Ranking Member Robert Garcia Slams Department of Justice for Recycling Already Public Epstein Records, Demands Full Transparency
Washington, D.C. — Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after President Trump’s Department of Justice released a partial batch of the Epstein files to the Committee, consisting largely of already public information, while also releasing the transcript of an interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell to the public. The partial release failed to meet the Department’s legal obligation to provide the full, unredacted documents to the Committee while protecting victims and censoring child sexual abuse materials.
“Trump’s Department of Justice released 33,000 pages of Epstein documents — the overwhelming majority of which are already public.
“To distract from their continued White House cover-up, the DOJ released the interview between Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell is desperately seeking a pardon from the Trump Administration and cannot be trusted.
“DOJ’s limited disclosure raises more questions than answers and makes clear that the White House is not interested in justice for the victims or the truth. Democrats forced a bipartisan vote to subpoena the Epstein files in their entirety, and the Administration must comply. There is no excuse for incomplete disclosures. Survivors and the American public deserve the truth.”
Oversight Committee Democrats’ initial review revealed that of the 33,295 pages of documents released to the Committee, only three percent contained any new information. The remaining 97% of pages included information previously released by the Department of Justice, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement or the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office.
These include:
- Video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center from the night of Epstein’s death
- Supreme Court filings from Ghislaine Maxwell
- Court filings from U.S. v. Maxwell
- Court transcript from U.S. v. Maxwell
- A Department of Justice Office of Inspector General Report on Epstein’s death
- A memo from Attorney General Pamela Bondi to FBI Director Kash Patel on releasing the Epstein files
- Communications between the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice regarding the death of Epstein
- Police reports and court filings from Epstein’s criminal case in Florida
The only new disclosure:
- Less than 1,000 pages from the Customs and Border Protection’s log of flight locations of the Epstein plane from 2000-2014 and forms consistent with reentry back to the U.S.
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