Epstein recordsdata stay updates as Home Democrats launch photographs from new trove

Filmmaker Woody Allen and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers are among the many well-known figures depicted in photographs launched Thursday by the Oversight Committee.

One picture reveals Summers inside a jet. It’s unclear from the picture if the plane was Epstein’s. 

Summers, a former president of Harvard College, resigned from the board of OpenAI and left quite a lot of different roles — together with his Harvard instructing place — after paperwork launched in November confirmed quite a lot of compromising emails between him and Epstein. The exchanges between Summers and Epstein embrace one wherein they appeared to banter a couple of girl Summers knew in London, with Epstein seeming to supply him recommendation.

Summers is amongst a slew of well-known and highly effective individuals who have downplayed their connections to Epstein, just for paperwork to indicate that they had extra concerned relationships than they acknowledged. Amongst these spending appreciable time in Epstein’s orbit was Allen, who has stated beforehand that his ties to Epstein have been restricted to social occasions at Epstein’s residence, at all times with Allen’s spouse current.

Allen is seen in at the very least three photos. In a single he is seen speaking to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. In one other he seems to be eating with Epstein, and in a 3rd, Epstein seems to be on set as Allen works.

Not less than three of the photographs launched by the Oversight Committee present both President Trump or former President Invoice Clinton. The photographs have been launched with out context, and it is unclear the place or once they have been snapped. Neither of them has been accused of wrongdoing.

In a single black-and-white image, Mr. Trump is seen smiling as he poses with six girls, whose faces are redacted. In one other, he’s seen alongside Epstein, as they discuss to a smiling girl whose face is just not redacted.

Mr. Trump has acknowledged he knew Epstein socially within the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s however stated he reduce ties years in the past. 

Clinton is proven in a signed {photograph} posing with Epstein, Maxwell and two others.

A spokesperson for Clinton stated in 2019 after Epstein was indicted on federal fees that the previous president took 4 journeys on Epstein’s aircraft in 2002 and 2003, touring to Europe, Asia and Africa. Angel Ureña, the spokesperson, stated the journeys included stops in reference to the Clinton Basis, and workers, basis supporters, and Clinton’s Secret Service element have been on each leg of each journey. 

“President Clinton is aware of nothing in regards to the horrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded responsible to in Florida some years in the past or these with which he has been just lately charged in New York,” he stated.

In a launch, Democrats on the committee stated the brand new launch comes from a trove of 95,000 photographs the Epstein property has produced to Congress. 

“This newest manufacturing accommodates over 95,000 photographs, together with photos of the rich and highly effective males who frolicked with Jeffrey Epstein. Photos additionally embrace hundreds of images of ladies and Epstein properties,” the discharge stated. “Committee Democrats are reviewing the total set of photographs and can proceed to launch photographs to the general public within the days and weeks forward.”

The Trump administration faces a Dec. 19 deadline to provide paperwork associated to Epstein beneath a brand new regulation referred to as the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, which Congress handed in November. 

The regulation required the Justice Division to publicly launch recordsdata associated to Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell inside 30 days, with some exceptions for survivors’ private data and different delicate materials.

That effort is separate from the Oversight Committee’s probe, which issued subpoenas to the Division of Justice and Epstein’s property earlier this yr. The Division of Justice has produced about 30,000 to 35,000 paperwork, a supply acquainted stated in late November. Current public releases from the committee embrace photos of Epstein’s non-public island, and a now-infamous “birthday e book” with a tawdry drawing surrounding a observe that seems to bear President Trump’s signature. He has denied penning the observe. 

Productions from Epstein’s property are ongoing, and the committee is more likely to launch different batches of recordsdata within the months after the Justice Division’s Dec. 19 deadline. The committee additionally just lately issued subpoenas to banks that had relationships with Epstein, and has vowed to launch materials stemming from that.

Over the previous week, three federal judges have ordered grand jury materials from circumstances involving Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to be unsealed after the Justice Division renewed requests for the information to be made public following enactment of the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Decide Richard Berman ordered the discharge of grand jury supplies and investigative information, paperwork and communications stemming from the Justice Division’s 2019 investigation into Epstein.

The disgraced financier was indicted on intercourse trafficking fees within the Southern District of New York in July 2019. He died by suicide at a Manhattan correctional facility weeks later whereas awaiting trial.

A second choose in New York, Paul Engelmayer, granted the Justice Division’s request to unseal a “voluminous” set of grand jury transcripts and proof from the federal case in opposition to Maxwell, a longtime good friend of Epstein’s. She was convicted of intercourse trafficking fees in 2021 and is serving a 20-year jail sentence.

Final week, a choose in Florida, Rodney Smith, agreed to make public grand jury transcripts from proceedings in 2005 and 2007, when panels have been convened in West Palm Seaside.

Epstein evaded federal fees after reaching a cope with federal prosecutors in Miami, which noticed him plead responsible to state prostitution fees.