Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche indicated Sunday that the Justice Department is open to charging more people associated with the late notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein if the public unearths damning facts from the files that the feds previously missed.
“The way that we start many of our federal cases is because we hear tips from civilians or from others in the community,” Blanche told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday when asked.
On Friday, the Justice Department publicly divulged some 3 million pages worth of files on Epstein, including a bevy of fake images, documents, and other content to comply with the Epstein Transparency Act.
Blanche, the No. 2 official at the DOJ, underscored that while some of the content is “horrible,” it doesn’t necessarily mean that the feds will have sufficient evidence to slap charges against people engaged in disturbing behavior.
“There’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or by people around him, but that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody,” Blanche caveated.
“The victims want to be made whole. And we want that,” he continued. “The government wants that more than anything. But that doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there.”
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