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Jun 17 • 8 tweets • 9 min read
NEW: Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell were never about just sex-trafficking. It was about the money. Deep-dive I did w/Pulitzer-winning @KevinGHall @OCCRP & @benbwieder @MiamiHerald, whose work helped put Epstein & Maxwell behind bars: occrp.org/en/investigati…
Leaked files from #UK tax shelter Jersey exposed the Wall Street trading activities of Ghislaine Maxwell's family, revealing how they occupied a parallel financial universe while hiding their finances offshore. All of it requires further investigation.@SECGov @FBI @TheJusticeDept
The Jersey files include secret stock transactions by Kevin and Ian Maxwell while Kevin was chairman of U.S. publicly traded company; the hiding and amassing of stock holdings; and related-party transactions that went unreported to investing public. Never before been reported.
The Maxwell files, found on the island of Jersey & only recently unearthed, offer a rare glimpse into how Ghislaine's brothers, Kevin and Ian Maxwell, conducted business through opaque shell companies via now-defunct Jersey trust called "La Hougue." (pron. "Hoog.") #UK #JerseyCI
Trove containing the files of Ghislaine Maxwell's family was seized by Jersey police in 2015, but leaked to media after authorities on the island took no action. To this day, Jersey has brought no charges but has fined the whistleblowers who leaked them: jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/06/0…
For more on this story, please see our companion piece, published on the front page of @MiamiHerald here: amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…
For more on the island of Jersey & its long history of keeping the secrets of the rich and powerful, go here: miamiherald.com/news/local/cri… #UK #JerseyCI
@jkbjournalist @davidenrich @carolecadwalla @VickyPJWard @jameshurley @EamonJavers @TaxJusticeNet @jechristensen56 @elonmusk @ericgarland @TimTateBooks @TheVoiceJersey @StuartSyvret @andrewlownie @gregolear @EddieRob235 @vicbekiempis @JenSeniorNY @amandakcantrell @wildfranz
Huge special thanks to @jkbjournalist for her suggestions on the story -- not to mention her amazing body of work on Epstein. And to the outstanding New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager, who excavated these files & guided me through them. You are both an inspiration.

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Mar 18
OK, I've been distracted (from Twitter) last few days, which basically means I have not been distracted at all, but focused on non-Twitter things, aka real life, but going to have to pipe in on the Jeffrey Epstein news...
So, the Epstein chaos continues with U.S. Virgin Islands AG citing his estate co-executors' "direct participation in virtually all of the business operations & financial activities of Epstein's trafficking network, including facilitating forced marriages among Epstein's victims."
Details of forced Epstein marriages in this story here (out this week): abcnews.go.com/US/jeffrey-eps… But there's more...
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Dec 10, 2021
Media: 'Is Ghislaine wearing suffragette white today?'
The rest of the world: 'Is anyone going to ask why Ghislaine was trained to fly multimillion-dollar, private, unregulated aircraft and licensed to operate submersible (underwater) vehicles across international borders?'
Media: 'Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier.'
The rest of the world: 'Please name one American financier who needs a 53-lb shredder, a tile-and-carpet extractor, a 30,000-lb Carmix self-loading concrete mixer and a 40,000-lb, portable jaw crusher.':theintercept.com/2019/07/09/jef…
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Dec 8, 2021
While he was alive, Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly dodged exactly when he met Ghislaine Maxwell and flat-out denied to @VickyPJWard he ever knew Robert Maxwell. The below nugget paints a very different picture.
Epstein also denied meeting the high-ranking British defense contractor Sir Douglas Leese, who brokered major arms deals in Middle East. Leese's son, Julian, appeared surprised at Epstein's denial, telling @VickyPJWard, his father was a mentor of sorts to Epstein in the 1980s.
Sir Douglas Leese reportedly introduced Epstein to a range of people in his global intel, defense and security circles, including Robert Maxwell, who, according to an article by @VickyPJWard, sought Epstein for help with solving Maxwell’s “debt” issues: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
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Aug 20, 2021
“Jersey is one of the most significant tax shelters in the world…If you speak up about corruption, you will have a very hard life. It’s made easy for you to do the wrong thing and your life is made very hard if you do the right things.” – Jersey Senator Stuart Syvret #UK Image
This note looks like a joke, but it is real. It was left in the letterbox of two brave Jersey politicians, Trevor Pitman (find him @bald_from) and his wife, Shona Pitman. Shona is not on Twitter, but you can follow or ask questions of Trevor on here.
Both Trevor and Shona, as politicians with the States of Jersey parliament, were fighting to address decades of child abuse issues on the island and other miscarriages of justice. For their efforts, they received horrific and anonymous threats like this one.
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Aug 19, 2021
The Queen's PR firm, Farrer & Co, do not like journalists asking about possible money-laundering on one of the Queen's tax shelters. They also object to journalists checking the facts with additional sources and, generally, doing journalism. One such example -- and my response.
Just another day of writing emails to @RoyalFamily's PR firm. Here is the resulting magazine story: institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qwpn…
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Aug 17, 2021
I see lots of coverage of the Chris Cuomo statement, but few members of the media weighing in directly, which is unfortunate. We in the media need to do a better job of explaining ourselves when we write or broadcast stories — & if there is a conflict, we must not sugarcoat it.
Received lots of calls this week from non-journalist friends asking about this situation. In journalism school, we are taught to be nonpartisan, to be objective, to not even participate in a political march or social demonstration in our free time. To be publicly neutral.
Of course, journalists have opinions. Spouses. Family members. And many of us vote, so we also have political leanings. But we’re not to bring that into our jobs. And we are vetted before we are even hired to ensure that does not happen.
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