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Part Two: It Takes a Village of Bastards to Make a Weinstein

Behind the Bastards

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David Boyes and Black Cube - The Mossad

Lawyer David Boyes signed a contract with Black Cube that defined their primary objectives as to quote, provide intelligence which will help the client's efforts to completely stop the publication of a new negative article in a leading New York newspaper. When Ronan Farrow got into his reporting, he interviewed Boyes and he was like, this seems like a giant fucking conflict of interest. He said it wasn't a conflict of interest because a Black Cube had found information that showed the, uh, that Weinstein's accusers were lying. Then that would be in the Times's best interest. That is kind of a bummer from a guy who otherwise sounded like a crusading hero lawyer. And he's

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