{"id":13026,"date":"2025-09-08T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-receives-epstein-estate-files\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:50:37","slug":"house-oversight-receives-epstein-estate-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-oversight-receives-epstein-estate-files\/","title":{"rendered":"House Oversight receives Epstein estate files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received files from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Democratic spokesperson for the panel.<\/p>\n<p>Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) previously subpoenaed the estate for materials as part of his committee&#8217;s investigation into the Department of Justice&#8217;s handling of the case against the convicted sex offender. The subpoena is expected to produce the so-called birthday book filled with messages for Epstein, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAh3ZcxTIzvqqllaIXnnzqFqpMrMooMm_k7sxnPJvNCDNKDyIgL95CBecwOkBV8%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68bf23e5&amp;gaa_sig=a1Hjh2x7TJE_Xh6RyuFPw_iYG1ndExmBddwvSMHVH3r1CXuA8I4apT8W8jbl_Jt9CM5Qji8W1UY7JFmfX6xdEQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and reportedly includes a note from President Donald Trump. Trump has denied writing such a note for Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Oversight Committee Republicans did not immediately provide a comment. House GOP leadership has been leveraging the Oversight panel&#8217;s probe to push back against an insurgent effort led by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie to force a floor vote that would compel the DOJ to turn over all files in the Epstein case in 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear when the estate materials will be released publicly and to what extent there will be heavy redactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received files from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Democratic spokesperson for the panel. Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) previously subpoenaed the estate for materials as part of his committee&#8217;s investigation into the Department of Justice&#8217;s handling of the case against the convicted sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}