WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Thursday that “thousands of pages” of documents in the FBI’s investigation into the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were withheld from her.
And she’s demanding that they be turned over by Friday morning.
Bondi, 59, disclosed in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel a tipster said that all but “approximately 200 pages of documents” were still being kept secret at the FBI’s office in New York — despite her after repeated requests for the “full” Epstein files.
The initial batch included flight logs, phone numbers and the names of victims, but a source in the FBI’s New York office reached out and said that hundreds additional documents were not included.
“By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained,” Bondi said.
“There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access,” she vowed to Patel.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has floated a bill to prevent non-public records on Epstein housed at the Department of Justice from being destroyed, according to a copy of a letter obtained by The Post.
Ogles, 53, wrote to Bondi on Wednesday, announcing that he was “drafting legislation entitle the Preventing Epstein Documentation Obliteration Act, or the PEDO Act” following “reports that certain FBI agents are allegedly attempting to destroy critical records.”
“Should you encounter any statutory barriers to the expeditious public release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list or other pertinent information related to his activities — to include circumstances in which any such documentation is housed in other federal agencies — I stand ready to assist,” he said.
“Our constituents deserve nothing less than radical transparency in matters implicating the integrity of our justice system,” he added in the missive, which was first reported by Fox News.
A former FBI special agent had suggested the Epstein files could be among documents during a recent interview on the conservative influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast.
“There are FBI servers,” said ex-agent-turned-whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, “and people inside the FBI have been working night and day to destroy files on these servers.”
“No idea on what it is — I can only speculate — but you mentioned the Epstein list,” he added. “I’d imagine it’s cases like that.”
The FBI currently has hundreds of Epstein files available to the public on its website, but The Post previously scooped that the Justice Department was preparing to release 100 pages of the notorious criminal’s personal address book on Thursday, according to a source who reviewed the files.
Bondi had hinted on Fox News “Jesse Watters Primetime” that the DOJ was going to release “some Epstein information,” while adding the fact that details of the financier’s abuse of more than 250 victims “will make you sick.”
Conservative influencers were received at the White House and presented with “Phase 1” of the Epstein files release, emerging from the West Wing Thursday afternoon to brandish the binders at the press without immediately disclosing any details.
Ogles in his letter to Bondi also claimed a “decades-long obfuscation campaign” had withheld full details on investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
The effect of that “has clearly marginalized trust in our institutions and has contributed to all sorts of alternative theories and motivations regarding the deaths of these men,” he said.
Another Tennessee lawmaker has also pushed for the full release of the Epstein files.
“For years, my efforts to crack the Epstein trafficking ring wide open have been stonewalled by Democrats at every turn,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) posted Monday on X.
“This will change under [FBI Director Kash Patel]. I just sent him a letter asking for the complete & unredacted Epstein files.”
In his confirmation hearing, Patel committed to Blackburn that he would “do everything” to reveal the “full weight” of “what happened” in Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
