Attorney Jennifer Freeman, who represents survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, said Thursday evening on Fox News that her clients are “very upset” with the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) over their continued dismissal of an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Epstein.
Epstein was arrested and charged in 2019 with sex trafficking, but he was found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell a month later. Following the release of the DOJ’s first phase of “The Epstein Files,” the 100-page initial release failed to include a client list, stirring controversy online.
On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the Fox host asked Freeman how her clients felt about the files, noting that the limited information added “more mystery, more obstruction.”
“We’ve been looking through the documents, which we just got like an hour plus ago, and it’s a bit of a ho-hum. Certainly there is some information there. There are four categories of information. There’s logs, there’s evidence, there’s contact lists and then there’s a blank list of masseuses,” Freeman said.
“There’s some interesting things on there. Alan Dershowitz appears multiple times. Bill Clinton appears with four Secret Service. We see a reference to nude and semi-nude images and videos, what we call CSAM [Child Sexual Abuse Material], which is child pornography. There are some interesting contact lists, more Secret Service, and some Hollywood A-listers,” Freeman added.
Prior to Epstein’s arrest, painter Maria Farmer, who is represented by Freeman, and her teenage sister Annie accused the convicted sex offender in 2002 and his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell of sexual abuse in 1996 on multiple occasions. Farmer told The New York Times that, at the time of the incident, she had contacted both the New York Police Department and the FBI about the allegations. However, the NYT report did not acknowledge that she had reached out to the agency.
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Freeman went on to say that the phase one files show how both the FBI and DOJ “completely missed” evidence of child pornography, adding that the information could have placed Epstein in jail prior to his 2019 arrest.
“But one of the things that really struck me, because this is one of the issues that we’ve been pushing, is that what we saw evidence of was CSAM, this child pornography,” Freeman said. “This is the issue that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office completely missed. This is something that’s so critical and could have put him away for life many, many, many years ago.”
“So yes, my client, Maria Farmer, and many other clients are very upset that they’ve been treated with the back of the hand over and over,” Freeman said. “I called for an investigation of this matter a year and a half ago. I got a big, fat nothing. I got a letter that says, ‘Well, the issues and the allegations are concerning, but we’re really kind of busy and we’ll get back to you.’ And of course they did not.”
During a Wednesday evening interview, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that some of the files on Epstein would be released to the public, stating “a lot of flight logs, a lot of names,” and “a lot of information” would be coming from the DOJ. However, after the first phase on Thursday, the DOJ released a press statement saying the department had only received 200 pages of documents. Bondi was later informed that the FBI had not disclosed “thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”
Bondi has requested that the agency deliver the remaining documents to the DOJ by Friday at 8 a.m., tasking newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel with investigating “why the request for all documents was not followed.”
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