By Nandita Bose

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration for weeks tried to stall or head off a vote in Congress to force the release of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, but nonetheless the measure is expected to land on his desk as soon as Wednesday.

A months-long member-led drive in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives succeeded on Tuesday, prompting swift and nearly unanimous votes in that chamber and the Senate to force the release of U.S. Justice Department files on Epstein, the late convicted sex offender and New York financier who fraternized with some of the most influential men in the country.

Epstein’s onetime friendship with Trump has bedeviled the Republican president in his second term, partly because Trump amplified conspiracy theo

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