Judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein records in response to Miami Herald litigation

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Miami Herald

Judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein records in response to Miami Herald litigation

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article244432782.html

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Paywall. I'll keep looking.

Until this hits AP, this is all I have.

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Hat tip, Erik Wemple

ErikWemple Retweeted

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple

BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge begins process of unsealing documents in the defamation case of Ghislaine Maxwell. Some names of non-parties will be redacted.

Link to tweet

[Ptah]

1. Judge orders release of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen by Friday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142544176

[leftieNanner]

2. Any loss for Trump and Barr

No matter how small, is a good thing.

[louis-t]

3. Hopefully, he can write his book now.

That's the only good that will come from him being released.

[PatSeg]

7. And he said

that it was almost done, just a few finishing touches. I'll bet he works fast at it now.

[NCjack]

14. Hopefully, it will list the major crimes committed by mafialeader-#45.

some murders would be good.

[PatSeg]

16. Being his expose

will be about before Trump was in the White House, it won't need White House approval. There won't be any classified information, just dirt. Meanwhile, I'm sure Cohen knows far more than most people about Trump and his "crimes". At this point, I don't think anything would surprise me.

I'll probably buy the book.

[mia]

4. Here are a few paragraphs

...Maxwell’s opposition to the unsealing effort, filed by the Miami Herald after it published a series of articles on Epstein titled Perversion of Justice, had long preceded her arrest on July 2 at a secluded New Hampshire mansion on allegations that she helped shepherd women and underage girls to Epstein for sexual abuse. She has pleaded innocent but was denied bail in a July 14 hearing.

The documents ordered unsealed by Preska are from the process of discovery, where lawyers from each side can ask detailed questions of each other ahead of a trial. Specifically, they were motions already decided on by a judge who first heard the civil lawsuit from Epstein victims against Maxwell.

The 2015 civil lawsuit was brought by Virginia Giuffre, who alleges Epstein abused her when she was 17 and that Maxwell recruited her when Giuffre was a spa assistant at Palm Beach’s Mar-A-Lago, now-President Donald Trump....

Preska said the presumption of public access to these documents “far outweighed” any rights to avoid embarrassment or annoyance claimed by Maxwell. She ordered the documents readied for unsealing within a week, but gave Maxwell’s lawyers a week to file an appeal. If none is granted, the documents would begin hitting the docket next Thursday....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. Thank you for posting that. NT

[Mike 03]

5. Good deal! But I thought all or nearly all of the Virginia Giuffre

civil lawsuit documents had been released. Maybe we'll finally see the complete depositions. One thing that was missing from the last dump were large sections of the depositions.

In any event, this should be interesting. Let's see if Dershowitz or any other politicians try to block it (again).

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. CNN has the story now.

Judge rules to unseal documents in 2015 case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplice

By Sonia Moghe and Eric Levenson, CNN

Updated 12:29 PM ET, Thu July 23, 2020

(CNN) -- A federal judge ruled on Thursday to publicly release documents that have been kept under seal in a case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's one-time girlfriend and alleged accomplice.

US District Judge Loretta Preska verbally unsealed the documents in a ruling held via teleconference. She is giving Maxwell's legal team a week to pursue an appeal to her decision but ordered the court to have the documents ready to be posted "within a week."

The documents are connected to a 2015 defamation case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claimed Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and that Maxwell aided in the abuse. The case was settled in 2017.

Included in the now unsealed documents are Maxwell's 2016 deposition related to the lawsuit in which she denies knowing if Epstein had a scheme to recruit underage girls for sex. Other documents include emails and depositions by others, including Giuffre and anonymous women who also claim to have been abused by Epstein.

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[Cha]

22. Thank you for that!

[Mr. Ected]

8. The people squawking the loudest about the inequity of releasing these documents

Are very likely the ones named in the documents.

[Cha]

23. Totally giving themselves away.

[2naSalit]

9. Betcha the reporter from MH will be

on RMS tonight.

[Budi]

10. Thanks for the heads up..set to record

About time this is moved forward

[2naSalit]

11. I don't know that for sure...

But she often has the reporters who break stories on the same day and if she doesn't then one of the other prime timers will.

[Budi]

12. Ok. I'll check

Thanks

[Deuce]

13. Good!

[empedocles]

15. Ah, 'the process' grinds on

[Midnight Writer]

17. Really. Only took four years to get a ruling, and I'm sure it will be appealed.

[empedocles]

19. However, there are a number of judges pushing forward. SCOTUS opened a gate.

More damaging information keeps coming out. The House will do some things. And, trump keeps slipping in the polls.

[cannabis_flower]

18. Weird that you would get stopped by the paywall

Unless you were at their limit for the month. I didn't hit a paywall. It did ask me to sign up but I declined and was able to access the whole article.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. Maybe I gave up too easily. Well, mia posted some paragraphs and started a thread in GD.

Judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein records in response to Miami Herald litigation

[Cha]

24. Thanks for the link..

[Cha]

25. rTeasonous Fuck "wishes her well"..

[csziggy]

26. Every time I see that clip I think of the photo of Dolt45 with Melania and Ghislaine

The three of them together, obviously at some sort of party/event. I'm not sure if that dates before he and Melania were married - she certainly hadn't had all of the plastic surgery at that point, so it was early along in their relationship.

[NNadir]

27. Jeffry Epstein got his first job from William Barr's dad. One should expect Ghislaine to be...

...suicided.

[riversedge]

28. Get it all out and let the chips fall where they may.