For years, politicians and the American public have clamored for more disclosures about the activities and connections of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein , who surrounded himself with powerful, famous friends while trafficking hundreds of young women and girls for sex with the help of his now imprisoned accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell . As yet, records from a sprawling array of court cases and a vast trove of FBI materials related to their investigation of Epstein — together colloquially known as the “Epstein Files” — have not seen the light of day.
But on Monday, the House Oversight Committee did release select documents provided by Epstein’s estate, including the terms of a 2007 non-prosecution agreement — the so-called “sweetheart” plea deal that allowed Epstein to avoid feder