A dozen victims of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sue the FBI for its failure to investigate him

A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit this Wednesday in New York against the FBI (the Federal Investigation Agency) for covering up their inability to investigate the late financier, which allowed their sex trafficking to continue further. 20 years old.

Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell, where he was awaiting trial, in August 2019.

The victims, who present themselves under the pseudonym

- the one used in the American judicial system for women who seek anonymity, or for victims who have not been identified -, maintain that the FBI already had clues in 1996 " “credible evidence” that Epstein trafficked young women and girls, but he did not interview the victims or communicate what he knew to federal and local law enforcement, Reuters reports.

Some victims and witnesses also appeared

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The complainants explain that the FBI finally began investigating Esptein in 2006, but ended the investigations two years after he pleaded guilty to a charge of prostitution in Florida, in 2008, from which he was practically successful - he spent only 13 months in jail - and which represented a resounding false closure of the investigation.

The women allege that the agency then continued to ignore leads until he was arrested in July 2019.

“As a direct cause of the FBI's negligence, Plaintiffs would not have remained victims of sex trafficking, abuse, rape, torture, and threats,” the lawsuit says.

“Twelve Jane Does file this lawsuit to once and for all get to the bottom of the FBI's role in Epstein's criminal sex trafficking network,” the text adds.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, seeks damages from the US government, the sole defendant.

It cites a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on December 5, 2023, in which FBI Director Christopher Wray was asked why the FBI had not done more.

Wray then promised to “find out if there is more information we can provide” after consulting with his team.

This would not be the first time that justice intervenes to disfigure the malpractice of the security forces throughout the process.

Last June, a Justice Department investigation concluded that a chain of negligence and failures in his custody facilitated Epstein's hanging in his cell, the cause of death determined by the autopsy.

The number of Epstein's victims is believed to be well over a hundred.

Some of them previously achieved compensation of some 500 million dollars in total (771 million euros), through agreements payable by Epstein's estate and two of the banks of which he was a client, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, also in the pillory for not cutting ties with the sexual predator when his abuses began to become known.

Both entities settled lawsuits against them out of court with separate financial agreements.

It is unknown whether any, or all, of the 12 new plaintiffs received compensation from those agreements.

The controversy surrounding the financier, who rubbed shoulders with the main world leaders, from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump or Bill Gates, including Prince Andrew of England - removed from the front line of the British royal family for his alleged involvement in the plot- does not decay.

The publication in January of a complete list of documents with the names of the people cited in the case - both accused and witnesses - has fueled interest in it.

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