Julie K. Brown

And you are meeting with him when you were technically one of his prosecutors.

I mean, why?

How does this happen?

Why are you meeting with him?

I don't care if it was three days afterward or whether it was 10 years afterward.

I don't see any reason a man who was your prosecutor would ever have a dinner.

I mean, one of the listings said, you know, meeting with Matt Menchel, no shellfish, meaning, you know, is a dinner meeting and he's allergic to shellfish.

Well, yes, because we knew that one of the things that Jeffrey Epstein did when he was trying to line up this sweetheart deal was that he found little ways to get to these prosecutors.

He tried to disqualify Jeff Sloman, who was the deputy under Alcasa, for example, because he had some kind of a burglary at his house.

And somehow they were trying to make it that he had a conflict of interest because he testified against the burglar during the trial.

I mean, he was trying to find every little way he could to get to these prosecutors.

And one of the people he hired as one of his attorneys was a woman by the name of Lillian Sanchez.

Now, I heard rumors from the very beginning that Lillian and Matthew Menchel had a thing, a romantic thing.

Of course, I couldn't really prove it.

There was no way to report it at the time.

But after my series ran, the DOJ did a big investigation.

Buried in the footnote of that investigation was a notation that Lillian Sanchez had dated Matthew Menchel.

And it was like a tiny little footnote in the report.

And so it had been confirmed that that, you know, she had and she took over that negotiation toward the end.

So, you know, she was very much involved with negotiating this deal at least at one point with Mitchell.