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The photos released Thursday were among more than 95,000 that
the House Oversight Committee has received after issuing a
subpoena for the photos that Epstein had in his possession
before he died in a New York jail cell in 2019. Congress has
also passed, and President Donald Trump has signed, a law
requiring the Justice Department to release its case files on
Epstein, and his longtime girlfriend and confidante Ghislaine
Maxwell, by Friday. Anticipation about what those files will
show is running high after they have been the subject of
conspiracy theories and speculation about his friendships with
Trump, former President Bill Clinton, the former Prince Andrew,
and others.
House Democrats have already released dozens of photos from
Epstein's estate showing Trump, Clinton and Andrew, who lost his
royal title and privileges this year amid scrutiny of his
relationship with the wealthy financier. The photos released
Thursday showed Epstein cooking with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem,
an Emirati businessman. The photos also include the billionaire
Bill Gates and images of a 2011 dinner of notable people and
wealthy philanthropists hosted by a nonprofit group. The
committee made no accusations of wrongdoing by the men in the
photos.
There were also images of passports, visas and identification
cards from Russia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, South Africa and
Lithuania with personally identifying information redacted, as
well as photos of Epstein with women or girls whose faces were
blacked out. The committee has said it is redacting information
from the photos that may lead to the identity of victims being
revealed.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the oversight panel,
said in a statement that the "new images raise more questions
about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its
possession. We must end this White House cover-up, and the DOJ
must release the Epstein files now.”
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