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A judge unsealed identities of anonymous "John Does" in Ghislaine Maxwell litigation. Several names were of Jeffrey Epstein victims, not powerful associates. One, a subject of "intense media coverage," was allowed to remain anonymous and pursue an appeal. A judge agreed to make public the names of several "John Does" who tried to keep their identities secret in the long-running litigation between Jeffrey Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim. One of them, however — identified as "John Doe 183" in court filings — will remain anonymous despite being the subject of "intense media coverage" and was...

Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways if the passengers are named as "John Does" and sued for reporting suspicious behavior that got the Muslim clerics booted from a November flight. The six imams are suing the airline, Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, and the unnamed "John Does" to be named later, for discrimination, saying they were removed from the flight for praying in the airport. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix-area physician and director of American Islamic Forum for...

Six imams who are suing an airline and an airport for removing them from a flight also have aimed the lawsuit at passengers who the imams believe reported some of their activities. The suit filed this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis names as defendants "John Does" who "contacted US Airways to report the alleged suspicious behavior" of the imams before the Nov. 20 flight -- an inclusion some lawyers, who are not connected to the litigation, say will have a "chilling effect" on airline security. "If such a suit could proceed, it would have a chilling effect on...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley Witnesses saw a black man at very close range (within several feet) with a group of two other John Does who visited at the Travelers Aid on April 18, 1995 the day before the OKC bombing. The Travelers Aid is one block west of the Murrah building. The men were also observed driving McVeigh’s yellow Mercury Marquee which had been parked across the street from the Travelers Aid. The other two John Does who were Caucasians have been identified by name from photographs and sketches. This was reported to the Attorney General John Ashcroft...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley A librarian from Kansas was driving south down interstate I-35 when she witnessed near Perry, OK the pullover of Timothy McVeigh in his yellow Mercury Marquee (in the north bound lane) by OK State Highway Patrol trooper Charles Hanger. The pullover occurred on the morning of April 19, 1995 less than two hours after the OKC bombing. Hanger has testified that McVeigh was not speeding but was pulled over because he had no plates on his car. The librarian who witnessed the pullover is certain there was a second vehicle pulled over with the...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley Witnesses saw a black man at very close range (within several feet) with a group of two other John Does who visited at the Travelers Aid on April 18, 1995 the day before the OKC bombing. The Travelers Aid is one block west of the Murrah building. The men were also observed driving McVeigh’s yellow Mercury Marquee which had been parked across the street from the Travelers Aid. The other two John Does who were Caucasians have been identified by name from photographs and sketches. This was reported to the Attorney General John Ashcroft...