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Fox News Digital has obtained a two-page internal Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI memo that says deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, and that there is no list of clients whom Epstein may have procured for exploitation by third parties.
“This systemic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list,’” a portion of the memo says. “There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
Axios first reported on the memo Sunday night.
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On Feb. 21, Attorney General Pamela Bondi told “America Reports” host John Roberts that she was in possession of the “client list.”
“It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she said at the time. “That’s been a directive by President Trump.”
In an exchange with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked about the apparent contradiction.
“So, the FBI looks at the circumstance surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein,” Doocy said. “According to the report, ‘this systematic review revealed no incriminating client list.’ So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?”
“Well I think that if you go back and look at what the attorney general said, in that interview which was on your network, on Fox News— ” Leavitt said.
“I’ve got the quote,” Doocy said. “John Roberts said, ‘DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Espstein’s clients. Will that really happen?’ And she said, ‘It’s sitting on my desk right now for review.'”
“Yes, she was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, of all of the papers in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes,” Leavitt said. “That’s what the attorney general was referring to, and I’ll let her speak for that. But again, when it comes to the FBI and the Department of Justice, they are more than committed to ensuring that bad people are put behind bars.”
The memo also says that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in New York City.
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“After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019,” the memo says.
“This conclusion is consistent with previous findings, including the August 19, 2019 autopsy findings of the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the November 2019 position of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with the investigation of federal correctional officers responsible for guarding Epstein, and the June 2023 conclusions of DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General.”
Two weeks prior to his death, Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found barely conscious in his cell with injuries to his neck. He had been taken off suicide watch just days before hanging himself.
The DOJ released a grainy security video purportedly showing the common area of the Special Housing Unit where Epstein was housed on the night of his death.
The memo says he entered his cell at around 10:40 p.m., which does not appear to be captured by the security footage.
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“As DOJ’s Inspector General explained in 2023, anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein’s cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage,” according to the memo. “The FBI’s independent review of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at around 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, until around 6:30 am the next morning, nobody entered any of the tiers in the SHU.”
The powerful and wealthy sexual predator, who was connected to high-level American politicians and British royalty, pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution charges in Florida in 2008.
He was accused of sexual exploitation of over 250 underage girls in his 2019 arrest.
In 2022, Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor.
The DOJ release announcing Maxwell’s sentencing says she procured underage girls for Epstein to sexually exploit. It makes no mention of a broader sex trafficking operation by Epstein himself.
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