
Jason Leopold
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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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đ¨ 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 himâin different ways and to varying degrees đ§ľ https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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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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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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Hope the text message (which would be subject to #FOIA, is being preserved in accordance with the Federal Records Act
BREAKING NEWS: Leaked pic of Treasury Secretaryâs 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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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 âŹď¸
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A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his âhour of terror.â
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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
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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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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Bloomberg News has obtained more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epsteinâs personal Yahoo account. Here, my colleagues summarize correspondence between Mitch Webber â then a research assistant to @AlanDersh, now a partner at Paul, Weiss â and Epstein:
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And here's the story about how we vetted this cache of 18K emails https://t.co/aOGUieTFE2
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Methods included cryptographic analysis, metadata analysis and corroboration with external sources.
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đThis 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
đ¨ 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 himâin different ways and to varying degrees đ§ľ https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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When at @JasonLeopold is on a multiple byline, you know heâs 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 âhour of terror.â
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Not many figures in Epsteinâs 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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NEW edition of my newsletter, FOIA Files, is out! Iâve 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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âletâs also look at sex tourism laws,â Epstein wrote back. âgoing someplace with specific intent ot have underage sex.â
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âI'm sorry I was a little confused about what you were asking on the phone,â Webber wrote him. âI se what you were asking now. The question is: what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sexâor transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minorâinto a state in
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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
đ¨ 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 himâin different ways and to varying degrees đ§ľ https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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Tramo did not respond to multiple requests seeking comment about his email to Epstein.
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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 âI read the newspapers early this morning,â the
đ¨ 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 himâin different ways and to varying degrees đ§ľ https://t.co/SORZtRriRc
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Spaeth also helped Epstein tailor his vocabulary. She instructed him to use what she called âGood Words,â such as smart, brilliant and luckyâand avoid âBad Words,â including playboy, powerful and pervert. She taped him to âbenchmark and critique whether he seemed authentic.â
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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 Reaganâs White House, helped him pick his words. She sent Epstein three versions of a
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