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The Justice Department now says a handwritten letter it released Tuesday that was signed by “J. Epstein” and addressed to convicted intercourse offender Larry Nassar is “fake,” asserting that the handwriting didn’t seem to match that of Jeffrey Epstein.
The division had stated earlier Tuesday that it was assessing the validity of the letter – which appeared to make crude references to President Donald Trump – as a result of different particulars referred to as into query whether or not it had really been written and despatched by Epstein.
“This fake letter serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual,” the Justice Department stated in a publish on X hours after the letter was released amongst a tranche of different Epstein-related data.
The letter doesn’t explicitly identify Trump, however as an alternative refers to “our president.” The message seems to have been despatched in August 2019, the identical month Epstein died by suicide. Trump was president on the time.
The assertion debunking the letter from the Justice Department famous that it was postmarked not in New York, was Epstein was imprisoned, however in Virginia, and the return tackle was for a jail completely different than the one holding Epstein. The envelope was processed three days after Epstein’s suicide.
Authorities haven’t accused Trump of any wrongdoing or charged him with any crimes in reference to Epstein.
“Dear L.N.,” the letters reads, “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls.” The letter makes one other lewd reference to Trump’s therapy of ladies.
“Life is unfair,” the letter reads.
In a separate assertion the division released earlier Tuesday, not aimed toward any particular document in the latest launch, the Department said that among the paperwork released “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” in opposition to the president.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
NCS has reached out to the White House for touch upon the letter.
While the letter is addressed to an “L.N.,” a photograph of the envelope – postmarked on August 13, 2019 and addressed to the previous Olympic physician and intercourse offender – was released by the DOJ. The envelope says it was despatched from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City to Nassar, who was listed as an inmate at a federal jail in Arizona.
The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein died. Prison employees are licensed to learn and examine outgoing mail, which may trigger delays.
Based on jail paperwork released from a Freedom of Information Act request, NCS previously reported that whereas he was jailed, Epstein appeared to ship a letter to Nassar — though the contents of the letter weren’t disclosed. It was found by jail officers investigating Epstein’s suicide weeks after his demise. It shouldn’t be identified if Nassar and Epstein had a relationship.
The FBI in 2020 requested from its laboratory a handwriting evaluation be achieved to match the letter to different writings from Epstein, in accordance with one other document posted on Tuesday from the DOJ. While the most recent DOJ assertion stated the FBI had confirmed the letter was “fake,” it didn’t particularly say that conclusion was primarily based on the 2020 handwriting evaluation.
Nassar, the longtime physician for the USA gymnastics group and Michigan State University, is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison on baby intercourse abuse expenses. More than 150 girls and ladies publicly told a court he sexually abused them.
The envelope, addressed to Larry Nassar at 9300 S. Wilmot Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85756, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, was marked as “return to sender,” because the addressee was “no longer at this address.”
Correction: This publish has been up to date to mirror that DOJ’s assertion saying that some paperwork “contain untrue and sensationalist claims” concerning the president was released on Tuesday. It was additionally up to date after the Justice Department released extra details about the veracity of the letter.