An email circulated inside the Department of Justice in 2020 seems to suggest that the DOJ believed that the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had been murdered, despite the agency listing his death as a suicide by the Justice Department shortly after he was found dead in his cell at a federal detention facility in 2019 while awaiting trial.
The email was unearthed from the recent 3.5 million files the DOJ released in partial compliance with a congressional demand for full disclosure.
In the email, the “AUSA in EDNY” – an acronym for an assistant U.S. attorney working in the Eastern District of New York – references an “investigation” into the “murder” of Epstein. However, then-Attorney General Bill Barr had announced Epstein killed himself.
“I’m an AUSA in EDNY and am working on an investigation into the death of an inmate at the Brooklyn MDC,” the email reads.
“The [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to extend a similar agreement and I wanted to see if you could share the agreement (or a boilerplate version of it). I’m happy to speak over the phone if that’s easier.”
This latest revelation set off a wave of chatter on social media, with some noting that even Trump’s own DOJ knew his longtime friend had met his end at the hands of someone else.
Was Epstein murdered? We may never know, if only because the current Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has made it clear she will refuse to fully comply with Congress and give them access to all of the Epstein files, raising questions about possibly charging her with contempt of Congress and prosecuting her for her intransigence.
