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Justice Department to begin giving Congress files from Jeffrey Epstein investigation, lawmaker says
ERIC TUCKER
AP
Mon, August 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM CDT
3 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has agreed to provide to
Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking
investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move
that appears to avert, at least temporarily, a potential separation of
powers clash.

The records are to be turned over starting Friday to the House
Oversight Committee, which earlier this month issued a broad subpoena
to the Justice Department about a criminal case that has long
captivated public attention, recently roiled the top rungs of President
Donald Trump's administration and been a consistent magnet for
conspiracy theories.

"There are many records in DOJ's custody, and it will take the
Department time to produce all the records and ensure the
identification of victims and any child sexual abuse material are
redacted," Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the Republican committee chair,
said in a statement. "I appreciate the Trump Administration's
commitment to transparency and efforts to provide the American people
with information about this matter.

A wealthy and well-connected financier, Epstein was found dead in his
New York jail cell weeks after his 2019 arrest in what investigators
ruled a suicide. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage
girls to be sexually abused by Epstein and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.

The committee's subpoena sought all documents and communications from
the case files of Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
It also demanded records about communications between Democratic
President Joe Biden's administration and the Justice Department
regarding Epstein, as well as documents related to an earlier federal investigation into Epstein in Florida that resulted in a
non-prosecution agreement in 2007.

It was not clear exactly which or how many documents might be produced
or whether the cooperation with Congress reflected a broader change in
posture since last month, when the FBI and Justice Department abruptly announced that they would not be releasing any additional records from
the Epstein investigation after determining that no "further disclosure
would be appropriate or warranted."

That announcement put the Trump administration on the defensive, with
officials since then scrambling both to tamp down angry questions from
the president's base and also laboring to appear transparent.

more at:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-begin-giving-congress-200649995.html

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