#influence-peddling

#influence-peddling

Newly unearthed emails last week shone light on Epstein's role as freelance client development officer, acting as a channel between political figures and business titans, greasing up the former with lifestyles they could not afford and the latter with avenues of political influence. Exposure of that channel ended the career of Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK ambassador to the US, provoking a crisis in Britain's Labour government, after emails showed that Mandelson had steered a $1bn banking deal Epstein's way.