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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 8 -- Now that the prosecutors had said their case would rest in days, Kurt looked more closely at each witness and asked himself and then his online readers what they had accomplished. Day 8 began with a woman you'd been a property manager at Trump's Mar-A-Lago, to say when a Mr. Sky Roberts had been hired.

So would Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who was suing Prince Andrew, also take the stand? There was also a Mrs. Hesse who had worked at Casa Epstein in Palm Beach, to say how phone messages were taken down. The defense tried to say that these rules were often broken. But Judge Nathan let the testimony in.

  Less mundane was Carolyn's then-boyfriend Shawn, who described himself waiting outside Casa Epstein for an hour while Carolyn was raped inside. That they broke up later did not surprise Kurt. But over an X-box and a pawn shop? Shawn said he was now a salesman, and he tried to sell his role. But why wasn't he also on trial, for pimping out a 14 year old girl?

  The longest witness of Day 8 was Epstein's other pilot, David Rogers. He described Epstein's ever-growing fleet of planes, including the Boeing 727 Epstein had flow to Africa in 2002 with Bill Clinton, Chris Taylor and Kevin Spacey.

The last had turned out to be a rapist too; Clinton of course was legendary. But that flights too close to the sun had perhaps been Epstein's downfall - it brought the tabloids then the law down on him, after Gawker later published some flight logs with the names of passengers.

  Despite those being public, here the government blacked out, and Judge Nathan agreed to withhold, all names of passengers. Instead AUSA Comey asked again and again, "And on this flight were Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Roberts and another passenger, right?"

"Right," Rogers would say. So who was this additional passenger? Was it the same each time? Was it Prince Andrew? Some other diplomat or UN official?

 When it came time to cross, Everdell again scarcely landed a blow. He asked simple question and then weaved away, like a boxer who doesn't like to hit. Kurt began to wonder, How could the trial be ending this way? How don't they see this will only add to conspiracies?

  So too Twitter's suspension of one of the few other accounts tweeting about the trial, albeit mostly just ripping off Kurt's tweets. They were taken down for a violation of an unspecified rule. Readers began to advise Kurt to shut down his own account and move rightward.

But Jack had not taken him down, except once when he was still in the UN and Periscoped the diplomats watching the World Cup in the Vienna Cafe. Twitter said that violated FIFA's copyright, or maybe that of Qatar's BEin. They locked him out, but only for six hours. From the UN, Kurt's ban had now gone past three years. And now Jack was gone.

  When the trial day ended and talk turned to having the charging conference on Friday, either two or nine days ago, Kurt left the courthouse and headed twenty blocks south. These was a light snow when he arrived at and started live steaming the UN Pedophiles Ball at Cipriani at 25 Broadway.

 A few ambassadors waved to him and then hurried in, as much as one could hurry when asked to show vaccination card and ID in the snow. Kurt wondered out loud, had a bribe just been witnessed and recorded, when one diplomat went in inordinately fast? Or were some pre-screened for entry, like Epstein and Ghislaine with their private airports, private jets and private island?

   An hour into the stakeout, when Kurt had begun to shiver uncontrollably, an Egyptian reporter came out and told him that Guterres was not coming. He was quantantining, having been exposed to COVID. He hadn't done that when he came back from another Portuguese vacation; his guards hadn't done that when they kept they gym open when Kurt's New York City ones were closed.  Kurt became to think how to end it when Melissa Fleming came down Broadway to Cipriani's.

 Kurt yelled out, "Did you know that for the next UN child rape case, by a Gabonese so-called peacekeeper in the Central African Republic, your spokesman Stephane Dujarric simply refused to answer? Fleming looked back, not friendly?

  "This is not Verified," Kurt continued. "This is censorship." But Fleming had gone in, and soon Kurt too would go, for a Jamaican beef patty in a pizzeria on a side street, then back up to the courthouse to write. When the trial ended, guilty or not guilty, he would be where he started, banned from the UN. Maybe it was the constraints of life itself against which the predators Epstein and Ghislaine had been fighting with Les' money. Kurt would think about that one, back out in the snow. #MaximumMaxwell

Note: On October 29, 2021 and again on November 12 Ghislaine Maxwell and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a flurry of motions in limine, heavily redacted; the Government argued that trial exhibits are not public and will be withheld. Inner City Press opposed and opposes the continued secrecy.

Inner City Press will cover the trial, and all the comes before and after it; #CourtCaseCast and song I, Song 2, Song 3, fifth song and now Nov 27 song

The underlying case is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330 (Nathan).

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