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Thomas Massie, a US congressman, has said he knows the identity of six more men who are “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files after he viewed an unredacted version of the documents relating to the disgraced late financier and sexual abuser.
The Kentucky Republican suggested he might reveal their names under congressional privilege if the justice department (DoJ) continued to conceal their identities in publicly available copies of the documents that are still redacted.
The six men, Massie told reporters after viewing the papers at DoJ headquarters in Washington on Monday, include at least one US citizen, an individual he said was “high up in a foreign government”, a foreigner, and “three or four others” whose nationalities were not readily apparent.
“What 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,” said Massie, lead sponsor of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that forced Donald Trump’s administration to publish its vast trove of documents into the connections and activities of the president’s former friend.