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Jason Leopold Profile picture
@JasonLeopold
Sep 29, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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NEW: Remember when Trump took a trip to Japan back in 2019 and reports surfaced that the WH requested the move the USS John McCain out of view so it wouldn't upset Trump?

Well, I #FOIA'd the military for docs about this & 3 yrs later they just arrived

"This just makes me sad"
The White House Military Office passed along a request to keep the USS John McCain out of sight when Trump visited Japan.
How the sequence of events unfolded. An email describing how the directives to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's 2019 visit to Japan were passed to US Indo-Pacific Command and the Navy
Navy officials wanted names of the individuals responsible for requesting the USS John McCain be kept out of view during Trump's visit to Japan. They seem stunned.
All of the White House Military Office emails about the discussions to keep the USS John McCain out of sight during Trump's visit to Japan are classified and redacted except for one.
NEW: Here's the story & 109 pages of emails I rec'd from US Indo Pacific Command in response to my #FOIA request about the Trump WH's request to keep the USS John McCain "out of sight" during Trump's Japan visit & what went on behind the scenes
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Oct 31
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 federal sex crimes probe, according to emails & docs @business obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account & source familiar

🎁 bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
The lead prosecutor requested that a grand jury issue subpoenas for “every financial transaction conducted by Epstein and his six businesses” dating to 2003, the emails show. Prosecutors also subpoenaed major banks for records about Epstein’s accounts and financial activity, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified to discuss a sensitive investigation.
Marie Villafaña, who was an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of Florida at the time, even contacted Epstein’s longtime wealth-management client, Les Wexner, the billionaire businessman behind the brands Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, about the investigation, according to the documents and emails.
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Sep 25
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees

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bloomberg.com/features/2025-…Image
When investigators were closing in on Epstein, he thought about saying sorry. Merrie Spaeth, a sought-after crisis strategist who once served as the director of media relations for Ronald Reagan’s White House, helped him pick his words.

She sent Epstein three versions of a public apology in February 2008, according to emails obtained by @business.Image
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Sep 11
The Epstein emails obtained by @business also includes an accountant's spreadsheet itemizing nearly 2,000 gifts, luxury items and payments totaling $1.8M, with notations indicating they were intended for Epstein’s friends, business associates and victims.

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One entry in the spreadsheet showed an $11,000 Rolex watch was itemized in August 2003 as a gift for Tom Barrack, the wealthy real estate investor and longtime friend of Trump who’s now the US ambassador to Turkey. 

Three years later, in May 2006, Barrack’s assistant sent an email to Epstein’s assistant requesting a time change to a scheduled meeting between Barrack and Epstein because of “something urgent” that had come up.

“Tom would be willing to meet him at his home or office, whatever works,” Barrack’s assistant wrote. Epstein suggested they meet at his home.

A representative for Barrack declined to comment about the meeting, but said Barrack “has never received any gift ever from Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, let alone a watch.”
Another entry detailed a $71,000 purchase at Lexus of Watertown in Massachusetts for then-Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, who was part of the legal team involved in Epstein’s plea negotiations at the time.

Dershowitz told Bloomberg that the car was for his wife, who often picked up Epstein when he visited them in Martha’s Vineyard, and was considered a part of his legal fees.
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Sep 11
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @business has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role

bloomberg.com/features/2025-…Image
Maxwell has maintained she was kept in the dark about details of Epstein's initial sexual abuse case in the mid-2000s. Yet the emails demonstrate her deep knowledge of the legal jeopardy he faced and show how she helped him strategize over even the most consequential details.
Maxwell opened at least one foreign bank account using one of his addresses, was a named director on one of Epstein’s main revenue-generating companies and traded stock in a company they were both invested in, details that haven’t been previously reported.
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Aug 8
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!

An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows what's in the FBI's Epstein files: bank and phone records, photographs, communications with foreign govt agencies & other revealing material related to its 2006 probe

bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Something else that’s noteworthy from the index: the FBI’s investigation into Epstein remained active after he pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation in Florida in 2008 and was released from prison in 2009. Some of the documents that were processed and withheld are from 2011, and include dozens of photographs, agents’ interview notes of third parties, and documents provided to the FBI by confidential sources.
Separately, the FBI created a spreadsheet that contains a detailed breakdown of the documents it processed. Importantly, it reveals that the FBI conducted 55 interviews with witnesses, victims and potential investigative targets between 2006 and 2008.

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Aug 1
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
A FBI team, made up of personnel from thê bureau's #FOIA office and were tasked with conducting a final review f tne voluminous cache, had applied thê redactions. They used the 9 exemptions under the FOIA as a guide (as reported in2 March) in s deciding what information to withhold
From the government's perspective, Trump was a private citizen when thè Epstein investigation took place and therefore is entitled to privacy protections.
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