Investigative notes describing Jeffrey Epstein‘s detailed demands of the people he sent to procure children for his sexual predation are among the documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday.
They cast a grim spotlight on the actions of Epstein and those around him amid their efforts to procure young women and underage girls for the late disgraced financier. They were part of a long-awaited release of documents from Donald Trump’s justice department, which has been slammed for being onyl a partial release and heavily redacted.
But one document,called EFTA00004179,consists of a formal FBI evidence cover sheet and 13 pages of handwritten investigative notes from an interview conducted on 2 May 2019. The interview subject is redacted, as is some of the content.
Still,themes emerge; recruitment of girls,sexual encounters under the guise of “massages” and Epstein’s specific preferences regarding age and race.
“Friends of [redacted] friends. Big Brazilian group. Desperate time,” the witness said,according to the notes.”Running out of girls.” The notes ostensibly refer to epstein by the initials “JE”.
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A “dark-skinned Dominican” was brought in during this “desperate time” but “JE didn’t want Spanish or dark girl”, the notes read. The initials of the person who brought the underage girls to Epstein are redacted in the document. This person told Epstein that they had been “bringing young girls” to Epstein, but Epstein complained that “yea but not dark”.
The witness said she was unsure whether Epstein had paid the procurer for the “service”, but that he
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