Epstein Made Efforts to Free the Son of Senegal’s Former President After Corruption Conviction

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The urgent email came from Senegal. The son of the former president desperately needed help. He’d been sentenced for corruption and needed lobbying in the U.S. to get the matter in front of key lawmakers and diplomats.

“Sorry but who are you,” was the initial response from a puzzled Jeffrey Epstein.

A woman named Elisabeth Feliho replied, explaining that she worked for Karim Wade, a former Senegalese government minister whose portfolio included air transport and energy. He was also the son of Abdoulaye Wade, who served as Senegal’s president from 2000 to 2012.

By the time the email from Feliho landed, Wade and Epstein had shared years of correspondence, according to files released by the U.S. Justice Department. Before, during and after his corruption case — which ended in a conviction in 2015 — Epstein assisted Wade.

After he was sentenced, Wade leaned on Epstein to help win back his freedom, and clean his reputation. In her email, Feliho asked Epstein to send a payment to a firm that could lobby influential figures in the U.S. and at the United Nations.

“Total cost for 3 months would be 100,000 USD and they are ready to start today,” she wrote in September 2015, a few months after her boss had been sentenced.

The newly released files pull back the curtain on the global business and political network of contacts curated by Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in August 2019. The chain of emails shows that Wade befriended Epstein, who then introduced him to his network of global finance powerbrokers.