"Newly released emails have raised further questions about the relationship between former minister and ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson and the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Email exchanges published in the US indicate Lord Mandelson was in close contact with the disgraced late financier during a period in which he was at the heart of government amid the financial crisis. The emails suggest Lord Mandelson gave Epstein advance notice of an impending EU bailout, sent him internal government information about the state of the UK economy and lobbied the Treasury on banking policy at Epstein's suggestion."
"One exchange in the newly released emails suggests Lord Mandelson forwarded internal government information to Epstein in June 2009, at which point he was acting as Gordon Brown's business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister. Nick Butler, a policy adviser to the then-prime minister, wrote a memo about the UK's struggling economy in which he recommended selling off government-held assets in order to raise public funds."
Emails released by US authorities indicate frequent contact between Lord Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein during the financial crisis period. The exchanges show Mandelson forwarding an internal June 2009 government memo about the struggling UK economy and potential asset sales to Epstein and responding to Epstein's query about salable assets. The documents also suggest Mandelson gave Epstein advance notice of a proposed €500bn EU bailout in May 2010 and lobbied the Treasury on banking policy at Epstein's suggestion. Millions of related documents remain under review by US Justice Department authorities.
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