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At the end of July, The Gateway Pundit reported on our legal efforts to unseal the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex clients – the men and women with whom Epstein traded sex with minors for favors or money or both.

TGP Lead Counsel Marc Randazza of the Randazza Legal Group and TGP General Counsel John Burns moved to intervene in the Ghislaine Maxwell case in the Southern District of New York.

However, in the last week, something truly bizarre and unexpected happened.

An anonymous John Doe – literally styled by his lawyer as “John Doe” – filed an objection to TGP unsealing the sex client list … and the Court SIDED WITH THE JOHN DOE over the interests of the press and public to know what happens in one of the most remarkable court cases in US history.

“This just seems odd,” said TGP Attorney Marc Randazza. “An anonymous party – not any actual party to the suit – is the only one who cared enough to file an objection, and the Court took their position, even without ruling on whether the John Doe could proceed anonymously.”

Longtime Epstein Mentor Steven Hoffenberg Found Dead

A recently discovered body found in an extremely decomposed state in a Connecticut apartment likely belongs to Steven Hoffenberg, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Police believe the body to be Hoffenberg, but have no way of knowing due to the extensive decomposition that makes fingerprint and visual identification impossible.

“Every single sign is pointing to it’s him. There’s nothing that says it’s not him right now. It’s just that we’re waiting on a positive identification,” Derby police said in an interview, adding that the body is “awaiting dental comparisons at the medical examiner’s office.” ...

Hoffenberg was imprisoned for 18 years for running a half-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. He claimed that Epstein was a coconspirator, and he filed several lawsuits against him after his release. Hoffenberg and Epstein became friends after a business acquaintance introduced them in the 1980s.

The New York Post reports that “While Hoffenberg sat locked up, Epstein was allegedly raping teenage girls with the help of his now-convicted madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Hoffenberg was briefly the manager of The Post from January to March 1993, after the newspaper filed for bankruptcy. The news was announced with an iconic Post cover that said “Last-minute deal saves The Paper…Hoffenberg Saves The Post,” calling him the paper’s “white knight.”

However, his tenure as manager was short lived after staff rebelled against him and he was removed, placing the paper in the hands of Rupert Murdoch, who runs it today.

One development we can divulge is our effort to obtain the FBI’s records on Jeffrey Epstein. We made a simple request: hand over all FBI interviews with Epstein. We know those records are out there, as we were the first to report that Epstein had been a source for the FBI. (It was later confirmed that Epstein cooperated on a Bear Stearns investigation.)




But we’re not convinced that was the only time Epstein spoke with the FBI. There were other hints and rumors that he worked with the US government to recover stolen funds. Thus the FOIA request.

How did the FBI respond? Not by denying the existence of any records.

Instead, the FBI is hiding behind FOIA’s law enforcement exemption, stating that the production of the Epstein records would interfere with ongoing law enforcement investigations...

We’re exceedingly doubtful that the release of the Epstein records would “interfere with enforcement proceedings.” Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted and Epstein is dead. The only potential tie might be from a grand jury investigation into “other possible co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein.” But that was from the summer of 2020 and we rightly assume no charges were brought against whoever was being investigated.

It’s more likely that the Epstein records might embarrass the FBI. The DOJ and FBI have been known to abuse the FOIA law enforcement exemption to hide investigative materials from public release. We’ve seen them do it. And they’re doing it again.

But here’s the good news: the FBI’s response is a tacit admission that these records exist. We’ll fight for them. And we’ll get them.

Dozens of court docs relating to eight of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's associates - including billionaire hotel magnate and female Brit - will be UNSEALED after judge rules public interest outweighs right to privacy
Judge Loretta Preska on Friday ordered dozens of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed
The bombshell papers are part of a defamation case that victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre brought against the financier's madam and facilitator, Ghislaine Maxwell
The judge overrode objections from Tom Pritzker, the billionaire executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels
In his submission to the court, Pritzker claimed it would 'wrongfully harm (his) privacy and reputation' if material related to him was made public

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has claimed to have copies of videos that the deceased sex trafficker secretly filmed to “blackmail” his powerful elite friends.

Sarah Ransome says Epstein forced her to watch the videos that feature the late pedophile’s wealthy associates raping underage girls.

However, Ransome alleges in a newly released deposition that she made copies of the videos and kept them.

The U.S. Virgin Islands government filed a lawsuit Tuesday against JPMorgan Chase accusing the Wall Street bank of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation by failing in its duty to report suspicious financial activity.

“Over more than a decade, JPMorgan (JPM) clearly knew it was not complying with federal regulations in regard to Epstein-related accounts as evidenced by its too-little too-late efforts after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges and shortly after his death, when JPMorgan (JPM) belatedly complied with federal law,” said the complaint filed by US Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George.

The lawsuit added a dagger that should make all of Epstein’s friends nervous: “Human trafficking was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JPMorgan.”

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Top Banker Accused of Role in Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Ring

Top banker Jes Staley, a former high-level executive with Barclays and JPMorgan, has been accused of helping deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein run his international sex trafficking ring.

Thousands of emails between the two men have emerged in a lawsuit that alleges Staley served as an “operative” in Epstein’s operation.

The lawsuit claims that Staley and Epstein had a “profound friendship.”

The filing was made this week in an amended complaint by the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Late last month, prosecutors in the Caribbean U.S. territory sued JPMorgan over the bank’s ties to Epstein.

However, as Slay News reported, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands was fired just days after vowing to expose Epstein’s powerful friends and accomplices.

AG Denise George was reportedly “terminated” by the territory’s governor during Democrat President Joe Biden’s official visit to the islands last week.

Staley, 66, worked at JPMorgan until 2013.

“Between 2008 and 2012, Staley exchanged approximately 1,200 emails with Epstein from his JP Morgan email account,” the amendment alleges.

During that time, the bank “serviced approximately 55 Epstein-related accounts collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars.” ...

They also reveal that Staley corresponded with Epstein while Epstein was incarcerated for child sex crimes, according to The Daily Beast.

He also visited Epstein’s Virgin Islands residence on multiple occasions.