WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee released the first tranche of documents on Jeffrey Epstein.

The committee said it released 33,295 pages of files that it received from the Department of Justice on Epstein, a convicted sex offender.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer issued a subpoena for the records related to Epstein from the Justice Department on Aug. 5 after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the panel voted in favor of the measure in July.

Democrats on committee say most documents aren't new

The first batch of documents comes after President Donald Trump, once a close friend of Epstein, has faced weeks of criticism over the Justice Department's refusal to release all Epstein documents.

USA TODAY was unable to immediately verify independently how many of

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