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The Nasty Nature Of The Lawsuits Filed Against Leon Black · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Today,
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we're going to talk a little bit more about Leon
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Black's trip to court and add some context to what
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went on at that hearing. Now, yesterday we had a
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bit of an overview about him going to this hearing,
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about this hearing taking place, but we didn't really know
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the details yet as far as some of the arguments
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that went on and some of the animosity being traded
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back and forth. Now, this is a battle of the titans, folks,
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Leon Black and Harris. I mean, we're talking two of
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the biggest of the bigs in the financial sector and
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watching them lock horns like this pretty epic, honestly. Now,
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there aren't many people that can stand up to Leon
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Black and take him on head on, but Harris is
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certainly one of the very few people that is situated
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to do that. Now, according to Harris, he has nothing
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to do with Miss Ganieva and her lawsuits. His beef
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with Leon Black stems from other things, the fact that
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he was passed up for Mark Rowan, and mainly the
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fact that Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black were so close.
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So that's where the animosity is coming from. That's where
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it stems from, and you see it pouring over into
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every situation that you find Leon Black in at this point. Now,
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as far as Leon Black's concerned, like we talked about
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the other day, just another one of these oligarchs, right. Look,
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let's if the roles were reversed right now, if we
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were living in a different world and say it was
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America attacking say Mexico, leon Black would be one of
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the oligarchs that the world was sanctioning. Can I make
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that any clearer to people out there? I know it's
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the en vogue thing right now to you know, hate
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on the Russian people, But to be very clear, all
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of us in the West have our own oligarchs. And
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when I bash these people, these one percent of the
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one percent, I'm talking about all of them, not just
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the Russians, not just the Americans, not just the English.
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The whole entire so called elite ruling establishment is who
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I have a problem with. And I'm not talking about
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a group of people in a room, the illuminati. They
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save that for somebody else, man. I'm talking about the
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people in the financial sector who really have their finger
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on the pulse, who really control what goes on and
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what doesn't go on. Let me ask you a question,
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would any of these government sanctions work if the banks
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weren't on board? You know the answer to that, and
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the answer is no. So we have our own oligarchs here, folks.
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And while I think it's a great thing to sanction
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the Russian oligarchs, I've been saying that for years. We
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have to pay mine to our own problems. And this
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scumbag Leon black is certainly that caused a lot of
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grief for a lot of American companies. They're vultures over
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at Apollo Global. Now, don't get me wrong. They do
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some good work right, some good investments, blah blah blah,
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But their bread and butter is to go in take
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over companies, make some money, and then jettison those companies.
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What they did with Caesar's Palace here in Vegas is
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an absolute travesty. And now they got their hands on
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the Sands, one of the jewels ridiculous man used to
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be one of my favorite properties. When I worked for
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counter Fitzgerald. We owned the sportsbooks, the rights to the
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sports book inside of the Venetian, which is a Sands property.
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And if you've ever been to the Venetian and seen
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their sports book. You know how epic it is. So
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it sucks that Apollo Global is in charge of Sands
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now because that means I'll never go back to that
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casino again. Just like I was talking about yesterday with Barclays,
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I'm not big on like the whole boycott thing. I'm
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not going to sit here and tell anybody else what
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to do but me personally. You know, I'm going to
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do whatever I want to do with my money. I
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earn my money. It's hard to earn, and I'm gonna
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spend at how I damn well. Please. And if you
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think I'm giving Leon Black, Mark Rowan or any of
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these scumbags over at Apollo Global one red cent, you
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got another thing coming all right onto the article. If
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you had to pick two major law firms particularly known
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for fierce aggressive tactics, you could do a lot worse
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than naming Quinn, Emmanuel Erkhart and Sullivan and whigdor So
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again Battle of the Titans. What you could expect when
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you're dealing with people with this kind of money, folks, Again,
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that's what it comes down to me or you, we'd
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be going through the phone book right better call Sauw,
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not these guys. And that's why it's laughable when Leon
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Black talks about, oh, I gave Jeffrey Epstein one hundred
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and fifty eight million dollars for advice. Yeah right, bro,
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you have all the money in the world. You don't
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need to give Jeffrey Epstein money for advice. Call on
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one of your lawyers over here and have them set
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you up with somebody. Legit. I'm not sure which one
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is the immovable object and which is the unstoppable force.
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But when the two collide, as they have in litigation
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over rape allegations against billionaire Leon Black, well, let's just
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say it's not pretty. That is definitely the case. Whenever
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you get these big ass law firms going head to
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head locking horns, it's always a bloodbath. We saw it
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with Prince Andrew, David Boyce, Sigared McAuley, even Bradley Edwards
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and the way that they, you know, clashed with Epstein's
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lawyers and then Maxwell's lawyers, Prince Andrew's lawyers. When you
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have these kinds of lawyers out up there and they're
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litigating cases, let's remember we got to think about and
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remember that these people all have you know their own ideas.
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As far as these lawyers go, they're looking to establish
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more prestige, looking to get more clients, and a lot
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of these big law firms are super combative. The hostilities
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escalated in a Quinn filing on Wednesday that accuses Wigdor
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of making inaccurate representations about when it began representing Black's accuser,
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former model Guselle Ganieva, and of helping Ganieva promoter claims
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about Black to journalists. Wigdor partner Geen Christiansen told told
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me Quinn's latest assertions are so freaking ridiculous and total
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and utter nonsense. You know what, folks, We live in
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the age of disinformation, right, So me, I don't trust
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anything I hear anymore. I have to dig in myself
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and verify shit, and if I can't verify it, I
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put it onto the back burner. Right. It's just so
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hard to discern the real from the fake at this point.
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So when you're talking about a situation like this with
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Leon Black and missus Ganieva, you know that there's going
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to be all kinds of misinformation thrown from these lawyers.
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They're gonna try and throw people off the scent. They're
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gonna make it accusations such as this so that you
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don't pay attention to what Leon Black was up to.
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So my advice, unsolicited as it may be, is be
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very very cautious of what you're letting into your brain
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these days, very cautious. We have nothing to hide, said Christiansen,
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who was responding to an email query to her and Wigdor.
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I can't even imagine what a judge is going to
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think of this. Look. We have seen a lot of
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weird ass behavior from people around Epstein, Epstein's friends, people
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who are being charged in relation to Epstein, as far
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as their legal decisions go and the way their legal
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teams move. And this might be another one of those
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crazy ass moves like hell Mary almost because again, let's
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be clear, Leon Black knows he's cooked. Oh boy, don't
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have nothing really good friends with Epstein. He had a
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consensual relationship with this lady. He's already admitted it. Now
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he has to prove that he's being extorted. Good luck,
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bro Ranker and outrage have been hallmarks of this litigation
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since it began in June twenty twenty one, when Wigdor
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filed the lawsuit for Ganieva in New York State Supreme Court.
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Ghanieva alleged that Black had sexually abused her for years
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before coercing her into signing a non disclosure agreement. Look, folks,
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whenever I hear a man has a woman sign a
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non disclosure agreement about their sexual relationship, I am automatically
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automatically suspicious. Why do you need someone to sign a
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non disclosure agreement over your sexual relationship? Oh wait, you
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cheated on your wife? Bro? We all know stop it.
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Is there any of these guys out there, any of
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these rich, scummy sons of bitches that aren't cheating on
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their wives. My guess is most of them are. Okay,
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So what do you mean? What do you need the
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non disclosure for? Not like your wife's gonna leave you anyway,
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Leon Black? Really, what it was is because he wanted
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to control, he had to continue to have control even
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when the relationship ends. That's what this non prosecution bullshit,
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I mean, non disclosure agreement bullshit? Is Black, who is married,
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has said that he and Ganieva had a consensual affair
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and that he paid her millions of dollars to keep
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it a secret. Why look again, millions of dollars to
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keep it a secret. Bro, Why are you getting yourself
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into this situation in the first place. If you ever
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find yourself in a situation where you're paying millions of
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dollars for other people not to find out, you're probably
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not in the right situation. Thank you for coming to
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my ted talk. Are these people for real, folks? Honestly?
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How do they have so much money, so much power,
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so much prestige and they're so fucking dumb? But that's
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not all. Last October, Quinn filed a racketeering suit for Black,
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the former CEO of the private equity fund Apollo Global Management, Incorporated,
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in federal court in Manhattan. Black suit accused Ganieva and
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her lawyers from Wigdor of conspiring with unknown defendants to
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smear the billionaire's name. To smear the billionaire's name, Like
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he needs any help with that shit, Brah, You and
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Jeffrey Epstein were BFFs. Nobody needs help to smear your name.
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All we have to do is run an article about
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you and your pal Jeffrey Epstein. Think that's sufficient. Black
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later elaborated on his conspiracy theory in an amended federal
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court complaint filed in January. The new complaint claimed that
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Ganieva was in cahoots with Josh Harris, a business rival
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of Black, who was allegedly scheming to use Ganieva's account
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of sexual assault to incapacitate Black. Look, it's amazing that
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Black would even attempt this move. Honestly, you know, he's
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very brazen and very arrogant. But I think this is
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gonna fil miserably for him. I think he's barking up
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the wrong tree with Harris, folks, Honestly, I really do.
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And it's not very often that someone like Leon Black
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meets their match. But Harris knows all of Black's tricks.
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This is kind of like the paddle on fighting the
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Jed High right. The Sith rule of two. There can
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only be two sith, one dark lord and then the
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one apprentice. So is Harris looking to get rid of
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the Sith Lord Leon Black to ascend to his throne.
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Very possible, folks, Very very possible. Both Harris and Ganieva
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said last week in dismissal motions that Black's racketeering conspiracy
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claim was completely preposterous because for starters, Black had not
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offered a shred of evidence that the two of them
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ever even communicated with each other, let alone formed a conspiracy.
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So Leon Black's out here like he's part of the
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q anon group talking about all kinds of wild conspiracies.
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Next thing, you know, you folks know what's coming next. Right,
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next thing, you know, he's gonna bring the lady Victoria
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Heavy around so she could tell you about her conspiracy
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theories too. Wigdor responded to Black's racketeering allegations with e
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motion for Rule eleven sanctions against Black, Quinn and co
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counsul from Estrich Golden, arguing that Black's accusation against Wigdoor
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was an outrageously scandalous attempt to scare the firm away
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from representing Ganieva. Big time move by rich people. They'll
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try and get your lawyer not to represent you, right,
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they don't give up. Do you really think these people
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care about you? I don't know how much I have
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to how clearer I need to be. None of these
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corporate giants care about you. If you work for a
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large corporation, they do not care about you. Don't feel
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bad if you have to call in sick. None of
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that nonsense, because these people do not care and people
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like Leon Black will use their exquisite power, their extreme
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amount of prestige, and they will crush people who are
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smaller than them, and they won't care for one single
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second you think they're gonna miss any sleep over it chants.
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Black ended up dropping the conspiracy claim against Wigdor in
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his amended complaint, though he continued to allege that Wigdor
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defamed him and in peculiar in an end. In a
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peculiar turn of events, Quinn Emmanuel withdrew as Black's counsel
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in the federal case, citing an undisclosed conflict. It's always
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something right, It's always something behind the scenes. There's always
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some kind of connection. All of these law firms are intertwined,
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and that's why when they do these internal reports, we
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always talk about That's why I always find that shit laughable.
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Quinn Manuel, which remained in the federal case to defend
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Wigdor's sanction motion, said that Black's amended complaint mooted the
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call for sanctions. Wigdor fired back with a brief doubling
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down on its allegations of misconduct. It claimed that Quinn
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Emmanuel tried to pressure Wigdor to betray Ganieva by providing
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incriminating evidence linking her to Harris Black's nemesis at Apollo.
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So you see how this happens behind the scenes, right,
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and just take a look at what's going on here,
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and then times this by about fifty thousand, okay, And
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that's the kind of pressure that Epstein's lawyers put on
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the girls in Palm Beach the first time around. And
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guess what those girls they didn't have the lawyers to
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protect them that Harris has. They had some shitbag prosecutor
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named krisher who really didn't care about them, or Marie
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Villa Fana, who is all of a sudden some sort
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of hero. But this is the kind of shit you're
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dealing with with these high power lawyers. Folks. These got
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these people that look they're coming for blood, They're coming
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for your throat. And these are the same kind of
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folks like Marty Singer. It claimed that Quinn Manuel tried
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to pressure Wigdor ex excuse me pass that quinn partner
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Michael Karlinsky called the assertion ridiculous. He told me he
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was simply responding to question from Wigdor's lawyer. Wigdor moved
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last week to dismiss Black's defamation claim, which it called
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wasteful and retaliatory see what I mean about hostilities. In
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the latest round, Quinn has homed in on discovery Wigdor
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recently produced in Ganieva's state court case. The evidence, as
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Quinn laid it out in a brief in the state case,
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is a series of WhatsApp exchanges between Ganijeva and New
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York Times reporter Matt Goldstein in October and November of
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twenty twenty. That was months before Ganieva publicly accused Black
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of sexual abuse in March twenty twenty one and signed
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a retainer agreement with Wigdor in April twenty twenty one.
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So what they're trying to assert is that this was
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all made up and that this lawyer, mister Goldstein here
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played a part in facilitating this whole entire ordeal. That
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is exactly what Quinn, the law firm Quinn, is zeroing
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in on at this point. And what's that message is
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Goldstein repeatedly told Ganieva he was talking to Wigdor. He
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did not expressly say that those conversations involved Ganieva, although
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he did ask Ganieva if she was okay with him
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talking to me on background. Ghanieva told Goldstein in a
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follow up message, I will let Wigdor know that if
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you want to speak with them, you can. The Times
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did not publish a story about Ganieva's allegations before she
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tweeted about Black, and you know why, right The New
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York Times is filled with cowards. Oh, they act like
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they aren't, but let's be real. The Gray Lady is
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not what it once was. And I'll never forget the
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way they dog walked us into the war in Iraq.
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I will never forget the dishonesty, the lying, and how
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untruthful they were to the American people into the world.
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So it doesn't shock me that they didn't run this.
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Too scared to go after Leon Black, too scared to
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stand up to Black. The implication, Quinn said, is that
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Wigdor was already advising Ganieva about going public with their
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accusations against Black, perhaps in a splashy news article, before
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she tweeted about her alleged abuse. Quinn argued that the
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Goldstein evidence proved Wigdor was communicating with reporters on Ganniheva's behalf,
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bolstering Black's assertion that Wigdor and Ganieva were plotting to
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gauge the media's appetite for Miss Ganieva's false claims before
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they were made public in March of twenty twenty one.
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So basically, in Layman's terms, terms that we can understand
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here on the East side of Las Vegas is they
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were just fishing. They were trying to see the interest
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of the newspapers in a story such as this, and
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most times you would think that a newspaper would jump
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on a story like this, but you know how it goes.
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The New York Times is not a reputable source at
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this point, sorry, folks, just the way it is. In
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a parallel filing in the federal case, Quinn's co counsel,
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Susan Estrich argued that the Goldstein text undermined Wigdor's claim
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for sanctions. Wigdor has engaged in precisely the activity that
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is the subject of the complaint in this action, not
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just the pursuit of sham litigation activity, but promotion of
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Miss Ganieva's false narratives to the press, The filing said.
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Goldstein declined to comment on his conversations with Ganieva and Wigdor.
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That's probably a good idea, I mean, you know, usually
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you get these journalists who get scared and they start
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burning their sources and turning everything over. But at least
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Goldstein clammed up here. Wigdor partner Christensen said, the WhatsApp
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messages show nothing. Ganieva was consulting with many advisors, including
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Wigdor and another law firm, about her allegations. There was
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nothing unusual about Wigdor speaking to Goldstein, a prominent reporter.
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For all you know, Goldstein was asking Doug why we
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did not represent Gazelle. Christiansen's said Matt had been calling, texting,
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and emailing with her for months. She added, all this
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does is show she wrestled with the decision. She knew
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how tough it would be to go against Leon Black
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and his lawyers and his lawyers, but hers are just
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as tough. Look, there's no doubt she got the right lawyers.
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If she's gonna battle against Leon Black, she's in the
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right place. And make no mistake, folks, this is going
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to be a long, arduous struggle for her. This is
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not going to be easy. She's not gonna get a
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settlement dropped in her lap, nothing like that. So we're
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going to continue to follow this one because it's a
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big deal. It has a large shadow cast over Epstein's
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criminal enterprise. And as you all know, I believe Leon
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Black was a key member in facilitating these financial moves.
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So he's always been somebody that I have had my
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eye on, and seeing him in court here and watching
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him sweat a little bit is certainly an enjoyable experience
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for me. But with that said, I really hope that
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we get to see this all play out. I want
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to see it go to discovery and all of that,
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because missus Ganieva's claims are very, very serious and they
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deserve a real look, not some BS nonsense, but a
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real look, and also a look from the authorities as
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far as criminal charges. I know that Leon Black was
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allegedly under investigation or they were looking into these charges
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as far as a criminal matter, and I really hope
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that the clown show down at the SDNY pursues this shit.
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But like usual, we will have to see all right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for this update. As usual, some
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more episodes are on their way and I will be
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back later on with a little bit more. If you'd
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