We're innocent, OK?

I am struggling to understand how the 72 year old man of the moment, Dark Lord and Prince of Darkness whatisname rationalises his situation. The BBC reported:
 
“Lord Mandelson has not publicly commented in recent weeks on the Epstein files, but the BBC understands his position is he has not acted in any way criminally and that he was not motivated by financial gain.”
 
It seems Mandelson’s boss at the time of his alleged ‘misconduct in public office’ disagrees with Mandy’s profession of innocence. No doubt the police will get to the bottom of it. So what drove Mandy to share sensitive information whilst Business Secretary? I expect he’ll tell us it was purely about friendship. That friendship, as we know helped Epstein to meet a wider network of power brokers, including Tony Blair. Epstein’s Rolodex clearly expanded with such compliant friends of friends. That will certainly have helped Epstein to a financial gain. In the meantime Mandy will have told himself so many times, over and over again that he was simply and naively a friend of the paedo and all his interactions were totally innocent he will go to his grave believing it and that he has been done a great injustice. The same will be true of Mr Windsor, although his behaviour seems to have been more skewed to the pleasures of the flesh.