00:00Director Patel, I watched some of your Senate hearing yesterday when Senator
00:04Kennedy asked you, you've seen most of the files, who if anyone did Epstein
00:09traffic these women to besides himself? You replied, according to the transcript,
00:14there is no credible information that he trafficked them to anyone else. You also
00:19said somewhere in the hearing and here today that the problem is that the case
00:23files are constrained by limited search warrants from 2006 to 2007 and that the
00:28non-prosecution agreement, hamstrung future investigations. Those constraints only
00:34apply to Southern District of Florida. They do not apply to Southern District of
00:38New York, the location of the 2019 sex trafficking indictment, which produced
00:42many things, including a series of FD 302 documents. According to victims who
00:48cooperated with the FBI in that investigation, these documents in FBI
00:53possession, your possession, detail at least 20 men, including Mr. Jess Staley, CEO of
01:00Barclays Bank, who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked victims to. Victims including
01:05minors, such as Virginia Roberts, you free. May she rest in peace. That list also
01:12includes at least 19 other individuals, one Hollywood producer worth a few
01:17hundred million dollars, one royal prince, one high profile individual in the music
01:22industry, one very prominent banker, one high profile government official, one
01:27high profile former politician, one owner of a car company in Italy, one rock star,
01:32one magician, at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. We
01:38know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control. I don't know
01:43exactly who they are, but the FBI does. Have you launched any investigations into any
01:49of these people? And have you seen these 302 documents? Sir, I have asked my FBI agents to
01:58review the entirety of the Epstein files and bring forth any credible information. And we're working
02:03with Congress not only to divulge that information and produce it to you, but any investigations that
02:08arise from any credible investigation will be brought. There have been no new materials brought to
02:13me launching a new indictment. So is the loophole here or is it your assertion that these victims
02:21aren't credible, that the 302s maybe didn't produce credible statements that rise to a probable cause?
02:29It's not my assertion, sir. It's the assertion of two different United States Attorney's offices from
02:35three separate administrations who investigated those same materials in lifetime. The 302 documents
02:41in the FBI's possession? They reviewed all that, yes, sir. And so have you reviewed those 302 documents
02:47that where the victims name the people who victimized them? If I personally know, but the FBI has.
02:56So how can you sit here and in front of the Senate and say there are no names? I named one today.
03:04I said, we are not in the, we are not in the practice at the Department of Justice and FBI of
03:10releasing victims names. That is not what we do. We are also not in the habit of releasing incredible
03:16information. That's not what we do. But multiple authorities have looked at the entirety of what we
03:22have. Okay. I got to move on here. Were you present?
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