Congressional Democrats on Wednesday accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of orchestrating a “cover-up” of files related to Jeffrey Epstein and of using the Justice Department to pursue President Donald Trump’s political adversaries.
Bondi, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, defended the department's handling of the records about the convicted sex offender at a fiery hearing attended by a number of Epstein's victims.
Jamie Raskin, the panel's ranking Democrat, criticized the slow release of Epstein investigative files and the redactions made to the documents.
"You're running a massive Epstein cover-up right out of the Department of Justice," Raskin said. "You've been ordered by subpoena and by Congress to turn over six million documents, photographs and videos in the Epstein files, but you've turned over only three million."
The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), passed overwhelmingly by Congress in November, compelled the Justice Department to release all of the documents in its possession related to the disgraced financier within 30 days.
