Conservative commentators seen with "Epstein Files" binders

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Washington (AP) – Advocate General Pam Bondi teased the public of the public of government documents related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein During a Fox News occurrence on Wednesday, declaring: “Breaking News right now, you will see some Epstein launched information.”

Subsequently, the Department of Justice acknowledged that the expected files are launched on Thursday circulated largely in the public domain and is unlikely to include new bombs on The case of sex traffic that was a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists.

The Department of Justice said that it makes the documents public to show its commitment to transparency. But the launch of the files – which were given to the political commentators at the binders who read the “Epstein files: Phase I” at the White House, Thursday after – showed the preference of the administration for conservative influencers with great social pursuits.

Until Thursday evening, the files were not provided to the reporters of the justice department or posted online.

The documents are unlikely to satisfy the online sleeps eager for new details about Epstein’s crimes and connections with famous people who have long made the subject of an intense media examination. The lack of new information has attracted criticism even from some conservatives. “Put the information I asked for!” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Wrote on social media, calling the launch of a “complete disappointment”.

Bondi suggested in a Thursday letter to FBI director Kash Patel That several records have been discovered recently. She ordered the FBI to surrender to the “complete and complete Epstein files” until Friday morning and guided it on the patel to “carry out an immediate investigation” for what order to the FBI to hand over all the documents was not followed.

President Donald Trump, who was in office when Epstein was arrested, suggested while campaign last year that he would seek to open the Government files.

Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of minor girls in the early 2000s, but ended with only 13 months in prison. He was charged for federal charges in New York in 2019, more than a decade after secretly concluding Florida federal prosecutors to have similar sex traffic charges.

The case has attracted wide attention because of Epstein and his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell’s Links to royal, presidents and billionaires. Maxwell himself is the daughter of the late British tycoon Robert Maxwell, who once owned New York Daily News.

Over the years, thousands of pages of registration have been published by lawsuits, Epstein’s criminal docks, public disclosures and the law of the Law on freedom of information. In January 2024, a court revealed a complex of documents that were collected as evidence in a process filed by the victim Epstein Virginia Giuffre.

Much of the material, including transcripts of the interviews of the victims and the old police reports, had already been publicly known. They included mentions about Trump, former President Bill Clinton, British Prince Andrew and Magic David Copperfield, as well as the testimony of a victim who said he met Michael Jackson at Epstein’s Florida house, but nothing unpleasant happened to him.

The previously launched files included a 2016 submission in which an accuser told a few hours with Epstein at the Atlantic City casino in Trump, but did not say if he actually met Trump and did not accuse him of any crime. Trump also said he once thought Epstein is a “great guy”, but that they had a fall.

In 2023, Associated Press obtained thousands of pages of recordings throwing light in the last days of Epstein’s life at a federal prison now closed in Manhattan. They included E -mail between prison officials, psychological evaluations, reports of internal agencies, memoirs and other records.

The inspector general of the Department of Justice subsequently issued a report that found that a “combination of negligence, incorrect conduct and direct failure failure” by the Federal Prison Bureau and the prison workers allowed Epstein to lead their own life in August 2019. The security report found no evidence.

Sisak reported from New York.

Originally published: February 27, 2025 at 14:24 East