Oversight Committee Democrats: ‘Photos were released to provide transparency’published at 18:00 GMT
Image source, Reuters
Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee have released a statement after they released more photos from the Epstein estate.
They say the Epstein estate did not provide context for the photos, but the Oversight Democrats describe the newly released images as “passports of women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were engaging, photos of rich and powerful men in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, and concerning text messages about recruiting women for Jeffrey Epstein”.
“Photos were selected to provide the public with transparency into a representative sample of the photos received from the estate, and to provide insights into Epstein’s network and his extremely disturbing activities,” it says.
The statement says the committee has thousands of images in its posession from the Epstein estate “both graphic and mundane”.
Top Democrat on the committee, Robert Garcia, says “these new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession”, and urges it to release the Epstein files now.
For context: Congress has passed a bill – signed by Trump – which means the justice department has to release the Epstein files by 19 December, although there are some caveats.
