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The Expanding UK Investigation Into Epstein’s Network and Political Connections · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In the wake of former Prince Andrew being arrested,
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  I told you that it was just the first step
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  for the investigators when it comes to their overall look
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  at what Andrew might have been up to. And well
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  we're certainly hearing that now because according to the Met Police,
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  they're probing a whole range of sexual allegations against Andrew
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  and says that Peter Mandelsson is being investigated over a
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  five hundred billion dollar bell out email that he sent
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  to Jeffrey Epstein. So Prince Andrew got himself caught up
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  in this by the emails, right, procedural emails sending things
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  to Epstein that Epstein wasn't supposed to receive, and that
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  opened the door. And once the door's opened, well who
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  knows where the investigators are going to go. And when
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  it comes to somebody like Andrew with all these skeletons
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  in his closet, not exactly a very comfortable situation to
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  be in. And for me, this was always going to
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  be the result. Once you have an investigation kicked off
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  into you, do you really think that they just stop
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  at the initial allegation or do you think they flip
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  your life upside down as they look for anything that
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  might be considered criminal. And the former Prince Andrew is
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  now finding that out. And that's why I'm so adamant
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  about arresting people who have committed crimes here in America,
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  even if it's just procedural, even if it just has
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  to do with finances, whatever it might be, because it
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  opens that door. Now. Look, I'm not going to sit
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  here and tell you that it's going to end up
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  with Andrew being charged. I don't know, but he's completely
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  exposed now and it's not just for emails. They're looking
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  into everything. So it's going to be real interesting to
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  see how this ends up. Today's article is from the
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  Daily Mail and the headline met police probeing a whole
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  range of sexual allegations against Andrew. Chief confirms and says
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  Peter Mandelsson is being investigated over five hundred billion dollar
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  bellout email he sent Jeffrey Epstein. This article was authored
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  by Mark Duel. Scotland Yard is investigating a whole range
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  of sexual allegations against Andrew mount bat and Winsor to
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  see if they married. A criminal investigation it's chief, says well,
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  I would say so. I think that there's plenty here,
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  But the one caveat to that is with Virginia not
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  being with us anymore, it might be difficult for them
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  to prosecute, right, So we'll have to see where it goes.
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  But I really feel like Andrew is exposed here and
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  that the Joe exotic of the Windsor family for the
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  first time in his life, is seriously in legal jeopardy.
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  Andrew was accused of having sex with jeffreyp Stein's revivor,
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  Virginia Roberts, three times, including when she was seventeen, after
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  being trafficked by the pedophile financier. The former prince was
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  arrested last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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  overclaims he shared sensitive information with Epstein when he was
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  the UK's trade envoy, but Andrew has not been arrested
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  in relation to any sex offenses. Well, that's what I
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  said in the beginning. They're going to nail them on
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  what they can prove right now, or what they think
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  they can prove, and then that opens the door for
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  further investigation. So you'll see the first indictment, right and
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  now I'm not talking about Andrew, but overall, so you'll
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  see the first indictment and then later on they'll supersed
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  that indictment and add more charges if more charges are necessary.
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  So that's basically the process we're seeing here. They had
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  their initial investigation and now that door's open and they're
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  walking through it. Metro Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rally said
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  the force felt claims made by Miss Roberts across four
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  video recorded interviews could not support a probe. Sir Mark,
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  speaking during a visit to Washington, told ABC News those
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  interviews didn't give us any evidence or any allegations of
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  sexual offending or trafficking that we could investigate in the UK.
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  So that's why the investigation didn't go forward. I don't
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  believe that for a second. Sorry, that's a bunch of bs.
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  And the whole entire thing was created to protect Andrew
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  all it to behested the Queen. By the way, Queen
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  Elizabeth was huge in enabling Prince Andrew's bullshit and unfortunately
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  it's proving disastrous for the royal family. But speaking about
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  the new probe, Sir Mark added, those investigations all go
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  wherever the evidence takes them quite comfortable with investigating sort
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  of famous or powerful people. I think it's really important
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  for policing to do that, that sense of operating without
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  fear or favor. The law applies equally to everyone and
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  those cases will go say wherever the evidence leads us. Well,
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  I wish I could believe that that would be great,
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  but history has shown us that Scotland Yard has no
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  desire to investigate Epstein. Sir Mark said the MET is
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  also looking into an email Peter Mandelssyn said to Epstein
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  as he urged the US authorities to release uneradacted correspondence. Well,
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  I don't see why the US wouldn't do that. I mean,
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  if we have some information about Mandelssin that could help
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  the UK, we should definitely release that to them. But
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  we have to remember who we're dealing with, and if
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  they want the cover up to continue, maybe they decide
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  that they don't even want to help the UK and
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  they just keep the files to themselves. Got to make
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  sure the cover ups are protected, no matter what right.
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  Mandelsshn was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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  after being accused of disclosing sensitive information to Abstein when
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  Business secretary. The email that Mandelsyn sent to Epstein appears
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  to show he confirmed an eminent five hundred billion pound
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  ballout package for the euro that day before it was
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  announced in twenty ten. The message released by US authorities
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  in January as part of the Epstein files appeared to
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  have been sent to Abstein after he became a convicted
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  sex offender. Another email from two thousand and nine also
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  appears to show Mandelssinn passed on an assessment by Gordon
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  Brown's advisor of potential policy measures, including an asset sales plan,
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  and that he appeared to discuss attax on banker's bonus.
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  All stuff that's very relevant to Jeffrey Epstein, right, stuff
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  that he can use to manipulate the market. And in
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  my opinion, there is not even any gray area here
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  for Mandelssyn to try and defend himself. You sent these emails, right,
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  You sent the information to Epstein and he didn't have clearance.
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  It seems pretty damn clear cut to me. On May ninth,
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  twenty ten, in the last days of mister Brown's government,
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  Epstein emailed Mandelsn saying, sources tell me a five hundred
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  billion eurobell Out almost complete. The reply from a redacted
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  address or number said SD be announced tonight. A massive
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  rescue package was agreed by Brussels in the early morning
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  hours of May tenth. Everything's about market manipulation. Everything's about
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  trying to get the advantage. And they already have the
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  advantage considering they're billionaires, but they have to have more, right,
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  It's never enough. It's like the lady who claims that
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  she's starving to death because she doesn't have a loaf
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  of bread, but she has a Virginia ham stuffed under
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  her arm. I mean, what are we doing here? Said
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  with Peter Mandelsson, the former ambassador. There is a particular
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  email to do with the bell out after the financial crash,
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  I think in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.
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  It looks like it was shared with Epstein. So we're
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  looking at that as to whether that's a criminal offense.
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  And then colleagues in Thames Valley are looking at other
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  documents that Andrew Mountbatten winsor potentially shared and several forces together.
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  There's a whole range that suggested sexual allegations and those
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  are being assessed at the moment to see whether any
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  of them do actually merit a criminal investigation, and I
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  would say they do. I think there is plenty here
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  for at the very least an investigation. Now does that
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  mean it's going to end up in convictions, of course not.
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  But all I've ever called for is a robust investigation.
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  But for that to happen, the government would have to
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  be transparent and they'd have to be willing to take
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  ownership of the fact that that they created Jeffrey Epstein,
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  and for the government, that is a bridge that is
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  way too far. Sir Mark's visit to America this week
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  follows a meeting with US Ambassador Warren Stevens last month,
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  with the issue of releasing unredacted correspondence raised during the
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  meeting on February twenty fourth, Sir Mark said, of course,
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  there's a big body of that evidence in the US,
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  in all those files, and at some stage we're going
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  to need the unredacted evidence. We need the original copy
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  and where did it come from, And that's going to
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  be necessary if we get to the stage of court cases.
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  Imagine if America decides they're not going to share this
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  with the UK, and that kills the case. I wish
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  I could say that there's no way that could happen,
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  but that's not true. Remember who is running America right now,
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  and remember how far they're willing to go to keep
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  all of this secret. The US Department of Justice released
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  millions of pages of docum mints related to Epstein in January,
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  with some of the other pages showing the extent of
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  the connection between Mandelssohn and the sex offender. Mandelssohn lost
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  his job as the UK's ambassador to the US in
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  September last year due to his association with Epstein. He
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  was arrested last month and subsequently bailed, but later released
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  from his bell conditions, although he remains under investigation. The
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  MET has already made contact with US authorities to seek
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  further detail on what has been disclosed in the files.
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  It's unclear whether the Force will have to submit a
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  formal mutual legal assistance request to gain access to the
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  unredacted files, a process that would take substantially longer. The
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  US authorities previously sent an MLA to the Home Office
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  requesting Andrew's assistance as an alleged witness to Epstein's offending,
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  and that went nowhere. Like usual, the former Prince is
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  also the subject of a misconduct in public office investigation,
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  which is being led by the Thames Valley Police. Andrew
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  and Mandelssohn have both strenuously denied any wrongdoing. When it
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  comes to Andrew, I always knew that this door was
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  going to get opened, and I knew that eventually the
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  floodgates would break. And here we are. So the question
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  is where do we go from here. All the information
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  that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  description box.