New Delhi, April 3 -- After Pam Bondi took office as US attorney general last year in February, conservative influencers, online investigators, and others seeking full government disclosure about American financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein believed they had found an ally within the Department of Justice.

US President Donald Trump dismissed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday following months of tense relations and appointed Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer as the acting head of the Justice Department.

The uproar surrounding the "Epstein files", the name given to the collection of investigative records, was not the only controversy during Bondi's tenure. However, the sequence of events, initially building expecta...