Epstein's Estate Set To Provide 'birthday Book' To Congress With Subpoenaed Docs, House Democrat Says

The apical Democrat connected nan House committee investigating nan Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit said Friday that nan property of nan convicted activity offender will move complete a book that reportedly contains an definitive 2003 day connection from President Donald Trump to Epstein.

The property is group to see nan contents of nan book pursuing a subpoena nan Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued this week arsenic portion of its probe, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif, said connected MSNBC.

“The property is really going to really now get america that book and a bunch of different documents that they person that’s really not been reported yet," he said. "We’re gonna get those documents, arsenic we understand it now, connected September nan 8th. And truthful that will proceed our investigation.”

Garcia besides said that “many of nan victims” of Epstein will travel to Capitol Hill adjacent week to meet pinch lawmakers, which he said was to “highlight their stories” and “center nan victims.”

The lawsuit to Epstein's estate, signed by Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., ordered nan accumulation of a bid of documents by Sept. 8, including “all entries contained wrong nan reported leather-bound book compiled by Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.” It besides called for immoderate records that “could beryllium reasonably construed to beryllium a imaginable database of clients.”

Reached for remark connected Garcia's remarks, a spokesperson for Comer told NBC News successful a statement, “The Committee expects nan Epstein property to comply pinch nan Chairman’s lawsuit and present documents and communications, including a scanned transcript of nan reported day book, successful its possession to nan Committee.”

Representatives of Epstein's property did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Friday night.

The Oversight committee, which has besides subpoenaed nan Justice Department for files, ramped up its investigation aft nan DOJ and FBI thrust Epstein's lawsuit backmost into nan spotlight pinch an unsigned associated memo saying they would not beryllium releasing immoderate further files.

The memo sparked an uproar among Trump's guidelines and moreover wrong his administration. Trump connected nan run way claimed that nan authorities had hid aspects of its investigation into Epstein, and he pledged to further transparency.

The business escalated past period erstwhile nan Wall Street Journal published a communicative saying Trump had sent Epstein a drawing of a naked woman arsenic a 50th day connection that Ghislaine Maxwell included arsenic portion of a leather-bound book pinch galore different day messages from friends. Trump sued nan Journal and its genitor company’s proprietor Rupert Murdoch for libel, seeking astatine slightest $10 cardinal successful damages, and said successful a societal media station announcing nan suit that nan communicative was “FAKE NEWS.”

NBC News has not independently verified aliases seen nan day message.

The Oversight committee this week besides said that erstwhile Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who was U.S. Attorney for nan Southern District of Florida erstwhile that agency reached a non-prosecution statement pinch Epstein successful 2008, will voluntarily beryllium for a transcribed question and reply adjacent month.

The committee antecedently issued a batch of subpoenas for recipients specified arsenic erstwhile President Bill Clinton, erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland and erstwhile FBI Director Robert Mueller.

A committee spokesperson said Friday that nan sheet was withdrawing its lawsuit for Mueller owed to “health issues that preclude him from being capable to testify.”