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JUST IN: FBI Releases Shocking New Update On Epstein Files: ‘Tens Of Thousands Of Videos’
The FBI is continuing to wade through a stomach-churning set of evidence against Jeffrey Epstein, including “tens of thousands of videos” showing him committing some of the worst atrocities imaginable, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday morning.
Her unplanned announcement came while Bondi stood in front of the White House, taking questions from reporters after breaking news about a “historic” fentanyl bust accomplished by an inter-agency task force when one attendee asked about the rumor that the government is holding still more evidence against the late pedophile philanthropist.
That is true, Bondi concurred, but not without good reason.
“The FBI, they’re reviewing. There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn. And there are hundreds of victims,” she said.
In February, Bondi sent a letter to the FBI director criticizing the agency for failing to turn over all of its files on Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 while imprisoned and awaiting charges on child sex trafficking.
Despite being previously convicted for underage prostitution, Epstein was widely celebrated in global philanthropy circles and hosted many of the biggest names in politics at his compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the site of some of his worst abuses.
According to Bondi, the sensitivity of videos depicting victims in the middle of their abuse likely means those videos will never be released to the public.
“No one victim will ever get released. It’s just the volume, and that’s what they’re going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that,” she added.
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Bondi’s disagreement with Patel stemmed from the disappointment some expressed after eagerly awaiting her release of the Bureau’s Epstein files, only to find that many of the disclosures had already been made previously.
“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi said in her February letter to Patel. “Late [Wednesday], I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”
“Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files.”
A source close to the FBI told the Miami Herald that confusion reigned in the midst of Patel’s promise to clean house at the FBI, where he blamed career bureaucrats for stymying his effort to release all known information about the government’s information on Epstein.
Bondi, who served as Florida’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019, suggested at the time that the Epstein investigation was not done and that more criminal charges may be on the way.
“You have to hold individuals who are indeed rapists accountable. We have to have them tried,” she said previously.
While the investigation remains ongoing, victims of Epstein and his mistress Ghislaine Maxwell continue to suffer. Last month, Virginia Giuffre, who was repeatedly abused by Epstein in her teens, took her own life after suffering near-fatal injuries in a car accident.
