"Yesterday, Congressman [Thomas] Massie and I went to the Department of Justice to read the unredacted Epstein files. We spent about two hours there, and we learned that 70 to 80 percent of the files are still redacted. In fact, there were six wealthy, powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason, Khanna began, adding: When Congressman Massie and I pointed this out to the Department of Justice, they acknowledged their mistake, and now they have revealed the identity of these six powerful men. These men are Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World, and billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a co-conspirator by the FBI."
"Now, my question is, why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men's identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files. But the story gets worse. The reality is that Donald Trump's FBI scrubbed these files in March, long before Thomas Massie and I passed the Epstein Transparency Act."
"Now, my bill is clear. The Epstein Transparency Act requires them to unredact those FBI files. And yet the Justice Department said to me and to Congressman Massie, We just uploaded whatever the FBI sent us. And guess what? The FBI sent scrubbed files. That means the survivors' statements to the FBI, naming rich and powerful men who went to Epstein's island, who went to his ranch, who went to his home and raped and abused underage girls or saw underage girls being paradedthey're all hidden, Khanna continued, accusing the FBI of some kind of conspiracy to conceal the identities of the men in the files."
Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie reviewed Department of Justice Epstein files and found 70–80 percent of documents still redacted. Six wealthy men—Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and Leslie Wexner—were identified as having been hidden and later disclosed after DOJ acknowledgment. The FBI reportedly scrubbed the files in March and provided redacted records to the DOJ. The Epstein Transparency Act requires unredaction of FBI files, but the DOJ said it uploaded the versions received from the FBI, leaving survivors' statements and named individuals concealed.
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