FBI Emails From 2019 Refer To Epstein’s “10 Co-Conspirators”

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

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CNN's Katelyn Polantz has learned the Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who serves on the Oversight Committee, joins to talk about the latest developments. Plus, Julie K. Brown, award-winning investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, whose work was instrumental in exposing the extent of Epstein's crimes, talks about the information that is coming out and the information that is being redacted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	Tonight on 360, thousands more documents released from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. There are many references to President Trump and new questions about the Justice Department's handling of the files.
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1:02.7	using ATMs at convenience stores you might know. Good evening, John Berman here, in for Anderson.
1:08.9	Some breaking news tonight on how the Justice Department is trying to speed up the release of the Epstein files, days after the deadline passed for them all to be made public, more than in just a moment. Today, more than 30,000 files released from the investigation of convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. One of the things we learned is that
1:27.8	prosecutors in 2019 sought to investigate and potentially charge upwards of 10 possible co-conspirators.
1:35.7	Another document purportedly showed a letter handwritten by Epstein while he was in jail in 2019.
1:40.8	The same month he committed suicide. It is signed by Jay Epstein, an address to convicted
1:45.8	sex offender Larry Nasser. Now, it does not explicitly name President Trump, but includes a
1:50.7	reference to our president, and Trump was president at the time. But late this afternoon,
1:56.1	the Justice Department released this post. The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey
2:01.7	Epstein to Larry Nassar is fake. The FBI made this conclusion based on the following facts.
2:07.3	The writing does not appear to match Epstein's handwriting. The letter was postmarked three days
2:12.0	after Epstein's death, postmarked out of Northern Virginia when he was jailed in New York.
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