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erronis

(23,091 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:32 PM 11 hrs ago

Katherine Keating's Lawyers Threatened Me With Legal Action Over My Epstein Reporting. Then I Found the Un-Redacted Emai

https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/katherine-keatings-lawyers-threatened
Kait Justice

The daughter of former Australian Prime Minister appears in emails coordinating diplomatic access through Epstein. When I reported it, her lawyers sent me a letter containing false statements.

I am only excerpting the opening bits of this long and detailed report on how someone is very upset about Kait's prior reporting. If this is accurate, she's touched a very live wire.

In October 2025, I published an article about an email I found in the House Oversight Committee's Epstein document release. The email showed someone coordinating meetings with Kuwaiti royalty and relaying that schedule to Jeffrey Epstein. The subject line contained a name that appeared to have been missed during redaction: Katherine Keating, the daughter of Paul Keating, Australia's 24th Prime Minister.



I wrote about the timing of those meetings during Kuwait's largest political corruption scandal in modern history. I wrote about what it might mean if a former Prime Minister's daughter was coordinating her diplomatic schedule through Epstein's office. I asked questions about the pattern of access the documents appeared to show.

Nearly two months later, on December 12, 2025, I received an email from an Australian law firm called Giles George. The letter was marked "URGENT" and "STRICTLY PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL AND NOT FOR PUBLICATION."

Journalists who cover the Epstein case know what happens when you publish something that makes powerful people uncomfortable. You receive legal threats demanding you remove articles, and most of the time those threats work because independent journalists cannot afford to fight lawsuits from people with unlimited resources. The article comes down, the questions stop getting asked, and the silence continues.

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Katherine Keating's Lawyers Threatened Me With Legal Action Over My Epstein Reporting. Then I Found the Un-Redacted Emai (Original Post) erronis 11 hrs ago OP
Holy moly - that is quite an article. OhioBlue 11 hrs ago #1
Are you going to market Epstein trading cards, or do I have to 😀 usonian 10 hrs ago #2
lol - feel free! OhioBlue 10 hrs ago #5
I still have a set of Iran-Contra Scandal trading cards. Pinback 8 hrs ago #10
That's what I remember! usonian 8 hrs ago #11
Would they fit on your livng room floor.. ananda 9 hrs ago #6
Bookmarking MustLoveBeagles 10 hrs ago #3
This brings to mind that famous line, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" flashman13 10 hrs ago #4
Your spell checker substituted "tentacles" for usonian 7 hrs ago #12
... flashman13 5 hrs ago #13
Very interesting and yes it is a question, why did she feel the need to Bev54 9 hrs ago #7
Hoping the Streisand effect causes some positive actions! erronis 9 hrs ago #8
Time for a lot of independents to dog these aholes. They should set up a legal fund for all the Bev54 9 hrs ago #9

usonian

(24,122 posts)
2. Are you going to market Epstein trading cards, or do I have to 😀
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:25 PM
10 hrs ago

A set comes out now and then when there's a big event or scandal.

flashman13

(2,220 posts)
4. This brings to mind that famous line, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 07:02 PM
10 hrs ago

Epstein's tentacles seemed to reach everywhere.

Bev54

(13,326 posts)
7. Very interesting and yes it is a question, why did she feel the need to
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 08:04 PM
9 hrs ago

have lawyers threaten an independent journalist. The Streisand effect never works out well for these arrogant people who think they are above all others.

erronis

(23,091 posts)
8. Hoping the Streisand effect causes some positive actions!
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 08:16 PM
9 hrs ago

But as we've seen with these scoundrels, they just double down and then disappear if the heat gets too high.

Bev54

(13,326 posts)
9. Time for a lot of independents to dog these aholes. They should set up a legal fund for all the
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 08:21 PM
9 hrs ago

independents that are working on aspects of the Epstein cabal, as long as they are writing with credibility, legal costs will be covered and some big name lawyers should donate their time, like Trump blackmailed so many into.

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