By Matthew Russell Lee, Author Amazon Patreon Song
BBC - Decrypt - LightRead - Radio - Podcast
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 7 -- It was the day of the first real snowfall of the winter in New York City, and Foley Square was white and empty. Kurt tried a live stream but that too froze up. He went into the courthouse and found some cases, including some January 6 cases down in DC by phone. Then came MaximumMaxwell news.
Scotty David, the chatty juror, had said he worked in finance, and Kurt had tweeted it at the time. But it was not a bank, as many had assumed and Kurt had tried to Google. (Scotty David and Citibank; Scotty David and JPMorgan Chase, nothing).
No, it was so-called private equity firm The Carlyle Group; they confirmed he worked there. Kurt had written about them before, in connection with Federal Reserve officials like Jay Powell. They were rogues in Burma, or Myanmar as Antonio Guterres and others called it, and in the DR Congo. Now their boy was trying to get Ghislaine Maxwell off, intentionally or not.
On the other side, for accountability, Carolyn Adriano now again using her last name which Kurt had known but not published during the Maxwell trial, went on the record and said that her, her procurer Virginia Roberts Giuffre had told her at the time about Prince Andrew, he of the Epstein dinners with people from the UN.
Would Judge Kaplan take judicial notice? More to the point, would the narrow prosecutors of the SDNY now bring a criminal child sex abuse case against Prince Andrew? Or as they'd been with the UN, would they be afraid of their batting average of convictions, taking on immunity?
Kurt wrote the stories and redoubled his research. #MaximumMaxwell.
The larger question was how the Scotty interviews came about. And now, The Carlyle Group. From #MaximumMaxwell to #MirroringMaxwell.
Inner City Press covered the trial, and all the comes before and after it; #CourtCaseCast and song I, Song 2, Song 3, fifth song, Nov 27 song and now, the Dec 29 verdict song here
The underlying case is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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