🔗 Share this article Congressional Democrats Unveil Most Recent Batch of Jeffrey Epstein Images as DOJ Time Limit Looms Committee The House Oversight Committee has published a batch of roughly 70 photos obtained from the property of late found guilty sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This represents the third disclosure from a cache of more than 95,000 photographs the committee has acquired from Epstein's property. It contains images of passages from the book Lolita written across a woman's body, and obscured pictures of female foreign passports. This action occurs hours before the December 19th deadline for the Justice Department to disclose every files connected to its probe into Epstein. "These new images raise more queries about exactly what the Justice Department has in its holdings," stated the senior Democrat of the panel, Robert Garcia. What's in the Photographs Released Several of the photographs published on this week show Epstein conversing with academic and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a personal aircraft; Bill Gates standing beside a woman whose identity is redacted; Steve Bannon positioned at a table facing Epstein, and previous Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering. Committee These are the newest high-net-worth, influential figures to be seen in Epstein property photographs disclosed by the House Oversight Committee - previously released pictures also depict US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others. Being pictured in the photographs is does not constitute indication of any wrongdoing, and a number of the pictured figures have asserted they were in no way implicated in Epstein's illegal activity. In a statement issued alongside the photo release, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee noted the Epstein estate's representatives did not offer background information or timeframes for the pictures. "Photos were picked to furnish the public with openness into a representative sample of the photographs received from the property, and to provide understanding into Epstein's associates and his exceptionally alarming actions," the release says. Committee The release also features a number of photos of excerpts from the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita penned in black ink across several locations of a female's body, including her chest, lower extremity, hip, and back. Lolita recounts the tale of a minor who was exploited by a older literature professor. A particular quote from the book inscribed across a woman's chest says, "Lolita: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the roof of the mouth to tap, at three, on the teeth". There are also a series of photos of female passports and official papers from states globally, including Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Investigative Body A large portion of the information on the IDs, such as names and dates of birth, is redacted but the House Oversight Committee indicated in a statement that the passports pertain to "individuals whom Jeffrey Epstein and his associates were engaging". An additional photograph shows Epstein sitting at a table closely flanked by three women whose identities have been redacted - one has her palm on Epstein's chest under his shirt, and another is crouching to view a close-by laptop. Epstein seems to be aiding the third put on a piece of jewelry. Committee Another image disclosed is a capture of SMS messages from an unidentified person who states they have been provided "a number of girls" and are asking for "$one thousand dollars per female". Image Release Comes Before DOJ Deadline The body has a vast number of images in its holdings from the Epstein estate, which are "both graphic and mundane," its statement on this week explained. The Congressional committee first legally compelled the holdings of Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on accusations of sex trafficking crimes, in August. The images and documents the Epstein property provided to the committee are distinct from what is largely termed "the Epstein files". Those files are records in the Department of Justice's custody connected to its independent investigation into Epstein. Pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the President signed into law last month, the DOJ has until the date of 19 December to release its documents. The extent of what is contained in the DOJ's records is unknown, and it's expected that much of the information will be extensively censored, similar to Congressional materials