The new year is off to a rocky start for one former president of the United States.
Last week, a federal judge ruled that the identities of over 150 influential associates of Jeffrey Epstein would be unsealed and made public. The formerly redacted documents come from the civil sexual assault suit filed by alleged Epstein sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre.
Bill Clinton, previously referred to as “John Doe 36” in court filings, is identified more than 50 times.
Clinton, 77, had an intimate relationship with Epstein for years. Though no irrefutable proof exists of wrongdoing by Clinton, his association with the deceased financier and sex offender continues to raise suspicions, as the New York Post reports:
Many of the references to Clinton are believed to stem from Giuffre's attempts to compel the former president to testify against the late sex offender and his former paramour and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Other Clinton mentions are expected to be related to attempts from both Maxwell and Giuffre to make Epstein come clean in 2016 after he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a deposition in that lawsuit.
The documents are not expected to implicate Clinton in any illegal activity, ABC reported.
The names of more than 170 people — known only as John and Jane Does previously — with ties to Epstein are expected to be revealed in the documents after Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska ruled just before Christmas they would be unsealed in the new year.
Because New Year's is a federal holiday, the document dump isn't expected until Tuesday morning.
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