In a case that has stretched over several years, a federal judge has seemingly put a nail in the coffin of a major report, the release of which President Donald Trump has consistently opposed.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has served the Southern District of Florida since 2020, permanently barred the Department of Justice from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report regarding Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Politico reported.

‘Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing Volume II using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process.’

Trump’s motion to bar the release of the special counsel’s report — which Cannon previously determined Smith and his office had unlawfully prepared during the Biden administration — was granted in full on Monday.

“The Court has reviewed the Motions and the full record pertinent to the Motions, including the United States’ position that ‘Volume II should not be released outside of the Department of Justice’ due to the unlawful appointment of Special Counsel Smith and Attorney General Bondi’s deliberative-process determination. Fully advised in the premises, Trump’s Unopposed Motion is GRANTED,” the Trump appointee wrote in the ruling.

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Cannon’s ruling on the “complex” case, which she said “generated close to 800 docket entries since the filing of the initial indictment in June 2023,” will ostensibly put to rest the impending release of Volume II of Smith’s report.

Following the order, the current Department of Justice and its successors are “enjoined from (a) releasing, sharing, or transmitting Volume II of the Final Report or any drafts of Volume II outside the Department of Justice, or (b) otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof.”

However, a second motion filed by two co-defendants alongside Trump was rejected in part. This separate motion requested that Volume II be destroyed, but this request was denied.

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Among the many guests at President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address of his second term will be the widow of Charlie Kirk, according to the Daily Wire.

Erika Kirk took the reins of her husband’s company, Turning Point USA, after his assassination in Utah and has become a leading voice in the pro-Trump movement.

‘She has risen to the occasion with grace, dignity, and a lot of hard work.’

“President Trump has been a source of strength for Erika, constantly checking in with her over the last five months, and Erika is incredibly honored to be invited by the president to attend tonight’s State of the Union,” said TPUSA spokesman Matt Shupe to the Daily Wire.

“Erika has been thrust into an enormously important role by fate and tragedy and because Charlie chose her should the horrible moment ever come, and she has risen to the occasion with grace, dignity, and a lot of hard work.”

Kirk surprised many at her husband’s memorial in September by publicly forgiving the man accused of the killing.

“That young man, that young man,” she said. “On the Cross, Our Savior said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ That man, that young man, I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do.”

She added, “The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, we know, from the gospel is love and always love.”

BlazeTV will provide full coverage of the State of the Union address beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET Tuesday with analysis and commentary from hosts Allie Beth Stuckey, Stu Burguiere, Steve Deace, and others.

RELATED: Tim Allen had a powerful reaction to Erika Kirk forgiving the alleged assassin of her husband

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, is facing numerous charges, including murder, after his family reportedly persuaded him to turn himself in to law enforcement. Many suspect that his relationship with a trans-identifying man was part of the alleged motivation for the political violence.

Mrs. Kirk’s elevation to lead TPUSA has also led to some unhinged conspiracy theories accusing her of participating in an operation to kill her husband.

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One might look at a map of the Pacific and see not nations or cultures, but single points of failure. A current focus of the United States is Taiwan, a humid, densely populated island that holds the world’s advanced chip capacity in a terrified embrace. The new conversation, the one taking place in strategy memos and industrial planning committees, seeks a failover, a backup system, cooler and less contested. The location is Hokkaido.

The Japan External Trade Organization does not suggest that this Northern Japanese island would entirely replace the sweltering, sleepless efficiency of Hsinchu Science Park. The ecosystem in Taiwan is too sticky, too deeply rooted in decades of institutional memory to be simply lifted and dropped elsewhere. Instead, Hokkaido would be a geopolitical insurance policy, a second, colder, resource-abundant location where a new chip cluster could be built, far from the Taiwan Strait, in a place where the water is plentiful and the missiles are more friendly.

Technology can transform a place from a frontier of agrarian settlement to a node in a global machine.

The analogy between the two islands is tempting, but it highlights difficulty as well as opportunity. Taiwan’s dominance was not an accident of geography; its capacity was built over decades, a deliberate accretion of state-backed R&D institutes and land policy that treated universities and public infrastructure as tools of industrialization. For Hokkaido to become the “new Taiwan,” this density, the sheer weight of human skill and accumulated knowledge, would need to be duplicated. The timeline to do so might be longer than desired.

The centerpiece of this ambition is a company called Rapidus and a site in the Chitose area known as IIM-1. The timeline is aggressive: a pilot line begun in 2025, mass production by 2027. The goal is the 2nm-class chip, utilizing gate-all-around structures, a technology at the threshold of modern capability. Rapidus has already installed an EUV lithography tool, a machine that uses 13.5 nanometer wavelength light to print patterns so fine they exist at the edge of visibility.

RELATED: America’s technological horizon

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An EUV scanner is not just a machine. It is a geopolitical asset, intertwined with export controls, national anxieties, and the supply chains that have become a source of concern. The machine sits in Hokkaido, but the sociotechnical world required to run it has yet to be assembled. Advanced manufacturing depends on highly situated know-how, the yield learning and micro-decisions of production that do not travel well. One recalls the friction of bringing the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to Arizona, where the transplant of a workplace culture proved harder than the pouring of concrete.

However, Hokkaido does offer something Arizona cannot: water. A region holds a portfolio of critical features: water security, renewable energy, risk distribution. Taiwan has been plagued by droughts that force chipmakers to truck in water, a reminder that the most advanced technologies still rely on the Earth. Hokkaido, by contrast, touts its snowmelt and its wind. Rapidus explicitly lists abundant water and the attractiveness for living as key reasons for its location.

The strategy bleeds into something like lifestyle marketing. The “Hokkaido Valley” is being sold not only as an excellent location for factories, but as a cure for the density of metropolitan life. The location attempts to solve two problems at once: the fragility of the global chip supply and the demographic collapse of rural Japan. The country’s development plans have long been concerned with population decline and the survival of communities. The semiconductor strategy offers a new answer: import the engineers, promise them nature, and call it compute sovereignty.

The project is not without risks. Tacit yield knowledge cannot be moved like a warehouse. An attempt to compress Taiwan’s 40 years of industrial layering into a single decade in Chitose is a gamble. Yet there is already motion toward the new location. By early 2026, reports surfaced of TSMC planning 3nm production in Japan, alongside Rapidus’ 2nm targets. The vision is of a multisite future, a diversification of risk across a map that feels increasingly unsafe.

The redesign of Hokkaido as an interface between global networks and local survival is instructive. The government of Japan is now planning for a future in which semiconductor-related total sales are a metric of national health. Technology can transform a place from a frontier of agrarian settlement to a node in a global machine, where the water and the wind and the cold are no longer just weather, but assets in a calculation of security. The chips, if they come, will be small. The rearrangement of the world required to make them is very large.

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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom did his best to relate to an Atlanta, Georgia, audience at a recent book tour stop — but he may have insulted the audience instead.

“I’m not trying to impress you,” Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens at the event. “I’m just trying to impress upon you: I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy.”

“And you know, and I’m not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940. Literally a 960 SAT guy,” Newsom said.

“You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in,” he added.

“Dig that hole!” says Keith Malinak, executive producer of “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“So he just called all these blacks stupid,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments, shocked.

“‘I’m just stupid like you are,’” Gray mocks. “‘I’m assuming that every one of you got a 960 on your SAT or less.’”

“‘And you can’t read. Just like me,’” BlazeTV contributor Jeff Fisher chimes in.

“Will this stick?” asks Keith. “We may not know for a while if it sticks or not. We may have to wait until the Democrat primary to see if maybe a black candidate comes out and drops this reminder on everybody.”

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A probationary wildlife biologist for Yosemite National Park who identifies as “non-binary” covered the side of El Capitan with a gargantuan trans-activist flag last year to protest the Trump administration’s reality-affirming policies regarding gender.

Shannon Joslin, a female resident of El Portal, California, found out the hard way that actions have consequences — and was fired.

‘Demonstrating without a permit outside of designated First Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience.’

The LGBT activist filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, demanding her job back and claiming that the Department of the Interior violated her First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

The protest

Joslin and several other climbers rigged a 55’x35′ trans activist flag roughly one-third of the way up El Capitan on May 20, 2025, where it flapped for hours.

According to her complaint, Joslin came up with the idea to rig a flag on El Capitan as a “statement in support of trans people,” then worked over the course of multiple weeks with other activists to “stake out the technical logistics of fixing a sizable flag to the rock face.”

In the corresponding press release where she boasted about the protest, Joslin indicated that those responsible were “social workers, public servants, parents, and neighbors.”

She told Climbing.com, “Calling congressmen and writing representatives feels like yelling into the void. We have this f**king microphone that is El Cap.”

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Wyn Riley, a drag queen who goes by “Pattie Gonia,” was among the supporters of the protest. In a May 22, 2025, propaganda video featuring several clips of Joslin securing the flag, Riley said, “The Trump administration and transphobes would love to have you believe that being trans is unnatural.”

“Call it a protest; call it a celebration,” continued Riley. “We are bringing elevation to liberation.”

The complaint alleges that Joslin was off-duty “at all times during the preparation for and placement and display of the trans pride flag.”

The fallout

Documents show that Joslin received a notice of termination in late July indicating that she was out of a job effective Aug. 12, 2025.

The letter provided a reminder that the purpose of the two-year trial period that started for Joslin on Sept. 10, 2023, is to “determine whether newly appointed Federal employees are suitable for successful service in the areas of conduct and performance.”

“During your trial period, you have failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct,” continued the letter. “Specifically, on or about May 20, 2025, you participated in a small group demonstration in an area outside the designated protest and demonstration area without permit as required by 36 CFR 2.51 and thus circumvented rules applicable to all park visitors.”

Neither the Department of the Interior nor the National Park Service would comment on the specifics of the relevant personnel actions.

However, they both shared a statement with Blaze News noting, “We take the protection of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously and will not tolerate violations of laws and regulations that impact those resources and experiences.”

“Yosemite National Park was designated by Congress to highlight the beautiful natural and cultural features of the area,” continued the statement. “No matter the cause, demonstrating without a permit outside of designated First Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park. To safeguard the protection of visitors, visitor experiences, and park resources, many demonstrations require a permit.”

The lawsuit

Joslin’s lawsuit, in which she is referred to with plural pronouns, complains about Trump’s rebuff of gender ideology and reality-affirming policies; claims that Joslin has faced “medical, financial, personal, and professional harm” as the result of her termination; and alleges that the decision to fire her violated the “First Amendment by selectively targeting for retaliation specific forms of expression based on content and viewpoint.”

The lawsuit — which lists the NPS, the Interior Department, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Attorney General Pam Bondi as defendants — also alleges that the National Park Service used a press release regarding the stunt from Joslin’s protest group against her, suggesting that doing so was a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.

The “non-binary” activist not only wants her old job back but damages and a declaratory judgment that “Defendants’ collection and use of information about Dr. Joslin’s protected First Amendment activity was unlawful.”

Joanna Citron Day, one of Joslin’s attorneys, said in a release, “If Dr. Joslin had hung a flag the administration liked, they would be working at Yosemite today.”

Regardless of the colors, Yosemite National Park maintains its prohibition for “any person or group to hang or otherwise affix to any natural or cultural feature, or display so as to cover any natural or cultural feature, any banner, flag, or sign larger than fifteen square feet (e.g., 5 feet x 3 feet).”

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Two weeks ago in tiny Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, an 18-year-old man allegedly killed his mother and half-brother. He then opened fire at his former secondary school, murdering five students — some as young as 12 — and one teacher, wounding dozens more, before taking his own life.

It was one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings ever — and its worst school shooting since the 1989 massacre at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

The RCMP-issued public alert warned of a ‘female in a dress with brown hair.’

It was also Canada’s first incident of a grim trend plaguing its neighbor to the south: homicidal rampages by clearly mentally ill, transgender-identified perpetrators.

‘Female’ at large

Why does it matter that alleged shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar considered himself “trans”?

Even if you’re not convinced that the desire to change or ignore biological sex is in itself a sign of psychological disturbance or that the drugs, hormones, and surgeries used to “transition” people don’t exacerbate or even trigger mental illness, it seems clear that Van Rootselaar’s “trans” identity affected how police responded to the shooting.

Van Rootselaar was “transitioning” from male to female, and that’s precisely how he appeared: like a young man trying to look like a young woman. Yet while he was still at large, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Tumbler Ridge seemingly put woke politics and Canada’s obsession with “misgendering” ahead of public safety.

The RCMP-issued public alert warned of a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

British Columbia RCMP commanding officer Dwayne McDonald reinforced this narrative at the first news conference, announcing that the suspect was “an 18-year-old female.” It was only after prodding from a reporter that he admitted that Van Rootselaar was a biological male.

We’ve sadly come to expect this kind of obsfucation from the media — Canada’s state broadcaster refers to Van Rootselaar as “she” without qualification — but such deception from the police poses even greater risks.

Could the ideologically motivated refusal to identify Van Rootselaar accurately have led to even more deaths? It’s certainly possible.

Mental health concerns

Moreover, gender ideology may have hampered the police’s ability to prevent this tragedy.

McDonald confirmed that Van Rootselaar had previously been apprehended under British Columbia’s Mental Health Act on multiple occasions and had been hospitalized “in some circumstances.”

Under the Mental Health Act, individuals who pose a risk to themselves or others can be involuntarily detained and treated, with no fixed limit on the duration so long as medical certifications are renewed. Mental health officials have acknowledged that repeated cycles of admission and discharge — without a durable treatment plan — are not uncommon.

It is fair to ask whether institutional caution — including heightened sensitivity around gender identity issues — contributed to a reluctance to take firmer, longer-term measures when warning signs were evident.

RELATED: Media calls it ‘mental health,’ Rick Burgess calls it demonic: Unpacking the Tumbler Ridge shooting and the transgender agenda

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Armed and dangerous

Then there are the multiple firearms recovered at the school, along with additional weapons at the suspect’s residence. Police have not yet provided detailed clarification about how the firearms were obtained or whether they were legally registered.

Canada has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the developed world. In recent years, the federal government has expanded prohibitions and launched new confiscation initiatives largely affecting rural gun owners and farmers. Those measures have been defended as necessary for public safety.

Yet this case raises an unavoidable question: How did an 18-year-old with documented mental health concerns gain access to multiple firearms?

If Canada’s regulatory regime is as robust as its advocates claim, the breakdown here demands explanation. Was this a licensing failure? A background-check gap? A failure to flag mental health risk? Or unlawful access that went undetected?

And to what extent were any of these failures enabled by the RCMP’s established practice of putting the Liberal government and its pet causes ahead of the public good?

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A former teacher’s aide in Wisconsin has been sentenced to more than half a century in prison after her conviction of committing child sex crimes against four boys, according to authorities.

The Kenosha County District Attorney announced last week that Judge David Hughes sentenced 34-year-old Anna Marie Crocker to 51.5 years in prison and 32 years of extended supervision. Crocker — a mother of four — will not be eligible for release until she is approximately 85 years old.

‘Her betrayal of trust, victim-blaming, and efforts to intimidate the victims only deepened the harm.’

In December, Crocker pleaded guilty to first-degree child sexual assault, child sexual exploitation (filming), second-degree sexual assault of a child, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, intimidation of a victim, and child enticement-sexual contact, according to WITI-TV.

Before being sentenced, Crocker claimed to have taken “full responsibility for what has taken place,” WISN-TV reported.

“I am disturbed by the harm and distress, along with the trauma that you have to endure,” Crocker continued. “I am deeply sorry that this has caused confusion, pain, and anger, and that you have to live with this the rest of your lives.”

WISN reported that Judge Hughes said during sentencing, “She sought out children, she used children, and she took advantage of children.”

Kenosha County Deputy District Attorney Rosa Delgado prosecuted the case and proclaimed, “Justice was served today for the four children this defendant groomed and sexually abused.”

Delgado also declared, “Her betrayal of trust, victim-blaming, and efforts to intimidate the victims only deepened the harm.”

Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis said in a statement, “This case represents a profound breach of trust.”

Solis added, “When an adult connected to our schools exploits our children, the harm is severe and lasting.”

As Blaze News reported in October 2024, officers with the Sensitive Crime Unit of the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department began an investigation into Crocker after she was suspected of sexual misconduct involving a “current and former student of the school.”

At the time, Crocker had been a teaching assistant at Riverview Elementary School.

According to a criminal complaint, Crocker sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy in the winter of 2023-2024.

The victim told investigators that Crocker removed his pants and was on top of him and noted that she was “naked.”

“She then began making him do things that she wanted,” the complaint read.

According to the complaint, the victim repeatedly told Crocker “to get off of him, but she would not listen,” and that he “also tried to push her off.”

The criminal complaint stated that the victim told investigators that he was “scared and traumatized.”

The complaint noted that the victim said Crocker told him to apologize for the sexual abuse and that she was trying to “make him feel guilty.”

RELATED: Judge drops hammer on former teacher who sexually assaulted 2 students and was impregnated by one of them

A detective with the Twin Lakes Police Department interviewed a 13-year-old boy who “reported to a school staff member that he received inappropriate material and messages” from Crocker, the complaint stated.

The victim told police that he had received sexually explicit videos from Crocker, according to court documents.

Court docs said the second victim was “scared” about interacting with the educational assistant because the first victim, who is his friend, told him that Crocker raped him.

A 14-year-old male victim told police that he had been “exchanging sexual chats and pictures via Snapchat with the defendant,” according to the criminal complaint.

The court documents said the victim told investigators that Crocker “sexually assaulted him in a parking lot in Racine County in August of 2024.”

Detectives searched Crocker’s Snapchat and discovered a conversation between her and a 16-year-old that the former school staffer made sexual, according to the complaint.

Court docs noted that the boy’s younger brother is “friends with the defendant’s son,” and Crocker told the victim not to tell his younger brother “about them having sex, if it were to happen.”

The teen said Crocker “sent him pictures in which sex was ‘inferred,'” according to court records.

The court docs said the victim told police that Crocker “wanted to have sex with him at her residence and that they agreed upon a day, but that he never went through with it.”

The criminal complaint said Crocker invited the boy to her home on Oct. 11, 2024, even though the underage victim divulged his age.

WITI reported that Crocker was taken into custody on Oct. 11, 2024.

According to WISN, the school board terminated Crocker on Oct. 14, 2024.

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Core, an invitation-only private club in Manhattan where membership fees reportedly range from $15,000 to $100,000 a year, has counted among its approximately 1,500 members Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.

Dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was also a longtime patron of the club as well as a founding member.

Jennie and Dangene Enterprise — the lesbian couple who run the club — are both under intense scrutiny over their friendship with the child sex offender in light of new insights from the Epstein files.

Jennie Enterprise, however, might be in especially hot water over the apparently irreconcilable sworn statements that she allegedly provided about her club’s finances in two separate cases regarding COVID fraud and rent delinquency.

Competing claims

The club entered a 20-year lease with 711 Fifth Ave Principal Owner LLC in 2021 and took over four floors of the building in 2023.

In the years since, the Enterprises have been engaged in a bitter legal battle with property developer Michael Shvo. For instance, the Core Club reportedly sued Shvo in 2024 for $600 million, alleging that he failed to deliver promised upgrades to the 711 Fifth Ave. property and other locations. Shvo, in turn, accused the Core Club of defaulting on its lease at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.

Last year, the landlord served the Core Club with a termination notice, alleging that it had “defaulted on its obligation to pay the Base Rent and/or Additional Rent under the Lease in the amount of $3,633,787.13 by Aug. 1” as purportedly required under the lease.

RELATED: Ex-Victoria’s Secret owner now claiming Epstein ‘conned’ him once suggested he was demonically possessed

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The Core Club, in response, sought what is called a Yellowstone injunction barring the landlord from terminating the lease and evicting the club.

A judge with New York County’s Commercial Division court obliged the Enterprises in September, finding that their club had “established ‘it is prepared and maintains the ability to cure the alleged default by any means short of vacating the premises.'”

Attorneys for the landlord have pointed out an apparent discrepancy between the story that Jennie Enterprise and the Core Club told the court and what they told the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in their COVID-era relief fraud case in August.

The landlord’s attorneys alleged in a court filing on Wednesday that the Core Club secured its injunction “by making materially misleading representations to this Court about its financial health,” and has “repeatedly been delinquent” on its use and occupancy payments.

The attorneys noted that in September 2025, the club “represented to the Court that it had a more than sufficient financial ability to cure its default of over $3.5 million in past due rent and that it could continue paying Rent at the Least rate.”

‘You have influenced my life in a really amazing way.’

While supposedly able to pay millions in allegedly past-due rent, the attorneys noted that the club managed in August to avoid paying back most of the over $4 million that Core Club entities — controlled by Jennie Enterprise — fraudulently received in COVID-era relief funds and paid only a fraction of the $8.1 million consent judgment against the club.

The attorneys highlighted that court documents show that Jennie Enterprise’s sworn financial disclosures about the Core Club’s “financial condition” to the USAO-SDNY led the government “to accept in compromise” a settlement of only $366,000 spread over several years.

The Wednesday court filing alleged:

These apparent representations by the SDNY Core Defendants to the United States Attorney regarding their supposed inability to pay a civil penalty greater than $360,000 over five years flies directly in the face of Tenant’s representations to this Court regarding its supposed ability to cure its default of over $3.5 million in past due rent and continue paying Rent at the Lease rate.

The landlord suggested that under the circumstances, the injunction should be vacated and further relief should be conditioned on the Epstein club’s payment of the outstanding rent.

When asked for comment, the Core Club’s attorney Marc Kasowitz said in a statement to Blaze News, “Shvo’s latest attempt to relitigate issues the Court has already addressed will fail, just as his others have. Shvo’s motion falsely claims that Core violated the Yellowstone order, but Core is current on rent and has fully complied with the Court’s directives.”

Kasowitz suggested that the apparent function of the filing was to distract from “pressures surrounding Shvo’s broader real estate ventures” and noted, “Core will oppose this motion vigorously and is confident the Court will recognize it as another meritless attempt to manufacture a default where none exists.”

Shvo’s office did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Epstein’s gal pals

The latest trove of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice provides insights into Epstein’s involvement with the club and the Enterprises, whose relationship with the pedophile apparently thrived after his guilty plea in 2008 for solicitation of a minor for prostitution.

Epstein not only routinely visited the club’s spa and had women in his network attend but clearly made an impression on Jennie Enterprise, who appears to have written to the pedophile just months after his guilty plea, “You are and have always been sooooo special too me ….not sure u will ever know how much you have influenced my life in a really amazing way.”

The club recently downplayed Epstein’s involvement, telling the Wall Street Journal in a statement that the pedophile was one of 150 members who belonged from 2003 and 2007 but continued thereafter as a client of the club’s spa.

Dangene Enterprise often applied Epstein’s skin treatments, reported the Journal.

“The Enterprises were never part of this individual’s social world,” the club alleged. “He was a sounding board for the Enterprises on a variety of subjects, as he was known to be a highly in-demand, influential financial advisor and philanthropist in New York City.”

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