{"id":7644,"date":"2026-02-01T01:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:44:08","slug":"epstein-files-lead-to-resignation-of-top-slovakian-official-while-british-prime-minister-calls-on-former-prince-to-cooperate-with-u-s-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7644","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files lead to resignation of top Slovakian official, while British prime minister calls on former prince to cooperate with U.S. authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newly disclosed U.S. government files on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>&nbsp;have prompted the resignation of a top official in Slovakia and revived calls in Britain for a former prince to share what he knows with authorities about Epstein&#8217;s links to powerful individuals around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout comes just a day after the Justice Department began releasing a massive trove of files that offers more details about Epstein&#8217;s interactions with the rich and famous after he served time for sex crimes in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Slovakia accepted the resignation on Saturday of an official, Miroslav Lajcak, who once had a yearlong term as president of the U.N. General Assembly. Lajcak wasn&#8217;t accused of wrongdoing but left his position after photos and emails revealed he had met with Epstein in the years after Epstein was released from jail.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosures also have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prince-epstein-808239319d507fdb4334ae24f3b73341\">revived questions<\/a>&nbsp;about whether long-time Epstein friend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/prince-andrew-epstein-charles-royal-a76066d7b6900a47895192f7c7d7254b\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, formerly known as Prince Andrew, should cooperate with U.S. authorities investigating Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday suggested Mountbatten-Windsor should tell American investigators whatever he knows about Epstein\u2019s activities. The former prince has so far ignored a request from members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee for a \u201ctranscribed interview\u201d about his \u201clong-standing friendship\u201d with Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s Justice Department said it would be releasing more than 3 million pages of documents along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images under a law intended to reveal most of the material it collected during two decades of investigations involving the wealthy financier.<\/p>\n<p>The files, posted to the department\u2019s website, included documents involving Epstein&#8217;s friendship with Mountbatten-Windsor, and Epstein\u2019s email correspondence with onetime Trump adviser Steve Bannon, New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and other prominent contacts with people in political, business and philanthropic circles, such as billionaires&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/bill-gates\">Bill Gates<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other documents offered a window into various investigations, including ones that led to sex trafficking charges against Epstein in 2019 and his longtime confidant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ghislaine-maxwell\">Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021, and an earlier inquiry that found evidence of Epstein abusing underage girls but never led to federal charges.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slovakian official resigns<\/h4>\n<p>Robert Fico, Slovakia\u2019s prime minister, said Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of Lajcak, his national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Lajcak, a former Slovak foreign minister, hasn\u2019t been accused of any wrongdoing, but emails showed that Epstein had invited him to dinner and other meetings in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The records also include a March 2018 email from Epstein\u2019s office to former Obama White House general counsel Kathy Ruemmler, inviting her to a get-together with Epstein, Lajcak and Bannon, the conservative activist who served as Trump\u2019s White House strategist in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Lajcak said his contacts with Epstein were part of his diplomatic duties. Pressure mounted for his ouster from opposition parties and a nationalist partner in Fico\u2019s governing coalition.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Draft indictment detailed Epstein&#8217;s abuse<\/h4>\n<p>The FBI started investigating Epstein in July 2006 and agents expected him to be indicted in May 2007, according to the newly records released. A prosecutor wrote up a proposed indictment after multiple underage girls told police and the FBI that they had been paid to give Epstein sexualized massages.<\/p>\n<p>The draft indicated prosecutors were preparing to charge not just Epstein but also three people who worked for him as personal assistants.<\/p>\n<p>According to interview notes released Friday, an employee at Epstein\u2019s Florida estate told the FBI in 2007 that Epstein once had him buy flowers and deliver them to a student at Royal Palm Beach High School to commemorate her performance in a school play.<\/p>\n<p>The employee, whose name was blacked out, said some of his duties were fanning $100 bills on a table near Epstein\u2019s bed, placing a gun between the mattresses in his bedroom and cleaning up after Epstein\u2019s frequent massages with young girls, including disposing of used condoms.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the U.S. attorney in Miami at the time,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jeffrey-epstein-florida-e2a4431f7319afd037023d9a586aa291\">Alexander Acosta<\/a>, signed off on a deal that let Epstein avoid federal prosecution. Epstein pleaded guilty instead to a state charge of soliciting prostitution from someone under age 18 and got an 18-month jail sentence. Acosta was Trump&#8217;s first labor secretary in his earlier term.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Epstein offers to set Andrew up on a date<\/h4>\n<p>The records have thousands of references to Trump, including emails in which Epstein and others shared news articles, commented on his policies, or gossiped about him and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Mountbatten-Windsor&#8217;s name appears at least several hundred times, including in Epstein\u2019s private emails. In a 2010 exchange, Epstein appeared to set him up for a date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a friend who I think you might enjoy having dinner with,\u201d Epstein wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Mountbatten-Windsor replied that he \u201cwould be delighted to see her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, whose emails often contain typographical errors, wrote later in the exchange: \u201cShe 26, russian, clevere beautiful, trustworthy and yes she has your email.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Concerns over how Justice Department handled records<\/h4>\n<p>The Justice Department is facing criticism over how it handled the latest disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>One group of Epstein accusers said in a statement that the new documents made it too easy to identify those he abused but not those who might have been involved in Epstein\u2019s criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinized, and retraumatized while Epstein\u2019s enablers continue to benefit from secrecy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, pressed the department to let lawmakers review unredacted versions of the files as soon as Sunday. He said in a statement that Congress must assess whether the redactions were lawful or improperly shielded people from scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Department officials have acknowledged that many records in its files are duplicates, and it was clear from the documents that reviewers took different degrees of care or exercised different standards while blacking out names and other identifying information.<\/p>\n<p>There were multiple documents where a name was left exposed in one copy, but redacted in another.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Epstein\u2019s ties to powerful on display<\/h4>\n<p>The released records reinforced the Epstein was, at least before he ran into legal trouble, friendly with Trump and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bill-clinton-justice-department-jeffrey-epstein-4a55e83b62b5a037c431e36cfa87f0dc\">former President Bill Clinton<\/a>. None of Epstein\u2019s victims who have gone public has accused Trump, a Republican, or Clinton, a Democrat, of wrongdoing. Both men said they had no knowledge Epstein was abusing underage girls.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-department-of-justice-investigation-50c229b7953096f0301bfa1e7f0b7703\">killed himself in a New York jail<\/a>&nbsp;in August 2019, a month after being indicted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a federal jury in New York convicted Maxwell, a British socialite, of sex trafficking for helping recruit some of his underage victims. She is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-sentencing-aeac127f9cc3811d975ce8e10d171260\">serving a 20-year prison sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors never charged anyone else in connection with Epstein\u2019s abuse. One victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, sued Mountbatten-Windsor, saying she had sexual encounters with him starting at age 17. The now-former prince denied having sex with Giuffre but settled her lawsuit for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>Giuffre&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virginia-roberts-giuffre-obit-778c4fdd6fac2522133ca3d79244bccd\">died by suicide<\/a>&nbsp;last year at age 41.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly disclosed U.S. government files on&nbsp;Jeffrey Epstein&nbsp;have prompted the resignation of a top official in Slovakia and revived calls in Britain for a former prince to share what he knows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":7645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[3447,2734,233,8532,5533,1723,320,235,971,234,5531,3178,8531,264,668],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Epstein files lead to resignation of top Slovakian official, while British prime minister calls on former prince to cooperate with U.S. authorities - Frisco Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Fico, Slovakia\u2019s prime minister, said Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of Lajcak, his national security adviser.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7644\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Epstein files lead to resignation of top Slovakian official, while British prime minister calls on former prince to cooperate with U.S. authorities - Frisco Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Fico, Slovakia\u2019s prime minister, said Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of Lajcak, his national security adviser.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=7644\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Frisco Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T01:02:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-01T14:44:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2259093447-e1769907391117.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael R. 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