Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, during a quality league extracurricular the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025.
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Two members of the House of Representatives asked a national justice successful New York connected Thursday to name a alleged peculiar maestro to guarantee that each materials related to notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein are released by the Department of Justice arsenic required by the instrumentality they promoted.
Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., successful their petition for that autarkic monitor, blasted the DOJ for failing to conscionable a Dec. 19 deadline to merchandise each of the Epstein files.
"The behaviour by the DOJ is not lone a flagrant usurpation of the mandatory disclosure obligations nether the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but arsenic this Court has recognized successful its erstwhile rulings, the behaviour by the DOJ has caused superior trauma to survivors," Massie and Khanna wrote to Manhattan Federal Court Judge Paul Engelmayer successful a missive obtained by CNBC. The missive was archetypal reported by MS Now.
"As leads of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, we person urgent and sedate concerns astir DOJ's nonaccomplishment to comply with the Act, arsenic good arsenic the Department's violations of this Court's order," the missive said.
The DOJ, successful a tribunal filing earlier this week, said that it inactive needs to reappraisal much than 2 cardinal documents related to Epstein.
To date, the DOJ has publically released conscionable a tiny fraction of that: less than 13,000 documents, that filing said.
"The Department of Justice is openly defying the instrumentality by refusing to merchandise the afloat Epstein files. Millions of files are being kept from the public," Khanna said successful a connection to CNBC.
"The DOJ has failed to marque the indispensable redactions to support survivors portion removing records aft work without immoderate explanation," Khanna said.
"That is wherefore we are requesting the assignment of a Special Master to oversee the merchandise of the files and guarantee that the DOJ is pursuing the law," helium said.
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Massie and Khanna, successful their missive to Engelmayer, besides noted that the DOJ has truthful acold failed to supply the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with a study connected redactions that the section made to documents and connected immoderate materials that are withheld from release.
"To date, nary specified study has been provided. Without it, determination is nary authoritative accounting of what records exist, what has been withheld, oregon why, making effectual oversight and judicial reappraisal acold much difficult," Massie and Khanna wrote, according to MS Now.
"Put simply, the DOJ cannot beryllium trusted with making mandatory disclosures nether the Act."
Engelmayer oversees the transgression lawsuit that led to the condemnation of Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, connected charges of procuring underage girls for him to sexually abuse.
CNBC has requested remark from the DOJ astir the letter.
Epstein, 66, killed himself successful a Manhattan national jailhouse successful August 2019, weeks aft being arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges.
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