Epstein Survivors Blast FBI Director Kash Patel For Claiming 'No Credible Information' Financier Trafficked Women to Others By Ben Brachfeld

Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse signed a statement on Thursday, Sept. 18, blasting FBI Director Kash Patel, for claiming there was “no credible information” the pedophile financier had trafficked women and girls to other powerful men.

Patel made the claim during testimony to the U.S. Senate Oversight Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 16, remarking that despite having seen a “good amount” of the bureau’s Epstein files, there wasn’t evidence that the notorious child sex predator had actually trafficked women to anyone but himself.

On Thursday, 10 Epstein survivors — plus the brother and sister of the late Virginia Giuffre — said in a statement they were “shocked” by Patel’s comments.

They specifically cited Giuffre’s deposition in her since-settled civil suit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted madam, in which Giuffre brought up several rich and famous men she alleged Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to.

They also brought up a claim by Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, who said at a separate hearing Wednesday that the FBI had a list of at least 20 people Epstein had allegedly trafficked women and girls to — including a Hollywood producer, a rockstar, a prince, a “high-profile former politician,” and “at least 6 billionaires” — compiled from witness interviews with the bureau.

“Director Patel’s testimony raises more questions than answers,” the survivors wrote in the statement. “For years he has railed about the incompleteness of previous investigations. He is right about that: previous investigations were indeed incomplete. So what is his plan to make sure that a thorough and unbiased investigation is conducted at last?”

The survivors suggested that Patel could release the series of witness interviews, known as FD302s, that were taken during the investigation leading up to Epstein’s 2019 indictment — which are not subject to the broad non-prosecution agreement Epstein and his co-conspirators reached with the Justice Department in 2008.

Under questioning by Massie, Patel evaded answering whether the bureau would release those files, or whether the individuals referenced would be investigated or prosecuted.

Asked if the FBI deemed the witnesses not credible, Patel said that wasn’t his opinion, but the opinion of previous U.S. Attorneys that had investigated Epstein.

“Those previous administrations are the ones that Kash Patel spent years accusing of a cover-up,” the statement continued. “Now he will pass the buck to them to decide that information about other men in the Epstein-Maxwell trafficking ring is not even worth following up on? There are victims and witnesses who, to this day, have still not been interviewed. Will they continue to be ignored?”

The statement is signed by Epstein survivors Jess Michaels, Rachel Benavidez, Danielle Bensky, Marijke Chartouni, Annie Farmer, Marina Lacerda, Lara Blume McGee, Sharlene Rochard, Ashley Rubright and Liz Stein, plus Giuffre’s brother Sky and sister Amanda.

“As head of the FBI, Director Patel can work now to remedy that, in a way that finally centers survivor voices and finally pursues the whole truth,” the statement reads. “The public demands it; the victims deserve it; and our system of justice without fear or favor requires it.”

The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

The Trump administration has come under intense scrutiny in recent months after the Justice Department made a sudden about-face on the Epstein files, from Attorney General Pam Bondi claiming the disgraced child molester’s “client list” was on her desk to claiming it did not exist.

The saga has raised further questions about President Donald Trump’s own involvement with Epstein, with whom he was associated for years until a falling out. Those questions reached a fever pitch when Congress released a letter allegedly sent by Trump to Epstein for the financier’s 50th birthday, written in the outline of a naked woman, where Trump allegedly said the two have “certain things in common.”

Trump denied writing the letter and sued the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion after the newspaper first reported its existence.

Epstein first faced sex crime charges in the mid 2000s but ended up serving only a year in jail after reaching a controversial non-prosecution agreement with the feds, which required him to register as a sex offender and plead to state prostitution charges. He was under a new sex trafficking indictment in 2019 when he died in a Manhattan jail cell in what was ruled a suicide by hanging.