The warning came from one of the hundreds of FBI employees tasked with a round-the-clock scramble to process more than 100,000 pages of investigative files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The Department of Justice was at risk of breaking the law by disclosing victims’ identities, they said.
“DOJ leadership is pushing for the release of records that, if released in their current format, would violate multiple statutes,” the FBI whistleblower wrote in a complaint filed with the agency’s Office of Integrity and Compliance, while expressing concern that the project’s “rush deadline” would “lead to mistakes that could destroy people’s lives.”
The whistleblower’s identity remains unknown, and their name was redacted in FBI documents released by the bureau in recent weeks in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the pro-democracy group American Oversight. The whistleblower complaint is being reported for the first time here by Raw Story.
The concerns outlined in the March 2025 complaint about the risk of exposing Epstein’s victims would prove prophetic. The initial review, overseen by then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, would culminate in a memo jointly released that July by the FBI and Department of Justice with the conclusion “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”
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