The Latest on the Epstein Cover-Up: Leon Black, Billionaires, and Michael Cohen

The Latest on the Epstein Cover-Up: Leon Black, Billionaires, and Michael Cohen

From Narativ with Zev Shalev (Audio) by Zev Shalev

July 13, 2026 · 36 min

About this episode

Zev Shalev discusses the implications of recent events involving Michael Cohen, Leon Black, and their connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.

I went on Wajahat Ali’s show today to talk about Jeffrey Epstein, and I left thinking about a door. Not a jail door. The door back in. Watch who is walking through it. Michael Cohen went to prison for Donald Trump. He spent seven years calling him a con man. This week he reconciled with him — and now says the testimony that helped convict his old boss was “coerced.” Trump’s lawyers moved within days to throw out the New York cases. The fixer is back, and this time the fix is the record itself. Leon Black walks through the same door Thursday. He paid Jeffrey Epstein more than $150 million — for “tax advice,” he says. He paid the U.S. Virgin Islands $62 million more — and bought himself what the rest of us cannot: immunity from further prosecution. Now he returns to the House Oversight Committee, under oath and on camera for the first time. A man who has sat two chairs from Vladimir Putin, answering to Congress about the financier he overpaid by nine figures. Paolo Zampolli never left at all. He brought Melania to America and introduced her to Trump. He failed his security clearance, then took a government title anyway. He wrote to Russia’s UN ambassador on his private Gmail. He…

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