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Q Research AUSTRALIA #18 - Talisman Sabre: MAGIC SWORD Edition

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As for Elizabeth Holmes and her pin-pRick Blood-testing start-up, he found her very convincing, although, "It was not so much her as the ?people around her. You had the chairman of the Stanford chemical engineering department... top doctors and clinicians and academics." They all seemed convinced too. After an investigative piece in The Wall Street Journal suggested her technology wasn't all it was cracked up to be, Boies called for it to be independently tested. "There were several times when I was promised it was being done," although it kept being delayed, he says. It has been pointed out that during this period, and before Boies cut his ties with her, Holmes was one of the guests at his 75th birthday party in Las Vegas. She even gave a toast. "I had a lot of clients that were there," he says. "A lot of people gave toasts."

Some people have suggested Boies' work for Virginia Giuffre is part of an effort to restore his reputation, though, in fairness, he took her on in 2014. She had lawyers already, but "I think they realised she was going to come in for a lot of attacks", he says. "She would really need a firm with a lot of resources." Giuffre, an Australian ?resident who resides in Queensland, accused Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein of trafficking her to Prince Andrew. When Maxwell denied the claims and called ?Giuffre a liar, they sued for defamation. "Ultimately we had a very successful recovery against Ms Maxwell, financially," he says. "Even more important, I think, in the larger scheme of things, we built an evidentiary record of the sex trafficking that, while it was sealed, it was something that was available to be unsealed by the government or... by the press."

Eventually, Maxwell's depositions in that case would be used against her as part of the criminal prosecution that now has her languishing in a Brooklyn jail, awaiting trial in November - a fact that must give Prince Andrew pause when he contemplates having to be deposed himself. Boies says this could probably be done in London; tapes of it could then be used as evidence in court, if it comes to that. Or the duke could try to settle the suit.

His chances of avoiding it entirely look slim. After the first hearing when Brettler, the duke's lawyer, argued that the papers had not been properly served, Boies fired back with a memorandum, saying the process of serving a defendant was not supposed to be "a game of hide and seek behind palace walls". Lewis Kaplan, the judge in New York, then ordered that the lawsuit could simply be sent to Brettler.

The duke's lawyers also say Giuffre may have signed away her right to sue the Prince in a 2009 settlement with Epstein, which they are seeking to have unsealed. "It's irrelevant," Boies says. "It had to do with Epstein and certain people he did certain things with in Florida. Because it's confidential I can't really go into the terms of it, but... it doesn't protect Prince Andrew." It's now been confirmed that court papers were served on September 21 and the duke has until October 29 to respond.

I ask Boies what he made of the duke's infamous interview on Newsnight. "It was inexplicable to me why his advisers would permit him to do it," he says. "The interview simply drew more attention to him and... the fact that he had no credible explanation. In addition, it put on display a level of arrogance and lack of remorse that was the opposite of what I would at least think he should have been conveying." I imagine Boies watching it and rubbing his hands. "Oh yes, obviously," he says. "No question about that."

How will you do it? I ask. "Generally, what is the most effective is to just patiently go through what the facts are," he replies. It sounds very reasonable, and also like a threat.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/gun-for-hire-david-boies-the-lawyer-pursuing-prince-andrew/news-story/05ddb41594ff3a34678e1d0e9cc74893