Testifying earlier than members of Congress, Invoice disclosed he grew to become acquainted with Epstein after being related by his former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers.
“He was calling as a result of a person named Jeffrey Epstein, who had made a considerable dedication of a number of million {dollars} … to mind analysis, and he was an information-hungry individual, and he wished to spend a while speaking to me about economics and politics,” he mentioned, referring to the analysis at Harvard College.
He added, “He mentioned he is obtained this huge airplane, and he mentioned he would take you, your workers, your Secret Service element, anyone else you wished to deliver on the journeys that he knew I used to be planning to arrange a worldwide community to supply lifesaving AIDS drugs to as many individuals as doable, as rapidly as doable.”
When requested whether or not he noticed something that brought about him to query Epstein’s habits, Invoice mentioned he by no means noticed the late baby s– trafficker “do something [he] was suspicious” however famous he discovered him “odd.”
“I felt pleasant towards him, however he was, as I mentioned in my e-book, odd. There was at all times one thing somewhat holding again. And he, and I may inform,” he responded.
The primary assembly allegedly occurred when he boarded his aircraft round 2002, although he acknowledged {a photograph} displaying him and Epstein within the White Home in 1993. The identical snap featured Hillary.
Per Invoice, the encounter within the early Nineteen Nineties was a routine meet-and-greet with the donors.