Ranking Member Robert Garcia Slams House GOP For Releasing Already Public Epstein Records from DOJ, Demands Full Transparency

Washington, D.C. — Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Chairman James Comer released to the public the partial batch of Epstein files from the Department of Justice, consisting largely of already public information. The original 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. 

“The 33,000 pages of Epstein documents James Comer has decided to ‘release’ were already mostly public information. To the American people – don’t let this fool you.

After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public. There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims.

House Republicans are trying to make a spectacle of releasing already-public documents. Pam Bondi has said the client list was on her desk. She could release it right now if she wanted to. 

While Comer tries to give cover to Trump by re-releasing public documents, House Democrats are fighting for real transparency. Pam Bondi must comply with our subpoena immediately, and release all of the documents. The American people demand it.”

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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