Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ‘client list' does not exist, US Justice Department says

South China Morning Post

5 days ago

Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a 'client list', the Justice Department said on Monday as it announced no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public.
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The announcement came despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.
The acknowledgement that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was 'sitting on my desk' in preparation for release.
Even as it released video from inside a New York prison meant to definitively prove that Epstein committed suicide, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to release other evidence investigators had collected.
Bondi for weeks had suggested that more material was going to be revealed – 'It's a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public', she said at one point – after a first document dump she had hyped angered US President
Donald Trump's base by failing to deliver revelations.
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That episode, in which conservative internet personalities were invited to the White House in February and provided with binders marked 'The Epstein Files: Phase 1' and 'Declassified' that contained documents that had largely already been in the public domain, has spurred far-right influencers to lambast and deride Bondi.