Epstein Secrets

rubs with a purple t-shirt during the hearing. He wrote and passed notes to his defense lawyers. "He's going to defend this case," Epstein's lawyer Martin Weinberg said. Epstein, 66, was arrested July 6 at a New Jersey airport after arriving from Paris and accused of sex trafficking and conspiracy. He faces up

that these were merely payments to a former employee and a friend. "This is not witness tampering simply because the Miami Herald wrote an article," Weinberg said. Boies told Berman he had a civil suit pending against Epstein at the time and that after the fund manager made the payments, witnesses who ha

ences were also involved, those also could be lost, Cassella said. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported last week that the New Mexico attorney general, Hector Balderas, is investigating whether Epstein committed any crimes in that state, where he owns a place called the Zorro Ranch. Finally, beyond the financial p

and asked if he used the racist slur." Stone "denied using the slur" and "claimed that O'Kelly was 'out of [his] mind." The Washington Post (7/19, Weiner, Roig-Franzia, 14.2M) reports that in a statement emails to the Post, Stone "suggested it was O'Kelly's 'studio engineer' who used the word. He als

ed Thursday with second-degree murder after authorities said he killed a Latino detainee he had placed in a chokehold." New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas "said he filed the charges against former Las Cruces police officer Christopher Smelser in the death of Antonio Valenzuela." Smelser, who's white,

testimony from Flynn, who initially had agreed to help prosecutors and then was dropped as a witness earlier this month." The Washington Post (7/18, Weiner, I4.2M) reports that, despite his comments, the judge "declined for the moment to throw out the case against Bijan Rafiekian, an Iranian American b

mmitted here by Jeffrey Epstein to federal prosecutors "as soon as possible," a spokesman for the AG says. That means that for now, Attorney General Hector Balderas' team is working as fact-gatherer for the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, where Epstein pleaded not guilty last week to