In 2015, an Emirati businessman emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking the financier to put him in touch with Elon Musk, according to leaked emails reviewed by the Lever.
According to the records, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Middle East logistics giant DP World and one of President Donald Trump’s early Middle Eastern business partners, wanted to chat with Musk about using Tesla batteries at a hotel Sulayem was building in Dubai. Musk, among the world’s richest people, would go on to serve in Trump’s second administration.
“Can you put me in touch with Elon [M]usk or ask him to refer me to someone at his company so we can discuss,” Sulayem wrote Epstein on May 29, 2015, years after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting a minor.
Following years of criminal proceedings and news investigations, federal agents arrested Epstein for sex trafficking in July 2019. The following month, Epstein, known for fraternizing with many of the world’s most rich and powerful, was found dead in his federal jail cell.
Partial releases and leaks of federal investigators’ records on the matter have indicated Epstein cultivated ties to politicians of all stripes, including President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle. After repeated pushback on the issue, Trump agreed last month to release the full “Epstein files.”
While the documents are supposed to be released by December 19, portions of Epstein’s communications have continued to emerge. That includes twenty thousand alleged Epstein emails recently obtained and vetted by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit that “archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents in the public interest.” According to the investigative news outlet Drop Site, which first reported on the emails, the documents contain the same forensic signatures as other leaked Epstein materials.
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Auteur: Freddy Brewster
