Pam Bondi has explained the delay in releasing the sex trafficker’s client list and other classified documents
Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced plans to begin releasing documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case, including the deceased sex trafficker’s list of contacts, alleged clients, and flight logs to his private island, “hopefully” as early as Thursday.
Epstein, a financier who mingled with the rich and famous for years, allegedly introduced numerous young women – some of whom were underage – to his powerful acquaintances and flew them to his private Caribbean island aboard his jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express.” He was arrested in 2019 and died in his Manhattan jail cell later that year, with his death officially ruled a suicide.
Evidence related to his case remained classified even after his death, with media reports suggesting that the FBI had found records potentially containing compromising material on his associates.
President Donald Trump pledged to release the files as part of a broader effort to declassify high-profile cases. Bondi stated that the Epstein files had been “sitting on her desk for review” since last week, emphasizing that Trump “doesn’t make empty promises.”
“There are well over – this will make you sick – 200 victims… well over 250, actually. So we have to make sure their identity is protected, and their personal information,” Bondi told Fox News on Wednesday, explaining the delay.
What you’re going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information. But it’s pretty sick what that man did.
The publicly known list of Epstein’s acquaintances includes prominent figures such as former US President Bill Clinton, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and Britain’s Prince Andrew. Trump also personally knew Epstein but has denied ever visiting his private island, maintaining that he cut ties with him in the 1990s – years before the financier’s first arrest for soliciting prostitution in 2006.
Trump’s declassification effort extends beyond Epstein’s case. A newly established task force, led by Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, aims to release documents related to a wide range of high-profile topics, including the 9/11 attacks, the origins of COVID-19, UFOs, and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
“The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades,” Luna said in a statement earlier this month. “It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve.”
