Re: "Liberal" CBS Kills Epstein Story

On 8/4/2026 8:34 AM, Lee wrote:
> 60 Minutes Ended Story About
> Epstein’s Shady Bank Transactions
> Aug 3

CBS is now Fox Lite. That is, a right-wingnut lie site, but their lies are not 
bald-faced.

> 
> CBS’s 60 Minutes had the scoop on
> Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy financials—
> before the Bari Weiss–run network
> fired the reporter fronting the
> investigation.
> 
> A new report by Democratic Senator Ron
> Wyden revealed that Deutsche Bank AG,
> JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America
> enabled Epstein by permitting millions
> in suspicious transactions over the
> course of the sex offender’s criminal
> career.
> 
> Yet former 60 Minutes correspondent
> Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago,
> having interviewed Wyden in March about
> her own investigation into Wall Street
> banks’ and the U.S. Virgin Islands
> government’s relationship with Epstein,
> according to Bloomberg.
> 
> But the report, and Wyden’s interview,
> would never air: Alfonsi was fired by
> CBS News leadership in the midst of a
> major network shakeup two months later,
> in May, when she publicly criticized
> Weiss’s editorial grip on the storied
> news magazine. Weiss had blocked a
> segment Alfonsi previously reported on
> Donald Trump’s deportation program and
> El Salvador’s notoriously lethal CECOT
> prison.
> 
> https://newrepublic.com/post/213927/60-minutes-killed-story-epstein-shady-
> banking
> 
> 
> 
> https://newrepublic.com/post/213927/60-minutes-killed-story-epstein-shady-
> banking