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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Epstein made the likely illegal trip to the island in 2003 from the Bahamas, off the grid, at Fidel Castro’s invitation.

Epstein flew to Cuba with Andrés Pastrana, the Colombian former president, who revealed the connection Wednesday after he was forced to explain why his name was on the flight manifest of Epstein’s private jet.

“Amid journalistic revelations about horrifying and reprehensible sex scandals of financier Jeffrey Epstein, a trip of mine on his plane to Nassau, Bahamas has appeared, to transfer to the final destination of Havana, Cuba, invited by President Fidel Castro,” Pastrana said in a statement posted on Twitter.

i think it's this, still wild that former president would use local billionaire (by 2003 epstein was still upstanding citizen with dodgy rumours, i think?) plane