Jeffrey Epstein Rumored Mossad Connection Explained

The assertions amplified by the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson highlighted Israel and his intelligence agency, Mossad, in the midst of allegations dates back years that the former Israeli officials were close and worked with Jeffrey Epstein, the rich financial and the condemned sex offenders who died in his cell in prison in 2019 pending Sexual traffic.

Why it matters

Carlson’s remarks are intervening when President Donald Trump and his administration face one of their greatest political battles, as repeated statements on the 2024 campaign track to exhibit the so-called “Epstein files”, including a list of customers who pretend to possession of the Attorney General Pam Bondi, have dissipated. The Ministry of Justice recently published a memo concluding that there was no evidence of a list of customers or blackmailing, contradicting these previous declarations.

The case of Epstein and the increase in the Trump administration on the so -called files related to popular characters who have become friends with him, have become a major problem in conservative circles, arousing new conspiracy theories and continuously suspecting for federal institutions.

This led to troubles, in particular between Bondi and the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, the latter would have weighed the resignation.

Nowsweek Contacted the Ministry of Justice, the FBI and the State Department by E-mail for comments.

What to know

Carlson was publicly inquired about the Mossad-Epstein connection and the past allegations of a symbiotic relationship as part of a broader blackmail in the name of Israeli intelligence during a speech on Friday to the group of young conservatives Turning Point USA, saying that “each person in Washington, DC, thinks.”

“How does a guy go from a math teacher to Dalton school in the late 1970s without a university diploma to have several planes, a private island and the largest residential house in Manhattan?” Carlson declared in his spinning speech on July 11.

“Where does all the money come from?”

Carlson’s question of the source of Epstein’s wealth – more widely speculated to result from its incursions to finance and philanthropy, which made it well connected – was strongly disputed by the former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

“The accusation according to which Jeffrey Epstein worked in a way for Israel or the Mossad which led a blackmail ring is categorically and completely false,” wrote Bennett on X. “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the simply contemptible, had nothing to do with Mossad or the state of Israel. Epstein never worked for Mossad.”

He continued: “This accusation is a lie peddled by eminent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending to know things that they do not do. They invent things, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it is Israel.

“There is a vicious wave of slander and is against my country and my people, and we will not take it anymore.”

Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein

Some X users responded to Bennett’s message by publishing press clippings to Old Press of Epstein’s alleged relationship with Israeli officials, including a History of May 2023 THE Wall Street Journal which was republished by Israel’s timeswho alleges that the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met Epstein dozens of times from 2013.

Barak also met Epstein monthly for almost a year, from December 2015, according to the WSJ.

In July 2019, The New York Times reported This Barak, then 77, received around $ 2.3 million in payments between 2004 and 2006 of a foundation associated with Epstein. Epstein also invested a million dollars reported in a sponsor company established by Barak in 2015.

Barak’s alleged ties to Epstein were even reprimanded by the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who at the time called for an investigation into their relationship.

Alliance Shadow

The former National Security Agency Counteienne John Schindler wrote on its blog Top Secret Umbra in January 2024 that Epstein seemed to have been part of an umbraeli Israeli influence characterized as mega.

“There is a venerable frightening joke that you have to pass from counter-espionage work when, at least once a week, you look at yourself in the mirror while shaving and thinking:” I wonder for whom he really works? “” Wrote Schindler.

He continued: “It is not a work in a pedophile and, taking into account the industrial scale of Epstein abuse over the decades, with at least hundreds of victims, it would take a considerable reduced if not a small army to maintain this sordid and out of the public vision for an extended period.”

Financial relations

A 2021 Roller The story involving detainee Steven Hoffenberg, imprisoned for 18 years for initiating a 450 million dollars Ponzi program, detailed how Hoffenberg worked with Epstein in the financial sector.

Hoffenberg said at the time that Epstein had moved to intelligence circles. When the author of the play, Vicky Ward, spoke of Hoffenberg’s relationship with Epstein himself, the former financier would have legally threatened him.

“If there is an involvement of reprehensible acts, I will take legal action against you personally. Vanity play and subsequently published in Discovery + Docuseries, Chasing Ghislaine.

“I will be as hard as possible personally … Not for the magazine, but you, because I had this discussion with you. This relationship is with you … You should not risk your future for a job.”

Robert Maxwell’s alleged ties

A BBC documentary, Maxwell’s houseReleased in 2022, allegedly alleged that Robert Maxwell, father of the former worldly and sexual delinquent condemned Ghislaine Maxwell, said that Epstein had helped Maxwell hidden hundreds of millions that he had stolen from his business pension funds. Robert Maxwell fell from his yacht when he died in 1991.

In 2020, Hoffenberg declared in an episode of the Broken: Seeking Justice Podcast that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell met in 1988 via Robert Maxwell. It was one of the first cases claiming that Epstein and Robert Maxwell had trade relations together, although the podcast did not independently verify the allegations, according to Forbes.

What people say

Eric Weinstein, mathematician and former director general of Thiel Capital, said during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO Podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett: “I don’t know who Jeffrey Epstein was, but I would certainly bet money that he was the product of at least one or more elements of the intelligence community. I don’t know who he was. I don’t know who directed him. He was certainly not a financier in any standard sense. It was a story of coverage.”

British entrepreneur Bartlett asks Weinstein to have met Epstein, and Weinstein said: “He was not a financial day when I met him.” Weinstein then described Epstein as a “bizarre guy” who “did not seem to know much about the currency trade”.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, on X: “1) One of the closest friends of Epstein was the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; 2) a key source of the vast wealth of Epstein, although mysterious, was to the Wexner, whose main cause of life is Israel; 3) an agent of Mossad who was mysteriously died after this was reported.

“Although Maxwell was British, Israel gave him state funeral to his death; 4) Epstein received the treatment of the red carpet during the visit to Israel; 5) Epstein has set up major investments in Israeli technology.

What happens next

Following the strong Naftali Bennett reprimand of Carlson’s statements, the anchoring of the ex-Fox News went to social networks to invite Bennett to discuss the more in-depth issue about his podcast.

“Instead of issuing threats to social networks, why don’t you sit for a rational interview on Epstein ties with the Israeli government?” Carlson wrote. “We will contact your office this morning.”

Bennett had not responded to Carlson’s invitation Tuesday afternoon.