Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Crimes committed by the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented were it not for ‘failures’ by federal investigators and prosecutors, a congressional investigation has concluded. The Republican-led US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released its final report into what it described as the ‘decades-long’ mishandling of the criminal investigations into Epstein and his long-term associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The report’s findings are based on interviews and depositions with witnesses, government files, and financial records over a 15-month period. Epstein died in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. ‘While some of these failures involved an exercise in poor judgement by the USAO, others appeared to be the result of Epstein’s pervasive and wide-reaching influence,’ the report reads, referring to the US Attorney’s Office.” (11/10/26)