Just three days after federal agents arrested Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges in July 2019, investigators discussed serving 10 of his alleged co-conspirators with subpoenas, including one person in Connecticut, according to documents released Tuesday.
The new batch of files contains an email sent on July 7, 2019 from someone working in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office, who asked for the “status of the 10 CO conspirators,” in the case. The names of the email sender and receiver were redacted in the released documents.
Investigators previously had only acknowledged Ghislane Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a 2021 sex trafficking conviction, as a conspirator in Epstein’s sprawling network of child sex trafficking and abuse.
Another document released Tuesday provides more details about the 10 alleged co-conspirators, including a Connecticut connection.
In response to a July 9, 2019 email from a member of the FBI’s anti-child trafficking team about the status of the co-conspirators, someone (the names are all redacted) wrote that six of the 10 had been served subpoenas, including one in Connecticut.
“Of the 10 co-conspirators, 3 have been located in FL and served GJ (grand jury) subpoenas; 1 in Boston, 1 in NYC, and 1 in CT were located and served,” the email reads. “4 of the 10 are outstanding with attempts having been made. 1 is a wealthy business man in Ohio, a lead is being sent to CV; the remaining 3 are currently out of pocket.”
The email also said that teams of special agents and prosecutors would be fanning out across Florida to interview approximately 25 victims.
The email also references attempts to contact a wealthy businessman in Ohio.
No further information was provided in the email about the co-conspirator who was served in Connecticut, and no one in the state has been publicly linked by law enforcement officials to Epstein’s trafficking network.
After the latest batch of files was released on Tuesday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on the DOJ to release more information about the 10 individuals who were investigated as possible 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,” Schumer said in a statement. “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.”
Last Friday, when the DOJ did not meet a Dec. 19 deadline to release all of its files on Epstein, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., released a statement calling for an audit of the department’s handling of the files.
DOJ leaders have said that the process of vetting and redacting information to protect Epstein’s victims has slowed its release of the files.