Overview

• The Justice Department will start providing investigation records to the House Oversight Committee on Friday under subpoena, with officials warning the production will take time.
• The committee says it intends to publish select materials only after redacting victims’ identities and any child sexual abuse content.
• U.S. District Judge Richard Berman denied the government’s request to release Epstein grand jury transcripts, citing risks to victims and limited public value compared with roughly 100,000 pages held by DOJ.
• Berman’s ruling follows other refusals in Manhattan and an earlier denial in Florida, leaving court-led unsealing effectively blocked for now.
• The document handover follows July’s announcement that no further releases would be made and heavy pressure from Trump-aligned activists; the panel has also subpoenaed former law-enforcement leaders and Bill and Hillary Clinton.