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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is withholding foreign-language Epstein documents that could be used to bring new charges against convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a legal analyst warned.
Former MS NOW anchor and attorney Katie Phang — who personally sued Blanche over Epstein file compliance and won a court order forcing him to act — made the accusation on her YouTube channel.
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Her analysis was prompted by the death of modeling scout Daniel Siad, 69, found dead Monday at his home in the Paris suburb of Colombes, BBC News reported.
Siad was under French investigation for allegedly helping run Epstein's international sex trafficking network. French authorities had never interviewed him before he died, BBC News reported. Phang argued his death made the Justice Department's handling of the case more urgent, not less.
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"The passage of time is hurting the ability to prosecute these cases," she explained in a broadcast on Wednesday.
According to Phang, the documents at the center of her accusation are foreign-language materials from the Justice Department's Epstein investigation — none of which have been made public.
On June 25, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Blanche to begin reviewing and producing those materials under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bipartisan law Trump signed in November 2025 requiring the full release of Epstein-related records.
Blanche missed the July 2 deadline. In a court filing that day, the Justice Department argued it was "not practicable" to review foreign-language documents and that the court "should not supplant Congress's acceptance of this explanation."
"Which again is a big middle finger to the judge in this case, who has told him — I don't give a damn about your 'it's not practicable' excuse," Phang said. "Go ahead and do what you're already seven months behind on."
"These foreign-language documents that nobody has even seen — they could be big, huge keys to being able to continue to link and connect all of these sexual predators," she added.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year U.S. prison sentence for sex trafficking but has never faced charges in France, where she was born and holds citizenship. Blanche spent nine hours interviewing her over two days in July 2025, according to NBC News — and gave survivors just 90 minutes after a 374-day wait, according to a reconstruction by journalist Tara Palmeri.
One week after those meetings with Maxwell, she was moved from a low-security Florida facility to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas, NBC News reported — a facility where Bureau of Prisons policy generally bars sex offenders.
Phang argued that Maxwell could still face prosecution in France — if investigators can build the case.
"Ghislaine Maxwell has only been prosecuted for crimes that are specific jurisdictionally to the Southern District of New York," Phang said. "It doesn't mean that she can't be extradited to France."
Building that case, Phang argued, requires France to appoint an investigating judge — a judicial official with the power to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony — in its ongoing probe targeting former Elite Models boss Gérald Marie, who Phang said faces six new victim complaints filed last week.
"Maybe the silver lining from him dying on Monday night is that the investigating judge gets assigned more quickly in the Gérald Marie case," Phang said.
Siad was the second Epstein associate to die before French investigators could question him, BBC News reported.
Modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in a Paris prison cell in 2022 while awaiting trial on rape and sex trafficking charges.
"An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air, without there ever having been a chance to recover the information Daniel Siad might have possessed, given that he was never questioned," a former model who gave a deposition to French police in June told the BBC.
