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Thread by @tracybeanz: "THREAD: Here is the Eric Garner/FBI/NYPD/Epstein story in a quick summary 1. Before the election, the NYPD was investigating Anthony Weiner ['...]" Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:56 12,399 views THREAD: Here is the Eric Garner/FBI/NYPD/Epstein story in a quick summary 1. Before the election, the NYPD was investigating Anthony Weiner for his sexting with an underage girl. They got a search warrant for his computer. 2. While they were exploring his computer, they found the folder labeled "Insurance Policy" When they looked at what was in that folder they were horrified. The NYPD reports it to the FBI. The FBI sends it up the chain to McCabe. He SITS ON IT. This happens in or around 10/2016 3. Erik Prince goes on Breitbart radio in November of 2016. In his interview he states that what they found on the laptop is horrific, and that there are other indictments that are ready in the case- he states democrat politicians are implicated, there is (cont) 4. (cont) money laundering, and information about BOTH Bill and Hillary Clinton travelling to Epstein Island. He states that the officers at the NYPD and in the FBI were getting angry nothing was being done and were ready to go public because they felt there wouldn't be justice. 5. There were reports that what was found on the laptops made officers cry. During the interview, Prince says that the DOJ threatened that if they leak what was found, the DOJ would indict the officers in the Garner case for murder. 6. McCabe recuses himself from the MYE. Comey reopens the investigation because of the Weiner laptop. Fast forward now to April of 2018. While IG Horowitz is investigating the Mid Year Exam, he also begins a spin off investigation into Andrew McCabe, because McCabe leaked (cont) 7. to the WSJ. McCabe was referred for criminal charges from this OIG investigation. When the report comes out, in it is a section where McCabe states that he was on a conference call with AG Lynch and the NY Field office of the FBI-- about LEAKING. 8. They state that they were admonishing them for leaking in the Eric Garner case and also accuse them of leaking the info McCabe was guilty of leaking to the WSJ, but none of that makes sense. A, they didn't know the info that was leaked to the WSJ and B. 9. I don't think they were leaking ABOUT the Eric Garner case, it is clear at this point they were being THREATENED about the Garner case BECAUSE of the laptop and what they were planning to do in letting the public know about the contents of it. 10. To add more credibility to the threats, Loretta Lynch swapped out the team investing this case from the DOJ right as this call was happening. There are news reports that this is likely done to put pressure on the DOJ to FIND a crime. The SI GJ failed to indict in the case. 11. Now we have corroboration of the Prince interview from the IG of the DOJ. Striking information. It gets better. On 7/6/19, in what appears to be a rehash of the old Palm Beach case. (STAY WITH ME) The DOJ STILL HAS the case of Pantaleo-the same case that Lynch swapped (cont) 12. out the investigative team for two years earlier. William Barr announces on 7/15/19, TEN DAYS after Epstein is arrested, and ONE DAY before the statute of limitations expires, that he will NOT be placing charges on Pantaleo in the case of Eric Garner. No criminal charges. 13. Today, the NYPD fires Officer. They tell him, and 13 minutes later announce it in a press conference. This happens a month after the DOJ declines prosecution. What point am I making? 14. I am speculating that all of this is not an accident. I am thinking as I put these pieces together that there is a chance that the DOJ acted on Epstein in part relying on the Weiner laptop. There are many reasons for this, but people get angry when I get too in the weeds. 15. Let's just say, given this story, I do not think it is a coincidence that the DOJ waited until 10 days after Epsteins arrest and the day before Statute of Limitations to expire to announce the officer would not be criminally charged, nor do I think it is a coincidence (cont) 16. what Horowitz told us about "Crimes against children", nor do I think it is coincidence that Bill and Hillary are mentioned by Prince in going to Epstein island, nor do I think it is a coincidence that Horowitz corroborated Prince account about Lynch and the Garner case. 17. Shall I continue? You let me know. I hope this is more understandable for all of you and I apologize for getting too far into the weeds. I just would rather SHOW YOU the evidence straight and narrow than have you just trust me. For context: in the MYE report there is a section about how the potential for leaking influences the FBI and Comey's decision to send the letter to Congress stating they are reopening the Clinton email investigation. The section explains how high level staff at the FBI (cont) felt that if they didn't open it back up, NYO would leak the fact that they had found the information. More: Agents working the case don't understand why the Weiner laptop emails would be so significant, why they were handled in this manner, and why Comey would choose to alert Congress. They are puzzled. In the context of the story we are talking about in this thread (cont) it may make sense if upper level FBI are briefed on actual content and are worried about leaks. Other agents may not have been aware of those details: Here Lynch talks about the possibility of leaks should Comey not notify Congress - she's speaking about what was conveyed to her. I'm waiting for the part where they talk about the phone call with NY office before McCabe recuses: Lynch and Comey have a meeting about leaks from the NY office and about the agents there and their feelings about Clinton At this point it would be irresponsible of me not to point out that clearly there was a leak issue in the NY field office. The call with McCabe and Lynch before his recusal and admonishment for leaks doesn't seem to appear - yet - is there the possibility that they (cont) The call from Lynch to the Field office is very important and seems to be blatantly avoided in this report (so far) even though it was mentioned in McCabes leak report and occurs on 10/26. There is obvious misdirection occurring. From the OIG report into McCabe leaking to Barrett of the WSJ- the report that resulted in his termination. Pay careful attention here.

Robert Epstein thread Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:58 EPSTEIN TWEETSTORM, AUGUST 20, 2019#1Tweet storm starting now - getting interrupted from time to time by calls from reporters... I've been caught in the middle of an exchange of tweets between 2 media titans, @HillaryClinton & @realDonaldTrump. #Trump's tweet was slightly wrong. #Hillary's tweet was shameful. pic.twitter.com/TcBigRcs8v '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #2#Trump tweet, point #1: I've never said that #Google deliberately "manipulated" the 2016 election, but I measured substantial pro-#Hillary bias in #Google's search results by preserving & analyzing 13,207 election-related searches & the 98,044 web pages linked to those searches. '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #3#Trump tweet, point #2: The level of pro-#Hillary bias I found in #Google's search results - absent on #Bing & #Yahoo - was enough to convince between 2.6 & 10.4 million undecided voters to vote for Hillary. .@realDonaldTrump said 16 million; that's wrong. '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #4#Trump tweet, point #3: It doesn't matter whether the bias in #Google search results was deliberate or not. Once it appeared - which it did at least 6 months before the election - it began shifting opinions & votes without people's knowledge & without leaving a paper trail. '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #5If you want the full story about my 2016 election monitoring project, read my essay, "Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring," published last year: https://t.co/1eyxrUuFeB '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #6Now, switching to .@HillaryClinton: This is going to hurt me to write, because I & my whole extended family have been strong supporters of the Clintons for decades. I have a framed, signed letter from #Bill on the wall near my desk. But #Hillary should be ashamed of herself. pic.twitter.com/FKyLiKonyw '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #7#Hillary has long depended on #Google for both money & votes. Her largest donor in 2016 was Alphabet/Google. Her Chief Technology Officer during the campaign was Stephanie Hannon, a former Google exec. And then there's #EricSchmidt, longtime head of Google - the guy in the pic: pic.twitter.com/dSV8wOPwAH '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #8A leaked email showed that in 2014 #Google's #EricSchmidt offered to run #Hillary's tech campaign (see pic). In 2015, Schmidt in fact funded The Groundwork, a highly secretive tech company, the sole purpose of which was to put Clinton into office. https://t.co/rXMNH9bLYV pic.twitter.com/MRjGpCJcvr '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #9About 96% of 2016 campaign donations from #Google employees went to #Hillary. And #ElanKriegel, Hillary's Chief Analytics Officer, credits his 2012 tech team, informally supervised by #EricSchmidt, for half of Obama's win margin: nearly 2.5 million votes. https://t.co/vEaufq3M11 pic.twitter.com/tSI05RS3uu '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #10#Hillary: If my work has been "debunked," why was it included in a volume just published by #Oxford U.? Why have I been invited to speak about it at prestigious venues worldwide: #Stanford U., #Yale Law School (where both you & Bill went), even our #Senate (where you served)? pic.twitter.com/rmMeB1oJn3 '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #11#Hillary: I know you're in #Google's pocket, but for the sake of our #democracy, I urge you listen to my recent Congressional testimony (https://t.co/cMYQ5pnjki) & to scan the 58 essays & conference papers I list at the end of my written testimony: https://t.co/AN3RtdYp65 pic.twitter.com/Tz2vfCJGof '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #12#Hillary: If you examine my work carefully, you will find that it adheres to the very highest standards of scientific integrity. You will also conclude, I believe, that #Google poses a serious threat to the free-&-fair election & to human autonomy. See https://t.co/T2coTfZt5m '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #13#Hillary: #Google poses 3 serious threats to humanity: 1) an obscene level of #surveillance across 200+ platforms, 2) the power to determine what content 2+ billion can or can NOT see (#censorship) (https://t.co/THZqV4u0ov) & 3) invisible #manipulation on a massive scale. '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #14#Hillary: Is that what you want your legacy to be? Whistleblowers & leaks from #Google have confirmed that the company blacklists, re-ranks & uses "ephemeral experiences" (which I study) to control people worldwide. Do you approve? https://t.co/xZEV7PqyHu '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #15#Hillary: If Big Tech cos. support the same candidate in 2020, they can shift 15M votes her way without people knowing how the shift occurred. If you had a choice between preserving #democracy & putting your candidate in office, which would you choose? https://t.co/gHbvbjd6tS '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #16#Hillary: Among other tools, they can use "ephemeral experiences"-a term from a #Google email that leaked to @WSJ in 2018-to shift votes without leaving a paper trail. Ephemeral experiences like those search results I found that were biased in your favor. https://t.co/73CWSocIu4 '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #17#Hillary: If I haven't yet convinced you that the tweet you sent about me yesterday was unjustified & deeply flawed, please read these recent comments on my work by #ChuckNorris. He might be a lowly #conservative, but he still kicks butt. https://t.co/EfBt3TkRY7 pic.twitter.com/lDijqO0qOn '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019 #18Finally, #Hillary: I have always admired you as a self-sacrificing person who is trying to improve people's lives, and I have tried to emulate you in these ways - as best I can. I also know you've sometimes been punished for your good deeds. I can relate. With admiration, /re pic.twitter.com/Ep1c4wqsH9 '-- Dr. Robert Epstein (@DrREpstein) August 20, 2019

Fact-Checking Trump's Claim That Google 'Manipulated' Millions of Votes for Clinton - The New York Times Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:58 Politics | Fact-Checking Trump's Claim That Google 'Manipulated' Millions of Votes for Clinton Fact Check After making baseless claims of voter fraud, the president has turned to a new way of explaining his loss of the popular vote in 2016. What President Trump Said Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch '-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019This lacks evidence. Mr. Trump lost the popular vote by almost 2.9 million in the 2016 election and has long attributed this loss to baseless claims of voter fraud. Now Mr. Trump suggests that he would have lost the popular vote by a much smaller margin, or even won it, were it not for Google's machinations. He appears to be referring to a disputed estimate given by Robert Epstein, a psychologist and former editor in chief at Psychology Today who says he supported and voted for Hillary Clinton. In a 2017 white paper, Mr. Epstein examined how Google Search might have influenced undecided voters in the 2016 election by providing more positive results for one candidate than the other. He estimated that the search results may have swayed ''at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton.'' When he testified to Congress this summer, Mr. Epstein added that the estimate was a ''rock bottom minimum'' and that up to 10.4 million votes could have been shifted to Mrs. Clinton. In an interview, Mr. Epstein took issue with Mr. Trump's characterization of his work. ''I've never said Google manipulated the 2016 elections,'' he said. ''The range of numbers he listed in the tweet is also incorrect.'' Panagiotis Metaxas, a computer science professor at Wellesley College, emphasized that the white paper showed a possibility '-- ''what such an influence could have been if Google was manipulating its electoral search results'' '-- not a conclusive fact. ''I and other researchers who have been auditing search results for years know that this did not happen,'' Mr. Metaxas said. ''I think that, in his congressional hearing, Dr. Epstein is misrepresenting the situation.'' He noted that Google does ''sanitize'' its search results, prioritizing more trusted sources while devaluing low-quality information sources. (Here's a more detailed explanation of how Google Search works.) The white paper also came with huge caveats. First, it was not peer-reviewed or rigorously evaluated by other researchers. It was based on the daily online searches of just 95 participants, 21 of whom were self-described undecided voters '-- a small sample size to extrapolate to millions of voters, experts said. (Mr. Epstein says that the statistical significance of his findings was high.) Their election-related search results were then given to another group of people who evaluated whether the results were biased toward Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton, and concluded that most favored Mrs. Clinton. Searches conducted on other websites like Yahoo and Bing did not display the same bias, according to the paper. Then, Mr. Epstein applied his previous research demonstrating that biased search results could shift voting preferences by 20 percent or more to reach his baseline estimate of 2.6 million people affected. But it takes ''a leap of faith'' to connect Mr. Epstein's experimental results to actual election outcomes, said Nicholas Diakopoulos, an assistant professor in communication studies at Northwestern University. (Mr. Diakopoulos's own research does show that Google Search results favor Democrats.) ''There's a substantial shift in context, and a difference in asking someone in an experiment about likely voting behavior and how they might actually act during an election,'' Mr. Diakopoulos said. A more meticulous scientific analysis measuring the impact of Google Search on election outcomes could, for example, take into account voter history or other sources of election information. Given the difficulties in disaggregating the impact of Google and the paper's lack of methodological detail, Mr. Diakopoulos said, ''I am skeptical of the validity of the estimates.'' Curious about the accuracy of a claim? Email factcheck@nytimes.com. Linda Qiu is a fact-check reporter, based in Washington. She came to The Times in 2017 from the fact-checking service PolitiFact. @ ylindaqiu

Hillary Clinton responds to Trump tweet about Google vote manipulation Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:51 CLOSE President Trump questioned the financial side of the New York Times and said the paper will endorse him in 2020 just to keep their business going. Buzz60, Buzz60 WASHINGTON '' Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded on Monday to President Donald Trump's claim that Google had "manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes" for her in the 2016 election by noting that the study Trump appeared to be referring to was "debunked." Clinton said on Twitter the study was actually "based on 21 undecided voters." She added, "For context that's about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted." She had been referring to Trump's post earlier Monday about alleged voter fraud in the 2016 election. Trump had said on Twitter that because of Google's misdeeds, "Google must be sued" and added that his electoral victory should have been larger. PolitiFact, a nonpartisan fact-checking website, rated Trump's claim "false." The site noted that Trump appeared to be referring to a 2017 research paper by psychologists Robert Epstein and Ronald Robertson. The paper had claimed that users' search results were biased in favor of Clinton, which could have possibly shifted votes to her. The paper's methodology and findings have been questioned by other academics. who said the paper had failed to adequately explain its methodology or even define what "bias" was. More: Donald Trump touts voter ID laws as an issue in the 2020 election. Here's why. More: FEC chair Ellen Weintraub on Trump claims: 'No evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016' The debunked study you're referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that's about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted. https://t.co/0zHnWvGjSv '-- Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 19, 2019When reached by the outlet, Epstein said Trump mischaracterized his work. "I have never said that Google deliberately manipulated the 2016 election," he told PolitiFact. Epstein and Robertson had hedged their findings in their paper, too. "We don't know what caused these patterns of bias," wrote Epstein and his co-author in the paper. Trump has frequently vented about his loss in the popular vote to Clinton. Trump won the electoral vote but lost the popular vote to Clinton by several million votes, and Trump has claimed that millions of Americans voted illegally for Clinton. The president has not provided evidence for these claims. Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext SlideRead or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/20/hillary-clinton-responds-trump-tweet-google-vote-manipulation/2059138001/

Ex-Bill Gates adviser 'shocked' to be named one of Jeffrey Epstein's executors Archived Version Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:37 August 20, 2019 | 8:08am | Updated August 20, 2019 | 10:15am Jeffrey Epstein named Bill Gates' former science adviser as one of three executors of his $578 million estate '-- though the man said he was ''shocked'' to learn of the news. Jeffrey Epstein Patrick McMullan via Getty ImageBoris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist, distanced himself from his inclusion in Epstein's will, filed Monday in St. Thomas. ''I was not consulted in these matters and I have no intent to fulfill these duties, whatsoever,'' Nikolic told Bloomberg in a statement. Nikolic is listed as a ''successor executor'' of Epstein's estate should the executors, longtime Epstein employees Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, be unable to fulfill their roles. The extent of Epstein and Nikolic's relationship isn't clear, but a source told Bloomberg that Nikolic funded more than a dozen gene-editing businesses after splitting from Gates in 2014 and controlled a $42 million stake in one gene company, Editas Medicine Inc. Nikolic, 49, was excited about financial advice that Epstein, a former hedge-fund manager who was obsessed with genetic research, shared with private bankers ahead of Editas' public offering, the source told Bloomberg. Nikolic was part of a broad network that overlapped with Epstein, Nikolic's spokeswoman said. A rep for Gates said Epstein didn't provide any services to the billionaire philanthropist.

Bill Gates REFUSES to reveal why he flew on Lolita Express with Jeffrey Epstein after prison release Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:59 Bill Gates and his spokespeople refuse to explain why he flew from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013 with Jeffrey Epstein Epstein told people in the past that he was a financial adviser to Gates, who was still the chairman of Microsoft at the timeA rep for Gates' humanitarian foundation denied that Epstein ever worked for billionaire founder of Microsoft, but would not comment on the 2013 flightGates' spokesperson also stated that there were no financial or charitable ties between the two men Epstein had just been released from prison four years prior after pleading guilty to two counts of soliciting a minor under the age of 18 for sex Bill Gates is hoping to ride out the storm, one week after it was revealed he had hitched a ride on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. The billionaire was the chairman of Microsoft at the time he traveled with Epstein on the Lolita Express in 2013, four years after the pedophile served time for soliciting a minor under the age of 18 for sex. Flight records reveal that Gates flew with Epstein from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013, one of the few flights that year where pilot Larry Viskoski recorded the name of a passenger. A representative for Gates has not responded to requests for comment, beyond claiming that the once-richest man in the world never had any financial or charitable ties to Epstein. The pairing is an odd one given the work Melinda Gates and the couple's foundation does for young women around the world. And it is known that the two had spent time together previously, most notably at the annual Edge Dinner, which each year welcomes billionaires from around the world to come together and discuss advancements they are working in on the worlds of math, science and technology. Scroll down for video Bill GatesJeffrey EpsteinFlight records: Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell, had told people in the past that he was a financial adviser to Gates (flight data above)In fact, the 2013 dinner took place just two nights before they flew to Florida, though neither of the men are pictured attending that year's event. Epstein did claim he worked as a financial adviser to Gates for some time, but that claim was later shot down by the Microsoft founder's representative. The two men do however both own property in southern Florida, where Epstein had two homes including a $12 million Palm Beach mansion and Gates owns a five-property compound in Wellington that he purchased for a total of $40 million. In a biography that was published on the website for Edge, but later deleted, it is noted that Epstein 'founded the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation in 2000 to fund and support cutting edge science around the world.' He is also said to be 'one of the largest supporters of individual scientists, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Laureates Gerard 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek.' In an alarming addition, the biography then states that Epstein has taken 'an active role in supporting education across the United States as well as philanthropy in the US Virgin Islands, where the foundation is based.' He traveled to the 2002 dinner with guests including architect David Rockwell, author Michael Wolff, journalist Richard Cook, and literary agent John Brockman - who was also the editor of the Edge website. Gates was not the only famous name to hop aboard Epstein's plane either, with the serial pedophile also welcoming famed newsman Walter Cronkite, architect Peter Marino and a passenger identified as John Roberts. Roberts flew with Epstein on at least two occasions according to flight records, from March 22, 2010 and February 10, 2011. In 2010 the plane with Roberts traveled from Palm Beach to Oakland, and the following year from Palm Beach to Teterboro. This in addition to the already noted famous guests such as Bill Clinton, Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker and Prince Andrew. Two of Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slaves' claim that they engaged in sexual acts with Prince Andrew - one of whom was underage at the time. Virginia Roberts, whose defamation case against Epstein's alleged madame Ghislaine Maxwell is the source of these unsealed documents, provides a photo of herself with Prince Andrew and Maxwell at the latter's London home in one court filing. She was 17 at the time the photo was taken of the three. The documents were released earlier this month, just moments after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the decision to make public over 2,000 pages of court filings that had previously been under seal. Those documents reveal in great detail the three-year period in which Roberts claims she was Epstein and Maxwell's 'sex slave.' 'One of the individuals Ms. Giuffre was trafficked to was Prince Andrew '' trafficking that took place in Defendant's own townhouse in London,' states the filing, which was in response to a Motion to Dismiss from Maxwell's attorneys. 'There exist flight logs evidencing Ms. Giuffre flying to London alongside Defendant and Epstein on Epstein's private plane, and a photo of Ms. Giuffre, Defendant, and the Prince, without Defendant ever offering a legal reasonable explanation for that photo being taken, or for traveling with a 17 year old girl overseas.' The other female, Johanna Sjoberg, alleged that Prince Andrew groped her and Roberts in 2001 while the group was at Epstein's townhouse, in a deposition that was released with the unsealed court documents. Sjoberg, who was 21 at the time, claims there were multiple eyewitnesses to the incident. 'I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap,' said Sjoberg in a deposition. 'And so then I sat on Andrew's lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppet's hands and put it on Virginia's breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.' Roberts' attorneys meanwhile used the photo of the teenager with Prince Andrew and Maxwell to point out that the defendant in that case never explained how they came to be alone in her London townhouse with a teenager from Florida. 'Defendant never offered an explanation regarding Ms. Giuffre's photographs of her, Defendant, and Epstein. She never offered a legal explanation for why Prince Andrew was photographed with his hand around Ms. Giuffre's bare waist while she was a minor child, while posing with Defendant, inside Defendant's house in London, reads the filing submitted by Roberts' attorneys. 'This particular photograph corroborates Ms. Giuffre's claims, and there is no other reasonable explanation why an American child should be in the company of adults not her kin, in the London house owned by the girlfriend of a now convicted sex offender.' Prince Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing and in a 2015 court application, a judge threw out Robert's allegations that she had sex with Prince Andrew and ordered them to be struck from the record as being 'immaterial and impertinent.' Buckingham Palace also issued on the record statements in January 2015, stating: 'Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.' That statement went on to note: 'It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. The allegations made are false and without any foundation.' Roberts also revealed two men who did not engage in any sexual acts with Epstein's victims in her own deposition that was unsealed on Friday - Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Roberts said in a 2016 deposition that Trump 'didn't partake in any sex with us ... and never flirted with me'. She also stated that despite Epstein talking about how the two were friends, she did not recall ever seeing him at the Palm Beach mansion. Robert did however confirm that 'Donald Trump was also a good friend of Jeffrey's.' A lawyer for Maxwell then asked: 'What is the basis for your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey's' Roberts responded: 'Jeffrey told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.' She then followed up by asking if Roberts had ever seen the two together, at which point she stated that she had never seen the two men interact during her time with Epstein. Trump had been Roberts' boss prior to the three years that she was allegedly trafficked by Epstein around the globe. She has stated in court papers and multiple interviews that Maxwell recruited her while she was working at Mar-a-Lago. Other famous friends that Roberts said she had met included Heidi Klum and Naomi Campbell, in addition to Al Gore. That deposition also detailed the 'sexual training' that Roberts allegedly received from Epstein and Maxwell, which lasted somewhere between four and six months. After that was complete, Epstein began to traffic Roberts to his friends, she said. Roberts has spoken publicly about her time with Epstein on a few occasions, and stated that by 18 she was deemed to old for the pedophile. A short while later she managed to escape, after allegedly being sent to Thailand for her 19th birthday to take a massage course - and told she would be taking back an underage girl. Roberts was allegedly to interview the minor with the goal of taking her back to the United States, but that all changed when she met her now-husband. She never returned and the two went off to start a new life in Australia, where they are now raising their three children. She has since devoted her time to combating sex trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors.

At MIT, more fallout from the university's ties to Jeffrey Epstein - The Boston Globe Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:43 He also posted a fuller explanation on the Medium website. Zuckerman was among the chief organizers of the Media Lab's annual Disobedience Award, which recognizes risk-takers and rabble-rousers and last year honored #MeToo activists. In a note to the past award winners, Zuckerman said he was ''heartbroken'' about his decision. ''I am ashamed of my institution today and starting the hard work of figuring out how to leave the Lab while taking care of my students and staff,'' Zuckerman wrote in a note that was obtained by The Boston Globe. ''I no longer feel I can continue working on issues of social justice under the banner of the Media Lab.'' Zuckerman said that Joi Ito, the Media Lab's director, failed to be transparent about Epstein's funding of the lab and the money that Ito took from Epstein for his personal investments in tech startups. Zuckerman declined to discuss his decision to leave but confirmed he sent the message to previous winners of the Disobedience Award. ''I felt obligated as one of the organizers of the prize to express my dismay over Joi's revelations and explain some of the actions I am taking as a result of those revelations,'' Zuckerman said in an e-mail on Tuesday. Last week, Ito apologized publicly for the lab's ties to Epstein. In an open letter, Ito acknowledged for the first time that he had invited Epstein to the Media Lab, traveled to the financier's homes, and accepted money from him for both the research center and for Ito's own investments. Ito said he met Epstein in 2013, five years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution and served a year in jail. In his apology, Ito said he would raise the equivalent to what Epstein gave the Media Lab and donate it to nonprofits that work with survivors of trafficking. He also promised to return the money Epstein invested in his funds. Ito was one of several academics in recent weeks to try to distance himself from Epstein. Over decades, Epstein nurtured a reputation as a ''science philanthropist'' and surrounded himself with biologists, mathematicians, physicists, and artificial intelligence researchers, including icons at MIT and Harvard University. Epstein feted them on his private island and in his lavish homes and funded their research. Epstein was found dead earlier this month in his jail cell at a federal detention facility in Manhattan, where he was being held on charges of sex trafficking of minors. Neither MIT nor Ito have been specific about how much money Epstein donated. According to publicly available documents, Epstein's foundation and nonprofit gave MIT at least $200,000. Epstein's contributions to the Media Lab were controversial dating back to 2015. At that time, allegations had surfaced that Epstein forced an underage girl to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew, and several organizations said they would stop taking his money. Epstein had bragged in press releases and on his website about providing funding to MIT, including for a Media Lab venture that taught toddlers programming. However, MIT at the time said that Epstein was ''completely incorrect'' about his financing of the children's technology, according to Reuters. MIT officials have not disclosed what projects Epstein's donations funded. Still, Epstein remained an esteemed donor at the Media Lab. In 2017, the Media Lab made Epstein and other select donors ''orbs'' to thank them for their contributions. The orbs were similar to the trophies presented a few months earlier to the winners of the Disobedience Award '-- basically a giant version of a child's marble. An MIT official said the gift to Epstein ''was not a Disobedience Award or a replica,'' but declined to explain the differences. That year marked the inaugural celebration of the Disobedience Award, and the Media Lab honored the scientists who drew attention to lead-contaminated water in Flint, Mich. The Media Lab's Epstein ties and Zuckerman's resignation have been dismaying, said Sherry Marts, one of last year's prize winners, who works with academic trade groups and nonprofits to combat bullying and harassment. Marts said she is struggling to understand how Ito hung out with Epstein, yet at the same time helped start an award that most recently honored female activists trying to combat harassment and abuse. ''It's kind of creepy,'' Marts said. ''I'm still wrestling with it.'' Mona Eltahawy, an Arab activist and feminist author who was a featured speaker at last year's Disobedience Award, said Ito should resign. Many people justified taking money from Epstein because they never saw him behaving badly, Eltahawy said. But Epstein used those donations to polish his reputation and build his stature, and it came at the expense of young girls, she said. ''Everyone must be held accountable,'' Eltahawy said. In his note, Zuckerman said he believes Ito is trying to make amends. Zuckerman said he and Ito exchanged several e-mails last week. In one, Ito ''told me, 'I allowed myself to be exactly THAT MAN who ignores the signs of the predators who don't show that side of themselves to their colleagues,' '' Zuckerman said. Deirdre Fernandescan be reached at deirdre.fernandes@globe.com.

My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein '-- MIT Media Lab Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:37 I'm sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affiliation with him. I met Epstein in 2013 at a conference through a trusted business friend and, in my fundraising efforts for MIT Media Lab, I invited him to the Lab and visited several of his residences. I want you to know that in all of my interactions with Epstein, I was never involved in, never heard him talk about, and never saw any evidence of the horrific acts that he was accused of. That said, I take full responsibility for my error in judgment. I am deeply sorry to the survivors, to the Media Lab, and to the MIT community for bringing such a person into our network. Regrettably, over the years, the Lab has received money through some of the foundations that he controlled. I knew about these gifts and these funds were received with my permission. I also allowed him to invest in several of my funds which invest in tech startup companies outside of MIT. I vow to raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking. I will also return the money that Epstein has invested in my investment funds. Again, I apologize to you, my friends and colleagues, and most importantly to the survivors. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me directly. - Joi

MIT Media Lab head apologizes for ties to Jeffrey Epstein Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:36 The director of the MIT Media, Lab Joi Ito, has apologized for accepting funding from the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement published on the MIT Media Lab website last week, Ito said he had taken donation and investment money from Epstein, who was found dead in his cell in Manhattan after being charged for sex trafficking, both for the MIT Media Lab and for several of his own investment funds, which support tech startups. ''I am deeply sorry to the survivors, to the Media Lab, and to the MIT community for bringing such a person into our network,'' Ito wrote. He disclosed that he met Epstein in 2013 through who he described as a ''trusted business friend'' and spent time with the alleged sex trafficker at several of his residences. Ito denies any knowledge of Epstein's abuse of underage girls, for which he was investigated starting in 2005. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting an underage person for prostitution in 2008, but the charges were confined to Florida, and Epstein served 13 months in county jail. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 after New York federal prosecutors alleged that he had paid young girls for sex in Manhattan and in Palm Beach from at least 2002 through 2005, paying them more to bring other girls into the sex ring. Epstein also has ties to other scientific institutions. Harvard accepted a $6.5 million donation, and Epstein also funded the open-source software project OpenCog. Even after his 2008 conviction, several prominent scientists have defended their association with him. Ito says he plans to return the money Epstein invested in his venture funds and raise an additional amount equal to what Epstein donated to the Media Lab (he did not disclose how much) and donate that money to nonprofits that help survivors of sex trafficking. You can read the full statement here.

Jeffrey Epstein signed will just two days before suicide Archived Version Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:56 Jeffrey Epstein's will has been filed in the US Virgin Islands, and it shows that he signed it Aug. 8 '-- two days before he hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell, according to court papers exclusively obtained by The Post on Monday. The multimillionaire convicted pedophile was worth $577,672,654, or about $18 million more than he previously stated in court papers while futilely trying to land bail on federal sex-trafficking charges, the new documents show. The former hedge-fund manager put all of his holdings in a trust, called The 1953 Trust in court papers, after the year he was born. ''It's pretty boiler-plate '-- it's what we call a 'pour-over will,' which means everything pours over to a trust,'' a city estate lawyer told The Post. ''It's done that way for privacy reasons. ''What is more unusual is the date, the fact that all of this was done just days before he died,'' said the source, who asked to remain anonymous. ''He probably knew he was going to take his own life'' or may have thought ''he could have been murdered in jail. ''He could have thought, 'I need to get my ducks in a row.' '' The 21-page filing includes a copy of Epstein's death certificate from Aug. 15, five days after his suicide '-- and lists ''Immediate Cause: Pending Further Study.'' The city Medical Examiner's Office has since ruled that Epstein killed himself, although that hasn't stopped conspiracy theorists from speculating he was murdered to keep him quiet about his powerful pals' suspected sexual deviancies. The 66-year-old bachelor's will was filed with court officials in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. ''He probably proceeded in the Virgin Islands to be more private because that is not where people would look,'' the legal expert said. In New York, ''There is always a risk that it would be leaked.'' Epstein owned two isles in the Virgin Islands worth a total of more than $86 million. One of the secluded Caribbean isles, Little St. James Island, was dubbed ''Pedophile Island'' by locals who said they witnessed a parade what looked like barely legal girls there. There are no details on the trust's beneficiaries. The court papers note that Epstein's only potential heir was his brother, Mark Epstein. But the will adds that Mark only had a claim to his brother's extensive holdings if Jeffrey hadn't left behind the document. Jeffrey Epstein had been sued by a multitude of sex accusers before his death, and the lawsuits are still piling on. The new legal documents note, ''Petitioners are investigating potential debts and claims of the Estate and at this time they are unknown.'' Cash: $56,547,773Fixed income: $14,304,679Equities: $112,679,138Hedge funds and private equity: $194,986,301Properties including: 9 E. 71st St., Manhattan, worth $55,931,000; 49 Zorro Ranch Road, Stanley, NM, $17,246,208; 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Fla., $12,380,209; 22 Avenue Foch, Paris, France, $8,672,823; Great St. James Island in the Virgin Islands, $22,498,600, and Little St. James Island, also there, $63,874,223.But the new papers also include a line for ''aviation assets, automobiles and boats,'' a collection worth $18,551,700. As for Epstein's famous, eccentric, sex-drenched art collection '-- ''fine arts, antiques, collectibles, valuables,'' according to the papers '-- that still needs to be appraised. While the will is new, it is not clear whether it superseded another. Its executors are two longtime Epstein employees: lawyer Darren Indyke and businessman Richard Kahn. A third man, Boris Nikolic, is listed as an alternate. The executors will receive $250,000 apiece for their work on the estate, in addition to ''reasonable'' expenses related to the job, the papers say. The men were unable to be reached by phone Monday.

Woman at Jeffrey Epstein's lair 'is former Australian PM Paul Keating's daughter' | Daily Mail Online Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:46 A mystery brunette seen with Prince Andrew in a bombshell video shot at Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion in December 2010 is Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating, her friends have told DailyMail.com. Keating, now 37, is the woman pictured leaving the Manhattan townhouse and being waved at by Prince Andrew nine years ago. A second photograph obtained by DailyMail.com showed her just minutes after leaving the apartment, standing on the corner of E71st Street and 5th Avenue. Her father Paul Keating's secretary told DailyMail.com he was 'aware of what the enquiry was about, but he would not be making a comment'. The video, first published by the Mail on Sunday, has plunged Prince Andrew into fresh controversy over his relationship with the pedophile, who took his own life earlier this month. The video was taken in December 2010, less than 24 hours before an infamous photograph of the two men strolling in Central Park, and two months after Katherine Keating had left Sydney to move to New York to be closer to her then partner Andre Balazs. Balazs, a hotelier and socialite, was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Balazs' name was found in Epstein's 'black book.' However, the likely presence of Keating in the video adds more intrigue, raising questions over what was happening in the townhouse that day. Keating was one of two brunette young women seen coming or going; so too was a young blonde girl who left with Epstein himself. There is no suggestion Keating was aware of or involved in any of Mr Epstein's criminal activities. She had been contacted multiple times for comment by DailyMail.com without responding. Key moment: At 4.40pm on December 6, 2010, an attractive brunette emerges from Epstein's house, pauses for a moment and turns around to the door. She is believed to be Katherine Keating, then 29, the daughter of a former Australian prime minister Carefree: The video showed Prince Andrew waving goodbye to a woman believed to be Katherine Keating, apparently unconcerned that he might be seen at the home of a convicted pedophile Round the corner: Katherine Keating was photographed minutes after leaving the pedophile's lair, standing on the corner of 5th Avenue and E71st Street, in a photograph newly obtained by DailyMail.com. She was carrying an Yves Saint Laurent Downtown tote, currently on sale at $1,085 Friends: Katherine Keating (circled) and Ghislaine Maxwell (second right) partied at a Dom Perignon-sponsored event in Maxwell's home in 2013, launching a social network called Ideapod. It is now a publishing and education platform. They were pictured with (second left) then Icelandic prime minister 'lafur Ragnar Gr­msson, his wife Dorritt Moussaieff and her daughter Sharon Couple: At the time the footage was taken at Epstein's pedophile lair, Katherine Keating was the girlfriend of hotelier Andre Balazs (center). Her sister Alex (left) joined them at a party for the Australians in New York Fashion Foundation Socialite: Katherine Keating partied in February 2014 with Princess Eugenie (second right), Prince Andrew's daughter, and (from left) Sting's eldest daughter Mickey Sumner and Misha Nonoo, the British-Iraqi fashion designer who is partly credited with introducing Prince Harry to her friend Megan Markle Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle with fashion designer Misha Nonoo, who reportedly arranged Meghan's blind date with Prince Harry At the time the photographs were taken, Epstein was already a convicted child sex offender, which would make him unusual company for Keating, whose father was the centre-left Australian prime minister from 1991 to 1996. Katherine Keating also once worked with the outspoken feminist journalist Gloria Steinem. Epstein '' who took his own life earlier this month '' was on a child sex offender register, yet one observer told The Mail on Sunday that several of the women leaving and entering the home while Andrew was apparently inside 'looked very young indeed'. The Duke has vehemently denied claims by Epstein's alleged 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts that she had sex with the Prince on three occasions, the first when she was 17 and once at the US millionaire's now-notorious 40-room mansion at 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan, the setting of these pictures. Her allegations, submitted to a court in 2014, were later thrown out by a judge who ordered them to be struck from the record as 'immaterial and impertinent'. Since Epstein's suicide last weekend - as he faced further child sex trafficking charges - Buckingham Palace has repeated its denial of wrongdoing by the Prince. 'Any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue. It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts,' it said. Keating was not said to be part of Epstein's circle until now. The source who disclosed the video to the Mail on Sunday described her as 'very pretty,' and said that the Prince said a few words to her. 'If I hadn't known it was Prince Andrew, I would have thought he owned the place. He looked so comfortable and relaxed as he stood there at the door,' the source said. 'He didn't appear to have a concern in the world as he smiled and waved goodbye to the girl. Katherine (left) is pictured with her father Paul and sister Caroline at the opening of a musical about the former prime minister in 2006 Keating moved to New York in 2010 to be with her then-boyfriend, hotelier Andre Balazs (left), who was 24 years her senior. Balazs was seen next to Ghislaine Maxwell (right) on a number of occasions at social events in New York, including this art exhibition opening in March, 2008 'It was only as the girl walked off that he glanced around the door frame, almost as if to check no one was watching.' Keating is a former political consultant to her father's Labor Party who moved to New York in 2010 to be with her then-boyfriend, hotelier Andre Balazs, 24 years her senior. But she has established herself as a New York socialite, Davos attendee and fashionable environmental campaigner since then, and described herself as a 'philanthropist.' She featured on the cover of The Australian's magazine The Deal in 2017 as 'Katherine the bold,' and boasted about choosing 'philanthropy' over politics. The Australian now works as head of 'sustainability' for Maverick, a talent agency which represents Sir Paul McCartney and U2, among others. Previously, however, she presented a series of interviews called One On One which were published by HuffingtonPost.com and which saw her interview Ghislaine Maxwell. The video interview has now been removed from the Huffington Post - although was still viewable on video-sharing websites - while others from the series were still online. They included interviews with former UK prime minister Tony Blair - a friend of her father - and Russell Simmons, the hip hop mogul who has faced sexual assault allegations but who helped fund the series. Keating, who was 29 when the video was shot, had recently moved to the U.S. to join Balazs, whose previous girlfriends include Uma Thurman and Chelsea Handler. The two have now split; they were said to have met when she was vacationing in New York in 2009. Intriguingly, the day after she was apparently videoed leaving Epstein's property, the New York Daily News revealed her relationship with Balazs and told how they had spent time together at the Art Basel art fair in Miami. First family: Katherine Keating (second left) was a teenager when her father Paul (second right) was Australian prime minister from 1991 to 1996. She has one brother Patrick (left) and two sisters, Caroline and Alexandra (right). Her parents separated in 1998 after 23 years of marriage and divorced a decade later Inside the 'madam's' lair: As well as apparently spending time in 2010 at Epstein's home, Katherine Keating partied in 2013 at Ghislaine Maxwell's E65th St Manhattan townhouse with Mark Bakacs (pictured with Keating), the founder of Ideapod, the social network the party was celebrating. His connection to Maxwell is unknown Balazs, 62, is the CEO of Andr(C) Balazs Properties, which owns Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont Hotel and London celebrity hotspot The Chiltern Firehouse. He also appears in Epstein's infamous little black book, which surfaced during court proceedings in 2015 and contains a list of names of up to 100 victims, as well as a sprinkling of famous associates. Keating later went on to date photographer Francesco Carrozzini, 36, the aristocratic son of the late Italian Vogue editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani. He was a co-executive producer of her video series and is now now married to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's daughter Bea Shaffer, 32. Keating is now believed to be single but when the two collaborated, they worked together on the interview with Maxwell. It saw her describe the accused procurer of underage girls for a the pedophile as 'a philanthropist' and discuss her work on The TerraMar Project '' an eco-initiative aimed at protecting the ocean, which was hastily shuttered after Epstein was hit with new charges in July. In it, Maxwell urged readers to sign a pledge to become 'ocean citizens' and railed about the sea becoming 'the world's dumping ground'. The One On One series was part of WorldPost, which was set up by Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and another Epstein associate, Nicolas Berggruen, a billionaire American-German businessman, whose name also appears in the financier's little black book. Berggruen, 58, is the founder of the Berggruen Institute. Keating continues to be described as a 'New Leader' on the 21st Century Council. According to its website, the Institute was 'established in 2010 to develop foundational ideas about how to reshape political and social institutions in the face of global change.' The interview was not Keating's first known encounter with Maxwell either; in September 2013, the pair were both photographed attending a party for the launch of New York based social media platform IdeaPod at Ghislaine's E65th street Manhattan home. Although Keating now lives in Los Angeles, California, during her time in New York she got to know designer Mischa Nonoo, who is a friend of Meghan Markle, and was photographed with her at a party at The Whitney Museum of American Art in April 2015. Keating currently holds a voluntary role as the vice-chair of the Whitney Museum's Performance Committee. In 2017 Keating became the publisher of VICE Impact, a channel of the website Vice.com which is now largely shuttered but which pushed calls for green policies. More friends: Keating was seen in 2015 with Misha Nonoo, the desginer who is a close friend of Meghan Markle, and with Tiffany & Co. design director Francesca Amfitheatrof, at an event for the Whitney Museum, where Keating sits on an advisory board She was given a brief to raise awareness of 'global social issues' such as climate change and women's empowerment, and wrote several articles on those themes. Speaking in a February 2018 interview with The Last Magazine about her role at Vice, she said her biggest hope was to persuade people to get out and vote and do more to champion social causes. She said: 'Having grown up in politics, personally I have always been in love with the political process and being engaged in politics. 'I never understood why people never made that connection of really valuing their vote. 'That's the thing that people should care about. This is not about forcing the things that I care about upon our audience. It's giving them the capabilities to be more active and engaged citizens.' However she left after shortly after that interview to join the talent agency Maverick as head of sustainability, where she continues to hold other roles. She currently sits on the 'Ambassador Council' at International Crisis Group, a non-profit founded by financier George Soros that describes itself as an 'independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.' The group's CEO from 2000 to 2009 was her father's foreign minister, Gareth Evans. She also sat on the advisory committee of the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 event, which brought a mix of artists, influencers and politicians to South Africa in December 2018 to celebrate Mandela's legacy and raise awareness of social issues. Her father was hardly a close friend of the royal family. He pushed for Australia to ditch Queen Elizabeth as head of state and become a republic - and in 1992 committed a protocol breach by putting his arm round the Queen at a reception. The gaffe earned him the nickname 'The Lizard of Oz' in British tabloid newspapers.

Nederlands ex-model: 'In mijn herinnering heb ik ook Epstein in het appartement gezien' Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:28 Op haar achttiende werd het Nederlandse model Thysia Huisman ontdekt door Jean-Luc Brunel, een grote naam in de Parijse modewereld. Hij zou van haar een superster maken. Het liep heel anders. 'žIk denk dat ik ook Epstein daar zag.'' Thysia Huisman, een voormalig Nederlands model, zegt op haar achttiende verkracht te zijn door een Fransman die een belangrijke schakel lijkt in het seksnetwerk van de Amerikaanse multimiljonair Jeffrey Epstein. De veronderstelde dader, Jean-Luc Brunel, zou een belangrijke 'leverancier' van jonge meisjes geweest zijn. De verkrachting vond volgens Huisman, nu 46, plaats in 1991 nadat ze gedrogeerd was. Brunel was een grote naam in de Parijse modewereld. Huisman hield het verhaal jarenlang voor zich ...

Jean-Luc Brunel gave Jeffrey Epstein three poor 12-year-old triplets from France as birthday present | Daily Mail Online Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:26 Jeffrey Epstein once had three 12-year-old girls flown in from France for him to abuse as a birthday present, according to unsealed court documents Jeffrey Epstein once had three 12-year-old girls flown in from France for him to abuse as a sadistic birthday present, unsealed court documents have alleged. The fresh allegations were made by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims she was recruited to be a 'sex slave' by the millionaire financier and his girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell when she was 15 in 1999. Giuffre made the allegations in a civil suit filed by the Miami US attorney's office in 2015. It sought to overturn the sweetheart plea bargain Epstein received in 2008, under which he served just 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor. She said that the French girls, believed to be sisters, were a gift from Epstein's longtime acquaintance and frequent guest Jean-Luc Brunel. 'Jeffrey bragged after he met them that they were 12-year-olds and flown over from France because they're really poor over there, and their parents needed the money or whatever the case is and they were absolutely free to stay and flew out,' Giuffre said. She said she saw the three girls with her own eyes and that Epstein had repeatedly described to her how the girls had massaged him and performed oral sex on him. They were flown back to France the next day. The fresh allegations were made by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims she was recruited to be a 'sex slave' by the millionaire financier and his girlfriend Ghislane Maxwell when she was 15 in 1999. Giuffre, 35, is seen holding a photo of her 16-year-old self The lawsuit filed by the Miami US attorney's office in 2015 claims that the French girls were a gift from Epstein's longtime acquaintance and frequent guest Jean-Luc Brunel (pictured) 'He was so excited about the entire event, replayed over and over again over the next course of weeks how cute they were and how you could tell they were really young,' she said. 'He went on to tell me how Brunel bought them in Paris from their parents, offering them the usual sums of money, visas, and modeling career prospects. 'Laughing the whole way through, Jeffrey thought it was absolutely brilliant how easily money seduced all walks of life, nothing or no one that couldn't be bought.' Another civil suit also involving Giuffre alleges that Brunel and Epstein recruited young girls from South America and Eastern Europe to have sex with him. Epstein invested $1million to help launch Brunel's Miami-based modeling firm MC2, in return for a 'supply of girls on tap', the suit claims. Brunel allegedly acquired illegitimate visas for underage girls from foreign countries and Epstein housed them at his brother's apartment in Manhattan. 'Jeffrey and Brunel would charge them for rent, forcing them to work for them selling their bodies for money, nude pictures, and even pornography,' Giuffre said in the suit. 'These were what seemed like really nice people with not so nice intentions setting an impression of how the dignified wealth play and behind closed doors they had as much civilized manners as a barbaric chimpanzee in heat. 'Giving a girl a step up in finances by teaching them their only worth is what lay between their legs, us girls all were the same in the end, regardless of what country we come from, what language we spoke or our cultural differences, we were all being used for one thing alone, our youthful looks and beautiful bodies.' Epstein was arrested last month on federal charges of orchestrating a sex trafficking ring and abusing dozens of underage girls, whom he paid hundreds of dollars in cash for massages. He was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10 after having pleaded not guilty to the charges. Epstein's death came 24 hours after more than 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls were unsealed. The documents pertained to a since-settled lawsuit that Giuffre had filed against Maxwell in 2015. The 35-year-old is one of Epstein's most high-profile accusers, claiming that she was forced to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew three times when she was 17 and went by Virginia Roberts. A photo of Andrew grinning with his arm around Roberts' bare midriff when she was a teenager, with Ghislaine behind them both, has become the defining image of the scandal. The royal has repeatedly denied Giuffre's allegations, which have been struck from the record by a US judge. Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell, has also denied that she acted as a 'madam' for Epstein and has described Giuffre's claims as 'malicious lies'. Giuffre currently lives in Australia with her husband and three children. Giuffre is one of Epstein's most high-profile accusers, claiming that she was forced to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew three times when she was 17 and went by Virginia Roberts. A photo of Andrew grinning with his arm around Roberts' bare midriff when she was a teenager, with Ghislaine behind them both, has become the defining image of the scandal (pictured) Giuffre's bombshell allegations were detailed in a 2015 lawsuit against one of Epstein's alleged accomplices, longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is pictured with him in 2005 Brunel is among the many associates of Epstein who are facing renewed scrutiny from US investigators in the wake of his death. Three former MC2 models told The Guardian they were sexually assaulted by Brunel in and nearby Paris throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Allegations of misconduct against the French model scout, 72, date back decades. He has never faced any legal action but is now back in the headlines as attention turns to friends of the deceased millionaire sex offender. In 2015, Brunel denied involvement 'directly or indirectly' in Epstein's crimes, telling the Guardian: 'I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work as a scouter or model agencies manager.' MC2 also denied any connection to Epstein's crimes and previously said Brunel no longer actively worked with the firm, despite the scout saying he still owned it in a 2015 legal case, which remains open. Brunel firmly established himself as one of the fashion industry's top players in the 1980s while working as a scout for Karin Models in Paris. He claims to have launched the careers of some of the era's most popular models, including Jerry Hall, Angie Everhart and Christy Turlington. Famed for his lively parties, it was at one such evening in September 1991 that Thysia Huisman, then aged 18, began feeling lightheaded after being given a drink by Brunel. The Dutch model, who was staying at Brunel's apartment near the Karin headquarters, claims the scout took her to his bedroom and raped her. A second former model, now 55, from America, spoke anonymously to the Guardian to allege that Brunel assaulted her outside Paris after scouting her in 1984. She recalled being alone with him on a night out after he falsely told her they were going to meet other people. She said he aggressively groped her before she was able to climb out a window and away from him. A third model, Courtney Soerensen of Stoneboro, Pennsylvania, met Brunel in Paris when she was 19 in 1988. She alleged that Brunel subjected her to several incidents of unwanted touching, hounded her for sex and ruined her career when she rejected him. DailyMail.com has reached out to Brunel's attorney Joe Titone for comment on the allegations against him. JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S ALLEGED VICTIMS VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE Virginia Roberts Giuffre is pictured above at a museum in New Mexico in 2001 in a photo snapped by Epstein) Virginia Roberts Giuffre is perhaps the most high-profile of Epstein's alleged victims. She claims she is a former sex slave of Epstein and says the millionaire asked her to be a surrogate when she was just 18, around the same time he said she was too old for his sexual perversions. Her allegations were made public when her since-settled lawsuit against Epstein's former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell was included among the more than 2,000 pages of documents made public by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a deposition included in the newly released papers, Giuffre said that her father, who worked at Mar-a-Lago as a maintenance manager, got her a job there in summer 2000 as a locker room attendant at the club's spa when she was 16. She said she was reading a book on massage therapy one day when she was approached by Maxwell, who noticed the book and told her she knew someone seeking a traveling masseuse. When Giuffre said she had no experience or credentials, she recalled Maxwell said: 'We can train you. We can get you educated.' The court records contain graphic allegations against Epstein, portraying him as a sex slave-driver with an insatiable appetite for underage girls. 'My whole life revolved around just pleasing these men and keeping Ghislaine and Jeffrey happy,' Giuffre said. 'Their whole entire lives revolved around sex.' Giuffre said Maxwell instructed her to take off her clothes and give oral sex to Epstein the first time she met him after bringing her to Epstein's Florida home near Mar-a-Lago with the expectation she would be trained as a masseuse. Prosecutors have not accused Maxwell of any wrongdoing. They say they continue to investigate. In her own deposition, Maxwell called the claims another one of Giuffre's 'many fictitious lies and stories to make this a salacious event to get interest and press. It's absolute rubbish.' Giuffre managed to escape, after being sent to Thailand for her 19th birthday to take a massage course. She now lives with her husband and children in Australia. JENNIFER ARAOZ Jennifer Araoz (pictured left as a teenager, and right in 2019) claims she was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was hit with a lawsuit from Jennifer Araoz on July 23 of this year. Araoz, now 32, claims she was 15-years-old when she met Epstein after a 'recruiter' targeted her outside of her Manhattan high school and lured her to the millionaire's house, located several blocks away. For the next year, Epstein allegedly manipulated Araoz into giving him massages that ended with him masturbating while he showered her with gifts and cash. The illicit contact ended after Epstein 'forcibly raped' her, according to Araoz. Araoz claims she dropped out of school to avoid Epstein and her life quickly deteriorated. She is seeking damages for her emotional injuries. JOHANNA SJOBERG Johanna Sjoberg is pictured in 2007 One of the women who alleges she was 'lured' to Jeffrey Epstein's New York City mansion says the multimillionaire sex offender told her he needed to have 'three orgasms a day.' 'It was biological, like eating,' Epstein is alleged to have told Johanna Sjoberg. Sjoberg's testimony was revealed after a federal appeals court on Friday unsealed about 2,000 pages of documents related to Epstein, the financier facing charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls. The documents were released by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, as part of a defamation lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, against Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime friend of Epstein. Sjoberg gave statements in a deposition as part of a lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She said that she was recruited by Maxwell in 2001, when she was a student at Palm Beach Atlantic College. Sjoberg was under the impression she was being hired as a personal assistant, but she soon realized her job was to provide 'sexual massages' to Epstein. According to The New York Times, Sjoberg was 'punished' when Epstein failed to orgasm as a result of one of her massages. Giuffre alleges that Maxwell recruited her when she was 16 years old to be Epstein's 'sex slave.' The lawsuit was settled in 2017 while the terms were kept confidential. JENA-LISA JONES Jena-Lisa Jones (left) stated on Saturday: 'God will have his judgement now'. Michelle Licata (right) said: 'I just wanted him to be held accountable for his actions' Jena-Lisa Jones claims she was just 14 years old when she was allegedly molested by Epstein in Florida. The purported incident, which occurred in the mid-2000s, left Jones feeling traumatized. 'You beat yourself up mentally and physically,' the now-30 year old previously told The Miami-Herald. Jones has become one of the first women to speak out following news of Epstein's death. 'God will have his judgement now,' she told NBC. COURTNEY WILD Alleged victim Courtney Wild (left) is pictured with her lawyer. She claims she was just 14 years old when she met Epstein Last year, Courtney Wild told The Miami Herald that she first met Jeffrey Epstein in 2002, when she 14-years-old and still wearing braces. She alleges that she helped recruit underage girls for the financier for seven years, alleging that he preferred those who were 'white and easy to manipulate'. 'By the time I was 16, I had probably brought him 70 to 80 girls who were all 14 and 15 years old... He wanted as many girls as I could get him. It was never enough,' she told the paper. Wild was wracked with guilt following her association with Epstein and her life fell apart. She served three years in prison on drugs charges and was only released in November of last year. MICHELLE LICATA AND ANNIE FARMER Michelle Licata (left) and Annie Farmer (right) say they were both victims of Jeffrey Epstein Michelle Licata claims she was a 16-year-old virgin living in Florida when she was recruited by a high-school friend to give 'massages' to Epstein. Soon after arriving at the millionaire's Florida mansion, she says she felt uncomfortable and he allegedly began calling her 'beautiful and sexy and gorgeous'. She described an encounter with Epstein to The Miami Herald in excruciating detail last year. Believing she was going to give the financier an innocent massage, she was left traumatized when he began masturbating in front of her. 'He kept trying to put his fingers inside me and told me to pinch his nipples. He was mostly saying 'just do that, harder, harder and do this... 'He ruined my life and a lot of girls' lives,' Licata told the paper last year. Meanwhile, Annie Farmer said she was 16 when she met Epstein in New York. 'He was inappropriate with me,' she told reporters earlier this month, although she did not disclose further details. She was one of Epstein's alleged victims who appeared in court on July 15 urging a judge to keep the millionaire behind bars, rather than release him on bail. UNNAMED 15-YEAR-OLD SWEDISH GIRL Court documents also revealed that a 15-year-old Swedish girl was allegedly confined to Epstein's private island (pictured) and kept there as a sex slave Court documents also revealed that a 15-year-old Swedish girl was allegedly confined to Epstein's private island and kept there as a sex slave. The horrific allegations were made by a butler who worked for hedge fund millionaire Glenn Dubin and his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin. During a 2016 deposition which was revealed publicly for the first time on Friday, the butler, Rinaldo Rizzo, tearfully described seeing a 15-year-old girl in his boss's kitchen in 2005. Rizzo testified in his deposition that the girl was brought to the home by Maxwell and Epstein, who were visiting the Dubins. Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden, once dated Epstein. The butler said that the girl reminded him of other girls he saw at Epstein's home. Rizzo said the girl sat in a stool next to a kitchen counter in the Dubins' home. She was 'distraught and shaking...literally quivering' as she described her treatment at the hands of Epstein's alleged madam, and her assistant, Sarah Kellen, in the US Virgin Islands. He claims he told her that they had demanded sex from her and taken away her passport and threatened her when she refused. Rizzo testified in a deposition which was part of Giuffre's defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell. Giuffre also accused Glenn Dubin of participating in the sex-trafficking ring, according to court documents. The Dubins have denied these allegations, with a spokesperson for the couple telling DailyMail.com: 'Glenn and Eva Dubin are outraged by the allegations against them in the unsealed court records and categorically reject them.'

La Danse Mossad: Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, by Jennifer Matsui | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:53 There are issues concerning Jeffrey Epstein's life that are far more important than how he died. From Jennifer Matsui at counterpunch.org: Photograph Source: Dutch National Archive '' CC0 Media tycoon and former Labour MP Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime) was given a state funeral in Jerusalem after *accidentally* falling off his yacht '' the unluckily named ''Lady Ghislaine''. Later it was revealed Maxwell Sr was a Mossad asset who used his vast network of connections and publishing platforms to run editorial interference over his purchased assets to influence enemies and friends alike, ensuring their fealty to the foreign government that had enlisted him for its espionage work. His tabloid empire was the piss-colored propaganda organ of the interests he served, overseeing its rapid growth and tentacled reach across the globe. More ominously, he was behind the spy agency's successful attempt to install a trapdoor in software intended for government use, allowing the Israelis a direct pipeline into a vast network of computers installed with undectable malware. At the time of his death, the disgraced magnate was under investigation for raiding his companies' pension funds to cover the losses incurred from his multiple and reckless takeovers, and finance a luxury lifestyle he enjoyed sharing with high profile pals like Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. Curiously, many of these fossilized specimens from Robert Maxwell's roster of friends from the Reagan era would circle around Epstein, most notably Donald Trump whose Mar-a-Lago resort would later become a recruiting center for employer Epstein's underage ''massage therapists''. Fast forward a couple of decades since the days a casino mogul was gobbling down canap(C)s with the old guard denizens of the 'swamp'. Notice a similar, if not identical MO in both Maxwell and Epstein's role in procuring technology for the Israelis, who in turn sold it with undisclosed add-ons, providing an open window into its users' databases. Like his predecessor, Epstein had a financial stake in a startup (headed by former Israeli Defense Minister and later Prime Minister Ehud Barak) connected to Israel's defense industry that provides infrastructure for emergency services as a call handling platform. Considering the company's connection to military intelligence, it wouldn't be a stretch to speculate on some of this software's other 'special' features. A variation of the early technology that Maxwell was able to procure for his Israeli bosses was later sold to the Saudis, who leveraged its sophisticated tracking features to assassinate Jamal Khashoggi. Epstein, like Maxwell, was laying the groundwork for Israeli espionage activities through his interests in companies with a political agenda concealed in products intended for international export. If true, the playboy philanthropist feted and flattered his high profile friends to ensnare them as complicit partners in what amounts to the legal definition of treason. Epstein's covert activities have undiminished real world consequences for anyone on Israel's international radar, especially those challenging the status quo policies in place that prioritize ''The Jewish State's'' political and financial objectives over actual justice and global stability. If you have ever asked yourself why Israel's war crimes and settlement expansion go unchallenged by US lawmakers, consider the career destroying consequences contained within those dossiers compiled by the braintrust behind Epstein's 'suicide'. ''We'll trade you one US Embassy in Jerusalem for 10 minutes of hidden camera footage of you . . . let's say 'enjoying' a rolled up Forbes magazine''. Were the surveillance apparatuses installed throughout Epstein's properties merely a voyeur's tools, or did he use them to leverage the moral failings of his former friends for purposes that might have risked exposure of more than the nether regions of wealthy pedo-punters? Considering his connections to Israeli defense industries and his own Achilles penis that required, by his own admission, ''three orgasms a day'', the answer points to an unslakable addiction that dovetailed conveniently with his state-sponsored sex crimes. Did Epstein make the same mistake of Maxwell (who had asked for nearly half a billion dollar in ''loans'' from his Israeli backers to relieve him of his mounting debts) believing the dirt he had in his possession would prove radioactive if released? By this time, the corpulent tycoon was nicknamed the 'Bouncing Czech' a reference in most part to his worsening money woes. The implication of this request, if turned down, was the exposure of Israel's state secrets. Epstein could have also attempted to collateralize the cache of damning evidence still in his possession to secure his his freedom with the same fatal consequences. Both Maxwell and Epstein somehow evaded the electronics that linked them to the outside world at the time of their deaths, even though the latter had reportedly made an attempt on his own life while in custody. Both men, facing ruination and serious prison time gave their executioners an alibi: They had nothing to left to live for. The establishment media is already trotting out ancient, ding-a-ling conspiracy theories from obscure right wing sources (attributed to Russia, of course) to highlight the absurdity and futility of questioning the official story of Epstein's death. Verdict: Nothing to see here. By now, it's a given that the parasitic and preferred daughter of the deceased tycoon, made the fateful introduction between her new boyfriend and the Israeli operatives seeking an entry level plutocrat to carry out their blackmail operations after the untimely death of his predecessor. An impoverished socialite has to survive in pricey Manhattan somehow, and that somehow was re-establishing the shady connections to the espionage underworld that had recruited Maxwell Sr. Ghislaine's later role as Epstein's Chief Procurement Officer (or pimp for short) gives more credence to the rumors that she is more than just a debased, barnacle-like appendage to a billionaire, desperate to please her platonic partner by ''organizing his social life'', but a fully cognizant co-conspirator in an operation aimed at strengthening Israel's hand in all matters pertaining to its national security interests, or more accurately, its overseas criminal enterprises. The recent raid on Epstein's Manhattan apartment was not the result of a so-called Justice Department righting the egregious wrong it committed by letting Epstein off with a slap on the wrist after his initial conviction that allowed him to serve his sentence largely outside the minimum-security facility with an open door policy for its billionaire guest. More likely, the reversal of Epstein's ''sweetheart'' deal was a joint operation between the oligarch cabal informally known as the Mega-Group, and the state security apparatuses that do their bidding. It's seems likely that this sudden pivot towards justice from a Justice Department initially spooked into inaction by the spook in his custody, was motivated by the need to remove the most damning bits among Epstein's vast trove of physical evidence against the pervy punters who visited his island getaway for unintended photo ops with underage girls. Perhaps his own abuse of these minors was a perk he felt entitled to, and one that would be overlooked in the service of ''national security''. It's hard for most people to differentiate between the government he actually worked for and the ruling establishment on his home turf. It's possible that Epstein felt his serial transgressions were merely par for the plutocracy and justified in the service of a higher calling. The 'Israel First' philanthropist shared an unyielding ideological justification for his own criminality as Robert Maxwell, whom the British Home Office had considered recruiting for its own intelligence gathering in the mid 1960's. Having determined that the well-connected, multilingual, rising star politician was strictly ''Zionist'', the spy agency withdrew his candidacy. Epstein's real crimes had little to do with raping children, despite the overturned plea deal that came about when a federal judge ruled that prosecutors had violated the victims rights by by concealing the agreement from them. The one time teflon-coated ''member of intelligence'' who was ''above the pay grade'' of a powerful District Attorney (now a now scandal-tainted former Labor Secretary) was ultimately (and lethally) penalized for not destroying the contents of his secret-laden safes, leaving his handlers still vulnerable to their explosive contents. Had the doomed financier divested himself of the toxic assets still in his possession, he might still be roaming the earth today, scouring it for new specimens to populate his underage petting zoo. As a result of the Justice Department's decision to reverse the non-prosecution deal meant to bury the most incendiary facts of the case, lower-rung punters like former governor Bill Richardson and Senator George Mitchell are being publicly named for their part in the sordid scandal. Someone has to take the fall. (Rule number one of PR crisis management: Crucify the insignificant and let them hang out to dry until the public tires of watching the slow motion spectacle of their undoing.) Meanwhile, documented and/or photographic evidence against more powerful players like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will have already been destroyed in the pursuit of selective justice. The fallout of Epstein's spectacular downfall predictably miss the mark as scandals involving the rich and powerful tend to do. Much of the controversy will dissolve into a Cheetoh dust maelstrom of disinformation, disseminated on Reddit and 4Chan by incel info-warriors before shooting up a shopping mall or playground. Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes in their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn '' himself a serial sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you'll discover an ancestral link between the corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell. Along with the other disgraced and expendable patsies left in the wake of this ongoing scandal is Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's octogenarian chief legal counsel and 'wing man' aboard the Lolita Express. The now unemployable cable news pundit will live out the remainder of his pointless life under a cloud of suspicion. Despite all the damning testimony against him, the statutory rape allegations never quite stick, but follow him around like a sneaky fart, forcing a distance between himself and the rest of humanity that will last until he is engulfed by the sulfurous fumes of his own making. The former Harvard law professor's lifelong service to Israel will go unrewarded '' not as a result of victim testimony placing him at multiple crime scenes, but in consideration of his own inept self-defense strategy: ''I'm a scurvy rat aboard a sinking ship eating its own tail to stay alive. Pity me''! Dershowitz at this point will be lucky if he can achieve the same pay grade and social status of Lindsay Lohan. Ditto for Prince Andrew who can at least be relied on to expire slowly of gout in his time-out corner at Windsor Castle. The moral of this story could be ''Lie down with dogs and never wake up agan with a prison-issued sheet around your neck''. A variation of the old ''Lie down with dogs and and wake up as fish food''.

Gerald B. Lefcourt - Wikipedia Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:35 Gerald B. Lefcourt NationalityAmericanOccupationAttorney Spouse(s) Robin Lewis LefcourtChildren3Gerald B. Lefcourt is a criminal defense lawyer with a reputation for taking on unpopular and high-profile clients, including a co-defendant of Michael Milken[citation needed ], financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,[1] the Black Panthers, activist/author Abbie Hoffman, hotelier Harry Helmsley, former Speaker of the New York State Assembly Mel Miller, and actors Russell Crowe[2] and Tracy Morgan. He was a featured personality in the 2006 documentary Giuliani Time. His victories have included a full acquittal of rap mogul and Murder, Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti on federal money laundering charges. Lefcourt was an attorney of "aider and abettor" non-KMPG employee David Amir Makov,[3] in the 2008 federal KPMG tax shelter fraud prosecution, believed to be the largest tax fraud case ever brought in the history of the United States.[citation needed ][4] In 2007, while criminal defense lawyers were finalizing Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal, Epstein donated $250,000 to the Washington-based Foundation for Criminal Justice where Gerald Lefcourt, was a board member in 2007, public filings show.[5] Biography [ edit ] Lefcourt graduated Brooklyn Law School, class of 1967, and heads a four-lawyer firm in New York City that specializes in criminal defense.[6] Considered one of the nation's best trial lawyers and a leading spokesman of the defense bar, he is past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New York Criminal Bar Association, and a founder of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Lefcourt is also a lecturer and panelist and has authored publications on legal subjects including asset forfeiture, legal ethics, wire-tapping, plea bargaining, subpoenas to lawyers, and representation of grand jury witnesses. He was named as among the finest NY trial attorneys by the New York Law Journal's 1983 "Who's Who in Criminal Defense Bar", and received the New York State Bar's Outstanding Practitioner Award in 1985 and 1993, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' highest honor, the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, in 1993. In 1997 he was presented the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award by The New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Personal life [ edit ] Lefcourt is married to Robin Lewis Lefcourt. Mr. Lefcourt has a son, Jeffrey Lefcourt,[7] and two daughters, Karen Lefcourt-Taylor and Alison Lefcourt. References [ edit ] ^ Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight, Vanity Fair, Vicky Ward, March 2003. Retrieved July 10, 2019. ^ Wilson, Michael; Jacobs, Andrew (June 6, 2005). "Russell Crowe Charged With Assault in Tiff With Hotel Clerk". The New York Times . Retrieved September 2, 2010 . ^ U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York v. Jeffrey Stein, et al, Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2019. ^ Browning, Lynnley (2008-12-17). "3 Convicted in KPMG Tax Shelter Case". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-08-04 . ^ Vincent, Isabel (2019-08-04). "Jeffrey Epstein lavished cash on lawyers' charities after sweetheart plea deal". New York Post . Retrieved 2019-08-04 . ^ Gilpin, Kenneth N. (January 12, 1993). "Plea Deal For Trader Unravels". The New York Times . Retrieved September 2, 2010 . ^ "Heather Hitchcock, Jeffrey Lefcourt". The New York Times. August 6, 2006. External links [ edit ] Official website

Jeffrey Epstein news: Financier's New Mexico ranch still hasn't been raided by federal agents - CBS News Archived Version Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:34 Santa Fe, New Mexico '-- Days after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein apparently hanged himself in jail, agents raided his private resort in the Virgin Islands. As of Wednesday evening, they haven't checked out his sprawling Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. According to multiple alleged victims, it played a key role in the convicted pedophile's alleged sexual abuse dating back to at least the mid-90's. Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre has said she was trafficked to the ranch as an underage sex slave, sharing photos of herself on the property taken when she was about 17. An accuser, identified as "Priscilla Doe" claimed in a new lawsuit Tuesday that Epstein coerced her to engage in sex acts there between 2007 and 2010. CBS News obtained exclusive photos of Epstein's "Zorro Ranch" CBS News It's those alleged crimes that prompted State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard to do something unusual for a land administrator: turn over more than 400 pages of records to state prosecutors probing those alleged crimes. "I know that there are nominal cows that were run on this ranch. But no, it's not your typical ranching operation in New Mexico," she said. "I certainly think there was a veil of secrecy. Access to state land was very secure and prohibited almost." It was there that Epstein allegedly said he ''hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women." The ranch is the only Epstein property in the U.S. that has not yet been raided by federal agents. In the meantime, the state attorney general's office said it will turn over any evidence to the Southern District of New York, which, despite Epstein's death, is continuing the investigation into his possible co-conspirators. Lawsuit claims Epstein arranged for sex while on work release (C) 2019 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Trump Highlights Research Showing Google Shifted Millions of Votes to Clinton in 2016 Archived Version Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:06 President Donald Trump drew attention to research that shows the sway Google holds over election results, after a former engineer for the company came forward with a pile of internal documents that suggest political interference. ''Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!'' Trump wrote on Aug. 19. ''This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought!'' Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @JudicialWatch '-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2019 Trump was most likely referring to the work of Robert Epstein, a research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California, who's studied for years about how much influence Google has on its users' political views and voting. In a Feb. 18, 2016, essay, Epstein said that Google had ''the power to drive between 2.6 million and 10.4 million votes to Clinton on Election Day, with no one knowing that this is occurring and without leaving a paper trail.'' Based on his monitoring of Google search results on Election Day 2016 and in the weeks prior, Epstein determined that there was indeed a pro-Clinton bias in the results and that 2.6 million votes were shifted. He said he personally supported Clinton in the race. A Google executive told Congress in July that the company's products are designed and operated to be politically neutral. CriticismWhile Google previously criticized Epstein's research as ''flawed,'' Epstein responded by saying Google failed to rebut his arguments in substance. He's been told that Google has spread messaging to the effect that his study was based on 21 undecided voters. ''That is not true,'' he told The Epoch Times. The study was based on more than 13,000 searches preserved from 95 field agents in 24 states. Of those, 21 agents identified themselves as undecided voters, but that was irrelevant to the results, since the search terms prepared for the study were determined by an independent group of raters as neutral, he said. Political preferences of the agents thus had no effect on what they typed into Google. Furthermore, the results proved significant in statistical analysis, indicating that the number of agents didn't undermine them. ''The probability that we got our results based on chance alone was less than one in a thousand,'' Epstein said. The study built on experiments with ''tens of thousands of participants in five national elections in four countries,'' he said, that showed Google's power to sway undecided voters by giving more or less prominence to search results favorable to different candidates. Epstein said he didn't know why Trump referred to 16 million in his tweet. ''I've never said that.'' He said the broad range of his estimate'--2.6 million to 10.4 million votes shifted to Clinton'--was due to there being ways for Google to ''increase the magnitude of the effects'' it had on voters by, for instance, targeting certain voters or by voters exposing themselves to the biased results multiple times. Trump's tweet also included a reference to the Twitter account of Judicial Watch, a right-leaning government watchdog. ''We interpret President Trump's tweet as encouragement that Judicial Watch investigate this issue as part of our Election Integrity Project,'' Judicial Watch spokeswoman Jill Farrell told The Epoch Times via email. Leaked DocumentsEpstein's research has been recently highlighted because of his congressional testimony on July 16. In recent days, he's offered comments and analysis on the nearly 1,000 pages of internal documents released on Aug. 14 by former Google software engineer Zachary Vorhies. In an Aug. 14 interview with Breitbart Radio, Epstein claimed that Google executives have committed perjury by telling Congress the company doesn't ''rerank'' search results and doesn't have blacklists. Epstein pointed out that the trove of leaked documents includes two blacklists. One of the lists, marked as ''manual'''--meaning made by humans'--contains a number of fringe political websites, of which most appear to lean right. It also includes some mainstream conservative-leaning websites such as dailycaller.com, and news watchdog newsbusters.org. The blacklist indicates the sites are blocked from the feed that shows up below the search bar in the Google mobile app. The list marks many of the sites as having a ''high user block rate.'' It's not clear why these sites would need to be blacklisted manually if a high block rate alone automatically placed them on the list. Epstein also noted that one of the leaked documents describes how to create a ''twiddler'''--a program that tweaks search results by, for example, pushing certain results up and others down, based on criteria specified by the programmer. ''They literally rerank search results to meet their ever-changing needs, and some of those needs are political needs,'' Epstein said. The documents that Vorhies provided, together with his explanations and hidden camera recordings by Project Veritas of other Google employees, indicate that the company has created a concept of ''algorithmic fairness,'' through which it infuses the political preferences of its mostly left-leaning workforce into its products. Several studies have shown that the Google News product is biased to the left. Epstein warned that in 2020, if companies such as Google and Facebook all support the same candidate, they will be able to shift 15 million votes'--a margin surpassed by only a handful of presidents. Update: The article has been updated with information from an interview with Robert Epstein, with further information about President Donald Trump's tweet, and with a response from Judicial Watch. Follow Petr on Twitter: @petrsvab

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