Katie Phang accused Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of withholding foreign-language Epstein records that may contain crucial evidence linking members of the trafficking network and potentially supporting new charges against Ghislaine Maxwell. Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Blanche to begin reviewing and producing those records under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but the Justice Department missed the deadline and claimed the review was not practical. Phang blasted that excuse, arguing that Blanche was already months behind and that the unseen documents could be “huge keys” to identifying connections among alleged sexual predators.


Phang said the urgency was underscored by the death of Daniel Siad, who was under investigation in France for allegedly helping run Epstein’s international trafficking operation but died before French authorities ever questioned him. She argued that Maxwell could still be prosecuted in France because her U.S. conviction only covered crimes within the Southern District of New York. Phang also contrasted Blanche’s treatment of Maxwell with his treatment of survivors: he interviewed Maxwell for nine hours over two days, survivors reportedly received only 90 minutes after waiting more than a year, and Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp one week later. Siad’s death, following Jean-Luc Brunel’s death in custody, meant another potentially important source of information disappeared before investigators could obtain answers.


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