Here are this week’s Letters to the Editor in the Press & Sun-Bulletin:
Where was Rep. Langworthy during Epstein deposition?
Les Wexner provided a deposition to the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 18. According to CNBC, Wexner was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest known associates and top benefactors. Wexner claimed he was duped by Epstein and described Epstein as a con-artist. No Republican was at the deposition.
Increasingly, the allegations of these horrible crimes of rape, trafficking and sexual abuse against women and girls constitute a large-scale criminal enterprise. The United Nations has reviewed the released Epstein files and claims that some of the allegations made could constitute crimes against humanity.
Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of leaking British government information to Epstein.
New Mexico is reopening the investigation of a ranch previously owned by Epstein due to allegations of bodies buried on the site.
Meanwhile, Trump was mentioned in the Epstein files over a million times according to Sen. Jaime Raskin. When Rep. Nicholas Langworthy was appointed to the Oversight Committee, he proclaimed he would improve accountability and transparency. Langworthy was not at the Wexner hearing. No one knew if he was in the home district. So if you see him, please ask him to do his job: investigate the Epstein debacle and hold Trump accountable.
Debra Jones
Apalachin
Liberals continue to step up to meet community’s needs
In his letter that appeared March 1 in the Press & Sun-Bulletin, Bob Kingsley, perhaps inadvertently, gives away the conservative game.
He decries that a not-for-profit group has opened a grocery on the North Side of Binghamton after private companies have found the area insufficiently profitable, assuring us that such a venture is bound to fail. Nowhere does he mention the needs of the people who live there.
Apparently, he sees no value in ensuring that people have access to affordable healthy food. He ends with the ridiculous premise that “conservative values pull people up.” If that were case, why would liberals have to step in to meet the needs of the community? In fact, conservative values lift up corporations and the wealthy on the backs of ordinary Americans.
Leo Cotnoir
Johnson City
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