Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the Department of Justice under then acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who interviewed Epstein associate Guillane Maxwell shortly before she was transferred to a far less restrictive prison that should have been inaccessible to a sex offender, did not turn over those documents.
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So, in July, Sullivan ordered the government to turn over the unredacted documents to him so he could review them himself, to see if the decision by the Department of Justice not to release them was correct.
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Once again, the Department of Justice refused.
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As for an explanation for why the department hadn't explained the decisions to redact, the Justice Department lawyer told the judge the process was underway, but couldn't say when it would be done or why translating documents in foreign languages wasn't practical.
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He claimed the materials the department is withholding are simply duplicates of things that have been released, but offered no proof of that assertion.
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Ultimately, as Vance explains, Sullivan asked, So you're saying I've learned everything I'm gonna learn from the government?
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The lawyer for the Department of Justice, Andrew Block, answered, That's right.
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Sullivan wasn't satisfied.
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The public has a right to know what the hell is going on in this case.
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The victims have a right to know.
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The court has a right to know.
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The law is still in full force and effect.
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The court is just ensuring compliance.
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To make it clear he was being reasonable, in expectation of a review from a higher court, Sullivan repeatedly told Block he was willing to work with the department, but warned that he had held prosecutors in contempt of court in the past.
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Sullivan gave Fang's lawyers ten days to propose an order to deal with the failure of the Department of Justice to comply with his orders to produce the files Fang requested.
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The administration is also undermining another popular law.
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This week, under Trump, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, in the Treasury Department, not only ended the registry Congress set up in 2021 over Trump's veto to make shell companies identify their owners, but also destroyed all the data it has already collected.
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Fin Sen combats money laundering.
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Congress set up the Corporate Transparency Act after documents leaked to BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in twenty twenty found that between nineteen ninety nine and twenty seventeen, banks had flagged more than two trillion dollars in potentially laundered money, moved by criminals operating out of Russia, China, Iran, and
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Iran and Syria through shell companies.
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