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FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
AP News ^ | Updated 10:43 AM CST, February 8, 2026 | MICHAEL R. SISAK, DAVID B. CARUSO and LARRY NEUMEISTER

Posted on 02/08/2026 1:40:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people.

But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.

Videos and photos seized from Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands didn’t depict victims being abused or implicate anyone else in his crimes, a prosecutor wrote in one 2025 memo.

An examination of Epstein’s financial records, including payments he made to entities linked to influential figures in academia, finance and global diplomacy, found no connection to criminal activity, said another internal memo in 2019.

While one Epstein victim made highly public claims that he “lent her” to his rich friends, agents couldn’t confirm that and found no other victims telling a similar story, the records said.

Summarizing the investigation in an email last July, agents said “four or five” Epstein accusers claimed other men or women had sexually abused them. But, the agents said, there “was not enough evidence to federally charge these individuals, so the cases were referred to local law enforcement.”

The AP and other media organizations are still reviewing millions of pages of documents, many of them previously confidential, that the Justice Department released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act and it is possible those records contain evidence overlooked by investigators.

But the documents, which include police reports, FBI interview notes and prosecutor emails, provide the clearest picture to date of the investigation — and why U.S. authorities ultimately decided to close it without additional charges.

Dozens of victims come forward

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Like any smart Don. Never run, just tell the people that run it what to do.


21 posted on 02/08/2026 2:13:09 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This video is an eye-opening hour covering the deep Epstein/Rothschild connections and the like, but it also touches on how Epstein was collaborating with/advising the DoJ. The idea that they’d be honest about his operations is laughable:

https://banned.video/watch?id=6987e535951e168e883d392a


22 posted on 02/08/2026 2:16:21 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The real question is was Epstein operating a honey pot sting for any Intelligence Community? Russia, China, Israel or, most likely IMHO, the CIA or FBI for the DNC come to mind.


23 posted on 02/08/2026 2:16:40 PM PST by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: ac-rep

Yep. Epstein had his fun and he liked ‘em young - many sources say Maxwell sought out girls who were “barely legal” for him. The key word being “legal”. People love to talk and brag, especially about sex and the more salacious the gossip, the less likely people are to keep it to themselves. Yet the people who Trump put in place who everyone here celebrated the appointment of, keep saying there’s nothing there. But FReepers who are convinced there’s a big pedophile conspiracy won’t let it go. So to them I say this: “Prove it, or shut up about it”.


24 posted on 02/08/2026 2:17:48 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In other words, the fix is in.

They can now run with the “It’s been debunked” claim.


25 posted on 02/08/2026 2:18:36 PM PST by farmguy ( )
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To: Rowdyone

YES!! It got the moniker “LOLITA EXPRESS” for absolutely NO REASON!!!


26 posted on 02/08/2026 2:20:15 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BipolarBob

The videos that are missing still exist. They will be used for compromat the Elite into submission. The deep state rules!


27 posted on 02/08/2026 2:22:36 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Rowdyone

UM yes Mossad!!!


28 posted on 02/08/2026 2:22:48 PM PST by medical conservative
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
We're supposed to believe the FBI and CIA were incompetent and just missed that Epstein was running a sex trafficking ring?

We can orchestrate revolutions in other countries but can't determine one of our citizens is providing women for some of the most rich and powerful men in the world?

29 posted on 02/08/2026 2:22:51 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Rowdyone
The real question is was Epstein operating a honey pot sting for any Intelligence Community?

The CIA and MI6 would be the top of the list.

There is no way the CIA didn't know what Epstein was doing. At the very least, it turned a blind eye to Epstein's operation.

Why the hell isn't Trump demanding accountability?

30 posted on 02/08/2026 2:24:58 PM PST by Kazan
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Classic!


31 posted on 02/08/2026 2:25:32 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Dead Corpse

Funny, Obozo slipped up wrt your handle and uttered corpseman for corpsman ,,, of course that was a ‘ok no problem’ for the fawn street media.
It was superfluous ... commander in chef


32 posted on 02/08/2026 2:26:04 PM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wait, what? Pam said she had the list of players right on her desk! Was she blowing...smoke?


33 posted on 02/08/2026 2:27:50 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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To: McGruff

“ Was this Bidens’s FBI?”

Be serious.

98% or more of the names don’t change, and the rot runs very deep.


34 posted on 02/08/2026 2:28:06 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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To: ac-rep
No famous man is going to be running a pedophile ring and risk being exposed.

I assumed you were being sarcastic. But didn't see a tag. First, history is littered with 'rich and powerful' people being done in by their own unforced errors - like what Clinton did with 22 year old Monica in the Oval Office, or running a Ponzi scheme investment company like Madoff did, or destroying your reputation and losing our Royal titles and inheritance like Andrew did, or being caught in e-mail exchanges asking how to secretly give your wife antibiotics so she is treated for the STD you brought home from Russian hookers - like Bill Gates did, etc. etc. Never make the mistake of equating 'rich and powerful' with being talented, ultra bright, or necessarily clever. I guarantee you that the brightest people in the world are not the richest or most powerful. Musk is one exception.

35 posted on 02/08/2026 2:31:29 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: McGruff

Keystone Kash Pam Sessions and Do-Nothing Dan signed off on a statement that essentially said that Epstein trafficked to.....nobody.


36 posted on 02/08/2026 2:32:20 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did the FBI explain how Epstein became a billionaire in the first place?


37 posted on 02/08/2026 2:40:56 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What is Maxwell doing in prison then?


38 posted on 02/08/2026 2:52:55 PM PST by Kleon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OK. I guess he became a billionaire from baseball trading cards.


39 posted on 02/08/2026 2:55:41 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He wasn’t “trafficking” because it’s obvious he wasn’t accepting cash for the girls. Instead it was for favors off the books. So yeah - no “evidence”


40 posted on 02/08/2026 2:56:16 PM PST by Skywise
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