At Least Half A Dozen Top Trump Administration Officials Appear In The Jeffrey Epstein Files - Beritaja

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz

A 2016 email from the erstwhile TV characteristic to Epstein appeared to incorporate an invitation to a Valentine's Day statement successful 2016 — 3 years earlier Epstein was charged successful a national activity trafficking lawsuit successful New York, and 8 years aft he pleaded guilty successful Florida to procuring a personification nether 18 for adultery and felony inducement of prostitution.

Dr. Mehmet Oz.John Lamparski / Getty Images

"Mehmet and Lisa Oz's Valentine's Celebration," publication the subject line of the February 2016 email to Epstein. The email shows a nexus to a Paperless Post invitation that is nary longer active. Another nexus successful the email appears to show the couple's Palm Beach reside for the event.

It's unclear if Epstein attended the event. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not respond to a petition for comment.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg

Stephen Feinberg, the billionaire financier who's now the No. 2 charismatic astatine the Pentagon, makes galore appearances successful the recently released files successful relationship pinch the business he founded, Cerberus Capital Management.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg.Win McNamee / Getty Images file

Details of their relationship are murky: location are numerous business documents involving Cerberus that see Feinberg's sanction complete a span of years betwixt 2009 and 2018, including immoderate involving Deutsche Bank, 1 of the banks Epstein was known to do business with. The documents incorporate an email speech betwixt officials astatine Deutsche Bank successful which the bank’s compliance unit look to beryllium conducting a reappraisal of Cerberus and Feinberg’s accounts.

It's unclear why the documents were successful the Epstein files.

Cerberus did not respond to a petition for remark and a spokesperson for the Pentagon declined comment.

RFK Jr.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. besides appears successful the files, some successful Epstein's formation logs and successful an email exchange betwixt Epstein and Maxwell.

Epstein wrote Maxwell successful 2012 that he'd precocious gone "dinosaur and fossil hunting connected the ranch" pinch a fossil expert, and she replied, "Love that — didn’t we spell fossil hunting pinch him and Bobby Kennedy successful NDakota?"

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Evan Vucci / AP file

Maxwell besides discussed Kennedy and the travel during an question and reply with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche past year. "Bobby Kennedy knew him," she said, referring to Epstein. "Because we went connected a travel together. Was — we went to — dinosaur bony hunting successful the Dakotas," she added, estimating the travel took spot successful 1993 aliases 1994. She said she ne'er saw Kennedy do thing inappropriate.

HHS did not respond to a petition for comment, but Kennedy had antecedently acknowledged he'd flown connected Epstein's level successful the 1990s and gone connected the dinosaur hunt.

“My woman knew his woman Ghislaine Maxwell and they offered america a thrust erstwhile we were going down to spot my mother," he told NewsNation successful 2024. "I was pinch 2 children and my woman … connected the level astatine that time. I knew thing about Jeffrey Epstein.”

Kennedy said his 2nd travel pinch Epstein came “one aliases 2 years later.”

“We took my kids fossil hunting successful Pine Ridge Reservation successful South Dakota. That was the grade of thing that I had to do pinch Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane,” he told the network, adding that too moving into him astatine societal events, he “had nary narration pinch him.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick

The commerce caput was shown successful the emails to person a longer history pinch Epstein than he'd antecedently claimed.

Lutnick told the New York Post successful October that he thought Epstein, his erstwhile next-door neighbor, was “disgusting” and that he wanted thing to do pinch Epstein aft the financier made an inappropriate remark successful his beingness successful 2005.

“So I was ne'er successful the room pinch him socially, for business aliases moreover philanthropy. That feline was there, I wasn’t going ’cause he is gross,” Lutnick told the paper.

The files, however, showed Lutnick and Epstein emailing successful 2012 about a imaginable vessel travel to Epstein’s backstage island.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.Evan Vucci / AP file

His agency initially sidestepped questions about whether he took the trip, but Lutnick acknowledged the sojourn during a Senate hearing connected Tuesday.

“My woman was pinch me, arsenic were my 4 children and nannies. I had different mates with, they were location arsenic well, pinch their children, and we had luncheon connected the land — that is existent — for an hour,” he said.

He said location was thing “untoward” about the trip, but could not callback why they did it.

The Commerce Department said successful a connection aft the emails were released that “Secretary Lutnick had constricted interactions pinch Mr. Epstein successful the beingness of his woman and has ne'er been accused of wrongdoing.”

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan

Navy Secretary John Phelan's sanction appeared successful a March 2006 formation manifest for Epstein's 727, which was coming to New York from London, according to a CNN reappraisal of Epstein-related documents released by the House Oversight Committee past year.

At the time, Phelan was moving for MSD Capital, a backstage finance institution serving billionaire Michael Dell. MSD Capital did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Secretary of the U.S. Navy John Phelan.Andrew Harnik / Getty Images file

Beritaja has not independently verified the report. The Navy did not respond to a petition for comment.

Rep. Balint asked Bondi if DOJ had asked Phelan about his "ties to Jeffrey Epstein" astatine Wednesday's hearing. "I don't cognize whether he has addressed those aliases not," Bondi said.

Fed nominee Kevin Warsh

On Jan. 30, Trump announced on societal media that he was nominating Kevin Warsh, a erstwhile Fed committee governor, to beryllium the cardinal bank's adjacent chairman. Hours later, the Justice Department released millions much Epstein-related documents.

One of those included a 2010 email, wherever a redacted sender forwarded Epstein a database of group branded “St. Barth’s Christmas 2010.” Warsh is listed connected page 4 pinch a note: “House adjacent Isle de France.”

Kevin Warsh.Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg via Getty Images

It is chartless whether Warsh ever took the travel aliases went to St. Barts. Beritaja reached retired to some Warsh and the White House for much accusation astatine the time, but neither responded.

Former DOGE caput Elon Musk

Elon Musk, who headed the Department of Government Efficiency as a typical authorities worker past year, made galore appearances successful the recently released files successful friendly-sounding email exchanges pinch Epstein successful 2012 and 2013.

In a November 2012 email, Epstein wrote to Musk, “how galore group will you beryllium for the heli to the island.” Musk responds: “Probably conscionable Talulah and me. What day/night will beryllium the wildest statement connected your island?”

In December 2013, Musk wrote, “Will beryllium successful the BVI/St Bart’s area complete the holidays. Is location a bully clip to visit?” Epstein responded, “any time 1st — 8th. play it by receptor if you want. ever abstraction for you.”

Elon Musk.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Beritaja hasn’t verified whether Musk traveled to the land and he is not accused of immoderate wrongdoing. Musk told Vanity Fair successful a 2019 question and reply that Epstein “tried many times to get maine to sojourn his island. I declined.”

After the emails were released, Musk posted connected X, “I knew that I would beryllium smeared relentlessly, contempt ne'er having attended his parties aliases been connected his ‘Lolita Express’ level aliases group ft connected his creepy land aliases done thing incorrect astatine all.”

Former White House main strategist Steve Bannon

The caller files show a deeper narration than antecedently known betwixt Epstein and Bannon, a longtime Trump state who served arsenic White House chief strategist during his first administration.

Bannon has said he was moving connected a documentary about Epstein, and the merchandise shows they often emailed and texted each different betwixt January 2018 and June 2019, days earlier Epstein was arrested connected national activity trafficking charges.

“Now you could understand why Trump wakes up successful the mediate of the nighttime sweating erstwhile he hears you and I are friends,” Epstein texted to Bannon connected June 28 of that year, according to messages released by the DOJ.

An April 2019 matter shows Bannon, who's helped stoke conspiracy theories about Epstein, offering to thief “rebuild your image.”

Bannon has not been accused of immoderate wrongdoing successful relationship pinch Epstein’s crimes. He did not respond to requests for comment.