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As of early 2026, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has disclosed roughly 3.5 million paperwork associated to Jeffrey Epstein, in addition to hundreds of movies and pictures. Some of the paperwork stay the topic of litigation and new requests for declassification in courtroom as they comprise delicate materials.

As regards Italy, a case that ended up within the worldwide information considerations the identify “Nicola Caputo”, learn within the Chamber by a member of the US Congress amongst those that, in response to his reconstruction, have been obscured in non-integral variations of the recordsdata; the previous Italian MEP Nicola Caputo (who moved from the Democratic Party to Italia Viva to Forza Italia) denied being the particular person to whom the paperwork refer.

Other Italian names have emerged from the DoJ recordsdata. References to seem Matteo Salvini (which is talked about 89 instances within the paperwork), Silvio Berlusconi, Giuseppe Conte e Beppe Grillo inside exchanges between third events or context materials current within the dataset. From the paperwork examined there isn’t a documented direct hyperlink between Epstein and the folks talked about, however quite the favor of those and Steve Bannon (former strategic advisor to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who in Italy had unsuccessfully tried to open a sovereignist-inspired group within the Lazio abbey of Trisulti) in the direction of the chief of the Northern League specifically.

In the dialogues between the 2, a victory for the Northern League secretary within the 2019 European elections was hypothesized, with references additionally to the intention to lift electoral financing for him and the French Marine Le Pena member of the far-right Ressemblement National get together. With respect to Berlusconi, the recordsdata comprise articles and references to the authorized affairs of the founding father of Forza Italia, up till his conviction for tax fraud and his dismissal as senator in November 2013. The paperwork launched by the American authorities additionally point out potential conferences that individuals near Epstein would have preferred to prepare with Berlusconi or with members of his workers. Meetings which, in response to experiences, by no means materialized.

Former Prime Minister Conte is talked about in an e mail alternate between Bannon and Epstein by which Trump’s advisor feedback on a USA Today article which talks a couple of promise by the US president to ask his Italian counterpart to the White House, a gathering which then passed off in July 2018. The determine of Grillo, founding father of the 5 Star Movement, seems within the paperwork in a context of worldwide political evaluation, with out specific feedback.