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🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing. |
0:07.9 | Saturday's arrest of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein at Teterboro Airport got me thinking |
0:14.1 | again about journalist Julie Brown. |
0:16.7 | I was stunned. |
0:17.7 | I'm still I think in shock. |
0:19.9 | When news outlets say that the arrest might never have happened, if it weren't for the |
0:24.2 | work of the Miami Herald, its Browns work they're talking about. |
0:29.0 | In three explosive articles, Julie Brown tracked how in 2008 the US Justice Department shut |
0:36.4 | down an FBI investigation that may have been on the verge of discovering the full extent |
0:42.8 | of a child sex trafficking operation run by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. |
0:48.8 | That's after giving him a sweetheart plea deal on the crimes that had been uncovered. |
0:54.4 | The US attorney in charge of the case was none other than Alex Acosta, now the United |
1:00.0 | States Secretary of Labor under Donald Trump. |
1:03.3 | A couple of months ago, Julie and I sat down in front of a live audience at WNYC's Green |
1:09.0 | Space to talk about her Epstein reporting and what drove her to pursue history. |
1:17.8 | Thank you so much for coming. |
1:21.5 | You first started reporting on this case when? |
1:25.6 | A year and a half ago, but I knew about the case for a long time. |
1:29.1 | And you got involved in the case? |
1:31.3 | Why? |
1:32.3 | Because I was I did a lot of human rights reporting for the Miami Herald. |
1:36.2 | I covered the prisons and I knew that Florida was one of the states that had a huge sex |
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