2 powerful lawyers reportedly planned to use videos of Epstein associates to rake in millions — but it appears they were duped

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• In August, a mysterious man using the pseudonym Patrick Kessler met with top lawyers David Boies and John Pottinger and told them he had access to a vast archive of the late Jeffrey Epstein's files.
• Kessler said the archive included the vast amount of personal-security footage that Epstein filmed inside his various properties, and that it included incriminating shots of the financier's famous associates.
• With the lure of grainy photographs that Kessler claimed showed men like Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel, and Alan Dershowitz, Boies' legal nemesis, having sex with the women Epstein coerced and trafficked, the supposed whistleblower convinced the two lawyers he was worth their time.
• Over months of encrypted correspondence and back-and-forth between interested parties, including The New York Times, Kessler's promises led to a failed plot for Boies and Pottinger to generate millions.
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A mysterious man told two of the country's most powerful lawyers that he could give them access to the late Jeffrey Epstein's data, including incriminating evidence of the financier's famous associates with the women – many of whom were underage – that Epstein was accused of coercing and trafficking.

Under the pseudonym Patrick Kessler, the man was successful in leading the two lawyers, David Boies and John Pottinger, along for months. He even got The New York Times involved.

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