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[-] takeda@lemmy.world 96 points 11 months ago

Because powerful people were his associates. I'm surprised it is being unsealed.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm not surprised it was ordered to be unsealed. I'll be more than a little surprised if an accurate list is actually unsealed. But, anything's possible I guess.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

“Those on the list were allowed to redact whatever parts they liked”

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Deborah Jeane Palfrey has entered the chat. ~~I swear I remember seeing news stories at the time saying that she'd specifically told family members: I'm not planning to kill myself, but I am threatening to release the identities of powerful men who made use of my services. If I die it's because they killed me.~~

But now, all I can find is that it was clearly a suicide. Oh well.

Edit: Someone argued with me enough about it that I actually tried to read up on it, and I think what I was remembering was that Alex Jones said that if she died it's because they killed her, and some people reported on that, along with some carefully cherry-picked quotes from her interview on his show. She did say that she wasn't planning to kill herself, but only because he directly asked her as part of his normal Alex Jones shtick, and of course she said "no." But she never said that on any other program, as far as I can tell, and everyone reliable who investigated concluded that the suicide was probably real. So the mystery is resolved. Sounds like she killed herself. 😢 At least I learned something today.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

She actually said the exact opposite. From your link:

Palfrey's two handwritten notes were released to the public. In one of them, she wrote to her sister, "You must comprehend there was no way out, I.E. 'exit strategy,' for me other than the one I have chosen here." In another, she described her predicament as a "modern-day lynching". She said she feared that, at the end of serving her sentence, she would be "in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman".[28][30]

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Entire thing is redacted except a single word that says something lawyer-y like "notwithstanding".

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

And any names already public

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Well they needed to clean it first before they unsealed it.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Gotta blur some names so they won't be prosecuted.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I bet there is some catch. The only thing unsealed will be boring stuff. Oh it turns out a company Bill Clinton owned stock in, back in 1991, did some construction work for a property Epstein owned. It isn't going to be stuff like "here is a video of Justice Thomas raping a kid".

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