Unidentified folks wearing binders bearing the seal of the USA Justice Division studying “The Epstein Information: Segment 1” stroll out of the West Wing of the White Space in February. The Trump management had promised it will liberate paperwork on past due magnate and convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein who used to be discovered useless in his jail cellular in 2019.
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The Justice Division and the FBI have discovered no proof that disgraced financier and convicted intercourse culprit Jeffrey Epstein had a “consumer listing” or that he blackmailed distinguished mates.
The conclusions are incorporated in a two-page memo outlining the “exhaustive evaluation” the dept carried out of the Epstein recordsdata in its ownership. The memo additionally states that when a “thorough investigation,” the FBI discovered that Epstein died through suicide, which aligns with earlier division conclusions.
The findings contradict previous statements from Lawyer Common Pam Bondi about an alleged listing of Epstein shoppers. And it is unclear if the memo will tamp down at the persisted public skepticism about Epstein’s case, specifically his suicide.
Epstein died at a federal lockup in New York Town in August 2019 whilst expecting trial on federal sex-trafficking fees. His loss of life has fueled a lot of conspiracy theories, specifically at the a ways proper, as a result of his ties to the rich and robust and the ongoing hypothesis surrounding his loss of life.
Axios used to be the primary to document at the memo.
Bondi has lengthy promised to liberate paperwork from the Epstein investigation. She made public a small batch of recordsdata in February, and mentioned the transfer used to be a part of the management’s “dedication to transparency and lifting the veil at the disgusting movements of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.”
That very same month, she advised Fox Information in an interview that Epstein’s consumer listing used to be “sitting on my table presently to check.”
Greater than 4 months later, the dept memo at once contradicts her.
“This systematic evaluation printed no incriminating ‘consumer listing.’ There used to be additionally no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed distinguished people as a part of his movements,” the memo says. “We didn’t discover proof that would predicate an investigation towards uncharged 3rd events.”
Requested Monday about Bondi’s earlier remarks, White Space press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to minimize the discrepancy.
“She used to be pronouncing the whole thing of the entire bureaucracy, all the paper in terms of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” Leavitt advised newshounds. “That is what the lawyer basic used to be regarding, and I’m going to let her discuss for that.”
Leavitt added that the lawyer basic and the FBI director pledged, at Trump’s course, to behavior an exhaustive evaluation of the Epstein fabrics “and that’s the reason what they did, and so they equipped the result of that. That is transparency.”
Suicide consistent with prior findings, clinical proof
The unsigned memo says the FBI and the dept went thru its investigative recordsdata associated with Epstein—virtual searches of databases, arduous drives, community drives and bodily searches of cupboards, desks and closets—to search out any and all related fabrics.
Epstein’s died through suicide on Aug. 10, 2019 on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in New York Town, consistent with the memo. It notes that the conclusions is in step with earlier findings, together with the ones of town’s leader medial examiner, the U.S. Lawyer’s Place of work in New york and the DOJ’s inspector basic.
It says the belief his loss of life used to be through suicide could also be supported through video pictures from the average space of the jail unit the place Epstein used to be being held when he died.
“Any person getting into or making an attempt to go into the tier the place Epstein’s cellular used to be situated … would were captured through this pictures,” the memo states. “The FBI’s impartial evaluation of this pictures showed that from the time Epstein used to be locked in his cellular at round 10:40 pm on Aug 9, 2019, till round 6:30 am the following morning, no one entered any of the tiers.”
FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have prior to now raised questions in regards to the reliable account of Epstein and his loss of life. Since taking most sensible jobs on the bureau, even though, they’ve publicly mentioned that Epstein killed himself.
Each males confronted backlash on-line from conspiracy theorists.
The memo states that there are greater than 1,000 sufferers of Epstein’s abuse, and that delicate data on the ones people is contained within the investigative recordsdata. It says that combatting kid exploitation and offering justice to sufferers are most sensible priorities, and that “perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of the ones ends.”
“To that finish, whilst now we have worked to give you the public with most data referring to Epstein and ensured exam of any proof within the govt’s ownership, it’s the decision of the Division of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no additional disclosure could be suitable or warranted,” the memo says.
