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New Court Filings Shock Washington!

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REVIEWING FBI/DOJ EPSTEIN RECORDS FOR POSSIBLE
RELEASE

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Judicial Watch filed a “joint status report
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on July 7 in federal court reporting that the Justice Department and
the FBI continue to search for and review records in response to our
FOIA lawsuit for records regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit requests any records on the identities of Epstein clients
or associates. The Justice Department’s disclosure is at odds with
the leaked, unsigned and undated Justice Department/FBI memo
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that suggests no
more Epstein records would be disclosed to the American public. The
memo was first disclosed late on July 6
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Judicial Watch sued
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the Justice
Department and FBI in April 2025 after they failed to adequately
respond to separate FOIA requests for records filed in February 2025
concerning Epstein, including a specific request for records
“depicting the identities of clients or associates of Epstein.”
Epstein document requests were sent to the Justice Department’s
Office of Information Policy, the Criminal Division, and two separate
requests were sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
(_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-01056)).

The joint status report states:

> Plaintiff Judicial Watch, Inc. and Defendant U.S. Department of
> Justice, by counsel and pursuant to the Court’s June 12, 2025,
> order, respectfully submit this joint status report:
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> (2)(3) the anticipated number of documents responsive to
> Plaintiff’s FOIA request, and the anticipated date(s) for release
> of the documents requested by Plaintiff

Federal Bureau of Investigation

* For 1662669-0 (any/all Epstein records), the FBI has run its
initial searches and is in the process of reviewing those search
results.
* For 1662711-0 (Communications of Director Patel’s regarding
Epstein client list), the FBI’s search efforts are ongoing.
* The FBI does not yet have an anticipated number of documents or
anticipated dates for release.

Executive Office of United States Attorneys

* EOUSA’s initial search efforts are ongoing.
* EOUSA does not yet have an anticipated number of documents or
anticipated dates for release.

Office of Information Policy

* OIP issued a final response to FOIA-2025-02863 on April 15, 2025,
informing Plaintiff that no responsive to its request were located.
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The government has yet to turn over one document, nor has it disclosed
when any documents might be released.

Our complaint references a February 24, 2025, Fox News report
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which states that President Trump’s “return to the Oval Office
came with the prospect of the public finally being able to see
Epstein's long-awaited ‘black book’ amid inquiries into the
deceased financier and sex trafficker.”

Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex
trafficking charges.

The Justice Department on February 27, 2025, released a long-awaited
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of documents related to Epstein. As stated by the _New York Post_:
“But the much-hyped, roughly 200-page document dump provided no big
revelations, instead listing celebrities and politicians who were
already known to have palled around with the notorious pedophile.”

But the recent Justice Department memo
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suggests there
will be no more public disclosures:

> To that end, while we have labored to provide the public with
> maximum information regarding Epstein and ensured examination of any
> evidence in the government’s possession, it is the determination
> of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
> that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.

The Justice Department and FBI are sending out contradictory messages:
telling the American people that no more Epstein material will be
released, while telling the federal court in our case that the Epstein
FOIA review is proceeding. But no matter, our FOIA lawsuit for the
Epstein material continues. We will be relentless in demanding
transparency under law.



JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR FBI RECORDS ON BIDEN SCHEME TO JAIL TRUMP

Judicial Watch is after the full truth of the Biden administration’s
abuse of our judicial system in its zeal to stop Donald Trump.

Our legal team filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for records about the FBI’s
investigation of Trump codenamed “Arctic Frost,” which was part of
an unprecedented effort by the Biden administration to prosecute and
jail President Trump for disputing Biden’s controversial election
victory (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-02011)).

Judicial Watch sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia after the FBI, a component of the Justice Department, failed
to respond to a January 30, 2025, FOIA request for:

> All reports, notes, summaries, interview transcripts, or similar
> records pertaining to the FBI investigation Arctic Frost.

In January 2025, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson
(R-WI) publicized records about the targeting of Trump
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> Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley
> and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, a
> former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was forced
> to retire
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> from the Bureau after Grassley exposed
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> his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for what
> ultimately became Jack Smith’s federal case against Trump
> regarding the 2020 presidential election. Records show Thibault
> essentially opened and approved his own investigation. The FBI
> titled the ensuing investigation “Arctic Frost.”

> Records further reveal Richard Pilger, an official in the Justice
> Department (DOJ)’s Public Integrity Section, reviewed and approved
> the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, authorizing DOJ to move
> forward with a full field criminal and Grand Jury investigation that
> ultimately transformed into the Trump elector case. Grassley
> published a 2021 report
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> that raised concerns regarding Pilger’s troubling record at DOJ.

Judicial Watch shouldn’t have to sue to get these records about
how the Biden gang at the FBI and DOJ tried to rig an election by
jailing Trump for disputing the 2020 election. Attorney General Bondi
and FBI Director Patel should focus on transparency under law so the
American people can know the full truth of this law attack on Trump
– and our constitutional republic.



JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR FBI RECORDS ON EPSTEIN VICTIM VIRGINIA GIUFFRE

Our Epstein investigation is expanding. Judicial Watch just filed a
FOIA lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for all interviews,
conversations and other records provided to the FIBI by Jeffrey
Epstein victim Virginia Louise Giuffre (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S.
Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-02191)).

We sued the FBI after it failed to respond to an April 26, 2025 FOIA
request for all records regarding:

> A deceased individual named Virginia Louise Giuffre, née Virginia
> Louise Roberts. For purposes of identification, Ms. Giuffre was born
> on August 9, 1983, in Sacramento, California and died on April 25,
> 2025, in Neergabby, Australia….
>
> This request includes, but is not limited to, all reports,
> transcripts, summaries, or similar records documenting any
> interviews of or other conversations with Ms. Giuffre, as well as
> all records she provided to the FBI. In addition, this request
> includes, but is not limited to, all records of communication
> between any official or employee of the FBI and any official or
> employee of any other federal, state, or local government agency or
> office regarding or mentioning Ms. Giuffre.

Giuffre reportedly
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committed suicide on April 25, 2025:

> Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent survivors of Jeffrey
> Epstein’s sexual abuse, has died by suicide, her family said
> Friday.
>
> Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living
> for several years.
>
> Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for
> criminal charges against Epstein and his enablers. Other Epstein
> abuse survivors later credited her with giving them the courage to
> speak out.

In 2015, Giuffre, who held U.S. citizenship at birth, was among the
first Epstein victims to go public
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She was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre reported years of
sexual abuse and alleged she was trafficked to prominent individuals,
including Prince Andrew
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of the United Kingdom. She filed a civil lawsuit
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against Prince Andrew, which was settled
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out of court in 2022 for an estimated £12 million (approximately $15
million).

Earlier this week, in our FOIA lawsuit
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for records
regarding Epstein, the Justice Department confirmed to a federal court
that it and the FBI continue to search
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for
and review records for potential disclosure (_Judicial Watch Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Justice_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-01056)).

Given the Justice Department and FBI’s decision to abandon the
Epstein investigation, we will step into the gap and provide
leadership. Our FOIA lawsuit for records about Epstein’s most
well-known victim is an important next step for accountability.



FEDERAL COURT HEARING IN LAWSUIT FOR JOE BIDEN’S FAMILY BUSINESS
RECORDS

Judicial Watch’s legal team was in court on July 8 for a hearing
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before U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in our FOIA lawsuit
against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
for Biden family records and communications regarding travel and
finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and
several known business associates.

Judicial Watch filed the May 2023 lawsuit
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after
the National Archives failed to respond to a February 2023 FOIA
request (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01432)).

This lawsuit forced the release of records
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revealing
emails sent by Joe Biden using alias accounts during his vice
presidency, in which he communicated with family members, including
his son Hunter and brother James. The records also showed that in
August 2016
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Biden approved ending Secret Service protection for both Hunter Biden
and Beau Biden’s daughter, Natalie, during a trip to Kosovo.

The emails included messages to Jim and Hunter Biden regarding the
then-vice president’s schedule and meetings. Some emails showed Joe
Biden using the alias: [email protected].

The emails also showed that Hunter and Jim Biden accompanied Joe Biden
on taxpayer-funded trips; and then-Vice President Biden in December
2009 emailing an aide after he forgot the password to his West Wing
computer.

The records showed that Hunter Biden used an email address
([email protected]) from his now-dissolved firm Rosemont
Seneca Partners and that James Biden used an email address
([email protected]) tied to his consulting firm Lion Hall, which
had been the subject
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of an FBI bribery investigation in the 1990s.

The lawsuit also forced the release of records
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showing then-Vice
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter received a May 26, 2016, email
detailing a scheduled “8:45 am prep for a 9 am phone call with Pres
Poroshenko,” who was the president of Ukraine. (Hunter Biden was on
the board of the controversial Ukrainian firm Burisma at the time.)

This lawsuit is an opportunity for the Trump team to stop the Deep
State’s slow-walking of the release of Biden family corruption
records.



A MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO UPHOLD THE FIRST AMENDMENT

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Judicial Watch’s petition challenging
a lower court decision against Kari MacRae, a Massachusetts high
school teacher who was fired in retaliation for social media posts,
which decried woke values such as critical race theory being taught in
schools.

The posts predated her employment at Hanover High School in
Massachusetts. We argued that the Supreme Court should take up the
case as the lower courts misapplied the First Amendment and Supreme
Court precedent.

MacRae was fired because she spoke out against critical race theory
before she was hired. The Supreme Court’s decision not to take up
her case is a missed opportunity to uphold the First Amendment.

Justice Clarence Thomas in a concurring opinion raised significant
concerns
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about what happened to MacRae:

> The First Circuit’s analysis strikes me as deeply flawed. To
> start, I do not see how the tone of MacRae’s posts can bear on the
> weight of her First Amendment interest. “Speech on matters of
> public concern is at the heart of the First Amendment’s
> protection.” … And, “[t]he inappropriate or controversial
> character of a statement is irrelevant to the question whether it
> deals with a matter of public concern.” … “[H]umor, satire,
> and even personal invective can make a point about a matter of
> public concern.”
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> It undermines core First Amendment values to allow a government
> employer to adopt an institutional viewpoint on the issues of the
> day and then, when faced with a dissenting employee, portray this
> disagreement as evidence of disruption. And, the problem is
> exacerbated in the case of an employee such as MacRae, who expressed
> her views only outside the workplace and before her employment

Judicial Watch filed a lawsui
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for MacRae
against Hanover High School Principal Matthew Mattos and Hanover
School Superintendent Matthew Ferron in November 2021, asserting a
claim for First Amendment retaliation (_MacRae v. Matthew Mattos et
al_
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(No. 21-cv-11917, 23-1817)).

MacRae was hired as a Hanover High School teacher on August 31, 2021,
but was fired on September 29, 2021, over several TikTok posts that
were made months prior to her hiring at the school. MacRae, who in May
of 2021 was elected to the Bourne School Committee, made the posts in
her personal capacity as a citizen and candidate for public office.

Until next week,



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