SDNY / DC, March 28
--The Larry Ray trial, entering what
might be the final week of evidence, got
political. But first it got or continued to be
both depressing and baffling. Why would
Felicia Rosario, a medical student at Columbia
then a hospital resident in Los Angeles, give
it all up to be abused by Larry Ray?
Felicia testified that Larry Ray told her to
go have sex with strangers in bars and to film
it. That she wandered around Pinnhurst, North
Carolina catatonic, then sleeping out on the
porch for five days. That Larry and Isabella
locked her out of the refrigerator in the
house in New Jersey.
And
then there were the politics.
The Larry Ray scandal or at least trial
trended so far to the right. There was Larry
Ray with Rudy Giuliani, to whom Ray introduce
Mikhail Gorbachev. There was Larry Ray and
Bernie Kerik, and then there wasn't. But when
victim Felicia Rosario testified, once the
jury was out of Courtroom 24B, there emerged
or was alleged a link between Talia Ray and
the Democratic Party in North Carolina, with
Felicia Rosario sending money to them.
This
made Kurt sit up and take notice. People had
been writing to him, by email and on social
media, about Talia Ray's position as a
paralegal with the Southern Coalition for
Social Justice, and why she wasn't being
indicted like Isabella Pollok.
Kurt
checked - it has been written up, "Talia, who
is active in the state Democratic party." And
her campaign contributions.
Among
Claudia Drury's prostitution clients, all to
pay Larry Ray and presumably or presumptively
aware that she was being abuse, was a John
with a name elsewhere profiled as a stalwart
of the current Administration's foreign
policy, having signed up in the wake of seeing
the events of January 6, 2021. World's
collide. #JohnListGone - more on Patreon here.
[It, like a song
about Lev Parnas was also
covered, behind a paywall, by
New York Magazine which had this
to say about Inner City Press'
covered in late 2021 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book
here
via one of the companies with
an executive on the John
list.]
When Inner
City Press for investigative
reporting was roughed up and thrown
out onto First Avenue
from covering the United
Nations of/by UNSG Antonio
Guterres, many did nothing.
But as we've previously noted,
the First Amendment stops at
First Avenue. We'll have more
on this, here and on other
platforms.
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