A United States congressman has revealed the names of six men in the Jeffrey Epstein files whose identities were blacked out when the records were released to the public, including American billionaire Leslie Wexner, who appears to have been labelled a coconspirator by the FBI in 2019.Speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna said he was naming the men after spending two hours reviewing the unredacted documents with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie during a viewing facilitated by the US Department of Justice.“If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files,” Khanna said.Since the bipartisan duo pushed through the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in November, the US government has released millions of pages of documents, including emails and photographs, relating to the criminal prosecution of the late sex offender Epstein and his socialite girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.The inclusion of a name in the files does not imply wrongdoing by that person. However, the Justice Department’s handling of the release of the files – which advocacy groups and Epstein’s accusers said are far too heavily redacted – has come under fire.So who are the six men named by Khanna? And why are names blacked out in t …
