Remember the time Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly paid “conservative” political operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman $25,000 to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and to get the U.S. Attorney prosecuting Ghislaine removed from the case?
You don’t?
Well, read on.👇🏼🧵
In 2020, Maryland paralegal and model Kristin Spealman told Daily Mail the two men had been hired “to dig up dirt on Maxwell’s alleged sex trafficking victims” and to get U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fired “using Burkman’s supposed influence with Attorney General William Barr.”
Berman refused to resign, and the standoff led President Trump to formally fire and replace him. The House Judiciary Committee interviewed Berman. “The Attorney General said that if I did not resign from my position I would be fired,” he told them. abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired…
A lobbying registration form filed with the U.S. Senate by Burkman shows he and Wohl were hired by “Granite Realty LLC,” a common misspelling of Granite Reality. Property records show the New Hampshire house where Ghislaine was arrested was purchased by the LLC for $1.07mm.
The lobbyists told Spealman their smear targets included Epstein accusers Virginia Giuffre, Courtney Wild and Sarah Ransome. “I believed those girls, I felt like they were telling the truth. I was disgusted with the things [Wohl and Burkman] were telling me [to say].”
Spealman claimed Wohl and Burkman also asked her to make a public statement claiming to have had an affair with Senator Ted Cruz. She provided the script to the Daily Mail. The pair of lobbyists have also tried to smear Nancy Pelosi, Robert Mueller and others.
Daily Mail (2020): Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to “smear Epstein victims and to get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to stall sex trafficking investigation against her”
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Investigative journalist Nick Monroe (@lobsterlooker) uncovered evidence of Jacob Wohl’s membership in the Tate brothers’ War Room, a private chat where Wohl boasted of his political manipulation campaigns. Monroe also connects Wohl to “conservative” activist Laura Loomer.
@lobsterlooker Jacob Wohl has also been linked with “conservative” operatives Ali Alexander, Mike Cernovich and Scott Presler…. 🤔
@lobsterlooker Nick Monroe has known Cernovich since 2014.
Monroe exposed the War Room chats that revealed the membership of Wohl, Cernovich Ali Alexander and others.
@lobsterlooker #conservatives
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@lobsterlooker Grenell?
@lobsterlooker Rolling Stone called Ali Alexander, leader of Stop the Steal, “the far-right political agitator infamous for organizing the Jan. 6 protests that morphed into a bloody insurgency.”
Ali’s phone records were requested by the House Select J6 Committee.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
@lobsterlooker Why didn’t the J6 committee investigate or at least identify the Eugene Yu who texted with Ali Alexander on the morning of J6?
Eugene Yu is the name of the CEO of Konnech, the election software company.
“It was also weird how the City of LA immediately settled with Eugene Yu and gave him 5 million with a hush clause, and then it was over. I've never seen a City settle a case like this that quickly. All very weird.” 🤔
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Big thanks to eagle-eyed @CrayonMurders for spotting Joseph McBride, an attorney who represents Andrew and Tristan Tate in the defamation action in Florida against Jane Doe, a victim-witness in the Tate brothers’ prosecution in Romania for alleged sex trafficking. 👀
Former McBride Law Firm associate Paul Ingrassia revealed in his Substack that the firm organized a “congressional outreach campaign” on behalf of the Tate brothers. Ingrassia also organized the Tate bros’ interviews with Tucker Carlson in Romania in 2023. “To clear their names.”
Thread on Paul Ingrassia, President Trump’s White House liaison to DHS and nominee for the position of U.S. Special Counsel.
Would be tough to find a more ridiculous choice to head the Office of Special Counsel.
It’s starting to look like it 😂👍🏼❤️🐈⬛🧵👻
For an attorney to lie to the media and public about the facts underlying his clients’ case is a serious breach of professional ethics. Did Ingrassia lie to Carlson and others about the case against the Tate brothers?
Speaking of Ingrassia and Grenell, in February I wrote about three White House officials who had advocated for the Tate brothers. The third was Alina Habba, who is currently serving as (disputed) acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
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