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‘Inherent contempt’ charges are being drafted now to fine AG Pam Bondi for each day that full Epstein files aren’t released, congressmen say

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The members of Congress who led the effort to release files on Jeffrey Epstein are eyeing penalties for the Justice Department after it failed to disclose all its documents on the late sex trafficker.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) spearheaded passage of the overwhelmingly bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, but they have said the records published don’t comply with the law, which required that all of them be made public on Friday.

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