Director Patel, I watched some of your Senate hearing yesterday when Senator Kennedy asked you, 'You've seen most of the files. Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these women to besides himself?' You replied, according to the transcript, 'There is no credible information that he trafficked them to anyone else.' He continued: You also said somewhere in the hearing and here today that the problem is that the case files are constrained by limited search warrants from 2006 to 2007.
Patel claimed during the hearing that there is no proof that Epstein was sex trafficking women to anyone but himself during his lifetime. The statement has left critics scratching their heads as Epstein was facing sex trafficking charges when he died in 2019, his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving 20 years for sex trafficking, and victims of Epstein have spoken about compiling their own list of Epstein associates who assaulted them.
Quick update on Keir Starmer's government of national renewal: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime minister has also lost his US ambassador over his known close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker. Hang on he's now also lost his director of political strategy for relating some dirty jokes about Diane Abbott.
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 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.