Jacob Shamsian
@jayshams.bsky.social
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Legal Correspondent at Business Insider. Author of zero books. Jayshams.substack.com
NEW: Mark Epstein says that the "Bubba" he joked about with his brother Jeffrey Epstein "is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton."
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Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler β the former top Obama White House lawyer and onetime Attorney General candidate and potential SCOTUS nominee, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs β was far deeper than previously known, emails show. π§΅
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Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show
Newly released emails show Kathryn Ruemmler, now Goldman's top lawyer and a former Obama official, maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein for years.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-emails-donald-trump-kathryn-ruemmler-goldman-sachs-lawyer-2025-11
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NEW: Kathryn Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, maintained a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously known, emails show. Ruemmler asked Epstein for career advice when she was tapped to be US Attorney General in Obama admin.
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There are a ton of emails from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet pilot telling him that Donald Trump is screwing up his travel plans because Air Force One is flying out of Palm Beach and no other planes can get in the air
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Here's a meme Jeffrey Epstein's brother emailed to him
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NEW: Trump's SullCrom lawyers scored a win at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. They ordered a district court judge to reconsider whether appeals of Trump's criminal conviction should play out in federal β not state β courts.
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NEW: John Mulaney attended today's SCOTUS argument while developing a TV show with Neal Katyal, who argued Trump's tariffs are illegal. Mulaney is a huge Constitutional law nerd, their mutual friend Akhil Reed Amar told me:
www.businessinsider.com/john-mulaney...
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Jamie Heller
15 days ago
@jayshams.bsky.social
is one of the best legal writers in the biz. Lately, he's focused on the intersection of law and business, here walking up to this week's Scotus hearing on Trump's tariffs.
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The Supreme Court could strike down Trump's tariffs β or expand his power instead
The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's tariffs under the IEEPA were legal, a ruling that could expand or limit presidential trade authority.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-scrutiny-national-emergency-2025-11
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Devastating. That well-dressed guy photographed after the Louvre heist may not be a French detective after all.
apnews.com/article/louv...
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emptywheel
26 days ago
Via
@jayshams.bsky.social
, Michael Wolff is suing Melania for SLAPP and demanding subpoenas, including of Trump.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.
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I accidentally got my toddler into Edward Gorey books and now his favorite animals are things like the Ampoo and the Ombledroom
about 1 month ago
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If you ever feel like you've accomplished a lot in your life, just remember that a teenage girl invented France
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Robert Jackson β the former Supreme Court justice, Solicitor General, and Nazi war crimes prosecutor β gave a speech in 1940 titled "The Federal Prosecutor" that is considered a must-read for people who join the DOJ. This passage has been circulating a lot lately:
about 1 month ago
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The new Dan Brown book has a brief cameo from @NormEisen, the attorney and former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
about 1 month ago
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Business Insider has a nifty new feature that'll update you whenever I publish a new story. Try it here:
www.businessinsider.com/author/jacob...
about 1 month ago
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I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.
www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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In legal arguments, Lisa Cook's lawyers have leaned on the 9-0 Supreme Court decision called Humphrey's Executor to argue for Fed independence. But while it technically remains the law of the land, the Supreme Court has signaled it'll soon be dead.
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A 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent protecting Fed independence is on its deathbed
A Supreme Court case called "Humphrey's Executor" has shielded independent agency leaders from political influence. In the Trump era, that's changing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-case-humphrey-fed-independence-lisa-cook-2025-9
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3 months ago
I donβt litigate so I donβt know whether this is the case, but I would think that if you did this in discovery you would have a very rough time with the judge
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So the House Oversight Committee just released 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Nearly all of it was already public. The committee hasn't said what's new. If I wanted to obscure new info about Epstein from the public while pretending to be transparent, this is exactly what I'd do.
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the latest season of sesame street features elmo as a degen gambler who gradually comes to realize he's destroying the lives of the people who love him
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I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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I joined
@lauracoates.com
's CNN show with the great Sarah Krissoff and
@willsommer.bsky.social
to talk about what's happening with the Trump administration and the Epstein files It's an important case, and I hope we will all get to see these files soon.
www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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NEW: I spoke to four people who've seen the Epstein files. They say there are no signs in there that Jeffrey Epstein worked for intelligence. Nothing the US government wanted to be classified. No interest from intelligence agencies. Nada.
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As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land.
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Rudy Giuliani's legal problems are far from over. Accuser Noelle Dunphy is keeping up her sexual assault lawsuit, despite Giuliani's motion to dismiss.
4 months ago
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Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million, alleging it failed to learn the lessons of the lawsuit from Dominion, to which it paid $787.5 million 2 years ago.
www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...
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likely place for him to be
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The former CEO of Barclays bank lied when he told financial regulators he had only a "purely professional" relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a British court ruled.
businessinsider.com/jes-staley-b...
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Ex-Barclays CEO lied about having a 'purely professional' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, court rules
Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley failed to overturn a British regulator's ban on his involvement in the financial industry.
https://businessinsider.com/jes-staley-barclays-ceo-financial-services-ban-upheld-jeffrey-epstein-2025-6/
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I don't think I've seen this reported elsewhere β Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra and Matthew Schwartz attended the E. Jean Carroll appeal hearing yesterday, as did Boris Epshteyn. Giuffra and Schwartz represent Trump in his New York criminal and civil fraud appeals.
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Trump's lawyers say the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling should save him $83.3 million
President Donald Trump is invoking the Supreme Court's sweeping immunity decision to try to wipe away defamation damages to E. Jean Carroll.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tests-presidential-immunity-carroll-defamation-verdict-payout-2025-6
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every once in a while my spotify shuffle ends up on that one obscure banger from an artist i met at a downtown art show who posts disturbing thoughts on instagram about how lizard people are out to get her
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The Law & Crime network is making an AI-generated recreation of Diddy trial testimony using the official court transcript.
5 months ago
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The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is haunting the Trump administration
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These are the real 'Epstein files' the government has yet to release
Trump has not released all the 'Epstein files' as promised. The still-secret docs could help answer some of the mysteries about the financier.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-files-records-trump-admin-keeping-secret-may-release-2025-6
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A message Diddy sent from his Blackberry in 2012
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Laura Italiano
6 months ago
www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-...
What do Mike Meyers, Harry Potter, and
#Andor
have in common? All had cameos in the three days of jury selection for the
#USvCombs
trial. Also weed and Altoids. Read about the strangeness β
@businessinsider.com
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@jayshams.bsky.social
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Altoids, K-Pop, and a Harry Potter wand: The strangest moments of Diddy jury selection
The Diddy trial jury selection process had lighter moments, including mentions of "The Lord of the Rings" and one prospect's 'Andor' binge-watching.
https://www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-jury-selection-odd-moments-mike-myers-harry-potter-2025-5
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I can think of the perfect Catholic centrist elderly man who can bring a major institution through a transition period. And he currently has plenty of time on his hands.
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Laura Italiano
7 months ago
www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...
Excellent story today by Jack Newsham and Jacob Shamsian β showing these Big Law EOs have had the opposite impact Trump intended.
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@jayshams.bsky.social
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Donald Trump went after one of America's top law firms. Its decision to fight back took just two hours.
More than a month into Trump's war on Big Law, there is little evidence the four firms who chose to fight have suffered serious consequences.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-big-law-executive-orders-decisions-damage-2025-4
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www.businessinsider.com/luigi-girls-...
@unitedhealthcare.sa.com
Brian Thompsonβs name never comes up, folks in this macabre line tell
@businessinsider.com
. βItβs all talk about Luigi.β
@jayshams.bsky.social
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Meet the 'Luigi Girls' who slept outside a courthouse to see the alleged killer in the flesh
Fans of the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson wait hours for a glimpse. Thompson's name is never heard at these vigils.
https://www.businessinsider.com/luigi-girls-wait-overnight-line-glimpse-mangione-murder-trial-2025-4
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New with
@jayshams.bsky.social
: What smart people are saying about Meta's argument that it's not a social media monopoly (scroll to the end for a surprise).
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What smart people are saying about Meta's argument that it's not a social media monopoly
Top antitrust experts think the FTC will have a tough time winning the trial β but there's still a real chance Meta will sell Instagram and WhatsApp.
https://businessinsider.com/ftc-meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-antitrust-2025-4/
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I think this got memory-holed, but Chris Krebs sued the Trump 2020 presidential campaign after one of its lawyers, Joseph diGenova, went on Newsmax and said Krebs should be "taken out at dawn and shot" for contradicting Trump.
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It's a great day to look at your stock portfolio
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Trump's executive orders and deals with law firms aren't just about getting Big Law to bend the knee. They're about cutting off firepower from legal challenges to his political priorities.
www.businessinsider.com/trump-big-la...
8 months ago
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there should be an app that lets you get 30 minutes at a bar mitzvah smorgasbord whenever you want. like what if it's a monday night and i'm craving a pastrami carving station.
8 months ago
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Jamie Heller
8 months ago
This is an important explanatory piece by Jacob Shamsian on
@businessinsider.com
about Trump and big law. It explains where things stand with Perkins Coie and Paul Weiss and explores why Jones Day isn't in the mix.
www.businessinsider.com/trumps-law-f...
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Trump targeted 20 of the biggest law firms over their diversity programs. A GOP favorite is missing from the list.
Donald Trump has lavished his loyal lawyers with rewards while targeting those he believes wronged him.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-law-firm-diversity-programs-jones-day-2025-3
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"I have regrets but there are not very many of them and, fortunately, I forget what they are."
www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/m...
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Nearing 90 (Published 1997)
William Maxwell, writer, contemplates turning 90; photo (M)
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/magazine/nearing-90.html
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why does Netflix's Zero Day have a lumbersexual blippi doing an impression of benny johnson if he worked for zeteo
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Jacob Shamsian
Roger Parloff
9 months ago
from
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Want to feel old? President Donald Trump was sentenced for his 34-count criminal conviction one month ago today.
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> Trump admin gets sued a lot to block policies > Trump bans all Reuters products because of DOGE and misinfo > Justice Department can't use Westlaw to research cases > Trump admin keeps losing in court
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