Où sont les documents?

Hey Todd: Where are the documents?

During the Status Hearing this week in Washington, D.C. in my lawsuit against Attorney General, Todd Blanche, the following exchange took place between the presiding judge, Judge Emmet Sullivan, and Andrew Block, the Department of Justice attorney defending Blanche:

• Judge Sullivan: When did the process commence for the DOJ to begin its translation and review of the foreign-language documents contained within the Epstein Files?

• Andrew Block: [Turning red, stammering, hemming and hawing, and eventually failing to answer the Court thereby confirming what we all suspected, which was the DOJ has not even begun the process of translating and reviewing the foreign-language documents.]

• Judge Sullivan: How many pages of these documents are we talking about?

• Andrew Block: I don’t have a number.

• Judge Sullivan: But you knew this was going to be discussed today. You’re at the podium as counsel for the Attorney General.

• Andrew Block: Our briefing is still our position and it hasn’t changed.

• Judge Sullivan: The Government’s position then is you’re just not going to comply [with my court order]?

• Andrew Block: Your order isn’t a final order [and some other gobbledygook that wasn’t responsive to the judge’s question.]

• Judge Sullivan: You have nothing else to add?

• Andrew Block: No, judge.

Recall: On June 26, 2026, Judge Sullivan entered an order granting my Motion for Preliminary Injunction, directing Todd Blanche to:

As of today, August 15, 2026, that hasn’t happened. And consider that language as compared to some of the other areas of that preliminary injunction order: the court didn’t give Blanche an “out” to explain why he couldn’t do the translations; the court ordered him to “immediately initiate review and production.”

I have made it clear that my work as an investigative journalist relies on those foreign-language documents being translated and produced. Jeffrey Epstein, with the assistance of a complex network of recruiters, enablers, facilitators, co-conspirators, employees, and others operated a multi-decade, multinational child sex trafficking ring. His ownership of residences in France, especially, and his direct involvement with modeling agencies gave him and his associates the necessary cover to cross international borders with children under the guise of the modeling business. It gave him and his associates the necessary cover to lure minors from their home countries with empty promises of supermodel futures, wealth, and success; to abuse them; to manipulate them; to control them; to violate them.

Jeffrey Epstein’s well-publicized personal and professional relationship with Jean-Luc Brunel is just one aspect of the Epstein Files that makes those foreign-language documents critically necessary to investigate and review. Brunel was a modeling scout in the late 1970s and he co-founded Karin Models in Paris in 1977. He was considered one of the leading model agents in Paris and eventually opened a U.S. branch called Karin Models of America with the financial backing of Jeffrey Epstein. That office became known as MC2 Model Management.

Just last week, the French publication, Le Monde, reported that Epstein not only used Paris as an abuse epicenter, but he would also do so in the luxury coastal town of Saint-Tropez. And he wasn’t alone in his crimes. American journalist, Michael Gross, documented the abuse in his 1995 book, Model, The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women: “Brunel ‘was the guy flying all the girls from Karins for the weekend to St.-Tropez. [He and his friends] were very well known in Paris for roaming the clubs. They would invite girls and put drugs in their drinks. Everybody knew that they were creeps.’” Brunel denied these allegations before his death by alleged suicide by hanging in a French prison in 2022 while under investigation on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.

French law enforcement at the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence Against Persons issued an investigative report in December of 2020 stating that “Jean-Luc Brunel used the modeling agencies where he had worked to gain easy access to vulnerable young girls whom he could abuse as he wished. This very likely allowed him, primarily, to provide the benefit of this access to his professional and personal associate, Jeffrey Epstein.”

And let’s not forget Ghislaine Maxwell’s own direct culpability in the trafficking ring. Per the late Virginia Giuffre’s testimony as cited in the 2020 investigative report by French police, Virginia identified Saint-Tropez as one of the locations where Epstein and Maxwell trafficked her to the French owner of a hotel chain. Another victim interviewed by Le Monde alleged that she was raped by Epstein in his New York home in 2001. She first met Epstein at a party in Saint-Tropez when she was just 16 or 17 years old. Maxwell, who was also present at this party, manipulated this young woman and steered her to Epstein. The victim explained that in Saint-Tropez: “There were recruiters in the hotels, often funny and charismatic people, intermediaries who organized parties with celebrities present and who sent 14- or 15-year-old girls to them... Saint-Tropez could never have survived without that veneer. That’s what the town was selling.”

Epstein and one of his main recruiters, Daniel Siad, communicated extensively about his success in securing girls to introduce to Epstein. The two referenced in their exchanges how “most or many of the girls are eitehr [sic] gone to st tropez or holiday.” Siad, who was under investigation by Paris prosecutors for rape and human trafficking including for his association and work with Epstein, was recently found dead in his home in a Parisian suburb and his death is under investigation.

Another modeling recruiter and possibly one that worked with Epstein, Ramsey Elkholy, emailed Epstein stating a Latvian model, Marta, would be in Saint-Tropez and was looking to meet people. Epstein replied: “There are many interesting people there. you can give her my email.”

Why is the Trump Department of Justice participating in an active concealment and cover-up? Why won’t the “top cop” of the country, Todd Blanche, release the Epstein Files redacted in compliance with the federal law passed months ago? Where is the cooperation between American authorities and French authorities in investigating these leads? Instead of spending 9 hours with Ghislaine Maxwell cosplaying as a prosecutor and then secretly transferring her to a Club Fed to eat gourmet cheese and play with puppies, maybe Todd Blanche should be translating and reviewing those foreign-language documents in the Epstein Files and identifying more perpetrators, co-conspirators, and criminals for purposes of prosecution. Isn’t that his job?

But, Blanche doesn’t represent the people of the United States. He remains the personal lawyer for Convicted Felon Donald Trump. His loyalty is to one man and one man only. Blanche pays lip-service to the survivors and makes empty promises of justice. But, we’ve clocked him and what he’s all about from the very beginning. And that’s why I’m aggressively pursuing my lawsuit against Blanche because as Judge Sullivan stated during that Status Hearing: “The public and the victims have the right to know what the hell is going on.”