Girls who allege Jeffrey Epstein abused them accused the Trump administration of attempting to guard enablers of the well-connected wealth supervisor in new courtroom filings and criticized the federal government for treating victims as pawns “in political warfare.”
In letters filed late Monday to Manhattan Federal Choose Richard Berman — one of many judges who’re mulling requests by the federal government to unseal transcripts from the grand jury proceedings towards Epstein and his convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell — two ladies took purpose on the Trump administration for its dealing with of the snowballing scandal.
They referenced the memo launched final month by the Justice Division and the FBI, during which the federal government declined to make clear a trove of data gathered in Epstein investigations and concluded a significant assessment discovered there was no “client list” and that Epstein killed himself, opposite to conspiracy theories beforehand peddled by Trump’s appointees.
“I feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the ‘third-party’, the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, ‘know who they are’. To learn that our own president has utilized thousands of agents to protect his identity and these high-profile individuals is monumentally mind-blowing,” an nameless sufferer wrote in one of many letters.
The letter to Berman later added, “I think what I would request from you, your honor, is to consider having an approved third-party review these documents to ensure that NO victims names or likenesses are revealed through this release. It is imperative with the scrutiny over this media frenzy that the victims are completely and entirely protected.”
In one other letter, a second sufferer addressed the federal government:
“What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely. Why not be completely transparent? Show us all the files with only the necessary redactions! Be done with it and allow me/us to heal. You protect yourself and your powerful and wealthy ‘friends’ (not enemies) over the victims, why? The victims know the truth, we know who are in the files and now so do you.”
The second letter urged Berman to let victims’ attorneys assessment what the Justice Division needs to redact from the grand jury transcripts they’re attempting to unseal and slammed the federal government for just lately assembly with Maxwell behind bars to get extra data.
“I regrettably feel the need to come forward and shed some light on the Government’s motion to unseal transcripts, documents and exhibits from the ‘case’ that was never tried. Sad to say, for the victims we never got our day in court. Apparently, Epstein killed himself under whose watch? Oh, was it Trump’s DOJ? Hmmm, interesting,” the second letter learn.
“I ask you to have our attorneys review the ‘suggested’ redactions as they are the ones who also know the victims, their names, their truths and their stories unlike the Unites States Government who did not and does not even care to know our truth. They would rather ask a convicted imprisoned sex trafficker/abuser for information.”
Trump has denied writing the birthday missive and is suing the Wall Road Journal.
This March 28, 2017 picture, offered by the New York State Intercourse Offender Registry, reveals Jeffrey Epstein.
The transcripts from the grand jury proceedings towards Maxwell Trump’s appointees try to get unsealed include little data that’s not publicly recognized, the federal government stated in courtroom filings Tuesday.
The general public file doesn’t embody substantive reveals proven to the grand jurors who indicted Maxwell. Nonetheless, the Justice Division just isn’t, for now, attempting to make them public, in response to the brand new Manhattan Federal Court docket filings.
Trump’s appointees mentioned the supplies in response to requests for extra data from Berman and Choose Paul Engelmayer, who will rule on the motions to unseal grand jury transcripts. They included sealed annotated transcripts from Maxwell’s grand jury proceedings, particularly outlining what’s not publicly accessible.
In an accompanying letter, the Justice Division conceded “much of the information” inside was revealed on the British former socialite’s trial in late 2021 or had in any other case been reported in accounts shared by victims and witnesses publicly.
The submitting requested the judges to offer the Justice Division till Friday to take a place on whether or not grand jury reveals must be unsealed. In an order later Tuesday, Engelmayer granted the request.
Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche, joined by President Donald Trump, speaks at a press convention. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
Engelmayer on Tuesday additionally ordered the Justice Division to answer letters submitted from the victims in regards to the disclosure requests.
The Epstein grand jury met on June 18, 2019, and July 2, 2019, in response to Tuesday’s filings.
The well-connected wealth supervisor was arrested on July 6 that yr on sweeping intercourse trafficking expenses alleging he had for years abused dozens of stripling women and younger ladies, greater than a decade after he evaded justice in a maligned sweetheart take care of federal prosecutors in Florida. He was discovered useless a month after his arrest on Aug. 10, 2019, in his jail cell on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle, along with his loss of life in the end dominated as a suicide.
The Maxwell grand jury met on June 29, 2020, July 8, 2020, and March 29, 2021, the Justice Division stated within the new filings. She was indicted on July 2, 2020, and located responsible of intercourse trafficking counts, together with one involving a minor, in December 2021.
Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years in jail following her conviction, a time period she had been serving at FCI Tallahassee, Fla., till her shock switch final week to a a lot cushier setup in a dormitory-style jail for ladies in Bryan, Texas, after assembly with Deputy Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche, Trump’s former private lawyer, who framed the meetup as a truth-seeking mission.
Tuesday’s filings by the Justice Division stated the federal government had did not make contact with one sufferer of Epstein whose title featured in grand jury proceedings in regards to the disclosure requests and would attempt to contact different victims who weren’t recognized in transcripts within the coming days.
Initially Revealed: August 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT
