The acknowledgment represents a public walk-back of a theory that the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting that such a document was “sitting on my desk” for review.

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has talked herself into the vortex of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, triggering a wave of conspiracy theories and dragging President Donald Trump's White House into a quandary.

Bondi is facing scrutiny after a memo from the DOJ said there was no evidence that Epstein kept a "client list" or was murdered.