FBI demanded to release hundreds of 'missing' Epstein documents including tapes and CDs
The FBI is facing fresh calls to release hundreds of 'missing' pieces of evidence raided from Jeffrey Epstein's $51 million New York townhouse following the release of a new list of his associates.
Among the items said to be missing are tapes, CDs, passports and pictures all located inside a safe within the property during a siege on the home in July 2019, shortly after Epstein was arrested.
FBI agent Kelly Maguire previously testified the agency broke open a safe at his home in July 2019 to reveal the cache of evidence, along with 'loose diamonds' and 'large amounts of US currency'.
Speaking at the sex-trafficking trial of Epstein's madam Ghislaine Maxwell, she told the court the agents only photographed the contents as they did not have a warrant for its removal, the Telegraph reports.
When the agency returned to seize the evidence on July 11, it had vanished according to Maguire who claimed it was subsequently returned in two suitcases by Richard Kahn, Epstein's former lawyer and executor of his estate.
She could not confirm if the content on the CDs was the same as the ones photographed but said all items had been accounted for.
The agency alluded to the contents of the safe in an application to a judge to deny Epstein's bail.
Boxes of CDs and hard drives were also discovered in several rooms in Epstein’s Upper East Side, including in a massage room.
On the fifth floor FBI agents found meticulously labelled CDs in black binders which they said contained photos.
The disclosure fueled speculation that Epstein may have been running a honeypot entrapment operation, gaining valuable 'kompromat' material to blackmail political and business elites.
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