Fwd: fact-checking

NYM fact-checking memo.

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From: Kern, Lauren
Date: Tue, May 5, 2015 at :29 PM
Subject: fact-checking
To: Michael Wolff

Hi Michael,

Apologies for the delay. I've gone through the piece again and I think we need independent verification of quotes and details from the following people:

Bill Gates

Alan Dershowitz

Eva Andersson Dubin

Mort Zuckerman

Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim

Reid Weingarten

Brock Pierce

Larry Summers

Martin Nowak

Bill Richardson

These people, who are essentially just listed, we could just have you and Epstein confirm, as long as you saw them there personally.

Peter Thiel

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Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australian

Thorbjorn Jagland, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee

Ehud Barack

Hardeep Purie, former head of the UN Security Council

Kairat Kelimbetov, head of the central bank of Kazakhstan

Nathan Myhrvold

Richard Axel, a Nobel prize winner in physiology

Ron Baron, who has $26 billion under management in his Baron Fund

Josh Harris, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management ($164 billion under management) and owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers

We also need to reach out to Sergey Brin and Larry Page about that Google O's story (if this is the first place that has been reported, which I think it is). Just need to give them an opportunity to say, 'that's preposterous,' or whatever.

We need to reach out to Graydon. We can have the fact-checker do this if you prefer.

We need to reach out to If she has no comment that's fine. If she insists it's all true, we should put that in as well.

I think that covers everything. Do you think this is a plan that will work?

Let me know.

Best,

Lauren

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