Dear Mr. Neece,
Thank you for contacting me about the Epstein Files.
In November, Congress passed H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all of the Epstein Files within 30 days of the bill becoming law. Now months later, the DOJ remains uncompliant. It has released only a fraction of the documents it was required to, and it continues to drag its feet on the remainder. It also illegally redacted the names of several of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, including President Trump. This is a slap in the face to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and to the American people, who demand transparency from their government.
Before we passed this law, President Trump – despite having made it a campaign promise to release them – worked extremely hard with House Republicans to prevent their release. They did everything they could to intimidate House Republicans into not voting for their release, and Speaker Johnson refused to swear in a duly elected Democratic member of Congress for over 50 days to prevent her from forcing a vote on the release. That they fought so hard to cover up these crimes raises serious questions as to who they were working so hard to protect. The files released so far are horrifying. They contain detailed descriptions of acts of sexual violence that Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators inflicted on survivors, along with gut-wrenching and disturbing emails referencing abusing them in cruel and coded ways. President Trump himself is mentioned in the files over 38,000 times in over 5,300 documents – and that's just in the half that has been made public. His commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, was found to have been planning a trip to Epstein’s island years after he claimed to have ended their relationship and long after Epstein was exposed as a sex trafficker and pedophile.
That Republicans worked so hard to protect these people is disgusting – no one should be shielded from accountability. Jeffrey Epstein victimized hundreds of women and girls in service of the rich, powerful, and well-connected. The co-conspirators, accomplices, and enablers have absolutely no place serving in our government or influencing our politics. The survivors deserve justice, and the American people deserve transparency. I will continue to push for the full release of the files and support any court efforts to compel the DOJ to release them.
Thank you again for contacting my office to share your thoughts. Please continue to call or email me with any other thoughts or suggestions you may have. I’m honored to serve as your voice in Congress, and I’m hard at work bringing our commonwealth’s values to Washington.
Sincerely,
Rep. Morgan McGarvey
Member of Congress
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