Newly released Epstein files include references to Donald Trump | Jeffrey Epstein
The so-called Epstein files, newly released Tuesday, contain many references to Donald Trump; These include a senior US attorney’s allegation that the US president was on a plane in the 1990s with a now-deceased convicted child sex offender and a 20-year-old woman.
There is no indication whether the woman was the victim of any crime, and her presence in the files does not mean that she constitutes any crime.
The justice department’s latest filings follow a similar release last week of documents detailing investigations into the billionaire sex offender. In addition to more references to Trump, the files also include more details about Epstein’s relationship with economist Larry Summers and a letter to convicted sexual abuser and gymnastics coach Larry Nassar.
Multiple references to Trump include an email suggesting he was traveling on Epstein’s private jet with women who could be potential witnesses in the case against Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The subject of the email sent by the US attorney for the southern district of New York on January 7, 2020, is “Epstein flight records”.
He writes: “For your situational awareness, I want you to know that the flight logs we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet much more than previously reported (or that we know of), including during the period during which we expect to seek charges in the Maxwell case.
“Specifically, he was listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was involved. He was listed at various times as traveling with Marla Maples, her daughter Tiffany, and her son Eric, among others.
“On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein were the only two passengers listed; on another, the only three passengers were Epstein, Trump, and REDACTED, then 20 years old.
“On the other two flights, two of the passengers were women who could be potential witnesses in a case. [Ghislaine] Maxwell case.”
Trump promised to release files on Epstein during his last presidential campaign. This summer, his administration sparked a backlash after the justice department announced it would not release any files on the late financier and said there was no “incriminating client list” despite attorney general Pam Bondi’s earlier claims that such a document was sitting on her desk.
The announcement sparked bipartisan outrage, including from some Trump supporters, and reignited scrutiny of Epstein’s past ties to Trump, with whom he was friendly for at least 15 years before his departure in 2004. The president has consistently denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities and has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
ministry of justice on tuesday he said in a statement He said that nearly 30,000 pages of documents related to Epstein were released and that “some of these documents contain unfounded and sensational allegations against President Trump, which were submitted to the FBI just before the 2020 elections.”
“To be clear: the allegations are false and false, and if they had any credibility they would certainly have been used as a weapon against President Trump,” the statement reads. “However, in our commitment to law and transparency, the Department of Justice is releasing these documents with legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”
Among the files announced on Tuesday letter This letter appears to have been sent by Epstein to US gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing multiple young gymnasts while in prison.
Letter, Postmarked August 13 2019 and the letter from “J Epstein” at “Manhattan Correctional Institution” to “Larry Nassar” reads: “Dear LN, as you know I have taken the ‘short route’ home so far. Good luck! We share one thing… our love and concern for young ladies in the hope that they will reach their full potential. Our President also shares our love for young, attractive girls. He loved to ‘grab’ a young beauty when he passed by, whereas we are done with the system Grabbing food in cafeterias, life isn’t fair, J. Epstein.
Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019. The death was ruled a suicide.
The letter is also mentioned in another file, FBI laboratory examination request, It states that on September 25, 2019, an FBI agent received a call from a Bureau of Prisons special investigations division lieutenant regarding a letter received by the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
The letter was stated to be “returned to sender” and “in the upper left corner of the letter was written: J. Epstein Manhattan Correctional NYC NY 10007. The letter was postmarked NOVA 220 August 13, 2019 and was addressed to Larry Nassar.”
The filing states that it was sent to a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility and that the reason for “return to sender” was that the addressee was “no longer at this address.”
The FBI document, dated July 31, 2020, states that FBI New York requested the lab “conduct a handwriting analysis comparing the letter to Jeffrey Epstein’s handwriting to conclude whether the person who wrote the letter was Epstein or another unknown individual.”
The new batch of files released by the Ministry of Justice also includes numerous references to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew.
The files also include a photo of an Austrian passport bearing Epstein’s photo, but his name is listed as “Marius Fortelni” and his place of residence is Saudi Arabia. There is also an email exchange from a prosecutor in 2019 stating that the real Fortelni was a real estate developer who resided in Saudi Arabia for a time. The email suggests contacting Fortelni.
“Ask him if he had any reason to know why a passport from his own country with his name on it had Jeffrey Epstein’s photo on it and was found in a safe at Epstein’s mansion?” the prosecutor writes.
“I’ll call him tomorrow,” someone from the “NYPD/FBI Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force” writes in the reply email.
Fortelni did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.
Elsewhere in the slice are extensive correspondence regarding Epstein’s controversial plea deal in Florida in 2007 to resolve a pending sex crimes investigation under federal law and the government’s obligation to notify Epstein’s accusers before the deal was completed.
An email dated October 19, 2007, with the subject “RE: Special Master’s Lawyer Representative Selection,” appears to reference rape allegations filed by a woman against magician David Copperfield. The Guardian previously reported that the alleged victim was Lacey Carroll. Copperfield claimed he was “exonerated” by federal authorities in a 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The email describes a raid by FBI Seattle and FBI Las Vegas “on a warehouse belonging to Epstein’s favorite band, David Copperfield, in connection with allegations that Copperfield raped an adult woman.”
“Copperfield spoke to the girls at Epstein’s house on numerous occasions, and tickets with a ‘backstage pass’ were Epstein’s favorite ‘birthday gift’ to give the girls,” he says. The sender and receiver are corrected.
Later Tuesday, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer issued a statement demanding transparency from the justice department: “Buried in the Epstein files is an email explaining that the Justice Department is investigating at least ten potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department needs to shed more light on who is on the list, how they were involved, and why they chose not to prosecute. Protecting potential co-conspirators is not the transparency that the American people and Congress demand.”
