the statement says he cited health concerns as the reason for his resignation and they went onto say the resignation will take effect at the end of this month. january 31st. so, lapierre and some of the other top executives go on trial in a civil case monday over allegations of fraud. what are the details on that? that s why the timing of this is so interesting. this is days before the nra and other executives with the organization are set to go on trial. theessentially they accused the organization and these mean of violating laws governing non- profit organization. mismanagement and fraud. they used millions of dollars for personal gain for themselves, family, friends, and vendors. accused of losing $63 million
prosecution was still a possibility. it s scary because this is our government that is suppose to protect us, but has done everything to protect a pedophile. reporter: of course, anderson, the story did not end there. epstein was suddenly arrested again, and this time he was charged federally. those charges included one count of sex trafficking of minors. he was facing up to 40 years in prison. he was had 66 years old at the time. so while he was awaiting trial in jail, he did take his life. as you heard in our story, we mentioned bill clinton and donald trump. neither trump nor clinton have been accused of any crimes or wrong doings related to this case. in fact cnn reached out to bill clinton and his spokesperson referred to us in a 2019 statement saying clinton had flown on epstein s private plane, unaware of epstein s terrible crimes. cnn also reached out to donald trump based on these new documents that were released. a trump s spokesperson didn t really give us a formal comme
epstein. you can see there on the screen. just a handwritten note noting that. his lawyer had written a book he published in 2020 that epstein and harvey weinstein were friends but had a falling out when harvey weinstein was too aggressive with one of epstein s favorite girls as he put it. another thing that came up, david copperfield, the magician. a woman paid to give massages testified about him being at the house doing magic tricks. he questioned me if i was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls. one of the plaintiff s lawyers in the case was quizzing a woman who worked for epstein and asked if she was aware that copperfield had obtained tickets for epstein to give the girls but this person didn t answer any questions about it. copperfield s team has not gotten tack to us. harvey weinstein is in prison
depending on what the court does before we get to the general election season. that decision may end up being much more important than this one. karen, do you think justice thomas should have recused himself from the case? there are questions he could be impartial. but an attorney for the plaintiffs in the case told cnn they have no plans to ask for justice thomas to bow out. well i think it makes sense given the fact that his wife testified before the january 6th committee and gave testimony and evidence that she was involved in the planning of the rally and the insurrection. i think because that january 6th report was entered into evidence in colorado and the colorado district court that decided this actually used the january 6 report as part of the