No results can be found when searches are made of the justice department’s publicly available Epstein files for FBI documents summarising the further three interviews with the woman.<\/p>\n
Another search for a photograph and two other documents listed in the index also shows no results. <\/p>\n
There is no information in the available documents suggesting agents were able to corroborate the woman’s accusations, nor that agents made any assessment of their credibility.<\/p>\n
In his letter to Bondi, Garcia said the released Epstein files “show that the FBI took these allegations seriously”. He accuses the Trump administration of a “cover up” by withholding the other interviews relating to the witness.<\/p>\n
A woman with matching biographical details was among several alleged Epstein victims who filed a civil lawsuit against his estate in 2019. <\/p>\n
She alleged Epstein trafficked her to New York in the 1980s where she was raped by men linked to him, but the lawsuit does not identify the men. <\/p>\n
The woman voluntarily dismissed her claim against Epstein’s estate in 2021, according to a letter filed at the time by her lawyer. The lawyer declined to comment when contacted by the BBC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Epstein’s association with Trump appears to have started around the late 1980s, and the pair were pictured together at various events in the following decade.<\/p>\n
In New York Magazine interview in 2002, Trump said Epstein was a “terrific guy” and that “it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”.<\/p>\n
Trump appears in the Epstein files that have been released by the justice department, though an appearance does not imply any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
A number of the files that have been released by the justice department, and by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, show Epstein discussing Trump in emails that were sent years after their association ended. <\/p>\n
In one email dating to 2011, which was released by Democrats, Epstein wrote to Maxwell: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him”.<\/p>\n
At the time, the White House said the victim referred to was the late Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who died by suicide earlier this year. It said Giuffre “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her in their limited interactions”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No results can be found when searches are made of the justice department’s publicly available Epstein files for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-446918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}