WASHINGTON — Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi revealed Thursday that “thousands of pages” of paperwork within the FBI’s investigation into the intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been withheld from her.
And she or he’s demanding that they be turned over by Friday morning.
Bondi, 59, disclosed in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel a tipster stated that each one however “approximately 200 pages of documents” have been nonetheless being saved secret on the FBI’s workplace in New York — regardless of her after repeated requests for the “full” Epstein information.
The preliminary batch included flight logs, telephone numbers and the names of victims, however a supply within the FBI’s New York workplace reached out and stated that lots of extra paperwork weren’t included.
“By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained,” Bondi stated.
“There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access,” she vowed to Patel.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has floated a invoice to stop personal information on Epstein housed on the Division of Justice from being destroyed, in accordance with a duplicate of a letter obtained by The Put up.
Ogles, 53, wrote to Bondi on Wednesday, asserting that he was “drafting legislation entitle the Preventing Epstein Documentation Obliteration Act, or the PEDO Act” following “reports that certain FBI agents are allegedly attempting to destroy critical records.”
“Should you encounter any statutory barriers to the expeditious public release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list or other pertinent information related to his activities — to include circumstances in which any such documentation is housed in other federal agencies — I stand ready to assist,” he stated.
“Our constituents deserve nothing less than radical transparency in matters implicating the integrity of our justice system,” he added within the missive, which was first reported by Fox Information.
A former FBI particular agent had prompt the Epstein information could possibly be amongst paperwork throughout a latest interview on the conservative influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast.
“There are FBI servers,” stated ex-agent-turned-whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, “and people inside the FBI have been working night and day to destroy files on these servers.”
“No idea on what it is — I can only speculate — but you mentioned the Epstein list,” he added. “I’d imagine it’s cases like that.”
The FBI at the moment has lots of of Epstein information accessible to the general public on its web site, however The Put up beforehand scooped that the Justice Division was making ready to launch 100 pages of the infamous legal’s private handle e-book on Thursday, in accordance with a supply who reviewed the information.
Bondi had hinted on Fox Information “Jesse Watters Primetime” that the DOJ was going to launch “some Epstein information,” whereas including the truth that particulars of the financier’s abuse of greater than 250 victims “will make you sick.”
Conservative influencers have been acquired on the White Home and offered with “Phase 1” of the Epstein information launch, rising from the West Wing Thursday afternoon to brandish the binders on the press with out instantly disclosing any particulars.
Ogles in his letter to Bondi additionally claimed a “decades-long obfuscation campaign” had withheld full particulars on investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Lawyer Normal Robert F. Kennedy.
The impact of that “has clearly marginalized trust in our institutions and has contributed to all sorts of alternative theories and motivations regarding the deaths of these men,” he stated.
One other Tennessee lawmaker has additionally pushed for the complete launch of the Epstein information.
“For years, my efforts to crack the Epstein trafficking ring wide open have been stonewalled by Democrats at every turn,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) posted Monday on X.
“This will change under [FBI Director Kash Patel]. I just sent him a letter asking for the complete & unredacted Epstein files.”
In his affirmation listening to, Patel dedicated to Blackburn that he would “do everything” to disclose the “full weight” of “what happened” in Epstein’s youngster intercourse trafficking ring.
The FBI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
