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A bipartisan congressional effort to force the Justice Department to release all its files on the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is set to get the final signature it needs to move forward on Wednesday.

Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a Republican, and Ro Khanna of California, a Democrat, joined forces on a resolution to compel the disclosure of the estimated 100,000 files the department has on Epstein, who died by suicide while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.

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