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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.
The Epstein investigation began in...
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And he certainly wasn’t eating people. That’s crazy talk. Pizza, Grape Soda and beef jerky. Like all the super rich people eat.
Not to mention hot dogs.
I knew that already. No famous man is going to be running a pedophile ring and risk being exposed. Probably has some high class hookers on the island who were over age
Where’s the video tapes that are missing?
Y’all don’t think the government cops were going to “Bite the hand that feeds them”? We may think the cops work for the tax payers, but it is the tax creators(Politicians) and collectors(Rich people) that feed them.
Agreed. And I had trouble believing that the ultra rich/powerful would let themselves be in a situation like that were someone else was in control. They know how to protect themselves. Would they commit acts like that? Some do. But not on someone else’s turf where they can be videotaped. At least not the big dogs everyone was thinking (i.e. Clinton).
Now FIRE everyone who put their name on that conclusion for incompetence.
*insert string of expletives here*
Some people have no impulse control and no one ever gets in their face and says - that’s a bad idea
That only part of it
Im disappointed but not surprised how many people have shifted their attitudes just because their guy might somehow look bad
This could have been handled correctly and full transparency but guilty or not the administration is making themselves look complicit in a cover up at bare minimum and will pay dearly for it in the next elections and especially afterward when someone else in in power
It’s definitely a possibility.
LOL
So why was just over $121 million disbursed to more than 135 claimants by the executors of his estate?
“Where’s the video tapes that are missing?”
The FBI said they left them because they weren’t within the scope of the investigation.
“Sanitized”.
“review of internal Justice Department records shows”
And a guy who can’t be trusted with young girls can be trusted with keeping accurate records of the young girls for the DOJ.
But bottom line. Epstein was a bad guy. If the DOJ has a winnable case in court against any Epstein cohort, the DOJ should prosecute in court. The DOJ should not ruin its case in court by prosecuting in the media. (This is true of many DOJ cases.)
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