Jeffrey Epstein

On "The Florida Roundup," U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel and Miami Herald investigative reporter Ben Wieder discuss the Jeffrey Epstein case and calls for transparency.

A House push to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein cleared a significant hurdle Nov. 12, as Democrats and a handful of Republicans reached 218 signatures to force a floor vote on a bill to release the files within 30 days.

The national anti-trafficking coalition World Without Exploitation expanded its "Courage Is Contagious" campaign into Florida, placing new billboards in Miami, West Palm Beach, and Stuart to press for the full release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A House committee has released a collection of birthday messages sent to Jeffrey Epstein, featuring entries from two U.S. presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. The messages were compiled in 2003 and include greetings from Epstein's relatives, business executives and scientists. Some notes are simple well wishes, while others are crude or sexually explicit.

This comes as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.

PolitiFact Florida explores House Speaker Mike Johnson's larger point about what Democrat lawmakers said before this year about releasing Epstein records or investigating the case.

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention.

President Donald Trump and his allies have tried to steer discussion about the Jeffrey Epstein case away from Trump and instead use it to attack Democrats, including former President Barack Obama. In an interview with CNN," U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., blamed Obama for the "sweetheart deal" given to Epstein, a sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019. PolitiFact and WLRN assess whether this is true or not.

President Trump had called for the release of grand jury testimony related to Epstein. Two judges in New York also are weighing requests from the Justice Department to unseal grand jury transcripts.

For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.

A Florida judge has released transcripts of a detailing 2006 grand jury testimony that accused the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually assaulting numerous underage teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.

It came hours after Gov. DeSantis signed a bill that allowed for grand jury testimony to be released. It could still become available after July 1.