The legislation, approved by the Council in November, carved out an 18-month "lookback" window for victims to file claims against abusers as well as institutions that may have shielded perpetrators from prosecution, even if the statute of limitations has lapsed. It would also allow plaintiffs to revive hundreds of cases that had been previously dismissed, including claims against the estate of now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, Axios reported in its Christmas Eve morning newsletter. The account is taking a sharper tone with a more rapid-response campaign edge. It's unclear when the White House first took over the account, but a post by the Department of Justice announcing the latest Epstein files' release on Tuesday was quick to absolve the president of any wrongdoing.
New evidence released by the Department of Justice shows that the FBI was pursuing 10 co-conspirators during the investigations surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. FBI emails from July 2019 show the bureau's interest in 10 co-conspirators they were attempting to contact a day after arresting Epstein on sex-trafficking charges. Another email, dated July 7, 2019, was sent from a person with FBI New York in their signature.
And the FBI interview files have the names of other men. They have the names of the Wall Street tycoons, the politicians who visited Epstein's rape island and who either engaged in the rape of these underage girls or covered it up. How do I know? Because I've talked to the survivors. I've talked to the survivors' lawyers who were at the FBI interviews, who gave these names.
The language of the statute said that the DOJ was required to make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys' Offices for the listed files related to Epstein, his girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the investigations into their crimes and activities.
Mark Epstein, 71, filed a complaint with the FBI in 2023 in which he claimed Trump authorized his brother's murder. Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges. Mark Epstein's complaint is part of a new batch of documents released by the Department of Justice, following Congress's vote to force the release of more documents related to the late billionaire.
The former president appears repeatedly in the images. Several of the photos place Clinton at the center of Epstein's social orbit. He is shown aboard an aircraft with his hand on Michael Jackson's shoulder as Diana Ross looks on; standing alongside Mick Jagger and an unidentified woman whose face has been redacted; posing with actor Kevin Spacey; and in a swimming pool with Maxwell.
Bill Maher agreed with a guest on his show who floated the idea that someone killed Jeffrey Epstein and his death was not a suicide as has reported. Monday's episode of Club Random featured filmmaker Gus Van Sant. At one point in the conversation, the two talked about Epstein and his connections to some of the most powerful people on the planet. Citing emails released in one of the government's file dumps, Maher marveled at Epstein acting as a love guru for those same people.