众议院监督委员会发布137页爱泼斯坦调查报告:指联邦政府数十年处置失当

美国众议院监督与政府改革委员会的共和党多数党幕僚11月10日发布一份137页的调查报告,题为《审查联邦政府对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦与吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦刑事调查的处置失当》。委员会主席 James Comer 表示,调查历时15个月,进行了19次记录式访谈与证词取证,调阅了司法部、爱泼斯坦遗产与金融机构的文件,受访者包括比尔·克林顿、希拉里·克林顿、比尔·盖茨、商务部长 Howard Lutnick 与前司法部长 Bill Barr 等人。
报告指,联邦政府数十年间辜负了幸存者:2005年之后本可避免的罪行,因佛罗里达州南区与华盛顿的联邦调查与检察失误而发生;2007年,佛州南区联邦检察官办公室与爱泼斯坦达成不起诉协议,他只承认州罪、被判18个月,实际服刑约13个月并享有广泛的外出工作待遇,检察官也没有通知受害人。
报告还指,爱泼斯坦2019年在纽约联邦监狱羁押期间死亡当晚,人手不足与系统失灵导致两班狱警漏掉至少12轮巡查与3次点名,近8小时无人妥善看管。报告同时批评,2025年《爱泼斯坦档案透明法》通过后,司法部在文件公开上沟通不足、删减失当,并泄露了幸存者的敏感个人信息;金融机构对人口贩运与移民欺诈的明显信号也存在失察。报告称,所审查的文件中未发现指向特朗普涉爱泼斯坦或麦克斯韦犯罪的材料。
委员会建议司法部约谈或重谈关键证人、调查新的性侵指控,并让幸存者无删减查阅本人档案;同时推动 Comer 提出的《幸存者之声保护法》,限制以保密协议封口性侵幸存者。司法部发言人回应称爱泼斯坦案并未结案。委员会民主党首席议员 Robert Garcia 则批评报告基于不完整的调查、没有举行公开听证,并称司法部仍扣留逾250万页文件。
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House Oversight Committee Releases 137-Page Epstein Report Faulting Decades of Federal Mishandling
Republican staff of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a 137-page report on November 10 titled "A Review of the Federal Government's Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations." Chairman James Comer said the 15-month inquiry conducted 19 transcribed interviews and depositions and reviewed records from the Justice Department, the Epstein estate and financial institutions; witnesses included Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
The report says the federal government failed survivors for decades: crimes that could have been prevented after 2005 occurred because of investigative and prosecutorial failures in South Florida and Washington. In 2007 the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida entered a non-prosecution agreement under which Epstein pleaded to state charges, was sentenced to 18 months, served about 13 months with broad work release, and victims were not notified.
The report also says that on the night of Epstein's 2019 death in a New York federal jail, understaffing and systemic failures led two guard shifts to miss at least 12 rounds and three counts, leaving him without proper supervision for nearly eight hours. It criticizes the Justice Department's communication and redactions after the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, including disclosure of survivors' sensitive personal information, and faulted financial institutions for missing clear signs of trafficking and immigration fraud. The report says the records reviewed contained no material implicating Donald Trump in Epstein or Maxwell crimes.
The committee recommended that the Justice Department interview or re-interview key witnesses, investigate new sexual-assault allegations and let survivors view their own files unredacted, and urged passage of Comer's Survivor's Voice Protection Act to limit nondisclosure agreements imposed on sexual-assault survivors. A Justice Department spokesperson responded that the Epstein case is not closed. The committee's ranking Democrat, Robert Garcia, criticized the report as based on an incomplete investigation with no public hearings and said the Justice Department is still withholding more than 2.5 million pages.
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