Epstein survivors push Comer to investigate potential leads from DOJ’s files in private meeting | CNN Politics

In a private meeting last week, a group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and family members of the late Virginia Giuffre pointed House Oversight Chair James Comer to allegations from the Justice Department’s Epstein files to further investigate, arguing that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s suggestion there were no more leads to pursue in the case is not true. The group brought documents from DOJ’s released Epstein files – an email detailing a list of men from the late convicted sex offender’s orbit, as well as Giuffre’s 2015 testimony to investigators – to help the Republican chairman refine his own probe and to argue there are allegations against powerful men that the Justice Department could pursue. The private meeting between the survivors and the House Oversight Committee provides a fresh window into the back channeling between the two groups and the pressure the survivors are applying as they seek accountability as the investigation into the late convicted sex offender and his orbit has largely stalled under Blanche. The survivors presented Comer a partially redacted set of emails from July 2025 that showed FBI officials were aware of an email dis