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For the past few months, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has engaged in a sprawling and extremely public investigation of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Keeping track of it all can be hard, even for the sharpest observers.
While initial public interest in what Epstein-related documents the federal government possesses has focused on investigative files held by the Department of Justice, the Oversight Committee’s inquiry expands far past that. In addition to subpoenaing the DOJ, the committee has sent letters or issued subpoenas to several other entities, including the US Treasury Department, the Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands, the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and multiple banks.
In some cases, those entities were instructed to send separate copies of the same documents to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee. Those lawmakers have released their own selections of documents to the public, sometimes on the same day and sometimes consisting of overlapping sets of pages.
These releases have varied in format, from screenshots of multiple emails stitched together into a single PDF file, to a Google Drive link containing a 30,000-page dump still in an e-discovery format.
In short, it’s kind of confusing to know what’s been released, what hasn’t, and what’s still expected to come. WIRED reviewed letters and subpoenas sent by the House Oversight Committee, as well as what’s been released so far to the public, to make clear what the many Epstein document releases entail and where the public can access them. And the Oversight Committee isn’t the only part of the government working to release additional documents—the DOJ was recently granted motions to unseal grand jury materials by three different federal judges, and is expected to release an additional dump of documents later this month to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Meanwhile, the Oversight Committee appears to be zeroing in on Epstein’s financial records–in public statements, it has said that both the banks and the Treasury are complying with its requests, but it has yet to release documents from them. WIRED identified three gaps in the committee’s releases from Epstein’s estate, which a committee aide confirmed and said included information about Epstein’s bank accounts and cash ledgers.
US Department of Justice
In early August, the committee subpoenaed Pam Bondi in her capacity as attorney general, requesting documents and communications related to the DOJ’s lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the 2007 Florida investigation into Epstein, and Epstein’s death, among other things.
An initial 33,295 pages of “Epstein-related records” were produced to the committee and later released in September. At the time, committee Democrats claimed that “97 percent of the pages included information previously released” by various law enforcement agencies. The documents include surveillance footage the night Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, public court filings from the investigations mentioned in the subpoena’s requests for production, and a memo from Bondi to FBI director Kash Patel about releasing the Epstein files. (In other words, documents and communications related to the lawsuits.)
A press release from late November reiterated that the DOJ had produced “roughly 33,000 pages of records to date,” and the Oversight Committee had not released additional documents from the DOJ as of early December. Congress has since passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which will require the DOJ to publish all unclassified records related to the investigation and prosecution of Epstein “in a searchable and downloadable format” (much to the relief of those who plan on poring over what’s released.)
The US Treasury
In late August, US representative James Comer sent a letter to Treasury secretary Scott Bessent requesting Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and “accompanying material” related to Epstein and Maxwell. SARs in particular are closely guarded, and unauthorized disclosure of them is a violation of federal law.
The letter requested documents no later than September 15, 2025. An Oversight Committee press release from late November said that “the Department of Treasury is fully cooperating with the committee’s request,” but so far no documents have been released to the public.
