The disgraced financier’s Caribbean island of human trafficking horrors was originally purchased from Denmark
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President Donald Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland from Denmark echoes
another land transaction between the two nations – one that ultimately
benefited Jeffrey Epstein.
In 1917, Washington paid Copenhagen $25
million in gold (roughly $633 million today) for part of the West
Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. The sale included a small
island called Little Saint James, which was purchased in 1998 by
Epstein, a financier with alleged intelligence ties and extensive
connections to global elites, including Trump.
Epstein was
disgraced for sexually abusing girls and died in a prison cell while
awaiting trial. US authorities maintain he committed suicide.
Notably, the original Virgin Islands sale included a US pledge not to object to Danish “political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.”
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