It was always presumed that the fallout from the unsealing of the Jeffrey Epstein files would hit some pretty big names.
Those presumptions turned out to be rather accurate.
Now, apart from just former first couples, CBS News’ flagship program, “60 Minutes,” has become the latest entity to be unceremoniously caught up in the Epstein scandal.
Epstein was a wealthy but disgraced sex offender who had powerful friends and allegedly ran an underage sex trafficking ring to help satiate those friends.
He died in 2019 before any definitive answers could be pulled out of him.
In lieu of those answers, however, public attention recently turned to the troves of sealed government documents related to Epstein.
That hot-button issue eventually boiled over into the Congressional “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” which mandated that the Department of Justice release all the files in a searchable and downloadable format.
The unsealing of these documents has connected some major figures to Epstein — beyond just suspicion and hearsay — such as billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, former President Bill Clinton, and countless others.
(Much to the chagrin of his loudest critics, President Donald Trump’s association with Epstein isn’t nearly as sordid as some of the other big names mentioned.)
And now these documents have connected a new CBS News contributor to the salacious situation — over 1,700 times.
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