U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that the Department of Justice has recently received additional files on Jeffery Epstein from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following a disappointing document release last week.Â
During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Bondi disclosed that the FBI delivered a substantial amount of Epstein files to the department in response to her ultimatum for their submission by 8 a.m. on Friday.Â
“I set a deadline for [the FBI] to provide us with everything by 8 a.m. on Friday,” Bondi stated. “And I was given information about the location of the documents, which turned out to be the Southern District of New York. As a result, we received all the files by the specified deadline.”
“Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them…and Director Patel is going to get us a detailed report as to why the FBI withheld all of those documents,” she continued.
Pam Bondi said they are going through the Epstein files “as fast as we can.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
“And it’s a new day. It’s a new administration, and everything’s going to come out to the public. The public has the right to know Americans have a right to know.”
The highly-anticipated rollout of the Epstein files drew criticism across the country on Thursday, disappointing those who expected a “client list” or any significant new information about the disgraced Palm Beach-based sex trafficker. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., was one of the many vocal critics of the rollout.
“I nor the task force were given or reviewed the Epstein documents being released today… A NY Post story just revealed that the documents will simply be Epstein’s phonebook,” the Florida congresswoman wrote on X. “THIS IS NOT WHAT WE OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ASKED FOR and a complete disappointment. GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!”
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
