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Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail and a lucrative ‘hot list’
BDSNews24.com ^ | 30 November 2019 | Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Emily Steel, Jacob Bernstein and David Enrich

Posted on 11/30/2019 7:55:31 AM PST by Magnatron

Soon after sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein died in August, a mysterious man met with two prominent lawyers.

Towering, barrel-chested and wild-bearded, he was a prodigious drinker and often wore flip-flops. He went by a pseudonym, Patrick Kessler — a necessity, he said, given the shadowy, dangerous world that he inhabited.

He told the lawyers he had something incendiary: a vast archive of Epstein’s data, stored on encrypted servers overseas. He said he had years of the financier’s communications and financial records — as well as thousands of hours of footage from hidden cameras in the bedrooms of Epstein’s properties. The videos, Kessler said, captured some of the world’s richest, most powerful men in compromising sexual situations — even in the act of rape.

Kessler said he wanted to expose these men. If he was telling the truth, his trove could answer one of the Epstein saga’s most baffling questions: How did a college dropout and high school math teacher amass what was said to be a nine-figure fortune? One persistent but unproven theory was that he ran a sprawling blackmail operation. That would explain why moguls, scientists, political leaders and a royal stayed loyal to him, in some cases even after he first went to jail.

Kessler’s tale was enough to hook the two lawyers, famed litigator David Boies and his friend John Stanley Pottinger. If Kessler was authentic, his videos would arm them with immense leverage over some very important people.

Boies and Pottinger discussed a plan. They could use the supposed footage in litigation or to try to reach deals with men who appeared in it, with money flowing into a charitable foundation. In encrypted chats with Kessler, Pottinger referred to a roster of potential targets as the “hot list”.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jeffreyepstein
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Interesting read...
1 posted on 11/30/2019 7:55:31 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron; Liz
He told the lawyers he had something incendiary: a vast archive of Epstein’s data, stored on encrypted servers overseas. He said he had years of the financier’s communications and financial records — as well as thousands of hours of footage from hidden cameras in the bedrooms of Epstein’s properties. The videos, Kessler said, captured some of the world’s richest, most powerful men in compromising sexual situations — even in the act of rape.

Could get interesting.... Of course there are records of the men who 'invested' with Epstein... that was part of the blackmail.

2 posted on 11/30/2019 8:00:32 AM PST by GOPJ (UN-elected bureaucrats steal power and taxpayer dollars - they belong in prison.)
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To: Magnatron

I can’t seem to get past the tease view. Tons of ads, but nothing I see to allow the rest of the article to be seen.


3 posted on 11/30/2019 8:03:32 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Magnatron

“...David Boies...”

Wasn’t he an attorney for the Clintons?


4 posted on 11/30/2019 8:05:24 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: bk1000
Hmmm...

Try this:

Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail and a lucrative ‘hot list’

5 posted on 11/30/2019 8:10:57 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: WildHighlander57

Boies is deep state. He is directly involed in the Democrats looting operations in Ukraine.


6 posted on 11/30/2019 8:11:18 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: WildHighlander57

Boies was attorney for the government in the Microsoft antitrust trial.

He demonstrated that Microsnot deliberately presented fraudulently altered evidence to the court, yet nothing happened to the company.

As a result, Microshit is releasing Windows 10 now, crashing everybody’s computers.

As I recall, all the “conservatives,” including Rush Limbaugh staunchly took Microspoor’s’ position and cheered when they got off the hook.


7 posted on 11/30/2019 8:13:17 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ( I'll be good, I will, I will.)
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To: Magnatron

Did everybody miss this:

“In the end, there would be no damning videos, no funds pouring into a new foundation. Boies and Pottinger would go from toasting Kessler as their “whistleblower” and “informant” to torching him as a “fraudster” and a “spy.”

Kessler was a liar, and he wouldn’t expose any sexual abuse.”


8 posted on 11/30/2019 8:15:08 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: WildHighlander57

Boies Leaves A Trail Of Bad Blood
https://www.palisadeshudson.com/2018/01/boies-leaves-a-trail-of-bad-blood/


9 posted on 11/30/2019 8:17:47 AM PST by Qiviut (Support the country you live in or live in the country you support.)
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To: dsc
“In the end, there would be no damning videos, no funds pouring into a new foundation. Boies and Pottinger would go from toasting Kessler as their “whistleblower” and “informant” to torching him as a “fraudster” and a “spy.” Kessler was a liar, and he wouldn’t expose any sexual abuse.”

I picked up on that and looked to the right column on my computer and could see the piece was going to be long winded.

Much ado about nothing. - Tom

10 posted on 11/30/2019 8:24:57 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Magnatron

When you deal with pimps expect it.


11 posted on 11/30/2019 8:25:05 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Magnatron
Towering, barrel-chested and wild-bearded, he was a prodigious drinker and often wore flip-flops. He went by a pseudonym, Patrick Kessler — a necessity, he said, given the shadowy, dangerous world that he inhabited.

Seems legit...

12 posted on 11/30/2019 8:37:32 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Magnatron

Sounds like the lawyers were set to EXTORT money from the people who would have been in the videos.


13 posted on 11/30/2019 8:40:10 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: WildHighlander57

I think your right. Worked for Perkins Cieou?


14 posted on 11/30/2019 8:40:19 AM PST by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: Oldexpat

Coie.


15 posted on 11/30/2019 8:41:54 AM PST by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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To: Magnatron

David Boies was Gore’s lawyer in Bush v Gore. Wonder if he’s still miffed that Clinton did not do more to help Gore get elected? Or, is Boies a Clinton man, who was loaned to Gore?


16 posted on 11/30/2019 8:57:26 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Elections have consequences. get over it, we won! ~ Barack Obama)
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To: Magnatron

pretty deep down the rabbit hole


17 posted on 11/30/2019 9:04:32 AM PST by thinden
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To: Magnatron
It reads like a tawdry novel.

Epstein's properties have been seized for a long time, so wherever all this supposed incriminating stuff is, it's probably gone the way of Jimmy Hoffa.

18 posted on 11/30/2019 9:15:17 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Capt. Tom
Much ado about nothing.

Read a bit further. This was at its base a blackmail effort, and at its most an attempt to sway the Israeli elections with fake info (or not)...

Sound familiar?

19 posted on 11/30/2019 9:54:00 AM PST by Magnatron
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“Welcome to bdnews24.com. The content you are looking for is missing or has never been there.”

At the top left of the screen at link. I had to be very fast and try 3 times to copy it.


20 posted on 11/30/2019 10:31:28 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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