Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring blasted the Trump administration over the notorious case Monday, with one accusing the Justice Department of prioritizing protection of the dead pedophile’s rich friends over the women he abused.
“I am not sure the highest priority here is the victims, justice for the victims or combating child exploitation,” read one of the two letters submitted in Manhattan federal court.
“… Rather, I feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the ‘third-party,’ the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files.”
The second letter slammed the feds for meeting last month with Epstein’s convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell — who was subsequently rewarded with a prison transfer one week after the shocking sitdown.
Two judges are now weighing the government’s bid to unseal transcripts of testimony by law enforcement agents before grand juries who handed up indictments of Epstein and Maxwell in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
The DOJ has promised to redact the filings to protect victims. But one of the victims who wrote to US District Judge Richard Berman asked for their lawyer to review any “‘suggested’ redactions” before they are made public.
“[T]hey are the ones who also know the victims, their names, their truths and their stories unlike the United States Government who did not and does not even care to know our truth,” their letter read.
“They would rather ask a convicted imprisoned sex trafficker/abuser for information,” the victim added, referencing Maxwell.
The same victim described feeling “disdain, disgust and fear” at the administration’s response to the Epstein saga.
“I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole ‘Epstein Files’ with more respect towards and for the victims,” the letter reads. “I am not some pawn in your political warfare.
“What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely.”
The victim who accused the administration of shielding Epstein’s circle of “wealthy men” from scrutiny requested Berman have “an approved third-party review these documents to ensure that NO victims names or likenesses are revealed through this release. It is imperative with the scrutiny over this media frenzy that the victims are completely and entirely protected.”
In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped up the release of a cache of Epstein documents that she suggested would reveal juicy details of the notorious financier’s sickening crimes.
But she later backtracked, saying that no further disclosures would be warranted after the FBI and DOJ released a July 6 memo stating that Epstein, 66, killed himself on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting federal trial and did not keep a “client list” of associates who abused girls as young as 14 — contrary to widespread speculation.
The about-face caused an uproar among many of Trump’s supporters. On July 17, Trump ordered Bondi to request the release of the grand jury material — which represents a tiny fraction of the files the government says it has about Epstein.
Berman, who had been overseeing Epstein’s criminal case before his death, had given the government until 11:59 p.m. ET Monday to clarify whether the DOJ wanted grand jury exhibits unsealed in addition to transcripts of testimony.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
