WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan issued the following press release:

In response to a request (https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/lujan-merkley-murkowski-durbin-push-for-audit-of-dojs-practices-in-redacting-epstein-files/) from U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and bipartisan Senators, the nonpartisan, independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) opened an investigation into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) practices in redacting information from the public release of the Epstein Files.

"The American people deserve accountability, transparency, and a process they can trust. But under this Department of Justice, the Trump administration has failed to release the Epstein files as required by law. This au...