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cross-posted from: https://altmedia.house/post/194431

Here are the names that were read into the Congressional Record, please share everywhere:

Salvatore Nuara

Zurab Mikeladze

Leonic Leonov

Nicola Caputo

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem

plus Leslie Wexner

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[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can we disallow posts with "BREAKING" in the title?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Also "slams" and "roasts"

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wexner does not surprise me at all having known people who worked for/around him and his properties.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wexner's name has been closely attached with Epstein all along. For some reason nobody can fathom, Wexner put Epstein in charge of his investments. There was speculation at one time that Epstein's fortune was embezzled from Wexner, but it seems to get more complicated than that.

Wexner started Bath &Body Works, Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, Express, and others

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I assumed since day one he also had a blackmail business. It’s a classic mafia/russia move. Give someone a girl, record it, blackmail them.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So now that these names are named, wouldn't it be easier to sue to government for illegally redacting them as they weren't legitimate names to be redacted?

It's harder when you don't have the names.

Not that anything will happen even if it does... but in a sane world, it would right?

[–] snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know how the law works on this, but it's so fucked up that they carefully redacted these guys while exposing several of the victim's names. It's pretty clear who the FBI and DOJ work for and it isn't the American people.

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen Massie and Ro Khanna on several independent media interviews, and both of them have said that the way the law works is that there are no redactions allowed for anyone but the victims, nothing else is supposed to be redacted but the victims' names, so the government is totally breaking the law.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago

Maybe so. But so far everyone is DC is perfectly fine and turn the other way anytime diddlin Donnie and his friends do something illegal.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 20 hours ago

What about the dog whose name they redacted?

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the uninformed among us, who are these people?

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Who are those again? Victims or perps?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Sulayem was def an evil pedophile

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 140 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here you go Qsheep. Here's your cabal. Now, like, make good on all your conspiracy rage and demand justice.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Qsheep bleet only at those they are told to bleet at. MAGA loves pedophiles, so there will be no sheepish bleeting rage.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

While I somewhat share your contempt for them, you don't give them enough credit. It's only the lack of leadership that prevents them, and us, from demanding justice.

They are not the problem, the people setting us up against them are.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago

I see what you are saying; however, these MAGA followers are the problem. I regrettably have to deal with them on a daily basis. They are not all dumb, but they like being told what to think from higher ups, but HATE being told what to do. They seem to want a king to worship. Trump was NOT lying when he said he could shoot someone and still get elected. The MAGA sheep need a shepard, if you ever notice ... when Trump starts giving MAGA orders he loses control. It is really hard to describe. One of these days there will be students learning about this "Trump Syndrome" in psych 101, right after the chapter with the Milgram experiment

[–] phx@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure these are just the ones they were willing to put up for sacrifice...

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah over 50% of the files no matter how you size them up are still unreleased. I bet there is a lot there.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

Not to mention the FBI did most of the redacting back in March before they handed off the documents to the DOJ, so the DOJ would have the ability to claim they acted according to the law “to the best of their ability” 🙄

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Still a good start

[–] you_chose_this@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago
[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 day ago

Don't forget Trump x 1 million

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It feels like they're selecting names and hiding others. If they are just going to say the names why redact them for the public in the files?

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you listen to what he says, the FBI redacted all the files before passing them to the DOJ. The DOJ was only able to release the versions of what they actually had.

Ro went to the FBI to see the originals, but it's not like he could comprehensively hunt through the 3 million files. It sounds like he just pulled out names of people that he found that were mentioned in particularly damaging documents that were redacted only to keep their own names clean.

It'll take a much larger effort to comprehensively go through with proper redactions of victim info, without hiding perps.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

He had said that he was only able to view 30 or 40 pages in the time he had

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He also said in an earlier video that the files were setup like a SCIF which means no writing things down to remember them later. At some point I would start forgetting names as I found new ones.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw reported somewhere that they were allowed to take notes, they just couldn't remove or scan/photograph any documents. Don't know how true that is though so take it for what it's worth.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

You can take notes in a SCIF, you just can't take your notes out of the SCIF.

Oh hey now don’t go being reasonable. Didn’t you get the memo? We’re all just supposed to throw up our hands and say nothing is going to happen and then just sit here being angry but not active. /s

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the common sense perspective. I didn't see it. I hope we get more and more until everything crumbles.

Make good headline but keep donors onboard

[–] Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah,I believe this info, but why these names in particular? And how does he have access to this info in particular to reveal?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 30 points 1 day ago

They will be punished the same way Elon Musk, Donal Trump and Bill Gates were punished.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuck the people raping and grooming and pimping people... But I just want to add the reminder to this topic that there are things bigger than trafficking going on within this all. Sadly in the grand scheme, globally too, the trafficking is probably only a small part of the evil.

The trafficking could possibly the "best case scenario" in terms of these people and their acts of manipulation towards the human species.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Google translate says this Russian who has toured the world is named Zurab Mikeladze. https://en.chelopera.ru/people/about/zurab-mikeladze/

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago

I know that last one, thanks Simon Whistler! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPO-G9cA-k

[–] kali_fornication@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well I was dead wrong. When I was psychotic after my TBI in 2022 I put my own version of the Epstein List on Github. It's still there, a private repository that's basically a schizophrenic nightmare, lmao. It's an interesting rabbit hole to go down if you're interested in what happens to you when you smoke a bunch of weed right after getting a traumatic brain injury.

But anyways, yeah, I was off about Epstein, and I do not seem to have gotten any of the names right. I had Guy Fieri, Kanye West, Pete Davidson, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Travis Barker? lmao

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure you got a couple right. This post isn't a definitive list; just an extremely small sample.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hope you're feeling better - something was pretty wrong if you were grouping Guy Fieri in.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno man, someone that clean has gotta be dirty.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

“After extensive ~~waterboarding~~ enhanced margaritas we found out that, quote, ‘Sammy Hagar likes poblano peppers.’”

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair, Yeezy went off the deep end so I’ll give your baked and brain-damaged self half a point for that one

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[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Kanye is on some list somewhere for sure haha

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