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             After Maxwell Trial, Epstein Associates Remain Silent

   Harold Hutchison Contributor
   January 05, 2022 8:31 PM ET

     * After the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, many people and entities
       tied to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been
       quiet.
     * Epstein had ties with Prince Andrew, Harvard University and Microsoft
       co-founder Bill Gates.
     * Most of those contacted by the Daily Caller News Foundation did not
       respond to requests for comment.

   Many of those connected with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain
   silent in the face of questions after the trial of a close associate, with
   some entities not even responding to inquiries from the Daily Caller News
   Foundation.

   Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's one-time girlfriend and associate, was
   [42]convicted on five of six counts in December, including a charge of
   conspiring to sex traffic minors. Epstein, who pled guilty to sex charges
   in 2008, was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and [43]committed
   suicide while awaiting trial.

   The guards on duty at the time of his suicide were charged, but the
   charges were [44]dropped during Maxwell's trial.

   Epstein had extensive ties to [45]celebrities, politicians and executives,
   even after he was a convicted sex offender. Among those who were known to
   have been close were L Brands founder [46]Lex Wexner, Director [47]Woody
   Allen, and [48]Prince Andrew. [49](RELATED: Trump All But Confirms Epstein
   Was Banned From Mar-A-Lago, Says It's Proof He Has `Good Taste'

   Andrew is perhaps the most famous of Epstein's friends, having first met
   him in 1999 according to a 2019 report by the [50]New York Post. The Duke
   of York [51]stepped back from royal duties in the wake of an interview
   with the BBC about his ties with Epstein.

   Attorneys representing Andrew did not respond to requests for comment.

   Epstein also had ties with [54]Harvard University, where he donated over
   $9 million, according to an internal report issued by the university that
   showed Epstein made dozens of visits after his 2008 plea-bargain.  The
   university [55]took action against Martin Nowak, a professor who provided
   Epstein with the access,  placing limits on his research and advisory
   activities.

   Harvard did not respond to an email requesting comment on the university's
   ties with the disgraced financier from the DCNF.

   Microsoft co-founder [56]Bill Gates also met with Epstein a number of
   times, as did employees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation according
   to the Wall Street Journal. Gates met with Epstein as late as 2019 despite
   concerns his then-wife, Melinda, expressed.

   "I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about
   getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that
   he had might emerge," Gates said during an interview with [57]CNN host
   Anderson Cooper. "When it looked like that wasn't a real thing, that
   relationship ended." [58](RELATED: British Police Open Review Of Sex
   Trafficking Allegations Against Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell That Were Never
   Investigated)

   The Gates Foundation did not respond to the DCNF's request for comment.

     When will the BBC ask Prince Andrew about his ties to Maxwell and
     Epstein? [59]https://t.co/TlMx0kcV20

     - Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) [60]December 30, 2021

   Prior to Epstein's 2008 conviction on charges stemming from soliciting,
   his legal team included lawyers from Kirkland and Ellis, including former
   independent counsel Ken Starr and Jay Lefkowitz.

   Lefkowitz did not respond to the DCNF's request for comment. Starr, who
   also was part of the legal team, told the DCNF he was seeking to persuade
   the Justice Department to drop the charges.

   "My role, as Of Counsel to the law firm, was to seek to persuade the US
   Attorney's Office that the matter in question was entirely a state
   criminal matter, not a federal matter," Starr said in an email.

   "My law firm handled the representation in an entirely professional
   manner.  We sought to convince the US Attorney that the offenses, as
   charged at that time, were properly entrusted to the Palm Beach County
   State's Attorney's Office for prosecution.  Notwithstanding our arguments,
   the US Attorney was not persuaded," Starr said.
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Links: 

42.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/29/ghislaine-...

43. https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/autopsy-re...

44.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/30/prosecutor...

45.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/11/jeffrey-ep...

46.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/jeffrey-ep...

47.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/10/jeffrey-ep...

48.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/10/virginia-g...

49.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/12/trump-conf...

50.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/24/prince-andrew-r...

51. https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/20/prince-and...

52. https://t.co/1nIJbH1Oge

53.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/147673...

54. https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/02/harvard-re...

55.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/26/harvard-un...

56.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/10/bill-gates...

57.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/bill-...

58.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/16/ghislaine-...

59. https://t.co/TlMx0kcV20

60.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/147667...
 
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