Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity was laid bare in a disturbing email in which he mentioned his “youngest girl” was “a little naughty”.
On January 30, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) released 3 million documents related to its investigation of the convicted pedophile who committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
They include an email sent to Epstein on March 11, 2014, in which one person wrote: “Thanks for a fun night…your youngest girl was a little naughty.”
The U.S. Department of Justice has redacted the sender’s name.
A growing number of people, including Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown, whose investigation led to Epstein’s arrest in 2019, are calling for the man’s identity to be released.
The documents have triggered a “reckoning” of Epstein’s wealthy and powerful associates named in the documents, including Lord Mandelson, who resigned from the House of Lords in disgrace on Tuesday.
Several CEOs, professors and politicians around the world have also resigned. At the same time, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who appears in the archives, also moved out of Royal Villas.
The email also raises questions about how the Justice Department decides who should remain anonymous in disclosures.
For example, in the draft indictment against Epstein in the 2000s, the names of alleged co-conspirators were also redacted.
The department has previously said it removed victim information, child sex abuse material and any content that could jeopardize active investigations.
“In many cases, as is publicly documented, those original victims became participants and co-conspirators,” a spokesperson told CNN. “We have not redacted the names of any men, only the female victims.”
But the department initially mistakenly disclosed the names of dozens of Epstein victims. Lawyers representing a group of victims said the mistake had turned their lives “upside down”.
A judge is considering blocking access to the government website hosting the documents, and the department later said it would quickly correct the error.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie, who led the effort to lobby for the document’s release, asked to see the unredacted document.
“The Justice Department protected the Epstein class by sweeping redactions in some areas while failing to protect the identities of survivors in other areas,” Ro Khanna told CNN.
“Without a complete record, Congress cannot properly assess the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases.”
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