Disregarded, Dismissed, Denied: Epstein Survivors Seek Accountability At The FBI (Part 2)

What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.

In this episode, we're going to get right back to the letter sent to the DOJ and to the FBI

by Maria Farmer's legal team. In 2008, the federal government agreed to a secret

controversial non-prosecution agreement, MPA with Epstein, which only required him to plead

to rather minor state law crimes and reportedly immunized his known and unknown co-conspirators.

Epstein served only 13 months in a Palm Beach County Country Club,

County Jail, with daily release to his home office. Nothing in the agreement obliged

them to stop engaging, insect trafficking, or any other illegal activity.

And all consequences were imposed if he did. All the while, he continued to disparage his minor

victims. That many of his victims were a minor was ignored. Our client Sarah Ransom,

along with other survivors were trafficked at the very same time that the FBI was purportedly

investigating Epstein. Although the Office of Professional Responsibility later examined actions

of the Florida federal attorney prosecutors during that time, the actions of the FBI were not

scrutinized. It's not known who, in or about this time period, had access to and removed Epstein's

hard drives from the Palm Beach home, where else those hard drives might have been located.

What those hard drives contained, and where those hard drives are today.

The FBI did little or nothing to prosecute Epstein for an additional decade. Why?

After the slap on the wrist, sentence Epstein and others continued their criminal enterprise,

while the FBI did little more for another decade. Further action against Epstein and his co-conspirators

was taken only after misfarmer and other survivors complained again to law enforcement and engaged

in substantial efforts working with non FBI law enforcement. After lengthy prosecution of

federal civil litigation, alleging the NPA violated the Crime Victims Rights Act, guarantees,

and a federal court determination that the failure to notify the victims, and the NPA violated the act.

After numerous journalists kept reporting on the story, and after numerous other private lawsuits

and other efforts sought to bring this conspiracy to light, and still do.

It was not until approximately 2019 that the federal government finally prosecuted for

a stepstein and then Maxwell regarding the sex trafficking conspiracy. The FBI has repeated and

continued failures, delays, and inaction allowed Epstein and others to continue their sex trafficking

conspiracy for nearly a quarter of a century. Unfortunately, misfarmer's 96 report regarding Epstein

sex trafficking and sexually concerning images proved to be spot on. In 2019, just as

misfarmer had reported to the FBI years earlier, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking,

while sexually suggestive images of young girls were fact found in a safe in Epstein's New York

Mansion. According to the SDNY prosecutor's memorandum seeking to deny Epstein's bail,

the 2019 search of Epstein's mansion on Earth the vast trove of glued photographs of young

looking girls, including hundreds of meticulously labeled nude pictures locked in a safe.

CDs in the safe had handwritten labels, including young, name plus name, miscellaneous

news one, and girl's picks' news. Had law enforcement taken even minimal action to respond to

misfarmer and others 2006, 2008, and 2011, and other reports, more sex trafficking and likely

CSAM crimes could have been avoided. It is not known if at least some of the materials such as

the label nude photographs that were locked in Epstein's New York safe were among those reported

by misfarmer in 1996. Law enforcement gave Epstein a hall pass for what appears to be one of the

largest and longest sex trafficking and alleged CSAM conspiracies in our lifetime. Why?

Curiously, Epstein was known and tied to federal authorities for decades, often in connection

with suspicious and illegal activity. In 1981, Epstein reported the left barristerns abruptly

after committing a possible regulation deviolation with rumors of him engaging in other illegal

activities. Epstein subsequently worked with Steve Hoffenberg at Tower's Financial, who was

prosecuted and imprisoned for a booking investor's out of over $450 million in a Ponzi scheme that

was the largest financial fraud in American history. Hoffenberg Epstein's business partner

went to jail but not Epstein instead of prosecution. The 1992 US State Department rented Epstein

a luxurious townhouse in New York City that had been seized from the Iranian government.

There has been rampant speculation for years that Epstein was a confidential informant,

only recently the new trove of papers has revealed that William Burns director of the Central

Intelligence Agency since 2021 had three meeting schedule with Epstein in 2014 when he was deputy

secretary of state. Epstein told colleagues and friends that he was an intelligence

asset. Epstein has been connected to many high-level government and business elites who accompanied

him on multiple trips on the lowly to express to the island the little saying James and elsewhere,

but these individuals have not been the subject of scrutiny. The FBI closed a forfeiture

proceeding against Epstein, noting Epstein as provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.

There is strong circumstantial evidence in the public domain that Epstein's special relationship

with the government explains the FBI's failure to investigate or prosecute Epstein in 1996.

The special treatment he received from 2005 to 2008 and the failure to investigate the

possible wrongdoing of important public officials and powerful businessmen. The Epstein

estate recently alerted a federal court that CSAM may exist and recently discovered images and

videos. Only weeks ago for the first time Epstein, CSAM concerns, have come under scrutiny.

Finally, recognized by civil litigants otherwise facing possible prosecution themselves as

possible additional serious criminality by Epstein. In a stipulated motion,

dated March 27, 2023 as part of a lawsuit brought by Virgin Islands against J.P. Morgan

concerning the bank's financing of Epstein's activity, the party's advised the federal

district court that the Epstein estate had on March 14, 2023, discovered new videos and photographs

the Epstein media. It stipulated motion, dated March 27, 2023, the Epstein estate expressly

recognized the danger of serious criminal and civil liability attendant to possessing or

distributing the Epstein media, which might contain CSAM. The Estate Advice Council for the

government and Jane Del one of its concern that some of the Epstein media might contain child

sex abuse imagery. The knowing accessing possession or distribution of CSAM is forbidden

by federal law. The estate has expressed concern that its council's review of Epstein's media

could subject council to criminal investigation or charges or civil claims. The parties prepared a

stipulated motion to provide the Epstein estate with an approved protocol for reviewing the

Epstein media for purposes of this litigation only without fear or criminal or civil liability

and to protect against disclosure or dissemination. On April 5, 2023, the federal district court

issued an order establishing such a protocol, calling for the estate to be on alert for CSAM.

If during the course of that review images the estate sees a particular recording that appears

to contain possible CSAM. It shall promptly stop for the review of that recording and notify

the federal Bureau of Investigation or such other agency or entity as the FBI may direct of the

recording's existence. No CSAM shall be copied or transmitted to another party except as directed

by the FBI or the government. Example 5, Order April 5, 2023. It's telling that the Epstein

estate, the parties and the court believes it's necessary to set up CSAM protocol before Epstein

media is reviewed. It is not known if at least some of the Epstein media contains what Ms. Farmer

reported in 1996. Much like the hard drives that went missing in Palm Beach, or the nude photographs

locked in Epstein's New York safe, it's not known who had access to the Epstein media before the

court's order, where else those materials might have been located and what those materials contained.

As to the three of these tranches of Epstein's images, it's not known what the implications might be

as such, access possession and location by persons other than Epstein. A attorney who took

possession of laptop and destroyed hard drive containing CSAM indicted for obstruction of justice.

The FBI must be held accountable for failures regarding Epstein, just as was done regarding

the parkland shooting, Nasser sex abuse, and Charleston shooting. In 1996, federal law enforcement

fell to investigate Ms. Farmer's 96 reporting of the Epstein sex conspiracy. There should be no

question that Ms. Farmer, who had never gone to law enforcement before, was credible and deserved

at least a modicum of attention in 2008 the FBI cut off their investigation prematurely. To date,

law enforcement still is not seriously pursued, possible CSAM crimes involving Epstein,

had law enforcement done their job, the Epstein trafficking and possible CSAM crimes could have

been stopped. Had law enforcement taken even minimal action to respond to repeated reports,

many girls would have never been trafficked, and the taking, distribution, or transportation of

sexually exploitative images would have been substantially reduced. The FBI's failure to seriously

investigate Epstein and others is even more egregious than its documented failures in the

investigation of the parkland shooting, the Larry Nasser sex abuse of gymnasts, and the Charleston

Church massacre. In the parkland case, federal investigation revealed that the FBI had received

credible threats in the months before the shootings. As the FBI explained regarding the parkland

shooting, under established protocol the information provided by the caller should have been assessed

as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami

Field Office, where appropriate investigations would have been taken. As a result of the investigation

of FBI failures, FBI employees were disciplined, and parkland victims were compensated. In the Nasser

case, federal investigators found that two FBI agents in Indianapolis committed fundamental errors

for not acting sooner on allegations of abuse. The inspector general investigated and released a

report concerning the FBI's failure to respond to the allegations of abuse with the utmost seriousness

and urgency that they deserved and required, and violations of FBI policy.

In response to claims filed against the government additional review of FBI failures is underway.

As to the Charleston Church massacre of federal investigation, demonstrated that the FBI lapses

in background checks, allow the perpetrator, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, who wanted to

start a race war, to buy the semi-automatic weapon used in the shootings. In connection with

the federal investigation, there have been changes in background check procedures, and a pellet court

ruled that the families of the survivors could seek redress from the federal government,

and the government agreed to compensate the relatives of the deceased in order to bring some

modicum of justice to the victims of the heinous hate. Much like parkland, Nasser, and Charleston

Church cases, government agencies have a responsibility to investigate and explain why the FBI failed,

for a quarter of a century, to properly investigate Ms. Farmer, and others repeated allegations

of Epstein's abuse. Those failures allowed this sex trafficking to continue unabated for decades.

It's imperative that the Epstein allegations similarly be accorded the utmost seriousness and urgency

that they deserve and require, and the Epstein victims are also brought some modicum of justice.

And questions about, what did the FBI do, and not do to investigate Epstein? Why was absolutely

nothing done in a response to Ms. Farmer's 96 report of Epstein and Maxwell's sex trafficking

and CSAM concerns? Why were other repeated early complaints about Epstein to law enforcement ignored,

was law enforcement pressured, to limit, and shrunk the Epstein investigation,

was law enforcement directed to cut Epstein loose, to protect powerful public officials,

and businessmen who associated with Epstein, or to protect Epstein's confidential,

informant status? Why did law enforcement give Epstein a pass, a potential CSAM crimes,

by failing to obtain his computer equipment, or by suspending the investigation?

Are any such images perhaps produced by Epstein currently traded and available on the internet?

Why haven't the actions and inactions of the FBI regarding Epstein been investigated?

Even the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated and reported on state law

enforcement's handling of Epstein's wrongdoing? But to date, federal law enforcement has utterly

failed to do so. For many years, the public has been asking for a reckoning by the FBI and the U.S.

government for its clear dereliction of duty to serve and protect the American people

against the Epstein's sex trafficking conspiracy. The FBI has said to hold itself to the

highest standards, and integrity grounding its initials in its motto, the fidelity, bravery,

and integrity, and serving as a lead agency for enforcing civil rights laws,

aggressively investigating human trafficking, and involuntary servitude.

However, we are aware of no investigation of the FBI, and certainly no public disclosure,

or explanation, Epstein and Maxwell's victims, and the public at large,

are owed a full accounting of the FBI's many failures and missed opportunities,

the American people, the victims, and the survivors deserve the truth.

We hereby request that a full and fair investigation be promptly launched into the FBI's

seriously bungled examination and mismanagement of the crimes committed by Epstein and others.

We look forward to your timely response.

This document was signed by Jennifer Freeman.

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