Age Verification | United States Department of Justice
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This is from less than a year ago. Its so poorly redacted it gives it almost all away.

Some of these are from as late as April?

  • kingofras@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Three versions of the same email chain exist within Dataset 9 of the DOJ’s EFTA release (EFTA00143938, EFTA00144128, EFTA00144040), spanning February 17 to April 6, 2025. The documents contain dozens of emails sent by a single individual – a self-identified Epstein victim and survivor – to an extraordinary distribution list that includes President Trump, Alina Habba, Kash Patel, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, multiple world leaders, attorneys, and journalists.

    The sender:

    1. alleges systemic attorney misconduct, including that her own attorney was simultaneously a long-term JP Morgan client while representing her in litigation against JP Morgan.
    2. claims $109 million in victim compensation was taken by attorneys while victims received as little as $75,000
    3. claims that evidence has been remotely deleted from her personal devices.
    4. claims that she was pressured to sign agreements that silenced her.

    The chain also includes embedded WhatsApp screenshots from October 2022 showing two victims in severe financial and psychological distress, and an authentic FCA response letter confirming UK regulatory proceedings against Jes Staley for misrepresenting his relationship with Epstein.

    The most significant forensic finding is that the three versions were redacted to dramatically different levels.

    The documents raise serious questions about the redaction process itself. The inconsistency across versions – where the same content is protected in one document and exposed in another – suggests either different redactors with different standards, incremental processing without back-checking, or a failure to recognise that the same thread existed in multiple Bates-numbered entries. The net effect is that the heaviest-redacted version preserves the sender’s most erratic and vulnerable moments in full while hiding her identity, yet the lightest version renders that protection meaningless.

    Whether this pattern reflects incompetence or intent: the redactions are not neutral, and therefore makes it look like the release itself is an attempt to steer the narrative rather than to provide the transparency the law requires.