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 claims that even after the Palm Beach police notified the agency in 2005 that it had received a report that an underage girl was brought to Epstein’s residence for a sexual massage, the FBI failed to open a case until the following year.
Then, “from 2009 until 2019, the FBI was complicit in permitting the ongoing sex trafficking of minors, rape and sexual abuse of girls and young women which occurred between New York, Palm Beach and the US Virgin Islands, and many other locations”, the lawsuit said.
Four years ago, a judge ruled the families of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre victims could sue the FBI for negligence.
Approximately 90 claimants including Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists, are involved in the action.
“If the FBI had simply done its job, Nassar would have been stopped before he ever had the chance to abuse hundreds of girls, including me,” said the former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy in 2022.
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