Republican Grills Kash Patel On Epstein’s Alleged Accomplices, Lists 20 People

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is pushing his own party to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, questioned FBI Director Kash Patel during a Wednesday hearing. Massie zeroed in on Patel telling the Senate earlier in the week that no “credible information” exists that Epstein trafficked his victims to other people, and read Patel a list of prominent people victims have already alleged are complicit.

Massie began by saying, “Director Patel, I watched some of your Senate hearing yesterday when Senator Kennedy asked you, ‘You’ve seen most of the files. Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these women to besides himself?’ You replied, according to the transcript, ‘There is no credible information that he trafficked them to anyone else.’” He continued:

You also said somewhere in the hearing and here today that the problem is that the case files are constrained by limited search warrants from 2006 to 2007 and that the non-prosecution agreement hamstrung future investigations. Those constraints only applied to the Southern District of Florida.

They do not apply to the Southern District of New York, the location of the 2019 sex trafficking indictment, which produced many things including a series of FD-302 documents. According to victims who cooperated with the FBI in that investigation, these documents in FBI possession—your possession—detail at least 20 men, including Mr. Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays Bank, who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked victims to, victims including minors such as Virginia Roberts Giuffre—may she rest in peace.

That list also includes at least 19 other individuals: one Hollywood producer worth a few hundred million dollars, one royal prince, one high-profile individual in the music industry, one very prominent banker, one high-profile government official, one high-profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star, one magician, at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control. I don’t know exactly who they are, but the FBI does. Have you launched any investigations into any of these people, and have you seen these 302 documents?

Patel replied, “Sir, I have asked my FBI agents to review the entirety of the Epstein files and bring forth any credible information. And we’re working with Congress not only to divulge that information and produce it to you, but any investigations that arise from any credible information will be brought. There have been no new materials brought to me, launching a new indictment.”

“So is the loophole here, or is it your assertion that these victims aren’t credible, that the 302s maybe didn’t produce credible statements that rise to probable cause?” Massie pushed back.

Patel replied, “It’s not my assertion, sir. It’s the assertion of two different United States attorneys’ offices from three separate administrations who investigated those same materials.”

Massie followed up, “Are the 302 documents in the FBI’s possession?”

“They reviewed all that, yes, sir,” Patel replied.

“And so have you reviewed those 302 documents where the victims name the people who victimized them?” Massie asked.

“If I personally—no, but the FBI has,” Patel replied.

“So how can you sit here and in front of the Senate and say there are no names?” Massie insisted, adding, “I named one today.”

Patel replied, “I said we are not in the practice at the Department of Justice and FBI of releasing victims’ names. That is not what we do. We are also not in the habit of releasing incredible information. That’s not what we do, but multiple authorities have looked at the entirety of what we have.”

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