Katie Phang
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1,864 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Sep
Katie Phang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think this is a really important moment when it comes to compliance and whether or not this judge is going to allow Todd Blanche to continue to violate not only the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but the judge's own orders.
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The judge, notably, when he did an order back on July 25th, Ben, just to refresh people's recollection,
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told Todd Blanch to come to chambers so that the judge could do an in-chambers inspection of the unredacted documents and a specific small subset of them.
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And he told Todd Blanch, pretty much, I don't believe you when you make representations in your court filings about why you have redacted certain things.
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So you have to bring with you proof.
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kind of, I call it, show your work.
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If you are legitimately redacting pursuant to the law, then you'll be able to support those allegedly legitimate redactions.
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Okay, so that being said, the next thing that happens is we get this order and the judge is like, you told me
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that you were going to bring it, or I told you, excuse me, you had to bring it.
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And according to Judge Sullivan, he says, no, defendant did not provide such documentation.
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So now you have to come to court and you have to, you shall, not permissively, you could, it's you shall be prepared to discuss what documentation you will provide to support your assertions that these truly are victims that you have redacted.
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In addition, and really interestingly, there's some
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handwritten FBI interview notes that pertain to the victim who alleges that when she was 13 years old, she was sexually abused and physically battered by Donald Trump.
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Now, the 302s, as they're called, these FBI reports, they've been released publicly with heavy redactions, but the underlying FBI interview notes, I know that they exist.
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They were actually turned over in discovery in Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal prosecution in the Southern District of New York.
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According to Todd Blanch, he has them, but...
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He told the court, I'm not turning them over because they're substantially similar to what the 302s, the ultimate official kind of report, ended up reading.
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And so what did Judge Sullivan say?
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He says, hmm, Blanche, you never pointed to the provision in the Epstein Files Transparency Act that contains an exception that allows you to withhold it.
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And you haven't pointed to the exception that says that something's duplicative, that you don't have to turn it over.
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