A US congressional committee has revealed a plethora of documents connected to the FBI investigation against late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The House Oversight Committee released 33,295 papers, which included flight logs, jail surveillance video, court files, audio recordings, and emails.
Republicans and Democrats alike claimed the papers included little new material, and it is unclear whether the Justice Department is hiding other Epstein records.
After the Justice Department stated in July that there was no “incriminating” Epstein client list, President Donald Trump’s allies have pushed for greater transparency in the investigation into the well-connected financier.
Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer ordered that the records be disclosed online on Tuesday.
The Republican-led panel obtained the documents after issuing a formal summons to the Department of Justice last month.
But Comer, a Kentucky congressman, admitted there was little new information.
“As far as I can see, there’s nothing new in the documents,” he told NBC News.
The videos published on Tuesday show footage from outside Epstein’s New York jail cell on the night he died.
It contains 13 hours and 41 seconds of video from the facility, covering the evening of August 9 to the morning of August 10, 2019, when Epstein died.
This is two hours more footage than the Justice Department disclosed two months ago.
However, the newly released tape does not feature the “missing minute”—a timecode jump between 23:00 and 00:00, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS.
Attorney General Pam Bondi previously stated that the “missing minute” was simply the jail’s video system resetting every night.
However, the seeming irregularity fueled conspiracy rumors concerning the official conclusion that Epstein committed suicide.
The convicted pedophile has previously socialized with Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and British monarch Prince Andrew.
The docs also include multiple 2006 video recordings of conversations with people who claimed to be victims of Epstein.
Their faces are blurred, and their names have been taken from the recording as they discuss alleged sexual abuse while working as masseuses.
Other films show police bodycam footage from Palm Beach, Florida, as they search Epstein’s home.
Some of the documents go back 20 years, to an early criminal inquiry into Epstein started by Palm Beach police.
However, Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, issued a statement saying, “To the American people, don’t be fooled.
“After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public.
“There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims.”
