{"id":654694,"date":"2026-03-14T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:55:20","slug":"la28-ignores-wasserman-rebuke-by-la-city-council-over-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/654694\/","title":{"rendered":"LA28 Ignores Wasserman Rebuke By LA City Council Over Epstein Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn overwhelming number of Los Angeles City Council members have some serious issues with Casey Wasserman<\/a> remaining in charges of the upcoming the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad, but LA28<\/a> doesn\u2019t seem to care. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith the Board\u2019s position on leadership established, LA28\u2019s focus remains on delivering a fiscally responsible, privately funded Games that protects taxpayers and benefits Los Angeles,\u201d a LA28 spokesperson said late Friday after the LA local politicians voted 12-0 on a resolution calling Wasserman\u2019s Olympics<\/a> position into question out of his association decades ago with now deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and convicted sex offender\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are on track to deliver a successful Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s not how the LA City Council see it. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the twice delayed vote, the Council, including mayoral hopeful <\/a>Nithya Raman, put on the record <\/a>that they had \u201cconcern regarding the potential conflict between the Olympic movement\u2019s values and Casey Wasserman\u2019s association with the Epstein files, and calls for a thorough and transparent review of his involvement in the ongoing investigations into these matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLacking the ability to actually fire Wasserman, the resolution crafted by Imelda Padilla and Monica Rodriguez,\u00a0of the city\u2019s sixth and seventh districts respectively, urges \u201cthe LA28 Organizing Committee, and the International Olympic Committee, to ensure that all leadership roles are held by individuals who consistently reflect the Olympic movement\u2019s commitment to integrity, accountability, and respect for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCouncil members Bob Blumenfield, Curren Price and Adrin Nazarian were not in attendance for today\u2019s vote in DTLA. <\/p>\n

\n\tWasserman was long presumed to be an mere philanthropic\u00a0acquaintance\u00a0of the vile and very well connected Epstein (who died in mysterious circumstances in a NYC jail in 2019), the massive document dump by\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s DOJ in late January revealed a carnal 2003 correspondence with Maxwell. Wasserman issued a \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d statement on his association with Epstein and Maxwell, and clearly hoped the whole thing would go away. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt has not, and the LA City Council planned to start shaking some tress at the Kirsty Coventry-led IOC<\/a> and other sporting bodies in the next couple weeks to oust Wasserman. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter establishing ties with the legacy driven Wasserman in the early days of her administration, LA Mayor Karen Bass<\/a> recently called for the LA28 chair to resign. <\/a>The poll challenged Bass, who shares a close contact with Wasserman via big donor Jeffrey Katzenberg<\/a>, joins the likes of the West Hollywood City Council, two of LA County\u2019s Board of Supervisors, and various local elected officials in publicly wanting to see the grandson of Hollywood kingpin Lew Wasserman exit stage left from the $7.7 billion and growing games.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile almost everyone but the IOC and the hand-picked LA28 board <\/a>want Wasserman to leave and see a new Olympics boss in his place, today\u2019s statement reads like the 2.0 of the solid vote of confidence the exec received from fellow board members on February 11 in a virtual emergency meeting. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Epstein scandal, which has brought down many in Europe and in corporate America (though not big Epstein pal Trump, yet) hasn\u2019t cost Wasserman his Olympics gig yet. However, as Wasserman unveiled on February 13, as the Winter Olympics concluded, he is selling <\/a>his long curated The Team (previously Wasserman) agency because of the \u201cdistraction\u201d he has become and the clients that were heading for the doors. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs NDAs are inked and prospective Team buyers line up<\/a> to look under the hood, WME<\/a>, CAA, UTA, Range Media Partners<\/a> and some big Wall Street swingers like Goldman Sachs are all in take-a-look mode, I hear. <\/p>\n

\n\tWasserman is hoping this is all old news by the time the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad comes around. With or without Casey Wasserman L.A.\u2019s third Olympics as host city runs from July 14 -30, 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An overwhelming number of Los Angeles City Council members have some serious issues with Casey Wasserman remaining in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":654695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,44827,69,90783,15053,95870,5413,2961,41509,224,5337,3777,49431,84033],"class_list":["post-654694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-casey-wasserman","tag-donald-trump","tag-ioc","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-jeffrey-katzenberg","tag-karen-bass","tag-la","tag-la28","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-olympics","tag-range-media-partners","tag-wme"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116226695476304814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}