House Oversight Panel Recommends DOJ Renew Its Probe of Jeffrey Epstein's Associates
The committee said federal authorities failed victims for decades and urged renewed witness interviews and new probes into Epstein associates.
- On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee released a report exposing federal failures that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to abuse young women for decades. Kentucky Republican James Comer led the 15-month investigation, which included 19 interviews and depositions.
- Federal authorities repeatedly failed victims, according to investigators who reviewed Justice Department and Epstein estate documents. Comer declared the government enabled Epstein's crimes for decades, allowing the disgraced financier to escape serious consequences despite mounting abuse allegations.
- Nineteen of the twenty sought individuals testified before the committee, including former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Leon Black alone refused to appear.
- Republicans called the Democratic investigation an 'obsession' to implicate President Donald Trump, though the report found no evidence linking him to crimes. Meanwhile, political ads in Kansas and Florida accused GOP senators of 'protecting pedophiles' with their votes.
- The report called for the Justice Department to interview 'key witnesses' to deliver justice for survivors. Podcaster Joe Rogan called the administration's handling 'a line in the sand,' accusing officials of 'trying to gaslight' the electorate.
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US lawmakers urge new Epstein probe in damning report
US lawmakers called on Tuesday for further criminal investigations into associates of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a scathing report blaming prosecutors, financial institutions and powerful connections for allowing his abuse to continue for years. The Epstein saga has dogged US President Donald Trump, who was friends with the financier for years but has denied any knowledge of his crimes. Accusations that Trump covered up much of t…
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Connect FM | Local News Radio | Dubois, PAHouse panel rebukes DOJ’s handling of Epstein case
In a report summarizing the conclusions of its 15-month Jeffrey Epstein probe, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee rebuked the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein case and recommended that the department renew its investigation of Epstein's associates. The 136-page report blamed the failures by federal [...]
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House Oversight Report Exposes Prosecutorial Conflicts, Institutional Failures That Allowed Epstein Abuse to Continue
A 15-month congressional investigation identified possible conflicts of interest among federal prosecutors, failures by financial institutions and preferential treatment that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to evade ... The post House Oversight Report Exposes Prosecutorial Conflicts, Institutional Failures That Allowed Epstein Abuse to Continue first appeared on [your]NEWS.
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