US EditionGeorge Mitchell's Name Removed From Scholarship over Epstein Links
Emails reveal meetings between George Mitchell and Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's 2008 conviction, contradicting Mitchell's denials and prompting name removal from US-Ireland Alliance scholarship.
- On Feb 1, 2026 the US-Ireland Alliance voted unanimously to remove former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell's name from its scholarship following a Friday DOJ document release.
- Among the material, emails dated 2010 and 2013 reveal contact between Mitchell's assistants and Jeffrey Epstein long after Epstein's 2008 conviction, which Mitchell had denied.
- The programme has been paused since March of 2024 while the Alliance seeks endowment fundraising, and it sends U.S. postgraduate students to Ireland and Northern Ireland for a year of study.
- The organization asked supporters and alumni for patience as the US-Ireland Alliance Scholars will be temporarily called that, and it will consult with alumni, the Irish government and supporters before updating its website and materials.
- Mitchell, who chaired the Good Friday talks, is a key architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and the Mitchell Scholarship honoured his work; being named in the Epstein files is not proof of wrongdoing.
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US-Ireland Alliance drops George Mitchell's name from scholarship
The board of directors of the US-Ireland Alliance announced Sunday it had unanimously agreed that its George J. Mitchell Scholarship program should no longer bear Mitchell’s name. “The decision was made due to new information that has come to light as part of the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein by the Department of Justice on Friday,” Trina Vargo, founder and president of the US-Ireland Alliance, said in a press release. Mitchell…
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