A Long Island neurosurgeon named Dr Jeffrey Epstein has been unintentionally swept into controversy after a case of mistaken identity led a US lawmaker to link him to the late financier and convicted sex offender of the same name.

The confusion began during a House session when Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett suggested that “Jeffrey Epstein” had donated to former Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin’s campaign. She cited two 2020 contributions — made in April and August of that year — despite the fact that the disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in 2019. It later emerged that the donor was Dr Jeffrey Epstein, a New York surgeon with no connection whatsoever to the scandal or the notorious figure.

Reacting to the misunderstanding, Dr Epstein spoke light-heartedly about the mix-

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