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Trump Turns to Ghislaine Maxwell in Wall Street Journal Defamation Fight (6/4/26)

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Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on an alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that was said to have appeared in a 2003 birthday album compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump denies writing the letter and his amended complaint continues to argue that no authentic letter or drawing exists, even though the House Oversight Committee later released the letter after obtaining it from Epstein’s estate. The renewed lawsuit comes after a federal judge dismissed Trump’s first version in April, finding that his legal team had not adequately pleaded “actual malice,” the demanding defamation standard public officials must meet when suing news organizations. The amended filing brings Ghislaine Maxwell into the case by pointing to her July 2025 interview with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which she said she did not remember Trump submitting a letter, card, or note for Epstein’s birthday album. Trump’s lawyers are trying to use that statement to bolster the claim that the Journal published something false or recklessly unsupported, but the timing creates an obvious complication because Maxwell’s interview occurred after the Journal’s original reporting. The case now turns on whether Trump can prove that The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, and the named reporters knowingly published false information or acted with reckless disregard for the truth, rather than simply reporting aggressively on a disputed Epstein-related document. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Trump Cites Maxwell In $10 Billion 'Wall Street Journal' Lawsuit [https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-ghislaine-maxwell-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-epstein-letter/]

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Governor John de Jongh's Motion To Dismiss The Epstein Survivors Lawsuit (Part 2)

Former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh Jr. has filed a memorandum in federal court seeking to dismiss, transfer, or strike the lawsuit brought by five anonymous women identified as Jane Does 1-5, who accuse the Virgin Islands government and several current and former officials of enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. De Jongh argues that the Southern District of New York lacks jurisdiction, asserting he has been a resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands for decades and has no substantial ties to New York that would justify the case being heard there. He also claims he was improperly served at a Manhattan address where he says he does not reside or maintain control, insisting the lawsuit should be dismissed or moved to the Virgin Islands, where the alleged conduct occurred. The memorandum further contends that even if the court finds jurisdiction proper, the claims against De Jongh should still be thrown out because they are barred by prior settlement releases signed by Epstein’s victims as part of earlier agreements with his estate. He argues that the complaint fails to allege specific wrongful acts committed by him and maintains that any actions connected to Epstein occurred while he was serving in his official capacity, which he says grants him legal immunity. De Jongh also asks the court to strike portions of the complaint as irrelevant and prejudicial, describing them as inflammatory rather than grounded in fact. The filing adds another layer to the expanding legal fight over what government officials knew— and failed to stop—while Epstein operated in the Virgin Islands. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

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Governor John de Jongh's Motion To Dismiss The Epstein Survivors Lawsuit (Part 1)

Former U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh Jr. has filed a memorandum in federal court seeking to dismiss, transfer, or strike the lawsuit brought by five anonymous women identified as Jane Does 1-5, who accuse the Virgin Islands government and several current and former officials of enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. De Jongh argues that the Southern District of New York lacks jurisdiction, asserting he has been a resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands for decades and has no substantial ties to New York that would justify the case being heard there. He also claims he was improperly served at a Manhattan address where he says he does not reside or maintain control, insisting the lawsuit should be dismissed or moved to the Virgin Islands, where the alleged conduct occurred. The memorandum further contends that even if the court finds jurisdiction proper, the claims against De Jongh should still be thrown out because they are barred by prior settlement releases signed by Epstein’s victims as part of earlier agreements with his estate. He argues that the complaint fails to allege specific wrongful acts committed by him and maintains that any actions connected to Epstein occurred while he was serving in his official capacity, which he says grants him legal immunity. De Jongh also asks the court to strike portions of the complaint as irrelevant and prejudicial, describing them as inflammatory rather than grounded in fact. The filing adds another layer to the expanding legal fight over what government officials knew— and failed to stop—while Epstein operated in the Virgin Islands. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

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The Captain Of Security Operations At MCC And His OIG Deposition (Part 9) (6/4/26)

The document is a sworn OIG interview transcript from June 15, 2021, involving the Bureau of Prisons captain who oversaw security operations at MCC New York during the period surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death. The captain described the command structure inside the jail, including his role supervising lieutenants and reporting up to associate wardens or the warden, while investigators walked him through staffing, rosters, post assignments, suicide-watch procedures, SHU operations, and the chain of responsibility on August 9–10, 2019. The transcript is important because it does not present Epstein’s death as a clean, orderly institutional event; instead, it shows a jail struggling with bad staffing, confusing handoffs, unfilled posts, questionable paperwork, and a command structure where critical responsibilities appear to have been either missed, misunderstood, or passed around. The most serious value of the interview is in the irregularities it surfaces. The captain reportedly discussed inaccurate rosters or logs, acknowledged questions around skipped SHU rounds, addressed the fact that Epstein had previously been on suicide watch, and said he would not necessarily have known in real time if officers were failing to conduct required checks. Even more troubling, he expressed concern that certain documents may have been deliberately removed from files that should have been reviewed or audited, and investigators also raised an inmate-count issue involving an inmate named Reyes, whose release may not have been properly reflected in the institution’s count — something the captain treated as a protocol violation. Taken together, the transcript adds another layer to the larger Epstein death record: not a single clean explanation, but a bureaucratic mess of missing or questionable documentation, staffing failures, broken supervision, and institutional chaos at precisely the moment when the most high-profile federal inmate in America was supposed to be under careful control. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: EFTA00111830.pdf [https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00111830.pdf]

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July 23 Testimony Looms for Jes Staley in Epstein Oversight Probe (6/4/26)

Jes Staley, the former Barclays chief executive and former JPMorgan Chase executive, has agreed to sit for a voluntary, transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on July 23 about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The interview was requested by Oversight Chairman James Comer as part of the committee’s broader probe into how Epstein was able to maintain access to elite financial, legal, political, and social networks for years despite his criminal history. Staley is a particularly important witness because he previously ran JPMorgan’s private wealth and asset management operations, where Epstein was a major client, and because his own relationship with Epstein has already drawn serious regulatory, legal, and reputational scrutiny. The focus is not just that Staley knew Epstein, but how close that relationship was, what JPMorgan understood about Epstein while he remained a client, and whether major institutions ignored warning signs because Epstein was financially useful and socially connected. Staley has long maintained that he did not know about Epstein’s criminal conduct, but prior proceedings and disclosures have raised questions about the depth of their friendship, including personal communications and findings by UK regulators that led to Staley being banned from senior financial roles. His July 23 interview now places him alongside other high-profile Epstein-linked figures expected to face congressional questioning, including Bill Gates, Leon Black, and Kathryn Ruemmler, as lawmakers continue trying to fill in the gaps left by settlements, sealed records, institutional evasions, and years of official failure. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley agrees to July 23 interview about Jeffrey Epstein by oversight panel [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/former-barclays-ceo-jes-staley-agrees-to-july-23-interview-about-jeffrey-epstein-by-oversight-panel/ar-AA24ucqL?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds]

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The Mandelson Files: Redactions, Vetting Questions, and a Prime Ministerial Paper Trail (6/4/26)

More than 1,500 pages of documents tied to Peter Mandelson’s controversial appointment as Britain’s ambassador to the United States were released, but the release immediately triggered more questions than answers. The files reportedly showed Mandelson aggressively lobbying for the Washington post, promising ministers they would “never regret” appointing him, while also revealing internal Labour messages that painted a bleak picture of Keir Starmer’s leadership and the mood inside government. But huge sections of the document dump were redacted on national security and diplomatic grounds, and at least one key vetting summary was withheld because of an ongoing police investigation into Mandelson. Opposition MPs seized on the apparent absence of Starmer’s direct paper trail, questioning how such a major appointment could happen with so little visible documentation from the Prime Minister himself. The most damaging unanswered questions revolve around what was missing: redacted pages, absent WhatsApp messages, disappearing-message settings, and undisclosed vetting material. No. 10 acknowledged that Starmer uses disappearing messages on WhatsApp, saying this can be consistent with government guidance, but critics argue it raises obvious questions about whether key communications about Mandelson’s appointment are now gone. The release also intensified scrutiny of Mandelson’s Epstein-related baggage, his reported security-vetting problems, and why the government pushed ahead with the appointment despite reputational and political warnings. In plain terms, the document dump was supposed to close the book, but instead it opened a new chapter: who backed Mandelson, what did Starmer know, what did the vetting process flag, and how much of the record has been hidden, deleted, or redacted? to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Five questions STILL unanswered after 1,000s of bombshell Mandelson docs - redacted files, missing texts and PM loathed [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39282085/mandelson-docs-bombshell-texts-redacted-pm-loathed/]

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