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Jilly_in_VA

(13,813 posts) Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:40 AM Dec 21

Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal

While Donald Trump’s justice department did not deliver on a legal requirement to disclose all Jeffrey Epstein-related files by Friday, one document in an otherwise underwhelming disclosure lifted the veil on authorities’ inaction – and its dire consequences for dozens of teen girls.

That document is an FBI report from Maria Farmer, a painter who worked for Epstein around 1996.

Farmer, whose sister Annie Farmer was abused by Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at age 16, told authorities in 1996 that the late financier “stole” nude images of her siblings.

Farmer reported Epstein’s behavior with these photographs, but the FBI has never openly recognized that she made such a report, according to the New York Times. The newspaper also noted how an internal investigation into the justice department’s handling of Epstein’s case did not mention this report.

The police report states that “Complainant [Maria Farmer] stated that she is a professional artist and took pictures of her sisters 12 and 16 yrs for her own [personal] Art Work”.

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It’s unclear what, if anything, the FBI did with that report. It is clear, however, that Epstein continued to abuse girls for years after Maria Farmer brought him to law enforcement’s attention.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/epstein-fbi-maria-farmer-annie-farmer

Someone in the FBI was on the take is my bet.....

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Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Dec 21 OP

Or somebody higher up on the food chain intervened. cloudbase Dec 21 #1

Don't know how that works. Igel Dec 21 #3

It's becoming clear Epstein was a government asset, used and shielded by foreign and domestic agencies for decades. sop Dec 21 #2

If Trump's life story has shown anything, it's that there is a multi-tier justice system in the US Johonny Dec 21 #4

With Trump, it was known that Ivanka and Don Jr lied to sell condos karynnj Dec 21 #7

If the president of the USA at the mucifer Dec 21 #5

They were investigating the President at the time JI7 Dec 21 #8

Where was Louis Freeh during all of this? ck4829 Dec 21 #6

knr UTUSN Dec 21 #9

cloudbase

(6,160 posts)

1. Or somebody higher up on the food chain intervened.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:31 AM

Dec 21

Igel

(37,369 posts)

3. Don't know how that works.

Reply to cloudbase (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:38 AM

Dec 21

If I file a police report saying that my sister was criminally wronged and have no evidence except hearsay, what's the legal obligation the police have to do more than note it and file it away somewhere?

sop

(17,437 posts)

2. It's becoming clear Epstein was a government asset, used and shielded by foreign and domestic agencies for decades.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:33 AM

Dec 21

Johonny

(25,471 posts)

4. If Trump's life story has shown anything, it's that there is a multi-tier justice system in the US

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 12:37 PM

Dec 21

One in which wealthy criminals like Epstein and Trump can essentially break the law repeatedly with little to no interest from authorities. Even when justice comes; the courts are designed to dish out minimum sentences at a slow rate of process, with the multi-tier review courts making sentencing delayed forever, if it ever comes at all.

Meanwhile, the poor live under constant harassment from law enforcement and suffer maximum sentencing for often trivial crimes.

karynnj

(60,783 posts)

7. With Trump, it was known that Ivanka and Don Jr lied to sell condos

Reply to Johonny (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:49 PM

Dec 21

Giving false information on how many sold and for what price in one of Trump's NYC buildings. Cyrus Vance could have brought the case and opted not to even though there was supposedly ample proof. This was dropped in 2012. Had this trial happened, I bet there would have been no President Trump.

Worse, he got campaign donations from Trump's lawyer around the same time. Sadly, he was a Democrat.