Members of Congress in Washington DC can now view the millions of documents from the investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein files, without the extensive redactions made by the Justice Department. According to a letter sent to lawmakers they can take notes of the documents, but not make electronic copies. Also: lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, say she will speak fully and honestly about her relationship with the late sex offender, but only if President Trump grants her clemency. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, has told his MPs that he will not quit after the leader of his party in Scotland called on him to resign. A lawyer at a landmark trial in California has accused the technology giants, Meta and Google, of deliberately making their platforms addictive to children. Australia’s prime minister has defended a visit by the Israeli president, after clashes in Sydney between police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Officials at the Winter Olympics in Italy are to investigate why medals keep breaking.
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Massie Exposes Les Wexner As Epstein Co-Conspirator, Opening Door To Criminal Charges Against Kash Patel
Although President Donald J. Trump has amplified his attacks against Kentucky representative Thomas Massie on the basis of deluded claims that he is a radical, un-American liberal who is hellbent on sabotaging his administration, it is the congressman’s continued crusade to expose the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein that shows the actual threat he poses to Trump. The latest development in the Epstein Files fallout has clearly proven that the Trump administration’s best attempts to continue to cover up the crimes of Epstein and his accomplices are no match for Massie’s vigilance. After granting members of Congress access to view unredacted versions of the Epstein Files in response to the pressure mounted by Massie, the revelations therein have shown the lengths that the Trump Department of Justice (”DOJ”) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”) have taken to continue the Epstein cover-up, going as far as to break federal law in an increasingly futile attempt to keep the truth from the American public.
The enhanced political pressure from Massie and California representative Ro Khanna following their success in passing The Epstein Files Transparency Act resulted in the Trump DOJ deciding to allow members of Congress to view unredacted files beginning on Monday morning. Members of Congress have been given limited access to view unredacted versions of the Epstein Files on computers at DOJ offices, provided they give 24 hours’ notice, though they will not be given access to the physical documents themselves. The DOJ has limited access to members of Congress alone, excluding any members of their staff. Although members of Congress will be able to take notes on any files they view, the DOJ has prohibited them from bringing any electronic devices into their review sessions. Unredacted documents made accessible to members of Congress are also limited to the trove of over 3 million files that have been released to the public, far short of the full scope of the more than 6 million files the DOJ has said it has in its possession.
Despite being given such limited access, the revelations included in what has been made available have led to a monumental shift that disproves the Trump administration’s narrative that the action it has been taken on the Epstein Files has been made with the aim of providing full transparency. According to representatives Massie and Khanna, they have identified at least six individuals incriminated in Epstein’s crimes, two of whom the FBI has officially labeled as co-conspirators, in the limited time allocated to them on the first day of being able to review the unredacted files whose identities have been obfuscated by the Trump administration despite their apparent complicity. Of those officially acknowledged as a co-conspirator is high-profile Epstein associate and billionaire Les Wexner, whose confirmation as such opens the door to criminal charges being brough against against high-ranking members of the Trump administration.
Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna Reads Aloud Names of Six Men ‘Likely Incriminated’ in Epstein Files
Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA) from the House floor read aloud the names of the six men who are likely incriminated in the Epstein files.
The Justice Department redacted the six names of men likely implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The DOJ recently gave Congress access to the unredacted Epstein files.
A week later, GOP Rep. Massie and Democrat Khanna said they may read the names of the six men on the House floor.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ro Khanna disclosed their names.
“Rep. Thomas Massie and I forced last night the DOJ to disclose the identities of 6 men,” Khanna said.
“Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and Leslie Wexner,” he said.
Last year, President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House overwhelmingly voted for the bill, with only one Republican defector, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), voting against the bill, citing privacy concerns for victims of Epstein.
The Senate later approved the bill by unanimous consent.
Manhattan judge Richard Berman unsealed the documents after President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The court documents are related to the 2019 grand jury indictment charging Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking offenses and the June 2020 grand jury indictment of Ghislaine Maxwell with numerous offenses related to the trafficking and coercion of minors.
“Since July 6, 2025, there has been extensive public interest in the basis for the Memorandum’s conclusions. While the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to adhere to the conclusions reached in the Memorandum, transparency to the American public is of the utmost importance to this Administration,” they wrote in a court filing reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem Named by Massie Over Epstein ‘Torture Video’ Email
Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie named the Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as the individual Jeffrey Epstein had emailed about a “torture video”.
Sulayem is chairman and CEO of DP World, a major global logistics firm based in the UAE. Newsweek has contacted DP World’s media office via email for comment.
The emails were released by the Department of Justice in the Epstein files, but one sender’s name was redacted. Lawmakers have been able to view the unredacted files.
Epstein sent an email on April 24, 2009, that said: “where are you? are you ok , I loved the torture video”
The recipient’s email address and name were redacted.
But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the recipient was identified in the file EFTA00666117, which names “Sultan Bin Sulayem” while redacting the email address.
The nature of the “torture video” is not known.
They replied a day later to say: “I am in china I will be in the US 2nd week of may”
Ghislaine Maxwell Pleads the Fifth in Deposition With Lawmakers
Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions on Feb. 9 in the House Oversight Committee’s probe of her longtime confidant, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right, which protects one from self-incrimination, in response to questions from the committee. She was interviewed by video conference as she was in a federal prison in Texas, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
“As expected, Ghislaine Maxwell took the Fifth and refused to answer any questions. This obviously is very disappointing,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters after the deposition.
“We had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators. We sincerely want to get to the truth for the American people and justice for survivors.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) wrote in a Feb. 8 letter to Comer that Maxwell pleading the Fifth “appears inconsistent with Ms. Maxwell’s prior conduct, as she did not invoke the Fifth Amendment when she previously met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss substantially similar subject matter.”
Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, told lawmakers that his client would be willing to testify that neither President Donald Trump nor former President Bill Clinton engaged in wrongdoing in their relationships with Epstein, according to both Democratic and Republican lawmakers who spoke after the closed-door deposition with Maxwell.
Massie, Khanna spotted 6 individuals ‘likely incriminated’ in unredacted Epstein files
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said they spotted at least six names of individuals “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in the Epstein files after the two reviewed an unredacted tranche of the documents.
Members of Congress were permitted for the first time Monday to review the unredacted versions of all the Department of Justice (DOJ) files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Massie and Khanna were the two lead sponsors of the bill that forced the public release of the files.
“There are six men. We went in there for two hours. There’s millions of files, right? And in a couple of hours, we found six men whose names have been redacted, who are implicated in the way that the files are presented,” Massie told reporters outside the Justice Department office where lawmakers can review the files.
The two lawmakers did not name the men but said one is a high-ranking official in a foreign government while another is a prominent individual.
“None of this is designed to be a witch hunt. Just because someone may be in the files doesn’t mean that they’re guilty. But there are very powerful people who raped these underage girls — it wasn’t just Epstein and [his close associate Ghislaine] Maxwell — or showed up to the island or showed up to the ranch or showed up to the home knowing underage girls were being paraded around,” Khanna said.
Massie said he would not be releasing the names himself.
“I think we need to give the DOJ a chance to go back through and correct their mistakes,” he said.
“They need to themselves check their own homework.”
The law that mandated the release of the files allowed for narrow redactions, but lawmakers and victims of Epstein have raised questions about the breadth of what was blacked out and the fact that some names of victims were not.
Massie described an FBI form that listed conspirators in which the Justice Department redacted the name and photo of one of the men who was listed.
The lawmakers also shed light on one email in the latest tranche that garnered significant attention, in which one redacted individual thanked Epstein for a “fun night” and added, “Your littlest girl was a little naughty.”
Norway Charges Ex-Ambassador and Her Husband with Corruption, One Day After She Resigned in Disgrace Over Being Implicated in Epstein Files
Norway’s anti-corruption watchdog, Økokrim, has brought charges of aggravated corruption against former ambassador Mona Juul over information revealed in the Epstein files.
Juul’s husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, a former diplomat and former president of the International Peace Institute (IPI), faces charges of aiding and abetting.
The newly unsealed files related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have reportedly exposed the couple’s cozy relationship with the notorious sex offender and financier. Juul is named in the files 33 times.
Juul resigned in disgrace as Norway’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq on Sunday.
Buried in DOJ Files: Epstein Was a Fixer for Rothschild Banking Dynasty
By the summer of 2016, Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a well-heeled fixture working the back rooms in the corridors of power—he was a screaming red flag, a multiple convicted sex offender whose dodgy 2008 plea deal for procuring underage girls had already damaged his brand across elite political and financial circles. But not all elite circles. In fact, he was still a go-to partner for the very highest echelons of global power. While digging deeper into the voluminous Epstein Files, a stunning email emerged— to one of Europe’s most formidable bankers, Ariane de Rothschild, the steely head of the Edmond de Rothschild Group. Jeffrey was laying out fiduciary advice as if he were her personal oracle. This correspondence wasn’t the sterile back-and-forth of distant professionals. Rather, it was more like old confidants navigating a epic storm together.
On July 20, 2016, Epstein fired off a link to an article about the erupting 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, where billions had been siphoned from the sovereign wealth fund into a vortex of luxury yachts, Hollywood films, and shadowy international bank accounts. He didn’t just share the news—he provided her with a link to a New York Times article about the 1MDB scandal, before dispensing advice, warning her how American prosecutors might scrutinise her every move in relation to this massive scandal.
Ariane, typing from Luxembourg amid a tense board meeting with lawyers, shot back with raw urgency: “If I don’t go, I die. What do DOJ guys prefer?”(EFTA02456252). It was the cry of a woman cornered, turning not to her army of high-priced attorneys but to a man whose own history reeked of exploitation and evasion.
544 Mentions, Zero Accountability: The Dark Ties Between Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein
What does it mean when a man entrusted to represent the United States abroad appears 544 times in the files of the most notorious child sex trafficker of the modern era? What does it say about American power when a sitting U.S. ambassador and presidential envoy exchanged affectionate messages, coordinated media silence, attended elite off-the-record dinners, and remained in sustained private contact with Jeffrey Epstein years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for sex crimes against minors?
These are not rhetorical flourishes. They are unavoidable questions raised by the Department of Justice’s Epstein files. Those records place Tom Barrack at the centre of Epstein’s world, not its edges. Barrack is no minor figure. He is a billionaire financier, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, a major campaign fundraiser, the chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee, and later the U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye. He is also Trump Special Envoy to Lebanon and Syria.
Barrack does not surface in the files as a distant acquaintance who brushed past Epstein before the scandal broke. He emerges instead as a trusted, repeatedly activated figure within Epstein’s private ecosystem—a man comfortable enough to exchange family photographs, discuss press strategy, attend private dinners with intelligence-linked figures, and maintain casual intimacy with a convicted sexual predator whose entire social universe revolved around secrecy, leverage, and control.
The Epstein files do not simply stain Barrack’s reputation. They force a reckoning with how American diplomacy actually functions when stripped of ceremony and rhetoric. They expose a system where power flows through private inboxes, encrypted apps, and shared silences, and where proximity to a known sex offender is not disqualifying so long as the individual remains useful.
As the reader absorbs this, it becomes evident that Barrack’s presence in Epstein’s orbit was not incidental. To understand why, we must examine the utility he represented—not just as a friend or ally, but as a gatekeeper, a man whose personal and professional capacities made him invaluable to Epstein’s network of influence and secrecy.
David Sacks Exposes New York Times For Shielding Reid Hoffman In Epstein Files
Venture capitalist David Sacks has slammed The New York Times for its glaring failure to scrutinize Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder emerging as the top Silicon Valley figure in the explosive Jeffrey Epstein files.
In a scathing segment on the All-In Podcast, Sacks highlighted how the establishment media targets right-leaning tech moguls while giving a free pass to left-wing donors deeply entangled with Epstein.
“Brad, you speak about the corruption of power centers. I think a major one has to be The New York Times,” Sacks urged.
“The number-one person in the Epstein files from Silicon Valley which is Reid Hoffman mentioned 2,600 times had a multiyear relationship with Epstein and they call each other very good friends. They did deals together,” Sacks explained.
He continued, “Reid stayed at the trifecta which is not just the island but the townhouse and the New Mexico ranch. And if you’re gonna write about Mark Zuckerberg organize that famous dinner how can you not mention that as the root of Epstein’s involvement in Silicon Valley?”
“And yet Reid just gets a mentioned in one sentence of article along with several other people,” Sacks stressed.
He accused the Times of selective outrage, noting “It is crazy. I mean The New York Times clearly has a list people they consider approved targets. They are all right coded people like Elon or Peter Thiel.”
“And they become targets but the people who have donated hundreds millions dollars to the Democrat Party and have paid for dirty tricks against Trump, they basically are spared. Honestly this is just emblematic of the whole institutional rot in a distrust in the country right there,” Sacks explained.
“Part of the cabal, it’s part of the institutions that people are losing faith in, and you know Epstein was a scumbag and the fact of matter is we’re not seeing equal play on both sides,” Sacks further urged.
The remarks come amid fresh revelations from the Justice Department’s massive Epstein document dump, which includes emails showing Hoffman’s ongoing interactions with the convicted sex offender long after his 2008 plea deal.
Newly unsealed emails reveal Hoffman discussing visits to Epstein’s notorious private island, his New Mexico ranch, and his New York apartment. One 2015 message has Epstein boasting about a “wild dinner” with Hoffman, Mark Zuckerberg, and others.
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