Prince Andrew to Be Invited to Congress to Give Evidence in Jeffrey Epstein Case

Prince Andrew has had a tough time recently … first, he stripped himself of most of his royal titles, and now he is on the verge of being requested to testify earlier than Congress about his alleged affiliation with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew, as you understand, was linked to Epstein after an notorious 2001 picture surfaced exhibiting him standing along with his arm round a teenage Virginia Giuffre, considered one of Epstein’s most outstanding victims, who died by suicide this 12 months.

In the pic, Epstein’s girlfriend and confidante Ghislaine Maxwell — who’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for youngster intercourse trafficking — is standing behind them with a smile. Ever because the launch of the picture, Andrew has been within the doghouse with the royals and making an attempt to dodge authorized pitfalls.

Now, Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democratic Representative on the House Oversight Committee, needs to ask Andrew to the U.S. Congress to speak about his purported involvement within the Epstein scandal.

The congressman says he is constructive an invite can be prolonged to Andrew to seem earlier than the committee, however the prince is not going to obtain a subpoena as a result of he is a UK citizen and, by regulation, U.S. subpoenas haven’t any authorized impact within the United Kingdom. So, Andrew has the ultimate say on whether or not he comes earlier than the committee

Lynch and fellow committee members have been poring over paperwork associated to the “Epstein Files” to find out why Epstein acquired a 2008 plea deal for his intercourse crimes and to carry anybody else accountable who’s implicated within the offenses. The paperwork point out potential contact between Jeffrey Epstein and well-known figures akin to Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and Andrew.

Last Friday, Andrew agreed to relinquish lots of his royal titles — aside from the title of prince — after assembly along with his brother King Charles III, with Andrew saying in an announcement the “continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.”

Email correspondence between Andrew and Epstein confirmed they had been in touch longer than Andrew had beforehand admitted. The new information emerged simply days earlier than Giuffre’s posthumous memoir about her life and the Epstein saga.