Ro Khanna names six men in the Epstein files, wants to be the Silicon Valley elite visiting the island to be investigated.

Congressman Ro Khanna stood on the floor of the House on Tuesday and revealed the names of six powerful men – most of whom are not widely known – he said were implicated but wrongfully excluded from the recently released criminal files of the late financier and suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Khanna, a Silicon Valley Democrat, and Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky who co-authored a bipartisan bill to release the files, said they identified six improperly redacted names after a special review of the files at the US Department of Justice. They are accused by the DOJ of wrongfully withholding material they say should be released.

“If we find six men who were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are hiding in those 3 million files,” Khanna, a Silicon Valley Democrat, said.

Khanna’s public disclosure was another step toward arresting wealthy, elite men believed to have sexually assaulted girls and young women allegedly trafficked by the New York financier, or who visited and socialized with Epstein on his Caribbean island knowing he had been convicted. of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute in 2008. He died in a New York prison in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges..

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. But when it issued another letter late last month it explained that information was withheld if it was duplicative, violated attorney-client privilege, contained “violence imagery,” or was unrelated to Epstein’s case. The reversal was “limited to the protection of victims and their families” and “pornography.”

“Notable individuals and politicians were not affected by the release of any files,” the Justice Department said in a January 30 statement.

Khanna did not explain how the men he identified on Tuesday were involved in the files. But he said he was sure there were many more, and that anyone who visited the island, including Silicon Valley’s tech elite, should be brought before Congress.

“If there are emails that say they visited the island, they should be brought before Congress and asked questions under oath,” Khanna told the Mercury News in an interview on Tuesday. “They should be investigated.”

Khanna and Massie forced the release of the Justice Department files with the passage of their Epstein Files Transparency Act last fall. But 70% to 80% of the files they reviewed on Monday were “still redacted,” he said. The FBI made changes to President Trump’s order last March, he said. He called it a farce, “but it also begs an important question, who are they protecting?”

Included in the retraction are the statements of those who were sexually abused, who may have named their abusers, said Khanna who has met many women and heard their stories.

“People are tired of rich and powerful people who think they are above the law,” Khanna said in a phone interview from Washington, DC.

A number of Silicon Valley executives were named in the filings, all of whom maintained relationships or corresponded with Epstein after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl: LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman visited the island at least once, later tweeting to X that doing so was “a mistake;” and Tesla founder Elon Musk had emailed Epstein in 2012, asking, “What day/night would be an unusual party on your island?” Musk later wrote to X that he had never visited that “terrible island.”

They have never been charged with a crime and there is no indication that they are being investigated for their dealings with Epstein.

Two of the biggest names Khanna named publicly on Tuesday were billionaire businessman Les Wexner, who turned Victoria’s Secret into an international brand and whose name has been linked to Epstein, and Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. The other four are Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, and Nicola Caputo.

Khanna provided no evidence of wrongdoing by any of them involving Epstein.

According to the New York Post, Epstein managed Wexner’s finances, and his lawyers told investigators at the time of Epstein’s arrest that he had no knowledge of the alleged sex trafficking.

After questioning from Khanna and Massey, the Justice Department admitted that the six names Khanna revealed Tuesday were redacted, Khanna said.

“The FBI sent the redacted files,” Khanna told the Justice Department. “That means that the survivors’ statements to the FBI, calling rich and powerful men who went to Epstein’s Island, went to his farm, went to his house and raped and abused young girls or saw young girls being paraded, are all hidden.”

Already, former President Bill Clinton, whose name appears in the files, will be questioned by Congress, Khanna said.

“And we need (Microsoft founder Bill) Gates and all the other people in question, including Donald Trump,” he said.

The United States is facing a “real moral crisis,” he added. “Are we going to say we’re going to give people a pass if they’re rich and powerful enough, if they had the bad judgment to have a business relationship with Epstein after he was convicted of rape?”