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Jacob Shamsian
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Legal Correspondent at Business Insider. Author of zero books. Jayshams.substack.com
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 7h
Link: www.wsj.com/us-news/ghis...
Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell
The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 7h
The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10h
I accidentally got my toddler into Edward Gorey books and now his favorite animals are things like the Ampoo and the Ombledroom
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10h
If you ever feel like you've accomplished a lot in your life, just remember that a teenage girl invented France
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d
Robert Jackson — the former Supreme Court justice, Solicitor General, and Nazi war crimes prosecutor — gave a speech in 1940 titled "The Federal Prosecutor" that is considered a must-read for people who join the DOJ.

This passage has been circulating a lot lately:
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d
The new Dan Brown book has a brief cameo from @NormEisen, the attorney and former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2d
Business Insider has a nifty new feature that'll update you whenever I publish a new story.

Try it here: www.businessinsider.com/author/jacob...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: While Dominion settled lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell ahead of acquisition, it's still suing Mike Lindell and Patrick Byrne.

Mike Lindell tells me all voting machines "need to go": "They all need to be melted down and turned into prison bars."
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 3d
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 26d
In legal arguments, Lisa Cook's lawyers have leaned on the 9-0 Supreme Court decision called Humphrey's Executor to argue for Fed independence.

But while it technically remains the law of the land, the Supreme Court has signaled it'll soon be dead.

www.businessinsider.com/supreme-cour...
A 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent protecting Fed independence is on its deathbed
A Supreme Court case called "Humphrey's Executor" has shielded independent agency leaders from political influence. In the Trump era, that's changing.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 3
All good
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 3
1) Many of these files were originally searchable PDFs when they were publicly filed to Pacer.

2) So far I haven't succeeded in downloading anything because Google Drive is "Zipping" them for eternity.
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max @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · Sep 2
I don’t litigate so I don’t know whether this is the case, but I would think that if you did this in discovery you would have a very rough time with the judge
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 2
The House Oversight made each individual page its own TIF file, making it extremely hard to search through.

Look at this. It's a page of Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, already released last month.

Each page counts as one file. That's how they got to 33,295.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 2
Someone made a deliberate choice to not make these searchable PDFs.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 2
The House Oversight made each individual page its own TIF file, making it extremely hard to search through.

Look at this. It's a page of Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, already released last month.

Each page counts as one file. That's how they got to 33,295.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 2
Many of these Epstein files remain redacted.

So much for transparency.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Sep 2
So the House Oversight Committee just released 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents.

Nearly all of it was already public. The committee hasn't said what's new.

If I wanted to obscure new info about Epstein from the public while pretending to be transparent, this is exactly what I'd do.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Aug 21
the latest season of sesame street features elmo as a degen gambler who gradually comes to realize he's destroying the lives of the people who love him
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Aug 12
I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Aug 12
I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Jul 31
I joined @lauracoates.com's CNN show with the great Sarah Krissoff and @willsommer.bsky.social to talk about what's happening with the Trump administration and the Epstein files

It's an important case, and I hope we will all get to see these files soon.

www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Jul 29
Not only was there nothing related to intelligence in the Epstein files.

The Justice Department, when pursuing cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, didn't even think there was anything connected to intelligence. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy?
People who've seen the Epstein files say nothing in them backs up one of the biggest conspiracy theories about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
www.businessinsider.com
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Jul 29
The FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein's home in Manhattan and seized more than 70 computers, iPads, and hard drives.

They took boxes of shredded paper and financial documents. They sawed open a metal safe.

If Jeffrey Epstein had some kind of intelligence connection, you might expect a clue there.
Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy?
People who've seen the Epstein files say nothing in them backs up one of the biggest conspiracy theories about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
www.businessinsider.com
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Jul 29
The lack of anything related to intelligence agencies in the Epstein files raises more questions about why the Trump administration won't just release them.

If there's nothing sensitive there from a national security perspective, why all the secrecy?

www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy?
People who've seen the Epstein files say nothing in them backs up one of the biggest conspiracy theories about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
www.businessinsider.com
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · Jul 29
"Nothing supports the contention that there was either a honeypot blackmail scheme or any association with intelligence," one source told me.

Read the story here: www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy?
People who've seen the Epstein files say nothing in them backs up one of the biggest conspiracy theories about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
www.businessinsider.com
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