A short while ago Mandelson was seen leaving his London home with police officers

The ex-US ambassador had been under investigation over allegations he shared market-sensitive government information with Jeffrey Epstein while a minister

Lord Mandelson has not publicly commented in recent weeks on the Epstein files, but the BBC understands his position has consistently been that he has not acted in any way criminally and that he was not motivated by financial gain

The document, which was re-posted after I reported the removal, shows Maxwell's lawyers possess three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that haven't been released to the public.

The record that disappeared — and is now back online — is an evidence catalog showing that those interviews were among the “non-witness material” that DOJ prosecutors produced for Maxwell’s defense team. In other words, this document is proof that Maxwell’s attorneys have those three interviews. It’s also proof that all four of those interviews — part of DOJ’s Maxwell trial evidence — should in fact have been released to the public in the Epstein files.

Why didn’t Trump’s DOJ release all of the victim’s FBI interviews? Why would the DOJ be fine with Maxwell’s attorneys holding these records while apparently denying them to the American public in defiance of the law? The DOJ should release those interviews to the public, an act that would, coincidentally, considerably weaken the hand that we now know Maxwell — perhaps uniquely — holds over the president.

This is a continuation of the post by the same journalist, Roger Sollenberger, who discovered the scrubbed files from the public databases by the DOJ, mentioned in this lemmy post here: https://lemmy.world/post/43334510

Edit: Moved paragraph to the bottom.

Epstein greased the wheels wherever he could, no surprises there:

Epstein emailed and texted with CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling through STT, the released files show. Some officers received financial advice, others, small gifts, and employment opportunities. One officer was invited to perform the steel pan drums on Little St James on multiple occasions; Epstein tasked his assistant with helping another with an interest in accounting to find mentorship. That agent solicited Epstein for a “hard-money loan”, though he told the Guardian the loan never materialized.

Cybersecurity conference DEF CON has added three men named in the Epstein files to its list of banned individuals. They are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.

Pablos Holman, Vincenzo Iozzo, and Joichi Ito are the first names to be added to the shortlist this year, preventing them from attending any future conferences. Organizers said contact with the sex offender provided a rationale for the sanction.

All three are named in the Epstein files as having worked with, benefited from, or were otherwise tied to the disgraced financier during the prior decade, although as mentioned, they aren't accused of being involved in crimes.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating the former prince’s dealings with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

• Photographs of unmarked police cars and plainclothes officers at Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate just after 8am were published on Thursday.
• A statement from Thames Valley police said: “We have today (19/2) arrested a man in his 60s from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. The man remains in police custody at this time.”
• The arrest came as Mountbatten-Windsor celebrated his 66th birthday at home.
• Police had been assessing allegations that Mountbatten-Windsor – formerly known as Prince Andrew – shared sensitive information with the billionaire child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he was a UK trade envoy.
• Oliver Wright, Thames Valley Police’s assistant chief constable, said: “Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office.”

British police have expanded their interest into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Britain, by admitting for the first time they are looking at claims he used dozens of private flights into UK airports to traffic women for alleged abuse by his network of powerful associates.

It comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown said that documents about Epstein released in the US showed in “graphic detail” how the disgraced financier, with links to high-profile people including the former Prince Andrew, was able to use Stansted airport in Essex to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia”.

Emails show Kathy Ruemmler had close ties to convicted sexual abuser she called ‘Uncle Jeffrey’

I didn't see this listed in the community yet, it's from Feb 12th, so Thursday last week.

Kathy Ruemmler, former White House counsel to Barack Obama, and top lawyer at Goldman Sachs until her resignation.

Extensive year long contact with Epstein.

https://epstein-data.com/image_analysis/images?_search=Ruemmler

I have a great deal of respect for the work that's been put into:

https://github.com/rhowardstone/Epstein-research/

In particular this reading guide for members of congress, for documents they should be looking up when availing of the opportunity granted to them, to see unredacted files:

https://github.com/rhowardstone/Epstein-research/blob/main/CONGRESSIONAL_READING_GUIDE.md

I saw the person who made the guide tweet it to Massey on Thursday I think it was. Dunno if it was used.

Came across this substantial effort of what seems to be a single individual, to do research and make sense of released files and other publicly available data such as articles and witness statements.

I haven't had a chance to properly read through the findings, but the motivation is something worthy.

There's a lot of details and information there.

Congressman Ro Khanna just read aloud the names of six powerful men that had previously been redacted from the Epstein Files, names the public was never supposed to hear.

Salvatore Nuara

Zurab Mikeladze

Leonic Leonov

Nicola Caputo

Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem

Lesley Wexner

Let's all watch as nothing happens, since only Les Wexner is American.

Correction:

Nuara might be an NYPD detective mentioned in early cases against Epstein (https://github.com/rhowardstone/Epstein-research/blob/main/individuals%2FKHANNA_SIX_NAMES_INVESTIGATION.md)

The contacts are a mix of academic and scientific, political and public, legal and business associates.

At this point in time (autumn 2016) there were civil lawsuits against JE by "Jane Doe" (Katie Johnson) which ended up being dismissed in November 2016. The lawsuit also implicated Trump.

Email also contains what sounds like some kind of notes about his health, or some notes about what he did that week. I can't figure it out.

LSJ, little st James, also mentioned in there, seemingly.

The guy really didn't care about legibility and typos when writing anything, JFC.

• "dick prostatis". Did he have prostatitis?
• "smell menatlal fit" - small mental fit?

What's the point in mailing something like this to yourself? Journal notes of some kind? Something he had to do in the week coming up?

Source: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00813112.pdf

Epstein also tried to get Peter Mandelson to lobby for a pardon with then Florida Governor Charlie Crist.