Alleged Epstein victims file suit against FBI for failing to protect them

Twelve ‘Jane Does’ accuse agency of ‘repeated and continual failures’ that helped financier evade justice for more than 20 years

The FBI is facing a claim from 12 alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein over what they say was the agency’s “repeated and continued failures, delays and inaction” that allowed the disgraced financier to run his sex trafficking operation for more than two decades.

The lawsuit, filed against the United States in the southern district of New York, accuses the FBI of “failing to do the job the American people expected of it and that the FBI’s own rules and regulations required: investigate the reports, tips, and evidence it had of rampant sexual abuse and sex trafficking by Epstein and protect the young women and children who fell victim to him”.