The unanswered questions after trove of Epstein information launched — and presumably 1,000,000 extra to comply with | EUROtoday

The Department of Justice revealed one other monumental batch of information referring to its previous investigations into Jeffrey Epstein Tuesday, making an additional 11,000 information accessible for obtain on its web site.

The newest drop adopted on from its publication of an incomplete set of paperwork and images pertaining to the late pedophile and intercourse trafficker Friday to adjust to a 30-day deadline set in movement by the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act via Congress in November.

However, a lot of what was launched proved to be closely redacted and missing in context and was not delivered in a searchable format, because the act had expressly stipulated.

The partial launch drew an offended response from an Epstein survivors’ group, who branded it “unacceptable,” and from the lawmakers behind the unique push to launch the information, who mentioned they’re now weighing contempt of Congress prices towards Attorney General Pam Bondi over her dealing with of the matter.

The division responded by firing out nearly 30,000 pages of paperwork two days earlier than Christmas, amounting to 10GB of knowledge, which has solely served to ask contemporary questions in regards to the late billionaire and his social circle.

How many instances did Trump journey on Epstein’s aircraft?

There had been few references to the president in Friday’s batch of information however many extra within the newest launch.

Trump has not been accused of any crime in relation to Epstein, his fellow New Yorker and one-time Florida social acquaintance, and the looks of any particular person’s title within the paperwork doesn’t suggest wrongdoing.

The president has, nonetheless, confronted intense stress since this summer time to clarify his previous friendship with Epstein, which Trump has mentioned resulted in round 2004 when the 2 males had a falling out at Mar-a-Lago, the latter’s Palm Beach property.

One of essentially the most eye-catching information included within the newest tranche of information is an inside electronic mail despatched by an unnamed assistant U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of New York courting from January 2020.

They wrote to colleagues explaining that flight information obtained from Epstein’s non-public jet revealed Trump had flown in it “many more times than previously has been reported.”

There had been at the very least eight such flights between 1993 and 1996 by which Trump was a passenger, based on the message, with Epstein’s former girlfriend and confederate Ghislaine Maxwell current on at the very least 4 of them.

That seems to contradict a declare Trump made on Truth Social in January 2024, whereas campaigning for the presidency, by which he flatly declared: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ’stupid’ Island.”

Who had been the ten co-conspirators sought by the FBI?

A collection of emails from the bureau despatched in July 2019 allude to potential investigations into 10 different associates and enablers of the deceased intercourse offender.

“When you get a chance can you give me an update on the status of the 10 CO conspirators?” one from a sender with “FBI New York” signature reads.

A follow-up despatched two days later requests “an update on the 10 co-conspirators by COB today.”

Three of the ten alleged co-conspirators lived in Florida and had been subpoenaed to look earlier than a federal grand jury, based on one other electronic mail from July 2019. There had been others in Boston, New York City and Connecticut, the messages recommend.

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.

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

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

That nonetheless leaves seven of the ten folks talked about not recognized.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already referred to as for extra info, asking on social media: “Who are these 10 co-conspirators? Why haven’t we seen those memos? Where are the grand jury records? Where are the FBI records? What are they hiding?”

The emails additionally throw confusion on FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony earlier than senators earlier this yr.

Patel advised Congress there was “no credible information” that Epstein trafficked ladies and women to anybody different himself however the paperwork embrace references to memos despatched after his dying in a New York jail cell in August 2019 outlining co-conspirators that would nonetheless be charged, based on CNN.

How to separate reality from fiction?

The DOJ moved Tuesday to warn in a put up on X that the most recent paperwork disclosed embrace “untrue and sensationalist claims” towards the president that it mentioned had been “unfounded and false” and would have been “weaponized” towards him beforehand “if they had a shred of credibility,” its first transfer to touch upon the content material of the information.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche additionally took to the identical platform later within the day and mentioned the next: “There has been lots of sensationalism and even outright lies these past few days about the ‘Epstein Files.’ But let’s separate fact from fiction.

“Document production is just that. We produce documents, and sometimes this can result in releasing fake or false documents because they simply are in our possession because the law requires this.”

But how straightforward is it to “separate fact from fiction” when reviewing the paperwork being revealed, on condition that so little context or courting is being supplied?

The DOJ did come ahead to say in one other X put up Tuesday {that a} letter supposedly written by Epstein to the disgraced ex-USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar from jail, by which the author made a crude joke about “our president” whereas complaining about their respective fates, was “fake”.

“The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein’s death out of Northern Virginia, when he was jailed in New York,” the division mentioned. ”The return deal with didn’t checklist the jail the place Epstein was held and didn’t embrace his inmate quantity, which is required for outgoing mail.”

That evaluation is backed up by one other file from the information: an FBI request from September 2019 that the letter be submitted for a handwriting evaluation to find out its true authorship, though the end result of that take a look at doesn’t seem to have been included.

Another file launched Tuesday that has been recognized as pretend is a video despatched to the FBI purporting to indicate the second Epstein took his personal life in his cell, which was forwarded to the bureau by a member of the general public who had discovered it on-line and was fascinated about substantiating whether or not or not it was actual.

While these two examples seem like comparatively clear-cut, their presence underlines the significance of not essentially believing all the pieces you learn within the Epstein information, at the very least with out establishing its context.