House Democrat accuses Trump’s DoJ of ‘gigantic cover-up’ over shut Epstein inquiry

Jamie Raskin in a letter questioned why justice department abruptly ended investigation into Epstein co-conspiratorsA top Democrat has demanded to know why the Trump administration “inexplicably killed” a criminal investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators as he accused the justice department of a “shameful and gigantic cover-up”.Jamie Raskin, a House judiciary committee ranking member and congressman from Maryland, claimed the decision to end the investigation in July had shielded an alleged network of “powerful individuals accused of enabling and engaging in the massive billion-dollar sex trafficking operation” while ignoring the accounts of women exploited by Epstein. Continue reading...

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