Washington – A chamber committee voted on Wednesday to assign the Ministry of Justice for the files related to the investigation into the sex offender sentenced Jeffrey Epstein, as the Republican leaders have Resistant action On the question.
Democrats from a sub-comity of the Chamber’s supervisory committee forced a vote on assignment, and three Republicans voted alongside Democratic members. House GOP Leaders opposed A separate measure which would oblige the Ministry of Justice to release equipment on Epstein, and President Trump urged his supporters to go beyond the issue.
The request for assignment to the Ministry of Justice, which was offered by the Democrat representative Summer Lee de Pennsylvania, was adopted during a vote of 8-2. The Republican representatives Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Scott Perry de Pennsylvania and Brian Jack of Georgia voted in favor.
The Republicans modified the assignment to also include communications related to Epstein between former President Joe Biden, officials of the Biden administration and the Ministry of Justice.
The subcommittee also approved by vocal voting assignments for former President Bill Clinton; Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton; Former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller; And the former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, William Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales. The motion was introduced by Perry.
“The American people want to know what’s in this case,” said Lee. “The American people want transparency. In the end, we must send a message that if you are the smallest guy or that you are the most powerful person of this nation, that if you commit a crime, if you do things that we are not supposed to do, that there will be a certain responsibility.”
The republican representative James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the chamber’s supervisory committee, will publish the assignments to appear in the future, said a committee assistant to CBS News. Commer was not present for the votes of the subcommittee.
In the past, the Ministry of Justice sought to avoid to put back Information on criminal surveys at Congress.
The Epstein affair has drawn more attention in recent weeks, from a ministry of justice and the FBI assertive revision This Epstein did not have an incriminating “customer list” and died by suicide in police custody.
Earlier Wednesday, Comme assignment garden The accomplice of Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell to sit for a deposit such as benefits on the Trump administration of the Epstein case is intensifying. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 For his role in the aid to the recruit of Epstein, the groom and the mistreatment of minor girls. She is purge a 20 -year prison sentence. Epstein died in police custody in 2019 when he was facing accusations of sex trafficking.
The Trump administration was under pressure to disclose more information on Epstein. Last week, the Ministry of Justice Questioned the judges To ancell the transcriptions of the great jury on cases of Epstein and Maxwell. These requests must be examined by the federal courts and a judge in Florida earlier Wednesday refused a request To a question the files of the Grand Jury to investigate Epstein in the 2000s.
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