Tennessee Republican Representative Tim Burchett said on July 10 that he believes the Biden administration destroyed files connected to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a long-rumored "client list" of prominent individuals. Burchett told NewsNation’s “On Balance” that he thinks the documents once existed but were eliminated during President Joe Biden’s term, adding that any material implicating Donald Trump would have surfaced immediately if it still existed. Burchett’s claim surfaced shortly after the Justice Department and FBI released a joint memo stating investigators had found no incriminating client list and no credible evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent figures. The review also reaffirmed previous findings that Epstein died by suicide in a New York federal detention center in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. The congressman said he believes “very prominent people” could have been implicated by the missing records, although he offered no evidence to support the allegation. The Justice Department said in its memo that "no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted."