On Wednesday, more than a dozen anonymous victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, accusing the agency of conducting a cover-up and enabling the financier’s sex trafficking operation. Reuters report.
The women allege that the FBI tried to cover up the alleged botched investigation into Epstein. The complaint says that authorities’ inaction allowed Epstein to continue committing sex trafficking crimes for more than 20 years.
The women said the FBI received information about Epstein’s criminal activities as early as 1996, but failed to interview his alleged victims or notify other law enforcement agencies. The complaint says the bureau did not begin investigating the late financier until 2006 and closed it just two years later. The investigation’s conclusion coincided with Epstein pleading guilty to prostitution charges in Florida and serving 18 months in prison for the same charges.
The FBI continued to receive information that Epstein was involved in sex trafficking, but it was ultimately ignored, the complaint alleges. He was arrested in 2019 and died in custody several months later.
“Plaintiffs should not have continued to be subjected to sex trafficking, abuse, rape, torture, and intimidation as a direct and proximate cause of the FBI’s negligence,” the women’s lawsuit states. “Jane Das 1-12 brought this lawsuit to uncover once and for all the FBI’s role in Epstein’s sex crime organization.”
of Filing a complaint The agency said it had “photos, videos, interviews, and hard evidence of child prostitution, but failed to follow FBI procedures and timely investigate and arrest Epstein.”
“The FBI complies with established policies, procedures, rules, and protocols to collect information regarding potential and ongoing erotica of minors, rape, sex with minors, and sex trafficking in a reasonable manner. “Epstein had a non-discretionary duty to investigate and take action against Epstein and to prevent him from repeating his crimes,” the lawsuit continued. “Yet, contrary to its own established rules, the FBI failed to take appropriate action and botched and covered up the investigation for years.”
The victims are seeking financial damages from the federal government.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters. The FBI said: CBS News The company said it would not comment on the lawsuit.
In November 2022, Epstein’s victims filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Deutsche Bank, alleging that the banking institutions enable a sex trafficking ring by financiers. Both banks agreed to pay victims $500 million to settle the case, before deducting legal costs.
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