Ghislaine Maxwell, after walking out the side door of her townhouse in Manhattan on January 4, 2015. - Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell was the boss from hell, a former house manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion testified Thursday. “From the day she came to the house, she right away took over and she mentioned to me she was going to be the lady of the house,” said Juan Alessi, 72, who managed Epstein’s Florida property from 1991 to 2002. Alessi said his relationship with Epstein was cordial until the arrival of Maxwell. She imposed draconian rules on the hardworking house staff. “Only I was supposed to speak to Mr. Epstein when he asked me questions,” Alessi recalled of one of Maxwell’s ...
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Now, A Republic County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by Raw Story through the Kansas Open Records Act sheds additional light on the situation — one of the latest in a series of thefts from prominent political candidates and political action committees.
The incident report explains how Moran's campaign treasurer, Timothy E. Gottschalk, on Nov. 15 contacted the Republic County Sheriff's Office to report "fraudulent activity" related to the three-term senator's re-election committee.
The sheriff's office sent Deputy Kade Odell to Gottschalk's accounting office in Belleville, Kansas, to meet him.
"Gottschalk stated that they had received emails containing invoices that were found to be fraudulent," Odell wrote in a report. "Before this was discovered, wire transfers were authorized through Astra Bank of Bellevile, Kansas to pay the invoices provided with these fraudulent email."
Odell then sought aid from other agencies.
"I contacted the Kansas Bureau of Investigation requesting assistance on this same date," the deputy wrote. "I was then later advised that it would be referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be investigated by the Kansas City FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force."
Read the full report here or at this link.
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