Ranking Member Raskin Releases New Information on Trump DOJ’s Decision to Kill Investigation Into Epstein’s Co-Conspirators and Demands Answers from AG Bondi

Washington, D.C. (November 4, 2025)—Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding to know why the Trump Administration abruptly terminated a criminal investigation into the co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The DOJ decision to end the investigation shielded a network of powerful individuals accused of enabling and engaging in the massive billion-dollar sex trafficking operation, while rejecting the courage and reports of the survivors who assisted federal investigators in their pursuit of justice and accountability. 

“Why would the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) kill an ongoing criminal investigation into a massive and decades-long criminal sex trafficking ring that preyed on girls and young women? Who exactly are you intending to protect by this action?” wrote Ranking Member Raskin. 

Until January 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) was conducting an active investigation into Epstein and Maxwell’s co-conspirators. Raskin’s letter contains previously unreleased details shared by counsel for Epstein survivors who provided the key evidence enabling the successful prosecution of Maxwell. 

“Nearly 50 survivors of this criminal conduct provided information to SDNY prosecutors and FBI agents as part of the investigation. The information provided by this huge group of women was precise and detailed: they described how Mr. Epstein, Ms. Maxwell, and their co-conspirators orchestrated a sophisticated and clandestine sex trafficking conspiracy that trafficked them to at least 20 men. These survivors shared with the DOJ and FBI the specific identities of many of these co-conspirators, how this operation was structured and financed, and which individuals facilitated these crimes. Many of these women spoke with federal prosecutors and agents more than once over an extended time-period in meetings that were on the record and memorialized in FBI Form 302s,” wrote Ranking Member Raskin.

Any effort to pursue these credible leads appears to have been completely halted when Trump came into office.

In January, SDNY prosecutors were ordered to transfer the Epstein case files to DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. Neither the survivors nor the SDNY prosecutors knew that the purpose of this transfer was to terminate the case. 

Since January, according to information provided to the Committee from counsel for some of the Epstein survivors, the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased and no further investigative steps appear to have been taken. 

The DOJ and FBI formally closed the case in July 2025, abruptly issuing a memo that stated, without any supporting details, that they “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

In an attempt to justify his failure to investigate Mr. Epstein’s co-conspirators, FBI Director Kash Patel repeatedly and baselessly undermined the credibility of the Epstein survivors at a Judiciary Committee hearing in September. DOJ previously relied on the testimony of several of these same women to convict Ghislaine Maxwell. 

Ranking Member Raskin requested the DOJ provide all documents and information pertaining to its investigation into Epstein and Maxwell’s sex trafficking ring. Given the Trump DOJ’s failure to protect and inform survivors, the Committee is considering reforms to the Crime Victims Rights Act, which would be informed by this requested information.

Click here to read the letter.