As promised earlier in the day, the first tranche of records related to Jeffrey Epstein was released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who’d asserted last week that she had the Epstein files on her desk, revealed Thursday afternoon in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that she’d learned from a whistleblower that thousands of pages related to Epstein had been withheld by the FBI’s New York field office. Bondi said in the letter that she’d been assured by the FBI – prior to Patel’s swearing-in – that all of the documents had been turned over. She ordered Patel to ensure that the full files be delivered to her desk by 8:00 AM on Friday morning, February 28.
Shortly before 7:00 PM Thursday night, the first phase of heavily-redacted documents (the same documents given to a set of independent conservative media influencers at the…
