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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Found One Of Jeffrey Epstein's Black Books Years Before The Recent 'Epstein Files' Controversy
In 2021, Business Insider obtained a Jeffrey Epstein address book no one had ever seen before. This 1997 book predates Epstein's original "little black book" by at least seven years. The original book dates to 2004 and was published in 2015.
While the Trump administration says it won't disclose more files on Epstein, this older address book reminds us of Epstein's vast connections to prominent figures, including Melania Trump's best friend, Christopher Cuomo's wife, and an advisor in the first Trump administration.
Business Insider took extensive steps to verify the authenticity of the book, including hiring a forensic document examiner to determine whether it had been recently forged or altered.
Kid Berwyn
(25,109 posts)Spooks. Sex. Studio lighting. Etc. etc. etc.
malaise
(297,987 posts)Spread everywhere😀
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,990 posts)EuterpeThelo
(437 posts)Willkie Farr & Gallagher there...one of the law firms that fell all over themselves to make a deal with the devil and bend the knee to the orange menace by providing him $100 million in "pro bono" services (demonstrating their deep misunderstanding of the purpose of pro bono work!).
TBH, I'm surprised Doug Emhoff hasn't quit yet. Seven of his partners jumped ship last month for Cooley, one of the firms that has been standing up to this maladministration by representing one of the other firms that's fighting these blatantly unconstitutional executive orders against biglaw.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)the republicans honor this corrupt clown as their "family-values" role model.
Gonna twist a lot of kids in the wrong direction.
Grins
(9,525 posts)Epsteins biggest financial parter was Deutsche Bank. As was Putin. And Trump. Deutsche Bank funded Epsteins trafficking of women expenses, esp women from Russia and other Slavic countries.
Deutsche Bank laundered Putin money, Russian oligarch money, and Russian mob money. Deutsche Bank financed the ALL CASH buy of Trump Tower units for the Russian mob, and Trumps over-priced buy of the Doral Country Club in Miami.
Sogo
(7,305 posts)Justice Kennedy resigned from the Supreme Court shortly after Trump became President in 2017, making way for Kavanaugh on the bench.
AntiFascist
(13,756 posts)and he must have been tight with his daughter, having died while on a yacht called "Lady Ghislaine."
snot
(11,848 posts)was one of the big, non-U.S. beneficiaries of the TARP bank bailout in the wake of the 2008 Great Financial Crash.
So was Royal Bank of Scotland.
kimbutgar
(27,558 posts)Warpy
(114,676 posts)and I love the fact that the "Vermont farmer" is actually a natinal security buff. Maybe he'll be able to parlay this little black book and pressure on some of the names into it to dig into Epsteins early background.
Like, how the hell DID a dropout from Queens end up being listed as a teacher in a mid level prep school being run by a "former" CIA spook? This one of the questions people should be asking instead of who his client list was for the little girls he was pimping.
Be Leave On
(437 posts)Here is a very similar story of a journalist calling people in a little black book.
It's an hour long video.
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/meet-the-journalist-who-called-every
Uncle Joe
(65,538 posts)rickford66
(6,094 posts)Did she find it that way ?
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