The Department of Justice released additional records Tuesday as part of its latest Jeffrey Epstein document disclosure, including the federal arrest warrant that led to his 2019 detention in New York.
The warrant, issued July 2, 2019, ordered law enforcement to arrest Epstein on charges of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of minors, according to the document filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York .
The filing lists violations of Title 18, U.S. Code Sections 371 and 1591, which cover conspiracy and sex trafficking involving minors. The warrant was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses and stemmed from a federal indictment unsealed that same day.
Epstein, a financier with powerful political and social connections, was arrested shortly after the warrant was issued. He died in a Manhattan federal detention facility weeks later while awaiting trial, a death ruled a suicide.
Newly released files related to Jeffery Epstein show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, allegedly asked Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell whether she had found him "new inappropriate friends" in an email sent while he was staying at the royal family’s Balmoral estate.
In the latest document release by the Department of Justice, the Aug. 16, 2001 email states, "I am up here at Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family," according to the BBC, referring to the royal family’s private Scottish estate.
"Activities take place all day and I am totally exhausted at the end of each day. The Girls are completely shattered and I will have to give them an early night today as it is getting tiring splitting them up all the time!"
The email, traced to an account labeled "The Invisible Man" and signed "A," was sent five months after the Duke of York was accused of sexually assaulting 17-year-old Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre inside Maxwell’s London residence. The message then pivots to a request.
"How’s LA?" the message continues. "Have you found me some new inappropriate friends? Let me know when you are coming over as I am free from 25th August until 2nd Sept and want to go somewhere hot and sunny with some fun people before having to put my nose firmly to the grindstone for the Fall. Any ideas gratefully received!"
Maxwell replied within hours, appearing to dismiss the request.
"So sorry to dissapoint [sic] you, however the truth must be told. I have only been able to find appropriate friends. Will let you know about some church meetings on those dates," she wrote.
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The Department of Justice said Tuesday that an alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar which surfaced as part of a document release is not authentic.
In a statement posted on X, the DOJ said the FBI determined the letter was fake after it was flagged by jail officials at the time it was received.
According to the DOJ, investigators found multiple inconsistencies that ruled out Epstein as the author. The handwriting did not match Epstein’s, the letter was postmarked three days after Epstein’s death, and it originated from Northern Virginia while Epstein was being held in a New York jail.
Officials also noted the return address did not list the detention facility where Epstein was incarcerated or include his inmate number, which are required for outgoing inmate mail.
“Just because a document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual,” the department said, adding it will continue releasing records.
{{#rendered}}Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Tuesday demanded transparency from the Department of Justice regarding 10 possible Epstein co-conspirators that were mentioned in the latest document dump.
“Buried in the Epstein files is an email disclosing the Department of Justice was looking into at least ten potential Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirators,” Schumer said in a statement. "The Department of Justice needs to shed more light on who was on the list, how they were involved, and why they chose not to prosecute. Protecting possible co-conspirators is not the transparency the American people and Congress are demanding.”
Schumer was referring to July 2019 emails released Tuesday as part of the DOJ’s latest Epstein file dump, in which investigators discuss 10 alleged co-conspirators.
One email states that three alleged co-conspirators were located in Florida and served grand jury subpoenas. Three others located in Boston, New York and Connecticut were also served subpoenas.
Investigators said four others remained outstanding at the time of the email. One of these individuals was described in the email as a “wealthy businessman in Ohio,” while it was said the three others “are currently out of pocket.”
Schumer said in a separate post on X that the tens of thousands of files the DOJ has released so far “shed no light” on who the co-conspirators are, leaving “more questions than answers.”
“Who are these 10 co-conspirators? Why haven’t we seen those memos? Where are the grand jury records? Where are the FBI records? What are they hiding?” Schumer wrote.
New documents released in the latest batch of Epstein files show that prosecutors struggled to process more than 1 million documents related to the case.
In an email correspondence from February 2020 to March 2020, an assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York expressed frustration in trying to sift through the documents, which included electronic data from hard drives and devices.
“Notwithstanding their many promises to us about quick and effective processing of the 60+ devices they seized, the FBI is completely f------ us on this,” one email read.
Prosecutors explicitly warned that processing the documents would be a “total disaster” without an organizational system in place.
“We have also encountered some very significant problems in trying to review the more than 1 million documents we recently received,” another email stated.
According to the emails, prosecutors couldn’t tell which devices had been fully or partially processed, which files came from which devices and whether they had received duplicates or new material.
Other issues included emails separated from attachments, load files not linked to native files, mismatched control numbers and image files largely missing, according to the emails. There was also confusion about the descriptions of seized items on a spreadsheet not matching the items on the Epstein search warrants.
The latest documents include a fake passport Jeffrey Epstein apparently used in the 1980s.
The passport appeared to be issued from Austria, with Epstein going by the name “Marius Robert Fortelni.” It listed Saudi Arabia as his place of residence.
In a 2019 letter to a federal judge over his detention on sex trafficking charges, Epstein’s lawyers justified Epstein’s use of a false identity.
“Eighth, as for the Austrian passport the government trumpets, it expired 32 years ago,” his attorneys said in the letter. “And the government offers nothing to suggest – and certainly no evidence – that Epstein ever used it.”
“In any case, Epstein – an affluent member of the Jewish faith – acquired the passport in the 1980s, when hijackings were prevalent, in connection to Middle East travel,” the letter continued. “The passport was for personal protection in the event of travel to dangerous areas, only to be presented to potential kidnapers, hijackers or terrorists should violent episodes occur.”
Fox News' Bill Mears contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}A jail sign calling for mandatory rounds on Jeffrey Epstein every 30 minutes at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City was defaced, according to documents released by the Department of Justice.
A photograph of an undated sign on orange paper read, “MANADATORY ROUNDS MUST BE CONDUCTED EVERY 30 MINUTES ON EPSTEIN #76318-054 AS PER GOD!!!!”
The sign was pictured with the word “mandatory” misspelled and underlined with a red ink pen, and a question mark was added after it. It was signed “God.”
The sign was hung in the Special Housing Unit where Epstein was being held, according to the documents.
The Epstein file dump includes a 2021 subpoena sent to Mar-a-Lago seeking records in the ongoing case against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted of sex trafficking and is in federal prison.
The document, dated Oct. 5, 2021, called for the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, to testify and give evidence in United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, 20 Cr. 330 (AJN).
It demanded “any and all employment records relating to” a subject whose name was redacted in the document.
President Donald Trump owns the Mar-a-Lago Club.
The subpoena was signed by then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, and an assistant U.S. attorney whose name was redacted.
Fox News' Bill Mears contributed to this report.
A 2020 memo from a federal prosecutor states that President Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane at least eight times in the mid-1990s.
The memo states that some of these flights happened “during the period we would expect to charge in a [Ghislaine] Maxwell case.”
“In particular, he is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present,” the memo reads.
Trump was listed as having traveled with his then-wife Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric, according to the memo.
It states that on one flight in 1993, Trump and Epstein were the only two listed passengers. On another, the only three passengers were listed as Epstein, Trump and a then-20-year-old whose name was redacted in the released document.
Two passengers present on two other flights, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case, the memo stated.
The name of the federal prosecutor who wrote the memo is redacted from the document.
{{#rendered}}The Department of Justice on Tuesday released a new tranche of nearly 30,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ wrote in a post on X. “To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
The DOJ said is releasing the files out of a “commitment to the law and transparency.”
It added that the documents were released with the legally required protections for the victims of Epstein.
To access the latest Epstein files the DOJ has released, click here.
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