1. United States
2. Wisc.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to take immediate action to ensure criminal prosecutions of all individuals implicated in the Epstein Files, which UN human rights experts have determined contain credible evidence of crimes that may meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity under international criminal law. On January 30, 2026, the Department of Justice released over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. UN Special Rapporteurs, including Reem Alsalem and eight other independent experts, have stated these files reveal systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking, and exploitation of women and girls that could amount to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, and femicide. The experts warn that the scale, nature, and transnational reach of these atrocities suggest a global criminal enterprise that has shocked the conscience of humanity. Despite this massive disclosure, accountability has been severely limited, with only one close associate currently under investigation. This is unacceptable. Survivors who recently met with the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls report feeling retraumatized by the reluctance to broaden investigations, describing it as institutional gaslighting. The UN experts have explicitly rejected any suggestion that it is time to move on, stating this represents a failure of responsibility towards victims. Under international human rights law, the United States is obligated to prevent, investigate, and punish violence against women and girls. The experts have called for statutes of limitations preventing prosecution of grave crimes attributed to the Epstein criminal enterprise to be lifted. They emphasized that resignations of implicated individuals are not an adequate substitute for criminal accountability and that no one is too wealthy or too powerful to be above the law. I urge you to champion legislation that ensures full criminal investigations and prosecutions of all perpetrators named in these files, lifts applicable statutes of limitations for these grave crimes, and provides comprehensive reparations for survivors. Justice delayed is justice denied.