Former President Bill Clinton's spokesman said Clinton 'knows nothing' about multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein's 'terrible crimes'
Washington Former President Bill Clinton's spokesman said Monday that Clinton"knows nothing" about Jeffrey Epstein's"terrible crimes," after the multi-millionaire was accused by federal prosecutors of running a sex trafficking ring where he paid girls as young as 14 to have sex with him.
"President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York," Clinton's spokesman, Angel Ureña, said in a statement posted to Twitter. Ureña went on to give what he said was a summary of Clinton's experiences with Epstein.
Sources: Multi-millionaire accused of sex trafficking minors 02:48According to the indictment, Epstein ran a trafficking ring between 2002 and 2005 in which he paid hundreds of dollars in cash to girls as young as 14 to have sex with him at his residence in New York and his estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Epstein allegedly worked with employees and associates to lure the girls to his residences and paid some of his victims to recruit other girls for him to abuse, the indictment stated.
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