Howard Lutnick

My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies.

I had another couple.

They were there as well with their children.

And we had lunch on the island.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Congressman Massey 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.

When Congressman Massey 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 Navarro, Zorab Michelades, Leopig Leonor, Nicola Caputa,

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaym, 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 Massey 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 three 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 survivor's statement 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 paraded, they're all hidden.