WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
In response to a request (https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-murkowski-lujan-durbin-push-for-audit-of-dojs-practices-in-redacting-epstein-files/) from Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, the nonpartisan, independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) has opened an investigation into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) practices in redacting information from the public release of the Epstein Files.
"By illegally disregarding the law, the Trump Administration is cruelly denying 'equal justice under the law' to all of Jeffrey Epstein's victims," said Merkley, the lead Senate sponsor of the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act (https://www.merkley.senate....