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Key Document Hints At What’s Left To Reveal In Secret Epstein Files

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi declared in February that she was moving swiftly to declassify the “first phase” of newly released files from the government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Since then, it’s largely been a letdown for MAGA members eager to see full transparency in the case.

Documents released this year mostly contain information that has already been disclosed in the case, and they have notably failed to include the much-hyped “client list” of sexual abusers around Epstein that Bondi at one point claimed to have “sitting on” her desk.

However, a three-page file in the batch, overlooked until now, appears to contain a catalogue of evidence still being withheld by the Trump administration, according to a recent review by ABC News. The compilation was made during a seizure of property at Epstein’s properties in New York and the Virgin Islands, where he was arrested in 2019 on charges of human trafficking and underage prostitution.

The list also purportedly includes evidence taken from his Palm Beach mansion in 2007 when he was first arrested for soliciting underage girls.

The little-noticed index offers a window into who else may have been associating with Epstein and his mistress Ghislaine Maxwell, including some who may be individuals not already named in flight logs or other evidence seized from his properties.

According to the outlet’s review, listed in the government’s possession are 40 computers and electronic devices, 26 storage drives, more than 70 CDs, and six recording devices. The devices hold more than 300 gigabytes of data, according to the DOJ.

Also collected were 60 pieces of physical evidence from clothes and jewelry to $17,000 in cash. Travel logs, photographs, and lists of employees were also retained, as were five massage tables, blueprints of Epstein’s island and Manhattan home, four busts of female body parts, a pair of women’s cowboy boots, and one stuffed dog.

Parts of the list reference evidence collected at his property in Little Saint James, the site of most of his horrific abuse, and another island property on Greater Saint James. According to the index, government investigators still retain island blueprints, photographs, and other unnamed documents.

Some of those documents may reveal who set foot on Epstein’s island. The index claims to have catalogued multiple boat trips to and from the islands.

Descriptions within the index are frustratingly vague at times: One listing is described simply as a “document with names” and another as an employee contact list. Investigators also recovered pages of handwritten notes, several photo albums, an Austrian passport containing Epstein’s photograph, and more than a dozen financial documents.

Audio recordings listed also show “court authorized intercept[s]” collected from a phone line belonging to Maxwell at the time.

A joint memo released last week by the FBI and DOJ argued that much of the remaining content contains graphic images of abused children and cannot be disseminated. According to the DOJ, those files contain “images and videos” of children in the middle of being abused by Epstein, including “over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography,” and a “large volume” of images of Epstein.

Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel stated their belief that no “client memo” of willing participants was ever maintained by Epstein.

“While we have labored to provide the public with maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any evidence in the government’s possession, it is the determination of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted,” the memo said.

Still, the blowback for the Trump administration has been severe. Following the report of a bombshell news story by the Wall Street Journal examining the president’s relationship with Epstein, Trump directed Bondi to pursue further disclosures of evidence produced during a grand jury’s investigation into the late pedophile.