The Department of Justice delivered the first batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents to the House Oversight Committee Friday.
The release comes in response to a subpoena issued by the panel seeking the full Epstein files.
Thousands of pages were handed over to the committee, according to a spokesperson for House GOP Oversight members.
The DOJ also included a transcript and audio of an interview with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell was questioned by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month.
The interview followed public uproar over the DOJ and FBI’s initial decision not to release additional Epstein information, per The Hill.
In the interview, Maxwell said she “never saw” President Donald Trump “in any inappropriate setting.”
Maxwell is currently seeking a pardon or commutation of her sex trafficking conviction from Trump.
While the documents arrived days later than the committee’s original deadline, Oversight Republicans praised the disclosure.
“The Trump DOJ is providing records at a far quicker pace than anything the Biden DOJ ever provided,” the spokesperson said. “Former Attorney General Garland obstructed Chairman Comer’s subpoena for the audio of Special Counsel Hur’s interview with President Biden to hide his cognitive decline.”
Committee Chair James Comer told reporters the panel