Bill Richardson Accused of Involvement in Jeffrey Epstein Sex Ring
Bill Richardson, who pushed through the construction of the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport as governor of New Mexico, has been accused of involvement in a sex trafficking ring run by the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Daily Beast reports on court documents that were unsealed last week in a defamation suit against Maxwell by a woman who claimed she was forced to have sex with Richardson and other prominent figures:
Virginia Giuffre, who says that Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to powerful people for erotic massages and sex, claimed in depositions in 2016 that Maxwell directed her to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew (whom she has accused before), wealthy financier Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, now-deceased MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, as well as “another prince,” a “foreign president,” a well-known prime minsiter” and the owner of a “large hotel chain” in France….
None of the men named in the deposition have been charged with a crime or even sued in civil court in connection with the Epstein case. The deposition represents accuser Giuffre’s allegations, and the court documents unsealed on Friday did not contain any corroboration or further details, though many documents remain sealed….
A spokesperson for former Gov. Bill Richardson, Madeleine Mahony, told The Daily Beast on Friday, “These allegations and inferences are completely false. Governor Richardson has never even been contacted by any party regarding this lawsuit. To be clear, in Governor Richardson’s limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw him in the presence of young or underage girls. Governor Richardson has never been to Mr. Epstein’s residence in the Virgin Islands. Governor Richardson has never met Ms. Giuffre.”
Other figures named in the lawsuit have also denied involvement in the alleged underage sex ring. Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in New York City on Saturday from a possible suicide.
Giuffre’s defamation suit against Maxwell was settled in 2017 under confidential terms.
As New Mexico’s Democratic governor from 2003-2011, Richardson was instrumental in pushing through the development of the taxpayer-funded Spaceport America where Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is the anchor tenant. The company expects to begin commercial suborbital spaceflights from the facility next year.
Spaceport America has cost New Mexico taxpayers about $225 million. Residents of Sierra and Dona Ana counties voted to increase use taxes in order to help pay for construction.
During a dedication ceremony in 2010, New Mexico named Spaceport America’s runway the “Governor Bill Richardson Spaceway.”
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The trips to North Korea were the perfect decoy.
Mr Epstein’s circle of friends are obviously going to get drawn into a string of court cases that are going to go on for years. There’s a long list of court cases against a long list of well heeled people who have had their cases turned off by one mechanism or another. The accusers are older now, and with Epstein’s fortune to go after, lawyers will be contacting the trafficked girls and constructing new cases. Not to mention the mix of cases that will go forward against political figures and the political effect to come from it. Richardson makes for the second new space figure to be rolled up in this crowd. If Mr Richardson is indeed guilty of partaking in the Epstein party crowd that may be an insight as to his ability to work constructively with Kim Jong Il. He had a similar party scene going in his court. And unless you can swim in that kind of sea you probably can only go so far in negotiations.
It seems to be pretty well established that the late Mr. Epstein was a world-class predatory scumbag. And he seems to have cultivated a circle of similarly-inclined cronies.
The particulars of any individual alleged victim’s accusation, though, have to await the tests of law and investigation before being accepted as accurate. Especially given the size of the pot of filthier-than-usual lucre at stake here, one can expect both opportunistic accusers and shyster ambulance chasers to be drawn like a shark to blood. Sorting out whom is which is likely to take awhile – perhaps years.
So I will reserve judgement on former Gov. Richardson’s involvement, if any, in the Epstein mess until it’s all sorted out – assuming it ever is and that I am still around.
Retrospectively, it certainly seems the erstwhile NM Gov. was, at best, insufficiently skeptical of the Spaceport America project, but it’s not obvious there is any way he could have reasonably foreseen, at the time, what has come to pass since. Politicians certainly make honest mistakes sometimes. We’ll just have to see if any evidence emerges from the Epstein investigation that might suggest the Spaceport America thing was anything other than an honest mistake.
Sadly many folk have been taken in by the hype of Peter Diamandis, Sir Richard Branson and the various Space Frontier Foundation/Space Access Society advocates. It is sad to think about all the good money they steered into dead end streets like VG, Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries, XCOR, VG, Stratolaunch, Rotary Rocket, Vector, etc.. Space is a frontier ready for development, but you need to really understand the economic models that worked on earlier frontiers before you start coming up with strategies to develop it.
Being taken in by congenial-sounding lines of crapola seems to be pretty much the central qualification for success in Democratic politics and that circumstance is not a recent development. Complicating matters further is the fact that, as the late Yogi Berra reminded us, it’s always hard to make predictions, especially about the future.
As a HSF enthusiast, I should spend my time reading about this sex ring business … why?
You don’t. Unless you consider reading even the title of the article a waste of your time… I dare say most people who read news anywhere don’t read every article. They determine what they want to read from the headlines.
It is Doug’s version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Well, Bill did push for this little thing called HyperSoar
https://str.llnl.gov/str/Ca…
http://www.parabolicarc.com…
this video exposes everything. so how do you think these young girls got into
the country with no Visa? where Bill Richardson comes in.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Carpetbagger Richardson is now deemed a Carpet Muncher. Ain’t comeuppance a Beetch senor Converso