Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who are fed up with the government run-around said they will compile their own "client list" on Wednesday during a rally on Capitol Hill after the House Oversight Committee released 33,000 pages of documents already seen by the public.
The documents released Tuesday night underwhelmed lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.
“After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public. There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims," Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said in a statement to CNN.
Information included documents and surveillance video from the night of Epstein's death and court filings from Ghislaine Maxwell. The main contents include flight logs, court filings and surveillance footage.
Ahead of a House news conference with Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., survivors spoke, some for the first time publicly, about the abuse endured from Epstein and his former girlfriend and convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The first victim to tell her emotional story was Liz Stein, who said she was 21 years old when she was introduced to Epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell, and it "was the sliding glass doors moment that changed the trajectory of my entire life."
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