| R. Kelly and
Epstein Compared From Jury Selection to
Fetish only from E UN Took Money
By Matthew Russell
Lee, Patreon Maxwell
Book Schulte
Book Books
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Guardian - NY
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LITERARY
SDNY, July 21 – Eight
months after Ghislaine Maxwell got on
her jury a man from the Carlyle Group
who was later to leak to the legal then
British press how he had swayed his
fellow jurors in secret in 40 Foley
Square, another jury was being picked.
It
was not for R. Kelly himself - that had
been in Brooklyn, with no electronics
allowed even in the windowless EDNY
press room that blogger Kurt Wheelock
had used - but rather of Donnell
Russell, who the SDNY prosecutors called
his manager.
Online R. Kelly supporters, if they
could be called that, pushed back at
Kurt. They insisted that Con
Russell was not Kelz' manager, not
even an associate, and that what he had
done was not in Rob's name.
Russell was accused of being the one who
called in a gun threat to the yuppie
clubhouse of the Neuehouse Madison
Square, the night of the Surviving R.
Kelly premiere.
The
eighty prospective jurors were asked
about the singer, and about the
docu-series. At least 30 of them not
only had seen or heard of it, but also
said they could not be fair.
R. Kelly,
it seemed, had higher name recognition
than Ghislaine Maxwell. And higher than
Jeffrey Epstein?
Dying as he did in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center a block east on
Pearl Street, there would never be an
apples to apples comparison.
But
Kurt found himself comparing Epstein,
who like Maxwell had been celebrated in
and purchased the United
Nations in Turtle Bay, to R. Kelly
who traveled in separate world, by tour
bus from Chicago to Florida.
Both
Turtle Bay and the Windy City had Trump
Towers, of course. But how else were
they similar, and how different? More on
Patreon here.
In
June and July 2022 former CIA hacker
Joshua Schulte was put on trial in a
nearly empty and partiallly sealed
courtroom in lower Manhattan.
Alongside an extradition fight in the UK
concerning Julian Assange of Wikileaks,
to which Schulte was charged and now
convicted of exfiltrating the CIA's
cyber tools such as "Brutal Kangaroo,"
there was little media coverage of
Schulte's trial.
Now there is a book.
The author was in the courtroom
each day, even during the sealed
witnesses as one of the two pool
reporters provided for after his
advocacy before Judges Paul A. Crotty
and then Jesse M. Furman of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
As the trial wound down, SDNY-admitted
lawyer Matthew Russell Lee won an order
unsealing portions of Schulte's
civil case challenging his conditions of
confinement including a prohibition
against any communications with any
media, imposed by former US Attorney
General Jeff Session but continued by
current AG Merrick Garland.
Material from that unsealing, the trial
and even some more speculative and
literary excursions featuring recurring
characters Kurt Wheelock and Michael
Randall Long, featured in the Ghislaine
Maxwell book "Maximum Maxwell" as noted
by New York Magazine, here,
made its way at the speed of the
Internet into the new book
"Brutal
Kangaroo: WikiLeaks Verdict Against Josh
Schulte, and Other Whistleblowers:
Convicted of sending the CIA's Vault 7
cyber tools to Wikileaks, Schulte
remains in jail under DOJ SAMs," by
Matthew Russell Lee.
U.S. e-book here,
UK here,
Australia here;
paperbook forthcoming here.
This review will leave it to
other to find over-reaches and typos.
For his reporting, Lee was banned
from the United Nations in 2018 by SG
Antonio Guterres, whose Media
Accrediation chief Melissa Fleming has
ignored appeals from a UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression and, pro bono, the law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel.
One might surmise that history leads to
some of the book's (over?)
identification with the
defendant.
A full scope instantaneous view
of and taking off from trials like US v.
Joshua Schulte seems to be Inner City
Press' project
here.
And here
it is.
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