'The Cover-up Is Brazen': One Journalist's Tenacious, Traumatic Fight to Expose Ghislaine Maxwell

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein's chief enabler. Maxwell's conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

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"'The cover-up is brazen': one journalist's tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell. Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats & sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein's chief enabler. Maxwell's conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says."

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Another is Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald

en.wikipedia.org

... Julie Knipe Brown (born 1961) is an American investigative journalist with the Miami Herald best known for pursuing the sex trafficking story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, who in 2008 was allowed to plead guilty to two state-level prostitution offenses.[1][2] She is the recipient of several awards including two George Polk Awards for Justice Reporting.[3]

Brown was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020.[4] ...

Investigation into Jeffrey Epstein

Brown has been credited with re-opening the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse case with a series of reports published in November 2018.[9][10][11] She began investigating Epstein in early 2017 and persisted in uncovering facts about the large number of accusers and the pressure campaign to silence them.[12][13] Brown uncovered 80 potential victims (as young as 13 and 14 years old when the abuse occurred) and documented the eight individuals who agreed to tell their stories.[13]

In 2008, Epstein had been allowed to plead guilty to only two state-level prostitution offenses, even though sex with underage girls is legally rape. The secret deal that then-US Attorney Alex Acosta struck with Epstein made the federal sex trafficking charges disappear, shut down an FBI probe that might have uncovered dozens of victims and granted immunity to any possible co-conspirators, a clause that protected powerful men.[2] Brown's 2018 reporting on the deal sparked criticism of Acosta, who by then had become the United States secretary of labor, and there was pressure for him to resign. He eventually resigned after Epstein was arrested and charged in July 2019.[14] ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-10 07:20 PM

Why DOJ Hasn't Charged Anyone Else From the Epstein Files
www.politico.com

... The release of the Epstein files was supposed to quell the controversy over whether the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein committed child sex crimes with a host of wealthy, prominent men. But more than a month after the release, something like the opposite has happened.

A variety of public figures in the U.S. have incurred professional and reputational consequences as a result of socializing with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution with a minor. So far, however, none of these people have been credibly accused of any criminal wrongdoing or being aware of Epstein's subsequent child sex trafficking.

In Europe, things are only slightly different. Law enforcement authorities across the continent have opened investigations into prominent political figures concerning their dealings with Epstein, but thus far, those investigations appear to concern alleged political misconduct " like sharing confidential government information with Epstein or receiving gifts from him " not sex crimes.

Meanwhile, as entirely new conspiracy theories have begun to flourish, pretty much no one in America is happy -- not the victims who were insulted by Attorney General Pam Bondi during her latest daylong series of outbursts on Capitol Hill;

not President Donald Trump, who effectively created this mess by fueling Epstein conspiracies as a presidential candidate and who remains the subject of intense scrutiny based on unverified allegations against him in the documents that he has strenuously denied;

not the American public, most of whom believe that the government is still hiding information;

and not the lawmakers who drafted and ultimately passed the law requiring disclosures with the near-unanimous consent of their colleagues in both houses of Congress.

In a remarkable bipartisan rebuke, the House Oversight Committee voted last week to subpoena Bondi to testify with five Republicans joining the Democrats on the committee over the objection of Chair James Comer (R-Ky.). ...

@#17 ... And why didn't they videotape Blanche's interview of Maxwell? Audio doesn't cut it. He could easily have slid her notes ...

Not only that aspect.

But the start of the audio recording could have been delayed while certain, let's say, details were worked out.

And then I have heard that Dep AG Blanche is a personal friend of Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus.

Found this ...

Todd Blanche's past hangs over him as top DOJ official on Epstein case (July 2025)
www.npr.org

... In June 2024, Blanche appeared as a guest on Markus' podcast, "For The Defense."

"Everybody knows who Todd is," Markus says in the opening moments of the episode. "And he's the first guest on 'For The Defense' to appear twice, so welcome to the show, Todd."

The two discussed Blanche's legal work for Trump, including at his criminal trial in New York where he was convicted on 34 counts in a hush money case.

Toward the end of the episode, Blanche calls Markus a friend and they joke about him becoming the show's first three-peat guest. ...