Pam Bondi “could have tried” Jeffrey Epstein while she was Florida Attorney General between 2011 and 2019, according to a law professor. President Donald Trump’s embattled Attorney General has been mired in controversy over the release of the Epstein files, which she claimed were sitting on her desk in February.

Pam Bondi took office as Florida's first female attorney general in 2011. Epstein had gotten out of the Palm Beach County Jail two years earlier.

Gun-control advocates from the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas say U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi exploited them for political gain. Now, they’re launching a campaign against her to make that known.

Moreover, the speculation is that Epstein used the list to extort and blackmail people. Belief in the existence of such a document gained credibility after now-U.S. Attorney General Bondi claimed she had such a list in her possession.

Jaclyn Corin gestures as Yolanda King, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during March for Our Lives, in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2022. Jaclyn Corin gestures as Yolanda King, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr.

A coalition of legal advocacy groups and attorneys has formally petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to intervene and order the Florida Bar to conduct a full investigation into alleged unethical conduct by Florida Bar member and current Attorney General of the United States,

Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who is now President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. attorney general, has always been a favorite among the state's ruling Republican class.

Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who is now President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. attorney general, has always been a favorite among the state's ruling Republican class.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.