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From: Starr, Ken______________________________
Sent: 5/19/2018 8:25:18 PM
To: Michael Wolff
CC: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Michael:
Excellent. With thanks to Jeffrey, I'm delighted to come into your orbit, and look forward to our conversation.
My mailing address is:
Warm regards, Ken
Sent from my iPhone
On May 19, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Michael Wolff .<:> wrote:
Ken, delighted to meet. Jeffrey has long told me about your friendship and the respect he has for you. If you
send me your mailing address, it would be my pleasure to send you my recent book about the Trump White
House. I'm now at work on a sequel focusing on the legal case against Trump and Trump's response to it. Any
counsel and background you might provide would aid me enormously and enrich the book. I, of course, would
be willing to talk with you on an entirely off-the-record basis or under any arrangement that suits. Thanks in
advance and I look forward to the chance to chat. All best, Michael
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 1:40 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
Ken - Michael , Michael/ Ken
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From: Kathy Ruemmler
Sent: 6/22/2018 2:42:02 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Good lord. A novella of rehashed crap.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
https ://www.the dailyb east. com/how-did-trump-and-clinton-p al-j effrey- ep stein-es cap e-meto o
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From: Kathy Ruemmler________________________________
Sent: 6/22/2018 2:59:06 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Ugh.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:42 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
sign of the times
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Kathy Ruemmler
wrote:
Good lord. A novella of rehashed crap.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-t ... cape-metoo
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From: Kathy Ruemmler_________________________________
Sent: 6/22/2018 3:13:33 PM
To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Small update when you have a second.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:42 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
sign of the times
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Kathy Ruemmler wrote:
Good lord. A novella of rehashed crap.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trump-and-clinton-pal-jeffrey-epstein-escape-metoo
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How Did Trump and Clinton Pal Jeffrey Epstein Escape #MeToo? Call him Weinstein 1.0: The billionaire with famous friends (Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen) was a secret pervert who used his power and influence to groom teens for abuse.
by Kate Briquelet
Senior Reporter
The Daily Beast
Published Jun. 22 2018 5:05AM EDT
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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty

Editor's note: Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New York on July 6, 2019, and faced federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. On August 10, 2019, he died in an apparent jailhouse suicide. For more information, see The Daily Beast's reporting here.

As the Harvey Weinsteins of the world get their comeuppance in the press and in court, another serial predator walks free.

Last month, after a flood of allegations by Hollywood actresses, Weinstein was indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges in New York. The disgraced Hollywood executive stands accused of assaulting one woman in 2004 at Miramax headquarters in TriBeCa and raping another woman at a Midtown hotel nine years later. He has pleaded not guilty to these crimes.

Since Weinstein’s reign of terror was exposed and ignited a #MeToo reckoning, other powerful men have found themselves publicly censured or even toppled over their dark pasts and allegations of sexual misconduct.

But the Weinstein Effect seems to have spared one Jeffrey Epstein—a 65-year-old billionaire and convicted sex offender who’s palled around with former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen, and other high-flying friends whose names were revealed in his “little black book” and flight logs for his private jet. Many of them enjoyed jaunts to Epstein’s private Caribbean island and mansions in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.

Even President Trump was among the deviant philanthropist’s admirers. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Jeffery’s “social life,” according to police and a score of lawsuits, involved a pedophile ring of dozens of underage girls, whom he groomed and then loaned out to powerful friends. But aside from a minor conviction in Florida—for which he served a mere 13 months—Epstein has emerged remarkably unscathed. New York authorities have never charged him with any crime, and he still drops into his Upper East Side mansion, where women have been photographed coming and going, according to tabloid reports. His sex offender registration lists his primary address as St. Thomas.[/u]

The mysterious financier’s sick world was unmasked in March 2005, when the stepmother of one 14-year-old victim phoned police and said a wealthy man had molested her child. She’d received a call from a schoolmate’s mom, who overheard her own daughter discussing “how [the victim] had met with a 45-year-old man and had sex with him and was paid for it,” a police report said. Around that time, a teacher found $300 in the girl’s purse.

Palm Beach detectives would soon unearth five girls who claimed that Epstein had lured them into a ring of sexual abuse. By the time Epstein inked his plea agreement, the feds had identified 40 victims. Police said Epstein was enlisting his employees and other young women to recruit underage girls—many of them underprivileged or from broken homes—for massages at his home. One recruiter told police that Epstein advised her, “The younger, the better.”

“‘I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,’ Trump told New York in 2002. ‘He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.’”

The teens, some as young as 13, were ordered to remove their clothes. During the massages, Epstein would masturbate himself and molest his victims, according to both lawsuits and police reports. Sometimes, according to court records, he forced them into intercourse with him or into performing sex acts with an assistant, whom he allegedly bragged of purchasing as a sex slave from her parents in Yugoslavia. Afterward, the victims said, Epstein usually paid them $200 or $300 and as much as $1,000.

“He’s never denied girls came to the house,” Jack Goldberger, Epstein’s defense attorney, told the Palm Beach Post in July 2006. But Epstein didn’t know the girls’ ages, Goldberger said, and took a polygraph test to prove it. “He passed on knowledge of age,” the lawyer said.

In court filings responding to victims’ lawsuits, Epstein said each teenager “consented to and was a willing participant in the acts alleged” and that he “reasonably believed” they were 18 years old during the “alleged acts.”

Epstein eventually walked free with a slap on the wrist, even after Florida cops took their case from state prosecutors to the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office.

In June 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to two state charges: solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. In an unusually sweet deal with federal prosecutors, he served 13 months of his 18-month sentence in the private wing of a Palm Beach county jail and was permitted to leave six days a week, for 16 hours each day, for “work release,” according to local press reports. Epstein agreed to register as a sex offender for life, as well as fund attorneys for more than 40 victims who filed lawsuits against him for damages.

“Epstein’s high-powered legal team, which included Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, supplied prosecutors with dossiers on the alleged victims in an effort to discredit them.”

Epstein has continued to make headlines in the decade since his conviction, as his alleged victims pursue him in court. One accuser, Virginia Roberts, came forward to the Daily Mail in 2011 to claim that Epstein flew her across the world to “meet” Prince Andrew when she was 17 years old. The litigation from Roberts and other Jane Does has untangled more sinister layers of Epstein’s operation—including alleged sex crimes that occurred in New York but apparently went unprosecuted. (In depositions for the civil cases, Epstein has pleaded the Fifth when asked about his sexual activity with underage girls.)

His name resurfaced during the 2016 election season, when a woman using the pseudonym Katie Johnson filed a lawsuit against Trump, claiming he raped her at one of Epstein’s parties when she was just 13 years old. She dropped the suit months later.

FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS

5. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges that the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, did willfully and with extreme malice violate her Civil Rights under 18 U.S.C ; 2241 by sexually and physically abusing Plaintiff Johnson by forcing her to engage in various perverted and depraved sex acts by threatening physical harm to Plaintiff Johnson and also her family.

6. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges that the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, also did willfully and with extreme malice violate her Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C.; 1985 by conspiring to deny Plaintiff Johnson her Civil Rights by making her their sex slave.

7. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges she was subject to extreme sexual and physical abuse by the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, including forcible rape during a four month time span covering the months of June-September 1994 when Plaintiff Johnson was still only a minor of age 13.

8. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges she was enticed by promises of money and a modeling career to attend a series of underage sex parties held at the New York City residence of Defendant Jeffrey E. Epstein and attended by Defendant Donald J. Trump.

9. On the first occasion involving the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was forced to manually stimulate Defendant Trump with the use of her hand upon Defendant Trump's erect penis until he reached sexual orgasm.

10. On the second occasion involving the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was forced to orally copulate Defendant Trump by placing her mouth upon Defendant Trump's erect penis until he reached sexual orgasm.

11. On the third occasion involving the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson was forced to engage in an unnatural lesbian sex act with her fellow minor and sex slave, Maria Doe age 12, for the sexual enjoyment of Defendant Trump. After this sex act, both minors were forced to orally copulate Defendant Trump by placing their mouths simultaneously on his erect penis until he achieved sexual orgasm. After zipping up his pants, Defendant Trump physically pushed both minors away while angrily berating them for the "poor" quality of their sexual performance.

12.On the fourth and final sexual encounter with the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was tied to a bed by Defendant Trump who then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff Johnson. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff Johnson loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to "please wear a condom". Defendant Trump responded by violently striking Plaintiff Johnson in the face with his open hand and screaming that "he would do whatever he wanted" as he refused to wear protection. After achieving sexual orgasm, the Defendant, Donald J. Trump put his suit back on and when the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, in tears asked Defendant Trump what would happen if he had impregnated her, Defendant Trump grabbed his wallet and threw some money at her and screamed that she should use the money "to get a fucking abortion".

13. On the first occasion involving the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was forced to disrobe into her bra and panties and to give a full body massage to Defendant Epstein while he was completely naked. During the massage, Defendant Epstein physically forced Plaintiff Johnson to touch his erect penis with her bare hands and to clean up his ejaculated semen after he achieved sexual orgasm.

14. On the second occasion involving the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson was again forced to disrobe into her bra and panties while giving Defendant Epstein a full body massage while he was completely naked. The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was also present as he was getting his own massage from another minor, Jane Doe, age 13. Defendant Epstein forced Plaintiff Johnson to touch his erect penis by physically placing her bare hands upon his sex organ and again forced Plaintiff Johnson to clean up his ejaculated semen after he achieved sexual orgasm.

15. Shortly after this sexual assault by the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, on the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, Plaintiff Johnson was still present while the two Defendants were arguing over who would be the one to take Plaintiff Johnson's virginity. The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was clearly heard referring to Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, as a "Jew Bastard" as he yelled at Defendant Epstein, that clearly, he, Defendant Trump, should be the lucky one to "pop the cherry" of Plaintiff Johnson.

16. The third and final sexual assault by the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, on the Plaintiff, Kati Johnson, took place after Plaintiff Johnson had been brutally and savagely raped by Defendant Trump. While receiving another full body massage from Plaintiff Johnson, while in the nude, Defendant Epstein became so enraged after finding out that Defendant Trump had been the one to take Plaintiff Johnson's virginity, that Defendant Epstein also violently raped Plaintiff Johnson. After forcing Plaintiff Johnson to disrobe into her bra and panties, while receiving a massage from the Plaintiff, Defendant Epstein attempted to enter Plaintiff Johnson's anal cavity with his erect penis while trying to restrain her. Plaintiff Johnson attempted to push Defendant Epstein away, at which time Defendant Epstein attempted to enter Plaintiff Johnson's vagina with his erect penis. This attempt to brutally sodomize and rape Plaintiff Johnson by Defendant Epstein was finally repelled by Plaintiff Johnson but not before Defendant Epstein was able to achieve sexual orgasm. After perversely sodomizing and raping the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, attempted to strike her about the head with his closed fists while he angrily screamed at Plaintiff Johnson that he, Defendant Epstein, should have been the one who "took her cherry, not Mr. Trump", before she finally managed to break away from Defendant Epstein.

17. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was fully warned on more than one occasion by both Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, that were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse that she had suffered as a sex slave for Defendant Trump and Defendant Epstein, that Plaintiff Johnson and her family would be in mortal danger. Plaintiff Johnson was warned that this would mean certain death for herself and Plaintiff Johnson's family unless she remained silent forever on the exact details of the depraved and perverted sexual and physical abuse she had been forced to endure from the Defendants.

MATERIAL WITNESSES

18. Tiffany Doe, a former trusted employee of the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, has agreed to provide sworn testimony in this civil case and any other future civil or criminal proceedings, fully verifying the authenticity of the claims of the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson. Witness Tiffany Doe was employed by the Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, for more than 10 years as a party planner for his underage sex parties. Despite being subject to constant terroristic threats by Defendants Epstein and Trump to never reveal the details of these underage sex parties at which scores of teenagers, and pre-teen girls were used as sex slaves by Defendant Epstein and Defendant Trump, witness Tiffany Doe refuses to be silent any longer. She has agreed to fully reveal the extent of the sexual perversion and physical cruelty that she personally witnessed at these parties by Defendants Epstein and Trump.

19. Material witness Tiffany Doe fully confirms all of Plaintiff Katie Johnson's allegations of physical and sexual abuse by Defendants Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein. Tiffany Doe was physically present at each of the four occasions of sexual abuse by Defendant Trump upon the person of Plaintiff Johnson, as it was her job to witness all of the sexual escapades of Defendant Epstein's guests at these underage sex parties and later reveal all of the sordid details directly to Defendant Epstein. Defendant Epstein also demanded that Tiffany Doe tell him personally everything she had overheard at these parties explaining to her that "knowledge was king" in the financial world. As a result of these underage sex parties, Defendant Epstein was able to accumulate inside business knowledge that he otherwise would never have been privy to in order to amass his huge personal fortune.

20. Material witness Tiffany Doe will testify that she was also present or had direct knowledge of each of the three instances on which Defendant Jeffrey E. Epstein physically and sexually abused the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson. Tiffany Doe will testify to the fact that the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was extremely fortunate to have survived all of the physical and sexual horrors inflicted upon her by Defendants Epstein and Trump.

-- KATIE JOHNSON, Plaintiff v. DONALD J. TRUMP and JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, Defendant(s). COMPLAINT FOR CLAIM RELIEF DUE TO: 1. SEXUAL ABUSE UNDER THREAT OF HARM; 2. CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE CIVIL RIGHTS, Case Number: ED CV16-00797 DMG *(KSX), FILED: 2016 APR 26 AM 11:12

Trump called Johnson’s claims “not only categorically false but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, perhaps, are simply politically motivated.”

“There is absolutely no merit to these allegations. Period,” Trump concluded, while lawyers for Epstein didn’t appear to comment on the lawsuit.

Epstein came up again during Trump labor secretary nominee Alexander Acosta’s Senate confirmation hearing. Acosta was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who oversaw the pervy money manager’s plea deal.

“Protesters on both sides of the political aisle are now using Epstein’s reputation as ammo.”

In a 2011 letter, Acosta said the negotiations came after a “year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors” and added that “the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, had previously encountered.”

Epstein’s high-powered legal team, which included Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz (who is now working for Weinstein and is a legal ally of President Trump), supplied prosecutors with dossiers on the alleged victims in an effort to discredit them. The counter-investigation included copies of some of the girls’ MySpace.com profiles which showed drug and alcohol use, according to cops. Epstein’s strategy included hiring private eyes to follow witnesses, including one victim’s father, police said.

Last month, the FBI released heavily redacted memos on the Epstein probe, and one offered a hint as to the reason for his lenient treatment: “Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.” It’s unclear what dirt he might have given the feds. Epstein was once a limited partner at Bear Stearns and abruptly quit in 1981. Around the time of his plea deal, the investment bank’s role in the subprime mortgage crisis could have been of great interest to the feds. Epstein reportedly lost $57 million in the subprime meltdown.

Protesters on both sides of the political aisle are now using Epstein’s reputation as ammo. On June 6, a Philadelphia Trump supporter interrupted Bill Clinton at his book event to shout, “Why did you fly on Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express 26 times? Twenty-six times, Bill. Why, what were you doing on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane?”

The activist, Howard Caplan, was referring to the press’ nickname for Epstein’s private jet. “Look it up. Jeffrey Epstein!” Caplan yelled before security took him away.

Meanwhile, at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday, President Trump booted a protester who hoisted an old photo of him with the accused sex fiend. The text on the demonstrator’s poster simply asked: Who is Jeffrey Epstein?

Now two cases could propel Epstein back into the spotlight—including one where Roberts, who claimed Epstein kept her as his “sex slave,” is expected to testify against him in a Florida trial.

If Epstein appears, it would be the first time he has to face his alleged victims in court.

According to the fine print of his once-confidential plea deal, Epstein could have been charged with federal offenses involving sex acts with minors. If convicted of such crimes, he could have spent decades or even life behind bars.

Instead, he’s continued to enjoy the fruits of his wealth, flitting between the Virgin Islands and New York City, where tabloid shutterbugs have captured him strolling the Upper East Side with different women. One New York Post report said Epstein houses Russian models at his 51,000-square-foot palace on East 71st Street.

At a sex offender registration hearing in 2011, a Manhattan assistant prosecutor asked a judge to go easy on Epstein by making him a Level 1 fiend, or the lowest on the scale. The assistant DA claimed Epstein shouldn’t be forced to register at Level 3, which indicates a high risk of repeat offense, because “there was only an indictment for one victim” in Florida, the New York Post reported. The judge disagreed and labeled him Level 3, a decision that was upheld on appeal. “I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender.’ It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” Epstein told the Post a month later.

Meanwhile, last year, a woman named Sarah Ransome sued Epstein in Manhattan federal court, claiming he trafficked her for sex from October 2006 through April 2007—all while his attorneys were waging war against the federal charges in Florida. Ransome, originally identified under the pseudonym Jane Doe 43, differs from other Epstein victims who’ve filed lawsuits in that she was in her early twenties when he allegedly sexually abused her.

“‘I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender.’ It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,’ Epstein told the Post.”

When asked about Ransome’s allegations, and whether Epstein would be investigated for sex-trafficking, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said they do not comment on people who haven’t been charged. The office also does not comment on whether someone is under investigation.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to comment.

Ransome’s complaint was filed in the same district where Harvey Weinstein and his companies face a pair of class-action lawsuits accusing the ex-mogul and his associates of running a mafia-like operation that perpetuated and covered up his sexual harassment, assault and rape of women seeking work opportunities.

Young, vulnerable girls and women likewise say they sought opportunities with Epstein. A South Africa native living in New York, Ransome dreamed of attending the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.). Then she met Natalya Malyshev, whom she alleges was Epstein’s recruiter. Malyshev said she’d introduce Ransome to “a wealthy philanthropist who regularly used his wealth, influence and connections to help financially poor females like [Ransome] achieve their personal and professional goals and aspirations,” court papers allege.

Her case is pending U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl’s ruling on motions to dismiss filed by Epstein and his fellow defendants. The complaint is against Malyshev, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused by Roberts of helping Epstein procure girls and of molesting the girls herself, and Epstein’s assistants Sarah Kellen and Lesley Groff. (Kellen and Groff were listed as co-conspirators in Epstein’s federal plea deal. At the time of the alleged crimes, Kellen was in her late twenties; Groff is also believed to have been an adult during Ransome’s alleged abuse.)

“According to Ransome, Epstein didn’t quit his sex-abuse operation. Instead, he allegedly transported young women from other U.S. cities and abroad to his residences in New York and the Virgin Islands.”

During Epstein’s plea negotiations, he departed Palm Beach for New York and the Virgin Islands “in order to convey an image to prosecutors that he and his co-conspirators had stopped committing sex crimes,” her lawsuit states.

Still, according to Ransome, Epstein didn’t quit his sex-abuse operation. Instead, he allegedly transported young women from other U.S. cities and abroad to his residences in New York and the Virgin Islands, the complaint says.

When Ransome met Epstein, he allegedly promised to get her into F.I.T. or another school. She claims the other defendants “confirmed and reiterated this promise” and assured her many times that Epstein would advance her education. For her part, Maxwell told Ransome she would need to give Epstein massages “in order to reap the benefits of his and Maxwell's connections,” court papers allege.

Maxwell and Epstein allegedly warned Ransome that she wouldn’t obtain her education or modeling contracts without performing sex acts with Epstein and others. The sex was required to avoid the group’s “threatened retaliation against her if [she] did not perform as demanded,” the lawsuit adds.

Ransome said she tried to swim off Epstein’s private island after one alleged episode, where Epstein, Maxwell and Kellen ganged up on her with “verbal abuse and threats.” But a search party led by Epstein and Maxwell physically carried her back to his estate, she claims.

The trio is accused of keeping Ransome’s passport so she couldn’t escape. They had been providing Ransome with housing, a phone and transportation so long as she continued to “service Epstein sexually,” the complaint says.

In January 2007, Epstein sent Ransome home to South Africa to recruit an aspiring model as his latest personal assistant. Ransome says she refused, realizing the new hire would “be forced into sexual servitude.” But while she was abroad, Epstein and Maxwell warned Ransome she couldn’t return to New York unless she lost weight, dropping from about 125 to 114 pounds, the lawsuit states.

Groff would allegedly monitor her weight loss and dangle the prospect of an F.I.T. degree. Ransome “attempted to comply with the order but, given her physical height and body structure and her already existing body weight, the diet imposed upon her placed her in serious physical jeopardy, including kidney malfunction and extreme emotional and psychological distress,” the complaint says.

“At a sex offender registration hearing in 2011, a Manhattan assistant prosecutor asked a judge to go easy on Epstein by making him a Level 1 fiend.”

According to Ransome, Epstein and Maxwell even phoned Ransome’s parents in South Africa to assure they’d take care of their daughter when she returned to the U.S.—and that they’d use their connections to get her into school.

Ransome completed and delivered her F.I.T. application and supporting essay to Epstein, believing they were a “done deal,” court papers allege. When she returned to New York in February 2007, Maxwell allegedly ordered her to have sex with Epstein immediately. She claims the alleged traffickers kept pressing her to drop excessive amounts of weight and “offered her no opportunity to decline or resist their instructions.”

Three months later, Ransome says, she left the United States to flee Epstein.

All defendants (excluding Malyshev, who hasn’t responded to the suit) say Ransome’s claim for damages falls outside the statute of limitations for sex-trafficking victims—and that the relationship with Epstein was “consensual” in the first place.

In a motion to dismiss filed in November, lawyers for Epstein and Groff accuse Ransome of suing for sex-trafficking violations in “a moment of stunning opportunism… allegedly because Epstein did not help [Ransome] to gain admission to the Fashion Institute of Technology and advance her career.”

Maxwell’s camp, too, delivered a blistering rebuttal: “Rather than a Dickensian tale of a vulnerable, naïve, young women, forced into a life of slavery and sexual servitude, this case actually presents the end game of a sophisticated, ambitious woman, accustomed to an expensive lifestyle provided by numerous male benefactors.”

In response, Ransome’s lawyers argued Maxwell “cannot run away from the fact that [the complaint] properly alleges that Maxwell was the mastermind behind convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme.” They say the socialite incorrectly argues the Trafficking Victims Protection Act doesn’t apply to Ransome’s case because she wasn’t physically chained against her will; rather, traffickers are known to use psychological coercion to maintain control over their victims.

“This is not and never will be a sex trafficking case,” Maxwell’s team retorted in court papers last month. “It is the story of a brief, consensual relationship between two adults occurring more than ten years ago.”

Allegations of Jeffrey Epstein exploiting young women in New York were surfacing well before Sarah Ransome’s case.

Maximilia Cordero claimed she was 16 when Epstein sexually abused her in 2000 and vowed to boost her modeling career in exchange for sexual favors. Seven years later, when Cordero filed a lawsuit against him, her attorney (and boyfriend) said she was unable to consent because she was underage—and because she had a mental illness. Cordero’s suit was dismissed after a judge ruled Cordero was not insane during her encounters with Epstein and thus she could not circumvent the statute of limitations. According to the court’s decision, the only medical testimony came from a psychiatrist hired by the defense who said Cordero’s condition was caused by substance abuse. Epstein, through both an attorney and a spokesman, denied the allegations.

Then there was Virginia Roberts.

The 15-year-old girl was working a summer job at Mar-a-Lago when Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly recruited her for Epstein in 1998. The alleged madam invited Roberts, who now goes by her married name Giuffre, to make good money by learning massage therapy, according to a now-settled lawsuit Giuffre filed as Jane Doe No. 102.

Maxwell has denied the allegations, calling them “entirely false” in a statement released in 2011 after Giuffre spoke to British media.

Giuffre’s father, a maintenance manager at the Trump resort, was glad an older woman was offering his daughter this opportunity and dropped her off at Epstein’s mansion, her lawsuit said. Like the other victims, Giuffre claims she was sexually abused during the massage session. She claims Maxwell told Giuffre she had “lots of potential” and asked her to return the next day.

“Giuffre has claimed she spent four years as Epstein’s sex slave and was pimped out to the wealth manager’s rich and powerful friends.”

Giuffre has claimed she spent four years as Epstein’s sex slave and was pimped out to the wealth manager’s rich and powerful friends.

Now, 20 years after she met Epstein, Giuffre may testify against him. The financier is facing a malicious prosecution lawsuit in Florida from Bradley Edwards, an attorney who says Epstein sued him in 2009 as punishment for representing the victims.

Edwards declined to comment on the case. But when asked why cops never busted Epstein in New York, he said, “New York authorities are familiar with the allegations that have been made by Virginia against Jeffrey Epstein and have shown no interest in investigating or prosecuting him or anyone else in New York.”

Two weeks after meeting Epstein, Giuffre says she was flown to New York for “training” at his mansion. “It was basically every day and was like going to school. I also had to have sex with Epstein many times,” Giuffre said in a 2015 affidavit. (The statement was submitted as part of a lawsuit two women filed against the U.S. Department of Justice, saying prosecutors violated their rights as crime victims by failing to warn them of Epstein’s plea deal.)

Giuffre allegedly lived as Epstein’s teenage slave from 1999 through 2002, including at his home in New York. “In fact, my only purpose for Epstein, Maxwell and their friends was to be used for sex,” she said.

“New York authorities are familiar with the allegations that have been made... against Jeffrey Epstein and have shown no interest in investigating or prosecuting him or anyone else in New York.”
— Brad Edwards

Those friends allegedly included Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew, who was pictured in a photograph—taken at Maxwell’s London townhouse—with his arm around Giuffre’s partially bare waist. Both the Trump-supporting academic and the royal have denied having sex with Giuffre, and in April 2015, a federal judge struck the allegations from the court record. “At this juncture in the proceedings, these lurid details are unnecessary,” Judge Kenneth Marra ruled. “These unnecessary details shall be stricken.”

Giuffre claimed she was subjected to daily sexual abuse, including by Maxwell, whom she later sued for defamation in Manhattan federal court in 2015. Giuffre argued the socialite called her a liar after she detailed her allegations in court papers. The case settled last year, preventing Epstein from taking the stand in what was expected to be an explosive trial.

In her affidavit, Giuffre says she “observed Maxwell have sex with dozens of underage girls” and take explicit photos of them. “Maxwell had large amounts of child pornography that she personally made. Many times she made me sleep with other girls, some of whom were very young, for purposes of taking sexual pictures,” Giuffre added.

Now a married mother of three, Giuffre said she was forced to sleep with Dershowitz for the first time in Epstein’s New York mansion, when she was 16 years old. She claimed she also had sex with Prince Andrew in New York when she was 17.

She claimed Jean Luc Brunel, a modeling mogul now suing Epstein for tarnishing his reputation and damaging his business, had sex with her multiple times when she was 16 to 19 years old. Giuffre said some of those encounters occurred in New York, and that Brunel supplied Epstein with European minors who aspired to walk the runway.

“Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim,” Giuffre said in her affidavit, adding that she witnessed orgies with children in different cities and that Maxwell and Epstein’s New York-based assistant Sarah Kellen participated in them.

Giuffre was allegedly trafficked to politicians, powerful business executives and other acquaintances of Epstein. “Epstein required me to describe the sexual events that I had with these men presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them,” Giuffre said in her affidavit, adding, “I am still very fearful of these men today.”

“In her affidavit, Giuffre says she ‘observed Maxwell have sex with dozens of underage girls’ and take explicit photos of them.”

Giuffre fled Epstein’s clutches when he agreed to fly her to Thailand for massage training, she claims. She met her future husband and never looked back.

“Because of how often Epstein and others were having sex with young girls, and how much it was a centerpiece of their lives, I doubt they have just stopped,” Giuffre said in the affidavit. “It also seems to me that, when I knew them, they believed that they were above the law—too powerful to be prosecuted.”

Jack Scarola, an attorney for Edwards, expects the trial in Palm Beach to start no later than August and that the court will likely set a date early next month.

The upcoming trial will be the first time that Jeffrey Epstein—if he chooses to appear in court—will be forced to “sit there and be confronted with the truth about what he has done,” Scarola told The Daily Beast.

“He has thus far been able to avoid that experience and been able to avoid a detailed airing in a public courtroom about what has gone on, as opposed to filings that are buried in the records of the clerk’s office,” Scarola said.

“Virginia is ready, willing, able and enthusiastic about the opportunity that she will have to confront Jeffrey Epstein face to face,” Scarola added. “There are other victims who are absolutely ready and willing to testify.”

Included on the witness list are Prince Andrew, President Clinton, President Trump, David Copperfield and Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of the company that owns Victoria’s Secret and Epstein’s only known financial client. (Scarola said the boldfaced names are listed because they may have knowledge of the case, but that he doesn’t expect most of them will be witnesses.)

“He has thus far, for reasons that remain unexplained, been able to evade criminal responsibility for his wrongdoing.”
— Jack Scarola

The proceeding may be in Florida, but Epstein’s lifestyle and activities in all of his locations, including New York, are likely to come up.

“He has thus far, for reasons that remain unexplained, been able to evade criminal responsibility for his wrongdoing,” Scarola said. “It may very well be that the focus of public attention through this civil lawsuit on what he has done will create the kind of pressure necessary to see that he is appropriately criminally prosecuted.”

If the recently released FBI memos on Epstein are any indication, the feds have known about Giuffre’s claims for years. Among the press clippings included in the file were a Daily Mail story from March 2011, when Giuffre revealed her identity.

Soon after Giuffre went public, according to her 2015 affidavit, two FBI agents met her in Australia, where she was living at the time. “They seemed to be very professional and hard working. I thought to myself, ‘Wow, these people will do the right thing against the bad guys and protect me,’” Giuffre said.

In a second affidavit filed months later, Giuffre said the agents “seemed like they were being blocked from doing what they wanted to do—which I thought was to arrest Epstein and his powerful friends for all their illegal sex crimes.”

Giuffre hoped Epstein would be prosecuted. “But when nothing came of it, I got very upset,” Giuffre said. “I wanted to do something to stop Epstein and the other people he associates with from sexually abusing girls.” She added, “Law enforcement had taken my detailed statements, but nothing seemed to be happening.”

Giuffre said she contacted the FBI in April 2014, months after she moved back to the United States. “But, it seemed like the hands of [assistant U.S. Attorney Marie] Villafaña and the FBI were always tied by someone else with more authority,” she said.

“I have never been able to figure out who was (and still is) stopping a prosecution,” Giuffre wrote in the affidavit.

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So...a couple of times a year somebody can cull the Internet and write an article about you that recycles every
other article. That's a reason to try to create a new story. But, on the other hand, by not offering new news the
old seems just ho-hum.
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For ur info
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Disastrous Deal Staggers Trump Ally Thomas Barrack
by Nathan Vardi and Samantha Sharf.
Jul 09, 2018, 11:50am EDT Updated Jul 20, 2021, 03:27pm EDT
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Thomas Barrack has been one of the most prominent money men of the Donald Trump era. In the past two years, Barrack has been in the public eye like never before—fundraising for Trump’s presidential campaign, delivering a prime-time television address at the Republican National Convention and serving as chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee. Barrack introduced Trump to his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and facilitated conversations that strengthened Trump’s ties to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, helping to realign the Middle East.

But during the exact time Barrack was busy helping his friend Trump, he was also in the midst of the biggest deal of his business career, merging the real estate investment firm he spent his life building, Colony Capital, with another firm to form a $58 billion real estate colossus. The deal he struck in June 2016 has been nothing short of a disaster, decimating Barrack’s net worth and sending him scrambling to find a fix.

The tri-party merger of equals between Colony Capital and NorthStar Realty Finance and NorthStar Asset Management was supposed to be Barrack’s crowning achievement. But shares of Colony NorthStar have plunged by nearly 60% since they began trading in 2017. The merger was designed to create a giant real estate investment trust with a market value of $9 billion. Today the market capitalization of Colony NorthStar is $3.4 billion.[/u]

“The results have been disappointing, and that’s the bottom line,” Barrack said on a Colony NorthStar investor call earlier this year. “It’s the majority of my personal net worth. It’s the dominant factor in my and my family’s pride, reputation and future.”

Barrack has been feeling the pain along with other Colony NorthStar shareholders. His equity stake in Colony NorthStar—by his own account the majority of his net worth—valued at $400 million after the merger, has dropped to $178 million.

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Thomas Barrack had a prime seat to watch his friend Donald Trump get sworn in as the 45th president.
2017 Getty Images

Few could have predicted the reversal of fortune Barrack, 71, is now facing. When he paid tribute to his longtime friend Trump at the Republican National Convention, he seemed to be embarking on a new, invigorating chapter of his life—with a third wife 30 years his junior, magnificent homes in California and France, and business and political prospects that could not have appeared brighter.

Barrack’s headaches have not been confined to business. Earlier this year it was reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had questioned Barrack in relation to the Russia investigation because of his close ties to Manafort, whom Mueller has criminally charged, and Rick Gates, a deputy chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee who pleaded guilty to two criminal charges. (Barrack’s spokesman says Barrack has been told he is not a target of the investigation.) And if questions from the federal probe weren’t enough of a hassle, Barrack and his wife have been locked in divorce-court proceedings.

Barrack, who declined to comment for this story, is now trying to resurrect his business and legacy. He is selling some of the assets that came to his company from NorthStar and doubling back to Colony’s original investment-management-driven approach. In June, Barrack even removed the NorthStar name, rebranding the company as Colony Capital again.

“At this point it’s clear the Colony NorthStar merger was poorly conceived,” says Jade Rahmani, an analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods.

The son of a Lebanese grocer who grew up around Los Angeles, Tom Barrack earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, where he was a star rugby player, and later in 1972 a law degree from the University of San Diego. After practicing law for some 10 years, including a stint in Saudi Arabia, Barrack got a taste for politics in the Reagan administration as a deputy undersecretary of the interior under James Watt.

By the mid 1980s, Barrack had moved on from politics and went to work for Robert M. Bass, the legendary Texas investor who together with his brothers launched the careers of some of the most successful names in finance—billionaires John Grayken, David Bonderman, Marc Lasry, Edward Lampert, and the late Richard Rainwater.

During the exact time Barrack was helping his friend Donald Trump, he was in the middle of the biggest deal of his life. The aftermath has been disastrous.

Barrack managed real estate investments for Bass, including deals involving Donald Trump. In 1986 Trump bought a 20% stake in the Alexander’s department store chain from Bass. A few years later, Barrack led the sale of the Bass brothers-owned Plaza Hotel in Manhattan to Trump for $400 million. By the mid-1990s Alexander’s had filed for bankruptcy and Trump was forced to sell the Plaza at a loss. Despite having bested Trump on both deals, Barrack and The Donald became good friends.

In the 1990s, Barrack formed Colony Capital, with the backing of Bass and GE Capital. The Los Angeles-based Colony scored early wins buying deeply discounted savings-and-loan-crisis mortgage debt from the government’s Resolution Trust Corporation.

But as Colony expanded, Barrack’s business moves, like those of Trump, seemed to indulge his lust for celebrity. His firm has owned stakes in casinos, a professional soccer team and a notable vineyard in Bordeaux. In 2007 he bought the assets of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and in 2010 the debt owed by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz. Colony also teamed up with the nation of Qatar to buy the movie studio founded by Harvey Weinstein, Miramax. Barrack also personally made a $1.5 million mortgage loan to the wife of Paul Manafort, then a political consultant then representing interests in the Ukraine. Prior to Barrack’s current deal disaster, two transactions stand out as his worst, both made before the financial crisis. In late 2006 Colony led the $1.5 billion recapitalization of Xanadu, a massive retail complex in northern New Jersey that subsequently failed. By 2010 Xanadu’s lenders had seized the project. Another dog was Colony’s purchase of Station Casinos in late 2007. Two years later, the Las Vegas company filed for bankruptcy-court protection. Largely because to these two bad deals, Colony Investors VIII, a flagship $4 billion fund raised in 2007, would go on to post a -11.4% annual average return over the next decade.

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Thomas Barrack speaks at the 2016 Republican National Convention, a moment that signaled his greater visibility in the Trump Era. 2016 Los Angeles Times

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Barrack (who fell off Forbes’ list of billionaires in 2014) decided to take a different tack. There would be no next big PE fund. Instead, Colony would successfully raise and manage smaller distressed debt funds specializing in commercial real estate. Like others, he also made good money investing in beaten-down single-family homes.

If sophisticated institutional investors were reluctant to back new PE offerings from Barrack, his solution was to turn to the public markets for yield-hungry REIT investors. In 2009 Barrack’s Colony Financial began trading as a REIT on the NYSE, using public money to invest in Colony Capital’s real estate deals. The REIT would be Barrack’s ticket to liquidity and permanent capital. A few years later, in 2015, Barrack merged his main company, asset manager Colony Capital, with the publicly traded Colony Financial. But among REITs, Colony Capital was relatively small, it managed only $19 billion. Barrack wanted to be bigger and more relevant. He wanted firepower.

So on a January morning in 2016 Barrack met with David Hamamoto, the cofounder and CEO of a real estate group called NorthStar, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the edge of Manhattan’s Central Park. Over coffee, the two discussed the idea of merging their real estate companies for the first time.

For Hamamoto, the deal was a solution to a problem. Hamamoto had been under attack by activist hedge fund manager Jonathan Litt. A few years earlier, Hamamoto had pushed NorthStar Realty Finance, which bought and owned properties like hotels and nursing homes, to spin out the manager of those assets, NorthStar Asset Management, into a separate public company. Litt argued that this externally managed REIT structure, where real estate assets are overseen by outside managers who earn juicy fees, meant the managers were not always working with shareholders like him in mind.

Hamamoto was a juicy target, having earned some $126 million in total compensation—$48 million of it in cash—between 2014 and 2016. But the stocks of the two NorthStar companies had been performing poorly as separate entities. Hamamoto blamed the stock underperformance on Wall Street’s fickleness, but together with his board decided his best course was to put NorthStar put up for sale. The deal with Barrack’s Colony, which is an internally managed REIT, was the best Hamamoto could drum up.

When Barrack announced Colony’s merger with the two NorthStar companies in June 2016, he called it “a dynastic moment.” He said the deal “elevated the group to the highest echelon of real estate equity REITs” and “arms us with an infinite life balance sheet of almost $17 billion.” The slide show presentation for the merger boasted that Colony NorthStar was “the fifth-largest independent real estate manager”—and placed the company in the same league as giants Blackstone and Brookfield.

It wasn’t long, however, before the bad news started to roll in. The original merger plan called for Hamamoto to stay on as executive vice chairman for at least a year, working with Barrack, who was executive chairman. In November 2017, Hamamoto resigned from Colony NorthStar. Then in December 2017, Securities & Exchange Commission filings revealed that Hamamoto had been selling large amounts of his Colony NorthStar shares at prices as high $12 each, collecting a total of $27 million.

In the world of REITs, there is no more important measure of operating performance than funds from operations, or FFO, which is essentially cash flow, excluding gains and losses from property sales. At its inception, Colony NorthStar promised an FFO between $1.55 and $1.75 per share annually and predicted it would pay shareholders a dividend of $1.08 per share. Depending on where its shares traded, the dividend yield would fall between 7% and 10%. It was like manna from heaven for investors—a star dealmaker and his cash-gushing REIT.

Few could have the predicted Barrack's reversal of fortune. In addition to the decline of his real estate empire, he and his wife have been locked in divorce-court proceedings.

But in March of 2018 Colony NorthStar admitted that its FFO for 2017 would amount to only $1.14 per share and, even worse, that it would cut its dividend by 60% to 44 cents per share. REIT investors dumped shares as its stock plummeted to below $6.

Richard Saltzman, Colony NorthStar’s CEO and a longtime Barrack partner, has pointed to weakening net operating income coming from the company’s nursing homes properties and write-downs in its securities portfolios, particularly related to collateralized debt obligations and so-called secondary stakes in private equity funds. All these assets came to the company from NorthStar.

“It was a merger that was supposed to be earnings-neutral at worse, and so far it has proven to be earnings-dilutive,” Saltzman has admitted to investors.

The plan now is to reverse gears, get back to Colony’s roots as an institutional fund manager and focus on other assets. One of its new partnerships is with Digital Bridge, a Boca Raton, Fla., investment firm focused on communications technology. It has raised $3 billion to invest in infrastructure assets like data centers and cell towers as well as a publicly traded REIT managed by Colony that invests in European real estate. Colony also has a platform to invest in industrial warehouses and distribution centers. In June, Colony announced it was trying to buy four private equity funds that invest in Latin America, Africa and Turkey from the embattled Abraaj Group, which is based in Dubai.

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Thomas Barrack and his wife Rachelle at a polo match in Jersey City, N.J. 2016 Roy Rochlin

Like the Trump Organization, which sought alternative sources for funding after U.S. banks and institutions largely abandoned it in the 1990s, Barrack should be able tap his friends outside the United States. In June, the New York Times reported that Barrack played a key role facilitating talks between influential people in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the Trump campaign. In fact, nearly a quarter of the $7 billion Colony NorthStar has managed to raise for its investment funds since Trump won the Republican presidential nomination has come from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Times.

That’s great for Barrack but little solace for investors who backed the former billionaire in his NYSE-listed REIT. Today more than $5 billion in market capitalization has vanished and Colony shares languish at $6.50. Says one long-suffering Colony NorthStar shareholder, “Because of the scale of the company—it will take forever to move the dividend in a meaningful way. Increasing the dividend is all people really care about.”

Reach Nathan Vardi at [email protected] and Samantha Sharf at [email protected]. Cover image by Chris Goodney/Bloomberg.

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From: LH
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Do the Russians have stuff on Trump?
Today was appalling even by his standards.
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wed presidnt of united nations , interesting person for you
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From: LHS
Sent: 7/17/2018 12:01:00 PM
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Will call later. What number?
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my email is full with similar comments . wow
Im sure his view is that it went super well . he thinks he has charmed his adversary. . Admittedly he has no
idea of the symbolism . He has no idea of most things
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From:
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idea of the symbolism . He has no idea of most things
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LHS________________________________
7/18/2018 12:51:11 AM
jeffrey E. [[email protected]]
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Just tried back. Now here
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On Jul 17, 2018, at 8:33 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
just tried
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:12 PM, LHS < wrote:
Just tried u. Am at 6178179452
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On Jul 17, 2018, at 5:09 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:01 AM, LHS <_______________________> wrote:
Will call later. What number?
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On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:42 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
my email is full with similar comments . wow
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Im sure his view is that it went super well . he thinks he has charmed his adversary. . Admittedly he has no
idea of the symbolism . He has no idea of most things
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:18 PM, LHS wrote:
Do the Russians have stuff on Trump?
Today was appalling even by his standards.
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On Jul 16, 2018, at 9:17 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
wed presidnt of united nations , interesting person for you
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 6:28 PM, LHS___________________________kwrote:
Unsure. What is up
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On Jul 15, 2018, at 6:09 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote:
new york soon?
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