#jeffrey-epstein

#jeffrey-epstein

Peter Mandelson was unceremoniously sacked as the UK's ambassador to Washington on Thursday after emails were published in which he had urged his friend Jeffrey Epstein to fight for early release from prison in 2008. For Trump, whose own friendship with Epstein has exposed him to damaging scrutiny, including from his own support base, there is no subject he wants to revisit less.

The Conservative Party has written to Sir Keir Starmer demanding answers over the extent of Downing Street's knowledge of Lord Mandelson's links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Tories also called for the prime minister to release documents relating to Mandelson's appointment, including evidence that shows how No 10 reacted when they learned of his ties to Epstein. On Sunday, the BBC reported that Starmer explicitly asked Mandelson about his links to the paedophile before deciding to appoint him as ambassador to the US.

And then, to add to his bad week, the House Oversight Committee, they released a redacted copy of Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book. He had a 50th-birthday party. People put together a book where people write in, and a lot of people wrote in this book. Bill Clinton's in there, Dershowitz, a lot world leaders, a lot titans of industry.

On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released a letter that depicted a line drawing of a naked woman, with what appeared to be Donald Trump's signature in place of her pubic hair. The letter, which also included an imaginary dialogue between Trump and the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had been included in a book compiled for Epstein's fiftieth birthday, in 2003, and was handed over by Epstein's estate following a congressional request.

The current attrition rate of senior figures from the government is running at one a week this autumn. First Angela Rayner resigns as deputy prime minister, knowing she would be sacked if she didn't. Next Lord Mandelson is sacked as the UK's Ambassador in the United States. Each followed a similar pattern. A drip drip of revelations, the prime minister expressing full confidence in them while not in possession of the full facts about them, and then, after a growing sense of inevitability, they're gone.

The book, which contains sexually explicit snapshots and hand-drawn images, concludes with a less-provocative section titled "Business." It offers a rare glimpse into the Wall Street job that helped launch Epstein's lucrative career as a money manager for businessmen like Les Wexner, the former owner of Victoria's Secret. The section includes letters from five former colleagues from Bear Stearns, the investment bank where Epstein worked for five years before hanging out his own shingle in 1981 as a financial advisor to the rich and powerful.

Following new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein's deep and long-running relationship with J.P Morgan, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act (PETRA) to compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to turn over Epstein-related Treasury records to Senate investigators, read a release from the Finance Committee. Wyden revealed in July that his committee previously uncovered over 4,000 wire transfers to Epstein that were flagged by the government as suspicious.

The letter, and its drawing of a naked woman's torso around an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein, was part of a batch of documents released by the House oversight committee in response to a subpoena after its existence was first reported in July by the Wall Street Journal. The release of the letter and the entirety of the birthday book only intensified a furore that Trump has been attempting to shut down for months