The Government Supervision and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives said that it has published tens of thousands of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, provided by the Department of Justice.
“On August 5, President Eating issued a citation for records related to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the Department of Justice has indicated that he will continue to produce those records while guaranteeing the writing of victims’ identities and any material of child sexual abuse,” said the committee in a release announcing the launch of 33,295 pages of records related to EPStein that included a link Where to access them.
Democratic members of the committee have said that most of the archives delivered by the Department of Justice are already public; California representative, Rue Khanna, said that 97% is in the public domain, while 3% is new.
This photo provided by the Registry of Sexual Criminals of the State of New York shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.
Record of sexual criminals of the state of New York
The Trump Administration has been dealing with the consequences of its decision not to publish materials related to the investigation of Epstein, the Rico Financial and the sentenced sexual offender who died for suicide in jail in 2019, after the setback he received from Maga’s supporters after announcing last month that additional files would be published.
It is rumored that Epstein, whose private property of the island was in the virgin islands of the United States, maintained a “list of customers” of celebrities and politicians, that the right -wing influencers have accused the authorities without foundation of the hiding place.
The Department of Justice and the FBI announced in July that they had not found evidence that Epstein maintained a list of clients, after several senior officials, before joining the Administration, had accused the government of protecting information about Epstein’s case.
Hours before publishing the records on Tuesday, the members of the Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives had a meeting with the victims of Epstein. The representative of the President of Supervision, James Eat, told journalists that he intends to expand the scope of the investigation after listening to the victims, including the new witnesses.
“We are going to do everything possible to give the American public the transparency they are looking for, as well as provide responsibility in memory of the victims who have already died, as well as those in the room and many others that do not appear,” said Eating, R-Ky.
Previously on the floor of the Chamber of the Chamber on Tuesday, Republican representative Thomas Massie formally presented a high request, a procedure tool to avoid the leadership of the Republican Party and force a vote to a measure to force the Department of Justice to publicly release Epstein’s archives.
The representative of Florida, Anna Paulina Luna, which serves in the Supervision Committee of the House of Representatives, saying Before the launch of the files released by Epstein on Tuesday that she does not believe that a vote to release them “even reaches the floor that everyone will be made public.”
Lauren Peller and John Parkinson from ABC News contributed to this report.
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