此前有报道称，数十页涉特朗普性侵未成年指控的 FBI 笔录未公开
美国司法部表示，正就爱泼斯坦案相关文件展开核查，确认部分访谈记录是否在审查流程中被 “错误标记”，进而未被纳入公开档案。
这一声明发布前，美国广播公司新闻网等媒体已披露：司法部疑似扣留了数十页证人笔录与报告，内容涉及一名杰弗里・爱泼斯坦案受害者的指控 —— 据加州民主党众议员罗伯特・加西亚称，该受害者指控唐纳德・特朗普在其未成年时对她实施性侵。
司法部承诺，一旦发现任何文件确属 “审查中被错误标记”，将予以公开。
司法部官方 X 账号周三发文称：“近期，多名人士及媒体指出，在吉斯兰・麦克斯韦刑事案件的证据开示材料中，部分相关文件疑似缺失。与所有公众提出疑问的文件一样，司法部正核查该类档案。若发现任何文件在审查中被错误标记、且符合公开法案要求，司法部将依法予以公布。”
众议院监督委员会民主党首席议员加西亚称，他周一在司法部查阅了未删节证据，确认那份指控特朗普性侵未成年受害者的证人笔录确被扣留。
特朗普始终否认所有相关指控。
司法部周二曾一度指责加西亚及监督委员会其他民主党人，就文件扣留一事 “刻意制造舆论愤怒”。
司法部账号当天发文称：“若文件因需重新隐去受害者信息、或删除个人身份信息而临时下架，会迅速恢复上线并公开。所有应公开文件均已发布，除非属于以下类别：重复文件、享有保密特权、或仍在联邦调查进程中。”
爱泼斯坦同伙吉斯兰・麦克斯韦庭审前的证人材料目录显示，FBI 探员 2019 年曾四次约谈加西亚提及的这名女性，但美国广播公司新闻网检索司法部公开的海量爱泼斯坦案档案后，仅找到其中一次约谈的报告。
对目录与公开数据库的比对分析显示，三份 FBI 302 报告及三次约谈笔录被扣留，总计超 50 页材料未公开。
唯一公开的访谈报告显示，该证人 2019 年 7 月向 FBI 陈述，1983 至 1985 年间，她在南卡罗来纳州与爱泼斯坦有接触 —— 这比佛罗里达州执法部门开始调查爱泼斯坦性侵未成年人案早了 20 年。报告称，她当时年仅 13 岁左右。
她告诉探员，自己以为是去做保姆，却遭爱泼斯坦性侵，现场并无儿童。FBI 报告显示，她称类似性侵还发生过多次。
她还指控爱泼斯坦在性侵前给她毒品与酒精 —— 美国广播公司新闻网查阅数十份其他爱泼斯坦性侵案受害者陈述，均未发现此类细节。
报告称，在她与 “杰夫”(爱泼斯坦)的第四或第五次接触中，屋内还有另外两名男子。探员记录显示，证人 “可能知道其中一人姓名，但当下不愿透露”。她称，那两名男子在旁观看杰夫性侵她，并形容两人比杰夫年长、“肥胖恶心”、带有南方口音。
探员笔录最后备注，当被问及另外两人是否参与性侵时，证人情绪 “极度激动”，表示当天无法继续。“约谈结束，计划近期安排后续访谈。”
该女性首次接受 FBI 约谈的报告中，并未提及对特朗普的指控。她只是在指认爱泼斯坦时，提到 2019 年(约谈前数月)朋友发给她的一张广为流传的特朗普与爱泼斯坦合影。受害者告诉探员，她想裁剪照片，只保留爱泼斯坦的部分。
笔录记载：“探员询问她是否愿意说明裁剪照片的原因。她犹豫时，其律师表示，她担心牵连其他人士，尤其是知名人物，害怕遭到报复。探员告知，若有必要，她可裁剪照片，只展示自己愿意公开的部分。”
报告显示，该女性称自己 “见过” 照片中被裁掉的另一人，但未提供更多信息。
司法部公开的另一份报告显示，该女性的律师最初联系纽约检察官，希望提交其指控，并询问爱泼斯坦手机中查获的文件里是否有她的照片。
报告称：“我的当事人希望向 FBI 提供信息，但希望匿名进行。”
2019 年 12 月，一名化名 “4 号无名氏” 的女性对爱泼斯坦遗产提起民事诉讼，指控内容与 FBI 陈述高度吻合。法庭记录显示，她曾向爱泼斯坦受害者赔偿计划提交申请，但被认定不符合资格。该计划 2021 年关闭时，共向 150 名受害者发放超 1.2 亿美元赔偿。
“4 号无名氏” 随后自愿撤回对爱泼斯坦遗产的诉讼。法庭记录未显示她是否获得和解赔偿。
DOJ says it's 'reviewing' whether Epstein reports were improperly withheld
The Department of Justice says they are now "reviewing" whether some interview reports were "improperly tagged in the review process" and omitted from the public release of the Epstein files.
The statement comes after ABC News and other outlets previouslyreportedthat the DOJ appears to have withheld dozens of pages of witness notes and reports about an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein who, according to Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., accused President Donald Trump of assaulting her when she was a minor.
The DOJvowed to publish any documents "found to have been improperly tagged in the review process."
"Several individuals and news outlets have recently flagged files related to documents produced to Ghislaine Maxwell in discovery of her criminal case that they claim appear to be missing," a DOJ account on X said on Wednesday."As with all documents that have been flagged by the public, the Department is currently reviewing files within that category of the production. Should any document befound to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the Act, the Department will of course publish it, consistent with the law."
Rep. Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said he reviewed unredacted evidence at the Department of Justice on Monday and determined that notes about the witness who accused President Trump of sexual abuse when she was a minor were withheld.
Trump has consistently denied all allegations.
The DOJ on Tuesday initially accused Garcia and other Democrats on the House Oversight Committee of "manufacturing outrage" about the withheld documents.
"If files are temporarily pulled for victim redactions or to redact Personally Identifiable Information, then those documents are promptly restored online and are publicly available," a DOJ account said onTuesday. "ALL responsive documents have been produced unless a document falls within one of the following categories: duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation."
An index of witness materials prepared in advance of the trial of Epstein associateGhislaine Maxwellsuggests that FBI agents interviewed the woman identified by Garcia four times in 2019, but an ABC News search of the DOJ's vast public archive of Epstein files found a report about just one of the meetings.
An analysis of the index and materials in the public database suggests that three FBI reports -- known as 302s -- and notes from three interviews were withheld, appearing to total more than 50 pages of material.
According to the one publicly available interview report, the witness told the FBI in July 2019 that her encounters with Epstein occurred in South Carolina between 1983 and 1985, which would place it two decades before law enforcement in Florida began investigating Epstein for sexual exploitation of minors.She told the agents she was about 13 years old at the time, according to the report.
The witnesssaid she was sexually abused by Epstein after being hired for what she thought was a babysitting job, but she said there were no children present. Similar abuse occurred, she said, on several more occasions, according to the FBI report.
Her statement also included allegations that Epstein gave her drugs and alcohol prior to the assault, a description ABC News has not found in a review of dozens of other accounts of Epstein's abuse of young women and girls.
During her fourth or fifth interaction with the man she knew as "Jeff," there were two other men in the house as well, according to the report. The agent notes that the witness "may know the name of one man, but she did not feel comfortable providing it at this time," according to the FBI report. She claimed that the other two men watched while Jeff sexually assaulted her. She described the other men as older than Jeff, "fat and disgusting" and with southern accents.
The agent's notes conclude with an administrative note indicating that the witness became "very emotional" when asked if the other two men participated in the sexual assault, and that she advised agents that she could not continue that day. "The interview ended with the plan to continue with a follow up interview in the near future," the notes said.
The report from the FBI's first interview with the woman did not contain allegations against Trump. The president was mentioned during the interview when she identified Epstein by referencing a widely publicized photo of Trump and Epstein sent to her by a friend in 2019, a few months before her interview. The victim told agents that she wanted to crop the photo to only identify Epstein.
"The Agents asked whether [she] would be comfortable explaining why she wanted to crop the photograph. When [she] hesitated, [her] attorney advised [she] was concerned about implicating additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due to fear of retaliation," the notes said. "The Agents advised [her that] she could crop the image to show only what she felt comfortable with if she felt it was necessary."
According to the report, the woman said she "had met" the other person who was cropped out of the photograph but provided no further information.
According to an additional report included in the DOJ release, an attorney for the woman originally reached out to prosecutors in New York to share her allegations and inquire whether her photo was among the files seized from Epstein's phone.
"[His/her] clients would like to provide information to the FBI, but they would like to do so anonymously," the report said.
In December of 2019, a woman referred to by the pseudonym"Jane Doe 4" joined a civil lawsuit against Epstein's estate and made allegations that are substantially similar to those raised in the FBI statement. According to court records, she submitted a claim to the Epstein Victims' Compensation Program, but was deemed ineligible. The EVCP ultimately awarded more than $120 million to 150 alleged victims, according to anaccounting of the programat the time it was closed in 2021.
Jane Doe 4 subsequently voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit against the Epstein estate. It is not clear from the court records if she received a settlement.
