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US court orders release of 180 Epstein-linked names

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Previously redacted entries are expected to show associates and victims of the late sex trafficker.

A federal judge in New York has ruled to unseal the documents that contain the identifying information of an estimated 180 people connected in some manner to Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted pedophile died in 2019 in a New York jail, and the documents are related to the case that put him there.

Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York explained her reasoning in the 51-page order on Monday, noting that previous hearings have established that the names would not remain redacted indefinitely.

Any of the people impacted by the order have 14 days to appeal the decision, after which the lawyers must “confer, prepare the documents for unsealing pursuant to this order, and post the documents on the docket,” Preska said.

The trove is expected to identify some of Epstein’s close associates, his victims, as well as investigators and journalists who covered the case. Some of the names will remain sealed, including minor victims and at least one person wrongly identified as a sexual predator by a reporter.

The documents in question are related to the 2015 lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually trafficking her when she was 17. The case was settled in 2017, with most of the evidence and depositions remaining under seal. A lawsuit by activist Mike Cernovich resulted in their declassification in July 2019, at which point Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.

The former financier who long socialized with the rich and powerful – and flew them to his Caribbean island on a private jet known as the ‘Lolita Express’ – was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on August 10, 2019. The official cause of death was listed as suicide by hanging.

Maxwell went into hiding afterwards, but was located by the FBI in July 2020 and arrested. She was convicted in December 2021 on five sex trafficking charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison, five years of probation, and $750,000 in fines.

The identities of Epstein’s clients and the logs of who all traveled on the ‘Lolita Express’ remain under seal still. A Republican senator on the Judiciary Committee tried to subpoena them last month, but the motion was blocked by Senator Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat in charge of the committee.

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  1. This will probably turn out to be all smoke and mirrors as the people on her client list are scum with too much power and money to ever get found truly guilty of their crimes…

  2. Especially with the J**dicial System in effect…!
    See the video of Jordan Maxwell explaining what REALLY runs the U.S. Court and Legal Systems, on the Local, State and Federal levels!
    Common Law Constitutional Rights DO NOT EXISTS in the U.S.
    Admiralty Law rules the U.S., as it’s reflective of Corporate Law, and the U.S. is actually a Corporation.
    That’s why it’s structured like a Corporation, with a President, Vice-President, and ‘Corporate Representatives’ in the form of just that (ie House of Representatives, and Roman-Law based-‘Senators’…).
    If you’re a Freemason, a J** or a Communist in the U.S. J**dicial System, you’ll be treated with ‘Kid Gloves’ (as demonstrated in serious cases involving Crown Law), as a ‘Kid’ is actually a young goat, and is an ‘anti’ in place of Lambskin which represents Jesus Christ

  3. This just shows how many in the Congress and the Senate are hiding their involvement with Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein and Madam ‘Hoo-Ha’ Maxwell.
    Watch for the island of Little Saint James be used now for target practice by the DOD…to destroy any and ALL evidence that the FBI already knows about but will not reveal even under a Congressional subpoena!
    And that began with Epstein ordering massive amounts of concrete to fill-in the cave/tunnel system that Ghislaine (who has a Submersible Vessel Licence) used to pull the sub into to offload the kids from yet another submarine transfer at sea. This is how kids were trafficked; out of sight under water!
    The Madeleine McCann case mentioned this in culpable findings during the kidnapping investigations.

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