Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell denies contact with alleged Epstein victim

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine flatly denied allegations contained in court documents unsealed Friday that he had contact with a woman who said she was kept as a sex slave by financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, in a 2016 deposition, named Mitchell among a group of powerful men to whom she said Epstein offered her for erotic massages and sex. Others who were named include former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew, financier Glenn Dubin, former MIT scientist Marvin Minsky and Jean-Luc Brunel, a well-known modeling agent.

In a statement Friday to the Press Herald, Mitchell said the allegations are false.

“I have never met, spoken with or had any contact with Ms. Giuffre,” Mitchell said. “In my contacts with Mr. Epstein I never observed or suspected any inappropriate conduct with underage girls. I only learned of his actions when they were reported in the media related to his prosecution in Florida. We have had no further contact.”

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2019/08/09/former-u-s-sen-george-mitchell-denies-allegations-made-by-epstein-victim/

[choie]

1. why the hell was he within 10 ft

of that POS?

[Polybius]

12. Unfortunately, there are others higher than even Mitchell that got within 10 feet of him

Doesn't mean they were necessarily guilty of anything, but still.

[cstanleytech]

16. Best guess? Because Epstein was wealthy and well connected.

[mopinko]

2. bill richardson was pretty well known to have trouble keeping his zipper up.

i'm really glad this stuff is coming out.
if they managed to bury this, we are in worse shape than we thought.

i suspect some will escape revelation. but not many.

[Skittles]

4. being a skirt chaser is one thing

fucking children is entirely another

[nycbos]

18. +1

[Skittles]

3. don't they all

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I just don't get, if it's not true, why she'd mention some obscure senator?

I don't know if it makes her account more believable but clearly she knew he was associated with Epstein and who he was. But Mitchell hasn't been in the Senate in 25 years...

[TwilightZone]

6. Mitchell isn't obscure

He was Senate Majority Leader for six years and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission.

[AncientGeezer]

7. And a Special Envoy for President Obama

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Go poll 100 random people on the street and ask them who he is...

I bet 99 will have no earthly idea.

[KSNY]

9. Who cares if we know who he is if he is a pedophile he belongs in jail

[RhodeIslandOne]

10. Sports fans know what the Mitchell Report is

Another thing he was “obscure” enough to be a part of.

[Polybius]

11. I was furious at him for that

Of all the things to worry about, steroids in baseball weren't high on my list at all.

[Drunken Irishman]

15. That's the point.

Who names a random, fairly uneventful celebrity? It adds credence to her story, I think. Especially since I doubt most people who even knew him knew he was associated with Epstein.

[paleotn]

14. To the average American today

he is obscure. I know of him since I’m a political junky. The rest of the country....not so much.

[nycbos]

19. And helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement.

[karynnj]

24. He was Clinton's envoy in Northern Ireland and helped get peace and Obama made him spevial

Envoy to get middle eastern peace in the first term.

[lapfog_1]

21. Just a thought here

15 year old "sex slave" is introduced to some old fart and told "this is Senator Mitchell"... which is what she remembers.

Who is to say that it was really Sen Mitchell, especially if there was drugs or alcohol involve.

Maybe the person sort of looked like Mitchell.. maybe not... it's been 15 or 20 years ago now.

This is why we need to find the video tapes of these old creeps with the underage young women.

I'm sure they existed at one point... but who knows now?

[Polybius]

13. Wow, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson too!

Please say it ain't so, I greatly admired him at one time.

[True Blue American]

25. Richardson

Has a long reputation pawing women. Some refused to sit next to him. But on this I am not sure. Funny she only mentioned 2 Democrats.

[Laffy Kat]

31. More are coming, I'm sure.

Hold on to your hat.

[True Blue American]

33. I am sure of that!

And I bet Barr is like a cat covering feces!

[EveHammond13]

17. how man Epsteins are there that we don't know about

[mpcamb]

20. With Epstein dead, it seeems curious that Mitchell got chosen as the poster boy.

All the page 6 people they mention in the 2nd paragraph and they selected Mitchell...
Curious. That's all.

[Princetonian]

22. The now public files also listed "another Prince" and "a former president" -- both unnamed.

Of course Mitchell would say no. They will all say no.

Dead men tell no tales, after all.

[Laffy Kat]

30. This is true.

I tend to give the one with less power, the accuser, the benefit of the doubt.

[Princetonian]

37. Yes... and the courage of these accusers is unfathomably deep given the resources of the accused.

[roamer65]

23. Epstein was in the business of kompromat.

[Cicada]

26. She has provided zero corroboration for many of her many claims

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If she were telling the truth about so many allegations there would be at least some corroboration. She may be truthful in part but gilding the Lilly for economic or psychological reasons. She claims there was corroborating video proof seized by the federal government which has suppressed it. What are the odds the Bush administration FBI suppressed such evidence? About zero. No human has ever come forward saying she was in the same room with those she has accused. No flight log lists her as a passenger with those she accuses. These extremely savvy people would never fear a hidden camera? Has there ever been a more ethical person on earth than George Mitchell? In decades has even one human ever hinted he acted improperly in the slightest way? Some girls got money by suing. Naming rich and powerful defendants increases expected payoff. Her story is implausible IMO.

[emmaverybo]

27. I am struggling to believe this of George Mitchell, or in the case of Bill Richardson to take his

“handiness,” even woman chasing as an indication he’d have sex with an underage prostitute.

I do not subscribe to the notion that all who claim sexual abuse must be believed without any evidence, the alleged abuser having no other complaints despite a very
long career traveling the world, exposed to countless opportunities to cross the line if that was his tendency.

I also believe men with much to lose in position, respect, money are going to tend to be cautious. They know they can be blackmailed, for one thing.

I thought Epstein trafficked hundreds of girls. Why is it only one accuses Richardson and Mitchell?

[Cicada]

29. I suspect Virginia is gilding the lilly

She may well have added additional names for some odd reason.

[True Blue American]

34. That one bothered me the most

And I am not inclined to believe it with his stellar reputation.

[JI7]

39. the lack of evidence with so many accusations is one reason i question her BUT

being a good distinguished person as George Mitchell is known as does not itself show they would never do something like this.

sex abuse is seen in all types of groups and people.

[Laffy Kat]

28. Sure. She just pulled his name out of thin air.

The Gov. Richardson one really bothers me, although I guess we must brace ourselves because it's going to get worse.

[emmaverybo]

32. Someone else could have pulled it for her.

[Snellius]

35. Why would someone make up stuff about Richardson or Mitchell?

At her age how would she even know who they were?

[Cicada]

36. Why did Larry Nichols say Bill Clinton paid him to murder?

Epstein had parties with fascinating guests. Maybe Mitchell attended one and she heard his name mentioned. I read that Virginia said there were videos documenting events she alleged and that the FBI took them as evidence. But the FBI then suppressed them. Do you believe for a second that that could happen? Evidence gets logged, right? Investigators examine evidence, right? If what I read is correct, that Virginia claimed the FBI received video proof and suppressed it, then she is a liar. See this https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/prince-andrew-sex-allegations-virginia-roberts-claims-fbi-has-videos-of-her-underage-sex-with-10031803.html

[flotsam]

38. He denied it

Now ask if he's willing to be polygraphed.

[JI7]

40. those are not reliable so wouldn't mean anything