Women who allege Jeffrey Epstein abused them accused the Trump administration of trying to protect enablers of the well-connected wealth manager in new court filings and criticized the government for treating victims as pawns “in political warfare.”
In letters filed late Monday to Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman — one of the judges who are mulling requests by the government to unseal transcripts from the grand jury proceedings against Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell — two women took aim at the Trump administration for its handling of the snowballing scandal.
They referenced the memo released last month by the Justice Department and the FBI, in which the government declined to shed light on a trove of records gathered in Epstein investigations and conclud