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Jul 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Biggest news in Jeffrey Epstein probe in nearly a year as his longtime girlfriend, publishing heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, is arrested in NH on an indictment charging her with grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein and that she sometime took part politico.com/news/2020/07/0…
FBI NY chief Sweeney called Maxwell '1 of the villains' in the investigation. Acting US Atty Strauss again called on Prince Andrew to cooperate. He's said he is, but hasn't actually spoken to investigators. POLITICO broke the Andrew allegations here in '14 politico.com/blogs/under-th…
A few notable things about the charges. All the abuse charged in the indictment took place in 1994-97, more than 20 years ago and more than a decade before Epstein's controversial 2008 plea deal nixed fed charges in Florida.
Prosecutors have freshened the indictment by adding charges from 2016 that Maxwell lied under oath in a lawsuit filed against her by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
One odd thing about the indictment: it includes photos of Epstein's homes where the abuse took place. Also a public news photo of Epstein and Maxwell hugging, which Strauss stood in front of and pointed at largely silently as photographers snapped away whittierdailynews.com/2020/07/02/jef…
Also the indictment gives the incorrect docket number for Giuffre's suit. Twice. Just odd given the amount of time prosecutors, FBI and others have been chasing this. And the fact that number would be all over the deposition transcripts the indictment quotes.
Maxwell is set to appear before a US magistrate judge in Concord, NH in a video hearing at 3:30 PM today. Sweeney described as "gorgeous" the property Maxwell was arrested at early this morning.

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NEW: #SCOTUS emergency docket filing in the forecast after Trump admin's rough ride yesterday at 4th Circuit over firings of CIA officers linked to DEI work. 2 of 3 judges signaled CIA had duty to follow its RIF rules. More in @playbookdc & 🧵below politico.com/newsletters/pl…Image
Judge Stephanie Thacker (Obama) faulted CIA Director John Ratcliffe (or counsel) for poorly-drafted declaration. Said he could've relied on broad spy agency authority but instead invoked a RIF directive.
Thacker on Ratcliffe: “You’d think he could be consistent or get it right in a 3-page, 5-paragraph declaration...He gave up the reality of what he was doing.…I’m uncomfortable with the director talking out of both sides of his mouth.”
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Jun 4
JUST IN: Judge denies release to anti-Trump DIA IT worker accused of sending top secret info to what he thought was a friendly foreign govt but was actually FBI. Feds say Nathan Laatsch also admitted reaching out to a 2nd govt. Earlier:
politico.com/news/2025/05/2…
"He was hell-bent on providing information to a foreign government that aligned with his values," DOJ prosecutor Christina Clark said.
Clark said Laatsch admitted he also reached out to a 2nd foreign govt through a "portal" that left few traces. US Magistrate Judge William Porter said Laatsch "expressed a desire to to harm to the [US] government based on his dissatisfaction with the current administration."
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May 13
NEW IN NJ PLAYBOOK: Inside Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's unusual, virtual Friday night court hearing following his arrest at @ICE jail. Magistrate judge warned @AlinaHabba & ICE against out-of-court statements about the case. w/@ryrivard politico.com/newsletters/ne…Image
USMJ Andre Espinosa also mulled whether the mayor of NJ's largest city could be considered a flight risk. (The government did not ask for detention.) Image
Judge also pondered a stay-away order for the facility where Baraka was arrested, but ultimately didn't impose that after the government expressed concern about his right to 'peacefully protest.' Image
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Dec 20, 2024
I happened to be only reporter (far as I can tell) at detention hearing for @GeorgeMasonU student Abdullah Hassan, accused of plotting attack on Israeli consulate in NY. Magistrate judge ultimately ordered him detained pending trial. Thread 🧵
Hassan came in wearing the standard dark green Alexandria Detention Center jumpsuit. Says "Alexandria Inmate" on the back. He's strikingly skinny and young.
FBI Agent Tyler Ellefson says FBI ran a source at Hassan & Hassan urged source to mount a shooting attack on the Israeli consulate. The men discussed online weapons, tactics, getaway and specifically targeting the the lobby, he says.
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Sep 11, 2024
THREAD: Just finished listening to back-to-back oral arguments at 9thCircuit on sanctions for lawyers involved in GOP Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s failed suit seeking to prohibit use of electronic voting machines in 2022 election. (1/X)
Bottom line: sounded like panel is inclined to uphold the $110,000 penalty on Andrew Parker and Kurt Olsen, but may lift the $12,000 imposed on famed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz. (2/X)
Judge Patrick Bumatay sounded sympathetic to all three sanctioned lawyers. Judge Kim Wardlaw (Clinton) seemed generally unsympathetic. Judge Ronald Gould (Clinton) was somewhere in middle, seeming inclined to uphold sanctions against Parker & Olsen, while sparing Dershowitz. 3/X
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