Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Friday his panel had begun receiving materials from the Treasury Department as part of its investigation into the agency’s handling of the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
Some suspicious activity reports, which have been redacted, are already in the panel’s possession, the Kentucky Republican told reporters just before congressional investigators began their interview with Alex Acosta. Acosta, Trump’s former Secretary of Labor, brokered the controversial plea deal during his tenure as U.S. attorney in southern Florida that many believe allowed Epstein to continue to prey on women for years.
Comer added that the panel had plans to see unredacted materials on site at Treasury.
“The Trump administration is fully cooperating with us,” he told reporters, amid continued scrutiny of the administration’s slow release of additional materials in the Epstein case in compliance with a House Oversight subpoena. “We’re gonna continue to try to seek answers.”
Earlier this week, Epstein’s victims were sharply critical of testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel to members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, during which Patel said there was no credible evidence in the FBI’s possession that Epstein trafficked women to other people.
“We’ve expressed to the victims it would be helpful if if they would give us some names of some people,” Comer said.
He added that, if a list exists of people to whom Epstein trafficked women and girls, his committee would find that list. If it doesn’t exist, said Comer, the panel would seek to compile its own.
Acosta did not answer questions from reporters as he walked to his interview with committee members.
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