By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY / Art World, March 24 -- The Larry Ray trial twice stalled by seizures restarted and started naming names - but only selectively. Claudia Drury was still in the plexiglass witness box and now the Assistant US Attorney was asking her about a particularly John, by name.
He was Stuart Piltch. It was for telling Piltch about her website that Larry Ray bound and suffocated Drury all night long in the Gregory Hotel, the horror story with which the AUSA had opened the case.
Now the reason was presented, not as collecting money like more conventional pimps, but anger at Drury's website talk.
Kurt who had published the John List then been "asked" to take it down was legitimately confused. Why were the prosecutors so openly naming Piltch, as they'd done with the Times Hotel night manager, while taking the position that other Johns, in the field of art for example, must remain protected?
It was like, in the United Nations, Secretary General Antonio Guterres fired whistleblowers and banned the Press while protecting his sex abusing crony Fabrizio Hochschild.
Kurt covered the day's testimony and the moved to Stage or Step 3 of #JohnListGone, the first one from the art world, on Patreon here
[It, like a song about Lev Parnas was also covered, behind a paywall, by New York Magazine which had this to say about Inner City Press' covered in late 2021 of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book here via one of the companies with an executive on the John list.]
When Inner City Press for investigative reporting was roughed up and thrown out onto First Avenue from covering the United Nations of/by UNSG Antonio Guterres, many did nothing. But as we've previously noted, the First Amendment stops at First Avenue. We'll have more on this, here and on other platforms.
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