House Democrats release Epstein photos from new trove

At slightest 3 of the images released by the Oversight Committee amusement either President Trump oregon former President Bill Clinton. The photos were released without context, and it's unclear wherever oregon erstwhile they were snapped. Neither of them has been accused of wrongdoing.

In 1 black-and-white picture, Mr. Trump is seen smiling arsenic helium poses with six women, whose faces are redacted. In another, helium is seen alongside Epstein, arsenic they speech to a smiling pistillate whose look is not redacted.

A photograph produced by the property of Jeffrey Epstein. House Oversight Committee Democrats

A photograph produced by the property of Jeffrey Epstein. House Oversight Committee Democrats

Mr. Trump has acknowledged helium knew Epstein socially successful the 1990s and aboriginal 2000s but said helium chopped ties years ago. 

Clinton is shown successful a signed photograph posing with Epstein, Maxwell and 2 others.

A photograph produced by the property of Jeffrey Epstein. House Oversight Committee Democrats

A spokesperson for Clinton said successful 2019 aft Epstein was indicted connected national charges that the erstwhile president took 4 trips connected Epstein's level successful 2002 and 2003, traveling to Europe, Asia and Africa. Angel Ureña, the spokesperson, said the trips included stops successful transportation with the Clinton Foundation, and staff, instauration supporters, and Clinton's Secret Service item were connected each limb of each trip. 

"President Clinton knows thing astir the unspeakable crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded blameworthy to successful Florida immoderate years agone oregon those with which helium has been precocious charged successful New York," helium said.

In a release, Democrats connected the committee said the caller merchandise comes from a trove of 95,000 photos the Epstein property has produced to Congress. 

"This latest accumulation contains implicit 95,000 photos, including images of the affluent and almighty men who spent clip with Jeffrey Epstein. Images besides see thousands of photographs of women and Epstein properties," the merchandise said. "Committee Democrats are reviewing the afloat acceptable of photos and volition proceed to merchandise photos to the nationalist successful the days and weeks ahead."

The Trump medication faces a Dec. 19 deadline to nutrient documents related to Epstein nether a caller instrumentality known arsenic the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress passed successful November. 

The instrumentality required the Justice Department to publically merchandise files related to Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell wrong 30 days, with immoderate exceptions for survivors' idiosyncratic accusation and different delicate material.

That effort is abstracted from the Oversight Committee's probe, which issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice and Epstein's property earlier this year. The Department of Justice has produced astir 30,000 to 35,000 documents, a root acquainted said successful precocious November. Recent nationalist releases from the committee see images of Epstein's backstage island, and a now-infamous "birthday book" with a tawdry drafting surrounding a enactment that appears to carnivore President Trump's signature. He has denied penning the note. 

Productions from Epstein's property are ongoing, and the committee is apt to merchandise different batches of files successful the months aft the Justice Department's Dec. 19 deadline. The committee besides precocious issued subpoenas to banks that had relationships with Epstein, and has vowed to merchandise worldly stemming from that.

Over the past week, 3 national judges person ordered expansive assemblage worldly from cases involving Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to beryllium unsealed aft the Justice Department renewed requests for the records to beryllium made nationalist pursuing enactment of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman ordered the release of expansive assemblage materials and investigative records, documents and communications stemming from the Justice Department's 2019 probe into Epstein.

The disgraced financier was indicted connected enactment trafficking charges successful the Southern District of New York successful July 2019. He died by suicide astatine a Manhattan correctional installation weeks aboriginal portion awaiting trial.

A 2nd justice successful New York, Paul Engelmayer, granted the Justice Department's request to unseal a "voluminous" acceptable of expansive assemblage transcripts and grounds from the national lawsuit against Maxwell, a longtime person of Epstein's. She was convicted of enactment trafficking charges successful 2021 and is serving a 20-year situation sentence.

Last week, a justice successful Florida, Rodney Smith, agreed to marque nationalist expansive assemblage transcripts from proceedings successful 2005 and 2007, erstwhile panels were convened successful West Palm Beach.

Epstein evaded national charges aft reaching a woody with national prosecutors successful Miami, which saw him plead blameworthy to authorities prostitution charges.