Thank you all for tuning in for a great conversation with Julie K. Brown who wrote the Miami Herald’s excellent series “Perversion of Justice”, which was critical in getting the Justice Department to finally focus on Epstein’s crimes - and then those of Ghislaine Maxwell.
Our 30 minute chat, above, touches on the things that we have round striking about this latest release of Epstein files.
Julie’s been interested in the highlighting of Maxwell’s role in Epstein’s crimes, something she thinks most people still don’t really understand.
We are both curious about redactions, omissions, pages suddenly pulled from the site.
I’m wondering why there isn’t more on Les Wexner, Epstein’s benefactor for so many years.
And I also wonder why Melanie Walker’s name is redacted. She’s the Epstein protege who went on to become a neuroscientist, a World Bank board member, and the partner of Steve Sinofsky, the former number two at Microsoft. As I reported for Rolling Stone, she talked up Epstein in Gates’ world. So, Gates’ advisor, Boris Nickolic went to meet with Epstein after he got out of prison. And Nikolic, in turn, suggested Bill Gates meet with him. Something, one suspects, Gates is no longer grateful for, given the draft email that’s just turned up in the finals and whose contents he has robustly denied.
We get into the role that the victims’ lawyers have played in a larger context; we anticipate Maxwell will plead the fifth amendment next Monday when she testifies to Congress. And we take a wager on whether or not Trump will pardon her when he leaves office.
That, and much more.
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