George Mitchell Faces Fallout After Epstein File Release

George Mitchell, long celebrated for negotiating peace in Northern Ireland, has come under renewed scrutiny after the Justice Department released millions of files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Queen’s University Belfast removed a bronze bust of his likeness and stripped his name from a research institute, and the US-Ireland Alliance said it would rename a scholarship bearing his name.

In Maine, a scholarship program is considering a name change and parents at George Mitchell Elementary School have called for rebranding. A review of the files found Mitchell’s name in more than 300 documents, though many are duplicates. The records include flight logs, invitations and phone and email messages spanning the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s.

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