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The Miami Heralds Julie K. Brown whose investigative reporting helped to the arrest of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein questioned Sunday why her name and sensitive information appeared in the latest Department of Justice dump of Epstein files.
Brown wrote on X, Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?
As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me? Brown asked.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/why-was-the-doj-monitoring-me-ace-epstein-reporter-questions-why-her-flight-receipts-are-part-of-latest-epstein-doc-dump/
Great question from @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the Miami Herald reporter whose investigative series on Jeffrey Epstein led to his indictment in 2019.
— Yashar Ali ð (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2025-12-28T22:10:50.530Z
wcmagumba
(5,555 posts)RockRaven
(18,633 posts)Under admins of both parties, the DOJ always protects itself first and foremost.
A reporter digging around DOJ corruption or incompetence? Better follow/spy on her!
UpInArms
(53,995 posts)leaks
Because
Takket
(23,446 posts)but DOJ is tracking journalists. what a fucked up country.
calimary
(88,918 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,765 posts)Bill Barr also was USAG in 2007:
Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Tampa Bay Times, October 20, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel the Miami U.S. Attorneys office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epsteins sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.
A tranche of over 8,500 pages of records from Epsteins estate released by the House Oversight Committee Friday show that Epsteins calendars and emails reflect that Menchel, who left the DOJ in 2007, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in 2011, 2013 and 2017. Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didnt produce the photo.
Contacted on Friday, Menchel initially referred the Miami Herald to a 2020 statement he had previously sent the Herald in response to questions about whether he had a business relationship with Epstein.
I had no business relationship with Mr. Epstein at any point, not before, during or after my tenure at the US Attorneys Office. He added that Epstein had tried to get his firm to handle some of the civil litigation associated with his case, but we declined.
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/epstein-had-dinners-with-a-top-florida-prosecutor-on-his-case-docs-show/ar-AA1OP7nv
yellow dahlia
(4,350 posts)There are so many strands woven into this tangled web of evil.
Thanks for always being a wealth of information, Kid.
Kid Berwyn
(22,765 posts)His father, headmaster Donald Barr, likely hired the college-drop-out Epstein to teach at Manhattan's exclusive Dalton School. Epstein enjoyed exclusive access to many of the children of the city's social and business elite. Reports exist Don was OSS (Office of Strategic Services) the CIA-precursor organization formed to fight NAZIs during World War 2. Sad part is, the NAZIs infiltrated the organization post-war. Sadder still, the KGB infiltrated the NAZIs during the war.

From NYT:
Jeffrey Epstein Taught at Dalton. His Behavior Was Noticed.
Some students at the esteemed Manhattan prep school recall that Mr. Epstein, now charged with sex trafficking, was willing to violate norms in his encounters with girls.
By Mike Baker and Amy Julia Harris
The New York Times, July 12, 2019
Excerpt...
The school, which had been a progressive haven for the children of artists and writers, was undergoing a shift under a new headmaster. Donald Barr, the father of Attorney General William Barr, came in as a disciplinarian focused on beefing up the academics of the school, and on enforcing a strict code of conduct.
In a school known for creativity, administrators had prohibited denim jeans and bizarre and eccentric costumes. If Mr. Barr caught students using marijuana, he would often send them to therapy as a condition of staying in the school. He himself described his leadership style as by ukase, using the Imperial Russian term for an edict from the czar.
Staff members would sometimes turn students away from their morning classes; girls for skirts that were too short, and boys for hair that was too long.
Some students and parents balked at the constraints. Still, the school continued to draw families of fame. Around the years of Mr. Epsteins tenure, records show the student roster included Prudence Murdoch, the daughter of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch; the fashion designer Jill Stuart; and several future actresses, including Jennifer Grey, Tracy Pollan and Maggie Wheeler.
While Mr. Barr was strict on the school culture, he made it a point to hire teachers from unconventional backgrounds, recalled Susan Semel, a social studies teacher at Dalton from the 1960s to 1980s who later wrote a book on the history of the school.
Continues...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html
PS: Thank you for the kind words, Yellow Dahlia! The evil connections go back to Dallas on November 22, 1963 and through their World War 2 profiteering and sundry treasons to the Wall Street Plot Against FDR of 1933.For some reason, they seem to control the oil and the cash.
yellow dahlia
(4,350 posts)So much evil effort affecting our lives. Some of it behind the scenes, and some of it dramatic world order altering events like Dallas.
Thanks for feeding my desire for granular info. I have decided to embrace the concept that knowledge is power.
yellow dahlia
(4,350 posts)W_HAMILTON
(10,020 posts)One of the first priorities of the next Democratic administration is to fire all MAGA types in the DOJ/FBI, from the top down, and appoint a hard-nosed and proactive head that will undertake a much needed deep cleaning of that whole department.
Ol Janx Spirit
(627 posts)...and they were watching the press coverage for whatever reason.
Here's an interesting email he sent out entitled, My bad - no fewer than 4 articles today. Still relatively slow:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00016124.pdf
"Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw's handling of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's lenient work release program, the Miami Herald has learned."
...
"Bradshaw, who is running for his fifth term, wields tremendous power in Palm Beach, where the agency has also been the lead law enforcement detail assisting the Secret Service during President Donald Trump's visits to Mar-a-Lago. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office spent $5.6 million for Trump's 2017-2018 trips, the Palm Beach Post reported in April. The department is reimbursed for the work."
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"This story was written by Miami Herald staff writers Julie K. Brown and Nicholas Nehamas. Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau staff writer Elizabeth Koh contributed to this report."
Hmm....
This could be a very long reaching thread she is about to pull on....