MTG says ‘only evil people’ would shield Epstein’s enablers as paperwork make clear attainable co-conspirators | EUROtoday

The newest trove of paperwork from the circumstances in opposition to Jeffrey Epstein contains a number of accounts from ladies detailing his alleged crimes, together with testimony from one girl who stated she was “kept in a stall” and raped by Epstein and different males.

Victims’ testimonies and different particulars have been redacted to guard their identities, although the lads in these filings and in different paperwork have additionally not been recognized.

The paperwork additionally reveal that federal prosecutors and investigators probing Epstein and his affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell recognized no less than 10 alleged co-conspirators, elevating extra questions concerning the scope of their crimes and the trafficking and abuse of younger ladies.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who confronted Trump’s wrath after she joined members of Congress demanding the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata, shared “horrifying” screenshots of the girl’s account.

“Trump called me a traitor for fighting him to release the Epstein files and standing with women who were raped, jailed in stalls, and trafficked to men,” she wrote Tuesday. “Only evil people would hide this and protect those who participated. I pray for these women.”

Trump, who has distanced himself from Epstein after their yearslong relationship fell aside within the early 2000s, seems all through the paperwork. Prosecutors decided he was a passenger on Epstein’s personal aircraft greater than beforehand understood, in accordance with the newly launched recordsdata.

He shouldn’t be accused of wrongdoing in reference to Epstein’s crimes, and one’s inclusion within the paperwork doesn’t recommend in any other case.

FBI Director Kash Patel testified to senators earlier this 12 months that there was “no credible information” that Epstein trafficked ladies and ladies to anybody however himself, although lawmakers investigating Epstein recognized no less than 20 alleged co-conspirators whose names have been supplied by victims cooperating with regulation enforcement.

Newly launched paperwork reveal that investigators recognized no less than 10 co-conspirators in Epstein’s intercourse trafficking case way back to 2019, however their names have largely by no means been publicly revealed.

Three of these alleged co-conspirators lived in Florida and have been subpoenaed to seem earlier than a federal grand jury, in accordance with an e mail from July 2019. There have been others in Boston, New York City and Connecticut, in accordance with the messages.

The solely named alleged co-conspirators are Maxwell, who was sentenced to twenty years in jail after she was discovered responsible of trafficking; former French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was discovered lifeless in jail in 2022; and retail mogul Leslie Wexner, who severed ties with Epstein after his indictment in Florida within the late 2000s.

A message from investigators notes that one of many potential co-conspirators is a “wealthy business man in Ohio,” believed to be Wexner.

An e mail dated July 7, 2019, reads, “When you get a chance can you give me an update on the status of the 10 [co-conspirators]?” The e mail sender’s identify was redacted however features a signature that reads “FBI New York.”

The creator of a reply e mail wrote, “I do not know about Ohio contacting Wexner.”

That identical e mail additionally references “Brunel” and “Maxwell.”

A authorized consultant for Wexner stated in a press release that the prosecutor overseeing the Epstein investigation on the time stated that Wexner was not a co-conspirator nor a goal. He has repeatedly denied having any information of his crimes.

Prosecutors have been making an attempt to trace down potential co-conspirators someday after Epstein’s arrest on intercourse trafficking costs in 2019, paperwork present.

“Who are these 10 co-conspirators?” requested Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Why haven’t we seen those memos? Where are the grand jury records? Where are the FBI records? What are they hiding?”

He stated tens of hundreds of recordsdata launched by the Justice Department “shed no light on who they are” and solely present “more questions than answers.”

The paperwork additionally glimpse how prosecutors have been considering within the aftermath of Epstein’s loss of life in jail in 2019, which was dominated a suicide.

After Epstein’s loss of life, prosecutors produced a number of memos figuring out whether or not to cost alleged conspirators in his case, in accordance with the paperwork.

But the recordsdata launched by the Justice Department solely reference the memos — not the paperwork themselves.

A largely redacted e mail from November 2020 seems to incorporate an inventory of “anticipated charges and investigative steps,” which is totally blacked out.

Another doc from May 2020 references a 13-page “corporate prosecution memo,” which can also be not included in any of the hundreds of paperwork launched by the Justice Department up to now.

If made public, these memos might reveal the beforehand unreported decision-making amongst prosecutors that led to the intercourse trafficking circumstances in opposition to Epstein and Maxwell. So far, they’re the one folks to face legal costs in reference to their abuse.

The high Democrat on the House Oversight Committee accused the White House of taking part in a “criminal cover up.”

“They appear to be protecting powerful men who raped and abused women and girls,” Rep. Robert Garcia stated in a press release demanding the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators.

Maria Farmer, believed to be the primary individual to file a legal criticism in opposition to Epstein, stated in a press release Tuesday that the partial and ongoing launch of paperwork should result in solutions “about who knew what and when, and why our government’s justice system failed so badly.”