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vanessa_ca

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Tue Feb 10, 2026, 01:55 PM 10 hrs ago

Breaking: Ro Khanna Reads Out Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor

Ro Khanna Reads Out Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna and Republican Representative Thomas Massie forced the Justice Department to reveal the names of six “powerful men” in the Epstein files.




Representative Ro Khanna read the names of six powerful men in the Epstein files, whose names were previously hidden by the Justice Department, aloud on the House floor on Tuesday.

“Yesterday, Congressman Massie and I went to the Department of Justice to read the unredacted Epstein files. We spent about two hours there, and we learned that 70 to 80 percent of the files are still redacted. In fact, there were six wealthy, powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason,” Khanna said. “When Congressman Massie and I pointed this out to the DOJ, they acknowledged their mistake, and now they have revealed the identity of these six powerful men.

Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.” Khanna said. “Now my question is: Why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.”

Former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner was revealed as a possible co-conspirator of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 FBI document, even as FBI Director Kash Patel claimed under oath last year that the agency had no knowledge of any other sex traffickers in the Epstein files. And the UAE’s Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was identified as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from Epstein. The sultan’s name was initially redacted.

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https://newrepublic.com/post/206411/ro-khanna-reads-redacted-names-epstein-files-house-floor

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Breaking: Ro Khanna Reads Out Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor (Original Post) vanessa_ca 10 hrs ago OP
Keep going! 2naSalit 10 hrs ago #1
More, please. efhmc 10 hrs ago #2
He should read out Trump's name 38000 times for every time it appears... hlthe2b 10 hrs ago #3
38000 Prairie Gates 10 hrs ago #4
Corrected. Thank you. (My mind has a hard time wrapping around that figure, but yes....) hlthe2b 10 hrs ago #5
According to Raskin, in the unredacted files, Trump's name comes up more than a million times. Wiz Imp 9 hrs ago #6

hlthe2b

(113,257 posts)
3. He should read out Trump's name 38000 times for every time it appears...
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 02:06 PM
10 hrs ago

(Corrected from 3800... good gawd! Thanks to Prairie Gates)

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