{"id":21397,"date":"2026-02-09T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21397"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:52:11","slug":"fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasnt-running-a-sex-trafficking-ring-for-powerful-men-files-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21397","title":{"rendered":"FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn\u2019t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;No videos or photos showed Epstein victims being sexually abused, none showed any males with any of the nude females, and none contained evidence implicating anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey wrote in an email for FBI officials last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had they existed, the government \u201cwould have pursued any leads they generated,\u201d Comey wrote. \u201cWe did not, however, locate any such videos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators who scoured Epstein\u2019s bank records found payments to more than 25 women who appeared to be models \u2014 but no evidence that he was engaged in prostituting women to other men, prosecutors wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasn-153019688.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasn-153019688.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No videos or photos showed Epstein victims being sexually abused, none showed any males with any of the nude females, and none contained evidence implicating anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey wrote in an email for FBI officials last year.<\/p>\n<p>Had they existed, the government \u201cwould have pursued any leads they generated,\u201d Comey wrote. \u201cWe did not, however, locate any such videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators who scoured Epstein\u2019s bank records found payments to more than 25 women who appeared to be models \u2014 but no evidence that he was engaged in prostituting women to other men, prosecutors wrote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasn-153019688.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,33],"class_list":["post-21397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-fbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21398,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21397\/revisions\/21398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}