Jeffrey Epstein Files Part II - news and discussions
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FarhanSiddiqui
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Hakwa Nadro
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Bhai if wishes were horses, most probably the deal will be made and the two whores will only say what they are told to say, we could be looking at a lot of innocents lives destroyed while the main culprits make their escape.
FarhanSiddiqui
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US ICE has many former Zionist soldiers
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KingQamaR
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FarhanSiddiqui
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“Jerky” code word for the human baby meat.
FarhanSiddiqui
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What if the main actors were Muslims ?
Hakwa Nadro
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What a joke, why the US House Oversight Committee? Why isn't she handed over to some local police department who can apply the third degree and she would be singing like a bird or maybe ship her of to Guantanamo facilities. Clearly the US politicians are taking the whole world for a ride.Maxwell refuses to answer questions about Epstein in congressional hearing
Caitlin Wilson and
Cai Pigliucci, at Capitol Hill
Watch: New footage of Ghislaine Maxwell in prison cell released by DOJ
Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee on Monday.
Maxwell appeared virtually for a closed-door deposition from the Texas prison where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
Republican House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said that "as expected", Maxwell pleaded the Fifth Amendment, invoking her right to remain silent.
"This is obviously very disappointing," he said. "We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators."
Hakwa Nadro
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Are there any protests planned by the citizens of The USA to demand a complete release of unredacted files. Americans should be on the streets by now in tens of millions demanding accountability and arrests / prosecution.
Khansaheeb
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How most likely Epstein worked:
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US Commerce Secretary Lutnick downplays Epstein ties amid resignation calls
Lutnick, a prominent member of the Trump adminstration, has faced Senate questions over a 2012 meeting he had with Epstein.Listen to this article | 4 mins
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attends an event in the White House on February 2 [Alex Brandon/AP Photo]
By News Agencies
Published On 10 Feb 202610 Feb 2026
United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played down his connections to child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails shared details about their interactions.
Facing calls for his resignation, Lutnick told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he “barely knew” Epstein, although emails appear to contradict his earlier accounts of their relationship.
“I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person,” Lutnick said.
The commerce secretary is the latest member of the political and financial elite to face pressure over relations with the disgraced financier.
The administration of President Donald Trump has come under particular scrutiny for its handling of government files related to Epstein and the president’s own years-long relationship with the convicted sex offender.
During Tuesday’s hearing, lawmakers pressed Lutnick about statements he made on a podcast last year, explaining that he had pledged to “never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again” after he and Epstein met in 2005.
Lutnick said he made the decision after Epstein showed him and his wife a massage table featured prominently in his residence and made sexually suggestive comments about it.
But recently released emails suggest that Lutnick may have visited Epstein’s private island for a lunch meeting in 2012 and may have met on other occasions as well.
“You led people to believe that you had cut off all contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the 2005 encounter you and your wife had in his apartment,” Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, told Lutnick at the committee hearing.
“But as I’m sure you know, the Epstein files show a very different record of interaction.”
Lutnick, however, downplayed his interactions with Epstein and emphasised that nothing “untoward” happened in the 2012 encounter.
“I know, and my wife knows, that I have done absolutely nothing wrong in any possible regard,” Lutnick said.
The apparent contradiction emerged after the Department of Justice released 3 million pages of Epstein-related records on January 30, in an attempt to satisfy the requirements of the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008, but he continued to enjoy close relationships with some of the most influential figures in politics, business, culture and science for years afterwards.
In 2019, Epstein was re-arrested and charged with federal sex-trafficking crimes. He was found dead that year in his jail cell, in what medical examiners ruled a suicide.
His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving a 20-year sentence for her participation in Epstein’s crimes, including child sex trafficking.
But critics have argued that few of those involved in Epstein’s crimes have faced any consequences.
The government in the United Kingdom is currently facing a political crisis over Epstein’s connections to the country’s former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson.
In October, King Charles III also stripped his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of his titles following mounting evidence of his relationship with Epstein.
But there are few signs that the US is on the verge of a similar reckoning. Trump has previously called the scrutiny of the Epstein files a “hoax” and a Democrat-led “scam”.
Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, two lawmakers who spearheaded the Epstein Files Transparency Act, have both called on Lutnick to resign.
“This is bringing down the British government. It may bring down the monarchy. It’s bringing down elites,” Khanna, a Democrat, said on Monday. “What are we doing here in the US to stand up to the Epstein class? We’ve got a commerce secretary who is all over the files.”
Massie, a Republican, wrote on social media that Lutnick’s contradictory statements raise questions that need to be resolved.
“Lutnick went to the island and was in business deals with Epstein, long after Lutnick says he parted ways and even after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes,” Massie said. “What else is Lutnick covering up with respect to his association with Epstein?”
Still, at a Tuesday news briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Lutnick.
“Secretary Lutnick remains a very important member of President Trump’s team, and the president fully supports the secretary,” she told reporters.
Leavitt also brushed aside reports that Maxwell is seeking clemency from Trump, calling the issue “not a priority” for the administration.
US Commerce Secretary Lutnick downplays Epstein ties amid resignation calls
Lutnick, a prominent member of the Trump adminstration, faced Senate questions over a 2012 meeting he had with Epstein.
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Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal
Epstein leveraged ties with Mortimer Zuckerman to try to steer tabloid’s coverage of abuse allegations.Listen to this article | 8 mins
Billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman appears in the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files, which show their financial and personal relationship and how Epstein tried to use Zuckerman to influence coverage of himself by a newspaper the media tycoon owned, the New York Daily News [File: Henry S Dziekan III/Getty Images via AFP]
By John Power
Published On 9 Feb 20269 Feb 2026
Jeffrey Epstein pressured a media tycoon he did business with to quash coverage of allegations of his sexual abuse of girls, according to documents released by the United States Department of Justice.
Epstein leveraged close personal and professional ties with the Canadian-American billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman to try to influence the New York Daily News’s coverage of allegations against him after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution, the documents show.
After Epstein reached out to Zuckerman, the then-owner of the Daily News, the tabloid first delayed its coverage of the allegations and then omitted details that the late financier had specifically requested be left out, according to the documents.In an email dated October 9, 2009, Epstein shared a “proposed answer” to questions from the newspaper with Zuckerman that disputed allegations made against him and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking.
The allegations, which had been put to Epstein and Maxwell by then-Daily News journalist George Rush, included accusations that the pair had subjected a minor known as “Jane Doe No 102” to routine sexual abuse and had engaged in threesomes with “various underage girls”.
The allegations also included claims that Maxwell kept a computer database of “hundreds of girls and oversaw the schedule of girls who came to Epstein’s homes”.
In the proposed response that he shared with Zuckerman, Epstein said “no sex occurred” with Jane Doe No 102 and she had admitted in a deposition to being an “escort, call girl, and a massage parlor worker since the age of 15”.
“All of the adult establishments in which she admitted working require proof of age. Rc the rest of the questions,” Epstein’s email to Zuckerman said.
“These are all malicious fabrications designed to get Mr Edwards clients more money than they normally receive though she did testify under oath that she made as much as 2000 per day,” the email said, referring to Bradley J Edwards, a Florida-based lawyer who has represented many of Epstein’s accusers.
Later that day, Zuckerman told Epstein in an email that the Daily News was “doing major editing over huge objections” and he would “c copy asap”.
“take ghislaine out. if possible,” Epstein responded in an email a few minutes later.
“the very first plaintiff, deposed admitted in a sworn videotaped statement that she lied and was an escort , call girl since age 15. SHE took the fifth. over 40 times.. its crazy.. thanks for you help.”
“Please call me asap,” Zuckerman wrote to Epstein several hours later, before asking Epstein to call him again later that night.
The Daily News ultimately published an article on December 19, 2009, that described Epstein reaching a settlement with his accuser for an undisclosed amount of money.
The article noted that Epstein was facing “more than a dozen” lawsuits from women who accused him of sexually abusing them but made no mention of Maxwell or the allegations against her.
Zuckerman, a staunch supporter of Israel who served as head of the America-Israel Friendship League and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has never been accused of any involvement in Epstein’s crimes.
Rush, who left the Daily News in 2010, confirmed that Epstein had tried to “cajole” Zuckerman, the current owner of US News & World Report, into burying or shaping the story to Epstein’s liking.
Rush said the Daily News decided to delay publication after Epstein offered the newspaper an interview.
“Unfortunately, Epstein immediately insisted that the interview be off the record. He also used the conversation to make remorseless claims that he was a victim of overzealous prosecutors and shyster lawyers,” Rush told Al Jazeera.
Rush said Zuckerman, who sold the Daily News in 2017, never suggested that the newspaper cancel the story altogether or publish coverage that was favourable to Epstein.
“I do recall being advised to leave Ghislaine Maxwell out of the story,” Rush said.
“At the time, the paper’s lawyers had libel concerns, and I saw it as a necessary compromise.”
Rush said he had objected to the efforts to interfere in his story but the episode did not cause a “newsroom furore”.
“Most people hadn’t heard of Epstein at that point. I didn’t like Epstein and Maxwell trying to appeal to the owner,” he said.
“But I was relieved that the story wasn’t killed, just delayed, and hopeful that Epstein might say something quotable in the interview. It speaks to Epstein’s arrogance that he thought he had the power to get Mort to do his bidding.”
Zuckerman’s personal assistant and the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program, an initiative founded by the billionaire to fund scientific collaboration between the US and Israel, did not reply to requests for comment from Al Jazeera.
Ties for two decades
Zuckerman’s ties to Epstein stretch back more than 20 years.In 2005, Zuckerman, who also owned The Atlantic magazine from 1984 to 1999, worked with Epstein on the short-lived relaunch of the gossip-and-entertainment magazine Radar.
After a US congressional panel in September released a scrapbook prepared for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003, Zuckerman was among a slew of high-profile names revealed to have sent the financier their well-wishes.
But the latest tranche of files from the 2019 prosecution of Epstein, released last week by US authorities, show that Zuckerman’s relationship with the sex offender was much closer than previously believed.
In 2008, Zuckerman sought Epstein’s advice on his plans for passing on his estate, sharing sensitive details about his financial affairs in the process, including a copy of his will and an evaluation of his assets that put his net worth at $1.9bn.
In 2013, Epstein drafted several agreements to provide Zuckerman with “analysing, evaluating, planning and other services” related to the billionaire’s plans for passing on his wealth.
Epstein proposed a fee of $30m in a proposal drafted in June 2013 before offering his services for $21m in a revised proposal that December, according to the documents.
In correspondence around this period, Zuckerman appeared to hold Epstein’s claimed expertise in high regard.
“Your questions have been critical to my growing understanding of how much lies ahead before my finances are properly organized,” Zuckerman wrote to Epstein in an email dated October 12, 2013, after the financier had earlier claimed to have identified “wild errors” in Zuckerman’s accounting of his finances.
“You have been an invaluable friend and In the most constructive way a provocateur I am completely grateful and am now beginning to focus, in on the issues you have raised. With appreciation from a hesitant amateur Mort.”
It is not clear whether Zuckerman ultimately signed the agreement proposed by Epstein.
Zuckerman and Epstein communicated regularly, and the two men arranged numerous dinners and other meetings over the years, according to the documents, including at the financier’s Manhattan home.
“Mort is now booked for tonight at 8:30…i am being asked if you could see him this weekend…please advise,” Lesley Groff, Epstein’s personal assistant, wrote on May 5, 2015, in one of many emails detailing appointments.
While Zuckerman turned to Epstein for financial advice, he also appeared to regard him as a friend.
“Hi there. You are very special. And a great friend. Mort,” Zuckerman wrote to Epstein in an email dated August 24, 2014.
Epstein pressed billionaire media mogul to influence coverage, files reveal
Epstein leveraged ties with Mortimer Zuckerman to try to steer tabloid's coverage of abuse allegations.
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