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Not in the news - the sentencing of Clare Bronfman for her role in the money laundering NXIVM cult has again been delayed, from 25 June to... indefinitely (until it’s possible?).

Defendant’s sentencing hearing is ADJOURNED until such time as she can be produced for proceedings in open court. The deadlines for Defendant’s and the Government’s respective sentencing memoranda are likewise ADJOURNED sine die. Ordered by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on 5/22/2020.

https://frankreport.com/2020/05/23/clare...d-in-june/


Not very surprisingly, Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail.
Who knows what stories she could have told under the threat of years in prison?

The attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell are an interesting bunch of liars - Jeffrey S. Pagliuca, Laura A. Menninger, Mark S. Cohen and Christian R. Everdell...


Laura Menninger worked for Goldman Sachs before she went to law school: https://www.hmflaw.com/attorney-laura-menninger.html

Before co-founding Cohen & Gresser, Mark Cohen was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York: https://www.cohengresser.com/attorney/mark-s-cohen/


Christian R. Everdell wasn’t just an Assistant United States Attorney, but for the Southern District of New York for almost a decade until 2017.
That is the same office that is now suddenly prosecuting Ghislaine Maxwell!

When Jeffrey Epstein was locked up in jail for some 50 whole days (while the rest of the 13 months he was out on “work release”) in Florida, on one of those days Epstein was visited by James “Jes” Staley, a top executive at JPMorgan Chase (where he worked for 34 years).
In April 2015, Staley and his wife also visited Epstein on his private Caribbean island, Little St. James. At the time Staley was no longer working at JPMorgan Chase.
In May 2015, Staley joined the board of the Swiss UBS and in December 2015 he was selected as CEO of the U.K. bank giant Barclays...

See James Staley, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Bill Gates with Jeffrey Epstein in 2011.


In 2001, Epstein was Chairman of Liquid Funding Ltd incorporated offshore in Bermuda. Of its $6.7 billion in outstanding liabilities, JPMorgan Chase was one of 3 banks providing $250 million in liquidity funding.
JPMorgan Chase was also Liquid Funding’s “Security Trustee”.

Bear Stearns, where Epstein worked from 1976 to 1981, owned 40% of the equity in Liquid Funding. In 2008, Bear Stearns collapsed and received $853 billion in secret loans from the Federal Reserve and another $28.8 billion through a loan to purchase toxic assets to sweeten the deal of JPMorgan Chase acquiring Bear Stearns: https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/07/g...ys-office/
(http://archive.is/ZrY1F)


Jes Staley was involved with Jeffrey Epstein since at least 1999.

In 2016, the butler for Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva, Rinaldo Rizzo, testified that a 15-year-old Swedish girl had been in Dubin's kitchen in 2005 and told that her passport was taken away and she was forced to have sex at Epstein's private island.
In one of those strange coincidences former Miss Sweden Eva Andersson-Dubin once dated Epstein.

Epstein connected Staley with Glenn Dubin, who ran Highbridge Capital Management, in which JPMorgan bought a majority stake in 2004: http://archive.is/YIt0b


Deutsche Bank was fined $150 million for its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and ties to Danske Bank Estonia and FBME Bank.

In late 2014 and through 2015, DFS order adds, the bank's anti-financial crime department identified Epstein red flags including a federal court ruling that would grant alleged victims access to his plea deal details and "additional allegations in the press regarding Mr. Epstein's relationships with a prominent former U.S. politician and a member of a European royal family."

Two of the bank's executives agreed to explore the issues and met Epstein at his New York home, where one asked him "about the veracity of the recent allegations and appeared to be satisfied by Mr. Epstein's response," DFS says.

When bank executives met to discuss the Epstein relationship about a week later, they had kept no recorded minutes from the meeting even though bank policy required it, the order says. Later that day, according to the order, one executive emailed another to say the committee was "comfortable with things continuing" with Epstein, and that another committee member had "noted a number of sizable deals recently."

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/busin...index.html