DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100K and $250K should stay secret
The Justice Department request came after NBC News asked a federal judge to unseal the names of two people Epstein paid and helped protect from prosecution.
Sept. 6, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT
By Tom Winter, NBC News
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from him in 2018, court documents show. The Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making their names public.
The first associate received a payment of $100,000 from Epstein and the second associate received a payment of $250,000, both in 2018, days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of investigative stories where victims criticized a plea deal he received in Florida in 2008.
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Trump's DOJ blocking access to Epstein's employees.
Trump FBI informant against Epstein? Speaker makes claim as POTUS seeks to end 'Democrat hoax'
By Shuvrajit Das Biswas
Published on: Sept 06, 2025
Donald Trump, on Truth Social, said the Department of Justice had given everything that was asked of them, and it was time to end the ‘Democrat Epstein Hoax’.
US Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to indicate that President Donald Trump had served as an FBI informant in an attempt to take down child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaking to the press, he said that Trump never claimed what Epstein did was a ‘hoax’. In fact, according to the Speaker, the President felt Epstein's actions were a ‘terrible, unspeakable evil’. Johnson went on to say that when Trump first heard about it, he ‘kicked’ Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort. He went on to say that Trump had also been an FBI informant against Epstein.
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It sounds like he wants to give Trump immunity for taking part in the prostitution, either as an 'undercover client' or as an 'undercover partner'. |
