WASHINGTON ¨C A Republican U.S. lawmaker on Wednesday accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of concealing the names of powerful associates of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as she faced questions about the Justice Department¡¯s handling of investigative files in a charged hearing before a House of Representatives panel.
Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, who helped lead the effort to require the files¡¯ release, accused the ?Justice Department of a "massive failure" to comply with the law as he questioned why billionaire Leslie Wexner¡¯s name was redacted in ?an FBI ?document listing potential co-conspirators in the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein.
Bondi said Wexner¡¯s name appeared numerous times in ?other files the department released and that the DOJ unredacted his name on the document "within 40 minutes" of Massie spotting it.
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