Epstein put in secret cameras with assist of ‘handy’ Russians
Suspicions over paedo financier Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement in blackmail look stronger after emails reveal he hid cameras in his home, prompting a mystery emailer to tell him “the Russians may come in handy”
Epstein, seen here in a communist style cap, might have put powerful people at the mercy of Russian intelligence with his hidden cameras
Doubts over whether Epstein held compromising material on his guests may have cleared with the latest of the twisted financier’s emails to be released.
The new tranche of messages reveals that he asked his pilot, Larry Visoski, to buy “three motion-detected hidden cameras, that record”, which his employee then stuck in Kleenex boxes
On the same day that he got the hidden cameras, Epstein received an intriguing email from someone whose name has been redacted: “Remember what we spoke about if you want to put cameras in the house. It will have to be very discreetly done. The Russians may come in handy.”
Mr Visoski, who also worked as a technician and handyman across Epstein’s properties, told Epstein in an email on February 5, 2014 that he bought the cameras from a spy shop in Fort Lauderdale in Florida and was “figuring out how they work as we speak”, The Telegraph reports.
The pilot told his boss that it was “amazing how small they are”. He described them as the size of a thumbnail drive with 64-hour recording and a motion sensor.
But on the same day as the hidden camera purchases, Epstein got an email from someone, whose name has been redacted, saying: “Remember what we spoke about if you want to put cameras in the house. It will have to be very discreetly done. The Russians may come in handy.”
The emails make no further mention of Russians in regard to the hidden cameras. But some commentators have claimed that the child predator was working with Russian intelligence services.
Donald Tusk, prime minister of Poland, has suggested that Epstein was gathering “kompromat” for blackmailing the rich and famous.
Some of the women who Epstein exploited were Russian. But there is no clear evidence that he was indeed a Russian asset.
While the perverted financier’s victims suspected he was making secret recordings, these fresh emails are the first confirmation he had hidden cameras.
Epstein’s credit card statements, obtained by The Telegraph, confirm he bought the devices.
The paedo’s American Express account, which his staff also sometimes used, shows two purchases at a surveillance store called RNMC in Fort Lauderdale on February 4, 2014. The high-tech devices cost him over $1,000.
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