It’s time to give Paul, Weiss a brief respite from the barrage of Epstein revelations. There may well be more to come, but we can give some other law firms their day in the sun. Like Jones Day, who apparently represented Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell back in 2017. Either that or Maxwell routinely deposited tens of thousands of dollars into the Jones Day Client Trust Account for no reason in particular.
There are at least four emails in the files that show Maxwell transferring funds from UBS to the Jones Day trust account.
The first — that we’ve found — is dated February 6, 2017 and finds Maxwell asking UBS to transfer $25k to the Jones Day Client Trust Account. As far as I can tell, there’s no contemporaneous public record of Maxwell working with Jones Day. Next, on April 18, 2017, a UBS employee confirms that she had completed a wire transfer requested by Maxwell to Jones Day in the amount of $31,746.50.
Because they farmed this production out to a thousand drunk monkeys at a thousand drunk typewriters, it’s the exact same employee in both emails, but the government redacted her full name and email in the first one — except in the salutation — and left her completely unredacted in the second email.
In September of that year, a whole four-person UBS team writes Maxwell to confirm that they’ve passed along $218,791.31 to Jones Day. A November email provides a summary of her transfers throughout the year. The summary includes Haddon Morgan and Foreman, the Denver-based firm that served as Maxwell’s primary counsel in the defamation suit Virginia Giuffre brought in 2015, which makes sense.
But how does Jones Day play into all this? Were they behind-the-scenes counsel in that case? Were they working on some other matter for Maxwell? The Justice Department database is an inconclusive mess so we don’t really know.
It’s not a crime to represent an accused criminal, of course. It’s a pretty big part of the job. But it is a little weird to find a major law firm making its first appearance in this case so late in the game.
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