Podcast Tuesday: Pipeline: Left to Die & The Retrievals Season Two
The story of what happened next has been made into a podcast called Pipeline: Left to Die (Daily Mail)
Ximena Smith reviews this and The Retrievals Season Two (NY Times and Serial Podcast)
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Podcast Tuesday: Pipeline: Left to Die & The Retrievals Season Two
In 2022, while making repairs to a undersea pipe off the coast of Trinidad, four professional divers got sucked hundreds of metres into a 76cm- wide pipe full of oil. The story of what happened next has been made into a podcast called Pipeline: Left to Die (Daily Mail) Ximena Smith reviews this and The Retrievals Season Two (NY Times and Serial Podcast) Photo: Divernet
RNZ News
19-07-2025
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Explainer: What you need to know about Trump, Epstein and the MAGA controversy
Protestors hold signs calling for the release of files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on 17 July 2025. Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP Facing a rare backlash from supporters, the US President has sought to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's 2019 indictment for sex crimes. The 2019 suicide of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a New York jail cell generated conspiracy theories, fuelled by US President Donald Trump's conservative MAGA movement, that he was killed by one of his famous connections. Here are some facts about Epstein and the current controversy: The Brooklyn-born Epstein, a former high school math teacher who later founded consulting and financial management firms, cultivated the rich and famous. Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Photo: Handout / US District Court for the Southern District of New York / AFP He was known for socialising with politicians and royalty , including Trump, former Democratic President Bill Clinton, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Britain's Prince Andrew. Some friends and clients flew on his private plane and visited his Caribbean islands. Trump and Epstein were friends for years. Photo: Screengrab / YouTube Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. During the 2021 trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell , the financier's longtime pilot, Lawrence Visoski, testified that Trump flew on Epstein's private plane multiple times. Trump has denied being on the plane. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida state felony prostitution charge after federal prosecutors agreed not to charge him with sex trafficking of minors. This undated file handout photo obtained July 11, 2019 courtesy of the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. Photo: New York State Sex Offender Registry / AFP He served 13 months in jail and was required to register as a sex offender. That punishment is now widely regarded as too lenient. In July 2019, the Justice Department charged Epstein with sex trafficking minors, including sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of girls, in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005. He pleaded not guilty. Epstein died on 10 August 2019, at age 66, by hanging himself in a Manhattan jail cell, an autopsy concluded. He was never tried on the 2019 charges. Though the New York City chief medical examiner determined that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging, Epstein's ties to wealthy and powerful people prompted speculation that one or more of them wanted him silenced. A protest group called "Hot Mess" hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump in front of the Federal courthouse on 8 July 2019 in New York City. Photo: Stephanie Keith / Getty Images / AFP In several interviews, Trump left open the possibility that Epstein may not have died by suicide. During the 2024 presidential campaign, when asked on Fox News if he would declassify the Epstein files, Trump said, "Yeah, yeah I would." In February, Fox News asked Attorney General Pam Bondi whether the Justice Department would be releasing Epstein's client list, and she said, "It's sitting on my desk right now to review." Some of Trump's most loyal followers became furious after his administration reversed course on its promise. A Justice Department memo released on 7 July concluded that Epstein killed himself and said there was "no incriminating client list" or evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent people. The demands by Trump supporters for more Epstein-related documents have caused a rare fracture within the president's base. Supporters, inspired by conservative talk show hosts and podcasters, have said the federal government is concealing records to protect wealthy and influential people with ties to Epstein. Trying to contain the fallout, Trump defended Bondi and accused his supporters in a Truth Social post of falling for a hoax, calling them "weaklings" who were helping Democrats. With backlash from his base not abating, Trump on 17 July requested that Bondi ask a federal judge to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's 2019 indictment. The government on Friday filed a motion in Manhattan federal court to unseal the transcripts. Ultimately, a judge will decide whether to release the transcripts. Transcripts of grand jury proceedings are generally kept secret under federal criminal procedure rules, with limited exceptions. If a judge agrees to release the transcripts, it is likely that some material would be redacted, or blacked out, because of privacy or security concerns. -Reuters
Otago Daily Times
14-07-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Daughter died after aristocrat went on the run
A British aristocrat and her partner have been convicted of the manslaughter of their baby daughter through gross negligence, more than two years after their disappearance sparked a nationwide manhunt. Constance Marten – whose father was once a page to the late Queen Elizabeth – and Mark Gordon went to live "off-grid" in late 2022 when Marten was pregnant after their previous children were taken into care, prosecutors said. Revealed for the first time in the damning words of the Family Court judge, the litany of violence, drugs and selfishness that show in horrifying detail why Constance Marten and Mark Gordon... should NEVER have been parents — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) July 14, 2025 "Their selfish desire to keep their baby girl led inexorably to the death of that very baby," prosecutor Tom Little said at the start of their trial at London's Old Bailey Court earlier this year. Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, slept for several weeks in a tent in southern England during freezing winter temperatures, part of what Little described as the couple's "arrogant and ultimately grossly negligent conduct". The pair pleaded not guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence, but were convicted by a jury on Monday (local time). A jury had been unable to reach a verdict on that charge at an earlier trial, after which Marten and Gordon were convicted of perverting the course of justice, child cruelty and concealing the birth of a child. The couple will be sentenced in September, British media reported. Samantha Yelland, Senior Crown Prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service in London, said in a statement: "Their reckless actions were driven by a selfish desire to keep their baby no matter the cost – resulting in her tragic death." Marten and Gordon were sought by police from January 2023 after their abandoned car was found on fire with a placenta wrapped in a towel inside, near Manchester in northern England. After a nearly two-month search, during which the couple were frequently on the front pages of British newspapers, Marten and Gordon were located in Brighton on England's south coast. Their child's body was found two days later.
