Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. on Facebook is putting transcripts of various documents onto a subscribed page, but some things are also on a public page. Below is a copy/paste of one of those public pages today. It only quotes a part of the document, but the subscribed members ($5 a month) can see the whole of each of the documents she (he? esq. ?) posts.
9h · . READ THE VICTIM LETTERS WHICH THE JUDGE CONSIDERED WHEN DECIDING WHETHER TO RELEASE THE GHISLAINE MAXWELL GRAND JURY TESTIMONY IN THE EPSTEIN INVESTIGATION .
Here, as promised for Notes to the Front members, is the PDF of the actual victim letters which Judge Engelmayer took into account when making his decision as to whether to release the testimony from the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury. (I actually had to go through it and do additional redactions of names in addition to the ones already done by the Court.) As I mentioned in my last post about this, in large part Judge Engelmayer declined to release the testimony because - and this is important - there is nothing in that testimony which hadn’t already been revealed during the trial.
In fact, in his opinion and order Judge Engelmayer calls out the administration for exactly that, and for falsely raising the expectations and hopes of the victims that there might be something new in there when the administration knew darned well that there wasn’t (otherwise they would never have called for the release of the grand jury testimony - again, one of the prime directives of litigation is “never ask a question for which you don’t already know the answer”).
Said the Judge, “The victims’ interest in reviewing the grand jury materials appears to be premised on the understandable but mistaken belief that these materials would reveal new information. The Government had, after all, publicly portrayed these as critical pieces of an important moment in our nation's history. Had the Government's motion made clear that these records are redundant of the evidence at Maxwell’s public trial, the victims responses to the motion to unseal might well have been different."
I love seeing smack-downs like this from the Courts, as its evidence that more and more judges are getting more and more fed up with the administration’s shenanigans.
This entire thing was a big act to both attempt to assuage Trump’s base, and to distract from the demands for the Epstein files being made both by Congressional representatives and FOIA lawsuits (both of which I’ve covered before).
That said, while the grand jury testimony was not going to reveal anything new, the letters from the victims and their representatives that were sent to the Court for the Court to consider when deciding whether to release the grand jury testimony do reveal quite a bit.
Personally I found one of the letters written by one of the victims to be especially poignant. In it she laments:
“Will justice ever be served? I question what that would look like to the DOJ, the FBI, because so far we have got nothing, not even an apology, not even the answers we so long for. We all want closure and for this "distraction" to stop! This is some type ofpsychological games, by keeping the public ignorant. The very fact that something is secret means there is something to hide.”
^If you are a paid Notes from the Front member, the PDF of all the letters is here: annepmitchell.substack.com/.../here-are-the...^
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the reason that I don't share things like this in public, and instead make them available only to paid members, are a few-fold. For one, it keeps the trolls away. Trolls don't pay, not even just $5 a month. They move on. For another, it helps to keep the information only to people who genuinely want it for their own information and knowledge, and not to share around to places that lead to my getting vilified over it. Yes, again it's only $5 a month, but it's enough to keep them from grabbing the information, twisting it into a knot, and turning it against good people.
Again, if you’re already a paid Notes from the Front member, the letters are at the link above (and also directly in your inbox if you were already a member at the time that I sent it out). And if you’re not already a paid member, now’s a great time to join. :~) Which you can do here:
https://annepmitchell.substack.com/.../here-are-the...
