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Alex Ossola

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WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Like, do they think of it like gold and silver, like a safe haven investment, or do they treat it more like a tech stock?

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Crypto has been on the downswing here.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

What would it take to turn things around?

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

That was Wall Street Journal reporter Vicky Gohuang.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Thanks, Vicky.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Thank you, Alex.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

And a merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore is off after the mining company's abandoned talks.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

The deal would have formed the world's largest mining company with a market value of more than $200 billion.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Coming up, how the latest round of Jeffrey Epstein emails took down the leader of one of the most prominent law firms in the U.S.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

That's after the break.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Last week, the Justice Department began releasing what it says is the final batch of files related to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

And some of the people who appear to have ties to the disgraced financier are feeling the effects.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

One of those people is Brad Karp, who for the past 18 years has been the leader of Paul Weiss, one of the country's biggest law firms.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Yesterday, Karp resigned as the firm's chair after new revelations about his association with Epstein.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

For more on Karp and the impact of his resignation, I'm joined now by WSJ National Legal Affairs reporter Aaron Mulvaney.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Aaron, Brad Karp is a huge figure in the legal world.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

What is he known for?

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

So what happened inside the firm after the revelations in the Epstein emails came out?

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

Paul Weiss says Karp plans to stay on as a partner.

WSJ What’s News
Crypto’s Long, Hard Fall This Winter

But what does his resignation as chair mean for the firm and its dealings with Wall Street?