Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Monday issued a brand new subpoena to the property of Jeffrey Epstein for “paperwork and communications in its possession, custody, or management in unredacted type,” which features a copy of the alleged “birthday guide” compiled for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday.
“It’s our understanding that the Property of Jeffrey Epstein is in custody and management of paperwork which will additional the Committee’s investigation and legislative objectives. Additional, it’s our understanding the Property is prepared and keen to supply these paperwork to the Committee pursuant to a subpoena,” Comer mentioned in an announcement on Monday.
The committee requested a supply of the paperwork — which incorporates banking and monetary information — on or earlier than Sept. 8, 2025. Comer mentioned the panel is “reviewing” potential “mismanagement of the federal authorities’s investigation of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer speaks to reporters as he arrives for a deposition with former Legal professional Basic Invoice Barr, on Capitol Hill, Aug 18, 2025, in Washington.
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Home Democrats beforehand requested a duplicate of the alleged “birthday guide” compiled for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003 that the Wall Road Journal reported comprises a “bawdy” letter from President Donald Trump.
Trump has denied the existence of the letter and filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit towards the Wall Road Journal. ABC Information has not been capable of verify the existence of the letter.
Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, mentioned in an announcement that it has “full confidence within the rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and “will vigorously defend towards any lawsuit.”
Epstein’s former affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell informed a high official for the Justice Division that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday guide, however mentioned she couldn’t recall if Trump, then a personal citizen, was amongst those that responded, in line with a transcript of Maxwell’s interview final month with Deputy Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche. In that interview, Maxwell continued to profess her innocence.
Deputy Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche departs his lodge for a gathering with Ghislaine Maxwell in Tallahassee, Fla., July 25, 2025.
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Maxwell was convicted in 2021 by a federal jury on intercourse trafficking and different prices. She is at the moment serving a 20-year jail sentence for aiding and taking part in Epstein’s trafficking of underage ladies, which concerned a scheme to recruit younger ladies and ladies for massages of Epstein that turned sexual. Federal prosecutors in New York mentioned Maxwell helped Epstein recruit, groom and finally abuse ladies as younger as 14.
Additionally within the subpoena are requests for paperwork tied to Epstein’s financial institution accounts, monetary transactions, flight logs and calendars from Jan. 1, 1990 by Aug. 10, 2019.
Brad Edwards, an lawyer who has represented greater than 200 of Epstein’s victims, had beforehand inspired lawmakers to subpoena the property for the alleged birthday guide. Edwards informed ABC Information on Monday that the property ought to have the ability to swiftly adjust to the requests.
“Jeffrey Epstein is lifeless, so, after making all redactions for sufferer figuring out info, the property can simply flip over all of the paperwork requested with out objection or delay. And, due to earlier litigation, the overwhelming majority of redactions ought to have already been made,” Edwards mentioned.
The Home Oversight Committee additionally introduced that Alexander Acosta, the previous U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of Florida and former secretary of the U.S. Division of Labor, will seem voluntarily for a transcribed interview on Sept. 19, 2025. Acosta was beforehand discovered to have exercised “poor judgement” when he resolved a federal investigation into Epstein by a state-based plea settlement in 2008, the Justice Division’s Workplace of Skilled Accountability concluded in a 2020 report.
Comer mentioned the panel will permit for “written declarations” from former attorneys normal Alberto Gonzelez, Eric Holder and Jeff Classes as a substitute of in-person interviews. The three people, who have been subpoenaed by the committee, plan to formally declare they don’t have any info on Epstein, in line with Comer.
