Epstein 'client list' doesn't exist, Justice Department says, walking back theory Bondi had promoted

The Justice Department will not release more files related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. A Justice Department memo released Monday says there is no evidence Epstein maintained a “client list." It represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration itself had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was “sitting on my desk” in preparation for release. Bondi for weeks had suggested that more evidence was going to be revealed, saying in one interview: “It’s a new administration and everything is going to come out to the public."