WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi went on offense Tuesday as Senate Democrats grilled her about the Jeffrey Epstein case and other matters — with Bondi at one point suggesting Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island might be “concerned” about embarassing links to the late pedophile .
Bondi sought to turn the tables on Whitehouse and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing after facing months of criticism over her July 6 memo recommending against further public disclosures in the notorious sex trafficker’s case.
“How many of those Treasury [Suspicious Activity Reports] did you or [FBI] Director [Kash] Patel investigate?” Whitehouse asked Bondi about transactions made by Epstein that had been flagged by banks .
The attorney general snapped back: