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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 07:44 PM Jul 2019

BREAKING: Accusations of extortion, secret tape recordings, and sex trafficking -- the Jeffrey Epstei

BREAKING: Accusations of extortion, secret tape recordings, and sex trafficking — the Jeffrey Epstein case unleashes a bitter war between the country’s two most prominent legal Goliaths




Dershowitz v. Boies: Jeffrey Epstein case unleashes war between two legal Goliaths


It’s a high-stakes war between two of the country’s most powerful lawyers. Their feud, simmering for years, involves accusations of extortion, surreptitious recordings, unethical conduct and underage sex trafficking.

Harvard lawyer Alan Dershowitz has filed four bar complaints in three states — all of which have been dismissed — in a quest to disqualify lawyer David Boies and one of his partners who represent a woman accusing Dershowitz of sexually abusing her when she was underage, newly filed court records show.

The pugnacious Dershowitz, 80, and the equally zealous Boies, 78, have been sparring for decades. In recent years, both have suffered damage to their storied legacies, making this latest clash between the two legal titans one of the most important of their half-century careers.

Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard law school and one of the nation’s most iconic civil libertarians, has defended such notorious clients as Claus Von Bulow, Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson. But after four decades of legal accolades, he is now facing a sex scandal and is forced to clear his own name at a time when he’s facing a barrage of attacks on social media as one of the most fervent legal defenders of President Donald Trump.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232312102.html#storylink=cpy
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hlthe2b

(101,700 posts)
1. Oh, I LOVE that David Boies is Dershowtiz' opponent (representing a victim). He's terrific.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 07:45 PM
Jul 2019

That's a big schadenfreude smile for me today.

bucolic_frolic

(42,651 posts)
5. Libertarians seek to benefit from chaos
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 08:53 PM
Jul 2019

and shredding of the fabric social

The damage they have done to the country to enrich themselves needs to be exposed

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
6. This is why I pay for a subscription to a distant paper I may only read once or twice a month.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 08:56 PM
Jul 2019

I don't usually read it but when I do, it's often a BFD.

AND I want to help the best papers stay in business.

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
7. So if it's BOIES, it's lose again. As LETTERMAN said when MONDALE lost, "1 last asskicking!1"
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 10:13 PM
Jul 2019

(A plea: Please don't ask me to explain. Any of us with knowledge of the past 30-40 yrs knows. If you don't, it don't matter.)






NBachers

(16,998 posts)
8. I'd say Boies, unfortunately, is tainted. I hope he does better this time than he has in the past.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 10:31 PM
Jul 2019

I have a hard time buying the "Titan" bit this time around.

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
10. Well, when he originally BROKE MY FUCKING HEART (2000), nothing was left for me.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 10:58 PM
Jul 2019

And then when he teamed up with my HATED Ted OLSEN who kicked his ass, it was like another kick in MY gut. And I don't give a damn that he and OLSEN teamed up for one of our Dem constituent group's side.

I see BOIES as one we see too often on our Dem side: Somebody with a word-of-mouth reputation that all the Big Dem bosses pass among themselves about how "good" he is, but is not an authentic STREET FIGHTER. Blah-blah-WORDS about how good he is, but when the chips are down they *ARE* down!1 I just detest this man from 2000 on.






keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
12. "I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002.
Fri Jul 5, 2019, 11:51 PM
Jul 2019

“I've known Jeff (Epstein) for 15 years. Terrific guy,'' Trump told New York Magazine back in 2002. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141705027

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. One girl that Epstein abused worked giving nude massages at Mar A Lago
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 12:30 AM
Jul 2019

Trump was the owner of the place. Epstein met her there and then started the abuse, sending her to perform sexual favors for his friends and business associates. She was a 14-15 year old runaway from somewhere in Virginia. In Florida, the legal age of consent has for decades been 18 years old.

Mc Mike

(9,106 posts)
14. 'one of the most iconic civil libertarians'. B.S., bigly.
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 08:33 AM
Jul 2019

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A fucking fraud who always comes down on the side of the nazis, after carefully judiciously weighing the arguments.

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