House lawmakers learned “additional names” of persons of interest who could provide further information about Jeffrey Epstein during an hours-long meeting with six of the deceased sex trafficker’s victims on Tuesday, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed.
The powerful chairman of the House Oversight Committee emerged from the over two-hour, closed-door meeting with Epstein’s victims and said he and other lawmakers had “learned of some additional names today.”
An Oversight rep clarified that the additional names were “persons of interest who would possess information” about the dead pedophile or any alleged co-conspirators.
Bipartisan pressure to release files related to the federal investigation into Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019, divided Republicans and slowed legislative business before the August recess. Now that lawmakers are back in town, they will have to grapple with several House efforts to make the files public, most notably through a committee inquiry and a procedural push.
House lawmakers learned “additional names” of persons of interest who could provide further information about Jeffrey Epstein during an hours-long meeting with six of the deceased sex trafficker’s victims on Tuesday, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed. The powerful chairman of the House Oversight Committee emerged from the over two-hour, closed-door meeting with Epstein’s victims and said he and other lawmakers had “learned of some additional names today.”
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, responding to mounting pressure in Congress to force more disclosure in the case. Still, the files mostly contain information that was already publicly known or available. The folders — posted on Google Drive — contained hundreds of image files of years-old court filings related to Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 as he faced charges for sexually abusing teenage girls, and Maxwell, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for assisting him.
Congress returned to session on Tuesday, and with it comes a political headache for Donald Trump in the form of renewed attention on the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his death, a subject that the president has sought to avoid in recent weeks.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said it has released tens of thousands of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, provided by the Department of Justice. "On August 5, Chairman Comer issued a subpoena for records related to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the Department of Justice has indicated it will continue producing those records while ensuring the redaction of victim identities and any child sexual abuse material," the committee said in a release announcing the release of 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records that included a link for where to access them.
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released more than 33,000 pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier whose sex trafficking charges and 2019 death in federal custody have drawn years of public speculation.
