LEWISTON, Maine (WMTW)— A van carrying tens of thousands of pages of released Jeffrey Epstein files is on a nationwide tour.
The vehicle, called the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile, is traveling the country with the documents on board.
Dani Bensky, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, has spent recent years advocating for accountability, including speaking to lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
“We used to really live in isolation and think that we were buried in our own shame and really be locked into our own stories,” Bensky said. “But once we found each other and we started talking about how many of us there were, we’re talking about numbers of over 1,000. We think the number is closer to 1,400 at this point, of survivors and victims just within the Epstein and Maxwell case. So, just remembering how big this is. And it’s oddly, like, validating to see this much paperwork.”
Bensky said files released on Dec. 19 did not include all documents, and some redactions were missed.
“When the files were released on December 19th, we didn’t get all of the files. We got some. And we already started to see missed redactions. Right. My name was showing up there. And then in January we got this document dump that, expose over 100 of us and, like really in-depth information that was given to the FBI. And it should have been protected while perpetrators are then the ones being protected,” Bensky said.
Bensky said redaction errors occurred repeatedly.
“It feels like incompetence is the strategy here. Because so many times we would say, okay, this was not redacted properly. Can you go and fix this from our, you know, our lawyers would contact DOJ and then the document would be taken down, it would be redacted, put back up, but was still searchable,” Bensky said.
Bensky was joined by Matt Dunlap, the Democratic candidate running for a seat in the U.S. House.
Dunlap said if elected, he will prioritize more thorough investigation, removing the statute of limitations, and addressing law enforcement’s ability to not bury allegations.
“It’s just an extraordinary story of how, you know, simple authority that we derive from the electorate as public officials can be abused and to power over people, change their lives, traumatized them and dues, and kept anonymous, kept quiet. And it shouldn’t be quiet,” Dunlap said.
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