"Finally, a Labour prime minister has taken a necessary step. Ordering the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson's contacts with Jeffrey Epstein recognises an elementary truth: if a cabinet minister discusses private government business with financial interests during a crisis, the state must act. Gordon Brown understood this instinctively. Sir Keir Starmer has moved later, and under pressure, but movement alone is not enough."
"In 2003/04 it appears that as a Labour MP he received $75,000 from Jeffrey Epstein. Lord Mandelson says he has no recollection of these payments. Six years later, Lord Mandelson leaked sensitive government information during the banking crunch in 2009 to Epstein, a convicted sex offender, while serving in the cabinet. Emails suggest he advised US bank JP Morgan to threaten the UK chancellor, which by all accounts it did, over a proposed tax on bankers' bonuses."
Sir Keir Starmer ordered the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson's contacts with Jeffrey Epstein. Records suggest Mandelson received $75,000 from Epstein in 2003/04, which he says he cannot recall. In 2009 Mandelson allegedly leaked sensitive government information to Epstein during the banking crisis. Emails indicate he encouraged JP Morgan to threaten the UK chancellor over a proposed bankers' bonus tax; JP Morgan later became a client of his firm's Global Counsel. Mandelson was appointed ambassador to the US and later sacked over Epstein links. The Department of Justice release of Epstein files featured him extensively without triggering automatic expulsion or legislative action. Cash entering a minister's household while in office undermines claims of no personal benefit.
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