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And remembering Ross Perrault, tech entrepreneur.

But first, the Jeffrey Epstein mess just keeps getting messier.

So the White House is now fully embroiled in the disgusting legal saga of Jeffrey Epstein.

The well-connected money manager indicted this week on sex trafficking charges.

Now, most of that focuses on

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who, by all accounts, gave Epstein a sweetheart plea deal back in 2007

when Acosta was U.S. attorney in Florida. And he also failed to notify victims, as was legally

required. President Trump yesterday defended Acosta, but Axios reports that the Labor Secretary

already was on thin ice with the White House for slow walking deregulation, and this could be

the proverbial straw that breaks Acosta's back. And then there's Trump himself, who used to party with

Epstein, and who once called him a terrific guy, even though he now says he's, quote, not a fan.

But even beyond politics, Epstein

cultivated a wide range of powerful friends and associates, essentially managing to do terrible

things almost in plain sight, even apparently after that 2007 plea. Private equity titan

Leon Black, for example, let Epstein continue to manage his money for years. The bottom line,

there are a lot of sleepless nights in the Assella corridor right now,

as questions are being asked if others are just guilty by association or actually guilty.

In 15 seconds, we'll go deeper with investigative journalist Vicki Ward,

who wrote the first long profile of Jeffrey Epstein back in 2003 for Vanity Fair,

but who now claims that some vital allegations

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