Monday, July 29, 2019

Offshore Panama Papers and Jeffrey Epstein

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/the-epstein-scandal-spirals-a-new-focus-on-clinton

Clinton and Ghislaine Became Super Close”: As the Epstein Scandal Spirals, a New Focus on Old Names


Court papers to be released in days contain names like Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Richardson, and George Mitchell—and it’s only the first installment.


The Epstein Case Puts New Focus on Old NamesIncluding Clinton
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal “already seems bigger than Weinstein,” one source involved in litigation against Epstein told me, referring to the downfall of the disgraced Hollywood mogul. And the scariest thing to the elite worlds through which Epstein glided over decades is that it may be closer to the beginning than the end. According to attorney David Boies, some 2,000 pages of documents regarding his client Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a former Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant and Epstein accuser, are set to be released in the next “10 days to two weeks.” The secrets contained in the documents have been the subject of fevered speculation ever since a federal appeals court panel noted that the pages could describe episodes of alleged abuse by Epstein and appearances by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.”

The sealed documents are part of the evidence submitted in a 2015 lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Epstein’s alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, for defamation after she called Giuffre a liar. According to three sources who have been briefed on the documents’ contents, the documents contain excerpts of Giuffre’s sworn depositions, in which she names powerful men in the worlds of politics and science whom she claims she witnessed hanging around during her years as Epstein’s self-described “sex slave.” “Some of the documents will identify people she had sex with. Others will identify people she saw at various Epstein places,” Boies said.

Sources said some of the men named in the first batch of documents include... read more at Vanity Fair the greatest magazine
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