Clinton Adviser Linked To Epstein Found Hanged With Shotgun Blast To Chest, Investigation Reopened

An investigation into the mysterious death of former President Bill Clinton’s adviser Mark Middleton has been reopened, but the details of his death have been muzzled by a lawsuit brought forward by his family.

59-year-old Middleton, a longtime special adviser for Clinton while he was president, was found hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to the chest in early May at the Heifer Ranch outside Perryville, Arkansas.

“I don’t know the man, and I don’t why he picked our county or picked that location to commit suicide. To our knowledge, he had never been there before, and we have no record of him being there before,” Perry County Sheriff Scott Montgomery told the Daily Mail.

“He died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the chest. He found a tree and he pulled a table over there, and he got on that table, and he took an extension cord and put it around a limb, put it around his neck and he shot himself in the chest with a shotgun,” he said.

“It was very evident that the shotgun worked because there was not a lot of blood or anything on the scene. You can tell the shotgun blast was on his chest, you can tell that because there is a hole in the chest and pellets came out the back of his back. It was definitely self-inflicted in our opinion.”

In the 1990s, Middleton served as a “conduit” between Clinton and the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, having arranged at least 7 of the 17 visits Epstein made to the White House, and flew on the Lolita Express several times himself, according to the Daily Mail.

A source reportedly confirmed to Radar Online that Middleton was found hanging from a tree by an extension cord with a close-range shotgun blast through his chest, and likely did not commit suicide.

“Everyone that I know here, that has worked with Mark, knows it is physically impossible for Mark to have killed himself,” the source, identified as a “terrified business associate” of Middleton, reportedly said.

“He could not physically hold a shotgun and done that to himself,” the source added. “He knows nothing about guns! He hated guns; he couldn’t have tied a noose to save his life! The man couldn’t change a light bulb by himself. He was the least physically skilled person I have ever met in my life. He was very smart, great with paperwork, legalities, and all of that but he couldn’t physically take care of himself.”

Radar had filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Perry County Sheriff’s Department demanding copies of the police report, as well as photos and video contained within it.

But Middleton’s wife Rhea and brother Larry filed a “temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction” against the disclosure of the police report and contents associated with it to prevent the spread of “unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”

“Since Mr. Middleton’s death, Mr. Middleton’s family, including the Middletons, has been harassed by outlandish, hurtful, unsupported, and offensive online articles regarding Mr. Middleton, his death, and his family,” states the lawsuit.

“The same individuals who created the online articles will attempt to obtain details of the File.”

Additionally, Montgomery revealed to Radar that the investigation into Middleton has been reopened, further stymying attempts to obtain information about the details of Middleton’s death.

“At this time this is an open investigation, and we are not releasing any information,” Montgomery said in an email, without elaborating on the decision to reopen the investigation.

Perry County Coroner Bill Greene also refused to release autopsy details, citing the open investigation.

“Right now, it’s considered an open case, and nothing is being released on it at this time,” a worker at the coroner’s office said. “That means it’s under investigation…it’s a legal matter which I guess might be supposed as a criminal matter also, I don’t know.”

Middleton’s family expressed their grief over his death in a now-deleted Facebook post through the family-owned Middleton Heat & Air HVAC business.

“The Middleton Family is saddened to share that Mark Middleton passed away this weekend,” the post said.

“The Middleton family has lost an inspiring and dedicated leader, as well as a son, brother, husband, and father. Mark leaves behind a company that he helped build from the ground up alongside his family and was proud to run for the last 25 years.”

“No words can express our sadness over this loss or our gratitude for your support and prayers during this time.”

Middleton’s death is not the only one linked to Epstein, who himself was allegedly found dead in his Manhattan prison cell in 2019 with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck.

French modeling scout and “Epstein accomplice” Jean-Luc Brenel was also found hanged in his prison cell in February. He’d been indicted in December 2021 for “rape of a minor” and “sexual harassment” as part of the Epstein probe.

Ah, old memories. In 1996, sometime in the late stages of the campaign, I was over at the Dole campaign headquarters one evening, doing some volunteer work. Nothing fancy, just dialing for dollars. By this stage it was pretty clear that we were going to lose, but we were determined to go down fighting, and one can always hope for lightening striking.

Late in the evening, a message was passed around to everyone who was involved in any form of external contact. If we heard the name “Mark Middleton,” we were to take the contact information of the person we were talking to, drop whatever we were doing, and bring it straight upstairs to the inner sanctum. We were not told anything at all about what this was about and we were told not to make a big deal about it on the phone; just be alert for the name, get the contact info and bring it IMMEDIATELY upstairs.

I heard nothing more about it that night, or for some weeks to come. It was very odd at the time, but it seemed that nothing had come of it, and I forgot about it.

Later, however, a story very briefly flickered across a couple of media outlets. Mark Middleton was an old Clinton political volunteer from Arkansas, which is fine. He had been a fundraiser in the 1992 Clinton campaign and had scored a staff job in the White House when Clinton won. This too is fine, as long as he was qualified for his job. After a couple of years, he left the White House and hung out his shingle as an “international trade consultant,” presumably a glorified lobbyist, which is also fine as long as he was playing within the rules.

The problem was this. As an “international trade consultant,” Middleton was flying around Asia and actively fundraising for the 1996 Clinton campaign. (Note that American expats are perfectly entitled to contribute to U.S. political campaigns. Foreign nationals and businesses are not.) This was the period during which the Clinton-Gore campaign was up to its eyeballs in illegal foreign contributions. How much illegal money Middleton may have raised, I don’t know; the memorable twist of the Middleton story lies elsewhere.

In his “business” dealings, Middleton was handing out a business card that was a very close knockoff of an official White House staff card — one of those facially nearly identical fakes with a minute difference to give the lawyers something to quibble about if one got caught.

This business card identified Middleton as a “Special Assistant to the President,” which he no longer was.

AND THE CARD LISTED THE ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE TELEPHONE NUMBER.

Veteran freepers will recall BillyJeff’s famous sacking of the White House telephone operators and the installation of an automated system to screen incoming calls. The number on Middleton’s card rang into this automated system. The telephone tree took over: “If you are calling for President William Jefferson Clinton, press one. If you are calling for Vice President Al Gore, press two. If you are calling for Chief of Staff Mack McClarty, press three. If you are calling for Mark Middleton, press four....”

If you pressed four, the automated system kicked your call out of the White House and transferred you to a campaign office that was standing by to receive such calls.

If my memory serves, the telephone tree listed Middleton as #4. Pretty important guy. Must’ve impressed prospective donors.

The White House recorded message was changed and the Middleton number taken down the moment the story broke. Vanished. Down the memory hole. Someone got a recording before it was pulled down, and I heard that played ONCE before the media totally spiked the story. Janet Reno, of course, declined to investigate. The democrats on the FEC locked arms and refused to investigate. The news media couldn’t be bothered; the MSM was having fun with Monica Lewinsky but was otherwise doing its best to ignore the myriad Clinton scandals. Republicans squawked but got not traction; if BillyJeff murdered ten children in the Oval Office and the MSM doesn’t report it, has anything happened?

The question remains: who could have authorized the illegal use of the White House telephone system to provide fraudulent “official” cover for a Clinton fundraiser operating abroad under fraudulent credentials? This is a real thumbsucker. Like so many other Clinton affairs, this is now receding into the mists of history as another unsolvable mystery. Only the cynics ... oh my, we aren’t supposed to go there, or we get labelled hyper-partisan conspiracy theorists, and we will never get invited to the talk shows again.

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