Tens of thousands of Epstein-related records from DOJ released, Oversight Committee says

[ad_1] The Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform stated it has launched tens of hundreds of data associated to Jeffrey Epstein, supplied by the Division of Justice.

"On August 5, Chairman Comer issued a subpoena for data associated to Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the Division of Justice has indicated it'll proceed producing these data whereas guaranteeing the redaction of sufferer identities and any youngster sexual abuse materials," the committee stated in a launch saying the discharge of 33,295 pages of Epstein-related data that included a hyperlink for the place to entry them.

Democratic members of the committee have beforehand stated that a lot of the recordsdata turned over by the DOJ are already public; California Rep. Ro Khanna has stated 97% are within the public area, whereas 3% are new.

This picture supplied by the New York State Intercourse Offender Registry reveals Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017.

New York State Intercourse Offender Registry

The Trump administration has been coping with the fallout from its determination to not launch supplies associated to the investigation into Epstein, the rich financier and convicted intercourse offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, following the blowback it acquired from MAGA supporters after it introduced final month that no extra recordsdata could be launched.

Epstein, whose personal island property was within the U.S. Virgin Islands, has lengthy been rumored to have saved a "shopper listing" of celebrities and politicians, which right-wing influencers have baselessly accused authorities of hiding.

The Justice Division and FBI introduced in July that that they had discovered no proof that Epstein saved a shopper listing, after a number of prime officers, earlier than becoming a member of the administration, had themselves accused the federal government of protecting info relating to the Epstein case.