Pam Bondi took office as Florida's first female attorney general in 2011. Epstein had gotten out of the Palm Beach County Jail two years earlier.

In February, US attorney-general Pam Bondi declared in an interview with Fox News that the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s client list was “sitting” on her desk. But the announcement, originally seen as fulfilling Donald Trump’s campaign promise to release files on Epstein’s death, has now come back to haunt Bondi — and the president.

Online users shared a screenshot of the February 2025 letter, suggesting it contradicted a finding that Jeffrey Epstein didn't keep a "client list."

Attorney General Pam Bondi is coming under criticism from congressional Republicans growing increasingly frustrated with her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal, which has badly divided the party and is now throwing work in the House off the rails.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz on Thursday, where they are expected to announce plans to reopen the dilapidated California state prison that closed decades ago for being too expensive to operate and has since been transformed into a museum.