“By some baffling twist of logic, it concluded that Oakes was guilty of offering bribes but that no one was guilty of accepting them,” wrote historian Maury Klein regarding the Credit Mobilier scandal. During the late 19th century, financial elites bribed lawmakers to maximize industrial profits through state-sponsored projects. Despite the widespread attention to the scandal and a congressional…
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A photograph taken during U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s combative appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday suggests that the Justice Department has been tracking the search history of lawmakers who are combing through the unredacted Epstein files. As Bondi launched into various tirades against lawmakers, photojournalists managed to snag a picture of her notes…
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had “nothing to do with” Jeffrey Epstein. But his name reportedly appears in the unredacted files at least a million times, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) said on Tuesday after being granted access to the documents. Raskin told Axios that he searched Trump’s name in the files on Monday, and it came up “more than a million times.
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Several members of Congress are expected this week to review hundreds, if not thousands, of files relating to disgraced financier and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, amid claims that files are being improperly redacted and that victims’ names have been wrongly released to the public. The Epstein Files Transparency Act — which passed last fall after considerable opposition from…
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The Justice Department on Friday released an additional 3 million pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration says it was the final release of Epstein files, even though some 2 million more documents remain unreleased. The latest batch reveals new details about Epstein’s connections to the rich and powerful, including Hollywood figures…
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An automotive plant worker who called out President Donald Trump for being a “protector” of “pedophile[s]” in a viral video has been suspended from his job. On Tuesday, Trump visited a Ford plant in Michigan. A cell phone video shows Trump standing on a platform high above workers, while a voice shouts up to him from off-screen. “Pedophile protector!” that person yells in the video.
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