US House Democrats release Epstein schedules showing plans to meet Musk, Thiel, Bannon

US Congressional Democrats release daily schedules belonging to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2014 to 2019, which show Epstein had plans to meet with Republican donors Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon.

The documents, which Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say came from Epstein’s estate in response to a congressional subpoena, also showed Britain’s Prince Andrew flew on Epstein’s private jet in 2000.

There were no accusations of any wrongdoing by Musk, Thiel, Bannon or Andrew in the documents released. The daily calendars do not indicate whether Epstein’s meetings with Musk, Thiel and Bannon in fact took place.

In an X post referencing a news story about the documents’ release, Musk wrote: “This is false.”

A spokesperson for Thiel and lawyers who have represented Bannon and Andrew did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

US President Donald Trump has been facing criticism in recent months from his conservative base and congressional Democrats over his administration’s handling of the Epstein case.

The Justice Department in early July said it would not make public files from its sex trafficking investigation into Epstein, reneging on earlier promises from Trump and his allies to do so.

The Democrats say the documents showed Epstein was friends with “some of the most powerful and wealthiest men in the world,” and called on the Justice Department to release all the documents from its probe.

“Oversight Democrats will not stop until we identify everyone complicit in Epstein’s heinous crimes,” Sara Guerrero, a spokesperson for the committee, says in a press release accompanying the documents.

FBI Director Kash Patel said in congressional testimony earlier this month that there was no credible information that Epstein trafficked women and underage girls to anyone but himself.

Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, to which he had pleaded not guilty.