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TeaHe Department of Justice Published another huge batch of files related to its previous investigations Jeffrey Epstein On Tuesday, it is making 11,000 additional files available for download on its website.
The latest decline came after its publication Incomplete set of documents and photographs The charges related to the pedophile and sex trafficker departed Friday to comply with a 30-day deadline set by the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act through Congress in November.
However, whatever was released proved to be heavily edited and devoid of context and was not distributed in a searchable format, as was clearly stipulated in the Act.
The partial release drew an angry reaction from a group of Epstein survivors, who branded it “unacceptable,” And from the lawmakers behind the original effort to release the files, who said they are now considering Contempt of Congress charges against the attorney general palm bondi About handling the matter.
The department responded by releasing nearly 30,000 pages of documents, containing 10GB of data, two days before Christmas, which has only served to invite new questions about the late billionaire and his social circle.
How many times did Trump travel on Epstein’s plane?
There were few references to the President in Friday’s batch of files but the latest release contained many more.
Trump has not been charged with any crimes in connection with Epstein, his fellow New Yorker and one-time Florida social acquaintance, and the presence of any individual’s name in the documents does not indicate wrongdoing.
However, the president has faced intense pressure since this summer to clarify his past friendship with Epstein, which Trump has said ended around 2004 after the two men had a falling out at his Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago.
One of the most attention-grabbing records included in the latest tranche of files is an internal email from January 2020 sent by an unidentified assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He wrote to colleagues informing them that flight records obtained from Epstein’s private jet showed that Trump had flown in it “Many times more than have been reported before.”
According to the messages, there were at least eight such flights between 1993 and 1996 on which Trump was a passenger along with Epstein’s former girlfriend and partner. Ghislaine Maxwell Attend at least four of them.
This appears to contradict a claim made by Trump on Truth Social while campaigning for president in January 2024, in which he clearly declared: “I was never on Epstein’s plane or his ‘idiot’ island.”
Who were the 10 co-conspirators wanted by the FBI?
A series of emails sent by the Bureau in July 2019 point to this Possible investigation of 10 other associates and supporters Of a deceased sex offender.
“When you get a chance, can you give me an update on the status of the 10 CO conspirators?” A sender signed “FBI New York” wrote.
A follow-up request sent two days later requested “an update on the 10 co-conspirators charged by the COB today.”
According to another email from July 2019, three of the 10 alleged co-conspirators lived in Florida and were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. The messages show there were others in Boston, New York City and Connecticut.
The only named alleged co-conspirators are Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of trafficking; former French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was found dead in prison in 2022; and retail magnate Leslie Wexner, who cut ties with Epstein after he was indicted in Florida in the late 2000s.
Another message from investigators published Tuesday said one of the possible co-conspirators is “a wealthy businessman in Ohio” believed to be Wexner.
A legal representative for Wexner said in a statement that the prosecutor overseeing the Epstein investigation at the time said he was not a co-conspirator nor a target. He has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his crimes.
Of the 10 people mentioned, seven have still not been identified.
senate minority leader chuck schumer A call has already been made for further details, demanding for On social media: “Who are these 10 co-conspirators? Why haven’t we seen those memos? Where are the grand jury records? Where are the FBI records? What are they hiding?”
Emails create confusion even over FBI director Kash PatelTestified before senators earlier this year.
According to CNN, Patel told Congress that there was no credible information that Epstein himself trafficked women and girls for someone else, but the documents included references to a memo sent after his death in a New York jail cell in August 2019 that outlined co-conspirators who could still be charged.
How to separate fact from fiction?
DOJ moved in on Tuesday warn The latest documents disclosed in a post on X include “False and sensational claims” Commenting on the contents of the files is the first step in saying that what was said against the President was “baseless and false” and that “if he had even the slightest credibility” he would have already been “used to arms.”
Deputy Attorney General todd blanche Also taken to the same platform later in the day Said The following: “There has been a lot of sensationalism and even outright lies over the past few days about the ‘Epstein Files.’ But let’s separate fact from fiction.
“Document production is just that. We prepare documents, and sometimes this can result in the issuance of counterfeit or false documents because they are only in our possession because the law requires it.”
But how easy is it to “separate fact from fiction” when reviewing documents being published, given that so little context or dating is being provided?
DOJ came forward Tell Another X post on Tuesday shows a letter allegedly written by Epstein to the disgraced former US gymnastics doctor larry nasar From prison, in which the author made crude jokes about “our President” while complaining about his own fate, he was “fake.”
“The letter was posted three days after Epstein’s death in Northern Virginia, while he was being held in jail in New York,” the department said. “The return address did not list the prison where Epstein was held and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail.”
That assessment is supported by another record in the files: an FBI request from September 2019 that the letter be submitted for handwriting analysis to determine its true authorship, though the results of that test are not included.
Another file has been released on Tuesday identified as fake There is a video sent to the FBI showing the moment Epstein took his own life in his cell, which was sent to the bureau by a member of the public who found it online and was interested in confirming whether it was real or not.
Although those two examples seem relatively obvious, their presence underscores the importance of believing everything you read in the Epstein files, at least without establishing its context.