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Do you think the identity of these people will ever see the light of day?
I have my doubts with Barr at the helm.
Kid Berwyn
(15,052 posts)David Vitters name is remembered and a general or admiral, maybe, but other than that...
https://wtop.com/presidential-election/2016/04/ex-lawyer-starts-disclosing-who-called-d-c-madam/
pecosbob
(7,548 posts)This story keeps getting weirder and weirder.
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)To bolster their argument that private-jet owner Epstein is a massive flight risk, SDNY prosecutors produced an expired Austrian passport under an alias that listed Saudi Arabia as Epsteins primary country of residence. His lawyers claim the fake ID was for the personal protection of an affluent member of the Jewish faith traveling in the Middle East, but it could also point to one of his more secretive income sources.
According to his former friend the journalist Jesse Kornbluth, in the mid-1980s Epstein said he worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators and occasionally subcontracted to those same autocrats to help them hide their stolen money. A source who spoke with journalist Vicky Ward said one of Epsteins clients was the late Saudi arms dealer Khashoggi, a middleman in the Iran-Contra scandal who helped smuggle cash for the Marcos family out of the Philippines. In 1988, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland for concealing assets and later faced fraud and racketeering charges in the U.S. (He was later acquitted.) That year, he sold his 282-foot yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who soon flipped it to Donald Trump. Matt Stieb
What I just realized now (and this may already be out there, and I missed it?) is that Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was murdered at the Saudi embassy, was Adnan's nephew. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
Now that makes it doubly weird.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)The rest must be from money laundering and/or blackmail.
GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Clarity2
(1,009 posts)there had to be more in his "little black book", or there was a second little black book.
Isn't Cy Vance prosecuting this case? He was also in Epstein's book, so I don't know how he can possibly be in charge of this.
That's bs, just like the Palm Beach Sheriff investigating his own investigation.
lark
(23,191 posts)PUtin doesn't often allow loose ends to lie around.