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...Freedom of Information Act and posts them online—Epstein “demanded oral sex” from Maximilia Cordero in 2000 in exchange for launching her modeling career. Cordero explicitly stated her age to Epstein, who promptly “shut the door and requested that plaintiff give him a massage and suddenly removed all his clothes,” the complaint said. Epstein allegedly commented on Cordero’s young age during their encounters over the next several months, even expressing his desire to take her to Thailand with him in order...
...Berzaín, the former minister of defense. According to the lawsuits, Sánchez de Lozada and Sánchez Berzaín told security forces to use deadly force against civilians protesting government policies in September and October 2003, killing 67 and injuring more than 400. The plaintiffs include the mother of an eight-year-old girl who was killed when a bullet was shot through her window, and a man whose pregnant wife was murdered in their home, according to Tyler Giannini, the clinical director of the Human Rights Program. “Like the victims...
...companies that their behavior overseas will see the light of day - perhaps even in U.S. federal courts," says Walter Tache, a Miami lawyer with the firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, who has consulted with both sides of such claims. "Once there is a successful case, the floodgates from the plaintiff's bar will open for many more...
...rape trial, after the defense argued they were "unfairly inflammatory." More neutral terms like sex were allowed. The first trial ended in a hung jury, and on July 12 the second attempt was declared a mistrial because of the case's newfound publicity, driven in part by the outraged plaintiff, Tory Bowen, who says, "What happened to me was rape...
...Indeed, even Beedie's own family seems ambivalent about the suit. He and Downie, his 22-year-old fellow plaintiff, both come from a long line of fishermen, and their fathers were together on a boat that sank in 1980. Nobody died in that wreck, and nobody thought to file a compensation claim. They returned to sea the following week. Today, stiff, stooped and grimacing as he makes a pot of tea, Beedie's father Willie struggles to answer when asked how he feels about his son's case. "You want what's best for your son and for your...