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David Boies is under an ethical cloud. Again.

The prominent lawyer David Boies is facing new questions about his role working for several accusers of Jeffrey Epstein.

A shadowy hacker promised evidence to Mr. Boies and a colleague, John Stanley Pottinger, that would have implicated some of the world’s most powerful men, according to an NYT report over the weekend from Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Emily Steel, Jacob Bernstein and David Enrich.

The two lawyers reportedly discussed a plan to use the videos, allegedly of the rich and famous having sex with girls in Mr. Epstein’s residences, to extract money from the men. But there were no damning videos.

The story reveals the extraordinary measures that elite lawyers use to get evidence that could be used to win lucrative settlements — and keep misconduct hidden, allowing perpetrators to abuse again.