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Anonymous ID: d93f78 Dec. 27, 2019, 4:02 a.m. No.7631246   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1251 >>1279 >>1289 >>1297 >>1313 >>1333

Exclusive: FBI investigates Briton, others for Epstein links - sources

Mark Hosenball

(Reuters) - The FBI is investigating British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and several other people linked to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.

They said a principal focus of the FBI’s investigation is Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, and other “people who facilitated” Epstein’s allegedly illegal behavior.

Maxwell has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing. Her lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.

The FBI also is following up on many leads received from women who contacted a hotline the agency set up at its New York field office in the wake of Epstein’s arrest in July, the sources said.

One of the sources said the probe remains at an early stage…

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-investigation/

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WORLD NEWS DECEMBER 27, 2019 / 4:29 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Who is Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidant under FBI investigation?

Jan Wolfe

(Reuters) - Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s death has led to mounting questions about his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who Reuters reported on Friday is being investigated by the FBI along with several other people linked to him.

Maxwell has been accused in court filings of facilitating a sex-trafficking operation that brought girls to Epstein’s opulent Manhattan home, but she has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing. Her lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.

Maxwell, 58, was an ex-girlfriend of Epstein’s who became a longtime member of his inner circle. In a 2003 Vanity Fair article, Epstein was quoted as saying Maxwell was his “best friend.”

She is the daughter of late British media magnate Robert Maxwell, who founded a publishing house and owned tabloids including the Daily Mirror. It emerged after Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death in 1991 that he had looted hundreds of millions of dollars from employee pension funds to prop up his crumbling business empire.

In the early 1990s, Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York, where she worked selling real estate. Around that time she began her romantic relationship with Epstein, a financier who lived in a lavish style and attended high society parties…

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-investigation/who-is-ghislaine-maxwell-the-epstein-confidant-under-fbi-investigation-idUSKBN1YV0W3