Cops swarm Epstein records vault after ‘cover-up’ claims, online protest chatter light up the web: report

The FBI has deployed constabulary officers to defender a records installation wherever materials from the Jeffrey Epstein probe are stored, aft online chatter raised concerns astir imaginable demonstrations, Bloomberg News reported.

According to the Bloomberg report, bureau constabulary usually based astatine FBI Headquarters successful Washington were sent to the Central Records Complex successful Winchester, Virginia, a sprawling 256,000-square-foot gathering that houses billions of pages of FBI documents.

The further information followed remarks by Mark Epstein, the disgraced financier’s brother, who said successful a NewsNation interrogation that FBI Director Kash Patel was overseeing a "cover-up" of the Epstein materials. He alleged, without evidence, that the files were being edited to region the names of Republicans.

His comments were shared wide online, and immoderate users connected Reddit discussed staging protests extracurricular the Winchester complex.

Jeffrey Epstein successful Cambridge, MA, connected Sept. 8, 2004. (Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Bloomberg, citing 2 radical acquainted with interior FBI operations, said the bureau viewed those discussions arsenic perchance threatening and responded by bolstering extortion for unit and facilities. An FBI spokesperson did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Earlier this week, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the Justice Department to merchandise each unclassified materials wrong 30 days successful a searchable, downloadable format.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters earlier boarding Air Force One arsenic helium departs Palm Beach International Airport successful West Palm Beach, Florida, connected Nov.16, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

TRUMP CALLS ON HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO VOTE TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES: 'WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE'

President Donald Trump signed the measurement into instrumentality connected Wednesday.

"I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!" Trump wrote successful a lengthy connection connected the Truth Social platform. "As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to walk this Bill successful the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were astir unanimous successful favour of passage. 

"At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned implicit adjacent to 50 1000 pages of documents to Congress. Do not hide — The Biden Administration did not crook implicit a SINGLE record oregon leafage related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever adjacent talk astir him."

Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Wednesday that she would comply with the instrumentality aft it was signed.

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Bloomberg antecedently reported that FBI agents from the New York and Washington tract offices, on with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) unit and background-check specialists, spent months successful Winchester combing done each Epstein-related document. They worked to find which materials could legally beryllium disclosed to the American nationalist nether FOIA’s 9 exemptions.

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That reappraisal concluded successful May, and the results were forwarded to Bondi. The FBI and DOJ said connected X that nary further releases were warranted.

The renewed scrutiny of the files comes arsenic the House Oversight Committee past week published thousands of Epstein’s recovered emails.