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Cate Brown in Washington

Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show

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Donald Trump appointed Ben Black to lead the US’s largest overseas investment arm. Illustration: Guardian Design/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Ben Black, the head of a little-known government investment agency funded by billions of dollars from US taxpayers, had personal and business ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails and business filings released by the Department of Justice.

His father, Leon Black, had once been the disgraced financier’s highest-paying client – calling on the convicted sex offender for tax advice and to orchestrate payments to women, according to the New York Times and Bloomberg.

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