THE FBI’s investigation into Prince Andrew and his friendship with paedo Jeffrey Epstein has been “parked”.
US cops have paused their probe until “new evidence is presented that can move the case forward”.
The FBI has reportedly parked its investigation into Prince AndrewJae Donnelly
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A source close to the case told the Mirror: “The agents and attorneys who have, for years, worked diligently looking into Andrew’s friendship with Epstein are beyond frustrated.
“They’re angry that the probe has been parked.”
The source also said that no new evidence has been presented to the investigation for some time and so the case had stalled.
FBI agents are now spending their time investigating other alleged high-profile rapists like Sean “Diddy” Combs, Mirror sources went on to say.
Combs is facing criminal charges in New York for racketeering and sex trafficking and over 100 people have come forward in civil suits.
The agency is using its resources to deal with “hundreds of potential leads” that have come forward over the last month.
Andrew visited New York in 2011 shortly after Epstein was released from jail for child sex offences.
Geoffrey Berman – the US attorney who indicted paedo Epstein – slammed Andrew in 2020 for providing “zero cooperation”.
The decision comes after the Duke of York’s disgraced pal Ghislaine Maxwell had her appeal against sex trafficking convictions thrown out.
Car crash interview
The Duke had sat down with Emily Maitlis for a wide-ranging interview in 2019, and discussed his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
During the notorious “car crash” sit down, the disgraced Prince Andrew claimed he could not have had sex with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre because, on the day she alleged it happened, he was at Pizza Express in Woking for a kids’ party with daughter Beatrice.
He also insisted that he could not have “sweated profusely”, as was claimed, due to a medical condition he said he developed while serving in the Falklands War as a Navy helicopter pilot.
Andrew also defended his relationship with Epstein, saying that knowing the financier had “some seriously beneficial outcomes”, but added that his reason for meeting him in 2010 was to “put an end to the friendship”.
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