Robert Garcia says Oversight Republicans' Epstein report rests on an incomplete investigation

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House Oversight Republicans' Epstein report faults federal prosecutors and the Justice Department; the department says its recommendations are already addressed, and Garcia calls the probe incomplete

On November 10, 2026, the Republican majority of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a 137-page staff report closing its 15-month investigation of how the federal government handled the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. The report says Epstein's crimes after 2005 could have been prevented had it not been for the failures of investigators and federal prosecutors, including the 2007 non-prosecution agreement in South Florida. It also faults the Justice Department for missed disclosure deadlines and for redactions that exposed survivors' personal information when it released files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The report recommends that the department interview or reinterview key witnesses, further investigate Epstein's former assistant Lesley Groff and allegations a former assistant made against two men, and give survivors access to their records in unredacted form. It says the facts gathered do not suggest President Trump is implicated in any of Epstein's crimes, and it accuses committee Democrats of trying to implicate him. A Justice Department spokesperson said the chairman's recommendations had already been addressed and that the Epstein case is not closed. Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee's top Democrat, said the report rests on an incomplete investigation with no public hearings and said Democrats will continue the inquiry when they take control of the House in January.