The Post-Partisan Emporium

  New Bombshells Filed in Court in the Jeffrey Epstein/JPMorgan Child Sex Trafficking Case By  Pam Martens and Russ Martens :  Jeffrey Epstein (left); Jamie Dimon (right). Jamie Dimon, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is desperately attempting to redirect the media’s focus to  anything  other than two federal lawsuits that name his bank as a knowing facilitator and cash conduit for Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring. One lawsuit has been filed by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands where Epstein owned an island-compound and air-lifted young girls in and out. The other lawsuit has been filed by an alleged underage victim of Epstein’s, Jane Doe 1. Dimon’s high-powered p.r. machine has been churning out headlines on his role as “rescuer” of the teetering bank, First Republic, (never mind that there are  few signs that the bank has actually been rescued ). And one would think that Dimon has written a new Magna Carta for all the press atte...

  Jamie Dimon’s Climate Corporatism The J.P. Morgan CEO wants the government to seize land for wind and solar projects because rural landowners stand between his mega-bank and tens of billions of dollars in business. Illustration by Mary Bryce Deep Throat never said, “follow the money.” That phrase, which has become one of the most famous axioms in politics and journalism, was featured in the 1976 movie “All the President’s Men,” which  starred Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. But that phrase  was not in the 1974 book of the same title  by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that recounted their investigation into the Watergate debacle.  1   Instead, it appears the phrase was first used by an attorney named  Henry Petersen who testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1974 . It then made it into the movie screenplay which was written by Woodward and William Goldman. Today, the phrase is part of our political vernacular. It has been used as the...