Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Senate Finance Committee.
Epstein, who was a wealthy financier, died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges.
Through tears, a group of women who say they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein shared their stories on Capitol Hill as they called on lawmakers to support the release of records that the Department of Justice has so far withheld from Congress.
"This is not a hoax. It's not going to go away," said Marina Lacerda, a central witness in Epstein's 2019 indictment who spoke with ABC News.
Anouska De Georgiou, the first survivor of Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell to step to the podium, said the victims are coming together to have their voices be heard.
Several of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims spoke publicly on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 3, in an attempt to urge Congress to release more evidence on the billionaire predator.
While some of the Justice Department's Epstein files were released the day prior, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna hosted the bipartisan press conference to call for full government transparency, including in regard to President Donald Trump's history with Epstein.
Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, offering at times emotional stories about the abuse they endured as they advocated for legislation to compel the Justice Department to release more documents related to its investigation. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Ro Khanna (D-California) are collecting signatures to try to force a floor vote on the measure. On Tuesday night, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 33,295 pages of documents, but they appear to mostly contain information that was already in the public domain. A group called Stand With Survivors held a rally on Capitol Hill before the news conference.
Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, offering at times emotional stories about the abuse they endured as they advocated for legislation to compel the Justice Department to release more documents related to its investigation. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Ro Khanna (D-California) are collecting signatures to try to force a floor vote on the measure. On Tuesday night, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 33,295 pages of documents, but they appear to mostly contain information that was already in the public domain. A group called Stand With Survivors held a rally on Capitol Hill before the news conference.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to call for the release of all files related to the government’s investigation into the convicted child sex offender, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. They also urged the government not to give Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking, special treatment.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein stood on the steps of the US Capitol to demand the full release of files related to the government investigation into his sex-trafficking ring, warning that “time is up”. Accusers of Epstein and his British former partner Ghislaine Maxwell spoke on Wednesday alongside the Democratic representative Ro Khanna and the Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who are leading the push to have Congress vote to force the unsealing of the documents and end the “cover-up”.
Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, offering at times emotional stories about the abuse they endured as they advocated for legislation to compel the Justice Department to release more documents related to its investigation. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Ro Khanna (D-California) are collecting signatures to try to force a floor vote on the measure.
As survivors of abuse inflicted by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pleaded on Capitol Hill Wednesday for the release of investigative files, Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie accused House GOP leaders of using “the oldest trick in the swamp” to avoid the issue. An unusually large crowd gathered outside the U.S. House to hear from the women, who described emotional manipulation and physical coercion, beginning as early as age 14 in some cases, at the hands of Epstein and convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse say they'll compile their own "list" of high-profile people in Epstein's circle who played a role in abusing and trafficking young girls. Ten of Epstein’s victims, some of whom have never spoken publicly before, addressed the public Wednesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill. The press conference, organized by a bipartisan pair of lawmakers, aimed to force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring the Justice Department to release all of its files on Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in a New York jail cell in 2019.
Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse signaled their support on Wednesday for a bipartisan resolution to release all the files related to the convicted sex offender, who died in a Manhattan prison in 2019.
Speaking outside the US Capitol, Anouska De Georgiou, a survivor of both Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, said that while “every day of this journey toward healing has come at a profound cost to my mental health”, she had chosen to be there because this legislation “really matters”.
The only motive to oppose the bill would be to “conceal wrongdoing”, she added, but also issued a plea to Donald Trump to use his power and influence to help release the full tranche of records on Epstein.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse made their voices heard Wednesday on Capitol Hill, pressuring lawmakers to force the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier and pushing back on President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss the issue as a “hoax.”
In a news conference on the Capitol lawn that drew hundreds of supporters and chants of “release the files,” the women shared — some publicly for the first time — how they were lured into Epstein’s abuse by his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. They demanded that the Trump administration provide transparency and accountability for what they endured as teenagers.
