Jeffrey Epstein said one of the billionaire’s emails related to sex crimes cited the investor’s alleged relationship with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and suggested it may have been mediated by American linguist Noam Chomsky. The presidential communications office denied that the call took place.
The email was sent this week as a US Congressional committee released more than 20,000 pages of documents related to Epstein.
The message, found in files released by US Democratic politicians, includes a short passage in English that does not address the subject it was supposed to discuss.
“Chomsky called me with Lula. From prison. What a world,” Epstein wrote.
The contents were made public after the House Oversight Committee released email exchanges between Mr. Epstein and other prominent figures, including Mr. Epstein’s former partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently in prison for sex trafficking, and author Michael Wolff, author of a book about Donald Trump.
SECOM denies
In response to a request from Metropol, the Lula Government Communications Secretariat denied any contact, saying, “This information is baseless. The aforementioned phone call was never made.”
Connection with Lula and Chomsky’s visit
The reference to the former Brazilian president appears to coincide with Chomsky’s visit to Lula in prison on September 20, 2018, when the PT member was serving his sentence at the federal police headquarters in Curitiba. At the time, North American intellectuals publicly defended Lula, calling him a “respected world leader” and a “symbol of hope for the Global South.”
The date of the email is September 21st of the same year.
“Twenty years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Lula. I was very impressed, and still am. Under his leadership, Brazil became the most respected country in the world,” Chomsky said at the time.
Chomsky and Epstein
Noam Chomsky, a prominent academic and political activist, had ties to Jeffrey Epstein and current US President Donald Trump.
The linguist appears in the businessman’s flight log and, according to American media, asked Epstein to help him transfer $270,000 from his late wife’s account.
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