The Epstein fallout threatens political careers beyond Acosta's. Burkle and Lampert did not respond to a request for comment, either. None returned messages seeking comment.īlack, who was convicted in federal court here in 2007 of embezzlement and other charges and served 37 months, could not be reached for comment. Valukas, a former chairman of Jenner, gained national attention a decade ago as a court-appointed examiner in the bankruptcy case of Lehman Brothers Holdings, whose 2008 collapse helped trigger what became known as the Great Recession. Nicholas Pritzker, a second cousin, is a former CEO of the lodging company's development arm and a venture capitalist and real estate developer living in California.
Tom Pritzker is executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels. Charged with paying underage girls for sex, Epstein served only 13 months, most of it on work-release. secretary of labor.Īcosta this week spurned calls by top congressional Democrats and others to resign over the agreement, reached without the knowledge of alleged victims.
Now an annotated copy of it is on the internet.Įpstein's web of influential personalities, including one of his attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, is cited as a factor in a favorable plea deal he reached in 2008 with a federal prosecutor in Florida, Alexander Acosta, who is now U.S. It was obtained by Epstein's former house manager, who was nabbed trying to sell it for $50,000 to an attorney suing Epstein on behalf of victims, the now-expired gossip website Gawker reported in 2015. Numbers and email addresses are mostly redacted. His nearly 100-page black book is crammed with celebrities like Mick Jagger, Jimmy Buffett, John Cleese and Courtney Love and prominent businessmen or politicians like Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson and various Kennedys and Forbeses. It's not clear to what extent, if any, which Chicago-related connections were business or personal with Epstein, a New York financier who was charged anew on Monday with child sex trafficking. Former Sears Holdings CEO and hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert is also included. So is Ron Burkle, the California investor who in the 1990s controlled the now-defunct Chicago supermarket chain Dominick's. Attorney Anton Valukas.Ĭonrad Black, the former Sun-Times proprietor convicted of fraud and pardoned in May by President Donald Trump, is listed. The local boldface names include two members of the Pritzker family-Tom and Nick-and Jenner & Block partner and former U.S. Several Chicagoans and other people with once prominent Chicago connections are among hundreds of entries in the black-book Rolodex of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose case is roiling national politics.
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