WASHINGTON – More than a dozen victims of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein criticized the Justice Department’s release of documents about the investigation as “riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation.”
One example was a grand jury document that a federal judge allowed to be released, but all 119 pages were blacked out. No financial documents were released and hundreds of thousands of pages remain unreleased.
“These are clear-cut violations of an unambiguous law,” the survivors wrote in a two-page letter demanding oversight and accountability from Congress.
Two House members who wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which directed the department to release its records by Dec. 19, accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of “breaking the law” through the partial release of documents and threatened to hold her in contempt.
Bondi reaffirmed on social media that the department would bring charges against anyone involved in Epstein’s alleged trafficking and exploitation of girls as young as 14 years old. Bondi asked victims to step forward. She called the Trump administration the most transparent in history.
