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July 18, 2025
The Honorable Pam Bondi
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
Dear Attorney General Bondi:
On July 7, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
released an unsigned memorandum regarding the Trump Administration’s “exhaustive review of
investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein.” This memorandum made two official findings:
(1) “[t]his systemic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list’”; and (2) “[a]fter a thorough
investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at
the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019.”1
The first finding directly contradicts public statements you have repeatedly made. On
February 21, 17 days after your confirmation as Attorney General, you were asked directly by
Fox News’ America Reports host John Roberts: “DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey
Epstein’s clients; will that really happen?”2
Your response was: “It’s sitting on my desk right now
to review.”3
On February 27, you released binders of documents related to Epstein to
conservative influencers and commentators,4
but despite the major media event the White House
staged around this release, these files were largely already publicly available.5
After intense
blowback from this incident, you appeared on another Fox News show, Life Liberty Levin, and
claimed that a “whistleblower” told you that “New York SDNY [was] sitting on thousands of
pages of documents”; that “we will get everything”; that you were “assured” there was more; and
that the country would eventually see “the full Epstein files.”6
1
Memorandum from Dep’t of Justice and Fed. Bureau of Investigation on Review of Investigative Holdings
Relating to Jeffrey Epstein (Jul. 7, 2025), available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline
[hereinafter July 7 memorandum].
2
Haley Chi-Sing, Bondi says Epstein client list ‘sitting on my desk right now,’ and is reviewing JFK, MLK files, FOX
NEWS (Feb. 21, 2025), https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bondi- ... right-now-
reviewing-jfk-mlk-files.
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Id.
4
Press Release, DOJ, Attorney General Pamela Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files (Feb. 27,
2025), available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney ... lassified-
epstein-files.
5
Anna Durkin Richer & Michael R. Sisak, No new bombshells in Justice Department’s release of Jeffrey Epstein
files, AP (Feb. 27, 2025), https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epst ... ndi-trump-
1a6af3e9fa1cfb6d267985a971a4929a.
6
Life Liberty Levin, Pam Bondi on stonewalled Epstein files: We will get everything, FOX NEWS (Feb. 27, 2025),
https://www.foxnews.com/video/636942274 ... ff44c65df; see also
Elizabeth Crisp, Bondi says she was misled on Epstein documents, THE HILL (Mar. 3, 2025),
https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... tein-files.

According to information my office received, you then pressured the FBI to put
approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD), including the
Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), which handles all requests submitted by the
public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act, on 24-hour shifts to
review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that
could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline. This effort, which reportedly took place
from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI
New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-
protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA
requests.
My office was told that these personnel were instructed to “flag” any records in which
President Trump was mentioned. Notably, in 2002, Mr. Trump said of Mr. Epstein, “I’ve known
Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”7
Just yesterday, it was
reported that the Department previously reviewed a “leather-bound album” comprised of dozens
of letters from Mr. Epstein’s friends in celebration of his 50th birthday in 2003.8
The letters were
collected by Mr. Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell and included one from President Trump
that allegedly “contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman,
which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker … and the future president’s signature is a
squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist.”9
Despite tens of thousands of personnel hours reviewing and re-reviewing these Epstein-
related records over the course of two weeks in March, it took DOJ more than three additional
months to officially find there is “no incriminating ‘client list,’” and the memorandum with this
finding includes no mention of the whistleblower or additional documents, the existence of
which you publicly claimed on February 27.
The second finding in the July 7 memorandum does not contradict any official statement
from DOJ and accords with the DOJ Inspector General’s investigation into the Bureau of
Prisons’ custody of Jeffrey Epstein.10 However, public skepticism of the government’s
transparency in this matter has been needlessly increased due to your release of surveillance
video from outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell in the hours leading up to his death, which the July 7
memorandum described as “full raw” footage;11 in fact, the footage was likely modified,
according to the metadata embedded in the video.12
7
Landon Thomas, Jr., Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery, N.Y. MAG (Oct. 28, 2002),
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912.
8
Khadeeja Safdar & Joe Palazzolo, Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album.
One Was From Donald Trump, WALL ST. J. (July 17, 2025), https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-
birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796.
9
Id.
10 See generally, DEP’T OF JUSTICE, OFF. OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW OF THE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS’ CUSTODY, CARE, AND SUPERVISION OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN AT THE METROPOLITAN
CORRECTIONAL CENTER IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Jun. 2023), available at
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/f ... 23-085.pdf.
11 July 7 memorandum at 2.
12 Dhruv Mehrotra, The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out, WIRED (Jul. 15, 2025),
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-je ... s-cut-out; Dhruv Mehrotra,
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Given the serious questions about the veracity of your public statements regarding the
Epstein-related records in DOJ’s possession and the effect those questions are having on the
public’s ability to trust DOJ’s July 7 finding that there is “no incriminating ‘client list,’” I ask
that you provide the following information and materials no later than August 1, 2025.
1. Have you personally reviewed all files in DOJ’s possession related to Jeffrey Epstein?
2. The records DOJ released on February 27 did not include a client list. Why did you
publicly claim on February 21 that the client list was “sitting on my desk right now to
review”?
a. If it was not a client list, what was “sitting on your desk” at that moment?
3. Please provide the names and titles of the Department ethics officials with whom you
consulted on your potential conflict of interest in this matter and any records or
materials related to this consultation.
4. When did the whistleblower disclose to you that thousands of pages of additional
Epstein-related records existed?
a. Through what process did the whistleblower make this disclosure to you?
b. Was the whistleblower’s disclosure provided to Congress or the DOJ Office of
Inspector General (OIG)? If no, please transmit a copy of the disclosure to the
Committee and the OIG.
c. Did DOJ identify additional documents based on the whistleblower’s
disclosure?
5. Aside from the negative backlash you received over the February 27 record release,
what was the purpose of placing almost 1,000 FBI IMD personnel on 24-hour shifts
to review Epstein-related records over the course of a two-week period in March?
6. Who made the decision to reassign hundreds of New York Field Office personnel to
this March review of Epstein-related records?
7. Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?
a. Please list all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the
decision to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned.
b. What happened to the records mentioning President Trump once they were
flagged?
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified, WIRED (Jul. 11, 2025),
https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-sh ... y-modified.
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c. Is there a log of the records mentioning President Trump? If yes, please
transmit a copy of the log to the Committee and the OIG.
8. Did personnel review any correspondence to Mr. Epstein, including letters compiled
in a “leather-bound album” as part of this year’s review?
a. Did personnel review any correspondence between President Trump and Mr.
Epstein, including a letter in the reported “leather-bound album” as part of this
year’s review?
9. Why is the July 7 memorandum making the two official findings regarding Jeffrey
Epstein unsigned by any DOJ or FBI officials?
10. Please describe in detail the process that occurred in the three-month period between
April and the July 7 memorandum, after the March review of documents, that led to
the findings in the July 7 memorandum.
11. Please list all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the review of
the Epstein-related records since February 2025.
12. Please list all political appointees and senior DOJ officials involved in the drafting of
the July 7 memorandum.
13. Why does the July 7 memorandum describe the surveillance footage as “full raw”
when it was modified?
a. Please describe in detail all of the modifications made to the “full raw”
surveillance footage before its publication.
I look forward to your full and immediate responses to these questions. Prompt attention
to this important matter is crucial to understanding the truth and preventing this Administration’s
actions from causing greater harm.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin
Ranking Member
cc: The Honorable Charles E. Grassley
Chairman, Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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