A House committee looking into the investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be receiving financial documents from the Treasury Department, its chair announced Friday.
Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the panel has received a letter from the Treasury Department pledging to cooperate with the probe and release documents expected to include suspicious activity reports related to Epstein and his former girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
“The Trump Treasury Department is fully cooperating with our investigation into Epstein’s crimes,” Comer said in a statement. “We will follow Epstein’s money trail to ensure transparency and accountability for the survivors and the American people.”
The agreement may help advance the probe led by Comer into the Department of Justice’s investigation of Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide in his jail cell shortly after his 2019 arrest.
House Republicans have used Comer’s investigation to push back against the effort led by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to force the government to release all the Epstein investigation documents.
That effort has been supported by the entire House Democratic caucus, whose members are eager to elevate the ties between Epstein and President Donald Trump. On Monday, the committee released a trove of files from Epstein’s estate, including a suggestive birthday greeting from 2003 allegedly signed by Trump. The president has denied writing the letter.
The Treasury Department did not say when it would turn over the documents, which were requested by Comer in August, nor how many records would be released.
The Oversight Committee has released over 34,000 pages of Epstein investigation documents from DOJ. Many of those documents had previously been publicly available, drawing criticisms over a lack of transparency around the Epstein probe.
Democrats in both chambers have been seeking Epstein’s financial records. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has repeatedly asked Treasury officials to release the records. On Tuesday, Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee sought to subpoena the Treasury department for financial data on Epstein and his associates but were blocked by Republicans on the committee.