The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released more than 30,000 pages of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, just hours after a closed-door meeting with six people who alleged Epstein sexually abused them.
The files include Customs and Border Protection’s log of flight locations of Epstein’s plane from 2000 to 2014 and forms consistent with reentry back to the U.S., a disclosure that Oversight Committee Democrats identified as new.
Many of the remaining documents were already in the public record, including a video of Metropolitan Correctional Center from the night of Epstein’s death, Supreme Court filings from Ghislaine Maxwell, a DOJ Office of the Inspector General report on Epstein’s death and a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to FBI Director Kash Patel on releasing the Epstein files, according to a summary from Oversight Democrats.
The files also contain communications between the Bureau of Prisons and the DOJ regarding Epstein’s death and police reports and court filings from his criminal case in Florida.
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It’s unclear whether this batch of files released from the committee is everything from the case that lawmakers want publicly released. The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The document dump also comes amid several new developments in the Epstein saga on Capitol Hill. Last week, the House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to Epstein’s estate for documents and communications. A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Speaker Mike Johnson, met Tuesday afternoon with the six people.
Rep. Thomas Massie also introduced the discharge petition Tuesday that would force a vote for the DOJ to publicly release all files related to Epstein. Hours before the Oversight panel published the files, Massie told reporters that “this is all still already on the internet.”
“I think that’s the danger that the speaker and the Oversight Committee are running here right now, is that when people find out it’s a nothingburger, they’re going to be even more mad,” Massie told reporters.
Democrats generally agreed with Massie’s sentiment, hardly sounding the alarm about the contents of the much-anticipated files. The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia, said in a statement that the “overwhelming majority” of the documents were already public and called the disclosure incomplete.
“To distract from their continued White House cover-up, the DOJ released the interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell,” Garcia said. “Maxwell is desperately seeking a pardon from the Trump administration and cannot be trusted.”
“DOJ’s limited disclosure raises more questions than answers and makes clear that the White House is not interested in justice for the victims or the truth,” he added.
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