As Los Angeles gets ready to host the world for the next Olympics, its mayor, Karen Bass, wants to sideline the man in charge. Bass recently announced that she believes Casey Wasserman, the founder and CEO of a successful sports marketing and talent management agency bearing his name, should resign as chairman of the LA28 Olympic Organizing Committee. Her statement followed the Justice Department’s latest release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, which revealed a 23-year-old salacious email exchange between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The mayor’s call highlights the problem with the congressionally mandated disclosure. Without providing context, the government released millions of pages online, much of it containing information not remotely connected to criminal activity. Inevitably, much of the public has conflated gossip, proximity, and bad judgment with illegality. The document dump itself functioned as a guilty verdict.
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