The public release of more than 20,000 pages of newly unsealed documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has brought to life a long-running scandal over his ties to the rich, the powerful, and the institutions that shielded him for decades.
Last week, Democrats published three emails from Epstein’s estate showing that US President Donald Trump had long been aware of Epstein’s crimes, despite repeatedly denying it in public.
Trump’s team dismissed the release as “cherry-picked,” prompting Republicans to retaliate with a much larger batch of documents that implicated many other US politicians.
Other than Trump, who appears in more than 4,400 of the files — far more than any other public figure, others named include Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince and brother of King Charles; Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon; and a long cast of media, political, and entertainment figures.
Together, the records highlight the sheer breadth of Epstein’s contact network, which spanned politics, business, arts, as well as royalty -- from the US to Europe and the Israeli regime.
Epstein was not merely a predator with rich friends, according to those who knew him. He was a politically connected individual protected for years by powerful US intelligence agencies.
His transformation from a failed schoolteacher into a multimillionaire financier was implausible from the start. Even his highly suspicious “suicide” in 2019 — in a US federal jail with malfunctioning cameras and missing guards — underscored how thoroughly America insulated him until the very end. (more...)
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By Maryam Qarehgozlou https://t.co/Q8ExZFZCAN
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