In June 2011, the US Department of State acquired an pressing request from an American businessman who sought a second US passport for upcoming journeys to Europe and a number of African nations.
“I’m often required on extraordinarily brief discover to schedule worldwide journeys with itineraries to a number of locations requiring me to acquire a number of visas on the similar time, which is just not potential on such brief discover and not using a second passport,” the letter stated.
The applicant, who recognized himself because the president of a global monetary consulting agency, stated he had enterprise journeys scheduled within the coming weeks to France, Sierra Leone, Mali and Gabon.
“Please subject me a second passport so I can have the three visas issued for Africa whereas I’m utilizing my present passport in France,” he wrote.
The businessman’s title: Jeffrey Edward Epstein.
Three years earlier, Epstein had pleaded responsible in Florida to solicitation of an underaged woman, a felony that required him to register as a intercourse offender for all times.
The letter is discovered amongst a number of passport functions and renewal varieties submitted over three a long time by Epstein, whose staggering wealth and proximity to energy have lengthy defied prepared rationalization.
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