President Donald Trump‘s hand-selected TV-host-turned-Medicaid-boss, Dr Mehmet Oz, has stunningly been named in the Jeffrey Epstein files as top officials’ links to the financier are exposed.
Oz, 65, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, sent an email inviting Epstein to a Valentine’s Day party in 2016, according to a document recently published by the Department of Justice.
The jumbled script of the email from Oz and his wife, Lisa, to Epstein seems to be an invitation from Paperless Post, a digital greeting card service. The event would be at Oz’s Palm Beach residence.
It was one of several message exchanges with Epstein’s email from 2012 to 2016.
The correspondence between the financier and the TV host and future CMS administrator came years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida, an infraction that would make him a registered sex offender.
Epstein committed suicide on August 10, 2019, while in federal custody for sex trafficking, the government has claimed.
Another email on January 1, 2016, between Oz and Epstein is completely illegible due to encryption.
Oz is one of several high-ranking Trump administration officials who have not just named in the file, but in communication with and in proximity of the late sex offender.