The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received new materials from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The delivery of documents comes in response to a recent letter from congressional investigators to the estate, requesting cash ledgers, message logs, calendars and flight logs in the estate’s possession.
“[T]he Epstein estate has produced unredacted calendars, call logs, and cash ledgers to the Oversight Committee,” said an Oversight committee aide, granted anonymity to speak freely about the panel’s ongoing investigation into the Epstein case. “We intend to make records public once victims’ names are redacted.”
This tranche of materials is the third set of documents from the Epstein estate. Already, it has turned over the so-called birthday book that allegedly included a message for Epstein written by President Donald Trump.
Trump has denied connection to the letter, which includes the outline of a woman’s body, and sued the Wall Street Journal, which was first to report on the message.
The estate has also turned over Epstein’s last will and testament, pages that appeared to be from a contact book, along with other materials.
Epstein’s estate has been cooperating with the panel’s request, as House GOP leadership has continued to face an insurgent effort among lawmakers to force a floor vote on a full release of the Epstein files in the Justice Department’s possession.
The so-called discharge petition to bypass leadership and force that vote is a joint effort led by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and it’s poised to reach the necessary 218 signatures in the coming days — Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is expected to sign on once she is formally sworn into office.
In recent months, House GOP leaders have pointed to the Oversight probe as a better alternative to the Massie-Khanna bill. House Oversight chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has argued his investigation goes far beyond what would be required for the DOJ to turn over, pointing to the documents that have been produced from the Epstein estate.
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