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Judge releases alleged suicide note from Epstein

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A US judge has published a document that is said to be a suicide note from sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. However, the authenticity of the letter has not yet been confirmed. In the document, Eppstein is said to have written: “You investigated me for months – and found NOTHING!!! “It is a privilege to be able to choose the time to say goodbye.” “NO FUN – IT’S NOT WORTH IT!!”

The document was found by a former cellmate, reported the New York Times and the US broadcaster CNN. It was kept under wraps for a long time. District Judge Kenneth Karas of the Southern District of New York ordered the release of the letter at the request of The New York Times.

In the scandal involving sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick reported gaps in his memory at a closed hearing before a congressional committee. Lutnick could not explain why he and his family had lunch with Epstein on his private island in 2012, committee members said on Wednesday. Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam said Lutnick responded to repeated questions by saying he didn’t remember and couldn’t explain it himself. The Republican committee chairman James Comer, however, emphasized that Lutnick had made understandable statements. Epstein learned that the family was vacationing in the nearby Virgin Islands and invited them.

The two-hour meeting on the island contradicts Lutnick’s previous statements. The former boss of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald
said in a podcast last year that he had vowed to “never be in the same room” with Epstein again after an incident around 2005. At that time, Epstein, who was his direct neighbor in Manhattan, was with one
Housekeeping made a sexually suggestive comment about a massage table. Comer acknowledged that Lutnick had not previously been honest about the island visit. If he is found to have lied to Congress, he will be held accountable, Comer said.

Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January detailed the visit to the island and an invitation from Lutnick to Epstein to a fundraiser for
brought to light by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2015. At a hearing on February 10, Lutnick downplayed the relationship, saying he had only exchanged about 10 emails with Epstein in 14 years and met him three times. “I had hardly anything to do with this person,” he said at the time.