Financist Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “customer list,” said the US Department of Justice on Monday, 7, saying that no other file related to the billionaire’s sexual trafficking investigation would be made public despite the promises of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who increased the expectations of conservative and theoretical influencers of the conspiracy.
The recognition that Epstein did not have a list of clients for which underage girls were trafficked represents a public setback of a theory that the Trump government helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in an interview with Fox News Earlier this year that such a document was “on my table” for review.
At the same time as it was a video from a New York prison to prove that Epstein killed himself, the Justice Department also said in a memorandum that it was refusing to release other evidence that investigators had collected.
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For weeks, Bondi suggested that more material would be revealed after a first eviction of documents she had promoted irritated President Donald Trump’s base for not making revelations. “It’s a new government and everything will come public,” she said at one point.
This episode-in which far-right influencers were invited to the White House in February and received folders with the words “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” (Epstein: Phase 1 files) and “Declassified” (disqualified), which contained documents that were already in public domain-led conservative personalities of the internet to criticize Bondi.
After the failure of the first disclosure, Bondi said the authorities were analyzing a “truck” of previously retained evidence that, according to her, had been delivered by the Federal Department of Investigation of the United States, the FBI.
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In an interview for TV in March, she said the Biden government “kept these documents, no one did anything to them.” “Unfortunately, these people do not believe in transparency, but unfortunately I think many of them do not believe in honesty,” he added.
But after an analysis of months of the government’s possession, the Justice Department determined that no additional disclosure would be appropriate or guaranteed. ” The agency noted that much of the material was placed under the court to protect the victims and “only one fraction” of it “would have been publicly disclosed if Epstein had gone to trial.”
“One of our greatest priorities is to combat child exploitation and do justice to the victims,” says the memorandum. “The perpetuation of unfounded theories about Epstein is not for any of these goals.”
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The memo of two pages brought the logo of the Department of Justice and the FBI, but was not signed by any individual authority.
Conservative criticism
Conservatives who sought proof of government covering of Epstein’s activities and death expressed their indignation on Monday with the position of the department. “We were all informed that more to come. That the answers were out there and would be provided. It’s amazing how this Epstein mess was totally poorly managed. And it didn’t need to be like that,” the far right influencer Jack Posobiec posted.
The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones wrote that “then, the doj will say,” In fact, Jeffrey Epstein never existed, ‘”calling it” extremely sick. ” Elon Musk shared a series of clown photos applying makeup, seeming to mock Bondi for saying that the customer list does not exist after suggesting months ago that she was on her table.
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The buzz on the customer list began when Bondi was asked in an interview with Fox News if the department would disclose such a document. She replied, “It’s on my table now to be reviewed.”
White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Justice Department spokesman Chad Gilmartin said on Monday that Bondi was referring to the general files of the Epstein case.
Among the evidence that the Justice Department said it has in its possession, and it will not disclose, are images of Epstein, “images and videos of victims who are smaller or smaller” and more than 10,000 videos and images downloaded of illegal material of sexual abuse of children and other pornographies ”.
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Memorandum does not explain when or where the videos were located, who and what they portray and were recently found when investigators scoured their collection of tests or if they were known for some time that they were in possession of the government.
Bondi even talked to reporters this year about the existence of “tens of thousands” of videos that, according to her, showed Epstein “with children or child pornography.”
Several people who participated in Epstein criminal proceedings and their ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell told the Associated Press news agencies that they had not seen and did not know about the existence of recordings similar to those mentioned by Bondi. Detention accusations and memorandum also do not point to the existence of video recordings and Epstein or Maxwell were accused of possession of children’s sexual abuse material, although it was easier for prosecutors to prove it than the accusations of sex trafficking they faced.
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AP found a reference in a civil process of discovery, by Epstein’s estate of videos and photos that could constitute child sexual abuse material, but the lawyers involved in this case said that a protection order prevent them from discovering the details of these evidence and the justice department did not respond to a detailed list of AP questions about the videos to which Bondi was referring to.
Death
Epstein was found dead in his cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest on sexual trafficking accusations in a suicide that prevented the possibility of a trial.
The Justice Department’s information that Epstein took his own life is not a revelation, although the conspiracy theorists continued to contest this conclusion.
In November 2019, for example, then-attorney General William Barr told AP that he had analyzed the security images that no one had entered the area where Epstein was housed the night he died and expressed confidence that Epstein’s death was a suicide.
More recently, FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino insisted on television interviews and podcasts that the evidence was clear that Epstein had committed suicide.
