Disregarded, Dismissed, Denied: Epstein Survivors Seek Accountability At The FBI (Part 1)

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

In this episode we're going to take a look at a letter that was sent to the FBI and to the DOJ

in 2023 by Maria Farmer and her lawyer talking about how the FBI has utterly failed the survivors

throughout the years and how they ignored and sat on evidence that they had compiled that they

had given to them that should and could have led to Jeffrey Epstein's arrest literally a

decade or so earlier than he was originally arrested. So let's dive into this letter and let's see

what they have to say. Dear director Ray, Inspector General Horowitz and Attorney General Garland,

as counsel to many survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking conspiracy, we write regarding

the failure of the FBI to properly adequately or timely investigate the sex trafficking of hundreds

of girls and young women. The FBI utterly failed to investigate serious allegations involving

Epstein's and perhaps others, child sex abuse materials, significant additional criminality

which, until recently, has been disregarded, disrespected, and essentially denied.

As detailed below, in August of 1996, one of our clients, Maria Farmer, reported to the FBI

that Epstein and Glenn Maxwell had sexually abused her, and that the two of them together with others

were committing multiple serious sexual abuse crimes, including hands-on sexual abuse,

against minors, and vulnerable young women. In addition, she reported to the FBI that Epstein and

perhaps others appeared to be engaged in the production, possession, and distribution of suggestive

or exploitative images of children that could constitute CSAM. In 2005, child Orotica was found

on Epstein's Palm Beach home. In approximately 2008, law enforcement prematurely truncated their

investigation of Epstein's computer, hard drives, which had been suspiciously removed from his Palm

Beach estate immediately before a police raid. In 2019, more child Orotica was found displayed

in Epstein's properties, with additional images located in his home safe. Recently, for the first time,

Epstein's possible connections to CSAM has been acknowledged in ongoing federal litigation in New

York, the Epstein estate alerted the parties at the court about the possible existence of CSAM

among images the estate just discovered. Last week it was revealed that Epstein maintained

government contacts at the highest level, including William Burns, director of the CIA,

who had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014. As detailed below in response to his

farmers' clear-eyed, prescient report, and despite subsequent repeated red flags that Epstein

traffic girls and collected sexualized images of children, the FBI appears, for years,

to have done little to investigate and prosecute Epstein's ex-trafficking and to date,

done nothing regarding reports of possible CSAM. In order to ensure fair and equitable

dispensation of justice and accountability, we call on the FBI, the Department of Justice,

and the Attorney General, to conduct a comprehensive investigation to determine why there was,

and remain such, abject failure, to timely investigate, exposed and prosecute, this unprecedented

decade's long criminal conspiracy, which includes not only the sexual trafficking of young women

and girls, but also the possession and likely production, distribution, transportation,

and distribution of CSAM as well. Law enforcement ignored Miss Farmer's 1996 report to the FBI of

Epstein's possible CSAM crimes and sex trafficking conspiracy. Why? In 1995, Miss Farmer, a struggling

artist and recent graduate from New York Academy of Art, took a job working for billionaire Epstein.

After purchasing one of her paintings for several thousand dollars, Epstein told Miss Farmer

that he wanted her to be an art scout for his collection. This position expanded to

clerical work in Epstein's mansion. Over the course of several months in 1996,

Miss Farmer witnessed young girls going in and out of Epstein's New York mansion,

modeling agency representatives present at the house, and Golan Maxwell scouting for new children

who Epstein was purportedly also financially helping. Miss Farmer also witnessed images of

what appeared to be children and what was described to her as a modeling book, kept an Epstein safe.

At first Miss Farmer accepted what sounded like innocent justifications for these activities.

During the summer of 1996, at Epstein's behest, Miss Farmer worked as an artist and residence

at Epstein's home in Ohio. When Epstein and Maxwell visited Miss Farmer in Ohio for a few days,

they sexually abused her. Shocked and deeply shaken, she realized when they left that some

photographs from her private collection, which were all numbered, and in her possession in Ohio,

were missing. Including photographs of her partially dressed 11-year-old sister.

She then became concerned that Epstein and Maxwell had other sexually inappropriate images,

whether in Epstein's safe or elsewhere, and that they were engaged in other

unlawful activities. Miss Farmer left Ohio and she returned to New York in front of Epstein

and Maxwell and demanded they return. Her personal photographs, Epstein and Maxwell retaliated

against her by threatening to physically harm her and set all of her artwork on fire.

Deathly afraid on August 29, 1996, Miss Farmer reported in detail Epstein and Maxwell's

criminality to her local police department, the NYPD six-precinct. The NYPD said that while they

could address the local fire threats, they were unable to do anything about other possible illegal

activities occurring outside their jurisdiction, such as the abuse and theft perpetrated in Ohio

and other illegal activities. They directed Miss Farmer to report these allegations to the FBI.

NYPD police report complaint number 1196-006-7241 dated 829-96. Maria Farmer states

Epstein did caller and stated he was going to burn victims' painting and send her polaroids

of the burnt paintings. Epstein has keys to the victim's apartment, following NYPD's instructions,

and at the time believing that the wrongdoing would be addressed,

Miss Farmer immediately contacted the FBI to reporter wider criminal complaint concerning Epstein

and others. Miss Farmer confirmed a reporting of the Epstein conspiracy to the FBI in a 1997

entry in her personal journal. Miss Farmer's 1996 report of the Epstein

sex trafficking conspiracy and CSAM allegations was confirmed by the FBI in field notes of a 2006

meeting between Miss Farmer and the agency, which was the first time she heard from the FBI

after her original report. The FBI notes specifically stated that Miss Farmer had previously reported

Epstein to the NYPD six-precinct who advised her to contact the FBI. The FBI agents acknowledged

their awareness of Miss Farmer's 96 report to the FBI about Epstein stating that they tracked her

down because of that earlier report. Miss Farmer's report of Epstein sex trafficking and apparent

CSAM crimes should have surprised no one who took the time to investigate. Indeed,

it's commonplace for sexual abusers to use CSAM to normalize sexual conduct and groom victims.

Terrified and alone and cognizant that the institutions that should have protected her

failed to do so, Miss Farmer moved out of New York City and eventually out of the New York region

to escape Epstein and Maxwell's abuse threats. It took a decade for federal law enforcement to

take action against Epstein, gifted Epstein the deal of a lifetime, and conferred free reign

on Epstein's continued sex trafficking and producing sexually suggestive images of girls

and young women. Why? Ten years after Miss Farmer's initial report,

federal authorities appeared to take a renewed interest in investigating Epstein,

which turned out to be nothing more than a paper-tiger distraction. From 2005 to 2008,

dozens of survivors, including Miss Farmer, presented substantial evidence to the FBI

of Epstein's sex trafficking and sexually inappropriate images of children. As noted above,

on November 11, 2006, two FBI agents without warning knocked on the door of Miss Farmer,

then home in North Carolina, and met with Miss Farmer for hours. She again explained her deep,

specific concerns about the ongoing Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy and CSAM allegations.

When the Palm Beach Police rated Epstein's home in 2005, they found naked pictures of teenage girls.

At least one 14-year-old survivor told law enforcement that she had been photographed in the nude.

As acknowledged in the OPR report, law enforcement knew or had reason to believe that Epstein had

surveillance cameras stationed in and around his home, and used hidden cameras in his New York

residents to record his sexual encounters. It was known that Epstein's computers might have

contained CEP, and that his multi-state lifestyle. It was reasonable to assume there was possible

illustrate transmission of CEP that could have changed the entire complexion of the case against Epstein.

Six computer hard drives were suspiciously missing from Epstein's floor to home just before

the police raid, leaving dangling wires attached to monitors which Epstein's attorneys refused to

turn over. Epstein's attorneys succeeded into laying and then preventing the delivery of

Epstein's hard drives while law enforcement again turned the blind eye to the allegations of

possible CSAM crimes. As the OPR report explained, the US Attorney resolved the federal investigation

before significant investigative steps were taken and the investigation ended prematurely.

Instead, Epstein and his team of high-paid lawyers and private investigators sought to shift blame

onto the victims, gaslighting them as prostitutes, drug addicts, and liars.

Amazingly, despite a plethora of evidence as far reaching, conspiracy to traffic women and

numerous red flags concerning possible CSAM, federal law enforcement stood by silently, and didn't

take action. A USA told an appeals court that it was unfortunate that the non-prosecution agreement

had the effect of labeling teenage girls as prostitutes instead of victims of sexual assault.

Meanwhile, consistent with well-known practices of sex traffickers,

Epstein continued trafficking, raping, abusing, and collecting sexualized images of women and girls,

including some of our clients. All right, we're going to wrap up Episode 1 right here,

and in the next episode dealing with the topic, we're going to pick up where we left off.

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