Legal groups file new ethics complaint against Pam Bondi
Source: Courthouse News Service
May 27, 2026
WASHINGTON (CN) — A coalition of legal groups, judges and attorneys on Wednesday refiled a formal ethics complaint against former Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of “serious professional misconduct” in her leadership of the Justice Department and handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The new complaint comes months after the Florida Bar declined to examine an initial set of ethics charges against Bondi — and days before House lawmakers are set to grill the former Trump administration official on her role in publishing the Epstein documents.
That issue formed a central pillar of the ethics accusations levied against Bondi on Wednesday by the legal groups, which included Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Democracy Defenders Fund and Lawyers for the Rule of Law. The advocates, joined by more than 120 retired judges, law professors and attorneys, accused the former attorney general of botching the Epstein files’ publication and inadvertently releasing the personal information of dozens of victims.
“The Department of Justice’s release, redaction, withholding and messaging related to the Epstein files, which Ms. Bondi both participated in directly and oversaw as Attorney General, has been fundamentally flawed from the beginning,” the legal groups say in the complaint.
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Link to Democracy Defenders Fund PRESS RELEASE - ETHICS COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST PAM BONDI ALLEGES PATTERN OF SERIOUS MISCONDUCT AND WIDESPREAD VIOLATIONS OF DUTIES AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://f9c23fd5-1644-4a5f-a561-d04e6b5736d6.usrfiles.com/ugd/f9c23f_45dbf1fdf10540eba1bd5e32347d5b66.pdf
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