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This is only part of it, see the link for the rest, which talks about emails, with further reference in the report to Barclays and JP Morgan.

Just goes to show once again all politicians cannot be trusted and certainly only have their own interests at heart - this all after the financial crash, which ****ed everyone over, so still no lessons learned.

Saturday 31 January 2026 20:05, UK

Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein he was "trying hard" to change government policy on bankers' bonuses at his request, months after the convicted sex trafficker had paid thousands of pounds to the then UK business secretary's husband.

Emails released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between the disgraced financier and Lord Mandelson, who was sacked as British ambassador to Washington last year.


The documents include correspondence in September 2009 between Epstein and Lord Mandelson's husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, who asked the financier to pay him £10,000 to fund an osteopathy course and other expenses.

Epstein responds "I will wire your loan amount immediate'y" [sic].

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Mandelson told Epstein he was 'trying hard' to change bonus policy after payment to husband, files show

Emails released by the US Department of Justice shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former UK business secretary Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as British ambassador to Washington last year.
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A few days later, Mr da Silva, who married Lord Mandelson in 2023, replied "thank you for the money which arrived in my account this morning".

Epstein was released from prison in July 2009, having pleaded guilty to trafficking a minor.

In separate emails, exchanged in December 2009, Lord Mandelson, then business secretary in Gordon Brown's government, appears to agree to try to change government policy on taxing bankers' bonuses.

Coming just 18 months after the great financial crash and subsequent state rescue of banks, the subject was highly contentious.

On 9 December 2009, the then chancellor Alistair Darling announced a 50% "super tax" on bonuses, intended to prevent pay being inflated by taxpayer-funded bailouts.
 
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I was having a read through of some the allegations regarding the Trump and Epstein stuff, and have to admit the level of it shocked me - Anyway cut a long story short, this showed up on Twitter from yesterday, hopefully my link works, the allegations are pretty shocking to read...
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Not enough time to read all of that before Match of the Day but, Nixon was impeached for knowing someone broke into a democrat office to steal some information that might be useful to the republicans and Clinton was impeached because a female aid got stain on her dress
 
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Not enough time to read all of that before Match of the Day but, Nixon was impeached for knowing someone broke into a democrat office to steal some information that might be useful to the republicans and Clinton was impeached because a female aid got stain on her dress
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Nixon was forced to resign or be impeached
 
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brb said:
This is only part of it, see the link for the rest, which talks about emails, with further reference in the report to Barclays and JP Morgan.

Just goes to show once again all politicians cannot be trusted and certainly only have their own interests at heart - this all after the financial crash, which ****ed everyone over, so still no lessons learned.

Saturday 31 January 2026 20:05, UK

Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein he was "trying hard" to change government policy on bankers' bonuses at his request, months after the convicted sex trafficker had paid thousands of pounds to the then UK business secretary's husband.

Emails released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between the disgraced financier and Lord Mandelson, who was sacked as British ambassador to Washington last year.


The documents include correspondence in September 2009 between Epstein and Lord Mandelson's husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, who asked the financier to pay him £10,000 to fund an osteopathy course and other expenses.

Epstein responds "I will wire your loan amount immediate'y" [sic].

news.sky.com

Mandelson told Epstein he was 'trying hard' to change bonus policy after payment to husband, files show

Emails released by the US Department of Justice shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former UK business secretary Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as British ambassador to Washington last year.
news.sky.com news.sky.com

A few days later, Mr da Silva, who married Lord Mandelson in 2023, replied "thank you for the money which arrived in my account this morning".

Epstein was released from prison in July 2009, having pleaded guilty to trafficking a minor.

In separate emails, exchanged in December 2009, Lord Mandelson, then business secretary in Gordon Brown's government, appears to agree to try to change government policy on taxing bankers' bonuses.

Coming just 18 months after the great financial crash and subsequent state rescue of banks, the subject was highly contentious.

On 9 December 2009, the then chancellor Alistair Darling announced a 50% "super tax" on bonuses, intended to prevent pay being inflated by taxpayer-funded bailouts.
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husband you say?
Thats one ticked off the caught ****s list of excuses.

Prolly holding the mental health issues one for when hes facing jail time
 
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Sucky said:
husband you say?
Thats one ticked off the caught ****s list of excuses.

Prolly holding the mental health issues one for when hes facing jail time
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Lol oh mate I was waiting for you to spot that line. Then the next pic with Mandelson in his undies next to a woman, his husband will not be impressed <laugh>
 
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Feel like what Mandelson is accused of pales in comparison to Prince Andrew.

But it's being reported on more by some of the media.

Feels like a decision has been made that a politician nearing retirement is a better sacrifice than a royal.
 
brb said:
I was having a read through of some the allegations regarding the Trump and Epstein stuff, and have to admit the level of it shocked me - Anyway cut a long story short, this showed up on Twitter from yesterday, hopefully my link works, the allegations are pretty shocking to read...
https://x.com/MeidasTouch
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Lots of that been reproduced on the General Chat Politics thread - my first thought - must be much worse in the stuff they are still holding back...
 
Mandelson can't remember the photo or where it was, so he suffers from the same ****ing brain disease as Andrew then. How many other British MP's whose names we don't know yet were involved in this.
 
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Feel like what Mandelson is accused of pales in comparison to Prince Andrew.

But it's being reported on more by some of the media.

Feels like a decision has been made that a politician nearing retirement is a better sacrifice than a royal.
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They should be equally sacrificed. Andrew has had a lot of heat in the past, but everyone seems to want to protect Mandelson, including Starmer, he was warned. Keir saying what he says now is all a little too late for me. British politicians and along with British royalty have done nothing but twist and turn and drag this out, in my mind you are as bad as the people you are protecting. Mandelson has a simple choice, speak up and tell the truth, why is that so difficult. If you had any association with Epstein, you need to be stepping forward, not hiding in the shadows such as Andrew and Mandelson are doing, hoping the problem will go away.
 
brb said:
Mandelson can't remember the photo or where it was, so he suffers from the same ****ing brain disease as Andrew then. How many other British MP's whose names we don't know yet were involved in this.
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fukin ****s run the world
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I mentioned this before and got laughed at

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fukin ****s run the world gui

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Always excuses mate, this is what ****'s want, oh he's a good guy, he wouldn't have done nowt, we have been seeing this **** for decades within our establishment, and the problem never goes away because people like @Welshie want to say but yeah but.
 
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Apparently there were approx 6 million unreleased Epstein documents, of which, they've just released 3.5 million... the 'regime' is attempting a 'that concludes everything then' stance but that's not washing with the main advocates for 'full release', including more and more Republicans, as time passes ...

The only rationale for non-release is that the documents either contain identities of victims or are part of already ongoing investigations - given that the last release gave away the identities of numerous previously unknown victims ...

Taking all of the above into account ...

Expect a full invasion of Iran imminently <laugh>
 
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