Posted on 02/01/2026 5:15:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”.
Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022.
“And we want that,” Blanche said. “But that doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there.”
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in an image released by the justice department in December 2025. Democrats accuse DoJ of not releasing millions of Epstein files despite legal requirement Read more While Blanche acknowledged “there’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr Epstein or by people around him … that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody”.
Blanche’s comments took aim at survivors who met Friday’s release with calls demanding further accountability for the alleged clients of Epstein and Maxwell. He also made those comments amid complaints from federal Democratic lawmakers that Friday’s release – along with a number of earlier ones – were incomplete.
Responding to a question about claims by victim’s attorneys that some identities had not been correctly redacted, Blanche on Sunday said, “We immediately rectify that.” But, he added, “the numbers we’re talking about were .001% of all the materials.”
Blanche also said it was “amazing” that the justice department was facing accusations of a cover-up less than a day after it dropped millions of files.
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“More than 40 women have successfully sued Epstein for under age sex.”
It s actually something like 150 with a payout of 121 million.
Epstein.
Consider the source...
Between 2007 and 2019, when Epstein died, the number was less than 50, and the pay out was much lower.
I am seeing your 150 women number for the first time.
First guess - this includes Pedo Island, which might be 100% fraud.
Only one woman - Virginia Giuffre - has publicly claimed she had sex on Pedo Island, one time, with Prince Andrew.
The USA Governor of the Virgin Islands sued the Epstein Estate and JP Morgan. JPM handled all of Epstein's financial affairs regarding Pedo Island.
ALL of the alleged Virgin Island victims are anonymous.
All they need to prove is that they were under age 18 during the appropriate time period.
Then, the V.I. Governor hands them a check.
The V.I. Government got about $300 million. They will keep about $200 million.
Before Epstein died, all of the civil law suits against him were for under age crimes committed before 2005.
The one crime he pleaded guilty to in 2007 was committed in the 1990s.
All the women who sued Epstein before he died were white.
95% of resident Virgin Island women are African, Caribbean, or Hispanic.
I suspect total fraud.
It’s looking more and more like Kash committed perjury. Possibly-with Bongino as an accomplice-obstruction of justice.
First time I have seen this article, which is quite good.
It confirms much of what I have been saying for years.
The avalanche of new claims started AFTER Epstein died, in 2019.
The plaintiffs were never required to testify in public, or testify under oath and the threat of perjury.
The unpleasant truth is that most or all of these under age females were experienced prostitutes, and Epstein understood the law.
Epstein would ask each of them if they were 18 years old.
If they said younger, he would not have sex with them.
If they said yes, he would pay them the market rate for massage sex, in cash.
If the case went to court, the under age female would have to admit she lied about her age and accepted a cash payment.
Also, the criminal charge against Epstein would be reduced if she lied about her age and accepted money.
Epstein was a bad person who had massage sex with dozens of under age females.
However, as far as I know, no one has ever proved he trafficked any under age women, or, that he paid anyone for sex after 2005.
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