A federal judge in Manhattan has directed the government to formally respond to concerns raised by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, who are pressing for the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee the Justice Department’s compliance with a disclosure law they authored. The statute requires the department to release its records related to Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Under the law, the Justice Department was required to produce the files by December 19. To date, however, only a limited portion of the materials has been made public. Massie and Khanna argue that the partial release falls far short of what the statute mandates, describing the department’s failure to fully comply as a blatant violation of federal law.
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