“A judge on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s latest request to unseal records of the federal grand jury investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the wake of a new law requiring the department to release all its Epstein files by Dec. 19,” the New York Times reports.

Wired: “New records about the infamous sex offender are released seemingly every week. Here’s a quick rundown of who’s releasing the Epstein documents, what they contain—and what they’re releasing next.”

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted a Justice Department request to release grand jury material related to Ghislaine Maxwell’s case, NBC News reports.

“A federal judge in Florida on Friday approved the release of grand jury documents from a nearly 20-year-old investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, beginning the process of making public another batch of long-sought material about the deceased financier,” the New York Times reports.

“The House Oversight Committee has received new materials from major financial institutions as part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as photos and videos of Epstein’s private compound from authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Politico reports.

“Lawrence Summers has been banned for life by the American Economics Association in a further blow to the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president stemming from recent revelations about his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein victims’ names have been exposed in documents that were recently made public by Congress, setting off a legal dispute about the Justice Department’s plans to release more materials about the late sex offender,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

JMail lets you read all of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails that were released to the House Oversight Committee.

Really well done.

Congressional Republicans have summoned Bill and Hillary Clinton to appear for depositions next month in front of a panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein, USA Today reports.

“In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence Summers and his wife, Elisa New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape,” the Harvard Crimson reports.

“But their honeymoon route brought them to what would, years later, seem a fateful stop: financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, a place that would become infamous as the center of Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.”

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was interviewed by CNN’s John Berman about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files:

BERMAN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

MURPHY: So what?

“The Justice Department will release files from its investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday, after Congress voted nearly unanimously to force President Trump’s administration to make them public,” Reuters reports.

“But that release may not be comprehensive, as the agency may have to hold back material that could impact Trump-ordered investigations of Democratic figures who associated with Epstein.”

For members: The Fine Print Behind Trump’s Epstein Reversal

Wired: “For almost a decade, President Donald Trump has managed to control the conspiracy theory spin around disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The conspiracy theories benefited him; they were one of the factors buoying him to office. It’s only been in the last few weeks—spurred by the release of new Epstein documents and the public defection of GOP lawamkers—that the complex web of misinformation has spun out of Trump’s control.”

“It all began with QAnon. It is hard to overstate just how fringe QAnon was when Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene began posting about it in November 2017, when she posted a video praising Q as a ‘patriot.'”

“With Jeffrey Epstein’s reputation in tatters following a 2018 Miami Herald investigation into his sex crimes – and how he evaded serious consequences – the financier hit on a plan: He would produce a documentary to present himself in a favorable light,” the Miami Herald reports.

“He had several ideas about who could appear on it and provide favorable testimonies, emails and phone messages how.”

“And one of the first friends to allegedly give Epstein the thumbs up was famed left-wing academic Noam Chomsky.”

Mark Epstein, the brother of Jeffrey Epstein, told NewsNation that the late convicted sex offender “definitely had dirt” on President Trump.

Said Epstein: “He didn’t tell me what he knew, but Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump.”

A new Morning Consult poll finds most Americans think Donald Trump was in the know about Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses.

Just 15 percent of people think the president was totally unaware of his longtime friend’s illegal activities.

It fact, 60% say Trump was at least aware of Epstein’s sexual abuse, including 38% who think he actually participated in it.

NOTUS: ” It seems like only five days ago that the upcoming House vote to force the release of the Epstein files was a fraught, intraparty mess for the GOP. Oh, because it was.”