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Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls, and dinners with Matthew Menchel, the Miami AUSA who spearheaded Epstein's sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.

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Matthew Menchel appeared on David Oscar Markus' podcast in 2023. Markus has been Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney since 2021. Markus of course helped broker Maxwell's recent deal with the DOJ for limited immunity in exchange for meeting with deputy AG Blanche.

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AUSA - The Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
www.ausa.org

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 01:53 AM | Reply

... the Miami Herald ...

Yeah, the Miami Herald journalists have published some great reporting on this issue ...

For example ...

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018)
www.miamiherald.com

... On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami's top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz. It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush. Instead of meeting at the prosecutor's Miami headquarters, the two men -- both with professional roots in the prestigious Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis -- convened at the Marriott in West Palm Beach, about 70 miles away.

For Lefkowitz, 44, a U.S. special envoy to North Korea and corporate lawyer, the meeting was critical.

His client, Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, 54, was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls -- with the help of young female recruiters -- to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day, the Town of Palm Beach police found.

The eccentric hedge fund manager, whose friends included former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, was also suspected of trafficking minor girls, often from overseas, for sex parties at his other homes in Manhattan, New Mexico and the Caribbean, FBI and court records show. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 02:02 AM | Reply

@#2

Whoa, 2018?

Why the cover-up for so long?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 02:03 AM | Reply

AUSA = Assistant United States Attorney

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-19 02:41 AM | Reply

Why the cover-up for so long?

Biden's fault.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-19 02:58 AM | Reply

@#4

Thx for that correction..

What the search engine found in my #1 did not make sense for me. And I did not see that acronym in the cited article. So I was wandering around ...



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-19 03:07 AM | Reply

So-called "Prince" Andrew reportedly hired a bodyguard to dig up dirt on the late Virginia Giuffre for a "smear campaign': www.thesun.co.uk

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-19 03:10 AM | Reply

The putrid orange rapist was Epstein's best friend.

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-19 08:21 PM | Reply

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