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DOJ Can Give the Survivors Answers -- Joyce Vance and Mimi Rocah
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/doj-can-give-the-survivors-answersAnd if They Don't, Congress Must
In September 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel testified to Congress that there was "no credible information" that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone besides himself. "There is no credible information. None. If there were, I would bring the case yesterday."
On July 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated publicly, "We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties."
Things changed in November of 2025. When Donald Trump "asked," Bondi completely reversed course and agreed DOJ would investigate Democrats' "connections to Epstein" (but not Trump's). We never learned what changed in the available evidence between the time Bondi made her original statement and the opening of a new investigation into his selected targets.
Then, in early February, CNN's Dana Bash asked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche whether DOJ was investigating anybody for crimes related to Epstein. Blanche replied: "I can't talk about any investigations, but I will say the following, which is that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody." Notice what he does not say -- that there is nothing for DOJ to investigate; only that they cannot prosecute anybody. It's hard to prosecute when you don't investigate.
. . .
The survivors have kept Epstein and his circle from walking away from all of this with impunity. Now it's Congress's turn to use the tools that it has to make sure Epstein's decades-long course of criminal conduct and victimization of girls and women is exposed and laid bare, and that the people involved, no matter who and how powerful they are, are held accountable in the court of public opinion, even if the Justice Department refuses to investigate.
On July 7, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated publicly, "We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties."
Things changed in November of 2025. When Donald Trump "asked," Bondi completely reversed course and agreed DOJ would investigate Democrats' "connections to Epstein" (but not Trump's). We never learned what changed in the available evidence between the time Bondi made her original statement and the opening of a new investigation into his selected targets.
Then, in early February, CNN's Dana Bash asked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche whether DOJ was investigating anybody for crimes related to Epstein. Blanche replied: "I can't talk about any investigations, but I will say the following, which is that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody." Notice what he does not say -- that there is nothing for DOJ to investigate; only that they cannot prosecute anybody. It's hard to prosecute when you don't investigate.
. . .
The survivors have kept Epstein and his circle from walking away from all of this with impunity. Now it's Congress's turn to use the tools that it has to make sure Epstein's decades-long course of criminal conduct and victimization of girls and women is exposed and laid bare, and that the people involved, no matter who and how powerful they are, are held accountable in the court of public opinion, even if the Justice Department refuses to investigate.
