Federal agents were attempting to get in touch with 10 alleged Jeffrey Epstein “co-conspirators” a day after he was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, according to an email in the latest batch of case documents released by the Justice Department.
The highly-redacted July 7, 2019 email references contact or attempts to make contact with several of them in New York and Boston, but only mentions three by name: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel and Leslie Wexner.
The only known Epstein co-conspirator mentioned in the email is Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges.
Brunel, a French modeling agent who allegedly scouted girls for Epstein, was found dead in his prison cell in Paris in 2022.
Wexner, the billionaire retail titan behind such brands as Victoria’s Secret, The Limited and Abercrombie & Fitch, had his money managed by Epstein until he cut ties with the disgraced financier in 2007 after he was indicted in Florida on sex trafficking charges.
Wexner’s lawyer told the New York Times that the 88 year old is not the target of a federal investigation or considered a co-conspirator, claiming he only gave federal prosecutors background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.
The email blacks out who sent the message, but the reply included in the document has the words “FBI New York” in the signature line.
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, who is among those accusing the Justice Department of slow-rolling the document dump, called upon the DOJ to unveil more details about the alleged Epstein co-conspirators.
“Buried in the Epstein files is an email disclosing the Department of Justice was looking into at least 10 possible Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators. The Department of Justice needs to shed more light on who was on the list, how they were involved, and why they chose not to prosecute,” Schumer said in a statement.
“Protecting possible co-conspirators is not the transparency the American people and Congress are demanding,” he said.
Congressmen who sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passage of which forced the Justice Department to release them, have accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of protecting “powerful” men by riddling the documents with redactions.
“This is where the survivors have named other men who either raped them or visited Epstein’s rape island or covered up the abuse,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told The Post Monday.
“What the American people want to know [is]: Who are these other powerful financiers [and] powerful politicians who trafficked these women, or abused these women as girls or covered it up?”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), the lead Republican cosponsor of the act, echoed Khanna’s urging for more clarity.
“Right now the DOJ is violating the law to protect those individuals,” Massie told The Post of the redacted names.
“We will first pursue all options to force the DOJ to release those names, and several options remain,” he said.
Massie claimed at a congressional hearing in September that the FBI knows the names of at least 20 powerful men who allegedly victimized young women and girls, though he told The Post he only knows one of them: Barclays bank CEO Jes Staley, who immediately resigned in November after learning of the investigation into his ties with the convicted sex trafficker.
