FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Lawyer Common Pam Bondi reportedly had a heated change this week over how the administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein probe.
The disagreement included the alleged evaluation of the deceased pedophile’s supposed “shopper checklist” that Justice Division authorities say by no means existed.
The argument reportedly prompted Mr. Bongino to take Friday off and take into account resigning from the submit after lower than 4 months on the job, in keeping with a supply near the story.
“He’s depressing. He’s alone. His employees is sabotaging him,” commented one other supply, who expressed concern that if Mr. Bongino exits the bureau, it’s going to depart Director Kash Patel with no pleasant buffer and permit FBI administration to counsel a alternative of their selecting.
The Washington Occasions reached out to the Justice Division and the FBI for remark.
The Justice Division and FBI confronted criticism after the DOJ concluded its investigation into the scenario associated to Epstein’s demise on the Metropolitan Correctional Heart in New York on Aug. 10, 2019, weeks after being charged with intercourse trafficking ladies — a number of as younger as 14 years previous.
Nonetheless, Ms. Bondi’s division launched a two-page memo Monday saying {that a} “systematic evaluate” of proof mentioned that the 66-year-old financier died by suicide after affecting “over one thousand victims” and there was “no incriminating ’shopper checklist.’”
“There was additionally no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed distinguished people as a part of his actions,” the memo mentioned. “We didn’t uncover proof that might predicate an investigation towards uncharged third events.”
Ms. Bondi, throughout a Cupboard assembly on Tuesday, additionally mentioned she had “no data” of Epstein being an intelligence asset. She made the remark when requested if that was a potential cause for Epstein getting a slap-on-the-wrist plea deal in 2008 following earlier intercourse expenses involving minors.
When requested to sq. how the so-called “shopper checklist” didn’t exist when she appeared to speak about it throughout an interview on Fox Information, Ms. Bondi mentioned, “I used to be requested a query concerning the shopper checklist, and my response was, ’it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed,’ that means the [Epstein] file together with the JFK and MLK information as effectively.”
