Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Monday that her office has received a “truckload of evidence” related to the Jeffrey Epstein case at FBI’s headquarters — all of which she promised to soon make public.
Bondi had given the FBI New York field office a Feb. 28 deadline to turn over information about the late pedophile’s case. She previously accused the office of withholding “thousands of pages of documents” related to Epstein ahead of the Justice Department’s long-awaited release of his contact book and flight logs.
“So, we got them all — hopefully all of them — by Friday at 8 a.m.,” the attorney general told Fox News host Sean Hannity, noting that there are “thousands of pages of documents.”
“I have the FBI going through them,” Bondi said, adding that FBI Director Kash Patel “is going to get us a detailed report as to why” the documents had been withheld.
The attorney general insisted that she was shocked at the limited scope of the documents the DOJ had previously obtained from the FBI.
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files’ … And we’re going, ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’” Bondi said.
She explained that a “source” notified the DOJ that “all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York,” which spurred her to order the new deadline for turning over documents.
Bondi did not specify whether her “source” meant that the files were being stored by prosecutors at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, or at the FBI’s New York field office, which are both housed in the same 26 Federal Plaza building in lower Manhattan.
“A truckload of evidence arrived,” Bondi said. “It’s now in the possession of the FBI.”
The attorney general signaled that it would be released as soon as victims’ names were redacted.
“We’re going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein because there are a lot of victims,” she said.
When pressed about what other sort of redactions could be made to the trove of files, Bondi said anything related to “national security” and “grand jury information, which is always going to be confidential,” would be blacked out.
However, the attorney general was adamant that any redaction would be explained to the public.
“If something’s redacted, you will know the line and you will know why it’s redacted,” she declared.
Bondi reiterated that a “team” assembled by Patel is going to look over the documents “as fast” as possible so “we can get it out to the American people, because the American people have a right to know.”
Conservative influencers were privy to last week’s much-hyped DOJ release ahead of the general public and reporters.
But the roughly 200 pages worth of Epstein documents yielded no major revelations, instead listing celebrities and politicians who were already known to have palled around with the notorious pedophile.
Bondi had given the FBI New York field office a Feb. 28 deadline to turn over information about the late pedophile’s case. She previously accused the office of withholding “thousands of pages of documents” related to Epstein ahead of the Justice Department’s long-awaited release of his contact book and flight logs.
“So, we got them all — hopefully all of them — by Friday at 8 a.m.,” the attorney general told Fox News host Sean Hannity, noting that there are “thousands of pages of documents.”
“I have the FBI going through them,” Bondi said, adding that FBI Director Kash Patel “is going to get us a detailed report as to why” the documents had been withheld.
The attorney general insisted that she was shocked at the limited scope of the documents the DOJ had previously obtained from the FBI.
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files’ … And we’re going, ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’” Bondi said.
She explained that a “source” notified the DOJ that “all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York,” which spurred her to order the new deadline for turning over documents.
Bondi did not specify whether her “source” meant that the files were being stored by prosecutors at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, or at the FBI’s New York field office, which are both housed in the same 26 Federal Plaza building in lower Manhattan.
“A truckload of evidence arrived,” Bondi said. “It’s now in the possession of the FBI.”
The attorney general signaled that it would be released as soon as victims’ names were redacted.
“We’re going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein because there are a lot of victims,” she said.
When pressed about what other sort of redactions could be made to the trove of files, Bondi said anything related to “national security” and “grand jury information, which is always going to be confidential,” would be blacked out.
However, the attorney general was adamant that any redaction would be explained to the public.
“If something’s redacted, you will know the line and you will know why it’s redacted,” she declared.
Bondi reiterated that a “team” assembled by Patel is going to look over the documents “as fast” as possible so “we can get it out to the American people, because the American people have a right to know.”
Conservative influencers were privy to last week’s much-hyped DOJ release ahead of the general public and reporters.
But the roughly 200 pages worth of Epstein documents yielded no major revelations, instead listing celebrities and politicians who were already known to have palled around with the notorious pedophile.
