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[fraurosena]

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[WiseGirl]

 

[WiseGirl]

 

[fraurosena]

She tried to hide the fact that she is married...

 

[fraurosena]

Holy shit! If they can't eliminate the accused, they'll go for the judge...

 

[hoipolloi]

2 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Holy shit! If they can't eliminate the accused, they'll go for the judge...

 

No, it appears that the murderer was a men's rights lawyer who has since killed himself.

[Xan]

1 hour ago, hoipolloi said:

No, it appears that the murderer was a men's rights lawyer who has since killed himself.

I honestly still think this is suspicious.  If he was solely trying to murder the judge due to "men's rights", I think he'd have come into the house and tracked her down.  Fortunately, they sent a hit man who was too stupid and unstable to do the job.

I think  "men's rights" is a cover story.  Everything about Epstein's arrest and trial have been skeevy.  I hope they've got decent protection for Ghislaine -- only because I want her to tell everything she knows.  After that, they can put her in jail and throw away the key.

[WiseGirl]

Imagine that. Ties to Russia.

 

 

[WiseGirl]

And he left a paper trail. A 45 supporter as well.

From the article "...attacked that judge by name in misogynistic, racist writings he wrote over a period of years and posted in bulk on the Internet Archive. Den Hollander, who describes himself as a Trump volunteer in his writings..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/judge-esther-salas-shooting-suspect-left-pro-trump-paper-trail/614425/

[fraurosena]

According to the Daily Mail:

Ghislaine Maxwell hired Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her

She also (allegedly) conspired with Barr to get rid of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman (of the SDNY).

However, as this is the Daily Fail, I hesitate to believe the full veracity of all these claims.

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Ghislaine Maxwell hired fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to smear her and Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, a former friend has told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview.

As part of a $25,000 deal made in June, Wohl and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman also allegedly pushed to get New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had led Epstein's case, fired in order to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell.  

Wohl and Burkman are far-right lobbyists who have become a laughing stock in DC after several failed attempts to smear top political figures including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Cruz, Robert Mueller and Dr. Anthony Fauci by paying women to make false claims of sordid affairs and drug-dealing.

One of the women they tried to use for their smear plots, Maryland model and paralegal Kristin Spealman, told the Daily mail the men had been hired by Maxwell, who currently faces trial over charges she and Epstein trafficked underage girls for sex.

Spealman, 36, said the lobbyists bragged to her they had been hired in early June for $25,000 to dig up dirt on Maxwell's alleged sex trafficking victims and to get Berman fired using Burkman’s supposed influence with Attorney General William Barr.

Berman ultimately stepped down after a push from Barr. But less than two weeks later, Maxwell was charged on July 2 as being part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring and taken into custody. 

When contacted for comment Wohl told the Daily Mail that Maxwell ‘deserves representation’.

‘Every person, even those accused of the most odious of crimes, deserves representation and possesses the right to engage lobbyists to petition the government on their behalf,’ the 22-year-old said. ‘Otherwise, we cannot comment on client matters.’

Burkman similarly [said]: 'All persons accused of crimes--however terrible--have the right to representation and representation in the court of public opinion.' 

The Daily Mail has contacted Maxwell's lawyers for comment. 

Federal documents filed this month show a company linked to Maxwell had hired Wohl and Burkman to lobby on ‘issues relating to US DOJ, Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary,’ the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

A form filed with the US Senate by Burkman’s company, J M Burkman & Associates, on July 3 under the Lobbying Disclosure Act shows Wohl and Burkman were hired by 'Granite Realty LLC,' a frequent misspelling of Granite Reality - the company linked to Maxwell.

New York prosecutors say the firm is connected to Maxwell, with the LLC linked to her purchase of a New Hampshire house where she was arrested on July 2 - the day before Burkman’s lobbying disclosure was filed.

New Hampshire property records show Granite Reality paid $1,070,000 cash in December for the home, aptly named Tuckedaway.

Maxwell used a fake name and the ‘carefully anonymized LLC’, set up just weeks before the purchase, to buy the house while she hid from law enforcement, prosecutors in her New York sex trafficking case said.

Wohl and Burkman told Spealman that Maxwell also used the secretive LLC to hire them as lobbyists around early June, the model claimed.

‘Her company Granite Realty LLC hired them to first get rid of the US attorney Jeffrey Berman,’ the paralegal said, referring to the name of the company the way it was spelled on the document. 

‘She wanted him fired. And then I guess she assumed the charges would go away or maybe she wouldn’t be prosecuted. I think that was the goal.’

Spoiler

The form lists Burkman and Wohl as lobbyists for 'Granite Realty,'actually Granite Reality, described as a ‘real estate company’, and indicates the pair will be lobbying over ‘Issues relating to US DOJ, Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary' [are under the above spoiler].

Spealman claimed Burkman bragged to her that he was ‘really good friends’ with Barr and had persuaded him to fire Berman.

On June 19, Barr did release a statement saying Berman would step down – though Trump had reportedly been considering removing the prosecutor for two years.

Berman at first refused to resign, then later capitulated when his deputy was announced as the new acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Spealman claimed Burkman bragged to her that he was ‘really good friends’ with Barr and had persuaded him to fire Berman. 

There is no evidence that Wohl or Burkman had any role in Berman's firing. There is also no evidence that Burkman and Barr have a close relationship. 

‘The second part of their job was to discredit the [alleged] victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her,’ Spealman said. ‘I believed those girls, I felt like they were telling the truth and they were real victims.I was disgusted with the things [Wohl and Burkman], were telling me. They were saying really bad things about them. Like the one girl who said she got pregnant by Epstein and they made her get an abortion. Jacob said ''no, her boyfriend got her pregnant and then she demanded money.'' It was just a lot of stuff that made them look bad. That’s their job now, to discredit these victims. Hopefully so that the charges go away or [Maxwell] wins.’

The lobbyists allegedly told Spealman their smear targets included Epstein accusers Virginia Giuffre, Sarah Ransome and Courtney Wild, the model said.

Spealman claimed Wohl and Burkman revealed their plot with Maxwell during a night of partying at Burkman’s Arlington, Virginia home on July 11.

The part-time model said the two men had already spent months trying to get her involved in other smear campaigns. Spealman said Burkman first called her last September asking her to be a part of a purported reality TV show that he and Wohl were producing, which involved ‘playing innocent pranks on celebrities and politicians.’ After wining and dining the model at DC hotel bars and restaurants, as well as dangling the prospect of a $300,000 paycheck for her role, the two lobbyists revealed their real plans, she said.

‘At the third meeting they totally switched things,’ Spealman [said]. ‘They said they wanted me to say I was selling Percocet to Nancy Pelosi. I was pretty shocked because that’s a big leap from what they had sold me on. I don’t want to have that sort of reputation. I’m a paralegal. I was worried about defamation suits. I was like ''look guys, I can’t do that''.'

The model said the fake news peddlers agreed to change their plans. But at the next meeting in October, Spealman said they presented her with a statement to sign claiming she had ‘steamy sex’ with married senator Ted Cruz. Spealman claimed Wohl and Burkman asked her to read the bogus statement at a press conference scheduled the next day.

‘I received a text directing me to a lavish fourth-floor suite,’ the statement said. ‘Inside was Senator Cruz, clad only in boxers. After a few old fashioneds, I was a willing participant in a night of steamy sex. Despite his ugly face and overweight physique, I could not resist the opportunity to be with a United States Senator. I was paid $2,700 for the evening. On November 30, 2019, I received an angry call from Heidi Cruz, the Senator’s banker wife. She told me that I would be exposed if I ever saw her husband again. Undeterred, I met again with Senator Cruz on January 4, 2019. This time he flew me to Austin.'

The statement continued: 'Following sex, the Senator confessed to me that his wife ''could no longer give him an erection'' due to her advancing age, flab and significant weight gain. He said that my young bikini body had made him feel like a man for the first time in years.’

The documents continued with more outlandish fake claims, saying Cruz used a ‘penis pump’ and took Spealman to a swingers party where his wife caught him and ‘literally dragged him by the penis to the front door’.

‘I would have never done it, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable doing it,’ Spealman told the Daily Mail. ‘But I kind of led them to believe I would do it... I felt manipulated a bit. I took pictures of the script and told them I needed to rehearse and I’d get back to them.’

The paralegal said she showed the statement to her lawyers who called Wohl and Burkman and got her out of the sleazy deal.

‘After my lawyers talked to them Jack called me like 30 times,’ Spealman said. ‘I wasn’t answering, so he texted me stuff like “we need you to do this”, “this is your shot”, “you’re going to be a star”, stuff like that. I just sort of brushed them off. After a few weeks they got another model to do the press conference instead.’

On October 21 last year Wohl and Burkman held a press conference outside Burkman’s Arlington home where a woman wearing large sunglasses who said her name was ‘Kay Feller’ read the same lurid statement about Ted Cruz.

Journalists who attended wrote stories deriding the tricksters and dismissing the fake claims, and critics of the lobbyists turned up to disrupt the bizarre press conference by playing a banjo, sounding an air horn and throwing donuts at the two men.

Spealman said despite asking her to lie about high-ranking politicians, she remained friendly with the lobbyists and occasionally went out to DC clubs and bars with Wohl.

She said the men invited her to Burkman’s house on July 11 and made another indecent proposal before revealing their deal with Maxwell.

‘They wanted to ''smooth the waters'', is how they put it,’ the part-time model said. ‘They convinced me to come over Saturday just to talk. The first half they were nice. As the night progressed, we were getting along. They felt comfortable asking me to do something like this again. I was a little surprised by it,’ she said. ‘They wanted me to find models in my agency ''that turned 18 in the last month'' is what they said to me. I said ''How am I supposed to know if they turned 18 in the last month'', and they laughed and glossed over it. That was a red flag. I asked why they wanted me to do this and they said it was to have sex with politicians. The only name I remember was [Florida Republican Congressman] Matt Gaetz.’

Spealman shared notes she made of the conversation at the time.

‘I wrote down some quotes from Jack,’ she said. ‘He said he wanted ''Big-t****ed teens'', and ''very impressionable young women''. ''Jacuzzi parties'' were mentioned by Jacob. ‘They went through my Instagram because all the models in my agency follow me and they picked out a few. Some of them are 16 and 17, though I didn’t tell them that. Jacob asked me to see if they would be interested.’

Wohl is currently facing trial over a felony charge for unlawful sale of securities, after a man committed suicide when he learned the 22-year-old former trader had lost his $75,000 in a failed investment scheme.

In 2018 the young lobbyist and self-styled ‘renegade firebrand’ attempted his first high-profile smear, accusing former FBI chief Robert Mueller of sexual misconduct.

Mueller was serving as Special Counsel at the time, conducting an investigation into Russian meddling in the Trump 2016 campaign.

Wohl and Burkman held a botched press conference over the sexual misconduct claims in a shabby Holiday Inn, where the alleged victim failed to show up and Burkman gave a speech with his fly undone.

In another bungled smear this year, a woman accused Dr. Anthony Facui, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2014 when she was 20, only to recant the story 10 days later confessing that Wohl and Burkman paid her to make it all up.

Their attempt to throw muck at Senator Kamala Harris didn’t stick either.

Sean Newaldass, 26, gave a press conference with the two lobbyists claiming he had an affair with Harris, but soon backtracked saying he was a paid actor and the only reason he made the claims was because the two lobbyists told him it was ‘performance art’ for a Spike TV show.

 

[fraurosena]

 

Well, of course he would...

 

[SPHASH]

 

[fraurosena]

Despite her attorney's assertion that they hadn't had contact for over a decade...

Unsealed documents show Epstein, Maxwell correspondence in 2015

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A trove of court documents unsealed Thursday night appear to show that the late, accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was in contact with his now-charged confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2015.

Attorneys for Maxwell, who was arrested July 2, have argued that she hadn't had any contact with Epstein for more than a decade, and is the target of overzealous prosecutors.

In one email between Epstein and Maxwell in 2015, Epstein appears to be composing a draft statement for Maxwell to release publicly. The date in January 2015 is a few weeks after one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, first shared her story with a British newspaper.

In another typo-filled email a few days later, dated Jan. 25, 2015, "jeffrey E." writes: "You have done nothing wrong and i woudl urge you to start acting like it. go outside, head high, not as an esacping convict. go to parties. deal with it."

The emails refer to "Gmax" either in the recipient section or the email address.

That's the name the FBI and federal prosecutors say Maxwell used when trying to set up a cell phone this past year in another person's name. Prosecutors have contended this was one of the ways Maxwell sought to avoid detection and possible arrest.

The documents released Thursday night have been under seal for years, but Judge Loretta Preska last week ruled that a batch of documents from the case, including a deposition of Maxwell and correspondence between Maxwell and Epstein, could be released.

The documents are from a defamation case filed against Maxwell in 2015 by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has alleged that Epstein sexually abused her and that Maxwell and Epstein directed her to have sex with other men between 2000 and 2002. The case, which Giuffre brought after Maxwell accused her of lying when she said Maxwell and Epstein had exploited and abused her, was settled privately.

The unsealed documents released Thursday also contain allegations that Jane Doe 3 — whose allegations match those of Giuffre — was "forced" to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew on Epstein’s private island in what was described as "an orgy" with numerous other under-aged girls. It does not specify the year. The woman was allegedly instructed by Epstein to "give the Prince whatever he demanded" and "report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."

Similar allegations against Andrew were ordered by a federal judge to be struck from court records in 2015 after being lodged as part of a lawsuit involving Epstein — but the judge did not rule on the veracity of the claims.

NBC News has reached out to Andrew's representatives for further comment.

Some of Andrew's supporters have long maintained that the royal had done nothing wrong, and pointed out that just because allegations are included in court papers it does not mean they are true.

Requests for comment from Maxwell's attorneys were not immediately returned Thursday night.

Andrew has denied allegations he had sex with Giuffre, who says she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17. The prince said that he had no recollection of ever meeting her or having any sort of sexual contact with her at any point.

A representative for Giuffre said Thursday night that she has no comment and is unable to comment because it is an ongoing legal case.

Maxwell, 58, was arrested at a remote New Hampshire mansion. She had not been seen in public since Epstein, her longtime associate, was arrested on sex trafficking charges last year.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

A disgusting creep talking to a disgusting creep:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Of course he was a member:

 

[fraurosena]

 

[hoipolloi]

Just started listening to a good podcast on Epstein et al. called Broken: Seeking Justice. The Miami-Herald reporter, Julie Brown, who's done such stellar investigative work on the Epstein cases, is one of the producers.

The Season 1 episodes are from 2019 but they have some good background info. Season 2 consists of two episodes (so far) recorded in 2020 after the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.

[fraurosena]

Maxwell's disposition has been released.

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[Howl]

I actually said, Whoa! to myself when I read this. Noel Casler was an employee on the set of The Apprentice for three or four years, long enough to have the good on the Trumps.  

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[SassyPants]

Damn...Per the Gates’ divorce news, Bill was involved with Epstein, for many years. 

[Cartmann99]

 

[Howl]

The Guardian is reporting this.  Journalist Julie K Brown, whose investigative reporting for the Miami Herald blew the lid off the Epstein sweetheart deal that ultimately led to Epstein's 2019 arrest, has a book coming out next week.  She details how Ken Starr worked incredibly hard -- pulling strings, writing letters, leveraging White House connections to lean on the DoJ to drop the case -- doing everything possible to protect Epstein from charges appropriate to his crimes in the 2008 case. 

Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with ‘scorched-earth’ campaign, book claims

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Brown cites an unnamed prosecutor linked to the 2008 case who said of the legal campaign in which Starr was central that “it was a scorched-earth defense like I had never seen before. Marie [Villafaña, the lead federal prosecutor in the original case] broke her back trying to do the right thing, but someone was always telling her to back off.”

The prosecutor added that someone in Washington – the book does not specify who – was “calling the shots on the case”. Villafaña warned fellow prosecutors at the time that Epstein was probably still abusing underaged girls, but according to the unnamed prosecutor quoted by Brown “it was clear that she had to find a way to strike a deal because a decision had already been made not to prosecute Epstein.”

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by Howl

[Howl]

I'll tuck this in here, because I referenced Ken Starr in the previous post. 

Ken Starr is an even more scummy scumbag than previously thought.  

Ken. Starr. Had. An. Affair.  Yes, yes he did, among other things.  The affair was with the author of this article, which also has a reference to a very ugly (and scary for the author) scene with Brett Kavanaugh in his early days working with Starr on the Bill Clinton impeachment.  

After 20 Years, Former Ken Starr Advisor Reveals Her Boss Was a Pretty Bad Guy   Judi Hershman slammed Starr for his role in some of the worst chapters in contemporary politics, but she's complicit too.

about Brett Kavanaugh: 

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Hershman lays out the receipts of Starr’s deviousness quite plainly, beginning with an anecdote about Starr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was just a lawyer when Hershman met him 20 years ago, when they were both working with Starr on the investigation into President Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Hershman, who helped prep Starr present his findings before Congress, recalled an incident in which a furious Kavanaugh began “badgering” her and “invading” her space, pointing his finger in her face and seething.

Hershman confided in Starr about the ordeal, believing Kavanaugh’s “deranged fury” might be cause for concern, but Starr defended him instead. Starr reacted with seeming surprise, saying Brett was probably being protective of him, and moreover was destined for great things — possibly the Supreme Court. “Not if he treats women like that he won’t,” I replied. I then asked Ken to seek an apology from Brett on my behalf and was told, “I’m apologizing to you for him. This is it.”

Hershman contacted three senators about the incident, but that only stalled the proceedings briefly, rather than stopping anything. Hershman went public with her story in 2018, shortly after Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. But when Starr was asked to comment on the incident between Hershman and Kavanaugh, he claimed to have no memory of the incident.

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by Howl

[JordynDarby5]

2 hours ago, Howl said:

I'll tuck this in here, because I referenced Ken Starr in the previous post. 

Ken Starr is an even more scummy scumbag than previously thought.  

Ken. Starr. Had. An. Affair.  Yes, yes he did, among other things.  The affair was with the author of this article, which also has a reference to a very ugly (and scary for the author) scene with Brett Kavanaugh in his early days working with Starr on the Bill Clinton impeachment.  

After 20 Years, Former Ken Starr Advisor Reveals Her Boss Was a Pretty Bad Guy   Judi Hershman slammed Starr for his role in some of the worst chapters in contemporary politics, but she's complicit too.

about Brett Kavanaugh: 

 

I wish I could be surprised. What an asshole.