cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52940190

The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.

“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.

"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.

“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”

The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein documents includes an FBI report about a caller's claim of a suspicious death in Kiefer, Oklahoma, in January 2000.

The caller said a woman was found with her head "blown off" in the small town in northeast Oklahoma days after reporting to police she had been raped by Epstein and Donald Trump. The caller described the death as a murder.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf

Witness Information First Name: Donald Middle Name: Last Name: Trump Age: 70 DOB: Additional Info: Again, just trying to find out the NYPD detective on the FBI sex trafficking task force that called me a couple of weeks ago and spoke to me about some of these issues. How is Contact Known: He participated regularly in paying money to force me to [REDACTED] with him and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan.

"Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein." ***** noted some girl with a funny name "took me into a fancy hotel or building, that's how it happened." *** advised ***** to call the police regarding the incident as ***** stated "I can't they will kill me." On Christmas Day, ***** contacted *** stated she had in fact called the police about what they had talked about. ******* reached out to *** stating ***** was dead and noted she was found with her head "blown off" in Kiefer, OK.

Included in the batch of files was a now-deleted fake video that appeared to depict Epstein attempting to end his life. Also in the trove are photos of the fake Austrian passport uncovered from a safe during a 2019 FBI raid of Epstein’s home in Manhattan. There is also a 2021 subpoena to the Mar-a-Lago Club relating to the federal investigation into Maxwell. Also revealed was that the FBI sought to question Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor about his links to a second millionaire sex offender, Peter Nygard .

From page 335 of https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/DOJ%20Disclosures/Memos.%20&%20Correspondence/2020.11%20DOJ%20Office%20of%20Professional%20Responsibility%20Report.pdf

In that context, those people are clearly not victims.

https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/DOJ%20Disclosures/First%20Phase%20of%20Declassified%20Epstein%20Files/A.%20Evidence%20List%20from%20US%20v.%20Maxwell,%201.20-cr-00330%20(SDNY%202020).pdf

Evidence list. Lots of entries that start, "One red rope containing..." eg: "One red rope containing:letter, photo album of girls, photos of island"

Anybody know what a "red rope" is in this context? Pretty sure it's not the first thing that comes to my mind.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201/EFTA00000189.pdf

This image isn’t high enough resolution to read the speed dial labels on the phone when zoomed in… and yet, a couple lines are redacted out.

Suggests to me that there’s a higher resolution version that got redacted, and they’re uploading lower resolution versions of all images so that some finer details get redacted by proxy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40418643

Source: nytimes.com

... Tina Davis, who worked with Ford Models in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.”

When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother.

During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40389991

Images, undated and uncaptioned, include Vladimir Nabokov lines written on women and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

Democrats on the House oversight committee have released a new batch of photos from the estate of convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, as the deadline for the justice department to release its files related to Epstein looms.

The images, released on Thursday, are undated and lack captions or context. Among them are photographs of what appear to be lines from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita written on different parts of a woman’s body.

In a statement after the release Robert Garcia, a US representative and ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, said that “oversight Democrats will continue to release photographs and documents from the Epstein estate to provide transparency for the American people.”

“As we approach the deadline for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession,” he said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39123625

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/6464070

Folks, it's happening!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38696015

She is the required vote to release the Epstein files

cross-posted from: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/72367

What, you thought we forgot about that?

Just came across this interview of Epstein regarding his interest in Bitcoin circa 2017. What's most interesting to me about this article, is that it seems Epstein may have been heavily influenced by Peter Thiel at the time of the interview.

Since forming an eponymous foundation in 2000, Epstein has found a role as science philanthropist, sharing his resources to beneficial, unlikely ends. His money has funded research related to quantum computing, genetics, artificial intelligence, and beyond. As a result, the 64-year-old tycoon holds court with A-list names from the academic community, like theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author Lawrence Krauss, or MIT’s quantum computing pioneer, Seth Lloyd.

In addition to Peter Thiel's obsession with genetic manipulation the second Trump administration's focus on AI and cryptocurrency, has been steered by Thiel's former protégé and Trump's current Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios. Keratosis was originally brought into the White House by Thiel during Trump's first administration, to help with technology, eventually becoming Trump's Chief Technology Officer.

Recently, Kratsios also announced the Trump administration will be rolling out a plan focused on quantum computing.

On September 10th, Secretary treasurer Scott Bessent, was questioned by Senate Democrats regarding why he wouldn't investigate the JP Morgan bank records covering transactions between Peter Thiel and Epstein.

On the same day, democrats in both the House and Senate tried to subpoena those records but were blocked by Republicans.

Last week, Peter Thiel received preliminary approval for the first U.S. Cryptobank and today JP Morgan announced they would begin to allow Bitcoin and Ether as collateral.

Could those JP Morgan bank records of transactions between Thiel and Epstein have something to do with Epstein's purchase of Bitcoin?