WASHINGTON — 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.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., right, talk to reporters after a closed-door meeting with victims in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 2.
Demonstrators protest the policies of President Donald Trump, the Congress, and the delay in the Epstein investigation as lawmakers return from the August recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 2.
MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES
Associated Press
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker, Kevin Freking and Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington, Mike Sisak in New York and Meg Kinnard in Chapin, South Carolina, contributed.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., right, talk to reporters after a closed-door meeting with victims in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 2.
Demonstrators protest the policies of President Donald Trump, the Congress, and the delay in the Epstein investigation as lawmakers return from the August recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 2.