Attorney General Pam Bondi admitted that she was trying to release information about Jeffrey Epstein that was already "publicly available."
In a court filing on Tuesday, Bondi pushed U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman to unseal Epstein grand jury materials following outrage by President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters. Bondi also sought sealed materials from the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Epstein's.
"The enclosed, annotated transcripts show that much of the information provided during the course of the grand jury testimony—with the exception of the identities of certain victims and witnesses—was made publicly available at trial or has otherwise been publicly reported through the public statements of victims and witnesses," Bondi wrote.
The letter noted that some information from Maxwell's case was not publicly available. The attorney general also insisted that the Department of Justice was making efforts to notify victims of the potential release of grand jury materials.
"[T]he Government has provided notice of the unsealing motions to all but one of the victims who are referenced in the grand jury transcripts at issue in the motions," Bondi said. "The Government still has been unable to contact that remaining victim. With respect to victims who are not identified in the grand jury transcripts but who have previously received victim notifications in the Maxwell and Epstein matters, the Government will over the coming days alert those victims to the fact of the unsealing motions."