Jeffrey Epstein files latest: Bondi accuses FBI of withholding ‘thousands of pages’ and demands Friday release
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In a public letter, Bondi asked newly-confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel to also investigate why, after repeated requests for their release, thousands of documents related to the Epstein probe had allegedly been withheld.
The attorney general instructed the bureau to turn over “all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained,” by 8 a.m. Friday.
In a post on X, Patel said that the agency is entering a new era and that “there will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned.”
The highly-anticipated “first phase” release related to the disgraced financier Thursday devolved into disappointment among conservative figures after it contained no major new allegations about Epstein nor his associates. About 200 pages – split between 10 files – include a series of flight logs from the politically connected sex offender’s private jet, a partly-redacted “contacts list,” and a blacked-out list of more than 250 “masseuses.”
FBI has one hour to hand over ‘thousands of pages’ of Epstein files
The FBI has just one hour to fulfil Pam Bondi’s request and deliver the remaining Epstein documents to her office by 8:00 a.m.
The attorney general instructed Kash Patel, the bureau’s freshly-confirmed director, in a letter Thursday to release “thousands of pages” of previously undisclosed files about the convicted sex offender
It followed the Department of Justice releasing just 200 pages of files that had no major new allegations about the late sex offender or his associates.
James Liddell28 February 2025 12:00
Democratic lawmaker fumes at DoJ after ‘promise’ of full Epstein files
James Liddell28 February 2025 11:52
Epstein’s flight logs reveal what we already knew: Donald Trump flew on the Lolita Express
Previously released flight logs have shown that Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets at least seven times in the 1990s – though the president has denied any knowledge of the sex offender’s abuse.
Documents prosecutors in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial in 2022 show Trump flew with Epstein numerous times on his private jet, a Boeing 727 called “Lolita Express,” with his former wife Marla Maples and his children Eric and Tiffany Trump, as well as a beauty queen and a senior aide to Bill Clinton.
Epstein often used the plane to ferry young women between New York and his primary residence in Palm Beach, where many of his alleged acts of sexual abuse are said to have taken place.
“We know he [Clinton] was on the plane, called the Lolita Express, multiple times. He has been a continued friend of his for many years,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News last month. Clinton has denied the claim.
“Contrast that with Donald Trump, who had not spoken to him [Epstein] for over a decade after he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for bad behavior.”
The pair did eventually fall out over a real estate dispute years before Epstein’s first arrest for soliciting prostitution. Trump said in 2019 that he “wasn’t a fan” of Epstein and hadn’t spoken with him since the early 2000s.
James Liddell28 February 2025 11:36
Epstein files contain no major new allegations
The hyped “Phase 1” release of the Epstein files Thursday ended in disappointment for many conservative figures who voiced their disdain after they contained no major new allegations about the late sex offender or his associates – much of which has been circulated in the public domain for years.
Detailed across 200 pages – and 10 separate files – the papers include a series of flight logs from Epstein’s private jet, a partly-redacted “contacts list,” and a fully blacked-out list of more than 250 “masseuses.”
Much of the material was previously published material from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend, several years after the disgraced financier took his own life while in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on new charges of trafficking teenage girls.
Over the years, thousands of pages of records have been released through lawsuits, Epstein’s criminal dockets, public disclosures and Freedom of Information Act requests.
In January 2024, a court unsealed the final batch of a trove of documents that had been collected as evidence in a lawsuit filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
James Liddell28 February 2025 11:15
MTG ‘proud’ of Bondi and Patel despite facing raft of MAGA backlash
James Liddell28 February 2025 10:50
Very little new information expected to be released, DoJ officials say
Very little new information is expected to be released after Attorney General Pam Bondi requested the release of “thousands of papers” concerning Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the FBI had withheld the “complete” list, according to a report.
Two senior Justice Department officials told NBC that the lack of new information would be due to how much has already been made public.
One of the DoJ staffers said they perceive the timing of the release of the Epstein files as a “distraction” from other matters, without specifying further.
FBI director says ‘no stone will be left unturned’ after scathing Bondi letter
James Liddell28 February 2025 10:04
Jeffrey Epstein’s old NYC home once sold for $51 million
Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein once lived in an opulent New York City home on 71st Street.
The home was raided in 2019 by FBI agents as they investigated the case against the disgraced financier.
The home sat vacant for years after the raid and Epstein’s prison suicide.
That was until 2021, when former Goldman Sachs executive Michael Daffey purchased the home for $51 million, according to Fox Business.
“Mr. Daffey had never previously been in the home, nor did he ever meet its owner. But he is a big believer in New York’s future and will take the other side of all the people who say the city’s best days may be in the past,” Stu Loeser, a spokesman for Daffey, told Fox Business in a statement at the time.
Alex Lang28 February 2025 09:41
