Home Democrats launch 68 new images from Epstein property

It is unclear what the areas, dates and different total context are for most of the images launched Thursday.

Democrats on the Oversight Committee mentioned a evaluate of some 95,000 images turned over by Epstein’s property is ongoing, however that the property supplied no context for any of the photographs. As an example, one reveals Epstein and a number of other others in what seems to be a convention room with chalkboard and kitchenette. Math may be seen scrawled on the board, however it’s unclear what was being mentioned.

Oversight Democrats mentioned in a press launch accompanying the images that they determined to launch 70 images “in an effort to proceed offering full transparency.”

One picture reveals two camouflage compound bows, and one other reveals a capsule bottle for phenazopyridine. Info on the bottle is blacked out, although it lists an tackle on E. 66th St. in New York Metropolis and the dosage. Epstein owned a large townhouse on E. 71st St.

Phenazopyridine may be taken to alleviate discomfort brought on by urinary tract an infection or irritation, in keeping with the Mayo Clinic. 

A number of images seem to indicate a passage from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” written on completely different components of somebody’s physique.

The first blurry picture reveals a line scrawled on her chest. It reads: “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a visit of three steps down the palate to faucet, at three, on the tooth.”

The subsequent line from the passage seems on her foot, which is seen within the foreground of a photograph. The ebook is seen within the background of the image: 

“She was Lo, plain Lo, within the morning, standing 4 toes ten in a single sock,” the road reads. 

The subsequent line, proven close to the individual’s hip: “She was Lola in slacks,” adopted by an picture of her neck, displaying, “She was Dolly in school.” The closing picture reveals the road, written alongside the individual’s backbone, “She was Dolores on the dotted line.”

Not seen in any photographs is the ultimate line from the passage: “However in my arms she was all the time Lolita.”

Epstein stored a primary version copy of “Lolita” within the workplace of his New York Metropolis residence, in keeping with the New York Instances. The novel is a few man’s obsession with, and sexual abuse of, a 12-year-old woman.

Among the many photographs launched by Home Democrats are numerous journey paperwork and identification playing cards from international nations, in addition to a photograph of Epstein’s U.S. passport.

There are additionally passports from Lithuania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Russia, with most figuring out info blacked out. The passports point out the holders are feminine, and the Democrats mentioned they belonged to “ladies whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators had been partaking.” The discharge additionally features a South African “nationwide identification card” and an Italian driver’s license. 

Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the Oversight Committee, vowed that Democrats will proceed to make public images and paperwork from Epstein’s property “to offer transparency for the American individuals.”

“As we strategy the deadline for the Epstein Information Transparency Act, these new photographs increase extra questions on what precisely the Division of Justice has in its possession,” he mentioned in an announcement. “We should finish this White Home cover-up, and the DOJ should launch the Epstein information now.”

Additionally included is a photograph of a Ukrainian lady’s passport, with figuring out info blacked out:

One other image reveals a screenshot of a collection of textual content messages from an unknown sender. The messages check with an 18-year-old from Russia and point out somebody asking for “1000$ per woman”:

The message consists of redacted private info for a person’s identify, age, measurements, weight and “departure metropolis,” which lists a redacted metropolis and the nation of Russia.

One picture reveals billionaire Invoice Gates with an unidentified lady, whose face is redacted. One other options Epstein with famed linguist Noam Chomsky on a airplane:

Gates has acknowledged spending time with Epstein to hunt contributions and connections associated to Gates’ philanthropy efforts, which he mentioned in 2021 was a “big mistake.”

In response to questions from the Wall Avenue Journal about his relationship with Epstein in 2023, Chomsky replied: “First response is that it’s none of your corporation. Or anybody’s. Second is that I knew him and we met often.” The Journal reported that Chomsky met with Epstein in 2015 and 2016.

Chomsky mentioned that, on the time of his conferences with Epstein, “what was identified about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a criminal offense and had served his sentence. In accordance with U.S. legal guidelines and norms, that yields a clear slate.”

Emails that Chomsky and Epstein exchanged had been amongst paperwork launched by the Home Oversight Committee final month.

That tranche of paperwork additionally included textual content messages between Epstein and Steve Bannon, together with a September 2018 alternate through which Epstein claimed Chomsky had simply referred to as him, alongside Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who on the time was in jail. Lula is now the president of Brazil.

“What a world,” Epstein wrote.

Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee launched 92 images final week that they obtained from Epstein’s property. The batch included photographs of Mr. Trump and former President Invoice Clinton, in addition to different outstanding figures like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and billionaires Invoice Gates and Richard Branson.

Filmmaker Woody Allen and Steve Bannon, a conservative commentator who was an adviser to Mr. Trump in his first time period, are additionally in a few of the images launched by the committee. 

The images don’t implicate any of these pictured in Epstein’s crimes. The White Home accused Democrats of “cherry-picking” the images to “create a false narrative” about Mr. Trump.

The Oversight Committee has acquired roughly 95,000 photographs from Epstein’s property.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and different Senate Democrats wrote to Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday, criticizing the Division of Justice for not interviewing Epstein’s long-time lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn as a part of its prison probes.

Indyke and Kahn at the moment are executors of Epstein’s property.

“The reported failure to interview Indyke and Kahn raises issues that the Division of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation declined to analyze key members of Epstein’s internal circle out of worry of retaliation by Epstein’s property,” Wyden mentioned. “As executors of the property, Indyke and Kahn are in possession of a trove of paperwork and pictures that will include compromising info on President Trump and different highly effective figures.”

They included a collection of questions, together with one asking if the Justice Division ever requested the duo for voluntary interviews.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime affiliate of Epstein’s, requested a federal court docket in New York on Wednesday to put aside her conviction on sex-trafficking costs and 20-year jail sentence. 

Maxwell was discovered responsible in 2021 for her position in a scheme to sexually exploit and abuse minor ladies with Epstein. A federal appeals court docket upheld her conviction and sentence final 12 months, and the Supreme Courtroom in October declined to evaluate her case.

In Maxwell’s newest court docket submitting, which she submitted herself, she argues that “substantial new proof has emerged from associated civil actions, authorities disclosures, investigative stories, and paperwork demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the equity of her proceedings.”

She claimed that the newly accessible proof reveals that “exculpatory info was withheld, false testimony offered, and materials information misrepresented to the jury and the Courtroom.”

Maxwell had initially been serving her sentence at a federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, however was moved to a minimal safety jail camp in Bryan, Texas, this summer season. Her switch got here days after she met with Todd Blanche, the deputy lawyer basic, in Tallahassee in late July to debate Epstein’s case.

The Oversight Committee’s investigation has included subpoenas to the Justice Division, Epstein’s property and banks that had relationships with Epstein.

Whereas the Justice Division is required to make public its paperwork on Friday, there could also be paperwork not at the moment within the authorities’s possession which have but to be turned over to Congress from the property and monetary establishments.

Current public releases from lawmakers on the committee — sourced from Epstein’s property — embody photographs of Epstein’s personal island, and a “birthday ebook” with a vulgar drawing round a observe that seems to bear President Trump’s signature. He has denied writing the observe. 

The committee has but to launch information from Epstein’s banks, however has mentioned it’ll.

Lawmakers of each events on the committee get entry to information produced below subpoenas. In earlier situations, Democrats have launched a small variety of images or information, adopted by a broader launch by the Republican majority.

In November, Congress handed and the president signed a brand new regulation often called the Epstein Information Transparency Act. The regulation requires the lawyer basic to launch all information held by the Justice Division, FBI and U.S. lawyer’s workplaces associated to Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, with exceptions for personnel info of survivors and different slim classes.

The president signed the regulation on Nov. 19, beginning the clock on a 30-day deadline for the administration to launch the information. 

The statute requires Lawyer Common Pam Bondi to publicly launch “all unclassified information, paperwork, communications, and investigative supplies” associated to Epstein and Maxwell. It additionally compels the discharge of flight logs, names of people linked to Epstein, entities linked to his intercourse trafficking operations and authorities information about inner deliberations relating to Epstein.