"Pressure continues to mount for Casey Wasserman to resign as head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee following the release of a salacious email exchange he had with Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Wasserman is hardly the highest-profile name mentioned in more than 3.5 million pages of documents released Jan. 30 by the Department of Justice in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Nor is he the most frequently mentioned."
"Bass this week urged Wasserman to resign as head of the committee overseeing the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games because of his ties to Maxwell. "I cannot fire him," Bass told CNN's Dana Bash. "My opinion is that he should step down. That's not the opinion of the board." The LA28 Olympics board of directors has stood by Wasserman, stating they reviewed the documents and support him remaining as chair."
Casey Wasserman faces growing calls to resign as chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee after a salacious email exchange with Ghislaine Maxwell was revealed. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged Wasserman to step down but said she cannot fire him; the LA28 board has reviewed the documents and continues to support him. There is no suggestion of criminal wrongdoing by Wasserman in the files, but his messages with Maxwell demonstrate poor judgment. Maxwell was convicted of child sex trafficking connected to Jeffrey Epstein and sentenced to 20 years; Epstein was arrested in 2019 and died in jail before trial.
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