'It has to be a coincidence': "Thieves" burglarized, stole computer servers from Epstein’s former PR agency hours before document dump

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Over the New Year’s holiday, Epstein’s former public relations firm, Sitrick & Company was burglarized. According to Epstein fixer Michael Sitrick, thieves broke into his penthouse office in Brentwood, Los Angeles and looted his computer servers just hours before a tranche of Epstein’s documents were unsealed and released to the public.

Last week, Judge Loretta Preska unsealed the first cache of documents from lawsuits related to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse which potentially included names of over 150 people.

The first set of documents reportedly detailed Ghislaine Maxwell’s recruiting techniques, Prince Andrew’s abuse of the trafficked victims, and Bill Clinton’s fondness for “young” girls.

A second cache of Epstein docs was unsealed on Thursday.

According to the second tranche of documents obtained by The Gateway Pundit, one Epstein victim, a minor teen dubbed “Jane Doe 3,” said she was trafficked to “prominent American politicians” to “obtain potential blackmail information.”

“Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe," the documents read, "making her available for sex to politically-connected and financially-powerful people. Epstein’s purposes in 'lending' Jane Doe (along with other young girls) to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.” 

Los Angeles Magazine reported that Jeffrey Epstein previously paid Michael Sitrick $30,000 a month to help him with crisis management after the New York Post dropped a hit piece on Prince Andrew and Epstein.

Sitrick told Los Angeles Magazine that if he still had any documents related to Epstein, they were not on the stolen servers.

“If Epstein documents still existed [at his firm] they wouldn’t be on anything that was taken,” Sitrick told Los Angeles Magazine.

Michael Sitrick insisted he had never met Jeffrey Epstein in person and was hired by Epstein’s lawyer, Roy Black, in 2005 to represent him during a child sex crimes investigation conducted by police in Palm Beach, FL.

This happened three years before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to a charge of having sex with a 14-year-old.

Sitrick also was employed by Epstein in 2011 after The New York Post ran an expose story about Prince Andrew’s relationship with the billionaire pedophile.

Los Angeles Magazine reported, "Sitrick & Company, the global crisis public relations firm who has a client list of the rich and powerful — including Jeffrey Epstein — was burglarized over the New Year’s holiday by thieves who stole company computers just hours before a trove of long-sealed court documents related to the admitted pedophile were released.

"Michael Sitrick said his zenthouse offices at 11999 San Vicente Boulevard, along with other occupants of the four-story building in Brentwood that bears his company’s name Sitrick & Co., was broken into by unknown thieves just as explosive new documents about Epstein’s proclivities with underage girls were made public."

“It didn’t cross my mind,” Sitrick told Los Angeles magazine over the phone Thursday when asked if he was concerned about the timing of the burglary (which was just hours before a years-long records fight ended when a judge ordered the release of roughly 900 pages of documents from the 2015 federal civil case Giuffre v. Maxwell).

The records offer new insight into the allegations which includes previously undisclosed deposition transcripts, Palm Beach Police search warrant records, and the names of potential witnesses to Epstein’s crimes. The new revelations were part of a  defamation suit filed by lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, who was underage when she says she was trafficked to powerful men, including Prince Andrew, by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

“It has to be a coincidence,” Sitrick said of the theft, adding that there were no Epstein records in his office, or any compromising information about any of his clients among the items stolen.

He added that he does not believe the crooks targeted his firm specifically.

“There were several offices in the building, in addition to ours, which were broken into and robbed. All of our computers are all password and dual factor protected and encrypted. It’s state of the art,” he said. “No one is getting into them.”

Michael Sitrick claims no documents related to Jeffrey Epstein on any of the stolen computer servers.
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