In the US, a critical signature threshold has been crossed in the House of Representatives for a new regulation aimed at making investigation documents related to Jeffrey Epstein public. Republican Representative Thomas Massie announced that the 218 signatures required to bring the bill titled "Epstein Files Transparency Act II" to a vote have been reached.
According to the statement made by Massie on social media, the initiative was supported by 214 Democratic and 4 Republican members. The bill is expected to be voted on in the House of Representatives General Assembly in early December.
However, 218 signatures do not mean the bill has become law. For the regulation to enter into force, it must first pass the House of Representatives, then the Senate, and be signed by US President Donald Trump.
WHAT DOES THE NEW BILL AIM TO DO?
The first "Epstein Files Transparency Act," prepared under the leadership of Massie and Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, entered into force in November 2025 with Trump's signature after being accepted by Congress. The law in question imposed an obligation on the Department of Justice to disclose investigation documents related to Epstein by December 19, 2025, with limited exceptions such as the protection of victims and ongoing investigations.
Massie argues that the current law is not being implemented sufficiently. With the new regulation, it is aimed to open the obligations regarding the disclosure of documents to judicial review. In this respect, the bill brings to the agenda not only a new disclosure schedule but also the judicial oversight of whether the existing law is being implemented.
Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls under the age of 18 and establishing a sex trafficking network. Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, New York, where he was being held, on August 10, 2019.
In previously released court documents, the names of many well-known figures such as former Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Al Gore, Kevin Spacey, Michael Jackson, David Copperfield, and Alan Dershowitz had appeared. The inclusion of these names in the documents does not, by itself, constitute an accusation of a crime.
In the investigation conducted by the FBI and the US Department of Justice, it was announced that no evidence was found that a "client list," which is frequently discussed in the public eye, was kept; it was reported that the conclusion was reached that Epstein's death was a suicide.
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