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Katie Phang Goes Scorched Earth On Todd Blanche (10/5/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. The battle between Katie Fang and Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 1: continues to rage on. And now, Katie Fang has accused
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Todd Blanche of filing a motion that is
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  Speaker 1: completely full of BS. And she says the whole entire
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  Speaker 1: point is to try and stall the lawsuit and run
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  Speaker 1: out the clock. And boy, that sounds exactly on brand.
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  Speaker 1: Not only for Todd Blanche, but the whole administration. It's
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  Speaker 1: always about loopholes and technicalities. That's their go-to when they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to defend their bullshit narrative about Jeffrey Epstein. But
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  Speaker 1: that narrative has lost a lot of its bite. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people out there know, deep in their heart,
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  Speaker 1: that they're being dog-locked. And that the administration and Todd Blanche, well,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly being truthful. Today we have an article from
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  Speaker 1: Raw Story and the headline. Todd, which one is it?
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  Speaker 1: Attorney confronts Todd Blanche for latest Epstein delay ruse. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by David Edwards. Attorney Katie Fang accused
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General Todd Blanche of filing a motion chock full
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  Speaker 1: of lies to stall her lawsuit seeking unredacted files on
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  Speaker 1: the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Fang made the accusation
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  Speaker 1: in a broadcast on her YouTube channel on Friday, a
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  Speaker 1: day after the Justice Department made a last-minute request to U.S.
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  Speaker 1: District Judge Emmett Sullivan and to postpone a deadline in
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  Speaker 1: the case. Sullivan had ordered Blanche to file a certified
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  Speaker 1: list of the administrative record, meaning the documents the department
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  Speaker 1: relied on, to decide what to release and redact by
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  Speaker 1: October 1st, according to the motion. Well, how'd that work out?
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche does whatever he wants. And so does the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire Justice Department, obviously. There's no checks and balances.
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  Speaker 1: These dudes are running roughshod over everybody. And then they
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  Speaker 1: jump on social media... and talk about what a great
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  Speaker 1: job they're doing, and how you should just believe the rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: What you shouldn't do is believe your lying eyes. It's
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty illuminating, because it'll reveal again the process, the
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  Speaker 1: thought process, that went into the redactions, and the withholdings
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  Speaker 1: for the files that have been publicly produced thus far,
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  Speaker 1: Fang said. Sullivan's September 16th order also required the department
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  Speaker 1: to hand over the full record by October 15th, according
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  Speaker 1: to a copy Fang showed on air. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that they have any motivation or any plans to
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  Speaker 1: give these documents up. I think they're going to fight
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  Speaker 1: this and fight this until they can't fight it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And the only way that they're going to give this
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  Speaker 1: stuff up is if they're ordered to do it. And
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  Speaker 1: even then, we see what's going on. So there has
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  Speaker 1: to be an order with some finality, right? Listen, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't turn this shit over, that's it. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for contempt. And I would hope that Judge Sullivan... is
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  Speaker 1: really thinking about it. Because in my opinion, this is
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  Speaker 1: blatant and it needs to be dealt with. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: we have Todd Blanche the day something's due, the night,
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  Speaker 1: more technically, that something's due. He's like, I need more time, Judge,
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  Speaker 1: Fang said, comparing Blanche to a child asking you for
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  Speaker 1: more time at the last minute. Well, that's how they operate.
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  Speaker 1: What they want to do is get you scrambling. And
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  Speaker 1: if they wait until the last minute, then it's harder
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  Speaker 1: for the other team, the plaintiff in this case, to
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  Speaker 1: file a motion. So what they're trying to do is
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  Speaker 1: win the docket game. And I just don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: going to work. Now, if it was somebody else, maybe, right?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody that didn't have the resources that Katie Fang has, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but she's a lawyer herself. She can look at these
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  Speaker 1: documents and know what's bunk and what's not, or what
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  Speaker 1: can be challenged and what can't be. So it's not
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  Speaker 1: like Todd Blanche is dealing with just, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: regular member of the public. Now, with that said, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean Katie Fang is some kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: legal genius and she's infallible. That's not the case either.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we go through the court documents themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the court documents that have
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  Speaker 1: been filed in this case, it's rather obvious which way
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  Speaker 1: the judge is leaning. But there is procedure and there
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  Speaker 1: are rings that you have to jump through. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: that's where we're at. The department has sought delays before,
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  Speaker 1: asking Sullivan, in a July 2nd filing, to put on
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  Speaker 1: a hold for 60 days, any order to release more records,
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  Speaker 1: so the Solicitor General could consider an appeal. Well, don't
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  Speaker 1: release any records because, you know, we need more time
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  Speaker 1: to scrub them. The Solicitor General? An appeal, really? The
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  Speaker 1: court just told you to turn these documents over, multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: How many appeals do you get? Between Ghislaine Maxwell and
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and the appeals, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's any appeals left for anybody else. In the new motion,
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  Speaker 1: the department accused Fang of trying to circumvent the Freedom
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  Speaker 1: of Information Act, the law the public uses to request
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  Speaker 1: government records, by suing under the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
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  Speaker 1: which it said gives private citizens no right to sue.
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  Speaker 1: Lie number one. I'm not suing pursuant to the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Files Transparency Act, Fang said. I'm suing pursuant to the
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  Speaker 1: Administrative Procedure Act, the APA. And this is where we
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  Speaker 1: get into the legalese, right? As a lawyer, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: have to get creative and you have to find a
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  Speaker 1: pathway to victory that might not exist. So you have to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, start looking at different cases, precedent, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then you hope that the judge sides with what
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  Speaker 1: you're motioning. In fact, if I wasn't suing pursuant to
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  Speaker 1: the APA, then why would there even be the requirement
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  Speaker 1: for him to produce the certified list in the administrative record? Duh,
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  Speaker 1: Fang said. And she's not wrong. I think that Todd
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  Speaker 1: Blanche and the DOJ is flying way too close to
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  Speaker 1: the sun when it comes to this lawsuit. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that Judge Sullivan ultimately is going to hold them accountable.
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  Speaker 1: The question is when, right? The motion also said the
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  Speaker 1: information Fang seeks is already available through FOIA, the statute
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  Speaker 1: it said she ought to use. Oh yeah, because that's
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  Speaker 1: so successful. They give up so much information when we
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  Speaker 1: file FOIA requests about Epstein. Hey, dum-dum, the whole entire
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  Speaker 1: reason that Congress needed to act was because the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to do it on their own. So save
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire, oh, well, you should go through FOIA. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't work. That shit gets laughed out of the room.
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  Speaker 1: Fang said her legal team gave Judge Sullivan a Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department reply to a FOIA request in a June 24th filing.
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  Speaker 1: The reply said, the Epstein Files Transparency Act directed a
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  Speaker 1: much broader and less redacted release of files than would
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  Speaker 1: have been made under the FOIA. Yeah, no shit. FOIA's
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  Speaker 1: a big joke, by the way. I love when people
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  Speaker 1: use FOIA like it's some holy grail. They're just going
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  Speaker 1: to give you what they want to give you. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing more, nothing less. So in other words, Todd Blanch's
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  Speaker 1: DOJ was telling somebody who was moving under FOIA for
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  Speaker 1: the records... You gotta do it under the transparency law,
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  Speaker 1: Fang said. Well, Todd, which one is it? Fang asked.
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  Speaker 1: In Thursday's motion, the department argued that preparing the record
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  Speaker 1: would waste the court's time and taxpayer resources because the
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  Speaker 1: case is likely to be dismissed. Well, that didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to be the case with Judge Sullivan and what he
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  Speaker 1: had to say. Likely to be dismissed. Maybe if you
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  Speaker 1: got a different judge, a favorable one. What's Eileen Cannon doing?
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  Speaker 1: Get the F out of here, Fang said. Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers'
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  Speaker 1: time and money to be able to do illegal redactions
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  Speaker 1: and withholds that are now forcing me to have to
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  Speaker 1: go and sue? The motion also said there are no
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  Speaker 1: material facts in dispute, meaning the two sides agree on
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  Speaker 1: what happened and only legal questions remain. The entire lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: is premised on facts in dispute, Fang said. I say
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  Speaker 1: that they have illegally withheld records and that they've illegally
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  Speaker 1: redacted records. He says no. That's that, not the case. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the whole argument is, right? Did he or
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  Speaker 1: did he, or the DOJ, unlawfully redact files? And I
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  Speaker 1: think they did. When you have three and a half
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  Speaker 1: million files that haven't been released, and there's still no
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  Speaker 1: explanation on what has been released, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: people are going to start to think? Unless, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you're somebody that buys in to whatever the administration tells you,
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  Speaker 1: And if that's the case, there's no hope for you.
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  Speaker 1: Fang said that her lawyer's reaction to the delay request was, well,
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  Speaker 1: hell no. In a statement the department included in its motion,
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  Speaker 1: the lawyer said the request should be denied on its
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  Speaker 1: face because a local court rule requires the certified list
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  Speaker 1: to be filed at the same time as any motion
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  Speaker 1: that could end the case. The department filed that kind
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  Speaker 1: of motion the same day, asking Sullivan, in a separate filing,
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  Speaker 1: to rule in its favor based only on the court
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  Speaker 1: papers filed so far. And look, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of back and forth, right? Both sides are
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  Speaker 1: going to look for summary judgments. Both sides are going
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  Speaker 1: to look to try and get the upper hand. But
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  Speaker 1: I think when you start parsing through all of the information,
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  Speaker 1: all of the evidence and all of the motions, it's
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  Speaker 1: obvious to me that Katie Fang has a pathway to victory.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that she has a judge that's sympathetic
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  Speaker 1: to her cause. And that's because I think Judge Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: understands the true nature of what's going on here. And
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  Speaker 1: he understands the scope. And he understands the implications. Because
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  Speaker 1: if the DOJ can hide information about this, what else
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  Speaker 1: are they hiding? I mean, we're talking about one of
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  Speaker 1: the most public facing cases maybe we've ever seen and
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ is playing coy so can you imagine what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing with less known cases with cases that don't
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  Speaker 1: have as much publicity pretty terrifying isn't it just redact
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  Speaker 1: the victim's information turn over the rest who are you
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  Speaker 1: protecting Fang said Well, it starts with financial and it
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  Speaker 1: ends with sector. Okay, that's who's being protected. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as this battle goes, there's still a ways to go.
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  Speaker 1: And there's going to be a flurry of filings coming
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  Speaker 1: both ways. And as those filings hit the docket, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get them added to the catalog. All the information that
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  Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.