Alex Christoforou
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest news in the Epstein scandal where a lawyer for the alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein told a judge that hundreds of names of people associated with “now deceased finance mogul” should be made public in documents that are currently sealed in a defamation lawsuit involving Epstein close associate and alleged handler Ghislaine Maxwell.
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The Duran Quick Take: Episode 299. The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest news in the Epstein scandal where a lawyer for the alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein told a judge that hundreds of names of people associated with “now deceased finance mogul” should be made public in documents that are currently sealed in a defamation lawsuit involving Epstein close associate and alleged handler Ghislaine Maxwell.
An attorney for Jeffrey Epstein confidant (and alleged groomer) Ghislaine Maxwell told a judge on Wednesday that there are “hundreds” of people named in what is expected to be approximately 2,000 pages of documents ordered unsealed by the federal appeals court in New York, according to Bloomberg.
The lawyer, Jeffrey Pagliuca, told U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska Wednesday that the materials also include an address book with about 1,000 names. Preska is considering how to carry out a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that she must consider unsealing some of the documents. There was no detail at the hearing as to the identity of the people are named in the documents, and they may include women who say they are victims of Epstein, his friends and others. –Bloomberg
According to court filings, Maxwell was said to have hired, supervised and fired household staff, while directing the visits of dozens of “massage therapists” to Epstein’s residence, according to the Journal.
In depositions taken in 2009 and 2010 as part of civil lawsuits against Mr. Epstein, household employees said Ms. Maxwell was a central figure in Mr. Epstein’s private life. Several said Ms. Maxwell hired, supervised, and fired household staff, while directing the visits of dozens of “massage therapists”—typically young women.
Juan Alessi, who said in one of the depositions that he served as the Palm Beach house manager from around 1992 through 2002, described a basket of sex toys in Ms. Maxwell’s bathroom closet. He said he would find them around when he cleaned up after visits from the young women. –WSJ
The document release stems from a 2015 defamation lawsuit in New York brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Maxwell. Giuffre says Maxwell helped Epstein traffic herself and other underage girls to sex parties at the billionaire pedophile’s many residences. Maxwell has denied any wrongdoing and called Giuffre a liar.
The case was settled in 2017 and the records were sealed – however appeals by the Miami Herald, Harvard Law professor (and former Epstein pal) Alan Dershowitz and right-wing blogger Mike Cernovich were successful.
In August, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ordered the partial release of Epstein documents, which revealed that Giuffre said that President Trump was a “good friend of Jeffrey’s,” but that Trump ‘didn’t partake in any sex with any of us,” adding “Donald Trump never flirted with me.”
Epstein was found dead in federal lockup last month after his arrest on child sex-trafficking charges. While the case was dismissed against Epstein, Judge Preska must now consider how to release the sealed records – and from the looks of it, the possibility remains that they may not be released at all.
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If it’s thousands of pages for one or two distinct crimes, then it’s not going to amount to anything. If it’s about many, many different activities / episodes, then it’s very serious. The whole thing is going to weigh heavily on the next election campaign, not so much in the courts imo.
Epstein’s pedophilia and sex trafficking of children is truly only the tip of the iceberg. In addition to Whitney Webb’s fantastic series of articles at mintpressnews-dot-com about his ties to a vast criminal/intelligence network (see: “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail”), she just published another amazing article: How the CIA, Mossad and “the Epstein Network” are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a… Read more »
The scandal is not Epstein. Pedophiles and fetishists are a dime a dozen. (Right, Podestas?). The scandal is those that had the incredibly bad and immoral judgement to cavort with him and that have influence over the general public. Hang ’em &. hang ’em high, every last one.
Can’t we see some dead pictures of Epstein, instead of all these happy ones? I mean, it’s as if the guy’s still alive, in Tel Aviv or somewhere. Oops.
Epstein was murdered.