Jeffrey Epstein arranged a meeting with Tim Cook for the former head of Windows

Emails released by the Justice Department connected Friday look to show that erstwhile Windows leader Steven Sinofsky not only consulted Jeffrey Epstein for help successful securing his $14 cardinal “retirement” package in November of 2012, but besides successful moving connected early profession steps astatine different companies for illustration Samsung aliases Apple. One archive appears to show that a mates of weeks aft Sinofsky’s departure was announced, Epstein wrote to him saying Apple CEO Tim Cook was “excited to meet.”

There was conscionable 1 hitch, though: Epstein said Cook had heard Sinofsky was starting a institution pinch “farstall.” Epstein wasn’t judge of the pronunciation — galore of his messages person typos — but it appears he was referring to erstwhile iOS VP Scott Forstall, whose exit from Apple had been announced one period before.

Despite that, an email speech six months later finds Sinofsky saying he did meet pinch Cook, and that the Apple leader told him “we should talk erstwhile I want to activity afloat time.”

In betwixt those messages, different email betwixt Epstein and an “Ian Osborne” shows Osborne messaging that he “Will telephone this afternoon. Was pinch Tim Cook this morning.”

Osborne’s email reside is redacted, but it appears that this connection is from the British investor Ian Osborne, who was reportedly a “fixer to billionaires” anterior to launching a SPAC, Social Capital Hedosophia, successful 2017 pinch Chamath Palihapitiya. Last year, FT reported that a tribunal lawsuit successful London revealed that Osborne and Epstein were sending emails backmost and distant successful 2012 discussing lobbying governmental figures and slope insiders successful an effort to get “our friend” Jes Staley appointed CEO of Barclays.

Apple did not respond to a petition for remark from The Verge.