US justice publishes alleged suicide letter from Epstein

WashingtonA federal judge has released a suicide letter attributed to the child molester Jeffrey Epstein. The note had been kept under seal for years since the billionaire was found dead in his prison cell before being tried for sex trafficking. "They have been investigating me for months and have found nothing!!", says the note, to which several US media outlets have had access.

"It is a privilege to be able to choose the moment to say goodbye", the note continues. "What do you want me to do? I start crying." And it concludes: "It's not fun! It's not worth it".

The existence of the note first became known by New York Times because numerous documents from the case published by the Justice Department referenced it, but it has now been seen for the first time, when the justice system has ordered its publication.

Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, had explained that he had discovered the letter in July 2019, weeks after authorities found Epstein unconscious in his cell. The child molester survived that incident, but he was found dead in his cell weeks later. His death was classified as a death.

Judge Kenneth M. Karas, who was overseeing the criminal case related to Tartaglione, had ordered the note to be published at the request of the New Yotk Times. The text, however, has not been authenticated.

Commerce secretary implicated

Just this Wednesday James Cormer, the Republican overseeing the Committee that oversees the Epstein case, had told reporters that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had not been "100% truthful" about his testimony regarding his visit to Epstein's private island.

After President Donald Trump, Lutnick is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to appear prominently in the Epstein files. Last year, in a podcast interview, he had said he had decided "never to be in a room again" with Epstein after a visit to the financier's Manhattan home in 2005 that disturbed both him and his wife.