Epstein Files

From: Cc: Bcc Subject: SDNY News Clips Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:12:37 +0000 Importance: Normal Attachments: 2019_7-9.pdf SDNY News Clips Tuesday, July 9, 2019 EFTA00076625

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the Palm Beach county jail, where liberal work-release privileges allowed him to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week in his private office. Mr. Epstein paid restitution to some of his victims and was required to register as a sex offender — a designation that he later tried to have downgraded in...

But Barr will recuse himself from an internal Justice Department probe of current Labor Secretary's Alex Acosta involvement in approving a controversial no-prosecution deal with the wealthy financier a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from ...

suites on the fourth floor. It also has a heated sidewalk in front to melt the snow during the winter months. On the second floor is a mural that Mr. Epstein had commissioned in recent years: a photorealistic prison scene that included barbed wire, corrections officers and a guard station, with M...

The home has a history of going unoccupied by its owner. Herbert N. Straus, an heir to the Macy's fortune, commissioned the 40-room mansion in the early 1930s and hired the prominent architect Horace Trumbauer to design it. But Mr. Straus died in 1933, leaving the property unfinished and unoccupie...

On Monday, as federal prosecutors unsealed new charges claiming Epstein ran a sex-trafficking ring that lured dozens of young women to the house, its heavy wood doors bore crowbar marks — evidence of how authorities forced their way in over the sultry Fourth of July weekend. Prosecutors say they d...

Wexner had purchased the property from the Birch Wathen School, a Manhattan prep school in 1989, according to city records. He sold it in 1998 to a Virgin Islands entity called NES LLC, according to a person familiar with the matter. Epstein is affiliated with NES, public records show. There are ...

The Herald's managing editor, Rick Hirsch, told POLITICO that his paper's November series, "Perversion of Justice," advanced the Epstein story by giving "victims a voice" and that the effects were being seen now. In the series, reporter Julie K. Brown got women to speak for the first time on the r...

She said "there were no outside pressures" on that decision, despite an April letter from Alan Dershowitz, a former Epstein lawyer, urging the Pulitzer judges not to reward what he called Brown's "fake news." Doig said the Herald "should be commended for what it did," while noting that other stand...

will be charged with Epstein. That could be a minor public figure or a major one. It could mean that SDNY is investigating misconduct in the plea that Epstein was given in 2008. Or it could mean none of those things. Third, could Epstein cooperate and implicate other powerful men who were involved...

On June 30, 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and ultimately served just 13 months of his 18-month sentence. That time was served not in a prison, but rather the Palm Beach Stockade, which is a local detention center. Epstein wa...

It all happened just before 5pm on Saturday, when Epstein reentered the country for the first time since June 16, when he took off from the same airport bound for Paris. Prior to that trip, Epstein had been crisscrossing the US as he moved between his properties in New York City, Palm Beach, New ...

The plea deal Epstein agreed to back in 2008 saved him from having to register as a sex offender in 31 of 50 states. In a deal unknown to the victim or her lawyer, the minor Epstein admitted to soliciting for prostitution was not the 14-year-old girl who first reported the millionaire money manag...

on Saturday for allegedly running a sex trafficking operation by luring underage girls as young as 14 years old to his mansion in Manhattan. Epstein was previously accused of molesting and trafficking dozens of underage girls in Florida, but he ended up serving just 13 months in county jail after ...

AMY GOODMAN: He started out as a Dalton teacher, right? VICKY WARD: Right. AMY GOODMAN: A teacher at the private school in Manhattan. VICKY WARD: Absolutely. AMY GOODMAN: Math teacher. VICKY WARD: Absolutely. And he then went to Bear Steams. He left Bear Steams, the investment bank, under very...

All Jeffrey cared about was "Go find me more girls." His appetite was insatiable. He cou n t stop. e wanted new, fresh, young faces every single day. AMY GOODMAN: That video from the Miami Herald. The Miami Herald did this incredible three-part series, "Perversion of Justice," by Julie Brown. Vic...

AMY GOODMAN: -former owner of the New York Daily News. VICKY WARD: Yes. So, Ghislaine was the one who phoned these young women's mother to reassure her how safe they would be, and—because, of course, the poor mother now blames herself terribly for what happened. And, you know, I talked to—there w...

VICKY WARD: If Alexander Acosta had let the FBI to continue with its investigation. But instead, there was this—that he had one meeting with Jay Lefkowitz, a member of Jeffrey Epstein's powerhouse, massive sort of legal team, and he did the—you know, he later justified the plea deal that was cut, ...

He was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York more than a decade after the top federal prosecutor in Miami —Alexander Acosta, now President Trump's labor secretary — signed off on a plea deal involving similar allegations that was kept secret from his accusers until it had been finalized in ...

But there was an expensive footnote about him and Bear Stearns. When two big Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed in 2007 at the start of the financial crisis, Mr. Epstein's firm was one of the bigger losers, out more than $50 million. Mr. Epstein's firm also claimed in a lawsuit that he lost even m...

Mr. Epstein was not ready to re-emerge in the public eye — not then, anyway. Three months ago, Mr. Epstein called and invited him over to discuss damage control, Mr. Hay said. "He hates every story starting with `billionaire pervert,'" Mr. Hay said. "Jeffrey had long stories about the difference ...

Mr. Gyure acknowledged the divisions in his statement to the court, telling Judge Buchwald he had only himself to blame for his tax crimes. "I recognize that I have some detractors at the Friars Club," he said. "Sadly, I have given them ammunition." He quickly added that "the vast majority" of cl...

By Trevor Boyer 7/8/19 The tax-cheating former director of the Friars Club escaped a prison stint on Monday, the culmination of a court case that left some roast-ready members fuming. At his hearing in Manhattan Federal Court, disgraced club honcho Michael Gyure was sentenced to time served, a ...

Fred and Cindy Warmbier have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York putting a legal claim on a North Korean bulk carrier ship seized by the U.S. government last year. The Ohio couple are asking that the 17,601-ton ship named the Wise Honest be used to pay off part of the $500 million...

Matters of Interest Trump Can't Block Twitter Followers, US Appeals Court Rules NY Law Journal By Mike Scarcella and Nate Robson 7/9/19 President Donald Trump's efforts to block certain critics from following him on Twitter is discriminatory and violates the First Amendment, a U.S. appeals cou...

Defending an individual who is the subject of parallel civil and criminal investigations is one of the more challenging aspects of white-collar defense practice. The situation is quite common, for example, in securities fraud investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and D...

The 'Rhodes' Case In the Rhodes case, the defendant Jason Rhodes, a hedge fund manager, was indicted on several charges, including securities and wire fraud, investment adviser fraud, and conspiracy. The government alleges that Rhodes used investor funds to repay other investors, pay hedge fund e...

one of the Assistant U.S. Attorneys responsible for DOJ's criminal prosecution. The affidavit was limited to that AUSA's knowledge and attested that he "neither directed nor requested the issuance of [the SEC's subpoena]" and that he "had no role in formulating the [subpoena's] content." Id., ECF ...

interview. He was referring to the ruling that left open the possibility that the citizenship question could be added to the census if the administration came up with a better rationale for it. "It makes a lot of sense for the president to see if it's possible that we could clarify the record in t...

the plans. Still, the practical outcome could be the same since the Justice Department would almost certainly refuse to bring a criminal case against the men. Kern Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, declined to comment on the contempt issue. The conversations between Mr. Barr and Mr. Trump ...

Mr. Barr said that he did not know whether any of the original team members wanted to stay on. "I didn't really get into the details," he said. EFTA00076656