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douglas9

(4,921 posts) Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:12 AM Jul 15

Jeffrey Epstein Hired Private Investigators to Intimidate FBI Agents: Officials

Multiple federal law enforcement officials who spoke to Rolling Stone on the condition of anonymity say that Jeffrey Epstein hired private investigators to follow, intimidate, and surveil FBI special agents investigating allegations that he paid underage women for sex. The FBI declined Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

These new allegations about the pressure exerted on the FBI come after internal divisions in Donald Trump’s administration exploded into public view last week over its handling of files and information pertaining to the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. Reports across several media outlets describe a tense meeting between deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other officials. According to reports, that meeting ended with Bongino storming out. Bongino is now reportedly considering resigning from his post at the FBI.

Years after his death in prison during Trump’s first presidency, Epstein’s case continues to sow division at the highest levels of Trump’s second administration.

Trump officials confessed to Rolling Stone last week that the Department of Justice’s unwillingness to further release Epstein-related documents would inflame an already impatient and riled base. “They’re going to be so mad at us,” one official said. Trump’s pledge to release Epstein’s so-called client list was an oft-repeated campaign promise picked up and amplified by MAGA social media influencers like Tim Pool and Laura Loomer. Those same influencers are now enraged at the DOJ’s apparent stonewalling.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-jeffrey-epstein-fbi-private-investigators-1235385560/

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Gumshoe was on the other foot. Kid Berwyn Jul 15 #1

Kid Berwyn

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1. Gumshoe was on the other foot.

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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:29 AM

Jul 15

Protection from Above. From Rolling Stone:

According to the OPR report, Special Agents assigned to investigate Epstein were repeatedly frustrated with Main Justice’s refusal to arrest and prosecute the now deceased criminal. “The FBI had ‘wanted to arrest [Epstein] in [the] Virgin Islands during a beauty pageant . . . where he [was] a judge.’ The case agent recalled that she and her co-case agent were disappointed with the decision, and that the Supervisory Special Agent was ‘extremely upset’ about it,” the report found.

OPR investigators also detail how Maria Villafana, the Assistant U.S. Attorney overseeing the prosecution, was blocked from moving forward with a planned arrest of Epstein. Villafana had coordinated with the FBI to take Epstein into custody on May 15, 2007, and the FBI had scheduled a press conference for the same day. But according to the report, DOJ managers in Miami prevented her from moving forward with the plan.

Gee. That was when W Bush was smirking his way through all manner of treason. Still: This is news to Corporate McPravda, re Epstein case. Intimidating the FBI to ignore criminal behavior, however, is old school since the days of Frank Costello and J. Edgar Hoover.

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