WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of documents related to the government's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein as the fight over the disgraced financier and sex offender's files reignited as lawmakers returned to Washington.

In its first tranche of documents, the committee said it released 33,295 pages of files that it received from the Department of Justice.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issued a subpoena for the records related to Epstein from the Justice Department on Aug. 5 after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the panel voted in favor of the measure in July.

Democrats on committee say most documents aren't new

The release of the initial batch of documents comes after President Donald Trump, once a close friend of Epstein, ha

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