The Justice Department on Friday began providing Congress with thousands of pages of documents from its investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, responding to a subpoena from the House’s principal investigative committee.
The batch of material missed a Tuesday deadline set by the panel for the Justice Department to produce all of its files related to Mr. Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence, and did not include all of the investigative material.
Still, Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican who chairs the Oversight Committee, praised the department, writing on social media that it was “moving at a pace far faster than anything ever produced by the Biden” administration’s Justice Department.
It was not known what was in the files provided to the panel, which have not been publicly released. A spokeswoman said the committee intended to do so after a thorough review to ensure any victims’ identification and child sexual abuse material were redacted, and after consulting with the Justice Department to ensure that any documents released would not damage ongoing criminal cases and investigations.
Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the panel, said on social media that his team was “beginning a careful review process” of the material that was provided and would “share additional information as we learn more.”
The move was the most significant release of material from the case since the Justice Department and F.B.I. announced in early July that they were concluding the Epstein investigation, prompting intense backlash from President Trump’s supporters on the right.
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