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December 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Politico's report that Amazon was stonewalling the Epstein investigation is one of the more interesting details to come out from the dumps.

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DOJ threatened Amazon with contempt Just days before Epstein’s suicide in jail in 2019, the Justice Department threatened to ask a judge to hold Amazon in contempt after the company failed to produce documents related to the probe into the disgraced financier. “Amazon’s response to the attached grand jury subpoena is overdue by several weeks,” an investigator, whose identity is redacted, wrote in an Aug. 1 email to the company. “The FBI has emailed and left messages with your legal department several times over the past weeks without a response. Please respond promptly to resolve Amazon’s non-compliance. Otherwise we will initiate contempt proceedings regarding your failure to comply with valid legal process.” Watch: The Conversation Play Video36:16 Bill Gates on vaccine hesitancy, AI and global health | The Conversation It’s unclear precisely what records the Justice Department was seeking from Amazon — the subpoena itself was not immediately accessible in the latest tranche of documents — but it appeared to relate to email communications from figures connected to the Epstein investigation. The email suggests the subpoena for records was initially issued on June 24, 2019. In an Aug. 5, 2019, exchange, FBI investigators and Justice Department prosecutors lamented the difficulty of getting a response from the company. A day later, it appeared that Amazon cobbled together a response to the subpoena, which the Justice Department described as woefully inadequate. “We note with concern that the Subpoena responses list more than 300 descriptions of responsive materials as ‘REDACTED,’” one of the unidentified investigators wrote on Aug. 6, 2019. “Please immediately produce either a complete response to the Subpoena without the redaction of nonprivileged responsive materials, or provide a legal basis for your refusal to do so.” The investigators also said Amazon appeared to only produce records related to two email addresses out of the nine identified in the subpoena.…
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM