Epstein files keep on giving

[ZoWie]

Wasserman is under growing pressure to resign as LA Olympic chair. The mayor of LA is demanding that he do it. I have an excuse not to drop my life savings on Olympic tickets.

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King Charles reacts to arrest of his brother, former Prince Andrew: "The law must take its course"

King Charles III said Thursday that "the law must take its course" following the arrest of his brother, former Prince Andrew.

Charles said in a statement he had "learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-charl ... ce-andrew/

[ZoWie]

More Epstein related scandals in England, and it's not just sex this time. A member of the House of Lords has been arrested for leaking sensitive information to Epstein.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cew8jde9pxqt

Peter Mandelson was seen being led from his London home by police and taken away in an unmarked car shortly before 16:30

A short time later, the Met Police said it had arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of misconduct in public office and had taken him to a London police station for interview

Earlier this month, the Met said it was carrying out a criminal investigation into Mandelson, and officers searched his homes in Wiltshire and Camden

That followed the release of emails by the US Department of Justice (DoJ), which led to allegations that Mandelson had forwarded market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein when he was business secretary under Gordon Brown

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Epstein-dogged Larry Summers to quit teaching at Harvard

Fallout from the Epstein files across elite circles of academia deepened Wednesday when Larry Summers, a former treasury secretary and the ex-president of Harvard University, said he will resign from his teaching appointments at the end of the academic year.

Summers has been on leave since November, when a cache of emails released by the House Oversight Committee revealed the extent of his close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Summers subsequently retreated from his public commitments, and since then, documents from the Justice Department’s Epstein files containing the two men’s correspondences have further damaged Summers’ reputation.

https://www.ms.now/news/ex-treasury-sec ... stein-ties

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Nobel Prize winner named in Epstein files steps down at Columbia University brain institute

Dr Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist at Columbia University, has become the latest big name to emerge in the continuing aftershocks of the US Department of Justice releasing millions of files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Axel, whose work Columbia said “has transformed the understanding of how the brain perceives the world and has also led to the production of life-saving protein-based therapy,” said he has stepped down as co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) after his name figured in the Epstein files.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/no ... id/2148893

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imagine how many people are, and were, known to frequent his parties...from coast to coast, from boat to plane,
he didnt have parties, per se. id give him a holler..hey anything going on this weekend?? which location?
there are a lot of names wondtering if and when their names come up.
if you did nothing awful to fret you can be on the lists of those who know and worry less.

im looking to read magat1 is gay. women are for sex men are for play.

[ZoWie]

That's what's good about all this. Just about everyone you've heard of who has a net worth over half a billion is on the list somewhere. You know, of course, that half the Epstein documents were never released even after the law ordered them released, and that the unredacted names we do have on the ones we did get to see are the result of some overworked drone at a computer terminal missing a line. They are small leaks from a very large bucket.

It's a good old-fashioned class-based scandal is what it is. People with power getting away with stuff that ordinary people used to get hanged for. This sort of thing started half the revolutions in Europe. It's going to keep on giving here too.

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Videos of Bill and Hillary Clinton's Epstein testimony released by House committee

Washington — Former President Bill Clinton, in an hours-long deposition before the House Oversight Committee last week, denied any knowledge of the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell but provided lawmakers with a window into how and why he came to know the convicted sex offender and his accomplice.

The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of last week's depositions with both Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its investigation into Epstein. Hillary Clinton testified last Thursday, while Bill Clinton appeared before the committee a day later. The video of Bill Clinton's testimony runs 4 hours and 33 minutes, while Hillary Clinton's testimony is 4 hours and 35 minutes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-clint ... committee/

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Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant, tells Congress he didn't know about abuse, saw no red flags in spending

An accountant who worked closely with Jeffrey Epstein for more than a decade and serves as an executor of his estate told members of Congress on Wednesday that he "was not aware of the nature or extent of Epstein's abuse of so many women until after Epstein's death."

Richard Kahn was one of Epstein's closest associates in his final years, managing his finances, investments and other minutiae, such as renovations on Epstein's private Caribbean island. He was subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee, and testified behind closed doors that he did not socialize with Epstein.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-ka ... testimony/

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Leon Black, billionaire financier, to be deposed in Epstein victims' suit against Bank of America

Leon Black, former CEO of Apollo Global Management and an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was ordered to be deposed in a lawsuit brought by women who allege that Bank of America facilitated and profited from Epstein’s sex-trafficking enterprise.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled Wednesday in New York that Black will give sworn testimony later this month. The deposition is expected to last up to eight hours, with five hours allocated for the victims' legal team and three hours for Bank of America lawyers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/le ... rcna263218

[rainwater]

this topic has been ignored lately

[ZoWie]

Wag the Dog.

Started out with a title card: "It has been said that a dog wags its tail because it is smarter than the tail. If the tail were smarter than the dog, the tail would wag the dog."

As I noted when all this started, that movie was about a president who declared a fake war with Albania to distract from a sex scandal. There remains a very real possibility that the real war with half the Middle East was at least partially intended to distract from a sex scandal, not to mention the fact that otherwise Netanyahu would be on trial for corruption.