Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein
Endlessly scrutinized, studied and speculated over for years, flight records from
Jeffrey Epstein's private airplanes have been the subject of debate, conjecture, litigation, and conspiracy theory. The trial of his accused accomplice
Ghislaine Maxwell added unprecedented context and nearly 120 pages of only lightly-redacted handwritten paperwork released publicly on Sunday.
Documenting flights from between 1991 through the beginning of 2006, the logs offer more perspective about the cadre of politicians, musicians, models, and financiers who took to the skies on Epstein's plane. Prosecutors submitted three versions into court, lifting redactions twice at the defense's request before releasing the final, public version.
Each page of the logs is signed at the lower lefthand corner by
David Rodgers, who served as Epstein's chief pilot for more than a decade and was called by the government to
testify against Maxwell. Like Epstein's
other pilot Lawrence Visoski, Rodgers recalled Maxwell as Epstein's "No. 2."
Comment: Law and Crime lead off with the juiciest names in Epstein's logs, Trump and Clinton, but then treatment of each takes a slippery turn. Trump family flights (a total of five, including one where he was not present) are carefully detailed. Trump likened them once to 'hitching a ride' to a place they needed to be. They were all domestic in nature and all very early in Trump's acquaintance with Epstein. Trump later banned him from Mar-a-lago
Bill Clinton on the other hand, is merely stated to have taken "several flights", "some internationally", a slimy gloss-over of the at least
26 trips the Clinton took with Epstein, with many of them to the infamous Little St. John "pedophile island". Epstein was also a regular visitor to the Clinton White House. Why is L&C skating over those facts?
Dershowitz is another creep that L&C goes easy on.
But why drag artist Itzak Perlman into the mess? The two trips were clearly on point for Perlman, and were most likely Epstein burnishing his 'philanthropist' cred.
Very underhanded on L&C's part.
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