One year ago, thanks to legislation passed in FL, over 150 pages of grand jury transcripts and videos of witness interviews regarding the 2008 state investigation of Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
In June of that same year, Epstein pleaded guilty to the state charges: one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. He is sentenced to register as a sex offender, pay restitution, and serve 18 months in jail... but was allowed to go to his office during the day.
Around the same time that the state grand jury indicted Epstein, a federal grand jury in Florida had been impaneled and heard testimony.
There was a proposed indictment against him for conspiracy and sex trafficking.
That indictment was dropped when the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida inked a secret non-prosecution agreement with Epstein that resolved those possible charges against him and gave immunity to four female co-conspirators.
Maxwell was NOT one of those four female co-conspirators, but she is currently attempting to get her conviction overturned at SCOTUS by arguing that the NPA does in fact apply to her.
Today, DOJ defended the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA.
In an order signed on Halloween, @AGPamBondi retroactively made Halligan a "Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025" and gave her the "authority" to conduct legal proceedings in EDVA.
The order also says...
"[S]hould a court conclude that Ms. Halligan's authority as Special Attorney is limited to particular matters, I hereby delegate to Ms. Halligan authority as Special Attorney to conduct and supervise the prosecutions in United States v. Corney (Case No. 1:25-CR-00272) and United States v. James (Case No. 2:25-CR-00122)."
Halligan's appointment is the basis of motions to dismiss in both the James Comey and Letitia James criminal cases.
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a senior judge out of South Carolina who isn't assigned either the Comey or James case, is handling the matter.
The above exhibit is attached to the gov't's filing in opposition to the motions to dismiss in both cases.
Prosecutors in the criminal case against Fmr FBI Dir James Comey have filed a response to defense's opposition to implementing a filter team.
Prosecutors want that team to review privileged materials seized from Daniel Richman during the Arctic Haze media leak investigation.
The filing says that Comey has asserted privilege (atty-client) over five text threads of communications between him and Person 3 from the indictment, Daniel Richman, who was counsel to Comey at the time of the communications.
A filter team is the appropriate method of handling this issue.
The remaining evidence HAS ALREADY BEEN FILTERED and was provided by Richman.
The defense has argued in their opposition that, while they are not opposed to a filter team being used, they want to challenge the underlying search warrants first and also want prosecutors to be more specific about what exactly they are seeking to extract from the seized material.
Prosecutors repond here:
"The government is not asking to look at the raw returns from prior search warrants. The government is simply asking for a judicially approved filter protocol as to a small and specific subset of evidence that was lawfully obtained consistent with the terms of a federal search warrant."
Defense files motion seeking disclosure of grand jury transcripts and audio recordings.
"The record in this case raises a significant risk that irregularities in the grand jury process may have influenced the grand jury to return an indictment...
Those irregularities may create a basis for dismissing the indictment."
"Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(E)(ii), a court may order the disclosure of grand jury materials “at the request of a defendant who shows that a ground may exist to dismiss the indictment because of a matter that occurred before the grand jury.”"
In Washington D.C., “Everyone has interests with the Qataris.”
"Qatar [has invested] heavily in Western knowledge production and narrative control."
At $6.25bil, Qatar is top five in foreign contributions to academic institutions in the U.S., with sources in Burmuda, Canada, Germany, and Japan filling out the other four.
Think tanks and policymakers have taken in over $9.1mil since 2019.
Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA–registered lobbying and public relations firms, 33 of those were retained in a single year.
Motion to Dismiss Based on Fundamental Ambiguity and Literal Truth
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"after speaking for more than a minute, Senator Ted Cruz asked Mr. Comey to recall statements he had made three years earlier and to simultaneously address statements that Senator Cruz incorrectly claimed were made by Andrew McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In doing so, Senator Cruz never indicated that he wanted Mr. Comey to address the statements or activities of any person except for Mr. McCabe."
Here's the May 3, 2017 exchange between Sen Grassley and FBI Director Comey
Judge Nachmanoff has issued an order regarding prosecutor's request for the implementation of a filter team protocol to review potentially privileged material that was seized during the Arctic Haze investigation and may be informative to their case against Comey.
He's appointed Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick to preside over all proceedings having to do with the review of the privilege materials.
In his order, notes that the "briefing on the government’s proposed filter protocol raises several legal questions that must be resolved before any protocol is authorized."
At least three of those questions were also raised by the defense in their opposition to the filter team protocol.