Overview
- The handwritten note, included in the DOJ’s Data Set 8, is attributed to Jeffrey Epstein and references “our president” sharing a “love of young, nubile girls,” without naming Donald Trump.
- The files posted Monday briefly disappeared from the DOJ website and later reappeared with resequenced identifiers, with the letter and its envelope reassigned to different file numbers.
- DOJ announced the release of nearly 30,000 pages and warned that some documents in the tranche include untrue and sensationalist allegations submitted to the FBI before the 2020 election.
- Chain-of-custody records show the FBI submitted the note for handwriting analysis, and no public determination of authenticity has been released.
- Prior records cited by the Associated Press indicated the letter to Nassar was found returned to sender in the jail mail room weeks after Epstein’s 2019 death.