Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a "client list," the U.S. Justice Department said Monday, announcing that no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public, despite past promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.

The acknowledgement that the well-connected Epstein didn't have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory the Trump administration had helped promote, with Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was "sitting on my desk" in preparation for release.

Even as it released video from inside a New York jail meant to definitively prove that Epstein committed suicide, the department said in a memo it was refusing to release other evidence investigators had collected.

For weeks, Bondi had suggested more material was going to be revealed, after a first document dump she had hyped angered President Donald Trump's base by failing to deliver revelations.

In February, conservative online personalities were invited to the White House and provided with binders marked "The Epstein Files: Phase 1" and "Declassified," but they contained documents that had largely already been in the public domain.

After the first release fell flat, Bondi said officials were poring over a "truckload" of previously withheld evidence she said had been handed over by the FBI. In a March TV interview, she claimed the Biden administration "sat on these documents." She added: "Sadly, these people don't believe in transparency, but I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don't believe in honesty."

But after a months-long review of evidence in the government's possession, Monday's memo says the Justice Department determined no "further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted." The department noted much of the material was placed under seal by a court to protect victims and "only a fraction" of it "would have been aired publicly had Epstein gone to trial."

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The two-page memo bore the logos of the Justice Department and the FBI, but wasn't signed by any individual official.

"One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims," the memo says. "Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends."

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Conservatives who have sought proof of a government cover-up of Epstein's activities and death expressed outrage Monday over the department's position.

Far-right influencer Jack Posobiec posted: "We were all told more was coming. That answers were out there and would be provided. Incredible how utterly mismanaged this Epstein mess has been."

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones wrote that "next the DOJ will say 'Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed.'" Elon Musk shared a series of photos on X of a clown applying makeup, appearing to mock Bondi for saying the client list doesn't exist after suggesting months ago that it was on her desk.

When asked about the client list on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Justice Department spokesperson Chad Gilmartin said Bondi had been referring to the Epstein files in general, not a client list specifically.

Among the evidence that the Justice Department says it has in its possession are photographs and more than 10,000 videos and images that officials said depicted child sex abuse material or "other pornography." Bondi had suggested earlier that part of the reason for the delay in releasing additional Epstein materials was that the FBI needed to review "tens of thousands" of recordings she said showed Epstein "with children or child porn."

Multiple people who participated in the criminal cases of Epstein and his former British socialite girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell told The Associated Press they hadn't seen and didn't know of a trove of recordings along the lines of what Bondi had referenced. Indictments and detention memos also don't allege the existence of video recordings, and neither Epstein nor Maxwell were charged with possession of child sex abuse material, even though that would have been easier for prosecutors to prove than the sex trafficking counts they faced.

Epstein died in 2019

The AP did find reference in a filing in a civil lawsuit to the discovery by the Epstein estate of videos and pictures that could constitute child sex abuse material, but lawyers involved in that case said a protective order prevents them from discovering the specifics of that evidence.

Monday's memo doesn't explain when or where these alleged videos are located, what they depict and whether they were newly found as investigators scoured their collection of evidence or were known for some time to have been in the government's possession.

The Justice Department didn't respond to a detailed list of questions from AP about the videos Bondi was referencing.

Epstein was found dead in his jail cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest on sex trafficking charges, in a suicide that foreclosed the possibility of a trial.

Conspiracy theorists have continued to challenge that conclusion, but in 2019, then-attorney general William Barr told the AP he had personally reviewed security footage that revealed no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died. Barr had concluded Epstein's suicide was the result of "a perfect storm of screw-ups."

More recently, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have insisted in television and podcast interviews the evidence was clear that Epstein had killed himself.