US health official invited Epstein to Valentine’s Day party, documents show

Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, emailed an invitation to a Valentine’s Day party in 2016 to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Reuters writes, referring to US Justice Department documents.

Oz, formerly a celebrity physician on TV, sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein’s first sex crime charges became public in July 2006.

The email, dated Feb. 1, 2016, and addressed from Oz and his wife to Epstein, has a subject line reading “Mehmet and Liza Oz’s Valentine’s Day Celebration.”

Oz, however, is not accused of any crime in connection with Epstein’s case. His name has been mentioned several times in documents released related to the Epstein case.