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Judge denies Ghislaine Maxwell’s request for jury selection secrecy

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge shot down a request Thursday from jailed British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to conduct jury selection for her sex trafficking trial in secret. Judge Alison Nathan ruled that legal precedent regarding the public’s right to follow a trial overrides Maxwell’s fears that further publicity […]

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Friendship Circle Cofounder Resigns, Citing Control by Family of Disgraced Rabbi

A cofounder and former executive director of the Friendship Circle of San Diego, Elisheva Green, has resigned “with a broken heart” from the organization founded to help children and adults with disabilities, citing irregularities in the organization’s governance by members of the family of disgraced former rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway. [Donald H. Harrison]

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New lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate says he trafficked Russian woman to US

Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Russian woman says in a new lawsuit that sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her early in 2019, in one of the few allegations to detail his crimes in the months before his arrest. Epstein, who died in August 2019 of an apparent suicide at a

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