WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are getting the chance to review the millions of documents in the Epstein files without any redactions.
U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Florida, is one of the first lawmakers to see the unredacted files. He spoke with Local 10 News at the Capitol on Tuesday.
The congressman did not hold back what he saw in the files and says he is going back Tuesday to continue parsing through those documents.
Moskowitz calls what he read disturbing, describing a global web of people who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to abuse underage girls.
But he also says finding information was a challenge and the system set up by the U.S. Department of Justice is difficult to navigate.
Lawmakers are getting to review these files without redactions after bipartisan frustration over the amount of information blacked out in what’s been released to the public.
The law forcing their release says information can only be redacted if it identifies victims or compromises either an active investigation or national security.
But in these original versions, Moskowitz says he has seen the names of multiple people who participated in Epstein’s crimes.
Local 10 News asked him about those co-conspirators.
“A lot of the co-conspirators I saw are not household names and a lot of them would surprise (the public), because a lot of them were women, but what I read was just gross,” Moskowitz said.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, family members of one of Epstein’s most well-known survivors, Virginia Giuffre, were meeting with lawmakers to introduce a new bill, “The Virginia Act.”
Giuffre was one of the first people to come forward and blow the whistle on Epstein.
She died by suicide last year, but was a galvanizing force that helped bring the world’s attention to the abuse she and others suffered.
The bill would end the statute of limitations for survivors of sexual abuse to allow them to pursue justice, regardless of elapsed time.
Overnight, the House Oversight Committee released video of Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony.
The convicted Epstein accomplice refused to answer questions on Monday as she appeared remotely from federal prison.
“I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions,” she told a congressman in response to a question asking her whether she was a “close friend and confidant” of Epstein. “My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York. I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
Maxwell’s attorneys say she will only testify if President Donald Trump grants her clemency from her 20 year prison sentence.
Last year, Trump said he had not considered a pardon for Maxwell, but he has not ruled it out.
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