Epstein and Weinstein
Lead U.S. prosecutor in ’08 Epstein case — who sources say wanted to charge him — resigns
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233668342.html
A. Marie Villafaña, the lead federal prosecutor who helped negotiate a controversial plea deal for accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has submitted her resignation to the Justice Department, the Miami Herald has learned.
Her departure comes amid a federal probe into the role she and other federal prosecutors, including her former boss, Alexander Acosta, had in sidelining a 53-page indictment against the wealthy New York investor in favor of a state plea to minor prostitution charges in 2008. Epstein, 66, was accused of molesting dozens of underage girls, most of them 14 to 16 years old, at his Palm Beach mansion more than a decade ago. He is now facing federal sex trafficking charges involving minors brought against him last month by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
******************
Harvey Weinstein Started Selling His Real Estate About Six Months Before His Downfall
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein began selling off personal real estate about six months before the publication of two articles that enumerated a flood of sexual-misconduct allegations against him, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of property records and people familiar with the transactions.
The purge resulted in the sale of six homes by Mr. Weinstein between October 2017 and April 2018 for an estimated total of $55.9 million. Another one of his homes is for sale. And in April 2019, he sold a commercial office space he owned with his brother and Weinstein Co. co-founder Robert. Robert Weinstein didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Leslie Cohen closed on her purchase of one of Mr. Weinstein’s Connecticut homes just three days before the publication of a New York Times article detailing his alleged sexual misconduct. She said that when she saw the article, she was upset and felt “deceived” that no one involved in the transaction warned her what was about to happen. Agents involved in the deal said they didn’t know about the article.
I was telling hubby last night...I wouldn’t want to own ANY of the houses these people have lived in.
There aren’t enough exorcists in the world to get rid of all that bad mojo...
I’m not sure i’d even want to own the land minus the house (burn it with fire, just to be sure!)
Bongino on F&F’s
Discussing Ohr 302’s and the “information laundering” scheme, Nellie Ohr and Chris Steele