🔗 Share this article Congressional Democrats Release Newest Batch of Epstein Images as Justice Department Time Limit Approaches Committee The House Oversight Committee has made public a set of roughly 70 photos secured from the holdings of late found guilty sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. This marks the third such disclosure from a cache of over 95,000 photographs the body has secured from Epstein's holdings. It includes photographs of passages from the novel Lolita written across a female's body, and redacted photos of female overseas passports. This disclosure comes just hours before the December 19th deadline for the Department of Justice to make public each records related to its inquiry into Epstein. "These new photographs bring up additional questions about exactly what the Justice Department has in its possession," stated the senior Democrat of the committee, Robert Garcia. What is in the Images Disclosed Several of the images made public on this week depict Epstein speaking with professor and activist Noam Chomsky aboard a personal aircraft; Bill Gates standing next to a female whose features is obscured; Steve Bannon sitting at a workstation opposite Epstein, and ex- Alphabet president Sergey Brin at a dinner gathering. Investigative Body These are the latest affluent, powerful figures to be pictured in Epstein property photographs released by the committee - formerly published photos also include US President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as film director Woody Allen, previous US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, attorney Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Mountbatton-Windsor, and others. Being pictured in the photos is does not constitute proof of any illegal activity, and several of the pictured men have asserted they were not involved in Epstein's criminal activity. In a announcement released with the image publication, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee stated the Epstein estate's representatives did not supply background information or timings for the images. "Photos were chosen to offer the general populace with transparency into a representative sample of the photographs obtained from the property, and to give perspectives into Epstein's associates and his extremely troubling behavior," the release reads. Investigative Body The disclosure also contains a number of photos of quotes from the Vladimir Nabokov book Lolita penned in ink across several locations of a woman's body, like her upper body, lower extremity, hip, and rear. Lolita narrates the account of a adolescent who was exploited by a middle-aged literature professor. An example of a quote from the work written across a woman's chest reads, "Lolita's name: the end of the tongue traveling of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth". The release also contains a number of images of female identification and ID papers from states worldwide, such as Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. Committee A large portion of the information on the documents, such as identities and dates of birth, is censored but the committee indicated in a press release that the travel documents pertain to "women whom Jeffrey Epstein and his conspirators were engaging". Another image shows Epstein positioned at a workstation in close proximity surrounded by three women whose faces have been censored - one has her hand on Epstein's upper body under his garment, and a second is leaning to view a nearby laptop. Epstein seems to be helping the final person put on a wristband. Oversight Panel An additional photo disclosed is a screenshot of digital messages from an unidentified sender who states they have been provided "a number of girls" and are requesting "$$1,000 per girl". Image Release Comes Before DOJ Cut-off The body has thousands of photographs in its holdings from the Epstein property, which are "at once disturbing and everyday," its statement on this week noted. The oversight panel first subpoenaed the estate of Epstein, who passed away in a New York prison in 2019 while pending legal proceedings on allegations of sex trafficking crimes, in August. The images and documents the Epstein estate's representatives provided to the body are different than what is commonly referred to "the Epstein documents". That material are papers within the Department of Justice's custody associated with its independent probe into Epstein. Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which the President enacted last month, the DOJ has until 19 December to publish its documents. The scope of what's included in the DOJ's documents is unclear, and it's probable that much of the information will be significantly censored, akin to the committee's materials