Bondi Has Been Failing Epstein’s Victims for Years
She built her brand on protecting survivors. But when it came to Florida’s most notorious sex criminal, she looked the other way.
A little less talk, a lot more action.
Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesAttorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to withhold the Department of Justice’s records on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein may have put her in the crosshairs of the MAGA universe this month, but Bondi dropped the ball on investigating Epstein and his sex trafficking co-conspirators long ago.
As Florida’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019, Bondi was the state’s top prosecutor as lawsuits piled up from Epstein’s victims challenging the secret plea deal that state and federal officials negotiated in 2008. The prosecutors not only allowed Epstein and four of his co-conspirators to be immunized from further prosecution for sexually exploiting women and girls, courts concluded they also illegally hid the agreement from the victims so they couldn’t protest the deal in court.