"Best Massage Ever": Final GOP Epstein Report Drags Obama's White House Counsel, Clears Trump

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...names Obama's White House counsel ("best massage ever"), a sitting cabinet secretary, Bill Gates, Leon Black's $170M, and Hakeem Jeffries' campaign, and it finds nothing on Trump...

House Oversight Republicans on Tuesday released their final word on Jeffrey Epstein, a 137-page report concluding that the crimes Epstein committed after 2005 "could have been prevented and justice served had it not been for the repeated failures of law enforcement and federal prosecutors." It lands two months before Democrats take control of the House and the committee.

The report, the product of a 15-month investigation with 19 transcribed interviews and depositions, names a former Obama White House counsel, a sitting cabinet secretary, Bill Gates, billionaire Leon Black and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' campaign. It also finds no documents implicating President Trump.

"The federal government has failed the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's horrific crimes for decades," Chairman James Comer said. In a video released with the report, he went further: "These women endured unimaginable abuse, and the federal government failed them at nearly every turn. Had the government done its job, much of this abuse could have been prevented."

The report lays much of the blame on the 2007 non-prosecution agreement struck by the US Attorney's Office in South Florida. Then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta's hands-off approach, it says, "left the investigation in the hands of potential Epstein loyalists," and the "unusually favorable" deal extended federal protection to an unknown number of "potential co-conspirators" while survivors were kept in the dark.

The committee found that Matthew Menchel, a senior decision-maker in the case, had a prior romantic relationship with his former deputy, Lilly Ann Sanchez, who went on to serve as one of Epstein's defense attorneys. Menchel did not recuse himself, and Justice Department files show he kept meeting, dining and talking by phone with Epstein after the deal, according to the report. Asked whether Menchel should have stepped aside, Acosta told the committee: "I wish I would've been informed. I was not informed.

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