Hey Everyone,
As promised, I went back to Nina Burleigh (like me currently deep in book reporting and writing) to talk about three fabulous pieces of reporting on the Epstein Files she and Katie Chenoweth have done for their Substack American Freakshow.
The topics include:
- Leon Black. (After storming out of his last session, Leon Black is expected back before the House Oversight Committee, supposedly on July 16.
- Steve Bannon, somehow, has managed to stay almost entirely out of the conversation despite showing up in the Epstein files roughly two thousand times.
- A small club of white-shoe lawyers — not the marquee names from Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, but a second tier of possibly far more important fixers, who have spent two decades quietly managing the money, NDAs, and much else that has contributed to keeping this story from fully surfacing.
Read the rest of the article and watch the conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.