It’s
time
to
give
Paul,
Weiss
a
brief
respite
from
the
barrage
of
Epstein
revelations.
There
may
well
be
more
to
come,
but
we
can
give
some
other
law
firms
their
day
in
the
sun.
Like
Jones
Day,
who
apparently
represented
Epstein’s
accomplice
Ghislaine
Maxwell
back
in
2017.
Either
that
or
Maxwell
routinely
deposited
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
into
the
Jones
Day
Client
Trust
Account
for
no
reason
in
particular.
There
are
at
least
four
emails
in
the
files
that
show
Maxwell
transferring
funds
from
UBS
to
the
Jones
Day
trust
account.
The
first
—
that
we’ve
found
—
is
dated
February
6,
2017
and
finds
Maxwell
asking
UBS
to
transfer
$25k
to
the
Jones
Day
Client
Trust
Account.
As
far
as
I
can
tell,
there’s
no
contemporaneous
public
record
of
Maxwell
working
with
Jones
Day.
Next,
on
April
18,
2017,
a
UBS
employee
confirms
that
she
had
completed
a
wire
transfer
requested
by
Maxwell
to
Jones
Day
in
the
amount
of
$31,746.50.
Because
they
farmed
this
production
out
to
a
thousand
drunk
monkeys
at
a
thousand
drunk
typewriters,
it’s
the
exact
same
employee
in
both
emails,
but
the
government
redacted
her
full
name
and
email
in
the
first
one
—
except
in
the
salutation
—
and
left
her
completely
unredacted
in
the
second
email.
In
September
of
that
year,
a
whole
four-person
UBS
team
writes
Maxwell
to
confirm
that
they’ve
passed
along
$218,791.31
to
Jones
Day.
A
November
email
provides
a
summary
of
her
transfers
throughout
the
year.
The
summary
includes
Haddon
Morgan
and
Foreman,
the
Denver-based
firm
that
served
as
Maxwell’s
primary
counsel
in
the
defamation
suit
Virginia
Giuffre
brought
in
2015,
which
makes
sense.
But
how
does
Jones
Day
play
into
all
this?
Were
they
behind-the-scenes
counsel
in
that
case?
Were
they
working
on
some
other
matter
for
Maxwell?
The
Justice
Department
database
is
an
inconclusive
mess
so
we
don’t
really
know.
It’s
not
a
crime
to
represent
an
accused
criminal,
of
course.
It’s
a
pretty
big
part
of
the
job.
But
it
is
a
little
weird
to
find
a
major
law
firm
making
its
first
appearance
in
this
case
so
late
in
the
game.
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