What are the Jeffrey Epstein files? AG Pam Bondi orders FBI to investigate

Prosecutor General Pam Bondi launched on Thursday High Financing Documents Jeffrey EpsteinBut the first wave of files posted on the website of the justice department has been largely circulated in the public domain for years and has not included any nine bomb The case of sex traffic that was a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists.

The small batch of documents included copies of Epstein’s private flight logs, who have been available for a long time in several cases and a highly reduced photocopy of an Epstein -compiled address agency and its long -term confidancy Ghislaine Maxwell, which has been cited in the media accounts for several years.

The Department of Justice has also released a list of blackened masseuses and a list of evidence showing records for more than 150 items, including nude images, massage tables, sex toys and other items. There was no indication if the list was in the case of Epstein, Maxwell’s case or another investigation.

Bondi teased the documents during a Fox News, Wednesday, declaring: “Breaking News right now: you will see some information about Epstein launched.” The Department of Justice said that it makes the documents public to show its commitment to transparency.

President Donald Trump, who was in office when Epstein was arrested in 2019, suggested while campaign last year that he would seek to open the government’s files.

But the launch of the documents – which were first given to the political commentators at the White House a few hours earlier in the binders who wrote “Epstein files: Phase I” – showed the delight of the administration for presentation and preference for conservative influences, with great social pursuits.

The Department of Justice did not post them on its site only a few hours later, along with a note that reduced their significance. “The first phase of the declassified files contains largely documents that have been previously drained, but never issued in a formal capacity by the US government,” the note shows.

The documents are unlikely to satisfy the online sleeps eager for new details about Epstein’s crimes and his connections with famous people, who have long been 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.

Patel promised in a position on X to ensure that all the documents are provided to the management of the Department of Justice.

“If there are gaps, we will find them. If the records have been hidden, we will discover them. And we will bring everything we find in Doj to be fully evaluated and disseminated transparently to the American people as it should be, ”he said.

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 the final group of a Trove 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.