New documents highlight notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's use of Waterford Airport
A batch of newly released 'Epstein Files' show Waterford Aiport in the flight logs for Jeffrey Epstein's private jet. Photo: Joe Evans/US Department of Justice
A newly released tranche of documents from the US Department of Justice highlights how the notorious convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein used Waterford Airport in 1996.
3.5 million new pages of documents were released on Friday, January 30, by the Department of Justice.
Included in those files were multiple references to Epstein’s private jet, the ‘Lolita Express’, and its flights to and from Waterford in May 1996.
Flight logs filled by Epstein’s private jet pilot, David Rodgers, show the ‘Lolita Express’ flew into Dublin Airport on May 2, 1996.
Among the passengers was Epstein, Elizabeth Johnson (great-granddaughter of the cofounder of Johnson & Johnson) and Johnson’s business associates.
On May 3, the jet flew from Dublin to Waterford Airport - Epstein was not included as a passenger.
That same day, the jet flew from Waterford to Paris - Epstein and one other woman were listed as the sole passengers on the flight, indicating Epstein took an alternative route from Dublin to Waterford.
The jet then flew to Geneva from Paris, before routing back to the USA via Shannon Airport.
The same May 3 flight to and from Waterford appears in what seems to be one of Rodgers' (private jet pilot) personal notebooks.
Across the 30-page notebook, where notes were often written in scatter-gun fashion, Rodgers references Epstein’s flights and the investigations into Epstein that first began around 2005.
In one passage, the notebook reads: “In Feb 2007 stop putting down passenger names I was instructed/advised to stop.
“Charter pilots fly all kinds of people, good, bad - even though pilot not doing bad but fly bad person how does look [sic].
“Don’t know how Lolita Express originated…Make me concern when I see press say Prince Andrew fly Lolita Express- I never say that.”
