Todd Blanche Called the Trump Accuser’s FBI Notes Duplicates. A Judge Called His Bluff.

By Rachel Hurley September 27th, 2026 Updated October 9th, 2026

NDAs, a $500 lawyer trick, and hidden FBI notes all cracked in one week.

Remember the missing 37 pages? The woman interviewed by the FBI about Trump allegedly assaulting her as a fifteen-year-old received a settlement from these people

- Senator Whitehouse

I saw this tweet this morning and decided to catch up on what’s happening with the Epstein Files.

This is what I found.

Todd Blanche and the DOJ sat on the handwritten notes FBI agents took while a woman told them Donald Trump assaulted her when she was a kid. His excuse was that they were duplicates.

A judge didn’t buy it. And last week, those notes finally landed on his desk.

The woman is known as Jane Doe 4. In 2019, after Jeffrey Epstein got arrested, she told the FBI that Epstein abused her. Over four interviews, she said Epstein took her to meet Trump in the 1980s, and that Trump assaulted her when she was somewhere between 13 and 15.

The DOJ left most of her interviews out of the Epstein files at first. Reporters caught it. Some pages came out in March. 37 are still missing.

So journalist and lawyer Katie Phang sued AG Blanche in April. She said he was breaking the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law Congress passed to make the DOJ release this stuff. Judge Emmet Sullivan agreed. In June he wrote that Blanche basically admitted he was breaking the law, cause Blanche never really argued back.

On Sept. 16, Sullivan ordered Blanche to hand over the handwritten notes behind Jane Doe 4’s interviews by Sept. 24. The DOJ said the notes were the same as the typed reports, so it didn’t have to share them. Sullivan said no, they’re not duplicates. Phang pointed out that the DOJ had already released almost 100 other sets of handwritten notes. Just not these.

Blanche didn’t hand them over - he appealed the very next day. He works very hard for Daddy Trump and loves him very much.

This is the same judge who once held prosecutors in contempt in the Ted Stevens case. In August he told the DOJ’s lawyers that contempt could wreck their careers. He called that a promise, not a threat. Then he said the public has a right to know what the hell is going on.

Guess what showed up on his desk right at the deadline. A DOJ lawyer now says Blanche turned the notes over, unredacted. The judge is reading them in private. The DOJ never filed a public notice saying so.

Now zoom out, cause that same week the whole Epstein paper wall started cracking.

Also on Sept. 16th - the House voted to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress. Black paid Epstein more than $170 million for tax and estate advice from 2012 to 2017. That’s after Epstein was already a registered sex offender.

The House Oversight Committee wanted Black to sit for a deposition and hand over his NDAs. He skipped it and sued the committee instead. The committee voted 41 to 0 against him. Now the DOJ, run by Blanche, gets to decide whether to prosecute.

The same week, Bloomberg dug up a 2012 letter from a big law firm. At Black’s request, the firm hired Epstein as a “consultant.” His pay was $500. Bloomberg’s theory was that the payment was just legal privilege protection.

Then Sept. 23. The Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. They run his estate.

They’ve paid victims with settlements that make women promise never to sue them. And back in March, Rep. Ro Khanna asked Kahn under oath whether the estate paid Jane Doe 4. Kahn said yes. His lawyer said no. Then his lawyer said he couldn’t confirm or deny it. Indyke wouldn’t answer at all.

In other news, sometime between now and Halloween, a court-approved ad is gonna pop up on Facebook and Instagram looking for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. The deal it’s advertising pays them out of Epstein’s money. In exchange, they promise never to sue his lawyer or his accountant again. The two guys that run the estate set that up.

I assume they want to go ahead and pay off the rest of Epstein’s victims and get it over with - because they get to keep up to 75 million bucks from whatever is left over when people stop suing. And while the estate was worth over $650 million when Epstein died - there’s only around $100 million left.

So - yeah. There’s still a lot happening. And I am really interested to see next week what the judge says about those handwritten notes.

Update, October 9th, 2026: This post first said $158 million, the figure from Apollo’s 2021 review. The Senate Finance Committee later found more than $170 million.

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Todd Blanche Called the Trump Accuser’s FBI Notes Duplicates. A Judge Called His Bluff.

NDAs, a $500 lawyer trick, and hidden FBI notes all cracked in one week.

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