US attorney general Pam Bondi says they plan to release long-awaited information on Jeffrey Epstein’s associates. The US Justice Department hopes to release on Thursday flight logs and “a lot of names” related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier accused of sex trafficking who socialized with Wall Street titans, royalty and celebrities.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that the documents were on her desk and would be released as soon as certain identifying information about victims was redacted. She said her department was working on protecting the personal information of over 250 victims connected to Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
Bondi said she hoped to release a “lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information” on Epstein. In a previous interview last Friday, when asked on Fox News if the Justice Department would be releasing a list of Epstein's clients, she said: “It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump.”.
One of the most high-profile people associated with Epstein was Britain's Prince Andrew who was forced to step aside from public duties in 2019 over his friendship with the financier. Andrew has always denied any accusations of wrongdoing. Among the famous names reportedly hosted by Epstein were theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel laureate Lawrence Krauss, comedian Chris Tucker, Victoria’s Secret magnate Les Wexner, model Naomi Campbell, former Tony Blair aide Lord Peter Mandelson and Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom.
It has been claimed that Bill Clinton was also a guest, though he denies ever having been there. Donald Trump reportedly flew on one of Epstein’s private jets, but it is unclear if he visited the island. The magician David Copperfield is even said to have proposed to supermodel Claudia Schiffer there.
Guests would arrive on one of Epstein’s Gulfstream jets at Cyril E King Airport on St Thomas, in a private area separate from the main runway. They would then be shuttled to Little St James on one of Epstein’s black helicopters. Little St James is a small island fringed by coral reefs in the bright blue waters of the US Virgin Islands, with sheltered inlets and forested groves rising to dramatic windswept ridges and craggy cliffs.
It lies just off the south-eastern tip of St Thomas, one of the Caribbean archipelago’s three main islands. The Virgins were purchased from Denmark by the US government at the height of the First World War in order to stop them being used as a German submarine base.
Today, many financial experts regard them as a tax haven, with huge discounts on corporation tax and personal income tax available to companies based there. It was in the Virgins that Epstein registered as a sex offender in 2010, following his first conviction for child prostitution in 2008. He also based his shell companies in a small unmarked office in a seaside strip mall on St Thomas, alongside a Sam’s Mini-Mart and a salon called Happy Nails.
In 1998, he bought Little St James from venture capitalist Arch Cummin via a shell company, reportedly paying just under $8m (£6m). The new owner quickly scoured away all the native vegetation and replaced it with 40-foot palm trees. Starting in 2007, Epstein began a massive programme of building and remodelling that drew suspicion from local officials. His main compound nearly doubled in size, sprouting into a plush mansion with an outside terrace connecting the master bedroom and the swimming pool, along with a desalination system.
A new Republican-led task force in the House intends to investigate and release formerly classified information related to several major events that have spurred conspiracy theories that have lingered across the U.S. such as the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy Jr., the September 11 terrorist attacks and the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.
The task force, called the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets,” will be led by controversial Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna – a staunch ally of President Donald Trump. It seeks to declassify records related to areas of “public interest” as part of Trump’s executive order on releasing information about the assassinations of Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy.
Representative James Comer, the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced the task force would “build” on the Trump administration’s goal to declassify records of “national importance.”. Hundreds of secret files on Jeffrey Epstein will be released today detailing the horrific extent of his crimes.
“This will make you sick,” said attorney general Pam Bondi. “200 victims. 200. So we have well over -- 250, actually. So we have to make sure that their identity is protected and their personal information.”. US attorney general Pam Bondi says they are planning to release hundreds of secret files on the late financier accused of sex trafficking Jeffrey Epstein.
