The Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to withhold the names of two Jeffrey Epstein associates who received a combined $350,000 from him in 2018.

NBC News said that it filed a motion to unseal the names of the associates but is facing pushback from the DOJ, which has requested that the names remain confidential.

The mystery associates reportedly received the payments—one for $100,000, the other for $250,000—just days after a Miami Herald investigation renewed scrutiny on a plea deal the convicted pedophile received a decade earlier in 2008.

NBC News reports that the associates were described as “co-conspirators” in his arrest for soliciting sex from a teenager. The network reported that their names were sealed “as part of the plea agreement” and included a promise that th

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