These Epstein Files ARE being released because the US Congress COMPELLED the Justice Dept. to do so….
President Trump could have saved all this if had ordered the same…
He IS mentioned in the document ‘s thousands of times as are other prominent, and famous figure’s….
Senate Minority Leader Schumer is pushing for more of the held back info to be released….
NY Times….
The Justice Department on Friday released three million more pages of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein files, and thousands of videos and images, as the Trump administration sought to bring an end to the accusations and speculation swirling around the case.
New York Times reporters are sifting through the material and providing updates and analysis of the records. The files include a significant number of uncorroborated tips to law enforcement, and also references to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the billionaires Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and other prominent people known to have associated with Mr. Epstein.
The documents posted online are the largest batch of Epstein files released by the department to date, and arrived weeks after a Dec. 19 deadline imposed by Congress. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the release also included 2,000 videos and some 180,000 images.
At a news conference, Mr. Blanche signaled the documents would be the last major release of government files about Mr. Epstein, but he acknowledged that even that many documents were unlikely to satisfy the public demand for information about Mr. Epstein.
The Justice Department will send a report to Congress on why redactions were made, Mr. Blanche said. He also rattled off a number of reasons the department withheld documents, saying that the department was permitted to do so under the law ordering their release. The reasons included files with personal identifying information or medical information of Mr. Epstein’s victims, material depicting child sexual abuse and material that depicted death or violence.
Here’s what we’re covering:
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White House: In releasing the documents, Mr. Blanche insisted that the White House “had nothing to do” with vetting them. “They had no oversight and they did not tell this department how to do our review and what to look for and what to redact or not redact,” he said.
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President Trump: The F.B.I. produced a summary last summer documenting more than a dozen tips received by the agency involving Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein, including accusations of sexual abuse by both men. The emails did not include any corroborating evidence, and The Times is not describing details of the unverified claims. Read more ›
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Howard Lutnick: Mr. Lutnick, the commerce secretary planned a visit to Mr. Epstein’s island in 2012, though he said last year that he had cut ties with Mr. Epstein around 2005. The documents suggest the visit occurred. Read more ›
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Bill Gates: Mr. Epstein drafted notes to and about Mr. Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, in 2013 suggesting that he engaged in extramarital sex. It was not clear if Mr. Epstein ever sent the emails to Mr. Gates, whose foundation labeled the accusations “absolutely absurd and completely false.” Read more ›
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Inner circle: One document diagrams Mr. Epstein’s inner circle, including key employees, assistants and several girlfriends. Only one person in the chart, Ghislaine Maxwell, was charged with helping Mr. Epstein in sex trafficking underage girls. Read more ›
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Donald Trump IS Mentioned in at least 4,500 document’s….
Some stuff is STILL being held back….
The Justice Department on Friday finished its belated release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex trafficker, though officials conceded that the disclosure of more than three million pages was unlikely to put to rest the suspicions that surround the case.
That was quickly reinforced by Democratic lawmakers and some of Mr. Epstein’s victims, who had forced the Trump administration to disclose the documents related to the case. They asserted that the massive tranche still fell short of a full accounting, and that the documents revealed personal information about people Mr. Epstein abused.
Hundreds of prosecutors have spent the last two months reviewing more than six million pages potentially related to the case. As of Friday, around 3.5 million pages had been published in response to a law passed by Congress last November. The latest files also included 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
The files appeared to contain at least 4,500 documents that mention Mr. Trump, according to an initial review by The New York Times. One was a summary F.B.I. officials assembled last summer of more than a dozen tips from members of the public involving Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Mr. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the disgraced financier.
“We did not protect President Trump,” Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, told reporters on Friday. “We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.”
Mr. Blanche said that many of the pages that were reviewed were duplicates, and that roughly 200,000 pages were redacted or withheld after Justice Department lawyers determined that they were protected by various legal privileges, including attorney-client material. One small tranche of papers, from a law firm involved with an Epstein-related case, still has to be dealt with, Mr. Blanche said….
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“Every member of this body voted that all the Epstein files should be released,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor on Friday. “We are not satisfied that the law is being complied with. We believe it is not.”
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, which issued a subpoena for federal prosecutors’ material in August, said that the Justice Department was still required to provide the panel with more material, including files it had already redacted or withheld because of privilege….
F.B.I. presentation outlines allegations against powerful men
The Justice Department last year compiled a 21-page slide presentation that summarized its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, including allegations of sexual misconduct against numerous powerful men.
The men included President Trump, the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince.
The presentation did not say whether the Justice Department had verified any of the claims. Most of the men listed in the document have previously been linked to Mr. Epstein. Some of his victims have previously claimed they were forced to have sex with or give massages to some of the men. The men have denied the claims.
The presentation was created sometime after July 25, the most recent date that is mentioned in the document. The cover page included the logo of the F.B.I.’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. The presentation’s intended audience wasn’t clear.
While it makes clear that federal authorities were aware of serious allegations against the men, there is no indication that the Justice Department considered any of them to be suspects in its investigations.
The Justice Department failed to fully redact the names of some victims who leveled allegations against the men. The department said one reason it took so long to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act — which mandated the disclosure of millions of pages of documents — was the need to make sure all victim names were properly redacted.
The presentation also listed other prominent men who witnesses said were involved in sexual activity, though not necessarily misconduct. That included former President Bill Clinton and the retail billionaire Leslie Wexner, one of Mr. Epstein’s main financial benefactors.
None of Mr. Epstein’s victims have made any public allegations of wrongdoing against Mr. Clinton. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton has previously said that he “knows nothing” about Mr. Epstein’s crimes.
The F.B.I. compiled a summary of accusations mentioning President Trump
Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation last summer assembled a summary of more than a dozen tips received by the agency involving President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
It is unclear why the investigators assembled the summary, which includes accusations of sexual abuse by Mr. Epstein and Mr. Trump. The emails did not include any corroborating evidence and The New York Times is not describing the details of the unverified claims.
The emails summarized tips sent to the F.B.I.’s National Threat Operations Center in West Virginia, which fields a large volume of calls from around the country, allowing members of the public to submit crime tips to the agency.
Attorney General Blondi is NOT handing the media on this…..
It was noteworthy that Blanche — and not Attorney General Pam Bondi — was answering questions about the Epstein files. The White House has long been frustrated by her missteps, and has increasingly put forward Blanche, Bondi’s top deputy, as the Justice Department’s main conduit for public information about the files….
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A timeline of the Trump administration’s efforts to release (and withhold) the Epstein files.
President Trump could have compelled the Justice Department to release all of its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his first day back in office in January, satisfying a promise he made to fervent supporters demanding transparency. Instead, he spent much of the past year denouncing critics, deflecting blame and changing the subject, allowing the issue to weaken his grip on his political base.
Before Mr. Trump ultimately relented under pressure and signed legislation in November directing the Justice Department to release its Epstein-related files, some of which became public in December, his administration and House Republicans released tens of thousands of documents. Many of those disclosures contained little new information and appeared aimed at tamping down criticism.
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