This article proves my point about the coverage being presented to the public. Reporters are cherrypicking what we get to hear & it's frustrating. I don't know how much weight the jury is going to give to the Fed-Ex testimony. They aren't rushing to convict/acquit so hopefully this panel takes all of the testimony & evidence that has been presented to them fairly.
As for Dershowitz, I have a problem believing him because he was Epstein's attorney who negotiated that 'deal' in 2008. jmo
That is what I thought when I read this article. None of the tweeting reporters mentioned this important testimony. If it was on Court TV, then we could all listen ourselves, at our leisure.
From the article -
"Prosecutors haven't shown clear evidence that Maxwell sent accusers lingerie
Before Farmer's anticipated testimony, prosecutors called Tracy Chapell, a FedEx paralegal, who testified about Epstein's invoices.
Prosecutors
have accused Maxwell of trafficking girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and
her defense attorneys have argued that the Justice Department went after her as a proxy for Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on similar charges.
Chapell seemed to prove the defense attorneys' point, and it was head-scratching that prosecutors presented her as a witness.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors have repeatedly referenced these FedEx records. In opening statements last week, Pomerantz told jurors that the records would prove "Epstein sent a gift to one victim when she was just 15 years old." And
in testimony on Tuesday, an accuser who went by her first name, Carolyn, said she remembers receiving Victoria's Secret lingerie in the mail while living in West Palm Beach, Florida. It stuck in her mind, she said, because the package was sent from New York, where she grew up. Prosecutors even hauled in her ex-boyfriend, Shawn, as a witness on Wednesday. He also talked about the FedEx packages.
Ghislaine Maxwell listens as witness "Carolyn" answers question from prosecutor Maurene Comey. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
But Epstein is dead, as Maxwell's attorneys' noted. If prosecutors wanted to prove to jurors that Maxwell facilitated Epstein's sexual abuse of Carolyn through those packages, they failed to do so.
Chapell testified that she dug up hundreds of pages of Epstein's FedEx invoices out of storage boxes kept in a warehouse, pursuant to subpoenas from prosecutors and Maxwell's lawyers.
She reviewed some of those pages, and indicated that packages were sent from Epstein's office at 457 Madison Avenue in New York to a person named "Carolyn" — though partially redacted copies shown to the public showed her name was often misspelled — in West Palm Beach in late 2002. The Carolyn who testified earlier this week said Epstein began sexually abusing her that year.
None of those packages were sent by Maxwell, according to the records. The records demonstrated that all the packages were sent by Epstein himself, a person named Cecilia Steen, or Sarah Kellen, another of the financier's assistants who several other Epstein accusers have also accused of misconduct.
This courtroom sketch shows Tracy Chapell, a Federal Express employee, testifying on the witness stand during the Ghislaine Maxwell sex abuse trial, Thursday Dec. 9, 2021, in New York.Elizabeth Williams via AP
Things got worse for the prosecution when Maxwell's attorney, Christian Everdell, best known as a former prosecutor who helped bring down drug kingpin El Chapo, presented dozens more pages of FedEx records from the same time period.
The records showed that Maxwell did send FedEx packages from the very same Madison Avenue office on the very same days that Epstein's other employees sent packages to Carolyn. According to the FedEx records, Maxwell sent packages to investment banker Ron Burkle, to artificial intelligence scientist Danny Hillis, and to her sister Isabelle, who was in court Thursday morning and gave Maxwell a glance when her name was read aloud.
But Maxwell was not listed as a sender to Carolyn, nor "Caroline," "Cardine," nor any of the other possible misspellings for the West Palm Beach resident.
Everdell also pointed to a package that appeared to be sent to "Jane" —
the pseudonym for another accuser in the trial — and indicated that Epstein, not Maxwell, was listed as the sender on the package.
At the end of Chapell's testimony, Everdell entered around 50 more pages of FedEx records into evidence for the jury to review. Presumably, those records don't show that Maxwell sent accusers any packages that would indicate she facilitated sexual abuse."
Regarding Dershowitz, I have been checking this out and he is suing Guiffre and Wexner is set to testify soon but I cannot find out exactly when. I think it is going to be a secret testimony. I will post the court case number on here for reference.
Here's the Guiffre v Dershowitz case (she is suing him actually but he is alleging she has got it wrong and that she has made a mistake when accusing him)
Giuffre v. Dershowitz, No. 1:2019cv03377 - Document 67 (S.D.N.Y. 2019) case opinion from the Southern District of New York US Federal District Court
law.justia.com
Here is the article stating Wexner is going to give a statement on Dec 17th. I don't know if this has taken place.
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