The Biden White House is refusing to talk about recent revelations that CIA Director William Burns met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in late 2014 during the former's time as President Barack Obama’s deputy secretary of state.
It was revealed over the weekend that Epstein, who was charged by the Justice Department with a slew of sex trafficking charges in 2019 but was found dead in his prison cell in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide, had met with Burns as the future CIA director prepared to exit the Obama administration in 2014.A reporter asked Tuesday if President Joe Biden had a reaction to Burns meeting with Epstein, who had served time in jail for sex crimes and was a registered sex offender.
The outlet said a “lunch was planned that August at the office of law firm Steptoe & Johnson” in the nation’s capital, that Epstein “scheduled two evening appointments that September” with Burns at his townhouse in New York City, and that Epstein planned for his driver to take Burns to the airport after one of the meetings.
Burns had previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Jordan and Russia and led the Obama administration’s secretive “backchannel” during the lead-up to the Iran nuclear deal.
Epstein was alleged to have “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls” at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations, between 2002 and 2005 and perhaps beyond. Prosecutors claimed Epstein built a “vast network of underage victims.” As a part of the deal, Epstein served just 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail, where he was allowed out on work release, was forced to pay restitution to certain victims, and was registered as a sex offender.
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