The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee on Saturday criticized the Justice Department’s initial release of files from the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying it consisted mostly of materials that had already been made public.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) said in a statement that the “overwhelming majority” of the roughly 33,000 pages of materials the Justice Department sent the committee on Friday contained information the department and other law enforcement agencies had already disclosed.

The only new disclosure, Garcia said, was less than 1,000 pages from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s record of flight locations of Epstein’s plane from 2000 to 2014.

“DOJ’s limited disclosure raises more questions than answers and makes clear that the W

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