Comer requests Epstein, Maxwell data from Treasury Secretary

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Home Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., despatched a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting the Suspicious Exercise Reviews (SARs) concerning Jeffrey Epstein and his affiliate, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Comer despatched the letter on Sunday, saying his committee is "reviewing the potential mismanagement" of the federal authorities’s investigation of Epstein and Maxwell, together with Epstein’s demise.

The letter set a deadline of Sept. 15 for the Treasury to supply related SARS.

"It's important that Treasury produce to the Committee sure SARs to help the Committee’s oversight of the federal authorities’s enforcement of sex trafficking legal guidelines usually and particularly its dealing with of the investigation and prosecution of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell," the letter states.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had been each indicted on federal intercourse trafficking fees stemming from Epstein's years of abuse of underage ladies. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures, File)

Fox Information Digital reached out to the Treasury Division for touch upon the letter however didn't instantly hear again.

Earlier this yr, Comer established the Job Drive on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and techniques, which requested that the Division of Justice launch all Epstein-related data. The DOJ started handing over records to the committee on Aug. 22.

Home Oversight Committee investigators are probing the federal government's dealing with of Epstein's case. (New York State Intercourse Offender Registry through AP, File)

Comer has additionally issued deposition subpoenas to a number of former authorities officers, together with former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton .

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Different figures additionally compelled to seem had been former FBI Director Robert Mueller, former FBI Director James Comey and former Lawyer Common Loretta Lynch.

Mueller was set to seem earlier than the Home Oversight panel on Tuesday as a part of the probe, although a supply conversant in the investigation told Fox News Digital that lawmakers "discovered that Mr. Mueller has well being points that preclude him from having the ability to testify."