Meet the NBA Player in the Epstein Files

EPISODE 318: Honorable.

This is an episode about the most viral video in the most infamous story in modern American politics.

But what caught my eye wasn’t Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein. It was a background character who’d been hiding — in a way that would otherwise be impossible, at six-foot-11 — in basically plain sight.

This larger-than-life character’s name, it turns out, is the Honorable Tom McMillen.

You might remember him as the ninth overall pick in the 1974 NBA Draft, out of the University of Maryland, where he now sits on the Board of Regents.

He also served three straight terms as a Democratic congressman.

And when we asked Congressman McMillen if he’d indulge a conversation about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein and also his own historic, decorated life, he said… yes.

Before cancelling on us, five days later.

But in those intervening days: something fascinating happened.

The next wave of Epstein files — tens of thousands of pages of e-mails sent to and from the financier and convicted child sex offender, who died in 2019, in prison, while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges — became searchable, with the help of publicly accessible databases. And I fell deep into this new rabbithole.

Tom McMillen, meanwhile, did something I truly did not expect:

He rescheduled.

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