EFTA00075229 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage1280f161 ## Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25k to Jacob Wohl to 'smear victims' dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8531293/Ghislaine-Maxwell-paid-25K-Jacob-Wohl-smear-victims-AG-fired.html July 21, 2020 ## EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to 'smear Epstein victims and to get prosecutor Geoffrey Berman fired in attempt to stall sex trafficking investigation against her' - Ghislaine Maxwell hired Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein and her, a former friend told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview - As part of a $25k deal, Wohl and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman also allegedly pushed to get former New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman fired - Wohl and Burkman are far-right lobbyists who have become a laughing stock in DC after several failed attempts to smear top political figures - Maryland paralegal Kristin Spealman claims she was initially contacted by the duo to use her in a smear campaign against Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz - Spealman told DailyMail.com they bragged to her they had been hired in early June for $25,000 to dig up dirt on Maxwell's alleged sex trafficking victims - Federal documents filed this month show a company linked to Maxwell had hired Wohl and Burkman to lobby on ‘issues relating to US DOJ, Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary,’ DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal - Berman's removal was intended to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell, Spealman said - Berman was ultimately pushed out by Barr in June, but two weeks later Maxwell was charged as part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring By Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com Published: 09:15 EDT, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 02:55 EDT, 22 July 2020 • e-mail 1/21 EFTA00075230 Case15-20v-07433.DoApm.Document010782520.Filed967/29/20agPage 1290 of 161 ## 6.7k shares GHislaine Maxwell hired fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to smear her and Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, a former friend has told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview. As part of a $25,000 deal made in June, Wohl and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman also allegedly pushed to get New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had led Epstein's case, fired in order to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell. Wohl and Burkman are far-right lobbyists who have become a laughing stock in DC after several failed attempts to smear top political figures including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Cruz, Robert Mueller and Dr. Anthony Fauci by paying women to make false claims of sordid affairs and drug-dealing. One of the women they tried to use for their smear plots, Maryland model and paralegal Kristin Spealman, told DailyMail.com the men had been hired by Maxwell, who currently faces trial over charges she and Epstein trafficked underage girls for sex. Spealman, 36, said the lobbyists bragged to her they had been hired in early June for $25,000 to dig up dirt on Maxwell's alleged sex trafficking victims and to get Berman fired using Burkman's supposed influence with Attorney General William Barr. Berman ultimately stepped down after a push from Barr. But less than two weeks later, Maxwell was charged on July 2 as being part of Epstein's sex trafficking ring and taken into custody. 2/21 | EFTA00075231 | | :--- | :--- CaseC1s1520v-07433DoPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage013903f 161 Ghislaine Maxwell hired fake news purveyor and accused felon Jacob Wohl to smear alleged victims of her and Jeffrey Epstein, Wohl's former friend has told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview 3/21 EFTA00075232 CaseC1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520File96729/20agPage1320f 161 As part of a $25,000 deal made in June, Wohl (left) and his lobbyist colleague Jack Burkman (right) also allegedly pushed to get New York US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who had led Epstein's case, fired to stall or stop the criminal investigation into Maxwell 4/21 EFTA00075233 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page1861320f 161 5/21 EFTA00075234 Case1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage1330f 161 6/21 EFTA00075235 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage13405f 161 7/21 EFTA00075236 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page1881380f 161 8/21 EFTA00075237 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage13805f 161 9/21 EFTA00075238 CaseC1s1520v07433DoPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page18513703f161 10/21 EFTA00075239 CaseC1s1520v-07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage18613805f 161 11/21 EFTA00075240 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage13905f 161 12/21 EFTA00075241 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page18814005f 161 13/21 EFTA00075242 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage18841420f 161 14/21 EFTA00075243 Case C1s1520v-07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page18614205f 161 15/21 EFTA00075244 CaseC1s1520v07433DapmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage14305f 161 16/21 EFTA00075245 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page182420f 161 17/21 EFTA00075246 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20Page18814805f 161 18/21 EFTA00075247 CaseC1s1520v-07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage14805f 161 19/21 EFTA00075248 Case C1a1520v-07433DoPmDocument10782520Filed96729/20agPage185d14703f 161 20/21 EFTA00075249 CaseC1s1520v07433DAPmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage18614805f 161 21/21 EFTA00075250 Case15-20-07433-DoApmDocumen01.0782920Filed96729/20Page04908f 161 MAUREEN CALLAHAN OPINION # Authorities are letting Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer Ghislaine Maxwell get away with it By Maureen Callahan June 22, 2020 | 5:00pm Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images We got Osama bin Laden, but we can't catch a repulsive fugitive socialite? Since the death of sex trafficker-rapist-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein last August, the woman who allegedly recruited his many, many underage girls and sexually abused them herself has been in hiding. And Ghislaine Maxwell has hardly been moving cave-to-cave. Most recent reports put the 58-year-old in a luxury apartment in Paris, right off the Champs Elysees. | EFTA00075251 | | :--- | :--- ## CaseC1a15-20v-07433DoApmDocumen010782520Filed96729/20agPage 1500f 161 At the risk of stating the obvious, Paris, too, is on COVID-19 lockdown. The Sun reports that Maxwell is currently living on Avenue Matignon in the city's 8th arrondissement, in an apartment reportedly owned by a Normandy-based millionaire. This would put her just five minutes away from the late Epstein’s own Parisian apartment, which was raided shortly after his suicide. So: where is the urgency? Why hasn’t this depraved criminal suspect, one who by many credible accounts sexually abused minors for years, been arrested yet? France may not have an extradition treaty with the U.S., but that doesn’t explain why French authorities haven’t taken her into custody. It’s well-known that Jeffrey Epstein was a sexual predator who knew no geographic boundaries. Maxwell appears to have been his madam, his pimp, his enabler, his co-conspirator, and reportedly a sexual offender herself. The world would be better off without her moving around in it. Yet it seems there are powerful people who disagree. What other explanation is there? Maxwell is one of the world's most wanted women, sought by the FBI for questioning. Yet before the lockdown, she was seen swanning around Paris, patronizing high-profile, four-star restaurants and cafés, dropping into art galleries, a scarf tied around her head as if she were Jackie O on Fifth Avenue. These are the defiant actions of a remorseless woman who knows she is well protected. Her hiding seems almost performative. Maxwell isn't hunkered down on a private island or on a yacht in international waters. Her whereabouts are well known. Yet we're still playing "Where in the World is Ghislaine Maxwell?" luxury apartments on on Avenue Matignon in Paris where Maxwell has reportedly been living. Luxury apartments on Avenue Matignon in Paris where Maxwell has reportedly been living. Getty Images There’s a reason conspiracy theories still swirl around Epstein’s suicide. At the time, he was likely the most high value suspect in U.S. federal custody. As it was, his arrest was long overdue. His case made international headlines. He was on suicide watch. SEE ALSO
Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly hiding from the feds in plush Paris apartment
And he was friends with very powerful men, heads of state and royals among them, hosted at his homes and on his private island, flying on his private jet, known to all as The Lolita Express. So the idea that none of these men knew about Jeffrey Epstein, again, defies the most basic logic. Sure, Prince Andrew has "stepped down" as a senior royal. So what? What does that even mean? He has never faced any consequences of any kind, even though Virginia Guiffre Roberts has made consistent and credible claims that Epstein sex trafficked her to Andrew when she was just 17. EFTA00075252 ## CaseC1s1520v07433DapmDocument010782520Filed96729/20agPage1520f161 And that Maxwell recruited and groomed her back in 1999, along with many other underage girls through the years. Maxwell doesn't even have the temerity of a Roman Polanski, who also fled to France and whose stance for decades has been "Yes, I raped a 13-year-old girl. Bygones." We are living in a fraught and electric moment, one in which all manner of injustice is no longer tolerated, protests in the streets day after day, forcing us to ask hard and painful questions in pursuit of a fairer and freer world. Don't let Ghislaine Maxwell benefit from this as a distraction. Make her part of it. Make her — and whoever else, no matter how powerful — pay. | FILED UNDER | FBI, FRANCE, GHISLAINE MAXWELL, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, PARIS, SEX TRAFFICKING, 6/22/20 | | :--- | :--- |