge her based on conduct that allegedly occurred roughly 25 years ago calls into question "the strength of the government's case" and violates Maxwell's due process rights.
U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan, who is overseeing Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case, could rule on the third bail application at any time. In rejecting the second request in December, Nathan cited Ghislaine Maxwell's initial "lack of candor" about the identity of her spouse and information about the couple's assets as among the reasons she would not grant bail.
In opposition to the latest bail proposal, prosecutors argue the court "should hesitate before trusting the defendant to be transparent" about her finances and that she "continues to pose an extreme risk of flight, and the additional bail conditions proposed by the defendant do not justify reversal of the Court's prior findings that no combination of conditions could ensure her appearance."
The family's attorney claimed the government's arguments are a smokescreen.
"The real reason she's not being granted bail is not because of any real risk of flight. No one's afraid she's going to really run," Markus said. "The government wants to keep her in custody to torture her, to break her down."
The government has also disputed defense lawyers' contentions that Maxwell is being treated punitively as a result of Epstein's death in custody.
Prosecutors stated in court filings that she has more time than any other detainee in the facility to review documents from her case. The flashlight searches, the government said, are "required to confirm that the defendant is not in distress every fifteen minutes. To do so, staff point a flashlight to the ceiling of the defendant's cell to illuminate the cell sufficiently to confirm that the defendant is breathing," prosecutors wrote.
Apollo Global Management's (APO) Leon Black paid child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for financial advice from 2012 through 2017, a probe by a law firm retained by Apollo has found. The investment firm also said the investigation found no wrongdoing by Black or the company. Black plans to retire as CEO in July but remain chairman. (CNBC)
What Fascinated Prince Andrew About Ghislaine Maxwell Before Epstein Scandal
BY JACK ROYSTON ON 9/29/20 AT 7:04 AM EDT
Newsweek
Prince Andrew was lured into Jeffrey Epstein's world of exploitation after he became "fascinated" with Ghislaine Maxwell, a new book claims.
The Duke of York was introduced to the British socialite by his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, according to a biography of his father titled Prince Philip Revealed.
Author Ingrid Seward writes that it was Maxwell's "worldly sophistication" that first drew Andrew into a friendship that would ultimately leave him "emotionally battered."
Epstein died in prison last year, while Maxwell is awaiting a July 2021 trial on grooming charges.
The duke stood down from public life in disgrace after a car crash BBC interview in which he would not say he regretted his friendship with Epstein.
Seward writes: "His ex-wife Sarah introduced him to the late Sir Robert Maxwell's daughter Ghislaine and Andrew was fascinated by her worldly sophistication.
"Ghislaine, in turn, introduced the duke to a previously out-of-bounds, raunchy international lifestyle, and he was fascinated by it.
"It suited her to be able to produce Prince Andrew at parties and she hosted dinners for him at her 'sometime partner' the financier Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side apartment in New York.
"Ghislaine took Andrew wherever he was willing to go, but still naively the duke failed to see he was being used."
Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Epstein and that Andrew had sex with her while she was 17. The prince has always denied any sexual contact with Giuffre.
After Epstein's death in a New York jail, while awaiting trial on new charges, journalists began looking at the accusations against Andrew again.
Late last year, he attempted to move beyond the allegations by doing a sit-down interview with the BBC's Emily Maitlis but, amid fierce criticism of his remarks, the prince later announced he would be stepping back from public life.
Seward writes: "A calamitous interview for BBC TV's Panorama, in which he failed to show regret or empathy for Epstein's young victims — one of whom has alleged she had sex with him — lost him any vestige of support he still had.
"It also turned him into a global figure of ridicule.
"He was seen as someone with immense privilege who took advantage of his position, and because of stupidity and immense arrogance simply couldn't be bothered to take care, when choosing his friends, to keep his nose clean."
She added: "For Philip and the Queen, their son's failure of judgment was a tragedy.
"Not only had he besmirched the reputation of the monarchy but had become involved in something extremely distasteful and far more serious."
Newsweek has approached Prince Andrew's representatives for comment
Everything Ghislaine Maxwell Has Said About Jeffrey Epstein
BY JACK ROYSTON ON 9/23/20 AT 9:02 AM EDT
Newsweek
Ghislaine Maxwell revealed her true feelings about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a tearful conversation with a housekeeper.
As the British socialite is fighting to keep her 2016 deposition about Epstein's abuse sealed a fresh account of her feelings about her former boyfriend has emerged.
Ex-house keeper Juan Alessi says the British socialite once said "I hate him, I hate him but I can't leave" after coming out of Epstein's house crying.
He made his comments in an interview with Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre for podcast Broken: Seeking Justice.
Alessi, who worked at Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, said: "I told her many times. Because she would sometimes come out crying in the car for me to drive.
"And I said: 'Ghislaine, why are you doing this? Why are you staying with this guy?'"
Alessi described how Maxwell said: "I hate him, I hate him but I can't leave."
He added: "I said: 'Why? You have money, why are you not leaving?'"
Giuffre replied: "That relationship was confusing."
The exchange offers a rare insight into the relationship between Maxwell and Epstein which will be at the center of her criminal trial in July next year.
Maxwell denies charges she groomed minors to be abused by Epstein between 1994 and 1997 and perjury.
Further insight can be drawn from an email sent by Maxwell to Epstein in January 2015, after he was handed an 18 month sentence in 2008 following a controversial plea bargain.
By then they were no longer going out and the daughter of late British media mogul Robert Maxwell asked the New York financier to let that fact come out, referencing a mysterious girlfriend, "Shelley."
According to the BBC, Maxwell said: "I would appreciate it if shelley would come out and say she was your g'friend - I think she was from end 99 to 2002."
Epstein replied: "Ok, with me."
He added: "You have done nothing wrong and i woudl (sic) urge you to start acting like it. go outside, head high, not as an esacping (sic) convict. go to parties. deal with it."
The convicted pedophile also sent Maxwell what appears to be a statement designed for her to release to the media.
Quoted in the Independent, it read: "Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment."
The exchange was contained in sealed evidence from a defamation case brought by Giuffre against Maxwell in 2015 and settled in 2017 with an undisclosed payout to the alleged victim.
And the messages appear to contradict what Maxwell's legal team have said on her behalf about her relationship with Epstein.
Her lawyers told her current court case she has not been in contact with Epstein for a decade.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Hires Super-Lawyer Who Defended Osama Bin Laden's Aide
BY JACK ROYSTON ON 10/7/20 AT 6:05 AM EDT
Ghislaine Maxwell has hired a "super lawyer" who defended a lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden to fight charges she trafficked girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Bobbi Sternheim is named in a court filing as representing the British socialite, who faces a 17-page indictment in July next year.
The New York-based attorney defended Khaled al-Fawwaz, who was jailed for life in 2015 for bombings that killed 224 people at two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
After the guilty verdict, Sternheim claimed her client was denied justice because he was tried a few blocks from the World Trade Center.
Quoted in the New York Post, she said: "Trying a pre-9/11 terrorism case in a post-9/11 era within blocks from the World Trade Center ensured that Mr. al-Fawwaz could never receive a truly fair trial by a truly impartial jury."
Prosecutor Preet Bharara was quoted by the BBC saying Fawwaz "played a critical role for al-Qaeda in its murderous conspiracy against America."
Previously described as Bin Laden's spokesman in Britain, the terrorist was extradited from the U.K. in 2012.
Sternheim has also defended mafia bosses and is described in her profile on the website of lawfirm Fasulo Braverman & Di Maggio as a "highly respected and seasoned trial lawyer."
It reads: "She holds Top Secret/SCI Clearance and has represented individuals extradited internationally.
"Among her notable criminal cases, Bobbi has tried international organized crime and racketeering conspiracies, international terrorism offenses, international telemarketing fraud, capital murder, and interstate transport of pornographic media.
"She has represented federal defendants charged with death-eligible offenses as both lead and learned counsel and persuaded the Attorney General of the United States to de-authorize a federal death penalty case."
Maxwell denies charges she trafficked young girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 1997 and perjury, in relation to a 2016 deposition
She settled the case out of court in 2017 but her evidence has more recently been handed to the FBI as part of their new investigation into Epstein's crimes.
Maxwell, daughter to deceased U.K. media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has been fighting to prevent that deposition from being unsealed.
A flurry of other court filings associated with the case were released in July, including claims Bill Clinton travelled to Epstein's private island, which the former President denies.
Newsweek
BY JACK ROYSTON ON 10/14/20 AT 12:33 PM EDT
New York prosecutors twice refused to investigate Jeffrey Epstein in 2016 after pleas from lawyers for his victims, according to reports.
Amanda Kramer was asked to launch a new probe into allegations the disgraced pedophile had a "massive sex-trafficking ring going on."
At the time, she was a senior prosecutor specializing in child safety and human trafficking with the office of the US Attorney of the Southern District of New York.
However, lawyer for the victims David Boies said she refused both requests, he believes because she felt her hands were tied by the work of the US Attorney in Florida.
Alexander Acosta had secured Epstein's 2008 conviction, which included a heavily criticized plea deal that saw him jailed for just 18 months.
Boies told The New York Daily News: "We were saying to anyone who would listen: We've got clients who were abused.
"Some of them were underage. We have the evidence. There's a whole record that's been developed.
"We can establish beyond any reasonable doubt there was a massive sex trafficking ring going on.
"This was not a situation where we were dealing with people who didn't care. I never thought they didn't believe our story.
"I never had any doubt they were sympathetic, even outraged by it.
"They simply seemed to feel they couldn't be seen as second-guessing what the U.S. Attorney in Florida had done."
At the time, Boies was helping Virginia Giuffre fight a defamation lawsuit over claims she lied about being abused by Epstein.
Giuffre sued the pedophile's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and ultimately won an out-of-court settlement.
However, his efforts to get justice through the office of the US Attorney in New York were less successful and it was not until 2019 that Epstein was charged with new trafficking offenses.
Following his suicide in August last year, attention has switched to Maxwell, who was charged over the summer with a 17-page indictment.
Alongside trafficking offenses, she is charged with perjury in relation to the deposition she gave as part of the 2016 defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre.
During the second of the two meetings with Kramer, Boies and another lawyer on Giuffre's team asked her to prosecute Maxwell for perjury based on the testimony in July 2016.
However, The New York Daily News reported she neither took up the case nor informed the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who was then Preet Bharara.
Boies told the newspaper: "We never contacted Preet directly. We thought he would have been briefed on a matter of this importance.
"And we hoped to make progress with the staff, and didn't want it to be seen as going over their head.
"But in retrospect, we probably should have gone to him directly."
A profile on the website of law firm Covington describes Kramer's role in charge of trafficking cases at the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York at the time.
It reads: "Ms. Kramer served as SDNY's Project Safe Childhood and Human Trafficking Coordinator, where she developed and significantly expanded SDNY's work handling sexual misconduct and trafficking issues, an undertaking for which she received several awards."
Ghislaine Maxwell: Judge rules to unseal documents in 2015 case against Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplice
By Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-judge-rules-to-unseal-documents-in-2015-case-against-jeffrey-epstein-s-alleged-accomplice/ar-BB176FQJ?ocid=msedgntp
Graphic photos show Jeffrey Epstein shortly after his death, messy jail cell
Greg NormanBy Greg Norman | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/60-minutes-obtains-graphic-photos-of-jeffrey-epstein-shortly-after-his-death
Ghislaine Maxwell fears for her life, believes she might meet the same fate as Jeffrey Epstein: report
The 58-year-old could face up to 35 years in jail if convicted of the charges against her
Barnini ChakrabortyBy Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-fears-same-fate
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, believes the convicted pedophile was murdered while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges and fears the same end, according to a friend.
"Everyone's view, including Ghislaine's, is Epstein was murdered," one of her friends told The U.S. Sun. "She received death threats before she was arrested."
Maxwell has been charged with conspiracy and perjury in a multi-state sex trafficking ring involving three unnamed minors between 1994 and 1997.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL DENIED BAIL: JUDGE SAYS EPSTEIN COHORT IS FLIGHT RISK DUE TO WEALTH, 'FOREIGN CONNECTIONS'
Last week, New York Judge Alison Nathan said the British socialite, accused of sexually abusing and exploiting girls as young as 14 alongside Epstein, posed too great a flight risk to be allowed to leave. Maxwell will be behind bars in a Brooklyn, N.Y., detention center until her trial, tentatively scheduled for July 2021. She was arrested on July 2 at her New Hampshire estate.
Bethany Marshall on powerful names distancing themselves from Ghislaine Maxwell
Bethany Marshall speaks out during 'A Ghislaine Maxwell Investigation with Nancy Grace' on Fox Nation.
Maxwell's friend, who was "in regular contact with Maxwell at her secret New Hampshire hideaway," claims death threats ahead of her arrest forced the British socialite to hire security guards and led her to believe she, like Epstein, would not live to see her day in court.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL SECRETLY MARRIED BUT WON'T REVEAL HUSBAND'S NAME, PROSECUTORS SAY
Maxwell's arrest and the details surrounding her case have given the world a glimpse into the life of the woman once considered Epstein's closest confidant and who has hobnobbed with princes and presidents around the world. Her proximity to Epstein and those he socialized with has made her the target of powerful people who prefer not to have their name associated with Epstein or Maxwell.
Epstein, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, killed himself in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, under mysterious circumstances.
Maxwell denies all of the charges against her. If convicted, she faces up to 35 years in jail.
You can find Barnini Chakraborty on Twitter @Barnini.
'Sarah's next': Parents of former Epstein assistant fear for her arrest after Ghislaine Maxwell imprisonment
by Spencer Neale, Breaking News Reporter | | July 17, 2020 04:43 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sarahs-next-parents-of-former-epstein-assistant-fear-for-her-arrest-after-ghislaine-maxwell-imprisonment
Ghislaine Maxwell’s rumored husband bragged about dating ‘a high profile woman’
By Isabel VincentJuly 18, 2020 | 9:22am
https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/maxwells-rumored-husband-bragged-about-dating-a-high-profile-woman/
What Now for Prince Andrew? Royal Faces Scrutiny After Ghislaine Maxwell's Arrest
The scandal that has for years dogged Andrew, 60, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, does not appear to be going away
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/what-now-for-prince-andrew-royal-faces-scrutiny-after-ghislaine-maxwells-arrest/2505143/
What was Ghislaine Maxwell doing in a tiny New Hampshire town?
By Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, Updated July 7, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/07/metro/ghislaine-maxwells-new-hampshire/?et_rid=692192707&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
'KEEP OPEN MIND' Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz BACKS pedophile’s ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell saying case ‘far from over’
Mollie Mansfield
4 Jul 2020
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12029321/epstein-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-backs-ghislaine-maxwell/
Ghislaine Maxwell prepared to snitch on ‘big names’ to save herself
By Emily SmithJuly 4, 2020
https://pagesix.com/2020/07/04/ghislaine-maxwell-prepared-to-snitch-on-big-names-to-save-herself/
Wiki Ghislaine Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell
Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell goes from luxury retreat to notorious Brooklyn jail
Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg Published 8:23 am PDT, Tuesday, July 7, 2020
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Epstein-associate-Ghislaine-Maxwell-goes-from-15391257.php
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing on the bank’s association with Jeffrey Epstein
Christian Sewing, Deutsche Bank CEO, joins “Closing Bell” to talk about its association with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/07/07/deutsche-bank-ceo-on-the-banks-association-with-jeffrey-epstein.html
The conspiracy theories that have people convinced Jeffrey Epstein's death was not a suicide
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Catriona Harvey-Jenner
June 18, 2020, 9:47 AM EDT
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/conspiracy-theories-people-convinced-jeffrey-134700629.html
Deutsche Bank to pay $150M penalty for transactions with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 foreign banks
By Sommer Brokaw
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/07/07/Deutsche-Bank-to-pay-150M-penalty-for-transactions-with-Jeffrey-Epstein-2-foreign-banks/1741594144429/
Here are all the famous people Jeffrey Epstein was connected to
Taylor Nicole Rogers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/photos/here-are-all-the-famous-people-jeffrey-epstein-was-connected-to/ss-BB166Qpr?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds
Agree. There's been stories Epstein was working for Israeli intelligence, using honeypot traps to gain leverage.
It's been an embarrassment this pervert Maxwell hasn't been brought in before.
Now, can we keep her alive?
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