York. A look at the Civil Rights Movement in new york. Greetings. With the book of Historical Society as of today the brooklyn Historical Society is the new center for brooklyn history i am marsha eli i wanted to welcome you all and say that those of you that have enjoyed the Public Program at this one. We will keep presenting about the issues of our times. In the history that needs to be told more freely. Visit our programs page at the center for brooklyn history website. It is such a pleasure to be partnering with the brooklyn book festival on this. A long history of yankee racism. I have unfortunate news that one of our speakers have a sudden family emergency this morning. He will not be with us today. It is my pleasure to introduce to scholars who have done an enormous amount of work to correct a misguided narrative about racism in the north i urge you to buy their book by clicking on the buy bulk button and the books well also continue to be for sale on the festival website afterw
I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are recording this event. It is being live cast. And it is going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, mile wylie is with us as a discussant. She has a very long time civil rights lawyer and activist, former chair of new york cities civilian Complaint Review board. Former Corporation Counsel to his honor, william de blasio, a University Professor at the school and ongoing legal analyst for both nbc news and msnbc. And so its a great pleasure, maya to be wi
I would like to welcome everyone, there might be big news today in american politics, but it aint nothing compared to this, which is so much bigger insignificance, and opportunity for us to celebrate eric alterman. With his new book lying in state why president s lie and why trump is worse we are going to spend, my name is Leonard Bernardo by the way, Vice President of the open society foundations, hosting this event, i should say that we are going to talk for around 45 minutes, give or take, then we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions, those questions that you would like to share with eric and maia and me should be sent to questions opensocietyfoun dations. Org. You can also do this via twitter and you can also if you really need to, do it via facebook. We are recording this event. Its being live cast and its going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, maia wiley with us as a discussant. Meyer, who is been a very long time
Legal trouble in that particular nonprosecution agreement actually said not just were not going to prosecute you Jeffrey Epstein but were also not going to prosecute any of your accomplices were not going to prosecute any of your accomplices that we dont even know about yet that is how far reaching this thing went and it is because epstein was a powerful guy with powerful friends and his friends unfortunately since then have only gotten more and more powerful so it is remarkable that they even decided to go after just lane i am very happy they did and i think its because the evidence against her at this point was just overwhelming. Well ok let me go to 2 things that you just mentioned 1st of all the nonprosecution agreement that is unique to florida ok now if you if. The crimes she committed took place all over all over the world she had her rich powerful elite friends giving her money to hide during all this has been going on giving her money to hide giving her places to hide helping
Now that Jeffrey Epsteins pal just plain maxwell has been arrested the public might finally get to learn more about the sordid world of epstein created join me to talk about this is fair and cousins from the trial lawyer magazine fair and you know this story just is a story without end finally though now heres whats bothersome about theres so many but there are some things about this story but why did it take 24 years for the f. B. I. And the government to do their job in a resting this woman 24 years whats your take. Well i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that abstain was obviously very well connected and therefore everyone connected to him bit of fitted from those relationships i mean even maxwell and other on named accomplices themselves benefited from that nonprosecution agreement back in 2007 or 2008 the 1st time that epstein ran into legal trouble in that particular nonprosecution agreement actually said not just were not going to prosecute you Jeffrey Epstein but were