Epstein survivors categorical disappointment over heavy redactions in doc dump as extra recordsdata nonetheless to be launched | EUROtoday

Survivors of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual abuse have expressed disappointment over a doc dump that was closely redacted and solely partially launched.

The Justice Department launched 1000’s of paperwork Friday associated to the convicted intercourse offender, who died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019 as he stood accused of sexually abusing and intercourse trafficking underage women.

Despite Congress passing a invoice, which President Donald Trump signed into legislation, compelling the federal government to launch all the paperwork by Friday, the Justice Department stated it might take a further “couple of weeks” to make every part public.

Included within the trove of paperwork was a 100-page file that was utterly blacked out. Representative Ro Khanna — a California Democrat who, together with Republican congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, led the cost to launch the Epstein recordsdata — stated the paperwork had been excessively redacted.

“The most important documents are missing, they’ve had excessive redactions,” he informed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, including that the disgraced financier’s 60-count indictment earlier than he reached a plea deal on intercourse crimes in 2008 and an 82-page memo backing up the fees have but to be made public.

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Epstein survivor Annie Farmer stated, “I don’t feel tremendously confident that everything will come out.”

“There’s been a lot of effort, money & time put into redactions. Not to protect victims, but to protect people in power,” she stated in an announcement shared by CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane.

Haley Robson, one other Epstein survivor who voted for Trump however has come to remorse it, informed The Independent“I knew going into this and just how Trump likes to play his little tactics. I knew with all the obstacles we’ve already rendered and the administration’s flip flop, I already knew that we were not going to see the files as we should be getting them.”

Robson desires to file a lawsuit since she stated the Trump administration and the Justice Department had not complied with the Epstein recordsdata invoice.

“I told my attorneys that there has to be consequences on every level. It can’t just be consequences on the men who trafficked and abused us. It has to be consequences to the system, which the system is, what you’re seeing now, and how they’re basically pivoting and dragging their feet,” Robson stated.

Epstein survivor Jess Michaels, informed MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace, “Even with an act of Congress we are seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we’ve seen consistently and been advocating about.”

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Liz Stein, who has additionally accused Epstein of sexual abuse, informed the community, “I think that the best way that the American public can support us is by continuing to put the pressure on and demanding accountability from our government to release all of this information.”

White House Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson stated in an announcement to The Independent“The Trump Administration is the most transparent in history.

“By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, the Trump Administration has done more for the victims than Democrats ever have.”

One doc that did come to mild was a 1996 FBI criticism made by Farmer’s sister, Maria Farmer, one other Epstein survivor.

The report claimed the disgraced financier stole footage of her then-12-year-old and 16-year-old sisters and bought them to “potential buyers.”

Farmers’ identify was redacted and solely describes her as a “professional artist.” It states she had taken footage of her sisters for her private artwork work. Farmer informed The New York Times the photographs included nude footage. The case is assessed as “child pornography” within the criticism.

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The criticism additionally states Epstein requested Farmer to take footage of younger women at swimming swimming pools and he threatened to “burn her house down” if she informed anybody in regards to the photographs.

In an announcement aired on CNN, Maria stated, “I’m crying for two reasons. I want everyone to know that I am shedding tears of joy for myself, but also tears of sorrow for all the other victims that the FBI failed.”

Annie confirmed that the 16-year-old talked about within the report was her when talking with CNN’s Jake Tapper. She started to tear up as she stated, “Just to see it in writing and to know that they had this document this entire time, and how many people were harmed after that date…has been very emotional.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene — a Georgia Republican who not too long ago had a public falling out with Trump, partly attributable to her help of the releasing of the Epstein recordsdata — wrote on X, “the heavily redacted Epstein files being released” and “failure to release them all by today’s lawful deadline” are “NOT MAGA.”

“Why are the survivors fighting to have the release of all of the files?” Gloria Allred, an legal professional for Epstein survivors, requested in an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. “The reason is because they want accountability. If there are rich, powerful, famous men who engaged in or assisted in or conspired to sex traffic underage girls, they want to know who those people are.”

There are some paperwork the Justice Department doesn’t need to launch, together with something that would reveal a victims’ identification, something depicting the sexual abuse of youngsters and something that would jeopardize an lively federal investigation.

Eric Garcia contributed to this reporting.