Jeffrey Epstein victims plan to sue FBI for $600 million for failing to investigate past reports of sexual abuse.
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Jeffrey Epstein victims plan to sue FBI for $600M for failing to investigate past reports of sexual abuse
Women abused in their youth by prolific predator Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday demanded $600 million from the FBI for allegedly failing to investigate the now-dead financier in the decades before his arrest.
Representing all Epstein victims, Maria Farmer and Sarah Ransome filed a notice of claim to the FBI last week, a prerequisite to suing a federal agency.
“Had the FBI done its job, hundreds of Epstein’s sex trafficking victims would have been spared, over the course of 25 years,” Jennifer Freeman, a lawyer representing Epstein victims, said at a virtual press conference.
Freeman said minimal intervention by law enforcement decades ago could have prevented untold harm and that the legal action chiefly aims to address how Epstein got away with his depravity as long as he did.
It demands answers as to why law enforcement allegedly failed to investigate Farmer and Ransome’s claims after they first reported him — and dozens of times after.
“We are seeking answers and accountability about the FBI’s failure to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly a quarter of a century,” Freeman said.
Maria Farmer, the first known person to contact law enforcement about Epstein’s sexual abuse in 1996, said she met the deceased financier and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell after graduating from the New York Academy of Art when they pledged to support her artistic career.
In various legal matters, Farmer has said the pair violently sexually assaulted her at the Ohio estate of Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner. Her sister, Annie Farmer, was one of four victims to testify about being abused at Maxwell’s trial, which ended in her December 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence.
“The FBI was well aware of this because I told them. The FBI didn’t care about my 1996 report,” Farmer said. “They were dismissive.”
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