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The Guardian - UK
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Arwa Mahdawi

Ghislaine Maxwell was not Jeffrey Epstein’s sole enabler. So why is she the only one in prison?

Donald Trump, Melania Knauss (now Trump), Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein at the Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, Florida in 2000. Photograph: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images

Great news, everyone! We can all stop thinking about Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with the sex trafficking of minors in 2019 and found dead in his Manhattan jail cell shortly after, apparently of suicide. Great minds have looked into the case and discovered there is nothing more to uncover. So don’t waste your time wondering which powerful people might have been part of Epstein’s alleged trafficking operation. There’s nothing to see here – nothing at all. Case officially closed.

That, in essence, was the message from the Trump administration over the weekend. On Sunday, Axios reported on a memo from Trump’s justice department and the FBI that concluded there is no evidence that Epstein was involved in blackmailing people, kept a “client list” or was murdered. Most importantly, the memo said there is no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”.

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