NEW YORK - A previously undisclosed federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein included an examination of whether he was travelling with underage girls as recently as last year, newly released documents show.
Records related to that probe were made public this week by the Marshals Service as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by MuckRock News, an online repository for public records.Epstein, 66, was found dead on Aug 10 in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan after a July arrest on sex trafficking charges.
Under a 2016 federal law known as"International Megan's Law," registered sex offenders are required to report planned international travel to the authorities at least 21 days before they are to leave the US. Investigators sought information from France, Monaco, Austria and Morocco, got flight plan records from the Federal Aviation Administration showing Epstein's travel to numerous countries, and drafted a search warrant for a phone number Epstein listed as a point of contact whenever he travelled internationally, the records show.