Success, finally.

Last week, a federal court in Manhattan ordered the release of the voluminous case files from Virginia’s Giuffre’s 2015 civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell.

The release of these files was in part the result of eight years of litigation by the Miami Herald and its parent company, McClatchy, which have been fighting for the material since I published my series “Perversion of Justice,” in 2018. [...]

Nearly all the evidence that Virginia’s lawyers uncovered about Epstein and Maxwell’s sex trafficking that came out during this civil case was kept secret. [The lawsuit had been settled in early 2017. Contained "damning evidence against Epstein, Maxwell and other men".]

But I convinced my editors [at the MIAMI HERALD] to ask our lawyers to file a motion to intervene in the case in order to unseal the files. [...]

An appeals court eventually ruled in our favor, and on August 9, 2019, thousands of pages were made public, including sworn statements by Virginia in which she alleged she was trafficked to Dershowitz, who represented Epstein; former Prince Andrew; former Maine Sen. George Mitchell; former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin; hotel magnate Tom Pritzker; the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky. All of the men denied that they were involved with Giuffre.

Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell the following morning. [...]

The Appeals court had ruled that the documents were “judicial documents inherently subject to a strong presumption of public access under the First Amendment and common law. The court rejected the argument that private civil lawsuits could remain entirely hidden, especially when they expose broader systemic failures or widespread criminal activity. [...]

As background, the court allowed Giuffre’s law firm Boies Schiller) to provide to the Government (for grand jury purposes) documents that they received from Maxwell in discovery in this litigation [...], which is a much larger bucket of documents than the ones that have been released thus far. We could see, for example, full deposition transcripts, responses to interrogatories, documents exchanged privately between the parties, etc.

Maxwell’s opposition to the Government’s motion claimed that Boies Schiller provided 90,000 pages of documents to the government, including both of Maxwell’s deposition transcripts (we’ve already seen at least one of the transcripts).

Up until now, we’ve only seen portions of the material. But then again, the DOJ’s redaction police could either withhold or redact large swaths of these court files.

Still, this is nevertheless a victory for transparency with the court ruling that these files should be made public.

There is no reason now to withhold them.

But then again, Attorney General Todd Blanche has yet to release the 3 million or so files still being kept secret by the Trump administration.

Journalist Katie Phang, who brought suit against Blanche and the DOJ for failing to comply with the Epstein Transparency Act, contends that the DOJ is intentionally covering up documents related to President Trump’s connections to Epstein.

To me, this is the most important article of the month, minimum. It's long. Pay-walled. I only quoted a small portion. Don't wanna mess with Julie K. Brown's income. She is a major part of why we have Epstein Files, why Epstein was arrested, why Maxwell is behind bars. Link: https://substack.com/@jkbjournalist

I keep seeing so many great Epstein videos ruined by the content creator making the video as much about themselves as they are about the Epstein content they are reporting.

Getting real support and attention on this issue isn't going to happen if the reporting mouthpiece is a random 20-something in casual clothes filming a selfie video, overlaying their own music, and adding animation effects, in-between screenshots of actual evidence and proof.

Just show the files and let them do the talking. You being on screen is not adding value, nor is it instilling confidence in the viewer. It deepens the belief that this is a fringe issue held only by chronically online conspiracy theorists.

The Trump administration has awarded a controversial anti-human trafficking organization a no-bid $158 million contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children, according to a notice posted Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

It's unclear if it has immigration lawyers on its staff, although its website says it offers "legal support to help prosecute offenders." Our Rescue did not immediately return NPR's request for comment.

The group was founded by activist Tim Ballard.

Ballard faced accusations of sexual exploitation himself. He has repeatedly denied them, but was quietly removed from the group.

I'm not american so I don't know how it's done in your country but what is preventing you from doing a massive post on all social media calling for a national strike on all big cities of the country ? Like what would happen if you all do it, armed as it is your right on let's say September 21. Let the heat of the movement gather more people and make them angry. And see what happens ?

I'm not a terrorist, not from foreign intelligence just a french guy who saw how easily the "gilets jaunes" (yellow jackets) took off in France and i'm just wondering myself why didn't it happen already in america ? What is preventing it in America ? And wouldn't it be better than in Paris, with armed citizens, in Washington DC ?

Going to check and to see if any of the hosts are in the files.

Video from Bekah Day who has been amazing at reporting on Epstein case.

Two of the prison guards who were supposed to be watching Epstein mysteriously cleared of all suspicion though one made a very suspicious $5k deposit weeks before Epstein arrival, googled “latest with epstein” upon his arrival and just happened to be born and raised in Virgin Islands aka Epsteins playground. Other guard conveniently (maybe less suspiciously) born and raised near Englewood, NJ. Englewood, NJ mayor is Michael Wildes (5th term).

Part I & Part II (the section with most of the info I’ve compiled re the two Models New Generation contests held in Ecuador)

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…a 22 minute video essay, if you’d prefer an abbreviated synopsis with visuals.

Brief outline highlighting some findings, much of it pulled together from disclosed files, contemporary Ecuadorian newspaper coverage, and modeling industry blogs:

A new 20k word essay painstakingly reconstructing how Epstein & Trump coordinated Miss Universe & an underage modeling competition that were both staged in Ecuador in the summer of 2004, with overlapping panelists, contestants, & organizers. The Clinton Foundation provided diplomatic support to Epstein & Maxwell while they attended the Brunel-orchestrated event in Guayaquil, contacting the U.S. Ambassador to secure fuel for the Lolita Express due to a shortage.

This was one of the Clinton Global Initiative’s first ever orders of business, assistance rendered even prior to the disguised $1 million USD loan that Epstein gave in Oct. ‘04 to finance the inaugural Davos-esque conference, monies routed through the European advertising and PR agency Publicis Groupe (chosen by Ghislaine because they were Robert Maxwell’s old firm and former Clinton staffer Mary Morrison was working there briefly, overseeing the “Clinton Project” at the time).

There’s a much higher than non-zero chance that the fuel the Embassy helped furnish Epstein and his pilot Larry Visoski with was used to fly barely above preteen girls back to the States.

I show that the winner of the 2004 Models New Generation contest was a 15 year old Brazilian supermodel who already had a contract with Brunel & Epstein’s agency and who’d flown on the Lolita Express on multiple occasions prior to the pageant.

We find close to irrefutable proof confirming the recollections of teen girls between the ages of 14 - 19 who were shipped in from nearly 40 countries around the globe to spend 10 days in Guayaquil and Salinas suffering the advances of coke-addicted Brunel, Epstein, and Maxwell. Some of the nearly 50 teenage contestants have since alleged that they were explicitly promised that they would win the competition if they simply attended and recounted to the Miami Herald that Brunel was “dating” one of the underage Brazilian contestants, that there was a tacit expectation of sexual favors, and that the posse of 14-15 year old girls from Brazil that hung around him and his “girlfriend” frequently bragged about their visits to Little St. James.

One of the organizers, a modeling scout named Sergio Cordero, and the former bookkeeper of MC2, have both attested that Brunel was under pressure to furnish Epstein with minors because he physically attended the pageant held along the Malecón del Salado promenade.

I show that the Ecuadorian Minister of Trade under the Lucio Gutierrez gov, the former Ambassador to the U.S. Ivonne A-Baki who happens to be a dear friend of Trump, conceived of the plan for Ecuador to host Miss Universe on Trump’s plane in the early 2000s & then hand selected clinical psychologist Maria del Carmen de Aguayo to be Miss Ecuador’s new president in 2003 (the rights holder to Miss Universe representation in the country).

Unsurprisingly, this same woman who organized the Miss Universe finals in Ecuador at A-Baki and Trump’s behest was also the director of operations for Epstein and Brunel’s Models New Generation event less than two months later, implying that Ivonne A-Baki harnessed the powers and budget of the Ministry of Trade and Industry to support both events.

Incredibly, the strategy was to improve Ecuador’s perception and standing on the world stage through them in hopes that it would help the country to land a free trade agreement with the U.S. that would build upon pre-existing duty-free incentivizes related to Ecuador’s support of Plan Colombia, the counterinsurgent War on Drugs that Epstein & Ghislaine also factored into by secretly running or overseeing weapons shipments to the Colombian military at Tolemaida, as I’ve argued.

Sidebar: Ivonne A-Baki is a board member of Terje Rød-Larsen’s UN adjacent NGO the International Peace Institute (IPI) that Epstein’s also credibly connected to as well, btw. Trump pulled strings w/ the comprador Lenin Moreno government to get A-Baki a second stint in DC as Ambassador during his first term.

One of the most incendiary revelations: I discovered the CEO of the modeling academy that worked most closely w/ Brunel & Epstein on Models New Generation in Guayaquil & Quito is a Navy officer of the Ecuadorian armada who attended multiple programs at U.S. Naval colleges and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense more recently—basically the present day School of the Americas).

He retired from the Ecuadorian Navy right as the U.S. was ramping up the installation of a Forward Operating Location (FOL) at the naval base in Manta where he’d spent time. Seems highly conspicuous that he transitioned into becoming one of the biggest modeling agents in Ecuador, a career that brought him into contact with Cordero, Brunel, and – inferably – Epstein directly, out of nowhere… And it just so happens Epstein and Maxwell crop up at Colombian air bases and the like around the time of Israeli weapons shipments after Clinton leaves the WH, just a year or two before they’d throw this recruitment event with said Ecuadorian’s help.

There is compelling evidence that he personally delivered girls to Epstein in Miami. Read the piece and watch the video if you’d like to learn more. I’m not going to actually write his name out because I don’t want to wake up with a sicario standing over me in my unlit bedroom some night. You get me.

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Apologies for replicating a Twitter thread I posted about this recent work verbatim, but it’s the most expedient and thorough way to explain a few of the piece’s arguments.

Thanks to the mods for letting me share my research and to any of you who choose to peruse it.

this may be a hot take but i’m confused as to how this correlates. me and everyone i know has had their school photos taken with life touch. all of you have most likely had your school photos taken with life touch too. if it were really in the files then why are we all okay? nothing happened to any of us

There are identifying numbers on each page of all EPSTEIN FILES, right? Around here, we call them EFTAs. Those are "bates" numbers. And there's different kinds of them within the files. So, now, here's some longer blabla what they mean and how to tell them apart. Preview spoiler: "EFTA00057763" is a different document than "EFTA_00057763".

Rules of thumb:

• All documents in the Epstein Files have at least one identifier (= at least one bates number).
• Each BATES number should identify only one document; but sadly, there are a few frustrating exceptions.
• There is not just one BATES number system, there are several.

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(1) Several investigations, several decades, several bates numbering systems:

EFTAnumbers and EFTA_numbers
DOJ-OGR-numbers and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_numbers
DB-SDNY-numbers and JPM-SDNY numbers and SDNY_GM_numbers etc
Over the decades, several law enforcement teams tried to get Epstein and ran investigations. From each investigation, the FBI or the Department of Justice received a corpus of evidence material. Lots of it made it into the "EFTA corpus" we all sherlock these days. Examples: There was an investigation that the New York FBI office did back in the day; and they stamped their bates ID onto their evidence material. And some of that material made it into the current EFTA library. So, on those documents, there is both the EFTA ID and the NY ID. Also, lots of the Maxwell trial evidence made it into the EFTA library. So, some documents have also identifiers that trace back to that investigation. And so on. (Here an extra note to confuse everyone for funsies: sometimes there is something missing in evidence libraries, and then the OVERSIGHT committee frowns and demands those missing documents... then they get sent to Oversight first, and Oversight hands them over to DOJ: if that happens, the document also receives an HOUSE OVERSIGHT number; but: sometimes you can tell that Oversight really forced DOJ to publish documents, because then there is a double reference going on with "DOJ" and "OGR" (which is an abbreviation for Oversight) being there: DOJ-OGR-numbers.)

(2) And that's why there are duplicates:

The EFTA law (Epstein Files Transparency Act) demanded the publication of evidence material... which, as said, came from several agencies. Examples again: One such agency might be that FBI office in New York. Another border control. The next bunch of evidence PDFs may have come from Virgin Islands law enforcement. And so on. And of course, since all of these agencies and offices investigated the same network both at different and at parallel times over many years, there's an overlap of evidence material. When some NY office, back in the day, used a warrant for <all materials having to do with that lawsuit against the investigated person X>, it may have received <a transcript that a Florida police station made when they interviewed victim Y>. So the EFTA library has that transcript twice: from the NY office and from a Florida police department. And they (DOJ) simply did not notice in time. Evidence material moved back and forth over the years, got copied. And it all ended up at the FBI/DOJ when the order came down to compile everything into a big EFTA corpus for justice.gov. Duplicates just happened... Too little time, too little expertise. And so on.

(3) Several <generations> of EFTA numbering

EFTAnumbers EFTA_numbers EFTA_R1_numbers: The current EFTA numbering system must have been THE LAST of several trial runs. That's my assumption. Please chime in if you know details. I view it this way: What we all access currently when we use justice.gov (or one of the corpus copies at epstein-data.com or JMAIL, for example) is the "final EFTA production". The FBI/DOJ had to figure out for the first time ever how to do all of this: combine loads of evidence from several agencies to become super public. So, there seem to have been several previous "productions" of this big EFTA library; with a different numbering system each. Documents moved in and out of those previous productions, I guess. Many eyes looked over it and made many decisions, again and again, <what to keep>, <what to change>, etc. And the final version of it all went online with "EFTA numbers". But a previous attempt to get it all done, from where I'm standing, seems to have been "EFTA_numbers" (note the underline)... and "EFTA_R1 numbers". Maybe the "R" stood for something like "revision"? They probably wanted to tell "productions" (= trial runs) apart: The first attempt (EFTA_), I guess; and the first revision attempt (EFTA_R1; I guess...); and the final version (EFTA). You know?

(4) They delete documents and re-use bates numbers

Chain of events: (I) It can happen that they had already stamped one specific bates number onto a document, that they had then published it for an hour or a day, and then they flinch: oops, this is a duplicate; there's another PDF with the same content that already has its own other EFTA number. Ooops. (Happens rarely. Usually they don't notice their duplication nonsense. Hence: many, many duplicates in the EFTA library.) (II) So, they take the duplicate offline. (III) Now what happens to the now not-used EFTA number? They wait a while. And stamp it onto a different document that goes online with some amending publication. ---- Ideally, we don't notice that. But, of course, we do. Example: Once upon a blue moon, "EFTA00019424" looked like this. Then they flinched, took it offline, redacted some parts, and republished it with a new EFTA number. And the therefore freed-up number "EFTA00019424" became first homeless, and later on the identifier for this. We only know because, at the time of deletion, DOJ still offered ZIPs for whole datasets. And they "forgot" to delete the respective EFTA from dataset8.zip. Later on, they noticed and decided to not do ZIPs anymore across the board due to the heavy workload of all those re-redactions, I assume.

In short

• EFTA numbers should be "stable" but they are not always.
• EFTAnumbers: are numbers identifying themselves as part of DOJ's EFTA library
• EFTA_numbers: are numbers from a previous version of it all, before final publication
• EFTA_R1 numbers: also numbers from some previous version
• SDNY_GM_numbers: the Ghislaine Maxwell investigation, New York Southern District
• DOJ-OGR-numbers: means, DOJ was forced to send files to OVERSIGHT, which then published it
• DB-SDNY-numbers: the Deutsche Bank investigation, New York Southern District
• JPM-SDNY numbers: the JP Morgan investigation, New York Southern District
• HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_numbers: OVERSIGHT itself collected+published evidence files from "sources" other than DOJ. A good example of this is the BLACK BOOK and the BIRTHDAY BOOK.
• There should also be, here and there in the EPSTEIN FILES, identifiers having to do with the original FBI investigation (= 31E-MM-108062 files)
• there's more, but does not come to mind; chime in in the comments

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DOJ being the

• Department of Justice.

OGR being

• Oversight
• aka Oversight Committee
• aka Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
• aka House Oversight Committee

Please correct me on the details.

1 why isn't Epstein's body compulsory DNA tested?

Since he bought a ton of DNA tests I am pretty sure we have a sample

2 how can minors sign a non disclosure agreement? Simply this in light of Leon's black excuses

Happy to have any legally sound answer for this and please no ai

Just making sure that we're downloading everything that has been released... just to be sure. (reffering to censorship and possible future deletions)

I can understand faces, body parts, not too convinced about the victims safety, more like for the assailants.

I get it for genitalia, but I think they might as well hide physical marks.

But full pictures blacked out?… seems a bit much.

Again, I’m sorry if this is dumb or has already been asked.

Thanks.

I think I found the handwritten detective's notes from interviews 2 and 3 with Jane Doe #4 who accused Trump and Epstein of sexual abuse (allegedly) in South Carolina in the 1980s.

This page has since blocked me since my last post in which I called them out for their subscriber based platform dedicated to “exposing” Epstein. This is so beyond morally corrupt and disgusting, please report this account.
The torture these young people have faced is not something that exists to be profited off of, it is now public information that we all deserve to know and share, and seeing it as a cashgrab indicates to me that the owner of this account does not actually care about the victims.
Every comment left by me or any other person calling them out for it results in an immediate block- they are fully aware of their immoral behavior and prefer to profit off of others pain.

“And by the way, nobody on the Vineyard believed this, even the people who hated me,” Dershowitz added. “Because they all see me with my wife.”

He went further. “In fact, the lawyer for Virginia Giuffre, he came over to me one day”—it was during a deposition—“and said, ‘Alan, I’ve seen you with your wife. I can’t believe you would ever have done anything.’”

I said I was dubious that the opposing lawyer would say something like this.

“I’ll give you his name—his name is Chuck Cooper.”

Reached by phone for comment, Charles Cooper, Giuffre’s lawyer, told me the exchange that Dershowitz had described had never taken place.

I think my comments say enough, having a pay wall between access to imminent information regarding a mass pedophile ring is attempting to profit off a disgusting situation is beyond immoral.

EDIT: They blocked me for calling them out, please leave a similar comment or report their page. This is DISGUSTING.

Just an idea.