In the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which included more than three million documents, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s name appears dozens of times.
  • AGM@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    The headline is about some mentions of PMs that amount to nothing while burying this inside?

    In one email from September 2017, Austin Hill, co-founder of Blockstream, a Vancouver-based blockchain company, wrote to Epstein asking how his island was after a storm and to “ping me if you’d like to talk crypto or ICO’s.”

    As the two exchanged messages, Hill asked Epstein what he thought about “these ICOs & SEC/Hatch Act vs the crazy crypto cowboys?”

    “Lots to discuss,” Epstein replied. “(U.S. government) very nervous.”

    “Yeah - we are trying to get Justin Trudeau & the provinces to do a regulatory power move up here to create a safe framework,” Hill said. “Take the action the (U.S.) can’t handle & help our markets compete.”

    Hill later added: “If we add our immigration policy for entrepreneurs & some AI s–t we have brewing / give us functioning crypto markets … Canada might just end up being America’s hat forever.”

    Wtf? That’s way more interesting.

  • Glide@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Emphasis mine.

    A total of 69 results show up when Carney’s name is typed into a search feature in the DOJ’s so-called “Epstein library.”

    Many of the results are from a daily newsletter on international finance that Epstein was subscribed to.

    While his name appears throughout the files, there is no direct correspondence between Carney and Epstein.

    Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s name also appears in the files a total of 27 times, mostly in the context of news headlines and stories within various newsletters and roundups Epstein was subscribed to.

    “In passing” is doing some absurdly heavy lifting in this headline. CTV should be embarrassed they published it. OP should be embarrassed that they shared it.

    But Yog attempting to spread insubstantial, misleading articles and headlines because they hurt the Canadian government, and then getting defensive and abrasive about it in comments? What a fucking twist. /s

    Call me when Carney is asking to visit the island, and I’ll turn my opinion on a fucking dime, but get out of here with this pathetically ungrounded, intentionally divisive, political propaganda.