đŸ”” Read Epstein Files

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Citizen Frank
February 28, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, February 27.

 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Thursday packet with a flight log and contact information from Jeffery Epstein, a deceased convicted sex offender, and his circle of friends.

“The first phase of files released today sheds light on Epstein’s extensive network and begins to provide the public with long overdue accountability,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement.

Information contained inside 341 pages was posted to the DOJ website for public review. Two hundred and thirty-six pages consisted of flight logs, 95 pages included redacted contact information, 7 pages featured a masseuse list and three pages were listed as evidence.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind earlier instructions telling federal agencies to “promptly determine whether these employees should be retained at the agency.”

The directions, communicated in a Jan. 20 memo and Feb. 14 internal email, are “illegal” and “should be stopped, rescinded,” Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California said from the bench.

The ruling does not reinstate dismissed employees.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Friday, reportedly to sign a formal agreement on the joint extraction of his nation’s mineral resources, but the final terms of the agreement were up in the air as of Friday morning and it remains unclear whether he will secure an agreement with the White House at all.

The reported agreement stemmed from President Donald Trump’s repeated demands that Ukraine repay the American investment in its defense against the ongoing Russian invasion. That demand prompted outrage from Kyiv and led to a cycle of reported deals and retractions that further strained relations between both countries.

His arrival comes as Russia makes gains on the battlefield across the front and Washington pursues a rapprochement with the Kremlin that could see the major powers sideline Ukraine while they pursue other ventures.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s visit to the White House on Thursday provided a first look at how the United States’s “special relationship” with the United Kingdom will fare during President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Trump’s endeavors to end the war in Ukraine loomed large over the day, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky set to visit Friday and sign a new economic partnership with the president in the hope of gaining U.S. security guarantees against Russia.

Starmer’s trip followed a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, with both leaders pressing Trump to serve as a “backstop” to a European peacekeeping mission in Ukraine should the war come to a close.

Mexico on Thursday extradited 29 cartel members, including a drug lord wanted for the 1985 murder of a U.S. agent, to the United States.

Those taken into U.S. custody from Mexico are convicts or others who have been accused of ties to violent drug cartels.

The individuals are facing charges relating to racketeering, drug trafficking, murder, illegal use of firearms, money laundering, and other crimes in the United States, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

A city hall building, the mayor’s house and some residences of current and former council members in Huntington Park, California, were raided on Wednesday in a major corruption probe of a $14 million project, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman.

The investigation, named “Operation Dirty Pond,” has been focusing on the “potential misuse of millions of dollars in public funds allocated for the construction of an aquatic center” since November 2022, the DA’s Office said.

The Huntington Park Regional Aquatic Center, which was deemed “critical” on the city website, was expected to become a two-story building with an Olympic-size pool, gym, football field, conference rooms and more. However, residents never saw any results, according to the city’s vice mayor.

Gangs of illegal immigrant thieves stole Nike sneakers collectively worth over $2 million in months-long freight train heists across California and Arizona, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

The thieves sabotaged and robbed the freight trains at least 10 times from March 2024 to Jan. 13, 2025, stealing the pricey sneakers in nine of the 10 incidents, despite the arrest of a ringleader, according to the outlet.

The thieves allegedly cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train in Perrin, Arizona, Jan. 13, forcing the railcars to an emergency stop, and carted away 1,985 pairs of Nikes worth more than $440,000, the outlet reported, citing a federal criminal complaint. Law enforcement tracked down and arrested eleven people, and accused them of the crime. Nine of them reportedly were Mexican nationals illegally present in the U.S. Five of the 11 reportedly pleaded not guilty while the remaining six have not yet entered pleas.

Meta Thursday said it had laid off 20 workers for leaking information to the media, as the social media giant faces pressure over the recent political shift of its boss Mark Zuckerberg towards US President Donald Trump.

“We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” a Meta spokesperson said, confirming a story first reported in The Verge.

“We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees being terminated for sharing confidential information outside the company, and we expect there will be more,” the company added.

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