Epstein Secrets

rson and public defender of the Clinton White House. Bannon judged Comey-Mueller to be as threatening to the Trump White House as Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr were to the Clinton White House, and he saw the model for escaping a mortal fate in the Clinton response. “What the Clintons did was to go to the ma

sses with amazing discipline,” he explained. “They set up an outside shop and then Bill and Hillary never mentioned it again. They ground through it. Starr had them dead to rights and they got through it.” Bannon knew exactly what needed to be done: seal off the West Wing and build a separate legal and

His mentor, Roy Cohn, was a demimonde, semiunderworld, tough-guy Jew. He courted other figures he considered “tough-guy Jews” (one of his accolades): Carl Icahn, the billionaire hedge funder; Ike Perlmutter, the billionaire investor who had bought and sold Marvel Comics; Ronald Perelman, the billionaire Revlo

half and the fcds breathing down the billkmaire's neck, a source inside Epstein's camp said Whilewater special prosecutor and Pcpperdine professor Ken Starr secretly private-jetted to Palm Bead) last week to help four other lawyers map out Epstein's defense. Along with Harvard legal brain Alan Dershowit

utiae for most of the day. (I'd hate to get that bill, knowing that Dershowirz alone gets a thousand bucks an hour, plus expenses!) Dershowitz and Starr, polar opposites in life and politics, politely went at it when the focus turned to whether the FBI should even be investigating Epstein's alleged

e their marriage as his assistant at the exchange during the 1970's. His successor, John S. Reed, married the flight attendant on his corporate jet. Carl C. Icahn, the financier, as well as Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executives of Enron, also married their assistants. Getting su

• Danny Rimer (Index) • Ron Conway (SV Angel) • Josh Koppelman (First Round) • Donald Graham (Washington Post, Kaplan Inc.) • Hank Greenberg (CV Starr) • David Rockefeller • Mort Zuckerman (Boston Properties) • James Tisch (Loews Corp.) • Ken Langone (Home Depot) • Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg

s (Red Apple Group) • Bruce Gelb (Bristol Myers) • Roger Hertog (Alliance•Bernstein) • William Bratton (Altegrity) • Randy Levine (NY Yankees) • Carl Icahn • Michael Benavente (Gucci USA) • Carl Schramm (Kauffman Foundation) • Florence Davis (Starr Foundation) • Matthew Goldstein (City University of