WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi released a list of 300 politicians and prominent people who were named in the Epstein files, as she told Congress that all of the docs that the Department of Justice was required to reveal have been made public.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Bondi noted that privileged material is still being withheld as she outlined the list of government officials and “politically exposed” individuals who appeared in the files in a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
“The Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ any of nine different categories,” Bondi and Blanche wrote.
Some of the 300 names listed include President Trump, Barack and Michelle Obama, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Bill Cosby, Robert De Niro, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Also included are Prince Harry, Woody Allen, Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Bruce Springsteen, Elon Musk, Pope John Paul II, Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Bono, Beyonce, and more.
Inclusions in the files does not imply wrongdoing, or even direct contact with Epstein.
Several of the individuals had “extensive direct email contact” with Epstein or his madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, while others were referenced “in a portion of a document (including press reporting) that on its face is unrelated to the Epstein and Maxwell matters,” the two DOJ bosses explained.
The DOJ had been given a deadline of Dec. 19 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act to publicly divulge all files pertaining to the late notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein files included details about organizations with alleged links to Epstein, such as his trafficking and financial operations, as well as internal DOJ emails of feds who were investigating him and his associates.
A team of hundreds of lawyers combed through some 6 million pages worth of files and released over 3.5 million pages of material several weeks after that remarkably short deadline, per the DOJ’s figures.
Files withheld from the public include material subject to “deliberative-process privilege, work-product privilege, and attorney-client privilege,” Bondi and Blanche explained. Additionally, the DOJ made redactions of victims’ names and personally identifiable information.
“Any omissions from the list are unintentional and, as explained in the previous letters to Congress, a result of the volume and speed with which the Department complied with the Act,” the two added.
“Individuals whose names were redacted for law-enforcement sensitive purposes are not included.”
