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Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Justice Department must release its documents on Epstein within 30 days after the bill was signed into law. Trump signed the act on 19 Nov, meaning the files must be released by 19 Dec.

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AG Bondi's priority is 'protecting Donald Trump' as Epstein files deadline looms: Fmr. U.S. attorney Many are wondering if the DOJ will comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act ahead of Friday's release deadline. Former U.S. attorney Mimi Rocah joins Alex Witt to discuss.

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For those of you with time, two non-paywall NYT articles regarding Jeffrey Epstein follow. One describes his meteoric rise in the world of high finance and society and the other is a diary of one of Epstein's girlfriends, revealing some insights into the deceased child sex trafficker:

1) Meteoric Rise

2) Diary Secrets

Former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe claims in his book "Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales" Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were Israeli spies. Ben-Menashe alleges they ran a "honey-trap" operation, providing young girls to politicians for sex and then using the incidents to blackmail them for Israeli intelligence.

Ben-Menashe, who claims to have been Ghislaine Maxwell's handler, states that Epstein was introduced to Mossad by Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, also an Israeli espionage agent. The book suggests that Maxwell may have worked for other governments as a double or triple agent.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-17 03:44 AM | Reply

... the law makes an exception for documents that "would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary." ...

Is that why AG Bondi started a new investigation recently?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-17 03:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Here is what will happen Friday in this exact order...

1. The files will not be released.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-17 07:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

... the law makes an exception for documents that "would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary." ...
Is that why AG Bondi started a new investigation recently?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-17 03:51 AM

Precisely.

Regardless the delays, distractions and redactions original copies do exist.

The vault on Little St. James alone should expose the reason for the dental chair.

This Epstein web is far darker than people realize.

#4 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-17 01:10 PM | Reply

"This Epstein web is far darker than people realize."

It's deep enough that most people don't really think it's wrong for grown men to ---- fifteen year old girls, until it's their daughter.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 01:15 PM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE raped little girls

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-17 03:58 PM | Reply

House Democrats release more Epstein photos as DOJ's deadline looms
www.scrippsnews.com

... Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a new batch of photos a day before the Department of Justice is legally required to make public additional investigative material related to Epstein.

The photos released on Thursday offer a glimpse into the world of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The latest batch includes 68 photos. Some of the images show a female with handwritten phrases on her skin, though the committee did not provide her identity or age.

"Any image that's redacted of women, either are survivors or we may not know who they are, are to protect the women that are in those photos," said
Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member on the committee. "And so what we'll continue to do that. We will never release information about women or survivors in any of the files."

One photo includes the words, "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock," written on her foot, with a copy of the novel Lolita visible in the frame.

The controversial book, written by Vladimir Nabokov, centers on a middle-aged man's sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl. Epstein reportedly owned the first edition of the 1955 novel. ...



#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-18 04:12 PM | Reply

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