House Oversight report faults federal Epstein response and urges DOJ witness interviews
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday issued a sharply critical report on how the U.S. federal government handled investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement that the government had failed survivors of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes for decades.
The report asks the Department of Justice to interview or re-interview key witnesses with information about Epstein’s sex trafficking of young women and girls. It also calls for further investigation of alleged criminal activity involving Epstein’s associates, and for survivors to be given unredacted access to their records.
Separately, the committee urged Congress to pass legislation sponsored by Comer that would let survivors of sexual abuse speak freely about their experiences even if they had signed confidentiality agreements. The findings are framed as a long-running failure of federal response rather than a single missed step, and they set out both investigative follow-up at the Justice Department and a legislative path in Congress.
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