Republican calls Leon Black and David Copperfield co-conspirators of Epstein

Outgoing congressman Thomas Massie urges justice department to launch immediate investigation

An outgoing Republican congressman accused billionaire Leon Black and David Copperfield, the illusionist, of being co-conspirators of the accused late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and repeated a call for the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation into the men, among others.

Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who recently lost his primary to a challenger backed by Donald Trump, named several friends and associates of Epstein on the floor of the House in his bid to shame" the Department of Justice to investigate a group of men and one woman who Massie called perpetrators" of Epstein's crimes. He also noted that, nearly one year after Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act, which led to the release of millions of so-called Epstein files", millions more have yet to be publicly disclosed.

Additional reporting by Anna Betts