Even before Forester de Rothschild’s 1995 meeting with Clinton, Epstein was already an established Clinton donor.
Records revealed that Epstein had donated US$10K to the White House Historical Association and attended a Clinton donor reception alongside Ghislaine Maxwell as early as 1993.
Clinton’s long-time friend from his college days, A. Paul Prosperi, was the facilitator of that early relationship, as Prosperi had a decades-long relationship with Epstein and visited Epstein at least 20 times while he was in jail in 2008.
Prosperi was intimately involved with the above noted 1993 fundraiser for the White House Historical Association.
The relationship between Epstein and Clinton continued well after Clinton left office in 2001, a fact well-documented by Clinton’s now-infamous 26 flights on Epstein’s private “Lolita Express,”jet .
Arguably the most infamous flight taken by Clinton on Epstein’s jet was a lengthy trip to Africa, where actor Kevin Spacey, accused of raping minors; Ghislaine Maxwell; and Ron Burkle, a billionaire friend of Clinton’s accused of soliciting the services of “super-high-end call girls,” were also present.
Clinton specifically requested that Epstein make his jet available for the trip well in advance, with Doug Band as the intermediary.
In addition to flights, an Epstein-run foundation gave US$25K to the Clinton Foundation according to the 2006 filing tax return of Epstein’s former charity, the C.O.U.Q. Foundation.
Notably, Epstein’s lawyers, Alan Dershowitz among them, claimed in 2007 that Epstein had been “part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project ‘bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.’”
Before the associations between Epstein and the Clinton White House in the early 1990s were made public, Ghislaine Maxwell was thought to have been the bridge between Epstein and the Clinton family because of her close relationship to the family.
However, the close relationship between Maxwell and the Clintons appears to have developed in the 2000s, with Politico reporting that it began after Bill Clinton left office.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/21/ghislaine-maxwell-brought-bill-clinton-to-jeffrey-epstein-report/
Clinton associate Doug Band was also reportedly friendly to Maxwell, appearing at an exclusive dinner party she hosted at her residence in New York in 2005.
Maxwell later became particularly close to Chelsea Clinton, vacationing with Chelsea in 2009 and attending her wedding a year later. Maxwell was also associated with the Clinton Global Initiative at least up until 2013.
Other close Clinton associates and officials in the early 1990s also had notable relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, including Mark Middleton, who was a special assistant to Clinton Chief of Staff Mack McClarty beginning in 1993, and met with Epstein on at least three occasions in the White House during the early Clinton years.
In addition, White House social secretary under Clinton, Ann Stock, appears in Epstein’s “little black book” as does Doug Band, once referred to by New York Magazine as “Bill Clinton’s bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper.” Band also appears several times in the flight logs of Epstein’s private jet.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html
Epstein was also associated with both Bill Richardson, former ambassador to the UN and former secretary of energy under Clinton, and Larry Summers, secretary of the treasury under Clinton.
Both Richardson and Summers sit on the advisory board of controversial energy company Genie Energy, alongside CIA director under Clinton, James Woolsey; Roy Cohn associate and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch; Mega Group member Michael Steinhardt; and Lord Jacob Rothschild.
Genie Energy is controversial primarily for its exclusive rights to drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Bill Richardson also has ties to Lynn Forester de Rothschild as she was on the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board while Richardson was secretary of energy.
Bill Richardson appears to be among the Clinton era officials closest to Jeffrey Epstein, having personally visited Epstein’s New Mexico ranch and been the recipient of Epstein donations of US$50K to his 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial campaigns.
Richardson later gave Epstein’s donation in 2006 to charity after allegations against Epstein were made public.
Richardson was also accused in recently released court documents of engaging in sex with Epstein’s underage victims, an allegation that he has denied.
Whitney Webb: a professional writer, researcher and journalist was a senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News
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