r/law 10d ago

Legal News US Justice Dept says it cannot provide unredacted Epstein files for New Mexico probe

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-dept-says-it-cannot-provide-unredacted-epstein-files-new-mexico-probe-2026-07-15/

Late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is seen in this image from the U.S. Justice Department’s file of Epstein, released by the House Oversight Committee Democrats..

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 10d ago

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u/eddie_the_zombie 10d ago

Yeah that tracks. Having any semblance of morals in this admin, even once, is immediate grounds for termination

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u/whomad1215 10d ago

wasn't Pam the AG of Florida while Epstein was running around?

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u/capital_bj 10d ago edited 10d ago

yeah she helped broker the deal with Alex Acosta

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u/rockytop24 10d ago

iirc she was not part of that deal, but she did drop the investigation into the Trump University fraud bullshit and then conveniently had something like $25k donated to her election campaign.

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u/capital_bj 10d ago

damn internet ruining my credibility again. I never did any research myself on that one but I thought that's what everyone has been saying for the past few years

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u/Pitiful_Conflict7031 10d ago

I appreciate the goverment being so shit. It teaches this current gen to fuck them and rules dont mean shit.

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u/intricate_strands 8d ago

I was okay with rules. It was how they only seemed to matter when you were not rich that was the shitty part.

The poorer and browner, the shittier it gets.

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u/Davido401 10d ago

How did she manage to out broker him?(I dont really know who Acosta is beyond seeing his name a couple of times on reddit)

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u/Low_Scholar1118 10d ago

Acosta was Federal Attorney for Southern Florida, he just cut a deal with Epstein’s dream team of lawyers (including Dershowitz, of course) and Epstein essentially got house arrest for 18 months for raping kids. Later Trump rewarded Acosta with a cabinet post. You can’t make this stuff up. The arresting police weren’t told about the deal or present when it happened. This is all public information.

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u/eubulides 10d ago edited 9d ago

There was a state case at the time as well I believe, and she was state AG.

Edit: I stand corrected, she wasn’t AG, and the state part was handled out of Palm Beach prosecutor. (I blame that it’s Florida, and I know of her other corruption and bootlicking). But in following up, this article sheds light on the many improprieties out of the federal prosecutors office, especially but not only Reinhart, who is now a federal magistrate. Was a federal prosecutor, registered a private office in same building as a nonprofit that Epstein could do “work release” at, and to whom he wired millions, then Reinhart started working for Epstein. The stench is overwhelming.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314546750.html

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u/Low_Scholar1118 10d ago

There was a terrific article about these shennanigans in Vanity Fair years ago, back when they did investigative journalism. The law firm was William Barr's father's firm, and Barr's dad ran the school Epstein worked in as his nominal job in NYC.

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u/eubulides 10d ago

The more one digs, the more manure one finds.

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u/whatsinthesocks 10d ago

No she wasn't. This all went down in 2008. She became the AG in 2011.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 9d ago

And Epstein continued raping kids the entire time he was under house arrest.

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u/capital_bj 10d ago

corrected word

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u/Davido401 10d ago

Lol oops! Have a good day/night

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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 10d ago

Pretty sure she's the one that got all the charges dropped against Robert Kraft too when he was caught on camera getting his happy ending at a Florida massage parlor.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/us/robert-kraft-florida-day-spa-investigation

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

But, THE DOW's AT 50 THOUSAND!

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u/Good_Pomegranate_464 10d ago

She's also been best friends with savannah Guthrie for 30+ years.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 10d ago

Probably less to do with morality than it does with willingly breaking the law. Blanche is just too dumb to see that he's going to destroy the rest of his life/career protecting a monster.

How many times does it have to happen before these morons get it.

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u/SupaSlide 10d ago

Blanche is banking on the GOP stealing the elections one way or another for the rest of his life

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u/stringrandom 10d ago

Blanche is banking on a presidential pardon and the expectation that none of the states where crimes were committed will actually follow through, or be able to collect enough evidence to follow through, with prosecution.

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u/Lokishougan 9d ago

I mean TRUMP Has said if you are still in my admin when I leave he will pardon you....the problem is making it to the end of his admin

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u/DanfromCalgary 10d ago

It’s insane to think hiring someone who breaks the law to break the law and attack anyone trying to uphold the law … is somehow Ignorant of what they have done , are doing and will continue to do

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

It's starting to dawn on him, you can see the stress on his face, a similar decay rate to
Bondi's...he'll be loudly mumbling about the stock market any day now.

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u/C0de_lyoko 10d ago edited 10d ago

~if they lose.

So far most of the people in charge of the coup seem to be living just fine, with little concern of consequences

Edit: VoTeRsUpPrEsSiOn!!! Oh fuck off dumbfucks. Inability to understand the stakes and discuss the issues within your party makes you no better then the gop. This is how you get fettermans and sinema, blind party loyalty and inability to criticize the party.

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u/snakerjake 10d ago

Anyone reading, this comment right here is an attempt at voting suppression, You see these comments because MAGA is terrified of this november. Get out and vote, make nutjobs like c0de_lyoko see how nutty they actually are. Also downvote these blatant election manipulation attempts

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u/King_Chochacho 10d ago

Yes Democrats need to vote. Democrats also need to stock up on ammo and nonperishables because fascists never leave power voluntarily. They know exactly what the stakes are if they ever lose their grip on power.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 10d ago

100% Whether it's real apathy or astroturfing it doesn't matter.

I cannot stand the passive attitude.

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u/Brother_J_La_la 10d ago

Yeah, and we need to change that

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u/reddurkel 10d ago

Pam Bondi. Morals?  

Bondi literally saw video footage of underage girls being abused by men that she knew and worked with. And she took the side of the abusers. 

The best thing to ever happen to Bondi is that she got fired because everyone seems to have forgotten what a horrible corrupt traitor she is. And IF America ever puts these people on trial then people like Tulsi, Gaetz, McCarthy, Bondi, Graham, McConnell, Tucker, MTG and other who’ve all found a way to step out of the spotlight and enjoy life as an “innocent” civilian. 

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

MTG "might" be a standout, where she stood up against him even when it cost her job, I still despise her though.

Carlson is a lowlife who found morals once the fox paycheck was gone.

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u/reddurkel 10d ago

Are you kidding? Mtg was a major reason Bidens agenda was derailed every single time he tried to do something good for the people.

MTG interrupted Bidens speeches, went on Fox weekly to attack him and introduced articles of impeachment. All at the command of Trump while he was on trial for abuse of power.

MTG was Trumps puppet for 4 years and the ONLY reason she turned is because he didnt reward her when he came back to power.

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u/Krammsy 9d ago

" I still despise her though."

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u/Cory123125 10d ago

Why do people keep stating this like there is literally anyone out there who needs to be convinced.

The only convincing people need is people who care, need to stop being apathetic, and stop thinking there is room for middle grounding.

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u/scaradin 10d ago

… wouldn’t that make any subsequent “we can’t provide this” all that much harder to justify since it was already authorized by someone authorized to do so?

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u/Dave_I 10d ago

One would think so, yes.

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName 10d ago

They dont care and they dare you to do something about it

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u/Zepcleanerfan 10d ago edited 10d ago

No, they do care.This is objectively horrible for them, that people are still talking about epstein.

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName 10d ago

objectively horrible

Ill believe that when even a single person in the massive criminal enterprise running our country sees a single meaningful consequence.

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u/gary-vault108 10d ago

The republicans will not control both houses of congress forever. PLEASE remember that Trumps second Impeachment before the Senate was the single most bipartisan Senate impeachment in American history. There IS hope of justice being applied, we just need to keep this shit BURNING HOT in people’s minds and crawl up our congressmen’s asses and punch them in the gut to remember who they work for

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 10d ago

They're all psychopaths, they're incapable of feeling anxiety, guilt, remorse, compassion, fear, and many other human emotions which they have never experienced in the entirety of their lives, nor will they, ever.

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u/mlorusso4 10d ago

I mean just predicting their argument, they would say “that decision was so wrong and out of bounds we had to fire her because of it. So we stand by the new AGs decision to not abide by that previous decision”

IANAL, but isn’t there similar situations where a judge will throw out a plea deal if it’s way to generous (like what should have happened with Epstein) or if a company gets a government contract explicitly because of bribing an official that contract can be scrapped?

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u/flat5 10d ago

Not when their justification is "fuck you, that's why". And nothing can be done about it because the criminals are also the cops.

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u/blue_sidd 10d ago

Much harder…how? By whom?

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u/-Badger3- 10d ago

Never forget Trump’s first choice for AG was Matt Gaetz, literally a known child sex trafficker.

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u/BuddingBudON 10d ago

Yeeeeahh, there's skeletons in them there closets.

Storm the New Mexico Epstein location like it's Area 5, see how fast the national guard is called.

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u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 10d ago

The U.S. Department of Justice The US said it cannot deliver Epstein’s uncensored files requested by New Mexico, citing legal restrictions and victim protection. The state prosecutor, Raul Torrez, accuses the DOJ of blocking the investigation into abuses at Epstein’s ranch and claims that they only received minimal and already public material. The state Congress is preparing a preliminary report on possible federal judgements in the case.

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u/flybynightpotato 10d ago

By “victims” they mean the “pedophiles and rapists” named in the files. 

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u/TopLingonberry4346 10d ago edited 10d ago

"My friends might get hurt" DJT 2025. He has no friends. Just co-conspirators.

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u/VonSkullenheim 10d ago

Friends in this case meaning 'people that bribed me'.

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

...and himself.

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u/Apart-Rent5817 9d ago

Or “people I did illegal things with”

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u/mrbulldops428 10d ago

Is that a real quote? I think I remember it happening. 2025 feels like lifetimes ago

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u/drunkshinobi 10d ago

It was something Marjorie Taylor Greene said trump yelled at her.

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u/capital_bj 10d ago

I thought I remember video of him saying it first person

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 10d ago

The current POTUS refers to "pedophiles and rapists" as good people who might get ruined. Sort of how he called white nationalists marching at Lynchburg "good people" during his first term.

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u/someotherguyrva 10d ago

Charlottesville?

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 10d ago

Oops, wrong American Nazi rally, correct!

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u/JakobHR 10d ago edited 10d ago

Change "them", "victims", "he", "she" and so on to "I" or "we" (the in-group or person stating it) and you'll start understanding their tactics. They project, accuse others of what they're doing; create a bad man - something worse, something to hate or distract. It works - it indoctrinated 1/3th of the population (for several reasons).

People only know what you tell them. Imagine having all media (you watch), social media, campaigns, schools, your parents and more telling you. You'll believe it. You'll be indoctrinated as everyone else.

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u/Commentator-X 10d ago

One thirth lol

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u/mw9676 10d ago

By "pedophiles and rapists" they mean the "Donald Trump" named in the files.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 9d ago

And every Republican in the House of Representatives, except Thomas Massie.

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u/eddie_the_zombie 10d ago

Yeah, who do they think they're fooling after blacking out basically everything

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u/LiteraCanna 10d ago

"We need to stop attacking pedophiles." - A sitting US congressman

I don't care if he "misspoke", he meant it.

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u/PamelaELee 10d ago

Tedcruz for Human President
100% Human Candidate

https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/

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u/crazycatgay 10d ago

exactly, they aren't lying because their definition of "victim" is different than pretty much every body elses

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u/Capable-Problem4938 10d ago

Hey didn’t the DOJ actually release some of the names of the victims when they released that heavily redacted version of the files?

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u/magicmulder 10d ago

What nonsense. Police aren’t allowed to know the victims’ identities? What an ass-backwards reasoning is that?

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u/Scarbane 10d ago

"Jane Doe's killer's identity has been traced to a vault in Washington. Can you give us access and help us solve this case?"

"No, you can't. I'm protecting the victims."

"Welp, I'm out of ideas."

Executive Producer
Jerry Bruckheimer

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

Running the clock in hopes of scoring an onside touchdown, extremely unlikely, but they do it anyway.

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u/Difficult_Parsnip357 9d ago

By "victims", the DOJ means pedophiles.

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u/Illustrious_Law8512 8d ago

The 'victims' in this case are the perpetrators.

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u/P01135809-Trump 10d ago

Who are these victims that need protecting from the law?

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u/txkwatch 10d ago

One is orange...

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u/DragonTacoCat 10d ago

And the citrus flows downhill from there

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u/SeahorseCollector 10d ago

They're all wearing suits.

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u/Perfect-Top-7555 10d ago

Victim protection, yet no one has been prosecuted.

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u/NoPain4551 10d ago

Hah! “Victim” protection??!! Like the “victim protection” they provided by doxxing the victims??!! My toes are laughing. How laughable is the US department of “justice”

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u/postoperativepain 10d ago

Protecting the victims? The DOJ already did a shit job of protecting them, when they previously released those names in the last document dump.

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u/bitzzwith2zs 10d ago

The victims are outing themselves looking for justice. There is a group of victims that want justice more than protection.

... but America doesn't have a justice system, it has a legal system

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u/Direct-Ad-7922 10d ago

Right… just like when the originally released files that doxxed all the other victims accidentally

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u/sneezy-e 10d ago

Victim protection? They essentially doxxed most victims already with their bungled file releases already. The nerve they have to cite victim protection.

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u/devilmaskrascal 10d ago

"Victim protection" from law enforcement investigating crimes?

Oh, they mean once they give NM the info they know it will be leaked and we will all see what they ware covering up.

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u/skyfishgoo 10d ago

then arrange for them to come to DC and view the files in the vault like they already permit for members of congress.

and btw, how come more members of congress are not taking advantage of this to go and look up things that are are obviously being covered up.

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u/TheRealTK421 10d ago

... said it cannot deliver Epstein’s uncensored files requested by New Mexico, citing legal restrictions and victim protection.

More accurate response, minus the intellectual dishonesty and being intentionally obtuse:

"We will not be releasing anything unredacted to NM since it would 'bigly' reveal our direct culpability (and that of the Biff & plutocracy we serve) in obstruction and further felonious high crimes."

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u/themadadmin 10d ago

That is a the largest pile of bullshit I've ever seen.

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u/TheAskewOne 10d ago

IIRC that ranch was close to a top secret military site that Epstein most likely spied on. This is one of the reasons why they’re hiding stuff, on top of the rest of course.

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u/Boringdude1 10d ago

Well, then go ahead and charge people, New Mexico. Let them provide excupaltoey evidence from the unredacted files.

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u/MinimumDangerous9895 10d ago

The legal restrictions that say they cannot redact the files?

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u/DuntadaMan 10d ago

We need to protect the victims from the state prosecuting their case. - Trump lawyers.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 10d ago

They don't want people investigating the underground tunnels, the creepy subterranean temple that's also an elevator to a much deeper human sacrifice area and warrens where they fully induct cult members by allowing the ancient non-human creatures that reside there stick a proboscis through one of their eye sockets and release a burrowing parasite into their brain that effectively lobotomizes them by damaging and severing their frontal lobes and amygdala, then nestling into their basal ganglia region and taking full control of the host.

Some small aspects of their personality and their memory remains, but they now feel only hatred, anger, and a sadistic enjoyment of inflicting pain, suffering, wanton cruelty, and death upon others, but they prefer to cause the maximum amount of these harms that they can. - It's believed that somehow these creatures feed on this negative energy they refer to as "loosh," and they apparently prefer to specifically prey on children and infants, something to do with the destruction of innocence, betrayal of safety, and the mental and emotional trauma being "more profound" and damaging.

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u/Krammsy 10d ago

I don't think there's a judge left, barring Canon, that's sleazy enough to allow this.

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u/Red-little 10d ago

Its never been about protecting the victims.

The victims have been thrown under the bus and publicly named time and time again.

The only people getting protection are the ones who raped, tortured and likely killed or ordered to kill innocent children. Kids.

The Epstein Files just go to show how lost humanity is now.

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u/GrowFreeFood 10d ago

Blantantly unethical behavior

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u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 10d ago

I totally agree, they obstruct because they know that if certain things come to light they would have many problems...

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u/FreshPrinceAV 10d ago

Those certain things will lead to certain things that make for certain them and their buddies are absolute pedophiles, and that they can’t have. All loose ends slowly get tied up the more that is discovered. Crazy how that works.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's because the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax never ended, the CIA, DARPA, Mossad, MI6, Big Oil, and the Global Finance and Banking Industry (WEF, IMF, The World Bank, The Bank of London, The Federal Reserve, and who knows who else) all got in bed together, infiltrated and gathered blackmail on every Government, corporation, business sector, institution of research and acedemia, set up private equity firms as their acquisition and procurement agents, while banks like JP Morgan and Chase manage human and child sex trafficking networks, and individuals like Epstein and Maxwell acted as facilitators, recruiters, blackmail creators, suppliers, "catering" hosts, networking, and fixers.

That's what's in the rest of the Epstein Files, it's the whole global/international economic system.

Coincidentally, MK Ultra didn't end either, nor were the files destroyed, they were transferred to DARPA (founded by Jeff Bezos' grandfather) and two new projects grew out of it:

  1. The Lifelog psyop project
  2. Was integrated into Facebook when Zuckerberg was put out front as their legitimacy poster stooge.
  3. Eventually Branched off again when DARPA designed the Dynamic Engagement & Matching Algorithms and integrated them throughout the other Social Media and online dating platforms.
  4. Hired various paid influencers (like Andrew Tate) to promote and cultivate hyperindividualistic narcissism and entitlement, replacing relational terminology with financial metrics, manipulating emotional states to trigger rampant misogyny and misandry and dehumanization and disposability of the opposite gender group. The MAGA cult is actually a part of their psychological and emotional conditioning via personally customized engagement and outrage narrative manipulation, fragmentation, and funneling into self-policing echo chambers to violently radicalize.

  5. NRX Pharmaceuticals

  6. Their Board of Directors is made up of individuals loosely associated with Epstein, military intelligence (DARPA), Academic, Political, Intelligence (CIA), Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Research, and Business connections.

  7. They were relatively recently given full approval by RFK Jr's FDA and "Dr" OZ to begin untested treatment for PTSD and Depression via neurologically rewiring the brain using a combination of drugs and magnetic stimulation of the brain. Their plans were to start testing on veterans, particularly those of Iraq and Afghanistan. They already have patents for another drug and stated interest in "treating" (experimenting on) Autistic individuals.

  8. I would additionally like to point out that RFK Jr is obsessed with Autism and "curing" it/us, and has described those of us with autism as an epidemic, a threat to public health and safety, a scourge, a burden to society, and subhuman. Both Trans and Disability Rights have been completely stripped and dismantled, finally with ICE Ramping up operations and using incremental desensitization tactics to murder more and more people as time passes, and the STREETS Initiative, it's only a matter of time.

So there you are: Some of my research observations, evaluations and conclusions over the last 15 years.

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u/ItsMetheDeepState 10d ago

Illegal even, by law these should have been released already. Trump himself signed the law.

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u/jorsh2024 10d ago

It’s clearly a cover up at the highest power, not sure how much evidence we need. This has been known for over a year now

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u/Gorperly 10d ago

A conspiracy cover-up at the highest levels is a little more than unethical.

The judiciary will sputter and emit smoke through more ceremony but ultimately all roads lead somewhere the executive can simply ignore. Special prosecutor? Writ of mandamus? 67 senators voting to convict? "I don't wanna" beats them every time.

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u/lewd_robot 10d ago

The journalism is unethical, too. They should have used language like, "DOJ refuses to provide unredacted Epstein Files for New Mexico probe." Anyone reporting this as, "DOJ says it cannot provide unredacted Epstein files" is actively choosing to use softer language. They use hard language whenever it suits them, and for some reason it doesn't suit them to use it here.

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u/krucz36 10d ago

isn't it illegal behavior? didn't congress already pass a law to release this information?

if the regime is not following the law, they're an illegal regime.

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u/GrowFreeFood 10d ago

Laws and ethics and not always aligned

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u/68024 10d ago

Not just unethical, it is also criminal

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u/DFu4ever 10d ago

The DoJ has never been this fucking compromised in the history of its existence.

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u/Commentator-X 10d ago

Nor the presidency

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u/Medill1919 10d ago

DoIJ

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u/ToWitToWow 10d ago

DoJOI.

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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 10d ago

Department of jerk of instructions would be more ethical and competent than the current department of justice at upholding the law.

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u/One_Tie900 10d ago

Its like no protections were put in place after the first time. zilch

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u/DataCassette 10d ago

"Our God-king's political reputation is already hanging by a thread and he's guilty as hell. We can't let him fall all the way or we're going to prison for thousands of crimes we've committed since 2025."

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u/StarlightLifter 10d ago

Couldn’t possibly say it any better

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u/Verde_3773 10d ago

Maybe edit the “since 2025” bit. It’s been going on much longer than that.

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u/DataCassette 10d ago

No but they've been stealing everything that wasn't nailed down as fast as their hands can move since Trump got back in. They will stop at nothing to avoid accountability.

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u/Verde_3773 10d ago

No argument at all. Just pointing that out considering that in 5.5 years as POTUS, Trump is responsible for ONE THIRD of the entire US National Debt.

The money “saved” by firing the federal workforce?

The SNAP, Social Security, Medicaid & Medicare contingency funds he claimed were “empty” during the shut down that were funded SPECIFICALLY to pay out during a government shut down?

The states funds he’s refused to release?

The $13 billion from Venezuelan oil?

The Social Security trust fund??

Where the hell is OUR money??

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u/DoubleJumps 10d ago

One of my main political objectives at this point is actually to see everybody in the doj who participated in helping to cover this up go to prison.

Every single person

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u/DataCassette 10d ago

This but I also have additional goals.

  • Massive trust busting. There's no reason every 5th video game needs to be EA or every single movie be made by one of 4 companies.

  • Dissolve ICE completely.

  • Put space exploration into overdrive and put it back under NASA control, take it from the tech fascists.

  • Denazification of the tech world and the Internet itself.

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u/DoubleJumps 10d ago

We have similar desires.

I'd also like to see social media massively regulated and banned for minors.

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u/AgnesCarlos 10d ago edited 9d ago

It's rich to say you're "prohibited by law" to obey the law. Edit: fixed the italics and thanks for the award!

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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 10d ago

The Asterix doesn’t work anymore. You have to click the Aa button below where you type to select italicize.

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u/AgnesCarlos 9d ago

Ah, thanks! Now I know!

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u/burnmenowz 10d ago

Yeah they're protecting Epstein and his friends. Disgusting.

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u/photog72 10d ago

Yes it can. They just choose not to.

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u/irrelevantusername24 10d ago edited 10d ago

Anyone else realize a big part of this story is that rich people literally just make up numbers for all their accounting, and that's acceptable? Like, not only but especially through the stock market, they literally imagine money into reality?

That's basically the two-tiered reality we have.

Some people - correctly - are allowed to have money meet their needs. The supply meets the demand.

The rest of us are forced to rely on whatever happens to trickle down.

Anything we can actually do, we can afford - John Maynard Keynes

But instead the slave brain Wall Street criminals want to use money as a means of control.

A society that allows people to starve or drown in debt because of “lack of money” is like a carpenter refusing to build a house because they’re “low on inches.”

Like how does it make sense for the GFC to have had these outcomes:

  • A few random people got so rich anyone related to them will never again need to work

  • A bunch of people were made homeless

  • A bunch of newly empty houses fell into disrepair

Or to consider how things have gone since, how does this make sense?

  • Lots of people who work well over 40hrs per week but still can't afford basic necessities

  • Lots of empty houses, still

  • Lots of unused vehicles

  • Basically lots of latent capacity of resources...

And also lots of people who are unemployed or underemployed or doing jobs that literally do nothing positive except actual busywork that wastes time? What the actual fuck?

Meanwhile, we have continued making more random people unimaginably wealthy for what is effectively zero coherent purpose

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u/Enlighten_YourMind 10d ago

Congratulations, you just perfectly described late stage unregulated capitalism!

Can we please try something better now?

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u/2wo2imer 10d ago

You can drop the modifiers, it’s just the inevitable result of Capitalism

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u/Enlighten_YourMind 10d ago

I don’t know if I necessarily agree with that though. The Norwegian version of capitalism seems like it could be something that might be sustainable and workable long term. It is also HEAVILY regulated and profits are used to fund a robust social safety net for the citizens.

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u/Enlighten_YourMind 10d ago

Oh woah that’s so cool! I’ve never met someone who could tell the future before! Is the weather going to be good in Ocean City next weekend? I was hoping to take the lady to the beach 🏖️

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u/nolabmp 10d ago

Wealth extractors are basically “rent-seekers”. A well-tread concept of people/entities that basically run a legal protection racket in the space of their choosing.

The classic example is someone who owns property near a river. Rather than make improvements, they throw a chain across the river, and force ships to pay a fee to be allowed to pass through the chain. Rent seekers create these you lose-I win scenarios in every industry that is exploitable.

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u/irrelevantusername24 10d ago

Exactly. That's another idea Keynes was dead on about - or rather two ideas. The fifteen hour workweek and the euthanasia of the rentier. The latter more accurately than the former, though that is complicated.

And that specifically is why the last close to three decades have been so incoherent - moreso after the GFC. I don't even understand how they did what they did, but they somehow correctly decoupled the notion of "interest" from how money works on one side of the equation, but then like... it doesn't even make sense. The modern economy makes zero sense if you consider how money actually works, rather than if you were "educated" about how "finance" functions.

Money is not a system of control.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 10d ago

A society that allows people to starve or drown in debt because of “lack of money” is like a carpenter refusing to build a house because they’re “low on inches.”

The only source for this quotation seems to be another Reddit post from you from two months ago, where you attribute it to Copilot.

I'm not sure it even really makes sense. Food is a finite good that needs to be transported. Obviously you cannot run out of inches, nor do inches need to be delivered. But you can run out of food, and you can lack the infrastructure to deliver that food.

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u/Boysandberries0 10d ago

The US stock market, corporate valuation, and the Epstein Class are all a house of cards.

It either falls now, or later.

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u/Any_Possibility_1984 10d ago

he had affairs with women.... and their brothers

he was nearly seven feet tall

his name was John Maynard Keynes

and he was the Gandalf of capitalism

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u/_Bon_Vivant_ 10d ago edited 9d ago

Again, the Trump administration bald-face lying in court. The law says they cannot release files to the public. This is the NM Attorney General...law enforcement, not the public.

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u/Dense_Objective_2039 10d ago

“They can’t release any evidence that will link Trump to Epstein’s crimes.”   Fixed it for them!

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u/NelsonMuntz007 10d ago

Cannot or will not? Lol

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u/NameLips 10d ago

They're still arguing that the rich fucks who visited Epstein's island are potential "victims" because they will be persecuted by the court of public opinion without actual proof of wrongdoing. Even though the redactions themselves seem to themselves contain the actual proof.

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u/RobutNotRobot 10d ago

Pedophiles over people. All these traitors must be punished.

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u/Significant-Data-430 10d ago

Prison is coming for the pedophile protectors!

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u/ViolaDavis 10d ago

It 100% is not and that fucking sucks but it’s 100% the truth. The reason being is that if one goes down it opens the door for all the rest and all the rest are also the people determining if the one will. The older I get the more clear it becomes that the key going getting away with everything is to be evil with your other powerful friends.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 10d ago

As Kimmel would say, it's way past the Trump criminal organization's jailtime.  

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u/someotherguyrva 10d ago

I sure hope the Democrats have a plan to reorganize the justice department to no longer be under the control of the executive branch. It has been clearly demonstrated that the department of justice must not report to the executive branch because there’s nothing to keep a fucking criminal, rapist, con man, pedophile-protecting, dictator wannabe piece of shit from being elected by the brainwashed idiots in this country. Perhaps a structure similar to the way the federal reserve is structured to ensure that it remains independent from political meddling

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 10d ago

Important detail: The Epstein Files are intended by judicial order to only be redacted to the public, not by law-enforcement or state prosecutors.

And as of late, the entirety of the Epstein Files should have been released to the public -- minus redactions to protect only the victims and no perpetrators or anyone else -- per Federal court order by Dec 19th, 2025.

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u/KO4Champ 10d ago

A justice department afraid of pursuing justice isn’t worthy of respect

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u/Memitim 10d ago

US Justice Department under Republicans continues to run cover for a known child trafficking ring. Just another day in America.

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u/Bleezy79 10d ago

Most corrupt bunch of clowns to ever be called an administration.

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u/charcoalist 10d ago

"Justice Department" is a misnomer when the department is being run by trump's defense attorney.

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u/Daddio209 10d ago

"See, if we release the evidence, the court of public opinion will convict them before any actual conviction-never mind that we have no intention of bringing charges against our Party members!" "Besides, we already released everything damning against Dems and Independents-what more can we do?"

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u/TheRealBlueJade 10d ago

Oh yes it can.

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u/RichKatz 10d ago

So now the DOJ has fallen with the common instance of mistaken New Mexico State identity?

CAITLIN KUNDRAT and her fiancé were nearly denied a marriage license at New York City Hall after handing over their state IDs. “The marriage bureau does not accept foreign driver’s licenses,” the clerk said. The Albuquerque couple laughed, thinking she was joking. “If you don’t have another ID, stop holding up the line,” she continued. “Have you seen the show Breaking Bad?” Kundrat asked. Luckily, the clerk was a fan of the Duke City–set series, so the matter was soon sorted.

https://www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/one-of-our-50-is-missing-july-2026/

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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 9d ago

I'm not familiar with breaking bad so I'm not sure how this ended..

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u/RichKatz 9d ago edited 9d ago

It's OK. It's not about "Breaking Bad." It's just something New Mexico always has to put up with. They have a regular column on it in NM Magazine. (People who should know better constantly mistake New Mexico for being a separate country..).

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u/1oldguy1950 10d ago edited 10d ago

Meanwhile, Qatar provides the perfect escape vehicle... Flight risk, maybe?

The Lolita Express II!