Gang stuff with Leslie Wexner
The office of Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-Cleveland) told The Rooster that she had bigger fish to fry than grilling billionaire Leslie Wexner under oath in her home state.
Hours before he got deposed at his New Albany manse, which numerous Epstein survivors allege served as their prison, Central Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner released a three-page statement claiming to be “happy” to be testifying under oath.
It’s curious, then, that Wexner dodged repeated subpoena service in the United States Virgin Islands during an investigation into the money laundering that underwrote Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex trafficking operation.
Or how he spent three months dodging subpoena service in the Dr. Richard Strauss class-action lawsuit against Ohio State, until a beautiful federal judge named Michael Watson ended the charade two weeks ago.
According to House Democrats in attendance, Wexner admitted to giving Epstein over $1 billion, visiting the infamous St. James Island… and then claiming that he was just another victim of a decades-long con.
From Katie Millard of NBC4:
“He’s lucid. I think he’s certainly capable of answering these questions. There’s no deterioration in his mental faculties,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Massachusetts) said. “He’s a competent witness. He’s just not telling the truth.”
According to a person familiar with the questioning, Wexner testified he never considered Epstein a close friend, only visited Epstein’s properties once and was unaware of Trump having any sexual relationships with people introduced by Epstein.
Wexner peddling the notion that he never considered Epstein a close friend should be considered perjury. Here’s a case from 2002, when a painter sued the Wexners over not paying what they owed, in which Wexner’s lawyers cited Mr. Epstein as not only a close friend of Leslie but also his wife, Abigail.
There’s also that email from June 2008—days before Epstein was set to go to prison on a sweetheart sentence that would spark 15 more years of sexual abuse—that Wexner sent, from his corporate acccount, telling Epstein he was “sorry” but he only had himself to blame for violating his “No. 1 rule” to “be careful… always.”
Congressmen Mike Turner (R-Dayton) and Jim Jordan (R-Urbana), the two Oversight Committee Republicans from Ohio, skipped the deposition.
That’s to be expected, considering they’re both moral cowards willing to spend their golden years covering for a demented game-show host who was convicted of rape even before appearing in the Epstein Files over 5,000 times.
It’s par for the course for them.
Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-Cleveland) also sits on the Oversight Committee. She, too, skipped the deposition.
When I obtained her number and texted her, asking her to shed light on the decision, her Communications Director informed me that she had bigger fish to fry on Wednesday.
He did not respond to one final question seeking information about what, exactly, was more important to Congresswoman Brown than grilling Epstein’s No. 1 soldier in her home state.
Meanwhile, multiple Capitol Hill sources confirmed to The Rooster, that Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) wanted to attend the press conference.
She was, in no uncertain terms, told to kick rocks, given that she had done nothing to aid the mission until last Friday night, when she posted on Instagram about donating Wexner’s cash to charity—but not the cash from the woman who had stayed faithfully married to Wexner for decades.
So, instead, we got a bunch of coastoids banging the drum in Wexner’s backyard while zero (0) Ohio Democrats stood behind them.
I can only theorize that it shows why Wexner chose to live in Ohio instead of Los Angeles, Chicago or New York City.
There’s no way he could have gotten away with these shenanigans in a proper big city over the course of decades.
Ohio State is hosting a longtime Epstein associate, with multiple credible accusations of sexual assault, to lecture students about intellectual diversity
“Intellectual diversity” is all the rage at Ohio State these days, given that university administrators see massaging the balls of the angry grandfathers in the State Legislature as their money-maker.
Thursday night, Ohio State will host Michael Shermer, whom they bill as a “science historian” and “Skeptic” magazine founder.
That byline misses some key points in Shemer’s recent history.
Here’s a 2017 profile about Shermer’s sexual misconduct in Undark.
Here’s a 2018 profile about Shermer’s sexual misconduct in The Washington Post.
Here’s the liberal bastion of Illinois Wesleyan canceling Shemer’s appearance in 2018.
Shermer, by his own admission, carried on a long friendship with Epstein—after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution with a 14-year-old, which was the understatement of the century.
Shermer has since billed himself much like Wexner, in that he was the victim of a decade-long con and not a fellow sex pest despite documented evidence to the contrary.
Is this a voice that Ohio State needs, at this moment in time, preaching intellectual diversity while sponsored by the department that just saw a professor assault a cameraman last week?
Apparently, Ohio State’s conservative leaders think so!
