There is an unfolding constitutional crisis brewing in the conflict between Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Southern District of New York’s (SDNY) FBI field office. Since Jeffrey Epstein’s death in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019, the SDNY apparently has been holding what some speculate may be the most valuable blackmail material in the world.

From what we know of the flight logs in the public domain, some of the most powerful people in the world flew on Epstein’s private plane to an island where he is believed to have filmed them in compromising positions with underage victims. The MAGA movement has long suspected that Epstein’s trove of blackmail information was being used by our government for its own purposes and subverting the will of the people.

Why else, the theorists reason, would the FBI fail to arrest these predators who exploited hundreds of underaged victims? Some suspect Epstein’s arrest was part of a larger plot to silence him by killing him. The media reported Epstein hung himself in his cell under circumstances most people categorize as “difficult to believe.”

To dispel the ongoing blackmail operation corrupting the gears of power, Trump appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel who have both promised to publicize the Epstein files in a way that protects the victims. Bondi immediately demanded the SDNY surrender its cache of videos, pictures, and surveillance transcripts. The SDNY responded with a laughably anemic 200 pages, much of which is regurgitated information already in the public domain. Skeptical, Bondi demanded assurances that the FBI turned over everything. The relevant personnel gave her those assurances.

On Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, Bondi sent this stunning letter to FBI Director Kash Patel. She wrote, 

Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein’s list of contacts, and a list of victims’ names and phone numbers.

I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents.

Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.

Further, Bondi published the letter for the benefit of the public on the Department of Justice webpage. If the New York Field Office of the FBI indeed lied to the attorney general in order to conceal these documents, it represents one of the most significant and direct challenges to the authority of elected government in American history. If Bondi’s suspicions are true, the Epstein files are a weapon of great power that is in the wrong hands.

Bondi’s public letter demanded the documents be turned over by 8:00 a.m. Friday. She further ordered Patel to investigate the circumstances behind the withholding and present his findings within 14 days. The situation is escalating rapidly, and it does not appear Bondi will back down, as many previous attorney generals have done before.

It is important to remember that the FBI and other offices of the administrative state do not constitute a separate branch of government. The administrative state is not a constitutional check on the president’s powers. Indeed, it is the thing the founders sought to constrain with the constitution. The New York Field Office stands accused of lying to Attorney General Bondi about the existence of highly sensitive materials. This contempt for civilian authority over government must be addressed in the strongest terms. A letter is a good start. Handcuffs should be next.