"Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that victims want to be made whole after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022. And we want that, Blanche said. But that doesn't mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn't there."
"Blanche's comments took aim at survivors who met Friday's release with calls demanding further accountability for the alleged clients of Epstein and Maxwell. He also made those comments amid complaints from federal Democratic lawmakers that Friday's release along with a number of earlier ones were incomplete. Responding to a question about claims by victim's attorneys that some identities had not been correctly redacted, Blanche on Sunday said, We immediately rectify that. But, he added, the numbers we're talking about were .001% of all the materials."
Prosecutors completed their review of the Jeffrey Epstein–Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking materials and concluded no additional prosecutions would be pursued based on the files. Victims seek restitution and accountability, but authorities emphasize that evidence must meet prosecutorial standards and cannot be fabricated. Numerous disturbing photographs exist, yet imagery alone does not automatically produce a prosecutable case. Survivors called for further action after a large document release; federal lawmakers criticized the releases as incomplete. Corrections to redactions were implemented and represented a minute fraction of the materials. The Justice Department maintained transparency while some officials disputed the archive's completeness.
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