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Jacob Shamsian

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Legal Correspondent at Business Insider. Author of zero books. Jayshams.substack.com

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A couple of months ago, I learned about Taste Labs. It's a startup aiming at one of the most vexing issues in AI: How do you end slop and make AI-generated content *good*? And how would you even figure that out? For me, it raised another question: What does that mean for creative people?
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A startup wants to replace human creativity. But first, it needs to eliminate slop.
A startup called Taste Labs hired creatives to teach AI what is good and what isn't. It raises the question, do we want AI to define what is great?
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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check out this week's SLR featuring @chrisalmeida.bsky.social, @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social, @faith-hill.bsky.social, @lonlozzin.bsky.social, @jayshams.bsky.social & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
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☀️ The Sunday Long Read: Influencers, Ice, Romance Slump
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
when a New York trial judge hangs out with a SCOTUS justice — do you think they talk about the whole "Supreme Court" thing
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: Prosecutors looked into the allegations of at least four women who accused Leon Black of sexual misconduct, the Epstein files show. That includes 2 women who said he raped them in Jeffrey Epstein's mansion. www.businessinsider.com/leon-black-e...
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Epstein files show prosecutors investigated Leon Black sexual abuse allegations — but he wasn't charged
The Epstein files reveal that prosecutors were looking into misconduct claims against the billionaire and former Apollo CEO Black as far back as 2019.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
There are some photos of Jeffrey Epstein's corpse here that I don't believe have been made public before www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein *did not* have a baby boy, despite an apparent message from Sarah Ferguson in the Epstein files. "If Jeff had a kid, I think I would have known," his brother Mark Epstein told me. Story here: www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
thinking about how jeffrey epstein had his mirror selfie with steve bannon printed out and framed
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
One of Elon Musk's lawyers in his clash-of-the-titans lawsuit against Sam Altman is also literally a clown. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-la...
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Meet the Elon Musk lawyer who's also literally a clown
Jaymie Parkkinen is a high-powered intellectual property lawyer facing off against Sam Altman by day — and a clown by night.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
If I was Tom Goldstein I would have simply quit playing poker while I was on top
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
NEW: As Steve Bannon filmed 15 hours of interviews with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the two texted about using an obscure legal maneuver. The maneuver could explain why the footage hasn't seen the light of day. 🔗 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Steve Bannon discussed using an obscure legal tactic to join Jeffrey Epstein's legal team
The arrangement could explain why Steve Bannon's 15 hours of Jeffrey Epstein footage haven't seen the light of day.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Oh man, sucks for this guy that he's only a former Honduras Congressman and not a former Honduras President
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate says over 250 emails between top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler and the now-dead pedophile are protected by attorney-client privilege www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
NEW: Harry Beller isn't one of the boldfaced names who can be found all over Jeffrey Epstein's social calendar and emails. But for years, the obscure accountant was entrusted with some of the most delicate parts of Epstein's financial life. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jeffrey Epstein's accountant of 22 years raised alarm bells at JPMorgan. Now Congress wants answers.
JPMorgan flagged Harry Beller's cash withdrawals on behalf of Epstein four times, documents show. Now Congress wants to know what he knows.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Mark Epstein says that the "Bubba" he joked about with his brother Jeffrey Epstein "is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton."
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer and onetime Attorney General candidate and potential SCOTUS nominee, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show
Newly released emails show Kathryn Ruemmler, now Goldman's top lawyer and a former Obama official, maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein for years.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW: Kathryn Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, maintained a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously known, emails show. Ruemmler asked Epstein for career advice when she was tapped to be US Attorney General in Obama admin. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
There are a ton of emails from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet pilot telling him that Donald Trump is screwing up his travel plans because Air Force One is flying out of Palm Beach and no other planes can get in the air
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here's a meme Jeffrey Epstein's brother emailed to him
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NEW: Trump's SullCrom lawyers scored a win at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. They ordered a district court judge to reconsider whether appeals of Trump's criminal conviction should play out in federal — not state — courts.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NEW: John Mulaney attended today's SCOTUS argument while developing a TV show with Neal Katyal, who argued Trump's tariffs are illegal. Mulaney is a huge Constitutional law nerd, their mutual friend Akhil Reed Amar told me: www.businessinsider.com/john-mulaney...
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Jamie Heller @jamiehellerbi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@jayshams.bsky.social is one of the best legal writers in the biz. Lately, he's focused on the intersection of law and business, here walking up to this week's Scotus hearing on Trump's tariffs.
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The Supreme Court could strike down Trump's tariffs — or expand his power instead
The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's tariffs under the IEEPA were legal, a ruling that could expand or limit presidential trade authority.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Devastating. That well-dressed guy photographed after the Louvre heist may not be a French detective after all. apnews.com/article/louv...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Via @jayshams.bsky.social, Michael Wolff is suing Melania for SLAPP and demanding subpoenas, including of Trump. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
10. By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti-SLAPPDeclaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends toexercise fully and expeditiously. Since the statements at issue pertain to matters that largelyoccurred here in the NewYork City this action will call for and permit subpoenas to numerouswitnesses, most of them in NewYork. Subpoenas will go to those who frequented or who werepart of Epstein's circle, including Mr. Trump.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I accidentally got my toddler into Edward Gorey books and now his favorite animals are things like the Ampoo and the Ombledroom
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
If you ever feel like you've accomplished a lot in your life, just remember that a teenage girl invented France
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Robert Jackson — the former Supreme Court justice, Solicitor General, and Nazi war crimes prosecutor — gave a speech in 1940 titled "The Federal Prosecutor" that is considered a must-read for people who join the DOJ. This passage has been circulating a lot lately:
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The new Dan Brown book has a brief cameo from @NormEisen, the attorney and former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Business Insider has a nifty new feature that'll update you whenever I publish a new story. Try it here: www.businessinsider.com/author/jacob...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In legal arguments, Lisa Cook's lawyers have leaned on the 9-0 Supreme Court decision called Humphrey's Executor to argue for Fed independence. But while it technically remains the law of the land, the Supreme Court has signaled it'll soon be dead. www.businessinsider.com/supreme-cour...
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A 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent protecting Fed independence is on its deathbed
A Supreme Court case called "Humphrey's Executor" has shielded independent agency leaders from political influence. In the Trump era, that's changing.
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737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I don’t litigate so I don’t know whether this is the case, but I would think that if you did this in discovery you would have a very rough time with the judge
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So the House Oversight Committee just released 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Nearly all of it was already public. The committee hasn't said what's new. If I wanted to obscure new info about Epstein from the public while pretending to be transparent, this is exactly what I'd do.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
the latest season of sesame street features elmo as a degen gambler who gradually comes to realize he's destroying the lives of the people who love him
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I joined @lauracoates.com's CNN show with the great Sarah Krissoff and @willsommer.bsky.social to talk about what's happening with the Trump administration and the Epstein files It's an important case, and I hope we will all get to see these files soon. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
NEW: I spoke to four people who've seen the Epstein files. They say there are no signs in there that Jeffrey Epstein worked for intelligence. Nothing the US government wanted to be classified. No interest from intelligence agencies. Nada. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Rudy Giuliani's legal problems are far from over. Accuser Noelle Dunphy is keeping up her sexual assault lawsuit, despite Giuliani's motion to dismiss.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million, alleging it failed to learn the lessons of the lawsuit from Dominion, to which it paid $787.5 million 2 years ago. www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
likely place for him to be
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The former CEO of Barclays bank lied when he told financial regulators he had only a "purely professional" relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a British court ruled. businessinsider.com/jes-staley-b...
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Ex-Barclays CEO lied about having a 'purely professional' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, court rules
Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley failed to overturn a British regulator's ban on his involvement in the financial industry.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I don't think I've seen this reported elsewhere — Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra and Matthew Schwartz attended the E. Jean Carroll appeal hearing yesterday, as did Boris Epshteyn. Giuffra and Schwartz represent Trump in his New York criminal and civil fraud appeals.
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Trump's lawyers say the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling should save him $83.3 million
President Donald Trump is invoking the Supreme Court's sweeping immunity decision to try to wipe away defamation damages to E. Jean Carroll.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
every once in a while my spotify shuffle ends up on that one obscure banger from an artist i met at a downtown art show who posts disturbing thoughts on instagram about how lizard people are out to get her
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The Law & Crime network is making an AI-generated recreation of Diddy trial testimony using the official court transcript.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is haunting the Trump administration www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
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These are the real 'Epstein files' the government has yet to release
Trump has not released all the 'Epstein files' as promised. The still-secret docs could help answer some of the mysteries about the financier.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A message Diddy sent from his Blackberry in 2012
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Laura Italiano @litaliano.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-... What do Mike Meyers, Harry Potter, and #Andor have in common? All had cameos in the three days of jury selection for the #USvCombs trial. Also weed and Altoids. Read about the strangeness — @businessinsider.com — @jayshams.bsky.social
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Altoids, K-Pop, and a Harry Potter wand: The strangest moments of Diddy jury selection
The Diddy trial jury selection process had lighter moments, including mentions of "The Lord of the Rings" and one prospect's 'Andor' binge-watching.
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I can think of the perfect Catholic centrist elderly man who can bring a major institution through a transition period. And he currently has plenty of time on his hands.
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