What is Known About Lake Michigan? Epstein Video Goes Viral

While there are thousands of documents being made public by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding Jeffrey Epstein, a particular mention on social media is bringing people to ask a chilling question: What happened at Lake Michigan?

This question comes out of a report filed by the FBI on Aug. 3, 2020, which is among the recently released files related to Epstein cases. Within this report, the woman states that in the 1980s, she was sex trafficked, some of which happened aboard lake yachts in the Lake Michigan vicinity.

As per the take statement, when questioned by the FBI, the woman revealed a period of human trafficking from May to September 1984 when she was only 13 and pregnant. She accused her uncle and Epstein of running a human trafficking ring where clients, including men and sometimes female and younger victims, would pay to abuse her on a yacht.

According to the report, the “trafficking is alleged to have taken place principally from a yacht in Lake Michigan, which originated from Mona Lake, a lake in the State of Michigan, which is located in the Midwest, in the Western part of the State of Michigan.”

The woman made further claims: “After she gave birth, she asserted the baby had been killed and its body thrown into Lake Michigan.”

It is one of a massive dump of data released to the Epstein Library at the DOJ website in response to new laws for transparency enacted in Congress. It contains FBI tips, photographs, videos, and other materials amassed in the course of investigations, which have not all been substantiated.

It is important to note that the DOJ states that this material is not evidence but rather unverified investigation data. There are items within this database that have been found to be untrue, such as an alleged letter from Epstein that the DOJ found to be false.

Also in the same FBI report, the female victim has cited President Trump as one of the witnesses she has regarding the alleged abuses she has undergone.However, on Dec. 23, the Department of Justice has made an announcement concerning these assertions, claiming that the charges against Trump are "untrue and sensationalist."The DOJ further clarified that if these claims were valid, they should have been used in a legal or political process before the election in 2020.

“The allegations in this case are different than any others that have been associated with Epstein before, and it is because of this that this case is significant,” reads part of the brief filed with the case. Reports of this case are also different in that it claims to have occurred in 1994 at Interlochen in Michigan, which is an arts college with national prominence. This would have taken place about a decade before the 2020 FBI tip.

One of the places mentioned in the report is Mona Lake. It is situated about 135 miles south of Interlochen. Epstein visited a music camp there in the 1960s and later contributed money to the school, though no confirmed link has been made to the Lake Michigan allegations.

The department is still reviewing and publishing the documents in phases, in their assertion to maintain the victims' right to privacy and to refrain from interfering with prosecutions. As more and more documents come to light, there are warnings that care should be exercised over the meaning of individual documents, especially ones that appear on twitter.