As Democrats work to regain the public trust and to shed their image as the party of elites, they cannot be seen as treating elites in their party as above the law.
By law, the government was required to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein in December. Now the attorney general said they will be out “in the near term.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a filing that the Justice Department’s efforts to release the Epstein files involved hundreds of lawyers and other staff members.
The trial took on special resonance in France, a year after a court found Dominique Pelicot and dozens of other men guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was sedated.
Prosecutors say the three men used their money, power and status to sexually assault women, including two underage girls. The men have denied the charges.
The trial for Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander is set to start on Tuesday. The brothers have been accused of running a sex-trafficking conspiracy in Miami and Manhattan.
The Alexander brothers, once titans of the New York party scene, have retained a high-stakes public relations strategist, Juda Engelmayer, whose clients include Harvey Weinstein.
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