Late Friday, the justice department’s number three official, Stanley Woodward, gave notice he will join the case. “They really, really don’t want these documents released,” tweeted Brendan Ballou, a lawyer for the Public Integrity Project, who is representing Phang.

Alleged Epstein victims and supporters want Blanche, the president’s former personal attorney, to explain why about 2.5m other records of unknown importance were deemed “duplicative” or legally protected by Blanche and never released.

“It should not be Jane Doe 4’s responsibility to keep coming forward,” Sky Roberts, the brother of deceased Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who has become a leading victims advocate, told the Guardian.

“She’s already given her testimony to the FBI. It should be Justice’s responsibility to take that evidence and press forward,” he said.

Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order to comply with the Epstein Transparency Act was “a real win” for victims, former prosecutor and legal commentator Joyce Vance wrote on Substack.

The handling of Jane Doe 4’s case file has been controversial since the justice department rushed to comply with a law passed by Congress in November, and signed into law by Trump, requiring release of all documents related to Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein died in jail in an apparent suicide in August, 2019, and Maxwell is serving 20 years at a minimum-security prison in Texas, where she was transferred after two interviews with Blanche.

Blanche was in charge of compliance, according to answers the fired attorney general Pam Bondi gave to the House oversight committee. He directed a hastily assembled team of 500 reviewers and led decisions about document handling.

In several waves, the justice department uploaded more than 3m documents into a database that was fraught with problems. Victim names were exposed, as well as compromising photographs, and the justice department promised to correct mistakes. Retracted without explanation were potential co-conspirators and names of friends who wrote to Epstein about young women.

In several waves, the justice department uploaded more than 3m documents into a database that was fraught with problems. Victim names were exposed, as well as compromising photographs, and the justice department promised to correct mistakes. Retracted without explanation were potential co-conspirators and names of friends who wrote to Epstein about young women.

A huge document release in January included the formal FBI “302” report of one Jane Doe 4 interview, along with a numerical identifier for her case. She had called into the FBI’s Epstein hotline after his arrest in July 2019, and the agency deemed her account worthy of further investigation. Around the same time, the woman’s confidante called into the hotline separately to report what she knew about Jane Doe 4.

Journalists at NPR and elsewhere used the woman’s case file number to discover other missing records. Under pressure, the justice department in March released three additional interviews with Jane Doe 4, which included her fuzzy memory of an alleged 1980s encounter with Trump after she said Epstein introduced her in New York or New Jersey.

The justice department still has not released handwritten interview notes from the sessions with Jane Doe 4.

Only reporters from The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, have reviewed the notes, citing an unnamed source. The agent’s scribbles include names of a few high school friends who might be able to verify some aspects of Jane Doe 4’s account, but not the alleged incident with Trump, the news outlet reported.

The transparency law gives few reasons for withholding documents and forbids keeping them from being withheld “on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity”.

The FBI never brought charges against any individual in connection to Jane Doe 4’s allegations and there is no indication the FBI investigated Jane Doe 4’s claims after concluding its interviews in August 2019, when Trump was serving his first term as president. The woman cut off her FBI contact, telling agents she believed she was being followed, according to the FBI report of the final interview.

Her relative declined to disclose her current whereabouts.

The attorney who represented her during two FBI interviews said he never received follow-up calls from the two female agents or copies of their 302 reports, which he said are usually provided to defense counsel. The Guardian is not naming the attorney, who practices in a small family firm, or his location to protect the alleged victim’s identity.

The attorney said his mission was protecting his client against possible criminal charges as she answered FBI questions about referring friends to a man she knew only as “Jeff”, who she said was visiting a luxury property near her family’s home in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The woman told agents she told a few friends on the beach about an older man who could supply drugs and liquor.

In 2020, a Jane Doe joined a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate with allegations and biographical details that match those in the FBI interviews. She later dropped her claims.

In March, oversight committee members questioned Epstein’s accountant and lawyer, who are co-administrators of Epstein’s estate, about any payment to the alleged victim directly from the estate. The woman’s claim with a special fund for Epstein victims was denied, but one of her attorneys told the Post and Courier she had received a settlement from the estate.

Accountant Richard Kahn at first acknowledged a settlement, then after conferring with his attorney, said he could neither confirm nor deny any payment.

Blanche faces what are expected to be contentious confirmation hearings later this summer before the Senate judiciary committee.

>>1522158
Reminds me of remarks Tara Reade made about her sexual abuse at the hands of Joe Biden

>>1522212
oh, you mean the woman who fled to russia "for some reason"?

>>1522214
When Rosie O Donnel moves away from America when Trump is President well that's just a rational response
When Tara Reade moves away from America when Biden is president she must be an agent for some foreign power

Seriously. How many celebrities and government employees fled the country when Trump became president in 2025?

>>1522216
when a woman caught in an obvious lie defects to russia, esl shills cheer her on

quick, make a new thread about transgender sports!

>>1522158
When the most powerful man on the planet has it out for you, damn straight you'd be scared of retaliation. He doesn't even have to lift a finger because his cultists will do the job for him.

>crazy bitch makes unprovable claims that something happened 40+ years ago
>but because it's anti-trump that makes it news
okay
once his term ends lets see how many new claims come out since he won't be in power any more

it's crazy that people really defend pedophiles on the internet for pocket change

>>1522269
They do it for free.

>>1522270
i refuse to believe anyone would lead a life so debased

>>1522267
With any luck he'll be dead by then.

Biden's DoJ had four years to do something about this. They dropped it.

There is nothing there.

>>1522290
He spent his entire term going on and on about "unity" and trying to meet in the middle with conservatives. The supreme court was already majority conservative and overturning things like Roe v Wade. The Republicans had a slight majority in the Senate for the entirety of his term and then took the majority for the House in 2022. Biden probably knew that if his DoJ tried anything with less than incredibly open-and-shut damning evidence, it would just get shot down by partisan protection. And I think he's been proven correct by the reactions and treatment of the Epstein files and corruption cases we've seen. Pretty much no one breaks ranks to vote on the actual ethics of a thing.

>>1522214
this tRump accuser needs to flee to Israel or Russia, as these 2 countries have the video of her being raped.

they will keep her well guarded as she is a corroborating witness to go along with the video