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Nov 14 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
🧵 Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer, onetime Attorney General candidate, and potential Supreme Court nominee, who is now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Image Ruemmler confided in Epstein when a rival law firm tried to poach her, when looking for an NYC apartment, and when she was being vetted for consideration as US Attorney General. She also turned to him for minor issues, like what it's like to fly Emirates.

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Oct 17 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Alex Acosta told the House Oversight committee that he NEVER said Jeffrey Epstein "belonged to intelligence." Image "I have no reason to believe that," Alex Acosta said about Epstein being a member of the intelligence community. "And if there was any secure information, procedures would have been triggered that were never triggered."

Read my story about that: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…Image
Jul 29 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: I spoke to four people who've seen the Epstein files.

They say there are no signs in there that Jeffrey Epstein worked for intelligence. Nothing the US government wanted to be classified. No interest from intelligence agencies. Nada. Image
Image "Nothing supports the contention that there was either a honeypot blackmail scheme or any association with intelligence," one source told me.

Read the story here: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
Jul 24 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land. Of course I want answers. I have written to Maxwell in the hopes that she'd talk to me (no luck).

But the idea of subpoenaing Ghislaine Maxwell for her testimony, or interviewing her in jail — how does that work?
Feb 27 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
I have been reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and the criminal and civil lawsuits surrounding him for several years.

Here is the truth about "The Epstein Files."

🧵 Image Most of the "Epstein docs" we've seen over the past several years have come out of civil litigation between one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Feb 13 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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Aug 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
One of my favorite Trump scandals is his "full and unconditional pardon" of Christopher Wade.

Who is Christopher Wade? No one knows. 🧵 Image The first time anyone heard of Christopher Wade was when Trump pardoned him before leaving office.

Per his public statement, Wade pleaded guilty to "various cyber crimes."

His pardon was supported by ex-Marvel executive Ike Perlmutter and Mark Templeton. Image
Jul 17, 2024 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
In 2021, Steve Bannon distributed a trailer for a purported documentary about Jeffrey Epstein.

Bannon got 15 hours of footage of the pedophile, including interviews in his Manhattan mansion.

What happened to the "documentary"?

In reality, sources told me, it never existed.

🧵 Image Bannon's explanation that he was producing a documentary about Epstein was nonsense, according to people who spent time with both men around the time they were in each other's lives.

In reality, the two were friends.

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May 27, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Donald Trump's criminal trial is off on Wednesdays.

On those days, Justice Juan Merchan presides over Manhattan's mental health court, offering an alternative to incarceration for a select few.

I attended for a couple of weeks. I was the only journalist there. Image The Manhattan mental health court offered a different view of Justice Merchan.

He still holds everyone to high standards. But he is more avuncular than the strict headmaster we see in Trump's trial.

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Jan 18, 2024 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
I've covered both of E. Jean Carroll's trials against Donald Trump.

This one is going even more disastrously bad for him than the last one.

I am beginning to think the damages will be absolutely massive. Possibly enough to bankrupt him. 🧵 It is, of course, a fool’s errand to try to predict a jury verdict. Especially in a damages-only case. A lawyer at one defamation trial once described the jury to me as the “random outcome generator.”
Jan 9, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: I've identified Donald Trump is "Doe 174" in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents.

Perhaps more importantly, it looks like Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in the documents before the judge ordered them unsealed.

businessinsider.com/donald-trump-d… Judge Loretta Preska wrote that Doe 174's "association with Epstein and Maxwell has been widely reported in the media already, and his or her name came up during Maxwell's public criminal trial."

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Jan 6, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
EXCLUSIVE:

A mysterious 'Doe 183' is trying to keep Jeffrey Epstein documents under seal.

A lot of the documents they object to unsealing seems to be related to one of Epstein's longtime friends and benefactors: Leslie Wexner.

businessinsider.com/doe-183-ghisla… Some of you might remember that, on November 18, Judge Loretta Preska said she would unseal some of the anonymous "Does" in a long-running lawsuit between Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre.

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Jan 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I have a major investigation into SBF dropping tomorrow. Stay tuned. 📺 What's the deal with the big chonky ring Sam Bankman-Fried wore to court? An investigation.

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Nov 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
David Portnoy's defamation lawsuit against Insider Inc has been DISMISSED by a federal judge. Image Portnoy had to prove Insider acted with "actual malice" with the stories about him, and his lawsuit failed to clear that bar, the judge wrote. Image
Apr 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Christian Carino, Lady Gaga's former fiancé and an agent who used to represent both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, is appearing at the #JohnnyDeppVsAmberHeard trial right now via recorded deposition. He is in a very nice house. There are very loud drilling noises in the background. Image Here are Johnny Depp's tests to him about Elon Musk Image
Apr 21, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Amber Heard's lawyer grills Johnny Depp about whether he took drugs with Marilyn Manson.

“I once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much.” Depp testifies. Asked if Depp drank whiskey in the mornings while shooting "The Lone Ranger," he answered, "Isn’t happy hour anytime?"
Apr 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Testimony from Johnny Depp's personal sound technician (yes, he had one of those) today. He said Amber Heard was verbally abusive toward him.

He also addressed longstanding reports that Johnny Depp uses an earpiece while acting.
insider.com/johnny-depp-am… Johnny Depp first used an earpiece while directing Marlon Brando on 1997's "The Brave."

Brando used an earpiece, and Depp decided to have one playing Brando's lines to help with his performance, according to the sound technician, Keenan Wyatt.

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Apr 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Paramount+ is streaming a 4-hour docuseries about Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday. Paramount says it features a new in-depth interview with Juror 50. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers heard about the docuseries and asked the judge last week to delay deciding whether she should get a retrial.
Mar 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
haman trying to kill the jews only for queen esther to turn out to be a jew has got to be the biggest self-own of all time lmao
Mar 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
We'll know soon whether Ghislaine Maxwell will get a new trial.

Prosecutors and her defense lawyers filed motions last night following the testimony of Juror #50 last week. insider.com/ghislaine-maxw… Basically: Maxwell's lawyers say Juror #50 — who didn't disclose his own sexual assault experience in a jury questionnaire, but did to the media after the verdict — is a liar. Prosecutors said he made an honest mistake.

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Mar 15, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
EXCLUSIVE: A lawyer for Anna Sorokin (AKA Anna Delvey) filed a last-minute appeal to keep her in the US due to "serious health issues" just before she was scheduled to be put on a plane back to Germany. insider.com/anna-sorokin-d… As I reported yesterday, ICE had already began the process of deporting her on Monday. Her jail drained her commissary funds and disabled the online services she used to communicate with the outside world.