A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice (DoJ) to release more unredacted files on Jeffrey Epstein or explain why it can’t.
The ruling, issued on Thursday by District Judge Emmet Sullivan, has given the DoJ a 2 July deadline to release withheld records or provide an explanation.
Legal analyst Katie Phang brought a lawsuit alleging the Department failed to meet its legal obligations under last year’s Epstein Act.
Although the Department has already released 3.5 million records, Phang claims it withheld or redacted additional material.
In his opinion granting the injunction, Sullivan noted that Phang alleges the DOJ redacted the names of senders and recipients in “at least eight email exchanges” with Epstein regarding a “torture video” and alleged sexual activity, including pedophilia.
Phang accused acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of “redacting the names of co-defendants in a draft indictment, the names of individuals identified as ‘co-conspirators.’”
Phang also alleges Blanche withheld materials about Donald Trump, specifically “notes from FBI interviews with a victim who has alleged that in the 1980s, when she was about 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump, who in turn assaulted her.”
The DoJ claimed Phang should have made a freedom of information request, meaning her lawsuit is illegitimate, but her lawyers have claimed she has been denied such requests.
On Tuesday, transcripts were released from US House Oversight Committee’s closed-door interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates earlier this month.
During Gates’ testimony, the tech billionaire admitted he had at least three extramarital affairs with separate women and claimed Epstein was going to blackmail him using knowledge of the sexual encounters.
“I was not blackmailed, but, you know… it looks like Mr. Epstein’s brainstorming was going in that direction,” he stated.
Gates said he never saw Epstein with girls, nor did Epstein provide him with access to women.
Regarding his own sexual activity, Gates told Congress he had sex with a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova and nuclear physicist Karima Nigmatulina.
Gates later admitted to engaging in a third extramarital affair with female scientist Dr. Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt.
Epstein reportedly told a mutual friend of his and Epstein’s that “[Gates] feared he may have caught a sexually transmitted disease from one of the women.”
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Massie moves to strike $3.3B in Israel military aid from the budget
The House Rules Committee has advanced an amendment by Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to strip $3.3 billion in funding for the Israel Defense Forces from the federal budget.
>>>>That means that every member of the House will have to vote on the proposal. Constituents will have the opportunity to see if their member will vote to end U.S. funding for Israel, or continue it.<<<<
The funds targeted would come out of the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act (NSRP), the bill that funds the State Department, international development assistance, and global organizations.
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Todd Blanche conceded violating law on Epstein files, judge finds
The Justice Department has effectively conceded it is violating the law Congress passed last November requiring the public release of the vast majority of records relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge declared Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche essentially admitted the violations by failing to address allegations from independent journalist Katie Phang in a lawsuit seeking broader access to the records — including allegations against President Donald Trump.
“The Attorney General does not respond substantively to any of these arguments,” Sullivan, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, wrote in the opinion. “The Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act.”
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