New Delhi, July 17 -- WASHINGTON - Annie Farmer waited more than two decades for the kind of meeting that happened Thursday afternoon at the Justice Department. She sat down with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and left calling him "abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal." The private session that a senator demanded as the price of his confirmation vote now raises questions about whether it will deliver one.

Farmer, one of the most publicly recognized voices among Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, came to the meeting with specific demands. She wanted Blanche to commit to investigating why her sister Maria's 1996 FBI complaint about Epstein was ignored, a documented failure in a case built on them. He would not. She chall...