UK ambassador was sacked in September after other tranche of emails showed he told disgraced financier to ‘fight for early release’
Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington over his association with Jeffrey Epstein, was in contact with the pedophile financier as late as 2016, new emails have revealed.
Mandelson was sacked in September over leaked emails in which he expressed his support for Epstein and urged him to “fight for early release” in 2008 while the disgraced financier was facing charges of soliciting sex from minors. The tranche of emails revealed the pair had maintained contact until 2010.
But new emails released by Democrats on the House oversight committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the US government’s handling of the Epstein case, has revealed the pair were still in contact six years later.
The documents contain an email from Epstein to Mandelson on 6 November 2016 which said: “63 years old. You made it,” in an apparent reference to Mandelson’s birthday two weeks earlier.
