NEWSMAX -- Redacted or sealed materials in connection with late Wall Street financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are under the courts' jurisdiction to release, not Attorney General Pam Bondi or the Department of Justice, Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor emeritus who helped secure a plea deal in 2008 for Epstein, tells Newsmax.
Dershowitz, in an extensive interview Monday with Newsmax's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren," also commented that he has "seen the names" of people accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and that there "are lists of names," but "there's nobody currently serving in office" among them, so the controversy over a list is a "nothing-burger."
"I don't think you can fault Pam Bondi or the Justice Department," when it comes to releasing any redacted or sealed materials, Dershowitz told Van Susteren. "They don't have the authority to release this redacted material or the sealed material. I think — I can't know this for sure — that they've released everything that they are able to release."
"The media can actually file applications to the judges to try to open up this information…the rest of it is up to the judges, and so the application should be made to the judges, not to the Justice Department," Dershowitz said.