Affair about sex offenders: US committee publishes Epstein documents

A committee of the House of Representatives in the USA has published thousands of pages with documents on the fall of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee of the parliamentary chamber said that the more than 33,000 pages of document collection provided the committee of the parliamentary chamber responsible for supervisory issues. It was initially unclear whether the documents previously contained unknown information. According to the “Washington Post”, it is a first thrust of documents, which may follow further publications due to cross -party demands for more transparency.

Dealing with the Causa Epstein is delicate for the Republicans and the US government of President Donald Trump: In the past few months, too, voices have become voices in the past few months that require all documents to be disclosed. Trump is under pressure because he had vehemently spoken out in the election campaign for disclosure of the files.

In the middle of last month, the US government’s project became known to hand over documents from the investigation against Epstein to the Congress. In a statement by the Republican committee chairman James Comer, it was said that the Ministry of Justice informed the Supervisory Committee of the House of Representatives that it would start to provide documents in a few days. “It will take some time for all documents and the identification of the victims and all material about sexual child abuse are blackened,” he said in the course of this. The ministry followed with its step of an arrangement Comers from the beginning of August.

Wild speculation about Epstein’s death

Epstein, who had sexually misused underage for many years and was said to have been the linchpin of an entire abuse ring with dozens of victims, was arrested and accused in 2019. According to official information, the 66-year-old committed suicide in his prison cell in the same year. In parts of the US company, his death caused wild speculation because Epstein had the best contacts in the American high society. Prominent and billionaires went in and out of him-Trump also spent time with Epstein, as several party videos show.