Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly relocated to secure military housing near Washington, D.C., after receiving a series of death threats tied to drug cartels and backlash over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Sources familiar with the situation told The New York Times that Bondi moved from her Washington apartment to a protected military base within the past month due to heightened security concerns.
According to those reports, the threats intensified following the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and amid public criticism surrounding the Justice Department’s release of Epstein-related files.
Bondi is the latest senior administration official to move into secure housing at or near military facilities in the Washington, D.C., area after citing threats from criminals, foreign adversaries and protesters, The Times reported.
Other officials who have reportedly relocated to heavily protected quarters include Stephen Miller, the president’s top domestic policy adviser and a key architect of the administration’s immigration policies; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll has also moved into military housing, along with Navy Secretary John Phelan, whose Washington residence was damaged in a fire last year, The Times said.
Reports of Bondi moving to a military base come as the House Oversight Committee prepares to schedule testimonies from both her and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’m in communication with them,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters Wednesday morning. “We’re trying to get them in very, very soon.”
Although some reports claimed the housing was free, a representative for Noem previously told the Times that she was paying “fair-market rent” for her military base housing.
After weeks of complaints about redactions and other issues in the files made public, Bondi said the Department of Justice had made “all” of Epstein’s files public.
The Justice Department on Thursday released three previously undisclosed interview summaries from the Epstein files containing uncorroborated allegations involving President Trump.
The documents include statements from a woman who alleged she was assaulted by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and by Trump when she was a minor, the Washington Times reported.
The Justice Department said the interview summaries had originally been withheld from the January release of Epstein-related documents because they were mistakenly labeled as duplicates.
“After this was brought to our attention, we reviewed the entire batch with the similar coding and discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative,” the department said.
Democrats in Congress are investigating whether the Justice Department withheld the files because they contain four FBI interview reports, known as 302s, involving a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault.
Trump has refuted any misconduct in relation to Epstein’s allegations and has not faced any criminal charges.
Also, the same trove of documents notes that Trump alerted authorities to Epstein in the mid-2000s after he suspected the financier of indecent behavior.
Trump has never been charged with crimes and has long denied involvement in Epstein’s illicit activities.
The newly released interviews were conducted in 2019 after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the allegations.
“These are completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history,” Leavitt said.
Before the documents were released, congressional Democrats accused the Justice Department of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The law requires the government to release investigative records related to Epstein while protecting the identities of victims.
When many Epstein files were released in January, officials warned that some materials submitted to investigators may contain false or unverified claims.
