There’ll doubtless be a stampede for the panic rooms and bunkers in the high-security compounds of the Hollywood and Washington in the next few days. Possibly as early as the end of the week, the world’s most anticipated dirt file may finally see the light of day.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that she intends to release the Epstein files “hopefully” on Thursday. The files, which are expected to show the names of those who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit escapades on both what is known as Epstein Island and the private plane that has been called the Lolita Express.
Bondi, speaking to Jesse Watters on Fox News, said that part of the delay in releasing the information was that there were over 200 victims whose identities must be protected before the files are released to the public. She said there were “a lot of names, a lot of flight logs, a lot of information.”
The screaming and running will be more frantic than if Chris Hansen had walked onstage at the Oscars, or Grammys, and asked the audience to take a seat.
Where Epstein is concerned, most people are anxious to view his “client list.” The former billionaire, who died in prison in what was reported to be a suicide although many have suspected foul play, had high-profile friends throughout politics both in the US and abroad […]
Epstein was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he died in New York in 2019. Ghislaine Maxwell, who was a close associate of Epstein’s, was convicted of sex trafficking and is currently in prison on a 20-year term. Maxwell had her own list of names written into a “little black book,” which was sealed by the court during her trial.
Now, why would they do that? Well, ask why Epstein was let off with a sweetheart deal the first time he was arrested for trafficking in underage flesh.
It clearly helps to have friends in high places. Friends who know you’ve got an awful lot of blackmail material stashed away.
Across Pennsylvania Avenue from Bondi’s office, at the FBI’s headquarters, another trove of evidence – which could include video and audio – also remains out of public view.
It’s long been rumoured that Epstein used a network of surveillance cameras in his New York mansion, his home in Florida and his Caribbean getaway dubbed ‘Pedophile Island’, to document everything that went on and who was doing it. Boxes full of DVDs, hard drives and recording equipment were said to have been taken away by investigators.
And sealed behind locked doors ever since.
Spencer Kuvin, a Florida lawyer who represented nine Epstein victims […] told DailyMail.com: ‘They (the FBI) have probably got thousands of hours of surveillance videos from his homes and they’re just sitting there in a vault. God only knows what’s on those tapes.
‘They should release everything. It could be huge. It could show very high-profile individuals with underage girls, but we won’t know unless we see it.’
Epstein was nothing if not thorough.
Back in 2019 FBI Special Agent Kelly Maguire, of the agency’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, told a court how her team opened Epstein’s safe with a saw after finding it on the fifth floor of the New York mansion.
Inside, along with diamonds and passports, they found CDs and hard drives. In a closet nearby they found more CDs inside large black binders. There was also a bin full of hard drives which were marked ‘evidence,’ a label that had not been put there by her team. The FBI, presumably, still has those CDs and hard drives.
Dozens of big names have already been linked to Epstein’s big-money sex-trafficking ring. They include former US president Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson and David Copperfield. One name unlikely to be implicated is the person most inclined to release it.
President Trump, who has said he was ‘not a fan’ of the financier, favors releasing files including the so-called Epstein ‘client list,’ which now sits on Bondi’s desk. How many names are in it only she currently knows […]
Until any tapes are released no one knows what they could show, and how uncomfortable the images could be for those in them.
Some are already moving into damage control mode.
Last month, Bill Gates expressed regret over his relationship with Epstein, saying it had been a ‘huge mistake.’
Epstein found out about an alleged affair between Gates and a Russian bridge player in her 20s, and used it to threaten him.
Gates told the Wall Street Journal: ‘In retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him. And he, sort of, got time with various people by spending time with other people. So yes, I think I was quite stupid.’
You can bet there’s a lot of sleepless nights being had in Hollywood, Washington and Silicon Valley, right now.
