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Investigative Reporter @business. 'FOIA terrorist.' Band Tshirt hoarder. Subscribe to my newsletter FOIA Files. Signal 213-270-4334. [email protected]

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@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
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🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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Jason Leopold
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A FOIA Files flashback: Documents I obtained via #FOIA reveal that the IRS took the extraordinary step of seeking a legal opinion on whether it was appropriate to emblazon President Donald Trump's name on millions of Covid stimulus checks in 2020. https://t.co/spLdCSsTd3
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Jason Leopold
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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! I pried loose emails from ODNI about the "damage assessment" lawmakers asked the agency to conduct after FBI found that Trump stockpiled classified docs were found at MAL This is what was discussed behind the scenes https://t.co/Qshpkmy65Z
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Jason Leopold
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Hope the text message (which would be subject to #FOIA, is being preserved in accordance with the Federal Records Act
@keithedwards
Keith Edwards
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BREAKING NEWS: Leaked pic of Treasury Secretary’s phone shows a panicked text from the Ag Secretary. She's worried that China has outsmarted Trump, buy buying up Argentine soybeans at the expense of US farmers. Trump plans to bail out Argentina with billions of dollars, btw.
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Bloomberg
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As investigators closed in, elite experts and professionals offered support and advice to Jeffrey Epstein. A cache of private emails obtained by Bloomberg News reveals details from his network. Read our investigation ⬇️
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A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”
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@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
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Tomorrow, SCOTUS will review Ghilaine Maxwell's cert petition in which she appealed her 2021 conviction Check out the @business story from a couple of weeks ago, based on a cache of previously unreleased emails between Maxwell and Epstein, that sheds new light on her
@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
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EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @business has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role https://t.co/rEXye2qDqB
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@joshgerstein
Josh Gerstein
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SCOOP: Justice Department asks judge to force nonprofit & reporter to post $50,000 bond to get faster release of classified docs found at Mar-a-Lago. Trump order to seek bonds for early injunctions seeps into #FOIA litigation. https://t.co/eGxbAqdnOW
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David Gura
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Bloomberg News has obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo account. Here, my colleagues summarize correspondence between Mitch Webber — then a research assistant to @AlanDersh, now a partner at Paul, Weiss — and Epstein:
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Jason Leopold
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🔍This is the 3rd installment in our series on Jeffrey Epstein's Inbox Here are gift links to stories in our series thus far if you missed it We kicked it off with our story about the then-UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelon's emails with Epstein, which led to his firing
@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
17 days
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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@MarcACaputo
Marc Caputo
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When at @JasonLeopold is on a multiple byline, you know he’s a banger But damn, Bloomberg News delivered in spades
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A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”
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@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
17 days
Not many figures in Epstein’s legal circle have been more closely linked to him than Dershowitz, a central member of his legal team for years. The emails show the depth of the support he gave Epstein.
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Jason Leopold
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NEW edition of my newsletter, FOIA Files, is out! I’ve got another special edition this week related to the 18,000 emails @business obtained from the personal Yahoo account of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/yizqFv0FiS
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Jason Leopold
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“let’s also look at sex tourism laws,” Epstein wrote back. “going someplace with specific intent ot have underage sex.”
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Jason Leopold
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“I'm sorry I was a little confused about what you were asking on the phone,” Webber wrote him. “I se what you were asking now. The question is: what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex—or transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minor—into a state in
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Jason Leopold
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NEW: Meet Mitch Webber, formerly an associate counsel and special assistant to President Donald Trump (during his 1st term). In 2006, Webber was a Harvard Law School student and research assistant to Alan Dershowitz when he defended Jeffrey Epstein. Webber sometimes fielded
@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
17 days
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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Jason Leopold
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Tramo did not respond to multiple requests seeking comment about his email to Epstein.
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Jason Leopold
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NEW from Jeffrey Epstein's Inbox: neurologist Mark Tramo, then at Harvard now an adjunct professor at UCLA, sent an email to Epstein in Oct 2007, the same day the New York Post reported Epstein was preparing a guilty plea “I read the newspapers early this morning,” the
@JasonLeopold
Jason Leopold
17 days
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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Jason Leopold
17 days
Spaeth also helped Epstein tailor his vocabulary. She instructed him to use what she called “Good Words,” such as smart, brilliant and lucky—and avoid “Bad Words,” including playboy, powerful and pervert. She taped him to “benchmark and critique whether he seemed authentic.”
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Jason Leopold
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When investigators were closing in on Epstein, he thought about saying sorry. Merrie Spaeth, a sought-after crisis strategist who once served as the director of media relations for Ronald Reagan’s White House, helped him pick his words. She sent Epstein three versions of a
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