A top House Democrat is demanding answers from the Justice Department on why it dropped its probe of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators earlier this year.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the investigation, which survivors of the disgraced financier’s crimes say was in the midst of gathering detailed evidence and testimony, was abandoned without explanation.

“I write to demand an explanation for why DOJ has abandoned the women and girls abused by Mr. Epstein, Ms. Maxwell, and their co-conspirators, fired or cut off career prosecutors from the case, and ceased its investigation into one of the largest sex trafficking rings in history,” Raskin wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

CBS News, which obtained a copy of the message

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