The Justice Department’s recent conclusion that “no further disclosure” of information related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “would be appropriate or warranted” has raised some hackles among supporters of President Donald Trump, whose administration pledged to make the files public.
One Senate Democrat, Ron Wyden of Oregon, has been pointing to specific avenues of inquiry that, if followed, could shine more light on how Epstein was able to get away with sexually abusing hundreds of young women and girls for so long.
An aide to Wyden told HuffPost the senator believes it is “absolutely ridiculous” that Attorney General Pam Bondi and others now say there is nothing left to be made public.
The senator himself told NOTUS, a digital news outlet, that he not only gave the Trump administration “a ready-made Epstein file,” but that he knows “for a fact that the Trump administration is sitting on an Epstein file that contains new actionable information, and they’ve done nothing with that, either.”
In an unsigned memo, the Justice Department stated that it had no reason to believe Epstein was blackmailing anyone and that he does appear to have died by suicide in 2019. The department also said there was no Epstein “client list,” despite Bondi’s February assertion that the “client list” was sitting on her desk for review at that moment.
