🔗 Share this article Congressional Democrats Release Most Recent Collection of Jeffrey Epstein Images as DOJ Cut-off Date Nears Committee The Congressional oversight panel has published a collection of around 70 photographs from the estate of former convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. This constitutes the third such disclosure from a tranche of over 95,000 photographs the committee has obtained from Epstein's holdings. It features images of excerpts from the literary work Lolita scrawled across a woman's body, and redacted images of female overseas passports. This disclosure comes hours before the 19th of December cut-off for the Department of Justice to release all records connected to its probe into Epstein. "These photographs raise further questions about exactly what the Department of Justice has in its possession," remarked the Democratic lead of the committee, Robert Garcia. What's in the Images Released Some of the photos made public on Thursday show Epstein conversing with scholar and advocate Noam Chomsky aboard a private plane; Bill Gates standing beside a individual whose face is redacted; Steve Bannon sitting at a desk across from Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a evening meal. Oversight Panel These are the newest wealthy, influential men to be pictured in Epstein estate images published by the committee - earlier published pictures also show US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, ex- US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others. Being pictured in the images is not indication of any wrongdoing, and several of the pictured individuals have asserted they were in no way implicated in Epstein's unlawful actions. In a press release issued alongside the image publication, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein property holders did not offer background information or timeframes for the pictures. "Photos were picked to furnish the American people with transparency into a representative sample of the photos received from the estate, and to provide understanding into Epstein's associates and his profoundly alarming actions," the release says. Investigative Body The publication also contains several photos of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov literary work Lolita penned in ink across several locations of a woman's body, such as her torso, foot, hipbone, and spine. Lolita tells the account of a young girl who was exploited by a adult literature professor. A particular passage from the novel written across a female's torso says, "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue making a journey of three steps down the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth". The release also contains a series of photos of female identification and official papers from countries globally, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Investigative Body The majority of the details on the IDs, including names and DOBs, is obscured but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a press release that the travel documents pertain to "females whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were involved with". A further photo depicts Epstein positioned at a workstation closely flanked by three women whose features have been redacted - a first has her palm on Epstein's upper body under his shirt, and another is crouching to examine a nearby device. Epstein seems to be helping the final person put on a bracelet. Investigative Body An additional image released is a image of text messages from an unidentified individual who claims they have been supplied "some girls" and are demanding "$$1,000 for each individual". Image Release Occurs Prior to DOJ Due Date The committee has thousands of photographs in its holdings from the Epstein estate, which are "at once explicit and everyday," its press release on this week noted. The House Oversight Committee first subpoenaed the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019 while facing trial on charges of human trafficking, in August. The photographs and records the Epstein estate's representatives provided to the panel are separate from what is commonly called "the Epstein documents". That material are records in the Department of Justice's custody related to its separate inquiry into Epstein. Under the recently passed law, which the President signed into law recently, the DOJ has a deadline of 19 December to disclose its files. The scope of what's found in the DOJ's documents is unclear, and it's likely that a significant portion of the material will be extensively censored, similar to the committee's materials