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DOJ files reveal FBI’s plan to probe if close friends David Copperfield and Jeffrey Epstein shared a ‘predilection for minors’ and swapped possible victims 

The FBI sought to investigate if close friends Jeffrey Epstein and David Copperfield referred underage women to each other, a document released as part of the Epstein files reveal.

But agents claimed ‘weak’ bureau brass were intimidated by Copperfield and his ‘financial resources’ were too much for them to handle and the probe was eventually called off for those and other reasons.

A Daily Mail deep dive into the DOJ’s files reveals how serious the investigation into Copperfield was – and how close he was to the pedophile. Their ties were so close, the FBI referred to the illusionist as his favorite ‘cohort.’

Now, Copperfield announced today he is quitting his long running residency at the MGM Grand. He did not give a reason although it comes as his name appears at least 438 times in the released  DOJ documents from the Epstein files.

His final performance at the MGM Grand will be on April 30. He remains slated to perform 120 shows over the next eight weeks, in some cases as many as three shows a night. 

The DOJ emails show that prosecutors identified ‘lots of acts’ and and needed to further investigate whether Copperfield and Epstein were ‘engaged in referring possible victims to each other’.

The documents indicate that Copperfield had a ‘very close relationship’ with Epstein and trained his staff to pull young women from the audience at his shows to bring them backstage, where he kept a notebook of those he had sex with.

But after concern from ‘higher ups’, as one law enforcement official put it, the investigation did not lead to charges.

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Catholic bishop, 69, accused of visiting mega-brothel 12 times in one month is dramatically arrested as he prepared to board flight to ROME

A disgraced Catholic bishop who was accused of visiting a notorious Mexican mega-brothel 12 times in one month was abruptly arrested on his way out of the country.

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta, 69, was detained at San Diego International Airport on Thursday after church members accused him of pocketing up to a million dollars from the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle.

According to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, Shaleta was charged with eight counts of embezzlement, eight counts of money laundering and one enhancement of ‘aggravated white collar crime.’

The Pillar previously reported that the bishop was expected to travel to Rome this week.

A church member originally contacted police with accusations against Shaleta in August 2025. 

The Vatican ordered an investigation alongside the Sheriff’s department after allegations of financial fraud and personal misconduct came to light.

Investigators alleged that Shaleta took at least $427,345 from parish accounts, issuing so-called reimbursement checks that he signed himself.

Shaleta was also allegedly seen frequenting a Gentleman’s Club in Tijuana that has been described as a brothel where women and girls have allegedly been trafficked and forced to work.

Shaleta turned in his resignation to the Vatican in January, but has vehemently denied any allegations of fraud. 

‘I have never in my priestly life or episcopal life abused any of the Church money,’ he said at a church service held on February 22, per the San Diego Union-Tribune. 

‘On the contrary, I have done my best to preserve and manage the donations of the Church properly.’ 

According to the investigation, Shaleta’s parish leased its social hall to an outside management firm for roughly $34,000 per month. 

Rent is normally paid by check by an outside company. 

However, records from November 2024 reportedly showed the payment coming from a separate parish bank account used to assist the poor.

When Shaleta was asked about this, he allegedly said he had told the company to give him the full amount so he could distribute it directly to families in need.

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Epstein Army: Jeffrey Epstein helped place 18-year-old woman in ‘elite IDF unit’

Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of Hillel International.

Jeffrey Epstein personally recruited an 18-year-old girl from New York to serve “in one of the elite IDF units,” email records show.

Epstein’s request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. In the message, the financier described the girl in question, “Tali,” as an 18-year-old who’d been accepted to Columbia University’s Barnard College and had “been to Israel more than a dozen times.”

His young female friend had spent a summer hiking the so-called Israel Trail and another “working as a counselor at a summer camp in Dimona Israel for children who are victims of terrorist attacks,” and would therefore “be a great asset to any unit,” Epstein wrote.

Tali, he said, would continue serving Israeli interests long after her placement in the Israeli army. Upon her return from military service in Israel, Epstein wrote that “she would be a fantastic ambassador for Israel” at what he called “one of the more important college campuses in the country, Columbia.”

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Whoopi Goldberg Defends Bill Clinton After He Testified He Had ‘No Idea’ About Epstein’s Crimes

ABC’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg wasted no time to defend former President Bill Clinton after he testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he had “no idea” about the crimes Jeffrey Epstein had committed despite his close ties to the deceased pedophile.

“You know, say what you want about the Clintons. Have any of the women or has anything in those emails pointed to them as being guilty or having anything to do other than knowing?” Goldberg said on Tuesday while her co-hosts highlighted myriad photos between Bill Clinton, Epstein, and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Goldberg doubled down, saying “But my question is, has he been accused by any of the accusers?”

“Has any of the women come out and said, ‘This is what Bill Clinton did’?” Goldberg continued. The Epstein files don’t include credible accusations from abused women against President Donald Trump, a point Whoopi Goldberg didn’t bother mentioning.

Bill Clinton was a guest on The View on June 5, 2025 along with author James Patterson, promoting their latest book.

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Pam Bondi Subpoenaed In Epstein Investigation By House Oversight Panel

House investigators are hauling in Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer for what lawmakers say is a troubling disappearance of documents tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 on Wednesday to subpoena Bondi for a deposition, escalating a fight with the Department of Justice over its handling of records from the sprawling Epstein investigation. Lawmakers say the DOJ may have pulled tens of thousands of pages from public view despite a federal law requiring the material to be released.

The move was spearheaded by Rep. Nancy Mace, who blasted the Justice Department earlier in the day and accused officials of misleading the public about what has actually been disclosed. [Though we would point out that Mace herself vowed to reveal her tits, only to redact them with grainy footage.]

“AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,” Mace wrote on X, calling the saga “one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.”

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Bill Pervs Out Over Epstein Memories, Hillary Goes Berserk, And They Both Lied: Top Viral Moments From Clinton Depositions

The House Oversight Committee dropped more than nine hours of raw video from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closed-door Epstein depositions on Monday, where the pair were questioned over their longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Here are a few of the most memorable moments: 

1. Bill Clinton Smirks While Flipping Through Epstein Photos; The #1 clip on the entire internet: Bill casually thumbs through old pictures with Jeffrey Epstein, nodding and smiling – until his lawyer lunges in and yanks them away.

2. Bill Explains the Hot Tub Photo from the Epstein Files; Lawmakers press Clinton on a specific photo of him in a hot tub with Epstein associates. His awkward answers and body language have everyone talking.

3. Bill Says He Felt “Closer” to Ghislaine Maxwell Than Epstein Because She Was ‘good friends with Evelyn Rothschild and his wife, Lynn.’ 

4. Hillary’s Full “I’m Done” Table-Pounding Meltdown; After learning Rep. Lauren Boebert leaked a photo of her testimony, Hillary explodes, pounds the table, screams “I’m done with this!” and storms out threatening contempt.

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US lawmaker accuses Trump of trying to bury Epstein with Iran

A Republican lawmaker has accused US President Donald Trump of attempting to distract the public from the Epstein scandal by embroiling the country in a conflict with Iran.

Representative Thomas Massie’s comments come after the release of millions of pages of files on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by the US Justice Department (DOJ). The documents mention Trump over 5,000 times, though without any indication of criminal activity.

“Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away,” Massie said on X on Sunday.

In other posts, the congressman described the US-Israeli attacks on Iran as “acts of war unauthorized by Congress” and expressed opposition to the conflict. “This is not ‘America First.’”

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Bill Clinton Asked About Salacious Hot Tub Photo During Epstein Deposition

The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Epstein depositions.

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify before the Oversight Committee after Chairman James Comer moved forward with holding them in criminal contempt of Congress.

During the deposition in Chappaqua, New York, last week, Clinton was asked about the salacious photo of him in a hot tub with an alleged Epstein trafficking victim.

The Justice Department in December released a new batch of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking cases.

The trove of documents was released after a federal judge in New York recently ordered the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents related to a 2019 sex trafficking case.

President Trump recently signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

The new trove of documents included never-before-seen photos of Bill Clinton in a hot tub, swimming with a mystery woman.

The individual’s face was redacted which means she is either a sex-trafficking victim and or a minor.

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Epstein deposition videos show Bill Clinton shaking and furious Hillary pounding the table to storm off: ‘I’m done with this’

Dramatic new footage of the Clinton depositions released by the powerful House Oversight Committee shows how a frustrated Hillary Clinton nearly stormed out after firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert snapped an unsanctioned photo of her. 

The former secretary of state got into epic shouting matches with MAGA firebrands during her sworn testimony last week, while her husband, whose hands were shaking throughout his deposition, finally gave answers to longstanding questions about his ties to late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

“I am done with this if you guys are doing this, I’m done,” a shocked and furious-looking Hillary raged after one of her attorneys raised concerns about a photo of her that appeared online.

“You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home,” she fumed. “This is just typical behavior.”

Boebert (R-Colo.) copped to taking a photo of Hillary, but claimed to have done so before the hearing kicked off. Hillary vented that “it doesn’t matter, we all are abiding by the same rules.” 

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Shocking new Epstein photo shows top doctor giving woman STITCHES on predator’s dining room table… as acclaimed female cancer expert is engulfed by scandal

A newly uncovered photo from the Epstein files revealed a shocking home surgery appearing to show a woman getting stitches on his dining room table, as the disgraced financier’s ties to the medical industry are exposed. 

Millions of documents tied to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, released by the Department of Justice, are beginning to show how entrenched the famed figure was in high society. 

Epstein was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges before he died by suicide in prison, but evidence of his abuse dates back decades. 

Information on his large-scale scheme has slowly come to light since the DOJ released millions of files related to the disgraced financier, including several loyal medical specialists who allegedly brushed his wrongdoings under the rug.

Emails released by the DOJ and first reported by the New York Times revealed that Dr Eva Dubin, former Miss Sweden and founder of the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City had frequent correspondence with Epstein.

In one particularly shocking exchange, Epstein told Dubin that he was flying to New York with a Russian female student, whose name was redacted in the files, after she fell off an ATV on his private island in the US Virgin Islands. 

In an email to Dubin dated October 6, 2012, Epstein wrote: ‘I am flying to ny will land at 630… [redacted] fell off the ATV and needs stitches in her forehead and an x-ray to ensure no concussion… can you organize thanks will call later or try my cell.’ 

Dubin responded that top plastic surgeon Jess Ting was ‘standing by’ and told Epstein to call her when they landed so she could go with them. 

The next day, Epstein sent another email to his assistant, instructing her to purchase large first-aid kits and asking for a defibrillator. 

‘[Redacted] had a bad accident on the island. dr ting put 35 stitches in her head, laid out on the dining room table,’ the email continued. 

A photo in the files showed a woman lying down, apparently undergoing a medical procedure. Her face was blocked by towels, and the faces of the three other individuals in the picture were redacted. 

A person in a checkered shirt who looked like a man was seen sitting near the woman while two other women stood over them, and one held a lamp over the alleged procedure. 

The New York Times also found several other emails included in the files between Dr Ting and Epstein. 

One of the emails revealed correspondence about Ting’s family taking a trip to Epstein’s island. Another email, months later, revealed that Epstein agreed to donate $50,000 to breast cancer research. 

Ting denied any wrongdoing and said he was not in the photo of the alleged home procedure. He added that he never witnessed any criminal activity from Epstein. 

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