Twelve victims of millionaire Jeffrey Epstein file suit against the FBI in which they claim that the agency did not adequately investigate the accusations against the alleged sexual offender. According to them, the office had received important evidence that They linked the magnate to women trafficking in 1996.
The complainants are represented anonymously in court documents under the name “Jane Does“. In it, they affirm that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States”did not adequately investigate the abuse“and ignored the sexual interest of Epstein by underage girls.
Epstein victims’ lawsuit against the FBI
The lawsuit, which was filed this Wednesday in a court in Southern District of New Yorksays that he FBI for more than 20 years”allowed Jeffrey Epstein to traffic and sexually abuse dozens of girls and young women“.
The truth is that after receiving the supposed evidence, the FBI would have ignored it and only in 2006 They informed federal forces about the information obtained.
In that context, the lawsuit claims that, between 1996 and 2006, the FBI received with “gross negligence“Continuous reports, complaints and leads about sexual trafficking of women and minors, sexual abuse and human rights violations committed by Epstein and company.
According to the document, this conduct led “in the continued sexual abuse of Jane Does 1-12 at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein“. For that reason, the plaintiffs request a compensation for damages to the US government.
Epstein case: the moment in which the lawsuit is made
The lawsuit comes after the disclosure of court documents that came to light last month. In it, they identified the people related to Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwellincluding former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, who have not been linked to the case.
Maxwell and Epstein were a couple in the early 1990s before becoming partners in sex crimes for nearly three decades. Epstein was accused of raping girls and committed suicide in a New York prison in August 2019.. For his part, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.
Source: Ambito
