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 e-book” 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 targets. 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 a press release 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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House Democrats previously requested a copy of the alleged “birthday e-book” compiled for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003 that the Wall Street Journal reported accommodates a “bawdy” letter from President Donald Trump.
Trump has denied the existence of the letter and filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit in opposition to the Wall Avenue Journal. ABC Information has not been in a position to verify the existence of the letter.
Dow Jones, the mother or father firm of the newspaper, mentioned in a press release that it has “full confidence within the rigor and accuracy” of its reporting and “will vigorously defend in opposition to any lawsuit.”
Epstein’s former affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell told a top official for the Justice Department that Epstein requested her to coordinate contributions to his fiftieth birthday e-book, however mentioned she couldn’t recall if Trump, then a personal citizen, was amongst those that responded, in response to 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 resort 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 costs. She is presently 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 way of Aug. 10, 2019.
Brad Edwards, an legal professional who has represented greater than 200 of Epstein’s victims, had beforehand inspired lawmakers to subpoena the property for the alleged birthday e-book. Edwards advised ABC Information on Monday that the property ought to have the ability to swiftly adjust to the requests.
“Jeffrey Epstein is useless, so, after making all redactions for sufferer figuring out data, 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. legal professional 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 way of a state-based plea settlement in 2008, the Justice Division’s Workplace of Skilled Duty concluded in a 2020 report.
Comer mentioned the panel will enable for “written declarations” from former attorneys basic Alberto Gonzelez, Eric Holder and Jeff Periods as an alternative of in-person interviews. The three people, who had been subpoenaed by the committee, plan to formally declare they don’t have any data on Epstein, in response to Comer.
