Federal prosecutors reveal Prince Andrew ‘has provided zero cooperation’ in Jeffrey Epstein investigation as US attorney leading probe gives press conference outside the pedophile’s Manhattan mansion
- US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman spoke to reporters outside Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan on Monday
- He said Prince Andrew has not returned federal prosecutors’ interview requests
- ‘To date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation,’ Berman said
Britain’s Prince Andrew has not returned federal prosecutors’ interview requests despite offering to cooperate with their ongoing investigation of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators.
Speaking to reporters outside Epstein’s Manhattan mansion on Monday, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said that prosecutors have contacted Prince Andrew’s attorneys but have not received a response.
‘To date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation,’ Berman said.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.
Britain’s Prince Andrew has not returned federal prosecutors’ interview requests despite offering to cooperate with their ongoing investigation of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
Andrew announced last year that he was withdrawing from his royal duties amid renewed attention of his friendship with Epstein, and a woman’s claim that she had several sexual encounters with the prince, starting when she was 17.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre says that after meeting her in Florida in 2000, Epstein flew her around the world and pressured her into having sex with numerous older men, including Andrew, two senior US politicians, a noted academic, wealthy financiers and the attorney Alan Dershowitz, who is now part of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team.
Epstein killed himself in his jail cell in August while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges
All of those men have denied the allegations.
Giuffre has said she had sex with Andrew three times at Epstein’s request, including once in London in 2001 at the home of Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew and Maxwell have both denied any knowledge that Epstein was sexually abusing teenage girls.
In a TV interview last fall, Andrew insisted he was out having pizza with his children on the night Giuffre says they were together in London.
US Attorney General William Barr has vowed to aggressively investigate and bring charges against anyone who may have helped Epstein, who killed himself in his jail cell last summer while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Andrew has said publicly suggested he would willingly cooperate with an investigation.
Berman made his remarks about the case during a joint appearance with members of Safe Horizon, a nonprofit victim services agency, to discuss a new New York law that made it easier for people to sue over childhood sexual abuse.
He wouldn’t discuss the Epstein investigation in detail, but reiterated that the case didn’t end with his death.
‘Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t have done what he did without the assistance of others, and I can assure you that the investigation is moving forward,’ he said.
Two guards who were supposed to be monitoring Epstein the night he was found dead have been charged with falsifying the jail’s log books to indicate they were performing checks on prisoners, when they were actually sleeping or browsing the internet.