Thread by @Peaceful_411

Ultimate expose on how two powerful secret keepers - aka highpowered attorneys - got honeytrapped into their own web of borderline extortion, attempts to sway an election & using their clients for their own gain.

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@LincolnsBible

nytimes.com/2019/11/30/bus…

"Kessler’s tale was enough to hook the two lawyers, the famed litigator David Boies and his friend John Stanley Pottinger. If Kessler was authentic, his videos would arm them with immense leverage over some very important people."

"The possibilities were tantalizing — and extended beyond vindicating victims. Mr. Pottinger saw a chance to supercharge his law practice. For Mr. Boies, there was a shot at redemption, after years of criticism for his work on behalf of Theranos and Harvey Weinstein."

“Can you share your contact that would be purchasing,” Kessler asked.

“Sheldon Adelson,” Mr. Pottinger answered.

Mr. Boies told an editor for The Times that they would be willing to share everything, on one condition: They would have discretion over which men could be written about, and when.

“Could you put together a hypothetical situation,” Kessler wrote, not something “set in stone but close to what your thinking.”

Mr. Pottinger obliged — and walked into what looked like a trap.

"No client is actually involved" in the second hypothetical?!!!

The Epstein victims needs to find new lawyers. ASAP.

"Charitable foundations" = bonafide laundry machines.

"Mr. Boies and Mr. Pottinger discussed a plan. They could use the supposed footage in litigation or to try to reach deals with men who appeared in it, with money flowing into a charitable foundation."

Pottinger referred to a roster of potential targets as the “hot list" & described hypothetical plans in which the lawyers would pocket up to 40% of the settlements & could extract money from wealthy men BY FLIPPING FROM representing victims TO representing their alleged abusers.

FYI: Standard settlement percentage for lawyers is typically 33.3%.

So yes, these motherlovers are hella greedy.

Ultimately, Kessler was exposed as a liar & wouldn’t expose any sexual abuse or tapes he had on Epstein's victims.

But Kessler did reveal something else:

The extraordinary, at times DECEITFUL measures elite lawyers deployed in an effort to get evidence that could be used to win lucrative settlements — and keep misconduct HIDDEN, allowing perpetrators to abuse again.