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David Gardner, Farrah Tomazin, and Sarah Ewall-Wice
January 28, 2026
Daily Beast
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_ Buried in a petition that Maxwell recently filed in court, the
convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein references four potential
“co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret
settlements” —and were never indicted. _

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GHISLAINE MAXWELL may be locked up in the Club Med version of a Texas
prison, but she just lobbed a rhetorical grenade straight into the
middle of Washington’s most awkward silence.

Buried in a habeas petition that Maxwell recently filed in court,
hoping to void her conviction, the convicted associate of JEFFREY
EPSTEIN references four potential “co-conspirators” and “25
men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” connected to
Epstein’s abuse—and were never indicted.

Which immediately raises the question PAM BONDI and her Department of
Justice desperately want to avoid answering: Who are these men, and
why are they still being protected?

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act specifically to
stop this kind of institutional stonewalling. The law signed by
President DONALD TRUMP in mid-November requires the Justice Department
to release unclassified Epstein-related records. Clear. Simple.
Mandatory. And yet the DOJ continues to slow-walk, redact, and delay
its way around compliance like it’s trying to outlast public
attention.

Reps. THOMAS MASSIE and RO KHANNA—still the most unexpected duo in
modern politics—have been openly furious. They’ve hit out at the
DOJ for defying the law, demanded timelines, and warned that subpoenas
are on the way.

But before anyone pretends Maxwell’s petition is all theoretical, we
already know what “settlement, no indictment” looks like in real
life. As The Swamp has previously reported, billionaire LEON BLACK, a
Trump ally and former Apollo CEO, paid $62.5 million to the U.S.
Virgin Islands to settle claims tied to his financial dealings with
Epstein. No criminal charges, just a very large check and a quiet
exit.

Notably, Black is the same person who, in 2018, as Congress probed
foreign interference in the 2016 election, gave evidence about being
with Trump during a trip to Russia in the naughty ‘90s, where they
attended a concert, a discotheque, and
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“might have been in a strip club together.” Black paid Epstein
roughly $170 million, nominally for “tax and estate planning” but
denied knowing anything about his industrial-scale sex trafficking.
But multiply that settlement by 25 and suddenly Maxwell’s filing
looks less like noise and more like a roadmap.

So naturally, Trump’s response has been to deflect. Every time the
Epstein story heats up, he magically discovers a new distraction:
Venezuela, Greenland, the White House ballroom. If the DOJ had nothing
to hide, transparency would be easy. If the files were harmless,
they’d already be public.

If the names didn’t matter, nobody would be working this hard to
keep them secret.

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