The @miamiherald & @wlrn worked on this Brightline "Killer Train" series for months, producing a comprehensive investigation and a podcast in July that led to results. It is mindblowing that @InsideEdition & @CBSMedia is now sending US a press release to promote a story they essentially ripped off from the Herald. (See press release below) miamiherald.com/news/local/art…

Never in a million years when I wrote my "Perversion of Justice" series seven years ago @miamiherald seven years ago did I think this would happen. (thread)
washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/… 2. I've been asked a lot about why I took up this old case which had been written about at length by other journalists over the years. Even with the little bit I knew about the case in 2016, I couldn't understand why and how Epstein got away with such horrible crimes.

Key words in Patel’s comments today:
1. “Credible” — you can’t get “credible” evidence or testimony if you don’t listen, you don’t investigate and you don’t dig. What’s more, for far too long DOJ ignored Epstein’s victims and treated them terribly. Any seasoned investigator will tell you —you don’t make a case that way. You build a case with other evidence, phone records, emails, witnesses, bank records, why didn’t they flip his employees? etc etc etc (More)
axios.com/2025/09/16/kas… 2. “Our information is limited” — what does this even mean? Isn’t it the FBI and DOJ’s JOB to follow the case until they get to the truth? Did they even look? Most victims say they have NEVER been contacted by the FBI. WHY?

From the beginning, both sides of the political spectrum wanted to point the blame for the Epstein coverup on each other. The truth is the bad guys (and women) were on all sides of politics. So there is no "appeasing" the far right -- or the far left. Everyone -- left and right -- has dirty hands. (thread) The FBI never thoroughly investigated Epstein in the way he should have been from the get go in 2007, and even years later, when victims continued to come forward and there was clear evidence presented to the US Attorney's Office in NY -- under Preet in 2011-2016 -- nothing was done. It wasn't until public outcry in 2018 that Geoffrey Berman (then US Attorney in SDNY) that Epstein was arrested and new charges brought. (2)

Jordon Hudson's $9M property empire since dating Bill Belichick via @MailSport
"According to Massachusetts property records, all four mortgages were paid off within a week of each other in late January this year." by @danielgbatesmol.im/a/14660583

Breaking News: The homicide arrest of a prominent Miami real estate broker in the boat crash death of a 17-year-old girl comes after a witness surfaced in response to a series of articles about the case in @miamiherald.
"That witness spoke out after the Miami Herald published a series of articles detailing how boaters who were immediately on the scene after the crash were never contacted by state investigators."
The reason the story stayed alive is because reporters at the Miami Herald never let go of it. #localnews

Read more at: miamiherald.com/news/local/cri… whttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article294626294.html

The Miami Herald published Perversion of Justice, a three-part series about the sweetheart plea deal given to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein:
Part 1: HOW A FUTURE TRUMP CABINET MEMBER GAVE A SERIAL SEX ABUSER THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
miamiherald.com/news/local/art… Part 2: How prosecutors undermined their own case
miamiherald.com/news/local/art…

Big Food, Big Profits, Big Lies levernews.com/big-food-big-p… "While blaming inflation for rising prices, the country’s biggest food and restaurant companies are raking in billions and showering shareholders with payouts."

BREAKING: (warning: explicit content) Woman files lawsuit against Leon Black, alleging she was trafficked to him by Epstein and Maxwell when she was 16. The woman, who has Autism and a form of Down Syndrome, says she was severely beaten and raped by the former CEO. (more) The woman, now in her late 30s, says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to other powerful older men in the early 2000s, and that they were assisted by others who recruited her at a cheerleading camp. The lawsuit comes as the Senate Finance Committee opens a probe into (more)

There is nothing in these records that dispel anything about Epstein's death. In fact, the BOP records don't even say how they found his body. They tried to "wake" him up when they found him unconscious. Who does that to a hanging man? apnews.com/article/jeffre… adding: it's the wording of "waking" him up. You would use that word if they found him laying on the floor or in bed, not hanging. Since they also don't include any interviews with the guards who found him, or any inmates, who knows what happened in that cell.

NEW: My new project: A collaboration between Temple University's Logan Center for Investigative Reporting and The Philadelphia Inquirer -- "Unexcused: The Absentee Crisis in Philadelphia Schools." (More) inquirer.com/education/inq2… “There’s really something about Philly that makes you think you can’t do anything outside of this,” said Bowens, who was living in the back room of a bakery when she was 16. “..this is where you’re just bound to stay. Especially if you’re in the streets.” (more)

This story misses a very important aspect to Epstein’s crimes: federal prosecutors (with the help of Epstein’s lawyers) covered up the scope of his crimes — Epstein was charged and served time for solicitation of a single girl — therefore enabling him to(1 wsj.com/articles/jeffr… 2. This allowed Epstein to tell all these wealthy and politically connected people that he simply made one mistake. — and that he paid for it. (More)

Today I’m joining my Miami Herald colleagues in a one-day work stoppage as we demand a fair contract from @McClatchy. We need to protect local journalism.
I support My colleagues’ requests for fair pay, maternity leave and reimbursement for the high costs of equipment & travel. It’s well past time for corporate executives to support the rank & file journalists who sacrifice so much of their lives to put out a newspaper that they can be proud of. I for one spent years making ends meet by using check cashing stores. I drove a car with no windows. 2

Important journalism alert. I suspect that This is happening in every women’s prison in America. It has been rampant in … apnews.com/article/corona… 2) Florida’s Lowell CI for more than a decade. And Florida and the Dept of Justice do nothing to reform it. (More) media.miamiherald.com/static/media/p…

Anytime 11 female college players leave (in other words, practically the whole team!) some tough questions should be asked. | Sports Illustrated Syracuse Orange News, Analysis and More si.com/college/syracu… Will add one other suggestion: Don’t cover this like a “sports” story.

Having spent 6.5 hours waiting at a Florida FEMA Covid site at Miami-Dade College, here's what I've found wrong: First, the site is not run by FEMA (the feds); it's run by a combo of state and local agencies who apparently don't talk to each other. (1) miamiherald.com/news/coronavir… 2. The traffic is run by Miami-Dade police, and they do nothing to let motorists know where they are supposed to go, nor do they provide any signage ANYWHERE along the route, telling drivers to stay right, for example. This literally causes chaos in & around the college. more

Tucker Carlson now doing a long sermon saying that the military’s heightened scrutiny of white nationalists, proud boys and white supremacy amounts to collective punishment against all white people. 😠 Now Tucker Carlson saying the poor guy wearing the horns who stormed the Capitol and threatened our democracy faces more time in prison than murderers & rapists.

Seems a good time to repost this about the latest "medal of freedom" award winner. see other clips below washingtonpost.com/politics/jim-j… nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r…

There are some great cops in America, don’t forget that. ❤️ usatoday.com/story/news/nat… Cops do this all the time but they don’t get credit for it.

Hello, NYPost "Decider"....I am sorry, but you need to be called out on a horrific error you just published online about "Takeaways" in the Epstein case. I rarely comment on these errors, but his one is so egregious that it hurts every victim in this story....(1)
@decider 2. Palm Beach Police were the ONLY people to fight for these victims from the beginning. REPEAT. The Chief, the detective, all FOUGHT like hell for these victims. For you to say the chief didn't believe them is a total, complete lie. Please get it right.

I haven't made it through all the documents yet but it strikes me as odd that names of some of those involved with Epstein and Maxwell have been redacted in this round, when there were not redactions before. Also, Ghislaine's depositions are still apparently being kept secret... In a depositionVirginia Guiffre (who was nicknamed Jenna) provided details the orgies at Epstein's island, and how Maxwell was sexually involved with many, many, many girls and women. She claims that Maxwell, for ex. picked up a redheaded girl to have sex with...