Attorney General Pam Bondi Says FBI Withheld Epstein Documents

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday said that the FBI was withholding a big amount of documents about the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Late yesterday, 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, she wrote in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel. The withheld documents are multiple times larger than the 200 pages of documents Bondi had obtained previously. Pondi demanded the FBI to investigate the withholding. I am also directing you to conduct an immediate investigation into why my order to the FBI was not followed. You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and proposed personnel action within 14 days, she added. The Justice Department will receive the documents on Friday morning and redact them to protect the privacy of the victims. Bondi said on Wednesday that she will likely release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, appearing to refer to the 200 pages she already obtained, but with the ones held by the FBI New York field office. Conservative political commentators were spotted at the White House Thursday holding binders that read the Epstein files. It was not immediately clear what was in the binders.