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A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department's years-long Epstein investigation. The accusers at the conference said that if Congress isn't willing to release all of the investigative documents pertaining to Epstein, they would compile their own list of names to hold those in Epstein's orbit accountable. "Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who were regularly in the Epstein world," said Lisa Phillips, who said she was brought to Epstein's island. read more
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Victims said they had no faith that the Epstein files would ever be made public in their entirety and that they had started assembling their own Epstein "client lists".
"We know the names," said Lisa Phillips, an Epstein victim who hosts a podcast that tells stories of sex abuse survivors. "Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world."
Haley Robson, who was trafficked to Epstein as a teenager, said: "We are the keys, we have the truth. We know the game, we know the players, and we are sitting here for 20 years waiting for you to get up and do something. Well, guess what? Your time is up, and we're doing it."
Anger has been growing among victims, many of whom say the Trump administration's decision to close the Epstein case without hearing from any of the sex offender's nearly 1,000 accusers has denied them justice.
(Release Epstein client list or we will, survivors tell government:
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein held a press conference on the steps of the US Capitol to demand the full release of files related to sex-trafficking ring
www.thetimes.com)
And so it starts ...
What a bunch of hopelessly hapless bootlickers.