Epstein victim explains why she’s suing FBI after agency ignored her claims for 10 years
Asher Notheis
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Maria Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who is suing the FBI, explained on Monday that she is suing the agency for ignoring her case for a decade.
Farmer, who was Epstein’s first victim to go to the authorities regarding the sex offender, is one of two plaintiffs who are suing the FBI over the agency’s failure to investigate Epstein. Farmer’s attorney, Jennifer Freeman, explained that they are in the process of getting a notice of claim, also known as a precursor, filed with the FBI, according to an appearance the two made on Fox News.
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“The basis of the claim is very much about the failure, the utter failure of the FBI to pay any attention to Maria Farmer’s 1996 report and also so many other reports after that, including her 2006 report and so many other victims’ reports,” Freeman said. “And they ignored them, and they didn’t take them seriously. And as a result, this created nearly a quarter of a century of victims. They could have been spared if the FBI had done their job.”
Farmer explained that when she was working for Epstein in 1996, she had been asked to give a foot massage to Epstein while he was watching a math program on television. She was then directed by the New York Police Department to call the FBI, and she discussed with an FBI agent for 45 minutes that she had been kidnapped.
Maria Farmer Jesse Watters appearance (7/24/2023)
She said the FBI agent hung up on her, and she did not hear from the agency again until 2006, when an agent wanted to discuss her Epstein report.
“My agent, she said, ‘Maria, we’re going to get him [Epstein],'” Farmer said. “Bottom line, they did not get him.”
Farmer was asked what she would say if she could talk to current FBI Director Christopher Wray, to which she said she would want him to “look me in the eye and I want you to apologize to me.”
“I want you to say, ‘Maria, I am so sorry you lost your youth. I am so sorry you were being mocked online because we won’t release your report. We are centrally lying about you, saying you are worthless and we don’t care about you,'” Farmer said. “And that is how I feel. I want Christopher Wray to say, ‘I am so sorry we have treated you like you are worthless and we didn’t do our job for the American people.'”
Farmer and Sarah Ransome filed a legal document indicating they plan to sue the FBI for $600 million. Freeman, the attorney of Farmer and Ransome, stated the agency has six months to investigate the claim or reach a settlement, according to the Daily Beast.
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The lawsuit comes after Wray appeared in front of Congress earlier this month to testify and rejected claims the FBI pressured social media companies to censor or suppress content. House Judiciary Committee Republicans have given him the opportunity on July 18 to “amend” his testimony that the bureau does not censor free speech.
Epstein, who died in his jail cell in 2019, had died from the result of “negligence and misconduct” from guards who allowed him to commit suicide, a Justice Department watchdog determined. The Federal Bureau of Prisons failed to assign Epstein a cellmate, and guards allowed too many bed linens to be left in his cell, which aided in his suicide, said Inspector General Michael Horowitz.