Washington (AP) -The Ministry of Justice has agreed to carry out congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein examination of sex trade, said an crucial legislator of the legislator when he announced a move, which at least temporarily averted a potential separation of powers clash.
The records are to be handed over to the House Oversight Committee from Friday, which at the beginning of this month issued a broad summons to the Ministry of Justice about criminal proceedings that has long since fascinated public attention, recently the top sprouts of the administration of President Donald Trump and a consistent magnet for conspiracy theories.
“There are many records in the custody of doj, and the time will take the time to create all records and ensure that the identification of victims and any sexual abuse material is reduced,” said the chairman of Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the chair of the Republican Committee. “I appreciate the commitment of the Trump administration for transparency and efforts to provide the American population information on this matter.
As a wealthy and well -networked financier, Epstein was found dead weeks after his arrest in 2019 in his New York prison cell in what the investigators ruled a suicide. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 when he helped having helped juvenile girls to be sexually abused by Epstein and served a 20-year prison sentence.
The refuge of the committee applied for all documents and communications from the case files from Epstein and his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell. It also called for records on communication between the democratic President Joe Bidens Administration and the Ministry of Justice in relation to Epstein and documents in connection with an earlier federal investigation by Epstein in Florida, which led to a non -contract agreement in 2007.
It was not clear which or how many documents could be created or whether the cooperation with the congress has reflected a broader change in the attitude since last month when the FBI and the Ministry of Justice abruptly announced that they would not release any additional records from the Epstein examination after it was found that no further disclosure was appropriate “.
The Trump administration brought this announcement to the defensive, with officials since then both enraged questions from the base of the President, depressed and worked on appearing transparently.
The deputy attorney at General Todd Blanche interviewed Maxwell in a courthouse in Florida last month in a courthouse in Florida – although the Ministry of Justice was also not published by these talks – and the Ministry of Justice also tried to remove the Grand Jury transcripts in the cases of Epstein and Maxwell, although these inquiries were directed.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice refused to comment on Monday.
The committee separated the committee to eight former law enforcement officers as well as the former democratic President Bill Clinton and former Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton was part of a number of lights that were familiar with Epstein, a wealthy financier, before the criminal investigation against him in Florida became public two decades ago. Clinton has never been accused of one of the women who say that Epstein misused them.
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Alanna Durkin Associated Press, Alanna Durkin in Washington, contributed to this report.
