Americans believe that well-heeled and formidable people are seldom held accountable, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
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Americans believe that well-heeled and formidable people are seldom held accountable, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found after the release of millions of records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s relations in elite U.S. business and political circles.
During a four-day poll which concluded on Monday, some 69% of respondents said their views were caught “very well” or “extremely well” by a statement that the Epstein files “show that powerful people in the U.S. are rarely held accountable for their actions,” according to a story by Newsmax.
The Justice Department has under congressional orders released trove after trove of documents that link the late financier to a slew of important people in business, politics, finance and academia, both prior and after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to prostitution charges, including soliciting an underage girl.
In 2019 Epstein, who was found guilty of sex trafficking charges of minors, was discovered dead in a Manhattan jail. His death was ruled a homicide.
The Epstein disgrace has proven a persistent political nuisance for President Donald Trump, who long fanned the flames of mistrust around Epstein and has been dogged by criticism that his administration was failing to fully disclose all that the U.S. government knew about the case.
However, the revelations have begun to trigger the disgrace of high-up people. Executives at Goldman Sachs and Hyatt Hotels have resigned.
Nevertheless, others have kept their powerful posts. Among them are Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who allegedly visited Epstein’s private island for lunch in 2012 and invited him to a fundraiser in 2015 for Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democrat rival in the 2016 presidential election, emails show.
Another is Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who emailed an invitation to a Valentine’s Day party in 2016 to Epstein, the Justice Department documents show.
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