Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019. Five days later, federal authorities told New York detectives to “stand down” in their investigations into the child sex trafficker.
Recently released documents from the Justice Department’s Epstein files reveal a new chronology of the events surrounding Epstein’s final arrest, Just Security reported Monday.
Email exchanges that took place between July 10-11 of 2019 indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had “directed” New York law enforcement to cease their Epstein investigations, including the New York District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit (SVU).
“FBI reached out to NYPD leadership already and they were told that SVU has been directed to stand down and that all Epstein stuff needs to go to and through us. DANY could still try to go forward with their own investigators, so I think it is worth a call over,” reads one message obtained by Just Security.
Epstein died in prison in August of that year.
The stand down directive circulated internally amongst several FBI agents in January 2020 with regard to investigating Epstein’s longtime criminal associate Ghislaine Maxwell and ex-British prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
“After our arrest was public some phone calls were made amongst NYPD brass and I’m pretty sure there[sic] investigation was closed and differed[sic] to us. I’m not totally sure of DANY’s involvement into that investigation or if they ever stopped. Our assumption was obviously that they closed anything they had after his death,” the FBI email reads.
“It may be an issue though if DANY somehow was continuing an investigation into Price Andrew or his best friend Maxwell. This is something we may want to figure out I’m hoping they are continuing to differ[sic] this case to us but we may not know without making a few inquiries.”
The concern was apparently over the potential for “competing cases,” and internal anxieties that the public—and the FBI’s international partners in the U.K.—would be mixed up by news reports of multiple investigations from different agencies.
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