{"id":466427,"date":"2026-02-10T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:21:08","slug":"congressmen-name-six-wealthy-men-likely-incriminated-in-epstein-files-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466427\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressmen name six wealthy men \u2018likely incriminated\u2019 in Epstein files | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna said on Tuesday that he and his Republican colleague Thomas Massie had forced the justice department to disclose the \u201chidden\u201d names of six wealthy men they say are \u201clikely incriminated\u201d by their inclusion in the so-called Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files.<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a> at lunchtime, Khanna, of California, named the six as Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Leslie Wexner.<\/p>\n

Wexner is the billionaire founder of Victoria\u2019s Secret. His extensive ties to Epstein \u2013 the late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier \u2013 were exposed in a lengthy New York Times investigation<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Bin Sulayem is a billionaire businessman and real estate developer from Dubai \u2013 and brother of Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the head of FIA, the body that governs the world\u2019s motorsport championships, including the prestigious Formula One series. Email exchanges between Bin Sulayem and Epstein have been previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Attached to the post was a video clip of Khanna reading the names in the House, availing himself of protection from any defamation lawsuit by the speech and debate clause of the US constitution.<\/p>\n

Khanna and Massie, of Kentucky, spent two hours at the justice department building in Washington DC on Monday viewing unredacted versions of the documents relating to Epstein.<\/p>\n

The pair were co-sponsors of the Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> Transparency Act that forced Donald Trump\u2019s administration to publish its vast trove of documents into the connections and activities of the president\u2019s former friend.<\/p>\n

Democrats have joined the pair in claiming that there are still 3m pages locked away after the Trump administration<\/a> called the matter closed with the release of 3m documents in January. The papers that were released, Democrats also argue, contained numerous unexplained redactions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were six wealthy, powerful men that the DoJ hid for no apparent reason,\u201d Khanna said, claiming that he and Massie had \u201cforced\u201d the department to unredact their names.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the justice department to get these six men\u2019s identities to become public? If we found six men they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those \u2026 files.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massie said on Monday night that he was ready to name the six in Congress if needed. \u201cWhat I saw that bothered me were the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a minor for prostitution and served 13 months in prison. Investigators determined he killed himself in jail in Manhattan in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges including sex trafficking of children.<\/p>\n

The ensuing scandal has enveloped countless rich and powerful individuals and thrown a long shadow over Trump\u2019s second presidency, which Democrats<\/a> have attempted to leverage.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, theSenate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, appeared with a small group of Epstein survivors in Washington to announce a law which seeks to eliminate the statute of limitations for certain sexual offenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill exists because people refuse to accept silence as the end of the story,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cIt\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer said the bill was named in honor of Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, one of the most vocal Epstein survivors who died by suicide in April 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice should not expire, because for survivors healing does not run on a government clock,\u201d he said. \u201cFor years, survivors of Epstein\u2019s abuse were ignored … Even when the world finally listened, too many survivors were still told by the law, \u2018It\u2019s too late, your justice has expired.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cVirginia\u2019s law changes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

A small group of Democrats who also viewed the papers on Monday, the first day they were made available to lawmakers, accused the justice department of a cover-up<\/a> for \u201cmysterious redactions\u201d they saw in the documents. The transparency act allows only limited redactions, mostly to protect the identities of Epstein\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of completely unnecessary redactions, in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims,\u201d said Jamie Raskin, the House judiciary ranking member.<\/p>\n

Raskin has previously complained that about 3m documents from the Epstein files remain unreleased, despite the justice department\u2019s insistence that its review of the Epstein case \u201cis over<\/a>\u201d, and efforts by the White House to \u201cmove on<\/a>\u201d from the scandal.<\/p>\n

According to CNN<\/a>, Massie did not spend time searching for references to Trump, whose name<\/a> appears thousands of times<\/a> in the files in a variety of contexts. The president has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein\u2019s activities \u2013 and has called the investigation into him \u201ca hoax\u201d.<\/p>\n

Separately, Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, is facing growing bipartisan calls for his resignation after extensive ties with Epstein<\/a> were revealed in the files. Correspondence between the pair from 2012 showed arrangements for Lutnick to travel to Epstein\u2019s private island in the Caribbean, one of several of his residences where abuse of minors is alleged to have taken place.<\/p>\n

And on Tuesday, while testifying before the US Senate appropriations committee, Lutnick admitted he had lunch with Epstein on that private island. Lutnick had previously said he spent \u201czero time\u201d with Epstein.<\/p>\n

In any event, Massie said his fellow Republican \u201chas a lot to answer for<\/a>\u201d and must step down.<\/p>\n

Khanna, after viewing the files on Monday, echoed Massie\u2019s call. He noted that the scandal had roiled the government<\/a> of Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, and prompted at least two resignations, Peter Mandelson<\/a>, the former British ambassador to the US, and Morgan McSweeney<\/a>, Starmer\u2019s former chief of staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the evidence, [Lutnick] should be out of the cabinet,\u201d Khanna told Politico Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Keir Starmer, I was excited when he won. And yet I believe he needs to be held accountable with what\u2019s happened with Mandelson. In our country, we have not had that reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another development on Monday, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein\u2019s convicted co-conspirator who procured many of his victims to be abused, refused to testify<\/a> to the House oversight committee investigating the Epstein case.<\/p>\n

Before the hearing, at which she invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination and remained silent, Khanna noted her willingness to talk to Todd Blanche, Trump\u2019s deputy attorney general, last summer. That was shortly before Maxwell was<\/a> moved<\/a> to a lower-security prison in Texas to serve the remainder of her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs,\u201d Khanna wrote in a post<\/a> on Bluesky.<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald reported<\/a> on Monday, citing a 2019 FBI interview<\/a> with Michael Reiter, then the Palm Beach chief of police, that Trump called him in 2006 to warn that Maxwell was Epstein\u2019s operative and was \u201cevil\u201d. Reiter\u2019s statement contradicted Trump\u2019s later claims that he knew nothing of Epstein and Maxwell\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna said on Tuesday that he and his Republican colleague Thomas Massie had forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-466427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}