Six associates of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in voluminous files detailing the years-long investigation of the notorious financier, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told reporters Monday after reviewing documents at the Justice Department.
“We went in there for two hours,” said Massie. “There’s millions of files, right? And in a couple of hours, we found six men whose names have been redacted, who are implicated in the way that the files are presented.”
The congressmen, who co-authored the Epstein Files Transparency Act that forced the release of the documents late last year, did not name the men or specify what conduct they believed to be illegal. They did say one suspect was “pretty high up” in a foreign government, while another was a prominent individual.
Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna said the names of “six men” potentially “implicated” in the sex-trafficking scheme orchestrated by Jeffrey Epstein and convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell had been redacted. APEither lawmaker could read the six names on the House floor and be protected from legal liability under the Constitution’s speech or debate clause. However, Massie said Monday he would “give the DOJ a chance to go back through and correct their mistakes … They need to themselves check their own homework.”
“None of this is designed to be a witch hunt,” Khanna insisted. “Just because someone may be in the files doesn’t mean that they’re guilty. But there are very powerful people who raped these underage girls — it wasn’t just Epstein and [his accomplaice Ghislaine] Maxwell — or showed up to the island or showed up to the ranch or showed up to the home knowing underage girls were being paraded around.”
Massie later posted a document with a list of 20 names, with all but those of Epstein and Maxwell redacted.
The lawmakers speak to the media after viewing unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files at DOJ on Feb. 9, 2026. REUTERS“Four of the 18 redacted names on this document are men born before 1970,” he wrote on X. “DOJ needs to explain why they are redacted unless they were just randoms in a line-up.”
“The document you cite has numerous victim names,” responded Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. “We have just unredacted all non-victim names from this document. The DOJ is committed to transparency.”
The document was later reposted with only two names redacted.
The document now only contains two redactions. DOJAnother document — an Aug. 15, 2019, FBI list of Epstein “family and associates” — removed the redaction of billionaire businessman Les Wexner’s name.
Wexner is referred to as a “co-conspirator” in the document, along with Maxwell, the late French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel and Epstein’s longtime executive assistant Lesley Groff.
Blanche noted that Wexner “already appears in the files thousands of times” and “DOJ is hiding nothing.”
Les Wexner speaks at the Fragrance Foundation Awards in 2016. Penske Media via Getty Images
Lesley Groff attends Central Park Conservancy 30th Anniversary Gala at Central Park Boathouse on February 23, 2010, in New York City. Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagesMassie further argued that the name of a “Sultan” who received an April 2009 email from Epstein in which the pervert said “I loved the torture video” should have also been unredacted.
“You looked at the document. You know it’s an email address that was redacted. The law requires redactions for personally identifiable information, including if in an email address,” Blanche shot back.
The deputy AG went on to note that the “Sultan’s name is available unredacted in the files,” suggesting the correspondent was Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, the CEO of logistics conglomerate DP World.
“Be honest,” Blanche chided Massie, “and stop grandstanding.”





