The U.S. Justice Department has said a card allegedly sent by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar is a fabrication.
The document, which contained an offensive reference to Donald Trump, was released to the public on Tuesday as part of a congressionally mandated disclosure of Epstein-related files. Hours later, the department said the card was not genuine.
“This fake letter serves as a reminder that just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within it factual,” the DOJ said in a statement.It added that it would continue to release all material required by law.
The department said the FBI concluded that the handwriting on the card did not match Epstein’s and that it was postmarked three days after his death from northern Virginia. The document also lacked Epstein’s inmate number, which is required for outgoing prison mail.
Last month, Congress passed legislation requiring the justice department to make its Epstein files public, which was signed into law by Donald Trump. A large batch of documents was released earlier this week, following previous disclosures, with further releases expected.
The card, which was among about 30,000 pages released to the public, features an image of a couple holding hands across a table and includes handwritten text referring to “our president” and to “young, nubile girls”.
The disclosures contain no allegations that Trump committed any crime.
U.S. authorities said the card was obtained after it was returned as undeliverable to the federal detention centre in New York following Epstein’s death.
One of Nassar’s former lawyers, Shannon Smith, declined to comment. Another former lawyer, Matthew Newburg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nassar, who served for years as a team doctor for U.S. Olympic gymnasts, was sentenced in 2017 to 60 years in federal prison for possessing child sexual abuse material. In 2018, he received additional state sentences in Michigan totalling up to 300 years for sexually abusing athletes under his care.
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