Recently released documents by Congress from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are shedding new light on the disgraced financier’s relationship with prominent Illinois civic figure Thomas Pritzker .

Pritzker, Gov. JB Pritzker’s cousin, exchanged at least 20 back-and-forth emails with Epstein that show the two remarking on current events and making plans to see each other, according to a review of some of the 20,000 pages of documents released by the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform committee last week.

“Looking for a time to catch up in NY,” Thomas Pritzker wrote to Epstein in an August 2016 exchange apparently centered around an invite list for an unknown event.

“im in santa fe for the next two weeks come visit,” Epstein responded. The governor’s cousin did

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