The niece of Jonny Kitagawa, founder of the Japanese talent agency Jonny & Associates, stepped down this week from her role as president, acknowledging the decades long sexual abuse of the company’s young clients by its founder (who died in 1999). In a typically Japanese scene of corporate self-abasement, Julie Keiko Fujishima apologised to the victims and
out of a vendetta with an intent to harm. that is sort of the jury s finding. and you think of doj as hermetically sealed. i wonder if they are influenced by what juries of one s peers find. yeah. i think the jury finding in favor of e. jean carroll, that donald trump sexually battered her and defamed her, lied about it, gave the department of justice cover to reverse itself on the substitution issue. they tried to substitute the department of gist as the litigant, pulled donald trump out of fire. and i will tell you, i wasn t at all surprise that had bill barr s department of justice first took that position that somehow these lies about a sexual assault victim, somebody that you victimized, were somehow within the scope of donald trump s official
very rarely. very rarely. i mean, most people if they are going to pursue this they would go to the police and then if you were accusing someone of means perhaps after a criminal case, maybe bring a civil case, but this is highly unusual and as dave was saying earlier, it has to do with the long passage of time, and criminal charges were not available to her, and criminal charges involve a whole other entity, and the prosecutors and first, you have to convince the prosecutors to do it, and the standards are much more challenging, so this is certainly the unusual way to go about trying to vindicate a sexual assault victim. but it worked for e. jean carroll and she said all along what she wanted was the day in court, and she got it, and not only that, but she won. potentially she is going to leave the courthouse, and we may hear her speaking to the cameras, and so, i want to hear