Jeffrey Epstein ‘client list’ does not exist, US Justice Department says
US government walks back theory that Attorney General Pam Bondi had promoted about the disgraced US financier
Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list”, the Justice Department said on Monday as it announced no more files related to the wealthy financier’s sex trafficking investigation would be made public.
The announcement came despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.
The acknowledgement that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” in preparation for release.
Even as it released video from inside a New York prison meant to definitively prove that Epstein committed suicide, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to release other evidence investigators had collected.
