Jeffrey Epstein stashed secret files in storage units across US that may include never-before-seen evidence: report

Jeffrey Epstein secretly stashed computers, photographs, and other equipment in storage units scattered across the US — and paid private detectives to move the material around as investigators closed in on him, according to a new report.Financial records and emails reviewed by The Telegraph revealed that the dead pedophile rented at least six storage lockers nationwide, some starting in 2003, and paid for them until 2019, the year he died by suicide in lock-up.The units were used to house items from Epstein’s homes, including computers and CDs from his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, the outlet reported.Search warrants — which were part of the tranche of 3 million Epstein-related documents released by the Justice Department — also revealed that US authorities possibly never raided the storage spaces and could contain never-before-seen evidence in the sex trafficking case.Emails reviewed by the publication further revealed that Epstein had private eyes move materials out of his homes into the storage facilities before authorities could execute search warrants at his residences.

The convicted sex offender made regular payments to multiple facilities, including one near his Palm Beach mansion, according to credit card statements discovered by the outlet.Additional files showed that Epstein’s private investigators were instructed to rent a Manhattan storage unit on the disgraced financier’s behalf, and were paid tens of thousands of dollars to do so, the outlet reported.In August 2009, a month after his release from jail on a child sex crime conviction, the financier was emailed by a private investigator who informed him that Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre had requested missing computer material, the outlet said.Giuffre — the powerful creep’s most vocal victim who took her own life in April –– had filed a civil lawsuit that year alleging Epstein sexually abused her while she was a minor and trafficked her internationally.“Over the...