Julie K. Brown's recent article: "Giuffre's case files finally to be unsealed"
>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
