Howard Lutnick

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.

They're all redacted.

It's a little bit of a force.

They're inviting all the members of Congress to go to see the Department of Justice quote unquote unredacted files, but they've got all redacted files from the FBI.

And it's not the fault of the Justice Department attorneys.

They were just told upload things that Donald Trump's FBI had already scrubbed.

It's a blatant violation of the Epstein Transparency Act, but it also asks a fundamental question.

Who are they protecting?

Why are they protecting these rich and powerful men, people I call part of the Epstein class?

Why are we in a country where there is no elite accountability for people who do the most heinous things?