John Lucas:

The audio file is a recording of a June 6 telephonic interview that Jessica did with Nick Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Tartaglione was recounting some of his conversations with Epstein.

As Tartaglione tells it, Epstein returned to their shared cell after a meeting with the federal prosecutors. He told his cellmate that the prosecutors were fishing for a plea deal with him if he would provide damaging information about Trump that would support his impeachment. It didn’t matter whether it was true or not. 

Tartaglione asked whether Epstein knew Trump. Epstein acknowledged that although he did know Trump, they didn’t like each other. When Tartaglione asked why, Epstein described how Trump had kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago because he, Epstein, was there with an under-aged girl. Here is Tartaglione’s description of the conversation:

[Epstein]: They told me they will let me plead out to something small and I will do just a couple of years in a camp if I can give them something on Trump [and] get him impeached. And, uh, I said, ‘Well, do you know Trump?’ He [Epstein] says, ‘I know him, I met him, but we don’t like each other.’ I laughed. I said, ‘Why?”. He said, ‘Trump threw me out of a party at his place in Florida. I said, ‘Why did he throw you out?’ ‘He got mad. I was talking to some girl….’

Epstein went on to tacitly acknowledge that the “some girl” was under-aged. He also told the prosecutors that he could not “give them something on Trump” because he did not know anything that would incriminate Trump. That did not deter them; they pressed on. 

Epstein explained how the prosecutors tried to get him to give testimony to support Trump’s impeachment, even if it wasn’t true. Here is Tartaglione’s description of their conversation:

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Carrie Johnson:

An extraordinary special investigation by a federal judge has concluded that two Justice Department prosecutors intentionally hid evidence in the case against Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the biggest political corruption cases in recent history.

A blistering report released Thursday found that the government team concealed documents that would have helped the late Stevens, a longtime Republican senator from Alaska, defend himself against false-statements charges in 2008. Stevens lost his Senate seat as the scandal played out, and he died in a plane crash two years later.