The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Republican majority released a report November 10 calling for renewed Justice Department interviews and a review of financial institutions’ suspicious-activity reporting in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The report follows a 15-month inquiry involving 19 interviews and depositions, financial records and government documents.
- The report recommends that DOJ interview or reinterview key witnesses and further investigate sexual-assault allegations raised during the committee’s inquiry.
- It urges Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to review banks’ compliance with reporting requirements. The report says some suspicious activity was reported only after Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
- Lawmakers recommend giving survivors and their representatives access to their own unredacted records, citing concerns about access and disclosures of sensitive personal information.
- The report backs H.R. 10389, the Survivor’s Voice Protection Act, to protect survivors and witnesses who speak about sexual abuse despite confidentiality agreements.
- It also recommends tighter scrutiny of non-prosecution agreements and stronger enforcement of conflict-of-interest policies. These are recommendations, not newly enacted requirements.
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