Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

Following continued lobbying by Lord Peter Mandelson, Sir Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein in Downing Street as the Prime Minister, according to the BBC. Sir Tony about super-rich financial advisor Epstein, a senior civil servant Matthew Rycroft, dated 14 May 2002, briefs him about over-rich, financial advisor Etstein ahead of a meeting scheduled at 17. 00 GMT that day. In June 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a juvenile. Sir Tony Blair spoke to him for less than 30 minutes in Downing Street in 2002 and discUSsed US and UK politics, according to a spokesperson for Sir Tony. He never met or worked with him again.

This was, of course, long before his crimes were known of and his subsequent conviction,

he said. Lord Mandelson pleaded for the meeting, according to BBC News' chief of staff Jonathan Powell, who told Sir Tony's chief of Staff Jonathan Powell that Epstein was a friend of mine who ex-US President Bill Clinton wanted to introduce to the PM. Government officials had previoUSly blocked the publication of this and other related papers due to fears about the effects on US-US relations. Following Lord Mandelson's dismissal as US ambassador after fresh revelations about his relationship with the disgraced financier, the paper has now been released by the National Archives as a Freedom of Information request.

Lord Mandelson, the new UK government's national security advisor, refers to Epstein as safe in his email to Powell.

Do you remember when Clinton saw TB [Tony Blair] he said he wanted to introduce his traveling companion, Jeffrey Epstein, to TB,

the email on May 7, 2002 states. This was frustrating, TB said at the time, who was in the office for reasons (he says) he was unclear about. I think TB will be interested in meeting Jeffrey, who is also a friend of mine, because Jeffrey is both a prolific scientific catalyst and entrepreneur as well as someone who keeps his finger on the pulse of many world markets and currencies.

He is young and vibrant. He is safe (whatever that means) and Clinton is now doing a lot of traveling with him.

I told TB that Jeffrey is in London next week and that he would like to meet him,the email continues.I have been assured by Jeffrey that he is flexible; he could be here anytime from Tuesday to fit round the diary, but you will obviously need to know how to schedule properly so as to re-schedule accordingly. Can you let me know?

There are three separate handwritten notes on the printout of the email, some of which are illegible, but one of them does say,

do you want to do this. Because you wanted to see Clinton by yourself. I know very little more about him". Lord Mandelson was a backbench MP who had twice resigned from the cabinet but was also a strong vote in Labour at the time. Clinton has admitted to being a former Epstein associate but said he was unaware of his crimes.

In 2008, Epstein was found in Florida for soliciting sex from a person under the age of 18. He died in 2019 while facing a child exploitation trial. The National Archive has also published a schedule titled Trade and Industry Meetings with Industry, which includes a memo that was released on May 14, 2002, briefing Sir Tony about Epstein ahead of a meeting date of 17. 00 GMT that day. The briefing, written by senior civil servant Matthew Rycroft, is marked R, which means restricted. Jeffrey Epstein is seeing you at 5 p. M. Today, Rycroft, the Home Office's permanent secretary, wrote to Blair until March 2025, wrote a letter to Blair.

He is a financial advisor to the super wealthy and a property investor. He is a friend of Bill Clinton and Peter Mandelson.

Epstein is incredibly wealthy and close to Duke of York,Rycroft says.Peter says Epstein now travels with Clinton and Clinton, and Clinton and Sanders want you to meet him,he says.He believes that a talk with him about a) science and b) global economic and monetary trends would be valuable. "The memo was also sent to Powell and Geoffrey Norris, one of Sir Tony's special advisors.

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