Overview
- In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the House Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat accused the Trump Justice Department of shutting down the probe and called it a cover-up.
- Raskin said nearly 50 survivors gave detailed accounts to investigators and identified roughly 20 alleged co-conspirators, citing lawyers for the women.
- He wrote that SDNY ran the effort until January 2025, when prosecutors were ordered to send the files to DOJ headquarters, after which no follow-up steps were evident.
- DOJ spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre rejected the charge, pointed to a government shutdown and said the department has produced 33,000 pages to the House Oversight Committee.
- An internal DOJ/FBI memo issued in July stated investigators found no secret client list and no evidence to predicate charges against uncharged third parties, undercutting earlier public claims by President Trump and Bondi.