U.S. Senator Requests Subpoena of Epstein’s Flight Logs, Maxwell’s “Little Black Book”

This article originally appeared on The Epoch Times and was republished with permission.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is asking Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to help her secure a subpoena for additional documents revealing disgraced former billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s associates.

Her request came on the same day, Jan. 3, that a federal judge was set to unseal the identities of 157 people named in Virginia Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against Mr. Epstein’s former friend and alleged trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. In a letter to Mr. Durbin, Ms. Blackburn requested subpoenas for the FBI and Mr. Epstein’s estate to obtain Ms. Maxwell’s notorious “little black book,” as well as unredacted flight logs.

She said the unsealing scheduled for Jan. 3  was “a critically important step forward in providing Mr. Epstein’s victims the transparency and justice they deserve.” On X, formerly known as Twitter, she also stated that the “American people deserve transparency.”

Over 170 of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates are to be named in the release of dozens of documents in the coming weeks.

The American people deserve transparency.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 3, 2024

Ms. Blackburn has been one of the more prominent voices demanding information on Mr. Epstein in recent months. In November, she attempted to subpoena Mr. Epstein’s flight logs in an amendment for Democrats’ other subpoenas of a billionaire and conservative activist linked to the Supreme Court. Republicans, led by ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), invoked a rule that ended discussion on amendments for the subpoenas.

Mr. Durbin separately told a Fox News reporter on Dec. 5: “I don’t know anything about his flight logs. I know who Epstein was but I certainly don’t know anything about the issue.”

In her Jan. 3 letter, Ms. Blackburn accused Mr. Durbin of stonewalling her but said he had a “change of heart.” She pointed to a Dec. 14 subcommittee hearing in which Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) read a note from Mr. Durbin.

“I also have a note here from chairman Durbin, making clear his intention and willingness to work with Senator Blackburn on a bipartisan basis to obtain records relevant to the Jeffrey Epstein case,” Mr. Ossoff said.

A spokesperson for Mr. Durbin told The Epoch Times that he was “happy to work with Senator Blackburn on a bipartisan basis to obtain any relevant Epstein records.”

The spokesperson also said: “Prior to the Committee’s November 9 Supreme Court ethics subpoena markup, Senator Blackburn had never raised Epstein’s flight logs with Chair Durbin either publicly or privately.”

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Read the full story at The Epoch Times.